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    Thread: Get the cash out!
Post: Get the cash out!
synewave Wrote:As far as I can tell there isn't a way to send a reference, i.e. your kanji.koohii username, with Paypal payments. I'm no expert, but it's not immediately obvious if you can. I've seen ... 		colonel32 Off topic 20 4,854 2007-02-21, 7:59 am
    Thread: Font in INDEX I of Heisig RTK1
Post: Font in INDEX I of Heisig RTK1
According to the PDF, it's "SN", with variants "SN-AA", "SN-T" and "SN-W". Not very helpful I know, but maybe you can find some clue on Google. 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 3 2,159 2007-01-20, 5:18 pm
    Thread: Is this the right way to go about it?
Post: Is this the right way to go about it?
What you describe pretty much applies to me. I'm usually closer to the 60-70% than 90%. Often I draw complete blanks on the first revision. Now that I'm in the 600s I feel like I've got into the swing... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 31 7,090 2007-01-11, 7:30 am
    Thread: After 1: 2 or 3 first?
Post: After 1: 2 or 3 first?
dingomick Wrote:I was going to recommend starting a new account just for RTK3, but then realized it would include 1-2042. You can pretty much do this already, because the blue stack always empties fro... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 24 7,000 2007-01-03, 4:00 pm
    Thread: What does your writing look like?
Post: What does your writing look like?
Here's mine, photoshopped to the nth degree to make the scan visible because I mostly like to write in pencil. I write the hooks, although for ages I did I right angled ones until I twigged that was ... 		colonel32 The Japanese language 36 24,242 2006-12-20, 5:36 pm
    Thread: How many kanji per day?
Post: How many kanji per day?
I'm finding that 5 a day, 7 days a week is pretty achievable. On days when I'm feeling mentally fit, keen or have time, I add further groups of 5 later in the day, making 10, 15, or occasionally 20. ... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 19 5,747 2006-12-19, 7:27 am
    Thread: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Post: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Pangolin Wrote:I made bit-mapped images from a generic Japanese "text book" font (the type used in the stroke order diagrams in RTK1) and, unless the primitive was already a character in it's own righ... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 43 24,942 2006-12-14, 7:55 am
    Thread: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)
Post: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)
I'd love to see such a list. What are the arguments against supplementing your vocabularly by learning selected compounds from a list like this when you learn the kanji from RTK1? 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 18 8,628 2006-12-13, 8:18 am
    Thread: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Post: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
It's looking great! Just a quick gotcha on OS X: every time you reinstall a updated version of the font, you must first open the Font Book, Ctrl+Click on Pangolin, and select Remove "Pangolin" Family... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 43 24,942 2006-12-04, 12:46 pm
    Thread: anime lyrics dot com japanese test
Post: anime lyrics dot com japanese test
The novel is The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. 		colonel32 General discussion 3 9,134 2006-12-02, 6:19 am
    Thread: Errors in RTK
Post: Errors in RTK
I'm writing all the errata into my book. Though I think with a 3rd edition you will have a lot to write. Even with 4th edition, 5th printing there is quite a lot. 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 25 6,113 2006-11-23, 9:17 am
    Thread: Letters (hand-written japanese)
Post: Letters (hand-written japanese)
Yes, I liked that story. And don't forget ziggr's Chiho Saito postcard. Sorry if I embarrassed you by drawing attention to it, but I liked that story too :) 		colonel32 General discussion 10 11,556 2006-11-19, 4:24 pm
    Thread: Unnoticed regularities
Post: Unnoticed regularities
Good idea. Also, the converse of that: how can you tell whether things are one-offs or not? For example, the diagonal part of the body that looks like a double evening in 241 sort of thing 然, or the... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 11 2,786 2006-11-07, 10:17 am
    Thread: Letters (hand-written japanese)
Post: Letters (hand-written japanese)
Also, I found a page of handwriting fonts, but if they're anything like roman handwriting fonts, they won't flow well at all. I guess the flow also depends on whether you're writing vertically or hori... 		colonel32 General discussion 10 11,556 2006-11-05, 1:45 pm
    Thread: Letters (hand-written japanese)
Post: Letters (hand-written japanese)
Weird, only yesterday I was working up to making a similar post, not realising there was one here already. I find this interesting too. Not so much from the letterwriting angle as the handwriting angl... 		colonel32 General discussion 10 11,556 2006-11-05, 1:41 pm
    Thread: Shipping From Japan - Maildrops?
