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Thread: Using the Japanese IME Post: Using the Japanese IME Thora Wrote:Also, in Properties-->General -->Input method, you can select either romaji or kana. Ah, yeah, that's what I was wanting. Looking back over my post, I guess I was rathe ambiguous. An... |
kaoskastle | The Japanese language | 81 | 60,524 | 2009-05-27, 5:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Using the Japanese IME Post: Using the Japanese IME guys guys guys HALP Okay so I've been using the Japanese IME for a while now, right? And there have been a few times where it's switched to the whole direct kana input -- where Q becomes た, W becomes... |
kaoskastle | The Japanese language | 81 | 60,524 | 2009-05-26, 10:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Victory Calendar Post: Victory Calendar albion Wrote:Other/misc: そのほか? 読書 seems fine to me. This. Although wouldn't "other" be better put as その他? I see that way more often than I do in just straight kana. |
kaoskastle | General discussion | 4 | 1,886 | 2009-03-13, 11:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Ugliest and most Beutiful kanji? Post: Ugliest and most Beutiful kanji? tokyostyle Wrote:Let's be honest here. You can easily remember 姦 and 嫐 without going through the full process of making up a story. Just seeing the kanji is enough to put your imaginative memory int... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 65 | 15,535 | 2009-02-11, 8:44 am | ||
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Thread: Ugliest and most Beutiful kanji? Post: Ugliest and most Beutiful kanji? Yeah, gonna have to agree: I always thought that 忙 looked pretty stupid. On the other hand, 互 is friggin' awesome. As is 答. I mean, you look at it hard enough... that's a face. A couple of eyes with ... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 65 | 15,535 | 2009-02-09, 3:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Average RtK review score? Post: Average RtK review score? For kanji that have been in the rotation a while (my deck's only 21 days old, but :P), I'd guess that if I were to just study those I'd get about 85-90% retention, possibly more. For kanji that were a... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 2,476 | 2009-02-06, 7:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Mechanically difficult kanji Post: Mechanically difficult kanji Machine_Gun_Cat Wrote:Anything with that bastard "road" radical Good grief, yes. I forgot about that one. Ugh. It's even worse than "stretch out". Basically, anything that arcs under another primitive... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 51 | 15,575 | 2009-02-05, 1:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Mechanically difficult kanji Post: Mechanically difficult kanji Yeah, anything with 言 on the bottom is nigh impossible to write well (those kanji always end up looking either absurdly tall or just like a big blob of lines). If I take it slowly I can generally get ... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 51 | 15,575 | 2009-02-04, 12:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! GUYS GUYS GUYS HITTING HALFWAY FEELS REALLY GOOD Kudos to all who have hit halfway and beyond. Some of these kanji are just STUPID (totally bizarre keywords with like a billion primitives that make i... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,464 | 2009-02-04, 2:08 am | ||
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Thread: Is there a way to get Rikaichan to work when not in Firefox? Post: Is there a way to get Rikaichan to work when not i... When I need to do this, I just head to a message board, begin a new reply (the contents of which are whatever you want to use Rikaichan on), and hit "preview". So you can see and check the text withou... |
kaoskastle | Learning resources | 22 | 11,160 | 2009-02-02, 5:42 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method playadom Wrote:Natively raised English speakers that haven't explicitly studied grammar would probably appear to all of us as having unnatural and mistake-ridden English. Well, not necessarily. I for ... |
kaoskastle | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,135 | 2009-02-01, 11:38 am | ||
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Thread: The I love learning Japanese thread. Post: The I love learning Japanese thread. In response to the original post: YES. VERY YES. I'll be sitting there and thinking "wait, I could be reading Japanese Wikipedia... or gathering even MORE Japanese knowledge!" and jump back into toss... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 71 | 13,040 | 2009-01-29, 6:51 pm | ||
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Thread: A thought about changing my method up Post: A thought about changing my method up Wow, overwhelming response. D: I guess that basically confirms it. I'll just stick with this method, maybe look into a couple more (like the movie method and such). Thanks for all the help, you guys. ... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 2,598 | 2009-01-21, 11:55 am | ||
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Thread: RTK1: One kanji, one picture discussion Post: RTK1: One kanji, one picture discussion mistamark Wrote:Jeromin Wrote:I thought about a similar idea: pick a good mnemonic for each kanji from this forum and make a little video, with the elements, the story and the key word, sound and anim... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 91 | 55,717 | 2009-01-20, 11:54 pm | ||
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Thread: A thought about changing my method up Post: A thought about changing my method up Hrmmmm... eh... I might try sticking with it for the next few hundred then, see what happens. Who knows, maybe it'll turn out better as time passes. I'll give it a little longer. |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 2,598 | 2009-01-20, 11:28 pm | ||
