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Thread: Anki Evangelism Post: Anki Evangelism I reported the comments. You win; I am done with this forum. |
louischa | Off topic | 37 | 7,321 | 2014-03-28, 12:21 am | ||
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Thread: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! Post: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! I take back the "jackass", it was out of line. Nevertheless, was you wrote was equally out of line. You have absolutely no business of insulting people who want to contribute to this forum in good fa... |
louischa | Learning resources | 19 | 3,827 | 2014-03-28, 12:13 am | ||
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Thread: Anki Evangelism Post: Anki Evangelism I disagree with this in the strongest possible terms. Anki is not at all required for language learning - you are just using a crutch. We don't need your evangelization. You derive your sense of wor... |
louischa | Off topic | 37 | 7,321 | 2014-03-27, 11:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! Post: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! sholum Wrote:(I'm sorry, going back, I see you're reading Doyle, not Japanese literature) Please excuse my hostility, but you should expect it in return when you show it yourself. Please excuse my ho... |
louischa | Learning resources | 19 | 3,827 | 2014-03-27, 9:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Favorite audiobook narrators? Post: Favorite audiobook narrators? どう致しまして、ヤンさん。 |
louischa | General discussion | 19 | 4,705 | 2014-03-27, 8:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! Post: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! Children books are typically written with minimal kanji - so if someone has slogged through RTK, reading these books will not make you review your kanji at a sufficient rate. Second, not everyone enj... |
louischa | Learning resources | 19 | 3,827 | 2014-03-26, 12:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! Post: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! You mean the Japanese translations? My Japanese is still quite 下手, so everything is hard for me (I'm 4 years into the process). However, compared to the painful classics in Giles Murray's tome "Breaki... |
louischa | Learning resources | 19 | 3,827 | 2014-03-26, 1:05 am | ||
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Thread: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! Post: Bilingual books - why no furigana?! I don't think you will find bilingual books with the topic of daily life, but I would encourage you to look at books translated from another language to Japanese. It is a relatively simple matter to f... |
louischa | Learning resources | 19 | 3,827 | 2014-03-25, 11:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Favorite audiobook narrators? Post: Favorite audiobook narrators? It has got to be 森下潤子. Her readings are really interpretations; for Botchan, she conveys so perfectly the humor of the text that it kills me every time, even though I have listened to it hundreds of ... |
louischa | General discussion | 19 | 4,705 | 2014-03-25, 10:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 The point was, you can never feel the same sense of flow - 流 - in a foreign language as that you have in your native language, and you still feel somehow restricted/impaired, even after innumerable ye... |
louischa | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-03-21, 11:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Reasons why English is just as hard to learn as Japanese Post: Reasons why English is just as hard to learn as Ja... To be fair every natural language is hard, because it is full of idiosyncrasies. Now, comparing English to Finnish, I think you can make an objective case that English is easier, because it has no ca... |
louischa | Off topic | 67 | 13,206 | 2014-03-21, 4:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Another necessary, but not sufficient condition for fluency is the number of words you know. It is very easy to check it out. Just pick up any pocket foreign language dictionary and open it at a rand... |
louischa | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-03-21, 4:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Kuzunoha13 Wrote:Of course, having those words is a good base, but not an endpoint. What do you guys consider "fluent"? Thanks for your reply. From the Wikipedia page on language fluency: "In the se... |
louischa | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-03-21, 1:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 @Jahnke: isn't it ironic that most people who decide to learn Esperanto are language lovers who dabble in multiple languages, when Esperanto was supposed to free people from having to learn foreign la... |
louischa | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-03-20, 8:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 afterglowefx Wrote:As soon as I read "fluent in [anything less than "I studied X-language until I was ready to drive my car off a bridge while simultaneously punching twin babies"], I generally stop r... |
louischa | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-03-20, 4:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Heisig appropriate for slow learners? Post: Heisig appropriate for slow learners? You can be a slow learner by choice if Japanese is not an emergency for you. In brief, you have to adapt the system to your circumstances. Heisig was already in Japan and under pressure to learn Ja... |
