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    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

I thought it was possible to change the field checked? So it doesn't have to be "Expression"? Or is that hard coded? Edit: Hm. Okay, only one of my decks has the "Japanese" model, with the fields...
Korvar Learning resources 443 136,517 2012-04-05, 7:46 am
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

Following the instructions at: http://ankisrs.net/docs/JapaneseSupport.html#Ubuntu ...fixed my problem. Specifically, I did: Code: sudo apt-get remove mecab-ipadic mecab kakasi sudo apt-get remove...
Korvar Learning resources 443 136,517 2012-03-27, 10:27 am
    Thread: Make your own Pimsleur courses using this great program!
Post: Make your own Pimsleur courses using this great pr...

That's exactly right. It's fairly easy to do. The first deck I did was the Tae Kim grammar deck. I exported "Facts in tab separated values", opened that up in a spreadsheet, saved it as .csv, as Py...
Korvar Learning resources 25 16,387 2012-03-06, 5:12 am
    Thread: Make your own Pimsleur courses using this great program!
Post: Make your own Pimsleur courses using this great pr...

Well... I'm new to Python coding (although I've coded in Many Other Languages for decades), I'm very new to anki plugin coding (and there's not much documentation), and I don't get a lot of time for c...
Korvar Learning resources 25 16,387 2012-03-05, 4:50 am
    Thread: Make your own Pimsleur courses using this great program!
Post: Make your own Pimsleur courses using this great pr...

I've been using Gradint for a while now (274th lesson today). I didn't add the words to vocab.txt, I created a whole bunch of files in the "samples" directory, one each for English (text, handled by ...
Korvar Learning resources 25 16,387 2012-03-02, 8:43 am
    Thread: Is 100 new kanji a day exaggerated?
Post: Is 100 new kanji a day exaggerated?

eubankp Wrote:I have a hard time believing anyone does 100 a day, or more, for more than one day. It's just insane. I did 70 once and I had the entire day free to study. I usually averaged 30 a day. T...
Korvar Remembering the Kanji 76 23,533 2012-02-21, 4:43 am
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

gombost Wrote:Hi! Your plug-in seems great, thank you for your hard work! Unfortunately I get the following error when I enable MorphMan on a deck in the Control Auto menu: An error occurred in a p...
Korvar Learning resources 443 136,517 2012-02-20, 4:53 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

My RTK1 Anki deck went below 30 due today... It may soon be time to start on RTK 3 :)
Korvar General discussion 1,389 294,557 2011-11-28, 5:21 pm
    Thread: Vacation coming soon Stop adding now?
Post: Vacation coming soon Stop adding now?

So long as you do your reviews, you shouldn't lose any knowledge, which is the main thing. And the reviews you do will push the stuff you have already learned further into your long-term memory. So ...
Korvar Remembering the Kanji 8 1,497 2011-02-22, 2:52 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

I'm going to leap aboard this bandwagon and give my thanks as well. After finishing RTK I was flailing a bit, and it was so great to have a roadmap.
Korvar The Japanese language 712 401,411 2011-02-11, 6:04 pm
    Thread: Core 2k/6k help?
Post: Core 2k/6k help?

I have been thinking about doing Tae Kim's grammar guide, and then going trying core again...
Korvar Learning resources 23 6,590 2011-01-19, 11:43 am
    Thread: Core 2k/6k help?
Post: Core 2k/6k help?

I finished RTK1, and want to start core2k. I got everything from here as suggested from Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners and have created an Anki deck. However, I'm finding it really hard ...
Korvar Learning resources 23 6,590 2011-01-19, 8:13 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Finally after finishing RTK at the end of November, I've gotten the reviews down enough that I can start with Core2k/6k. I lapsed during the holidays, getting up to 400-ish reviews piled up, but they...
Korvar General discussion 1,389 294,557 2011-01-14, 11:10 am
    Thread: Stopped for 2 weeks, forgot everything...
Post: Stopped for 2 weeks, forgot everything...

