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    Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?
Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?

aphasiac Wrote:I suppose the biggest surprise is that khatzumoto still has a 15,000 card Japanese deck Not exactly. He deleted his sentence deck and that's his new MCD card deck.
drivers99 General discussion 142 43,280 2011-03-14, 11:51 pm
    Thread: Lack of motivation.
Post: Lack of motivation.

This is kind of the AJATT take on things but frequency is the key. Start off first thing in the morning if possible, and once you stop, start again as soon as you can. Even if you only do 1 minute, or...
drivers99 General discussion 23 4,703 2010-06-30, 5:57 pm
    Thread: Where to buy legal anime?
Post: Where to buy legal anime?

Yup. And if you look at the information on Amazon for that Girl Who Leapt Through Time DVD, it clearly says "Language: English, Japanese" and "Subs: English" It's too bad that they never provide Japa...
drivers99 General discussion 16 6,796 2010-05-17, 1:10 am
    Thread: save clipboard to txt?
Post: save clipboard to txt?

It's funny but I just heard of this program today from someone saying they use it to collect examples of stuff in the language they're learning (I can't remember where I saw it though; oh here it is. ...
drivers99 Learning resources 13 3,100 2010-03-11, 1:11 am
    Thread: Sticking with furigana while learning vocab? Stupid idea?
Post: Sticking with furigana while learning vocab? Stupi...

Well, I've gone and created a "kore" vocab/sentence deck based on the "kore" thread. I have it sorted by KO2001 order. It was a lot of work but it seems to be working correctly. http://forum.koohii....
drivers99 The Japanese language 11 2,141 2010-03-10, 4:42 pm
    Thread: Sticking with furigana while learning vocab? Stupid idea?
Post: Sticking with furigana while learning vocab? Stupi...

Thanks for the replies so far. vosmiura, I should definitely look into the kore list you mentioned. I've been seeing that thread on here and it looked interesting since I was looking into Core2000 at...
drivers99 The Japanese language 11 2,141 2010-03-10, 10:52 am
    Thread: Sticking with furigana while learning vocab? Stupid idea?
Post: Sticking with furigana while learning vocab? Stupi...

I wanted to run an idea past you guys and see what you thought. Maybe I am looking at this from the wrong direction, so if I am, feel free to tear this idea a new one. So after completing RTK volume...
drivers99 The Japanese language 11 2,141 2010-03-10, 2:43 am
    Thread: DS
Post: DS

I have a DSi but it has the ability to update the firmware over the net. Doing so disabled my AceKard2i (an SD card reader for the DSi which lets you run homebrew apps (like ndsrs, an SRS program; alt...
drivers99 Off topic 21 3,298 2010-03-09, 12:59 pm
    Thread: Japanese keyword fail.
Post: Japanese keyword fail.

Many people modify the keywords to help clarify things. (By the way, the word you were thinking of is "strand" 1263. Strand is another word for beach. Unfortunately, "beach" is already taken by 165...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 5 3,297 2010-03-08, 5:07 am
    Thread: New program for vocabulary and sentence mining
Post: New program for vocabulary and sentence mining

I just sent you a reply (mostly about using your site from iPhone) through your survey on the site but I forgot to mention one more thing which is that rikaichan doesn't really apply. I suppose I coul...
drivers99 Learning resources 37 8,421 2010-01-30, 8:47 pm
    Thread: New program for vocabulary and sentence mining
Post: New program for vocabulary and sentence mining

Looks pretty slick so far. I did an exercise with 5 words. I could swear that it had me type だか as the answer for 高 in 高い (because I got it wrong when I typed たか ) but in the vocab list it says たかい....
drivers99 Learning resources 37 8,421 2010-01-29, 11:19 pm
    Thread: ISO non-phone/non-PDA/non-iTouch e-flashcard gadget
Post: ISO non-phone/non-PDA/non-iTouch e-flashcard gadge...

Regarding the DS: you can buy decent dictionaries for it like the one with "sonomama" in the name ($30 compared to hundreds for an electronic handheld dictionary) And kanji learning games like kan...
drivers99 General discussion 16 2,257 2010-01-27, 1:36 am
    Thread: RTK mistake
Post: RTK mistake

I always have this link on my Bookmarks toolbar and paste a kanji here whenever I am not 100% sure of the stroke order: http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjid...3?OpenForm I suggest to do your rev...
drivers99 General discussion 1 637 2010-01-22, 5:02 pm
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

someone on twitter mentioned Nihongoup as an iphone (and I assume iPod touch?) app. He said he liked it a lot and it helped with reading but I'm not really sure what it does (yet). Maybe I'll try it ...
drivers99 Learning resources 128 54,889 2010-01-08, 11:33 am
    Thread: Lots of cards piled up.
Post: Lots of cards piled up.

