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Thread: The UK Election and aftermath Post: The UK Election and aftermath Coming from someone who is about to start uni in Scotland (free): Due to a) university being free up here, and b) not as many jobs being available, most students are going to uni when they leave scho... |
julz6453 | Off topic | 19 | 3,317 | 2010-05-13, 3:31 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread Thank-you guys - that helped a lot. wulfgar, the advice to not let the failed stack get too high was really good... I should try that! It's always awful to finally get through all your expired cards, ... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,087 | 2010-04-13, 6:11 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread Desperately needing some encouragement here. Until today, I hadn't done kanji reviews for several months - I think I burned myself out, learning too many too fast, and I HATED the review process. I kn... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,087 | 2010-04-13, 5:31 am | ||
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Thread: What's the plan after RevTK? Post: What's the plan after RevTK? jorgebucaran Wrote:AJATT method says you will pick up readings from context but still you are doing readings. What do you think about that? How does exactly this loci method works? What do you mean b... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 60 | 9,118 | 2009-04-20, 2:34 pm | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day jorgebucaran Wrote:I think I am doing right propitiating such discussion. If I say bullshit is because I want to emphasize when I think someone is exaggerating, I think is a superb word and there is n... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,010 | 2009-04-18, 3:37 pm | ||
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Thread: OnYomi index + "on groups" Post: OnYomi index + "on groups" All right, thanks - reassuring to hear someone's done it. :) |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 38 | 34,573 | 2009-04-18, 2:17 pm | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day blackmacros Wrote:So 100 takes me 3 hours of study split throughout the day. From his post. |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,010 | 2009-04-18, 11:57 am | ||
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Thread: OnYomi index + "on groups" Post: OnYomi index + "on groups" Quick question to do with the on-yomi groups. For those who are using Kanji Town or kanji chains or the movie method to memorise the on-yomi of kanji, do you have a seperate location/chain/movie for ... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 38 | 34,573 | 2009-04-18, 11:55 am | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day jorgebucaran Wrote:So watching anime all day is a hyperbole but studying Kanji (pretty much all day) overly successfully while coping with other stuff is not a hyperbole, is true and even if it sounds... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,010 | 2009-04-18, 11:40 am | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day Tobberoth Wrote:It's a hyperbole, not bullshitting. Bullshitting would be saying he learned Japanese to JLPT1 level in 4 months. A flat out lie, more or less. Saying he has 24/7 anime immersion is jus... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,010 | 2009-04-18, 11:28 am | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day CarolinaCG Wrote:I suppose you can memorize the stories, I can only remember the meaning, but I know the stories would be useful to remember the kanji. The key with Heisig's method isn't memorising st... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,010 | 2009-04-18, 4:06 am | ||
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Thread: Onyomi studies AFTER Kunyomi? Post: Onyomi studies AFTER Kunyomi? I think learning the readings is helpful. There are tons of words I know the pronunciation of but not the kanji, so if I was able to read the kanji when I saw it somewhere, I would immediately know wh... |
julz6453 | General discussion | 20 | 6,319 | 2009-04-17, 10:57 am | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day activeaero Wrote:And in terms of visualizing a story that should take all of maybe 30 seconds It's great that you can do it that fast, but for some people it doesn't work that way. Personally, I read... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,010 | 2009-04-17, 3:35 am | ||
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Thread: What's the plan after RevTK? Post: What's the plan after RevTK? I'm almost half-way through RevTK now... going kinda slowly, but it's at a good pace for me. Once I finish RevTK, I'm planning on continuing with my 漢字 reviews, sentences, and learning all the readin... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 60 | 9,118 | 2009-04-17, 3:23 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Direct Input Methods Post: Japanese Direct Input Methods For me, typing speed is everything - I can normally think of what I want to say long before I ever get it down. That's why I hate writing on paper - my writing speed is so much slower than my typing. ... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 28 | 9,784 | 2009-04-16, 10:05 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Direct Input Methods Post: Japanese Direct Input Methods Jarvik7 Wrote:What is there to be good at with romaji-kana conversion? In both you still have to use an IME to select the final output. Everyone knows that eg. か is written with ka in romaji... Yes, y... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 28 | 9,784 | 2009-04-16, 9:50 am | ||