Learning to write Kanji - at least knowing the basic stroke order - is going to be vital if you're ever going to have to read a Japanese person's handwriting.
Korvar Remembering the Kanji 28 5,493 2010-12-31, 6:40 am
    Thread: 2010 Reflections and 2011 Resolutions
Post: 2010 Reflections and 2011 Resolutions

Start and finish Core 6K Do Tae Kim or similar Be able to read at least one manga Be able to watch and understand one movie (thinking of making it Seven Samurai, but I am open to suggestions!)
Korvar General discussion 69 15,714 2010-12-11, 1:41 pm
    Thread: The Discouragement Thread
Post: The Discouragement Thread

thecite Wrote:I have 8, 000 reviews built up in my sentence deck. I'm discouraged. I never quite got that far, but I think the best thing to do is just do what you can do each day, and ignore that big...
Korvar Off topic 311 69,121 2010-12-11, 4:39 am
    Thread: polyglot dream list
Post: polyglot dream list

Japanese (ongoing - finished RTK1, looking to start core6k soonish) Then Mandarin or Cantonese (assuming learning Hanzi is like learning Kanji). Both? Spanish. I do have a nagging feeling I should...
Korvar Off topic 73 14,897 2010-12-05, 4:22 pm
    Thread: I really don't know how to start
Post: I really don't know how to start

I have Anki set up so that the "story" is hidden until I click the word "Story", as I wrote here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...9#pid40799
Korvar Remembering the Kanji 12 2,679 2010-12-05, 5:19 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Technically, it's not until tomorrow, when the last of the RTK Kanji gets reviewed for the first time. I'm assuming that counts as "finished", although obviously I've still got to review review revie...
Korvar Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,660 2010-11-24, 6:03 pm
    Thread: Lone Wolf and Cub (子連れ狼, Kozure Ōkami) Manga in Japanese?
Post: Lone Wolf and Cub (子連れ狼, Kozure Ōkami) Manga in Ja...

Does anyone know if it's possible to get hold of Kozure Ōkami/Lone Wolf and Cub in Japanese, in the UK? I've been reading some of the translations, but I'd really like to have it as one of my aspirat...
Korvar General discussion 0 729 2010-11-13, 3:56 pm
    Thread: Thinking Japanese
Post: Thinking Japanese

I would suspect you'll learn more about how Japanese people think by studying their language than you would learn about the Japanese language by studying how they think... Glib answer aside, I find t...
Korvar General discussion 48 7,815 2010-10-29, 5:05 am
    Thread: Project Proposal - Anime Transcripts/Subtitles
Post: Project Proposal - Anime Transcripts/Subtitles

Sounds like a fantastic idea to me, especially for harder-to-get shows.
Korvar Group study 24 18,367 2010-10-13, 4:02 am
    Thread: Made some Posters
Post: Made some Posters

truando Wrote:Here's a RTK A3 poster I made http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9719223/RTK_Poster.pdf Thanks for that! I've printed it out, and highlighted the ones I've learned (at least, put in Anki), and it...
Korvar Chinese and Hanzi 25 11,415 2010-10-11, 5:12 am
    Thread: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ?
Post: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ?

EratiK Wrote:The whole point of Heisig is because very few words are made of only one kanji (am I wrong?), so you cannot say in most of the cases "this kanji means X word with Y reading" because it do...
Korvar Remembering the Kanji 96 103,404 2010-10-03, 2:18 pm
    Thread: I study Nihongo because...
Post: I study Nihongo because...

Samurai for me. Kurosawa films, the Lone Wolf and Cub manga (I really want to get hold of a Japanese-language version somewhere), Japanese-themed role-playing games... I think I might have to blame ...
Korvar Off topic 358 111,135 2010-09-28, 6:25 am
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

truando Wrote:You may also buy Anki for your phone (if you have an iphone) and review during the day in small chunks of 5 minutes. There's always 5 minutes here and there when you just waste time. Do ...
Korvar Remembering the Kanji 908 186,094 2010-09-27, 6:40 am
    Thread: Large News Audio Files.
Post: Large News Audio Files.

You can use iTunes (and probably other things) to convert the podcast entries into .mp3 - I've done it myself, but as I've got an iPod it's easy enough to just listen to the podcast :) I believe it's...
Korvar Learning resources 6 1,625 2010-09-27, 6:36 am
    Thread: Large News Audio Files.
Post: Large News Audio Files.

I subscribed to some Japanese news pod-casts on iTunes. I think these are the news ones, but I'll admit that my Japanese reading isn't good enough to tell for sure :) http://podfeed.podcastjuice.jp/...
Korvar Learning resources 6 1,625 2010-09-26, 10:27 am
    Thread: How closely do you read?
Post: How closely do you read?

nadiatims Wrote:I tend to note down unknown words on paper while reading and then add them in bulk to my vocab deck later (perhaps 50-100 at a time using rikaichan save to file feature). There's a wha...
Korvar General discussion 35 5,531 2010-09-22, 3:40 am
    Thread: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Remembering the Kanji"?
Post: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Rememb...

SammyB Wrote:I'd rather have the ability to write kanji. Plus one :) Although, you'd think I'd spend more time practising my handwriting if that were true :)
Korvar The Japanese language 26 9,813 2010-09-22, 3:29 am