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    Thread: When your brain isn't working right
Post: When your brain isn't working right

Don't know if it helps, but I find I often get really tired this time of year. I find it worst around the autumn equinox, I think because the rate of change of day length is at it's maximum (the dail...
andye General discussion 19 2,924 2015-09-24, 4:50 am
    Thread: Suggestion: Stroke Order
Post: Suggestion: Stroke Order

could you use KanjiVG (http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/)? It's used by jisho.org and seems pretty good, but don't know how licence would work with this site (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0)
andye Remembering the Kanji 8 1,169 2015-08-03, 7:51 am
    Thread: My results so far with RTK2...
Post: My results so far with RTK2...

well, it's not bad, 無 is often pronounced ブ (especially as a prefix), and 情 could be セイ but is usually じょう I haven't used RTK2, but I suspect the problem is less with the method, and more a problem ...
andye Remembering the Kanji 7 1,421 2015-07-16, 9:35 am
    Thread: Non-Japanese textbooks in Japanese
Post: Non-Japanese textbooks in Japanese

Try the non-fiction section in 青い鳥文庫 (aoi tori bunko): http://aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/search/gen...7%E3%83%B3 you can read quite a few of these on-line, for free (any with the ためし読みする button). last ...
andye Learning resources 7 1,350 2015-07-06, 8:49 am
    Thread: Starting my reading rampage
Post: Starting my reading rampage

Those 3 rules are actually taken directly from the principles of 多読 (extensive reading), a method of language learning (originally for English) developed by Professor Kunihide Sakai many years ago (se...
andye Learning resources 19 4,901 2015-04-21, 9:08 am
    Thread: Starting my reading rampage
Post: Starting my reading rampage

If you don't mind reading digital books instead of physical ones, I highly recommend ehonnavi.net as a source of free reading materials. There are thousands of picture books available to read on ther...
andye Learning resources 19 4,901 2015-04-21, 4:31 am
    Thread: 2015 JLPT N3 Thread
Post: 2015 JLPT N3 Thread

I've recently gone back to Japanese study after a loooong break, and might take JLPT3 this year just to give me some kind of focus for my studies. For listening pracitce, as well as prepping JLPT wor...
andye JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 307 51,063 2015-04-11, 6:39 am
    Thread: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ?
Post: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ?

Sorry if a bit off topic, but in reply to wrightak: The name stamp I used in Japan read 安戸竜 (アンドリュー). I didn't choose the kanji though, they were chosen for me before I could read anything (I'd prob...
andye The Japanese language 28 14,005 2007-01-10, 6:30 am