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    Thread: How I learn from lang-8?
Post: How I learn from lang-8?

I was initially adding corrected lang-8 sentences from my journal entries into my SRS, but I soon stopped doing so. While I still feel I learn a lot from the corrections I get on lang-8, something ke...
zanzibar Learning resources 30 8,027 2010-02-27, 6:07 am
    Thread: Final Fantasy XIII
Post: Final Fantasy XIII

wccrawford Wrote:Want to know what the biggest complaints on GameFAQs are? No towns, and too linear. As people are now posting, since they've gotten far enough, there ARE towns, and it's NOT too lin...
zanzibar General discussion 186 31,578 2009-12-30, 5:45 pm
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

You *will* breeze through, and they *will* come back to you. My first lapse with RTK was just before the 500 mark. It was before I discovered SRS or RevTK, so I was doing it all by hand, with flash...
zanzibar Remembering the Kanji 908 186,087 2009-12-30, 5:33 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

smart.fm name is entropy_rules. a few further questions: --are we calling kanji or sets to avoid overlap, like with the KO1/2 lists? --you have a deadline in mind for finishing this thing?
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-12-30, 4:41 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

just checking. :) yeah, i could help out. i haven't actually done edits on anyone else's list before. forgive my technical ignorance , but how do i get in there to add sentences?
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-12-30, 4:23 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

"help on the sentence portion"...you mean go in there and help find/add sentences for all the vocab you've entered?
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-12-30, 4:34 am
    Thread: Final Fantasy XIII
Post: Final Fantasy XIII

kerosan41 Wrote:I did however find the script in BOTH LANGUAGES to for Final Fantasy IX. Makes me wish my fancy new ps3 was backwards compatible. >_< All wishing aside, you totally *can* make us...
zanzibar General discussion 186 31,578 2009-12-23, 11:44 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Congratulations to all those finishing up during the closing of this year!
zanzibar Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,651 2009-12-16, 4:22 pm
    Thread: What is/was your area of study?
Post: What is/was your area of study?

Koos83 Wrote:Same here with the teachers. But I know for a fact teachers are too busy to learn much outside the summer holidays. XD Guess I'm one of the exceptions. :) BA self-designed major: dealt ...
zanzibar Off topic 98 16,845 2009-09-02, 7:38 pm
    Thread: I want to buy KO2001, where do I get it?
Post: I want to buy KO2001, where do I get it?

I agree with just about everything that IceCream has said here. How strictly you grade yourself on cards is a judgment call that you have to make for yourself. In addition, your cards may test dif...
zanzibar General discussion 16 2,540 2009-08-13, 7:21 pm
    Thread: Dec. JPLT Registration in the US Starts Today
Post: Dec. JPLT Registration in the US Starts Today

Excellent. Thanks!
zanzibar JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 22 3,647 2009-08-10, 7:42 am
    Thread: Dec. JPLT Registration in the US Starts Today
Post: Dec. JPLT Registration in the US Starts Today

rich_f Wrote:You should try a practice JLPT2 just to see how you would do. If you're close, it might be worth it to gun for it. Feels like something I should totally already know, but sadly... Where...
zanzibar JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 22 3,647 2009-08-09, 10:25 pm
    Thread: So the KO2001 audio isn't very good?
Post: So the KO2001 audio isn't very good?

blackmacros Wrote:I'm not exactly what you mean by that, but the KO audio is pretty much as you'd expect. The quality is OK, and it provides an exact transcript of the sentence. There's not much else ...
zanzibar General discussion 8 1,413 2009-08-09, 10:16 pm
    Thread: I want to buy KO2001, where do I get it?
Post: I want to buy KO2001, where do I get it?

The list of kanji in KO2001 is organized in order of utility; in other words, the makers chose the kanji that are (based on their research) most useful and/or frequently seen in Japanese text. They a...
zanzibar General discussion 16 2,540 2009-08-07, 12:49 am
    Thread: I want to buy KO2001, where do I get it?
Post: I want to buy KO2001, where do I get it?

The lists on smart.fm don't use the same sentences you'll find in KO2001. There was a group project on this forum to take all the vocabulary listed in the first two levels, find sentences for them o...
zanzibar General discussion 16 2,540 2009-08-06, 11:03 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Okay, here we go: 901-915 list, and the final piece in the puzzle (for now): http://smart.fm/lists/115834 and Compiled List 11 (901-990) : http://smart.fm/lists/116256 AND Compiled List 12 (9...
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-07-29, 5:43 am
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Compiled List 10 (811-900) is up: http://smart.fm/lists/114630
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-07-25, 8:55 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

841-855 complete: http://smart.fm/lists/114632 Since it looks like Hashiriya is moving pretty quickly, I'll jump ahead and call 901-915.
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-07-25, 12:04 am
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Indeed we are. :) Right, OK, I'm on it. Will post 841-855 within 24 hours, and keep helping as I can.
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-07-24, 4:39 pm
    Thread: J-music lyrics
Post: J-music lyrics

chamcham Wrote:zanzibar, I think that is because many of the English lyrics are transcribed by hand and often words aren't so clear in songs. But in Japan, they often publish the complete lyrics in ...
zanzibar Learning resources 14 2,149 2009-06-21, 4:51 pm
    Thread: J-music lyrics
Post: J-music lyrics

chamcham Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:I have an OSX dash widget that automatically downloads lyrics and inserts them into id3 tags whenever I play a track in iTunes. It also displays them in the dash of course...
zanzibar Learning resources 14 2,149 2009-06-20, 10:28 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Indeed it does. :) Happy Birthday, and mad congrats on finishing!
zanzibar Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,651 2009-06-20, 6:43 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

2001.Kanji.Odyssey 826-840 completed: http://smart.fm/lists/97412 841-855 up next.
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-06-07, 4:01 am
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

2001.Kanji.Odyssey 811-825 completed: http://smart.fm/lists/94391 826-840 up next..
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-05-31, 1:27 am
    Thread: the unequal treaties
Post: the unequal treaties

A minor point in a debate that remains unsettled after decades, but one that applies, in some small way, to our study of this language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu#c...p._774_0-1 Whether ...
zanzibar Off topic 182 16,061 2009-05-30, 5:59 am
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

and Compiled List 9 (721-810): http://smart.fm/lists/93835
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-05-29, 1:17 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Right. 2001.Kanji.Odyssey 781-795 : http://smart.fm/lists/93722 2001.Kanji.Odyssey 796-810 : http://smart.fm/lists/93826
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-05-29, 1:15 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Compiled List 8 (631-720): http://smart.fm/lists/93693
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-05-29, 6:24 am
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Compiled List 7 (541-630) is up: http://smart.fm/lists/93690 Should be able to put in some quality list time this weekend. I'll update as I go.
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-05-29, 6:13 am
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Oh, man... Nukemarine, if only I had caught your last post a little earlier... I posted the link for 556-570 ages ago. It's on page 7 of this thread. :{ Hashiriya, major kudos: you're working ...
zanzibar Group study 304 90,270 2009-05-25, 4:16 am