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Thread: A thought about changing my method up Post: A thought about changing my method up igordesu Wrote:lots of words holy cow but don't worry i read them all Aye, it's not that I have a problem with failing; nay, I'm cool with it 'cause it means more chances to go over difficult kanji. T... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 2,598 | 2009-01-20, 11:08 pm | ||
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Thread: A thought about changing my method up Post: A thought about changing my method up Smackle Wrote:Although imagining stories and such may work for some people, for others, it is simply enough to be able to break down kanji into different parts. I don't really see the harm in maybe de... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 2,598 | 2009-01-20, 11:03 pm | ||
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Thread: A thought about changing my method up Post: A thought about changing my method up A common question I've noticed is "how long can you retain them", so, uh: Well, prior to beginning RtK I'd learned a few kanji through the straight repetition of it; probably around 100 or so. They we... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 2,598 | 2009-01-20, 10:47 pm | ||
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Thread: A thought about changing my method up Post: A thought about changing my method up I'm having a thought right now... I'm considering just dumping the remainder of the 2042 kanji into Anki and just learning a set however many a day -- minus the story-creation. Yeah, bad idea, right?... |
kaoskastle | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 2,598 | 2009-01-20, 9:41 pm | ||
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Thread: kanji poster Post: kanji poster bodhisamaya Wrote:I made my own. I printed all 3007 kanji from RTK1 and RTK3 in order covering both sides of 11x16 bright yellow construction paper. I took it to the printers and they laminated it f... |
kaoskastle | Learning resources | 25 | 23,092 | 2009-01-16, 2:40 pm | ||
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Thread: how to surprise the japanese Post: how to surprise the japanese playadom Wrote:Just imagine a Japanese person speaking in a heavy southern US drawl. This is how you will seem to the Japanese. Haha, odd that you say that considering I was just thinking this very ... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 44 | 7,854 | 2009-01-16, 10:46 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese online/internet radio? Post: Japanese online/internet radio? pm215 Wrote:mfpole Wrote:I have just found http://www.simulradio.jp/ which collects a few stations. And http://xorsyst.com/japan/watch-japanese-tv-online/ will let you watch Japanese TV on your co... |
kaoskastle | General discussion | 26 | 12,481 | 2009-01-15, 10:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese online/internet radio? Post: Japanese online/internet radio? Live365.com has quite a few decent Japanese music radio stations. That's what I use, anyway. Sometimes the entire site seems to just stop working, but that's not too common. |
kaoskastle | General discussion | 26 | 12,481 | 2009-01-15, 6:53 pm | ||
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Thread: how to surprise the japanese Post: how to surprise the japanese urpwnd Wrote:i can personally vouch for that one about using dialects. while in kyoto and osaka, i made a habit of saying little things like ookini (thanks in kansai-ben) and the shopkeepers were bor... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 44 | 7,854 | 2009-01-15, 1:48 pm | ||
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Thread: The weirdest clock you'll ever see Post: The weirdest clock you'll ever see ファブリス Wrote:PS: if you're bored there are archives of previous seasons too :D oh goodness what I must explore the site and find these archives. This is the most distracting clock ever and I'm not eve... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 59 | 10,596 | 2009-01-13, 3:14 am | ||
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Thread: The weirdest clock you'll ever see Post: The weirdest clock you'll ever see This clock is so good. It's just... so bloody weird. But I like weird. Just found out that the videos and such DO change with the time of day. I knew it! edit: boooo no support html :( |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 59 | 10,596 | 2009-01-12, 10:31 am | ||
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Thread: What are your 2009 goals? Post: What are your 2009 goals? Yeah, definitely. Kanji always used to be rather hard for me. Then I found RTK. Soooo bloody easy. I love it so much. Suddenly 50 kanji a day didn't seem like such an obscenely difficult task compared... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 82 | 12,993 | 2009-01-11, 11:10 pm | ||
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Thread: What are your 2009 goals? Post: What are your 2009 goals? igordesu Wrote:JOE! Buddy, you can totally do more than 100 kanji this year! Reach for the stars, man!" Uh, I think he'll be a little too busy saving the world from the recession to manage any more ... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 82 | 12,993 | 2009-01-10, 9:51 pm | ||
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Thread: how to surprise the japanese Post: how to surprise the japanese igordesu Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:igordesu Wrote:OMGosh! I think I had this experience with my host family! Every night, we all took a bath (not together, duh). Then, they had this drink that I liked so... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 44 | 7,854 | 2009-01-10, 9:47 pm | ||
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Thread: how to surprise the japanese Post: how to surprise the japanese Not to mention! It's even referenced in Majora's Mask! :O [when being given a bottle of milk] "Here's Romani's thanks. When you drink it, put your hand on your hip and take a big gulp like we do here ... |
kaoskastle | Off topic | 44 | 7,854 | 2009-01-10, 5:12 pm | ||
