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    Thread: Reported story! Why?
Post: Reported story! Why?

My two reported stories are yawfosu88 Wrote:Imagine an interracial woman being rained on and overcome with frost, then along comes Tony the Tiger and throws a bowl of warm Frosties in her face to thaw...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 25 5,239 2008-02-13, 9:30 pm
    Thread: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1
Post: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1

Oh yh. I remember watching the cartoon of that when I was a kid. :lol:
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 61 15,660 2007-09-18, 4:20 pm
    Thread: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1
Post: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1

alantin Wrote:objective thinking gets thrown out of a window the second something that, somehow relates to christianity or the Bible, pops up...Muslims are okay, thats just who they are. Hindus, nah, ...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 61 15,660 2007-09-18, 2:40 pm
    Thread: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1
Post: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1

meolox Wrote:Am I the only one who is annoyed by the christian imagery used in some of Heissig's stories? meolox Wrote:I know it's few and far between but couldn't Heissig have been a bit more conside...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 61 15,660 2007-09-18, 11:56 am
    Thread: List of Free Audiobooks
Post: List of Free Audiobooks

Thanks sheetz
yawfosu88 Learning resources 117 218,029 2007-09-14, 3:14 pm
    Thread: Finished the sample and can't get the book - what now?
Post: Finished the sample and can't get the book - what ...

I live in the UK and I ordered it at the beginning of June for about ?20 off amazon, its going for even cheaper now. It came in under a week. I'm pretty sure yours should too. I know it says should be...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 8 1,902 2007-09-14, 2:46 pm
    Thread: Anyone know Esperanto?
Post: Anyone know Esperanto?

JimmySeal Wrote:Gotta run, but Philistine hasn't been an ethnic group for over a thousand years. It has been an English word for nearly 600. @JimmySeal OK, now your being obvious. For some more triv...
yawfosu88 General discussion 118 24,741 2007-09-14, 9:32 am
    Thread: Anyone know Esperanto?
Post: Anyone know Esperanto?

Have you got something against the Philistines? Using an ethnic group as an insult sounds highly unethical to me.
yawfosu88 General discussion 118 24,741 2007-09-13, 3:42 pm
    Thread: pimsleur
Post: pimsleur

kyotokanji Wrote:How long did it take other people to complete the course? I can't imagine you would gain much from flying through doing a lesson each day. 80-90 perecent should be mastered before yo...
yawfosu88 Learning resources 55 14,809 2007-09-13, 12:02 pm
    Thread: Anyone know Esperanto?
Post: Anyone know Esperanto?

I gotta admit to not reading the whole thing 'cause the thread is gettin' bloody long. What happened to the non bickering version of this thread anyway? lol. Funny enough, more people speak English in...
yawfosu88 General discussion 118 24,741 2007-09-11, 10:40 am
    Thread: Anyone know Esperanto?
Post: Anyone know Esperanto?

lol.lmao. take a chill pill. My point is that English is not an unacceptably partisan choice as International Auxiliary Language because it's closely associated with the USA as it associated with Engl...
yawfosu88 General discussion 118 24,741 2007-09-11, 9:40 am
    Thread: Anyone know Esperanto?
Post: Anyone know Esperanto?

Jimmy Seal Wrote:English is considered an unacceptably partisan choice as International Auxiliary Language because it's closely associated with (if not original to) the USA English is from England. It...
yawfosu88 General discussion 118 24,741 2007-09-11, 9:09 am
    Thread: Anyone know Esperanto?
Post: Anyone know Esperanto?

James Wrote:How can the media presume to know what I am interested in? And that certainly isn't most of the crap that passes for news in many US papers and on CNN. They publish what THEY are intereste...
yawfosu88 General discussion 118 24,741 2007-09-08, 7:38 pm
    Thread: 尺 A better primitive?
Post: 尺 A better primitive?

synewave Wrote:But is posting stories of it as say, 'nigger' or 'dirty Jew' okay? I sure am happy I haven't come across any stories like that on this site. I've got to admit to finding some stories wi...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 20 9,238 2007-09-08, 7:10 pm
    Thread: Fingers / Shrek primitive?
Post: Fingers / Shrek primitive?