louischa | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 5,766 | 2014-03-19, 7:18 pm | ||
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Thread: I don't use the "spaced repetition" method.... Post: I don't use the "spaced repetition" method.... I do the same as you do. I still use a SRS, though, but only as a database of cards. I shut down the SRS scheduler and instead just cram all cards in rotation. In my experience, the SRS algorithm d... |
louischa | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 4,080 | 2014-03-19, 6:51 pm | ||
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Thread: should i put more focus on kanji reading? Post: should i put more focus on kanji reading? Yes, I did learn the dominant "on" reading(s) for every character while doing RTK. The benefit, as you correctly conjecture, is that you can guess the reading of compound kanji words more than 90% of... |
louischa | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,471 | 2014-03-16, 12:46 pm | ||
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Thread: DoBJG Anki Deck Post: DoBJG Anki Deck Webmaster, the material posted in this thread is copyrighted. |
louischa | Learning resources | 103 | 33,115 | 2013-07-09, 8:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji odyssey text files Post: Kanji odyssey text files uisukii Wrote:The data used is all from the books I own, and unless I'm mistaken, isn't freely available. By all means, do whatever has to be done to have this removed, if you feel it is doing a disse... |
louischa | Learning resources | 10 | 3,662 | 2013-07-09, 8:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Looking for specific learning resources... Post: Looking for specific learning resources... What you're asking is essentially what good textbooks do. JSL (Harz-Jorden and Noda), for example, has extensive examples of the patterns you are mentioning. One problem with websites and programs i... |
louischa | The Japanese language | 2 | 826 | 2013-07-09, 7:38 pm | ||
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Thread: cb's Kanji Word Association Tool Post: cb's Kanji Word Association Tool すごい！ You just saved me hundreds of hours of tedious work. I did a first pass through Heisig two years and a half ago, and after a while, I just got bored with Anki, busy with work and so I forgot mo... |
louischa | Learning resources | 43 | 19,185 | 2013-07-04, 3:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Delayed audio recognition? Post: Delayed audio recognition? @kame: Well, I did about 1 year of Chinese at the uni and then some by myself and IMHO it was easy - far easier than Japanese. In fact, apart from the horrendous number of characters you need to know... |
louischa | Learning resources | 12 | 2,162 | 2013-06-26, 8:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Delayed audio recognition? Post: Delayed audio recognition? kame3 Wrote:So I have a listening deck for sentences (Chinese) @Kame: By the way, I hope you have thoroughly learned the tones of a basic repertoire of characters and words before you went on to sent... |
louischa | Learning resources | 12 | 2,162 | 2013-06-26, 3:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Delayed audio recognition? Post: Delayed audio recognition? Animosophy Wrote:In his defense, he did say: Quote:The first year I learned Japanese I just focused on grammar and built a small vocabulary of 2,500 words. One year spent on grammar is an incredibly ... |
louischa | Learning resources | 12 | 2,162 | 2013-06-26, 3:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese through audio programs Post: Learning Japanese through audio programs I used Pimsleur (Japanese) and I found it really good if you can stomach its price - in my case, I was able to borrow the tapes from the New York library. However, do not hold any illusion about how... |
louischa | Learning resources | 10 | 3,203 | 2013-06-26, 2:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Delayed audio recognition? Post: Delayed audio recognition? Inny Jan Wrote:... mezbup got it wrong :P Usagi to kame. Strange, even as a kid, I understood the meaning of the fable: you go fast, you do a sloppy job and you eventually need to re-learn. You go ... |
louischa | Learning resources | 12 | 2,162 | 2013-06-25, 6:15 pm | ||
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Thread: cbJisho - E-J Dictionary Based on Word Frequency Post: cbJisho - E-J Dictionary Based on Word Frequency @CB: I just examined the file from your not-yet-released program, and I have the following suggestion: At character Heisig X, it is far too restrictive to try to generate words only composed of char... |
louischa | Learning resources | 56 | 28,259 | 2013-06-24, 11:31 pm | ||
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Thread: cbJisho - E-J Dictionary Based on Word Frequency Post: cbJisho - E-J Dictionary Based on Word Frequency @しーびー: あなたは発奮させるすごい人ですね。御苦労様。 |
louischa | Learning resources | 56 | 28,259 | 2013-06-24, 10:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Delayed audio recognition? Post: Delayed audio recognition? kame3 Wrote:So I was wondering: am I actually understanding what is being said or do I just know the sentences from my deck too well so that I can reconstruct them? Should I fail them after a certain ... |
louischa | Learning resources | 12 | 2,162 | 2013-06-24, 4:49 pm | ||
