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    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

I've released KanjiSwirl 3.0 today. It adds the 200 kanji from the third-grade list: 丁世両主乗予事仕他代住使係倍全具写列助勉動勝化区医去反取受号向君味命和品員商問坂央始委守安定実客宮宿寒対局屋岸島州帳平幸度庫庭式役待急息悪悲想意感所打投拾持指放整旅族昔昭暑暗曲有服期板柱根植業様横橋次歯死氷決油波注泳洋流消深温港...
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2013-08-29, 10:35 am
    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

Psst, KanaSwirl and KanjiSwirl are on sale. :cool:
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2013-05-04, 10:16 am
    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

I'm back! This time I'm happy to bring KanjiSwirl 2.0 to you from the App store! Like the KanaSwirl update last week, I have a slick new icon: [Image: http://kanjiswirl.rpglanguage.net/img/ka...rl-2...
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2013-04-24, 10:20 am
    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

I'm excited to announce that KanaSwirl 2.2 is now live on the App Store. Come get it! The big change for me is the new icon: [Image: http://kanaswirl.rpglanguage.net/kaizen-256-round.png] I actuall...
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2013-04-15, 9:23 am
    Thread: studying with video games
Post: studying with video games

AlgoRhythmic Wrote:When it comes to how I study it, I just play it and makes sure I understand the overall story and what the purpose of the side quests are and so on, by looking up words in important...
sartak Learning resources 18 2,763 2013-02-18, 8:28 pm
    Thread: OSX → Let's build a Japanese Grammar Dictionary.app
Post: OSX → Let's build a Japanese Grammar Dictionary.ap...

And another dictionary! I was curious actually yesterday how I knew the word 不景気, which my dictionary tells me right away that I got it from Tae Kim: [Image: http://paste.sartak.org/2013-01-16N1yoRRx...
sartak Learning resources 17 3,371 2013-01-16, 12:53 pm
    Thread: OSX → Let's build a Japanese Grammar Dictionary.app
Post: OSX → Let's build a Japanese Grammar Dictionary.ap...

This is huge for me! I use Dictionary.app's 大辞林 all the time and I love building little tools to interact with my Anki deck. So I made a kanji dictionary for myself using sentences and readings that e...
sartak Learning resources 17 3,371 2013-01-16, 11:36 am
    Thread: Lol why am I so slow/bad at reading katakana?
Post: Lol why am I so slow/bad at reading katakana?

mrbryce Wrote:why is it so important considering you ve finished rtk ? i dont even bother learning katakana vocabulary. what sort of reading material / context requires you to read faster ? I'm guessi...
sartak The Japanese language 10 2,591 2012-12-29, 8:14 pm
    Thread: Lol why am I so slow/bad at reading katakana?
Post: Lol why am I so slow/bad at reading katakana?

I've been studying for three and a half years. I'm long done with RTK1 and RTK3. I still regularly fail my ヌ card in Anki. Don't beat yourself up about it, you'll get it.
sartak The Japanese language 10 2,591 2012-12-29, 9:55 am
    Thread: Kanji Grid plugin
Post: Kanji Grid plugin

frony0 Wrote:Edit: Sartak and Daichi, do you mind me using your grids as examples on the plugin page? (Mines a little outdated now, and not at all impressive :P) Go for it!
sartak Learning resources 25 6,929 2012-12-23, 7:09 pm
    Thread: Kanji Grid plugin
Post: Kanji Grid plugin

Nice plugin! I have something similar though it goes by number of readings rather than review score. It's a bit out of date here. Making it an Anki plugin that anyone can use is definitely the better ...
sartak Learning resources 25 6,929 2012-12-22, 12:16 pm
    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

Chadokoro_K Wrote:* include all of the new joyo kanji (with option to use either JLPT levels N5-N1 or RTK order) I'm definitely going to include all the joyo kanji somehow. I started with just the gra...
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2012-12-06, 9:51 am
    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

Thanks for your kind words imabi. :) Does anyone else have any feedback? What could this game be doing better, is there anything that turned you off, etc. Does it need more kanji before it'd be usef...
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2012-12-04, 6:28 pm
    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

I plan to do exactly that! But baby steps for now.
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2012-12-01, 10:20 pm
    Thread: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games
Post: KanjiSwirl & KanaSwirl: my iOS study games

Hey fellow RTKers! I wanted to show off my iOS study games, KanaSwirl (iTunes) and the brand-spanking-new (released today!) KanjiSwirl (iTunes). The basic idea is that you start as easy as it could p...
sartak Learning resources 11 4,673 2012-12-01, 9:54 pm
    Thread: Compare your Anki Graphs
Post: Compare your Anki Graphs

See if you can spot the month off I took between jobs. ;) Also, wow, Anki can't give me a forecast when I look at my lifetime stats. http://paste.sartak.org/2012-11-23oK7lgBZf.png
sartak Learning resources 45 14,723 2012-11-23, 9:20 am
    Thread: iPhone app ideas?
Post: iPhone app ideas?