Post: Shipping From Japan - Maildrops?
A Reviewing the Kanji member has very kindly agreed to help out! I won't say who it is at this stage, in case he gets flooded with requests. As Charley says, please do continue to post other informat... 		colonel32 Learning resources 5 2,500 2006-11-03, 6:33 pm
    Thread: Shipping From Japan - Maildrops?
Post: Shipping From Japan - Maildrops?
First of all, please forgive me if this is a somewhat "miscellaneous" question - but I don't really have anywhere else to ask it, and I guess it's potentially relevant to obtaining books and learning ... 		colonel32 Learning resources 5 2,500 2006-11-02, 8:07 am
    Thread: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Post: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Looks excellent. And it seems to work fine OS X (10.4.8 PPC) without you needing to change it. Pangolin sounds like it was meant to be the name of a font! 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 43 24,942 2006-11-01, 1:22 pm
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji
That's so cool, thanks. Imagine if [kana]FABURISU[/kana] incoporated something like that into the review page!! 		colonel32 General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-31, 7:20 am
    Thread: Vocabulary Software
Post: Vocabulary Software
Yes, JMemorize is java-based so it does run on macs. In fact, won't java apps run on PDAs too? Would you be able to run JMemorize on a palm? It is indeed leitner-based. 		colonel32 Learning resources 57 17,040 2006-10-30, 5:21 pm
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji
ayoung24 Wrote:I use PAdict (http://padict.sourceforge.net) on my PalmPilot. It has a sort of character recognition mode that works pretty well, as long as you get your stroke order right. Great, I'l... 		colonel32 General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-30, 7:56 am
    Thread: Vocabulary Software
Post: Vocabulary Software
Nice guide snozle, I'd like to try it when I have some time. I found a thread discussing BundleBuilder and other methods to create clickable python icons. 		colonel32 Learning resources 57 17,040 2006-10-27, 6:10 am
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji
Hurrah, thanks! I see my error now :) Embarrassingly, I have a DVD of 春[kana]no[/kana]雪, the movie of the Yukio Mishima novel, sat on my shelf beside me - with the kanji in huge type. Oh well... 		colonel32 General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-23, 12:03 pm
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji
Thanks rgravina, I do have both a mac and windows, and I hadn't tried JEdict before. That "grapheme" filter function is really useful. Much appreciated! I'm, still stuck though, the only one remotely... 		colonel32 General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-23, 11:25 am
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji
Here's another one, if anyone has a spare minute: the first kanji on the bottom row. Again it's not that complicated, but I think I'm misreading it, or I'm missing something about the stroke order. [... 		colonel32 General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-23, 10:29 am
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji
Great, thanks! I was totally misreading it as flower on the top, with something like sword or power on the left. (I'm not nearly up to trip yet...) Cheers, Robin 		colonel32 General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-23, 6:21 am
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji
If anyone could identify the first kanji (6th character) for me that would be great. [Image: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/col...h00023.gif] Although its a horrible dvd subtitle font I've man... 		colonel32 General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-23, 5:54 am
    Thread: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Post: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Regarding copy-and-paste solutions, these would either involve bitmaps (as Fabrice says) or characters in fonts. Regarding the latter, official radicals and kanji are defined as unicode code points, ... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 43 24,942 2006-10-17, 7:28 am
    Thread: Is there a digital list of all RTK kanji?
Post: Is there a digital list of all RTK kanji?
I'd also find such a list very useful, because you could cross reference it or do a reverse lookup to find out where/how often a kanji was used as a primitive in later ones. It could help your stories... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 20 19,901 2006-10-13, 1:38 pm
    Thread: Hitting "The Wall"
Post: Hitting "The Wall"
Any tips to avoid the squishy brain feeling? I get this a lot, mostly I suspect because cos my job (programming) tires the same parts of my brain. If I review/learn kanji in the mornings before work ... 		colonel32 Remembering the Kanji 25 6,624 2006-10-11, 12:43 pm