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    Thread: So I started over
Post: So I started over

Thunk Wrote:Has anyone else here started over, and found the relearning to be a quicker process than putting them in your brain to begin with? I restarted after 21 years & even at that interval fo...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 40 7,502 2009-09-19, 1:01 pm
    Thread: Moderator needed
Post: Moderator needed

Thumbs up for Jarvik and his jib, fwiw.
dewick Off topic 31 5,952 2009-09-09, 9:40 pm
    Thread: Iverson Method for Learning Vocab
Post: Iverson Method for Learning Vocab

bombpersons Wrote:What is this method? How does it work? Fwiw, the most succinct general description on the Learn Any Language site: http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Word_lists
dewick General discussion 75 17,769 2009-08-10, 1:11 pm
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

KaitouJS Wrote:dewick Wrote:KaitouJS Wrote:(Speaking of offline story files, I should really start doing that since I'm almost near Chapter 22 and I rely on the site for stories most of the time..) So...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-23, 2:23 am
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

KaitouJS Wrote:(Speaking of offline story files, I should really start doing that since I'm almost near Chapter 22 and I rely on the site for stories most of the time..) Sorry for multiple posts. Firs...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-23, 12:07 am
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

KaitouJS Wrote:Ah. I dunno, I was just thinking "if you don't deeply visualize it, you're probably not studying the kanji's story hard enough" - imagination, to me, sorta fits into that. I also felt o...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-22, 11:16 pm
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

dewick Wrote:Third, I also mainly did a quick-pick of favourite stories from the site from Part III forward and it worked fine. Occasionally something with deeply personal associations would pop to mi...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-22, 11:03 pm
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

KaitouJS Wrote:I recently just got to 575 and pretty much noticed that I've been reading everyone else's stories instead of making up my own. Some of them seem to work for me, so I guess that's fine. ...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-22, 10:54 pm
    Thread: Another one struggling
Post: Another one struggling

Maybe we should start a 'doing-less-than-a-ton-a-day-&-with-crap-percentages-but-managing-anyway' thread, aphasiac, Winterfell, many others, I'm sure, to counteract the effects of our 'finished-Rt...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 27 4,307 2009-07-21, 11:26 am
    Thread: Another one struggling
Post: Another one struggling

bandwidthjunkie Wrote:Personally I find the percentage failure a bit of a double edged sword; on the one hand it is good to know how much you are retaining, on the other that little bar (on anki it is...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 27 4,307 2009-07-21, 9:39 am
    Thread: Another one struggling
Post: Another one struggling

Winterfell Wrote:In the short term, I couldn't be happier with my scores. In the longer time though...70% success...60%...once a little less than that even :X (Not all the time, sometimes I do manage ...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 27 4,307 2009-07-21, 9:06 am
    Thread: Another one struggling
Post: Another one struggling

aphasiac Wrote:If you're only passing 60% 3 days later, well that's actually a pretty decent passrate. Just don't worry about failure rates, that's the whole point of SRS. Agreed with aphasiac. As I w...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 27 4,307 2009-07-21, 8:52 am
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

dat5h Wrote:dewick Wrote:http://kanji.koohii.com/review/review.ph...ed=1&box=1 :o I ... I ... I didn't know you could do that ... so much better. How come you can't do that from the review page .....
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-21, 3:59 am
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

Also fwiw, I have never used the 'learned' button on this site. Wouldn't trust myself to know whether it's learned learned or learned now and won't be tomorrow or next week. I go through failed card...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-21, 3:34 am
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

Again I agree essentially with blackmacros. I've skipped the Tae Kim stage because I already have a decent command of Japanese grammar, having lived in the country for more than a quarter century. (I ...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-21, 2:39 am
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

Fwiw, I agree with what yukkuri_kame, thurd, and blackmacros have said above. In my experience - I added card 2042 on 11 July, everything done on this site, not Anki - it is true that the SRS eventual...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 46 9,202 2009-07-21, 1:34 am
    Thread: Number One Idiot in Japan
Post: Number One Idiot in Japan

Meh. Glad you heart Japan, nonpoint, but my point, nonpoint, had nothing to do with anyone’s ‘path to Japanese fluency’ but rather, exactly, that the condescension was in the video posted.
dewick General discussion 14 2,048 2009-07-19, 10:08 am
    Thread: Number One Idiot in Japan
Post: Number One Idiot in Japan

This sort of thing confirms the worst stereotypes in the imagination of many Japanese when they imagine ‘foreigner’, particularly ‘American’, images that overlap, unfortunately. I don’t see anything ...
dewick General discussion 14 2,048 2009-07-19, 8:03 am
    Thread: How many reviews before completion? (on this site)
Post: How many reviews before completion? (on this site)

I finished adding the last RtK1 card after 107 days & 15,911 reviews. Partly this high because I missed a lot of cards along the way, partly because I don't use the 'learned' button but rather stu...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 11 1,612 2009-07-14, 7:23 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Didn't imagine along the way that I'd want to post to this thread upon 'finishing', but, well, it does feel good enough to want to say something. Fwiw, 107 days start to finish, average of 19 / day,...
dewick Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,816 2009-07-11, 1:49 am
    Thread: Should I take classes?
Post: Should I take classes?

Some of the replies here, and perhaps the initial question itself, are a bit essentialist. Whether a university course is good or not has to do with many variables, including the nature of the program...
dewick General discussion 30 5,285 2009-07-06, 7:30 am
    Thread: Importance of Stories.
Post: Importance of Stories.

You'll need stories. It's what the method is about. Otherwise we'd all just be memorizing Kanji dictionaries.
dewick Remembering the Kanji 10 1,490 2009-06-13, 10:46 am
    Thread: 100 Kanji a day
Post: 100 Kanji a day

Can we just enter all 3007 on Monday and call ourselves done? I suppose reviews would get in the way of congratulating ourselves too much, though.
dewick Remembering the Kanji 435 87,042 2009-05-10, 9:37 am