I tend to find when I use characters or people as primitives I recall those stories the most easily, and in stories where the primitives are a mixture of people and objects or actions, that I remember...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 11 3,451 2007-09-07, 3:08 pm
    Thread: How Many Lessons Before Reviewing?
Post: How Many Lessons Before Reviewing?

I review after I've finished learning kanji for the day, whether I've finished a lesson or not. If a lesson is long, I'm very likely to review a number of times before finishing a lesson (i.e I add th...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 5 1,339 2007-09-06, 11:20 am
    Thread: pimsleur
Post: pimsleur

I wouldn't have even begun learning Japanese if it wasn't for Pimsleur. I managed to get the 3 volumes for free off a friend and basically that was the initial reason for me learning Japanese. It is v...
yawfosu88 Learning resources 55 14,809 2007-09-03, 11:23 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

lol. primeslur. For a programme that is supposed to help with your pronounciation being called Prime Slur would be a very ironic title. Its Pimsleur. The stuff is great. It's what got me started on Ja...
yawfosu88 General discussion 1,517 595,020 2007-08-30, 12:36 pm
    Thread: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji
Post: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji

Heresy!
yawfosu88 General discussion 105 22,950 2007-08-29, 7:36 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

Newbie question: Downloaded anki quite recently and its great because I can use it even when I don't have internet access (wireless connection), but is there anyway to sync it with kanji.koohii.com's ...
yawfosu88 Learning resources 999 230,242 2007-08-14, 4:25 am
    Thread: How to use the stories... need help
Post: How to use the stories... need help

That kid isn't a savant, he's just a genius. Savants, by definition, have to be in some way mentally disabled and he isn't. Yh, he actually wears special gloves for his wrists and fingers funny enough...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 13 2,210 2007-08-06, 8:24 am
    Thread: How to use the stories... need help
Post: How to use the stories... need help

James Wrote:That sounds like a pretty interesting programme. Do you remember what it's called? Perhaps I can get it off UKNova. It was called 'My Brilliant Brain', and was part of a three- part series...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 13 2,210 2007-08-06, 6:10 am
    Thread: How to use the stories... need help
Post: How to use the stories... need help

I find that when remembering stories, primitives and keywords it helps if there is some concrete image to draw upon. There a several keywords and some primitives for which this is not easy. For instan...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 13 2,210 2007-08-05, 12:19 pm
    Thread: Frames 445/447
Post: Frames 445/447

When I need to remember that the primitive is distorted on the left, I think of it as jagged or a crinkled version of itself. For instance when the primitive for soil is distorted I think of it as jag...
yawfosu88 Remembering the Kanji 3 1,598 2007-07-16, 10:06 am
    Thread: Heisig Primitives List?
Post: Heisig Primitives List?

cangy Wrote:Yes, see here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?pid=2941#pid2941. Whatever is on that link is not showing up properly, I think its because I don't have a certain font installed. Ji...
yawfosu88 General discussion 16 16,714 2007-06-25, 12:07 pm
    Thread: Heisig Primitives List?
Post: Heisig Primitives List?

JimmySeal Wrote:Pangolin developed a font with all the primitives. Cool. If you could direct me to that link by telling me what thread it was in or what by please just copying and pasting the link tha...
yawfosu88 General discussion 16 16,714 2007-06-23, 4:11 pm
    Thread: Heisig Primitives List?
Post: Heisig Primitives List?

oh really, Must have missed that interlude. Thanks. Imagining the them as distorted does help though, 'cause a crooked looking cow is very memorable especially if its fighting a shoalin monk for kanji...
yawfosu88 General discussion 16 16,714 2007-06-21, 5:38 pm
    Thread: Heisig Primitives List?
Post: Heisig Primitives List?

Hi, there everyone. I was wondering if anyone had a list of the primitives in a user- friendly format that they could share to use for easy reference. Im in the relatively early stages, but just so I ...
yawfosu88 General discussion 16 16,714 2007-06-21, 12:39 pm
    Thread: Bitme.org Invite (topic closed)
Post: Bitme.org Invite (topic closed)

Could some invite me also please?
yawfosu88 Learning resources 96 22,146 2007-04-22, 6:27 pm