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Thread: About a Girl Post: About a Girl True - if I type in なかはま, the first kanji that come up are 中浜. 濱 must not be very usual or widely used. |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,287 | 2009-04-15, 9:58 am | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day Artemisk Wrote:Now I add a few cards each day and I'm loving it so far, sure I'll finish a bit later but I'll have better retention since the more time it takes, the more reviews you actually do. It's... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,010 | 2009-04-15, 9:54 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Direct Input Methods Post: Japanese Direct Input Methods I see. I guess the reason I'm asking is to figure out which way is faster for writing Japanese - direct hiragana input (once you learn the new positioning), or romaji to hiragana conversion (which is ... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 28 | 9,784 | 2009-04-15, 9:51 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Direct Input Methods Post: Japanese Direct Input Methods Ok, thanks - I know a lot of users were complaining about the smaller space bar and the different control keys. Another question is, when typing Japanese with the direct hiragana input (since I'm ass... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 28 | 9,784 | 2009-04-15, 8:42 am | ||
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Thread: getting the primitives backwards within a kanji Post: getting the primitives backwards within a kanji You're right, many of the kanji you will pick up over time - like how you remember that mist is always on the left of 朝. But for the others, do what Tobberoth and gyuujuice have said - either memorise... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 3,377 | 2009-04-14, 5:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Direct Input Methods Post: Japanese Direct Input Methods The advantages of that system are if you know a kanji but not the pronunciation, you can type it no problem... The disadvantage is that if you know the word and not the kanji (which mostly happens wi... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 28 | 9,784 | 2009-04-14, 5:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Why Are Keywords For Primitives That Are Not Kanji Not Included? Post: Why Are Keywords For Primitives That Are Not Kanji... If there were cards for the non-kanji primitives, it would be very easy to become confused and start thinking they were kanji, leading to misusing them later. And besides, lots of primitives have the... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 4,911 | 2009-04-12, 4:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I just creating busy work for myself? Post: Am I just creating busy work for myself? Same with 書 - in Japanese it's "to write", in Cantonese it's "book". (Apparently...) |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 29 | 4,395 | 2009-04-02, 3:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Help with a few sentences Post: Help with a few sentences It is true that you can get some odd looks if you're a guy and use わたし. I've seen this quite a few times in dramas - even one that was set in 大阪. However, other cases I've heard わたし used by men in ve... |
julz6453 | The Japanese language | 35 | 5,555 | 2009-04-02, 3:42 pm | ||
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Thread: transcend - surpass Post: transcend - surpass For transcend, keep the monk image if that's what sticks in your head. Surpass, I think of as two groups in a parade running and trying to "surpass" each other. Really sense the competition and urgen... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 2,432 | 2009-04-01, 4:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I just creating busy work for myself? Post: Am I just creating busy work for myself? Tobberoth Wrote:I'm kinda thinking that if you have to rely on muscle memory, you should fail the kanji and improve the story instead. I'm the same as welldone101 - I write them out when I review. Tho... |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 29 | 4,395 | 2009-04-01, 1:50 pm | ||
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Thread: iKnow Post: iKnow I use the whole shibang... it's quite time-consuming, but I think it'll be worth it. I enjoy dictation a lot more than the iKnow app, but they're both useful. Brain Speed is just fun. :D Hadn't hear... |
julz6453 | Learning resources | 599 | 116,999 | 2009-04-01, 12:45 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method For full immersion, RevTK should have a Japanese language setting. ;) |
julz6453 | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,137 | 2009-03-31, 3:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Twig, branch and bough... how on earth?! Post: Twig, branch and bough... how on earth?! Thanks for the help everyone! I've got them now. Thinking of 又 as a hand radical or crossed legs certainly does make some of the characters easier. |
julz6453 | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 6,285 | 2009-03-31, 3:06 pm | ||
