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Thread: iKnow engine broken Post: iKnow engine broken I wonder if anyone else here is using iKnow and what they think of the new learning engine. I am really hating it. Progress is very hard to make and sometimes turns negatives with reviews now sometime... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 2 | 685 | 2015-06-14, 3:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles I have got to be honest I have been quite disappointed by the replies to my post. It is like I go to the train station and as for a ticket to Edinburgh and everyone has a ton of ideas for where I'd be... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 63 | 14,717 | 2014-06-22, 2:16 am | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles The idea is that you can very quickly read the subtitles the better to clue your ear into what is being said. Remember what I am talking about here is listening skills not reading skills so I am not t... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 63 | 14,717 | 2014-06-21, 3:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles Dear god can nobody understand what i am trying to say? I want to read kanji and I do read kanji. It gives me great pleasure to do so. But I don't want to just read kanji I want to improve my japanese... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 63 | 14,717 | 2014-06-21, 3:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles Daiichi I think you are misunderstanding what I am trying to say. I love kanji. I adore kanji. I practice writing kanji and learning kanji vocab every day. But for listening to words in japanese anim... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 63 | 14,717 | 2014-06-21, 7:35 am | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles I agree that romaji is hopeless as a way of learning to read. In fairness I did actually say that in my original post. Where I think it would be useful is as a means of helping you with your listening... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 63 | 14,717 | 2014-06-21, 6:10 am | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles Now I know that romaji is in fact an invention of the dark lord himself but . . . Does anyone know of any japanese anime/drama out there that has romaji subtitles? My japanese friends find watching E... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 63 | 14,717 | 2014-06-21, 2:33 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Er . . . nearly always . . . |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-15, 2:57 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Or, and I know this is probably too radical for some, you could pay for them. After all a huge amount of work goes into making these things and if nobody pays they will not be made. :) I like Michel ... |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-13, 3:34 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 I am actually quite a fan of pimsleur. It has some drawbacks particularly in that it is limited to the polite level and is limited to 90 lessons in all. But it does force you to speak and having run t... |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-12, 2:56 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 I use a fair few internet resources - pod101 and iKnow are the main ones and struggling to listen properly to anime (number 1 fan of Stein's Gate). Thanks for the tip on l Lingq - I will try it once t... |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-11, 1:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 I know exactly what you mean. Peter seems to use a script where some of the others just read from it. The difference comes across. I quite liked that Scottish lady (Kat?). |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-11, 9:32 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Oh well it is all a matter of taste I guess. I'd just mention that after the first ten or so lessons (can't remember exactly but it was quite early on) he stopped doing his half of the dialogues and i... |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-11, 6:27 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Actually the best stuff is when you subscribe for premium membership. Some people seem so thrilled to be getting something for nothing they miss the good stuff. The notes, vocabulary lists, sample sen... |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-11, 5:48 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 dtcamero Wrote:sholum & poblequadrat Wrote:stansfield123 Wrote:garbage um, what? ya seriously can someone put a muzzle on that guy please. to return from a banned topic to an on-topic topic... I... |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-11, 5:09 am | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? There is an interesting interview of Benny by Peter Galante. He talks a fair bit about what he means by fluent etc. To my ears he comes across as a good guy. BTW looking at his site he is a huge fan o... |
Rusty | General discussion | 856 | 195,486 | 2014-04-08, 5:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Anyhoo . . . I came across an interesting interview of Benny by Peter Galante of JapanesePod101. BTW I like Benny - he has a great 'can do' attitude. If I had more of that I'd be a much better speaker... |
Rusty | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-04-06, 6:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Inappropriate stories Post: Inappropriate stories I agree with whoever said that it is fine to use grossly offensive stories but that we shouldn't post them on a public site. That said I have come across nothing particularly scary except the infamous... |
Rusty | Off topic | 121 | 18,936 | 2014-01-16, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Congratulations - and I love the graph! |
Rusty | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,635 | 2013-12-30, 6:03 am | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? I have to admit I find this guy somewhat inspirational. Not so much because of whether he got to fluency in three months (I could care less) but because he reminded me that the goal of my language lea... |
Rusty | General discussion | 856 | 195,486 | 2013-12-15, 4:44 am | ||
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Thread: Sentence Mining Help ????? Post: Sentence Mining Help ????? Something I am finding helpful is using the iKnow app. Sadly it is not all the cheap but I think it is a great way of learning vocab. Each word they give you has a sentence or two to go with it and wh... |
Rusty | The Japanese language | 27 | 6,793 | 2013-11-27, 9:41 am | ||
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Thread: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? Post: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? AkiKazachan - how do you do your mnemonics. Do you build them into your original story or do you have a second story? And suppose the onyomi is eg 'chou' what word do you use to represent chou? I lik... |
Rusty | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 6,387 | 2013-10-20, 5:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanesepod101 rocks (IMHO) Post: Japanesepod101 rocks (IMHO) Interesting. Seems there is a certain amount of 'plumbing' behind japanese learning tools I was not aware of. I still thing Jpod101 rocks however . . . :) |
Rusty | Learning resources | 8 | 3,362 | 2013-10-20, 8:30 am | ||
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Thread: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? Post: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? ktcgx - yes I saw they decided against translation. Their call of course but I personally think that if your philosophy is 'divide and conquer' this is a bit contradictory. And I am an 'advanced begin... |
Rusty | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 6,387 | 2013-10-20, 8:22 am | ||
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Thread: Japanesepod101 rocks (IMHO) Post: Japanesepod101 rocks (IMHO) What I heard was something like 'the audio for this clip is not available'. Is this a separate thing or a JPod thing? I am confused! |
Rusty | Learning resources | 8 | 3,362 | 2013-10-20, 7:12 am | ||
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Thread: Japanesepod101 rocks (IMHO) Post: Japanesepod101 rocks (IMHO) When I search for what people think of JapanesePod101 the views sometimes seem a bit lukewarm. I disagree - I think their website is fantastic. If you go for the premium version (and it really works... |
Rusty | Learning resources | 8 | 3,362 | 2013-10-20, 6:11 am | ||
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Thread: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? Post: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? Thanks for pointing me to Benkyo.co/iikanji. Very interesting. I signed up and I quite like it but I find it discouraging that they don't provide a translation of the example sentence. I seem to be sp... |
Rusty | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 6,387 | 2013-10-20, 5:41 am | ||
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Thread: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? Post: Onyomi mnemonics - could this work? I have finished RTK1 and am out and about and encountering kanji in the real world. Well in my classroom and in the iKnow programme. My 2D life . . . Anyway how about this idea for learning the onyo... |
Rusty | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 6,387 | 2013-10-19, 4:02 pm | ||
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Thread: How fast do daily reviews go down? Post: How fast do daily reviews go down? Got it - thank you! :) |
Rusty | Remembering the Kanji | 2 | 927 | 2013-08-09, 4:21 pm | ||
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Thread: How fast do daily reviews go down? Post: How fast do daily reviews go down? I finished RTK1 in about four months. Three months on and I still seem to get about 70 reviews a day. I don't use Anki, just the system on the website. Can anyone tell me what kind of progress I can e... |
Rusty | Remembering the Kanji | 2 | 927 | 2013-08-09, 8:22 am | ||