The description in the plugin tells you everything you need to do to set it up. Basically, make sure you run Tools -> Embed Scratchpad, then put this into the card templates where you want it: Co...
sartak Learning resources 27 7,195 2012-09-05, 8:50 am
    Thread: iPhone app ideas?
Post: iPhone app ideas?

No, I'm talking about the scratchpad for the iPhone AnkiMobile. There's a Shared Plugin you can download and install using the desktop app.
sartak Learning resources 27 7,195 2012-09-04, 9:16 am
    Thread: iPhone app ideas?
Post: iPhone app ideas?

Norman Wrote:A needed app would be one that incorporates the "touch" technology more fully into an Anki-like flashcard system. In essence, rather than simply have a flashcard with keyword followed by ...
sartak Learning resources 27 7,195 2012-09-04, 6:59 am
    Thread: iPhone app ideas?
Post: iPhone app ideas?

That app exists: Japanese 101: Numbers
sartak Learning resources 27 7,195 2012-09-03, 10:35 am
    Thread: iPhone app ideas?
Post: iPhone app ideas?

I don't use either Chrome or Rikaichan/Rikaisama, so I'm not the right guy to port that. Sorry! burialatsea Wrote:I'd really like an app that allows you to listen to a podcast / audiobook and music ...
sartak Learning resources 27 7,195 2012-09-02, 6:49 am
    Thread: iPhone app ideas?
Post: iPhone app ideas?

That is a good one. The game would certainly work a lot better with a touch interface than it does with a mouse.
sartak Learning resources 27 7,195 2012-08-31, 2:40 pm
    Thread: iPhone app ideas?
Post: iPhone app ideas?

I've written one iPhone app for learning kana called KanaSwirl which I'm happy with. I'm getting the itch to make another study tool, but I don't have any good ideas. What kind of study apps and/or g...
sartak Learning resources 27 7,195 2012-08-31, 11:16 am
    Thread: Characters not in RTK, Unicode-9..what?
Post: Characters not in RTK, Unicode-9..what?

The way you find them is you plug the kanji itself into the search box. So you're reading, you come across a kanji that isn't in Heisig's books, like 箒. So you put that into the search box and now you...
sartak Remembering the Kanji 8 1,956 2012-08-07, 9:00 pm
    Thread: 3030 kanji?
Post: 3030 kanji?

If you're using the RTK3 book, the missing 7 characters are near the end of the book after the RTK2-style section of teaching readings.
sartak Remembering the Kanji 50 11,652 2012-08-03, 2:03 pm
    Thread: Study calendars
Post: Study calendars

The Daily Practice is a website for tracking goals and forming habits by using a system like Seinfeld's "Don't break the chain" idea. I wrote on my blog about how I'm using it to do AJATT and track a ...
sartak Learning resources 3 734 2012-07-28, 8:37 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread
Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa...

I just finished the full 3030 set this morning! RTK1 took me a little over two years with some very slow times in there (I think I went entire months without adding a single character to my Anki deck)...
sartak Remembering the Kanji 93 58,854 2012-07-22, 10:30 am
    Thread: Resources for studying counters?
Post: Resources for studying counters?

prink Wrote:^ That app looks awesome. I already know kana, but I'd love something like that if you intend to release it. I do! I'm just finishing up some loose ends for KanaSwirl 2.0 then my next targ...
sartak Learning resources 9 2,705 2012-06-06, 10:06 am
    Thread: Resources for studying counters?
Post: Resources for studying counters?

I've been working on an iOS game for learning kana (called KanaSwirl). The way the game works is you see a prompt in the center of the circle (something like "KE"), then tap the answer on the edge of ...
sartak Learning resources 9 2,705 2012-05-29, 6:39 am
    Thread: RevTK Software Developer Showcase
Post: RevTK Software Developer Showcase

KanaSwirl iTunes / introductory blog post - an iPhone/iPad app that teaches you hiragana and katakana if you don't know them yet, or if you do, it serves as a fun, quick drilling tool to improve your ...
sartak Learning resources 26 26,165 2012-05-15, 2:58 pm