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Thread: A decent idea for beginners Post: A decent idea for beginners Now it makes much more sense. I understood your post...ish... but I wasn't entirely sure where the random kanji fit into your master plan. Now that I know they aren't at all related, I feel marginally... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 3,381 | 2008-08-01, 7:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? Today I finished the hugely-large LESSON 23!!! Cake. So as of now, I am on frame number 766 and it has been eleven days. Average of ~70 kanji per day. To meet my "deadline" of August 17, I need to add... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-08-01, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread pazustep Wrote:kazelee Wrote:I just hit 一万. And oh am I loving it. I think you mean 一千 :) What's that smell? Is something... burning? |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,173 | 2008-08-01, 4:53 pm | ||
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Thread: A decent idea for beginners Post: A decent idea for beginners After reading it a second time, I decided I can't either... I thought you had only planned on doing what you did in the first post... But you will study... primitives? Could you post what you're meani... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 3,381 | 2008-08-01, 1:00 pm | ||
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Thread: A decent idea for beginners Post: A decent idea for beginners In response to iSoron's side note, I agree. Not only is kanji to English keyword relatively useless, but you wouldn't even be using them in the correct context. For instance, I don't think that using... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 3,381 | 2008-08-01, 10:35 am | ||
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Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1 Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed... Ramchip Wrote:Anyone who claims that the brain is a total mystery should be slapped upside the head with the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. All one thousand ninety-six pages of it. Well,... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 12,963 | 2008-08-01, 7:40 am | ||
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Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1 Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed... I say take them with a grain of salt because to me, they mean nothing. The individual needs to decide for himself how he best learns. Just because it's taken scientists decades to perfect their *theor... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 12,963 | 2008-07-31, 7:03 pm | ||
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Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1 Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed... erlog Wrote:It would be silly and defeat the purpose to not try to apply your Heisig knowledge outside of Heisig. Yup. I really don't buy into this whole "less is more" philosophy. Take everything psy... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 12,963 | 2008-07-31, 6:47 pm | ||
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Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1 Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed... Should it even be called "sentences in context?" I thought the entire point was to learn the words in the context of a sentence... So it doesn't really matter if the sentences are out of context, beca... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 12,963 | 2008-07-31, 1:36 pm | ||
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Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1 Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed... So what you're saying I need to do before I can learn to read is... learn to learn... to read? Bollocks! Japanese sure is fun. ... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 12,963 | 2008-07-31, 1:14 pm | ||
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Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1 Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed... If I were to start Pimsleur now, and complete it within a month or two, would I have a good enough grasp on grammar and the language in general to start using sentences? Edit: I agree with the edite... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 12,963 | 2008-07-31, 12:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The Long Haul: Long term retention and recognition Post: The Long Haul: Long term retention and recognition I imagine once you make it through the initial kanji wall, the amount of reviews per day diminishes drastically. Once every card is implemented, and as cards get closer to the fourth box, you will get... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 22 | 8,593 | 2008-07-31, 10:54 am | ||
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Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1 Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed... This is something I've been wondering as well. It being summer vacation, I'm willing to put forth many hours of study a day, but I feel there's only so much RTK that can be considered useful in a day.... |
The_Dude | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 12,963 | 2008-07-31, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: Music Post: Music Dragg, you pretty much summed up my opinions in your last two posts. Polarized and extreme summarize their rock genre completely. I can see what you mean when you mention how western a lot of Japanese... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 100 | 24,359 | 2008-07-30, 9:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Music Post: Music Dragg Wrote:I know that many countries have great music if you look hard enough, but I am also curious to know if there are any generally accepted "rock legends" of Japan, and if so, who are they? Fo... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 100 | 24,359 | 2008-07-30, 2:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Music Post: Music Those bands are actually pretty good. Number Girl really reminds me of Coheed and Cambria, if you know of them. These songs aren't really the genre I was looking for, but it's a nice middle ground bet... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 100 | 24,359 | 2008-07-30, 11:32 am | ||
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Thread: Music Post: Music I can't find any Japanese music that doesn't suck. Seriously. Did the culture as a whole take a nap for the 60s-70s? Sure they have a wealth of jpop and jrock, along with a select few Carpenters-esque... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 100 | 24,359 | 2008-07-30, 10:57 am | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? I guess I'll do a sort of twice weekly update or something... I'm up to frame 508, and it has been 8 days. So I'm doing an average of about 65 kanji per day. The last two days I've done over a hundred... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-29, 6:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? You misunderstand me, friend. My aim is to finish RTK in the next 20 days or so. My goal for December was to have a basic understanding of the language in general. I may even start incorporating readi... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-29, 5:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? Thanks for the info. Most pens are way out of the question for me, being a southpaw. The ink from gel pens everyone recommends just winds up all over my arm... I always write with an RSVP, because it'... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-29, 3:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? Ah! A pencil... That didn't even occur to me. That should make things much easier to handle, as it's only a few like 曇 or other really tall ones that give me trouble. A pencil should do the job nicely... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-29, 2:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? Thanks for the input, mentat. I read parts of your little blog the other day. Have you finished getting all of your flashcards in yet? And time is a huge issue for me. I would like to be pretty far b... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-29, 12:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? Rather than making a new thread, I thought I'd just ask this here. When practicing your writing, what medium do you use? The lines in my college ruled notebook are too small! Should I learn to write... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-29, 9:24 am | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? Why do I need to use earlier stories in those I invent for the later ones? For instance, using the story for 心 when making one up for 憂 wouldn't be at all useful. Would I not just use the word heart? ... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-29, 6:57 am | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? Perhaps I could just make stories for those kanji I may find challenging. I think I'll test the waters here for a bit and see how long it takes for my retention rates to suffer, if they do at all. M... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-27, 5:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? I'm not using stories at all. I tend to just look at a new kanji, say to myself, "Ok, that means..." and I am set. It just seems like it would be a huge waste of time to make and memorize stories if... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-27, 4:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I strange? Post: Am I strange? I know that the entire RtK method revolves around the stories which you assign to a kanji, but are they really that crucial? I am only at about 300, but I hardly even glance at the stories in most cas... |
The_Dude | General discussion | 30 | 4,321 | 2008-07-27, 4:12 pm | ||