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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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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