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Thread: Kanji in Zhongwen not in RTK 1 + 3 Post: Kanji in Zhongwen not in RTK 1 + 3 And just for fun, I've turned this into a Google App Engine app so there's no need for any technical knowledge: http://zhongwenlookup.appspot.com/ |
fergal | General discussion | 8 | 1,290 | 2009-10-26, 5:34 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji in Zhongwen not in RTK 1 + 3 Post: Kanji in Zhongwen not in RTK 1 + 3 I finally got bored looking things up on zhongwen.com, figured out the URL system and wrote a little bash script. You can find it here http://wargle.blogspot.com/2009/10/looki...ly-on.html . |
fergal | General discussion | 8 | 1,290 | 2009-10-25, 5:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Mistakes in RTK1, 5th edition Post: Mistakes in RTK1, 5th edition 粛 is entry 2227 in the Kodansha Learner's Dictionary which shows "rake" without the hook at the bottom of the vertical, then complete the "rice" character in the usual order (except the vertical strok... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 6,647 | 2009-08-16, 5:11 pm | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? Awesome. I'll remember that forever. |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,537 | 2009-07-18, 3:26 am | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? bodhisamaya Wrote:Keep in mind that the stories you create now, if they imprint a clear mental picture, will forever be associated with those kanji. Not according to Mr Heisig. I'm only up to about 16... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,537 | 2009-07-12, 5:49 pm | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? Robatsu Wrote:...And it's took me until frame 1531 and 9326 reviews to figure that out. O_o Bingo! 1531 is my next Kanji. Many of the lessons come so late that it almost makes you want to learn Chine... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,537 | 2009-06-28, 9:04 am | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? bladethecoder Wrote:A number of times I picked a technically bad story, failed the card on the second or third review, took the time to learn what seemed like a better story, but when the card came up... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,537 | 2009-06-28, 9:00 am | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? Wally Wrote:Claiming that any one method is superior to all others, and at all times, is a bit absurd to my way of thinking. What is effective is simply what works. And what works is almost surely g... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,537 | 2009-06-28, 6:40 am | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? strugglebunny Wrote:Different strokes for different folks I guess. I'm just often surprised how many times stories get a ton of votes when they actually contradict the very philosophy of the method we... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,537 | 2009-06-28, 4:26 am | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? I spend a long time coming up with satisfying stories, it's by far the hardest and most time consuming part of RTK for me. Sometimes I find excellent stories on this site but often times I read people... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,537 | 2009-06-26, 1:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I doing something wrong? Post: Am I doing something wrong? I have always put the story as part of the answer. I still don't get why Khatz thinks it works well on the front. The objective is to learn to get from keyword to kanji, the story is a temporary bridg... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 3,355 | 2009-06-26, 1:20 pm | ||
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Thread: why are some elements not primitives? Post: why are some elements not primitives? Thanks to Katsuo for the spreadsheet. I have rejiggered it to be in the order most useful for people working through the books. Each line contains with the earlier kanji that you want to learn, follo... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 31,934 | 2009-06-07, 6:15 am | ||
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Thread: "words" is too abstract, I was thinking of using "jack-in-the-box" Post: "words" is too abstract, I was thinking of using "... Well it's already quite well burnt into me that it means words the problem is that words are not easily visualised, at least not without coming close to another primitive or keyword. |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 1,411 | 2009-01-04, 9:37 am | ||
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Thread: "words" is too abstract, I was thinking of using "jack-in-the-box" Post: "words" is too abstract, I was thinking of using "... I find it hard to come up reliable images involving "words", "saying" or "speech". Perhaps because a lot of my other stories involve someone saying something already. The radical looks a bit like a j... |
fergal | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 1,411 | 2009-01-04, 9:12 am | ||