The scheduling algorithm does a 33% plus or minus so I don't think you would get them all at the same time. So, let's say you have 100 that are going into the 30 day pile. You'll probably get 5 of t...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 4 1,196 2009-12-12, 3:10 am
    Thread: Play Asia-- I need your help
Post: Play Asia-- I need your help

What exactly is a Japanese DSi. DS games are not region locked so I don't think you would especially need a Japanese one. I have a DSi bought in the US and it even lets you put kana in for your name...
drivers99 General discussion 7 1,213 2009-12-04, 6:58 pm
    Thread: The keyword of a keyword?
Post: The keyword of a keyword?

A lot of kanji, when used as a primitives, are given a less abstract name. For example, "white" becomes a white dove. Some people on this site go further and redefine certain primitives even more, w...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 9 2,356 2009-11-27, 3:50 pm
    Thread: when will they finish, and koohi down again
Post: when will they finish, and koohi down again

The message says that it'll be down for most of the day (because it's the same message from before, during the big site upgrade), and it was still saying it even though it sounds like you said that it...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 9 2,473 2009-11-15, 2:34 pm
    Thread: Problem: ordering the primitives from memory.
Post: Problem: ordering the primitives from memory.

I remember asking the same question when I was about the same place as you. One thing I did was, in the few times when there was a question, I tried to make my story so that the left side was primari...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 15 3,808 2009-11-09, 11:53 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Well, I just finished RTK1. Of course there are many reviews to be done. In a few days, my pile 7 will begin to expire and move into pile 8... which is the real test, whether I can remember stuff af...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,584 2009-11-02, 11:57 pm
    Thread: Windows 7
Post: Windows 7

There are some differences actually. Windows 7 actually uses up less memory because in Vista, each window (surface) needed to have a buffer to store a picture of itself in main memory at all times. W...
drivers99 Off topic 53 12,050 2009-10-31, 4:10 pm
    Thread: How to do my SRS reviews
Post: How to do my SRS reviews

To answer your original question of whether the story is supposed to be part of the question in AJATT, here is the article "How to Learn Kanji using an SRS." http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blo...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 7 5,586 2009-10-20, 11:34 pm
    Thread: interesting graph and stats
Post: interesting graph and stats

Here's my failure graph. I think this shows me more than anything else the value of this method (Heisig + SRS), how steeply the number of failures drops off. http://imgur.com/U9rIz.png
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 22 3,988 2009-10-15, 11:34 pm
    Thread: interesting graph and stats
Post: interesting graph and stats

Hey Koos83, I noticed you graphed successcount instead of which box each one was in. Although I bet it's very similar right now since it looks like you are pretty consistently passing most of the car...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 22 3,988 2009-10-12, 10:36 am
    Thread: interesting graph and stats
Post: interesting graph and stats

Interesting graph, radical_tyro. Nice to see a lot in box 8, that suggests that the method (and your retention) is good. It seems like you have a lot in box 1. Are you leaving a lot of them in the fa...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 22 3,988 2009-10-10, 11:54 pm
    Thread: interesting graph and stats
Post: interesting graph and stats

I took my stats in RevTK (this site) and created a graph of which box each kanji was in currently. The ones I haven't added yet are designated at box 0. http://imgur.com/13OpY.png Some interesting ...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 22 3,988 2009-10-10, 1:28 am
    Thread: difficult keywords
Post: difficult keywords

In the other thread I posted this, which I think may be a good intro to Data, but also just good clips anyway (or maybe that's just me) : If you want to know more about Data just watch this clip. I ...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 7 1,329 2009-10-01, 11:50 pm
    Thread: Eye movements reveal unconscious memory retrieval
Post: Eye movements reveal unconscious memory retrieval

Don't worry. "The eye that was actually sliced in the opening scene was that of a dead calf. Through intense lighting, Buñuel attempted to make the furred face of the animal appear as human skin" ht...
drivers99 Off topic 4 1,208 2009-09-18, 11:09 pm
    Thread: Handwriting research
Post: Handwriting research

Here's mine. I got 3 wrong. (don't read if you haven't done yours yet) thing (all I could think of was a cow and his... thing, which was the story but not the "not" / "knot") benefit - I drew bene...
drivers99 General discussion 26 8,037 2009-09-18, 12:22 pm
    Thread: "State of mind" doldrums
Post: "State of mind" doldrums

If you want to know more about Data just watch this clip. I think it's worth the effort because of many of the good stories on this site that you can use. It shows a lot about him in a short amount ...
drivers99 Remembering the Kanji 8 1,731 2009-09-17, 12:02 pm