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Thread: Anyone get ALL the RTK1 kanji into the stack 5+? Post: Anyone get ALL the RTK1 kanji into the stack 5+? I've been hovering at around 1900 in the last stack for a long time now. This seems to be a more or less steady-state level with me getting about 80% on review. |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,149 | 2008-06-25, 1:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! Congradulations! I just finished RTK1 a bit ago, and I think on the whole, the second half was a little easier, although my rate of card addition did drop a bit because I was spending more time on ... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,287 | 2008-03-26, 8:00 am | ||
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Thread: Writing Advice Post: Writing Advice zdude255 Wrote:Is it possible to get a notebook of such paper in the US? Doesn't address your printer problem, but... If you can find a printer and run off a big stack of paper using one of the PDF f... |
dwhitman | The Japanese language | 21 | 12,436 | 2008-03-25, 7:36 am | ||
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Thread: How Many Cards Are In Your Last Stack? Post: How Many Cards Are In Your Last Stack? 1718 and climbing. :cool: Just finished RTK1 maybe a week ago, and the last cards are crawling through the intermediate stacks. |
dwhitman | General discussion | 12 | 2,368 | 2008-03-20, 6:43 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Just finished, after a six month journey. All your kanji are belong to me! As is traditional here, I would like to thank Fabrice for the wonderful resource he has built for us. And thanks also to a... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,398 | 2008-03-11, 1:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Help staying the course Post: Help staying the course My approach is similar to pm215's. When I notice a pattern of mixing up two kanji with similar keywords, I rework both stories slightly to create a clear distinction based on nuances of meaning betwe... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 3,088 | 2008-03-08, 10:33 am | ||
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Thread: Are there any free plaintiffs for calligraphy? Post: Are there any free plaintiffs for calligraphy? I use a different pattern off the website Thora cites ("Chinese X") http://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/chineseX/ I printed up a big stack of these and took them to my local Staples store and had ... |
dwhitman | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,644 | 2008-03-01, 7:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Reported story! Why? Post: Reported story! Why? ファブリス Wrote:I find it rather ironic that I got the most kicks of all : http://www.koohii.com/downloads/forum/20...wooops.gif ... I was testing of course. I guess I forgot I was on the "production" s... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 5,239 | 2008-02-29, 8:14 am | ||
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Thread: What age are you? Post: What age are you? Young whippersnappers! Why in my day we learned Sanskrit in 2 months, walking back and forth to school uphill both ways through the snow in our bare feet! Kids today... Sorry. What were we talking... |
dwhitman | Off topic | 357 | 73,663 | 2008-02-22, 4:01 pm | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Congratulations! I think 500 is a biggy, that shows you're really using the Heisig method correctly. Anyone could brute force their way to a 100 or so by just rote memorization, but to get to 500 mea... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,010 | 2008-02-05, 11:12 am | ||
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Thread: Just got Heisig - best way to get stuck in ? Post: Just got Heisig - best way to get stuck in ? I have a personal goal of 24 per day (that's 2 sheets of the great PDF flashcards here), but I think more important than any particular pace is that you keep momentum. Try to do some studying every s... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 2,701 | 2008-01-08, 11:56 am | ||
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Thread: Mr. T & Co. (ideas for "person" primitive) Post: Mr. T & Co. (ideas for "person" primitive) Just remembered another specific person that has worked really well for me in stories. Probably only works if you were around in the 70's (and didn't take Cheech and Chong's lifestyle to heart, so th... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,705 | 2007-12-22, 11:12 am | ||
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Thread: Mr. T & Co. (ideas for "person" primitive) Post: Mr. T & Co. (ideas for "person" primitive) I think that for a character to work as a primitive, that you want to pick someone with such deep associations that the person has become a metaphor for their unique characteristics. Not just any cha... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,705 | 2007-12-20, 11:42 am | ||
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Thread: Banner Post: Banner I'm not really happy with how I handle banner either, but FWIW: I just look at the "recline" primitive as the banner itself, flapping over whatever else is there. And I remember the other part as di... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,778 | 2007-12-17, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: New Features Linked at Jim Breen's Dictionary Post: New Features Linked at Jim Breen's Dictionary The new multi-radical search is *wonderful*. The organization by position is a much more intuitive than stroke count (and within a position, stroke count is still available to fine tune). And the gr... |
dwhitman | Learning resources | 10 | 4,064 | 2007-12-14, 2:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Quick question for you guys. Post: Quick question for you guys. Everyone's learning style is different and you need to tailor your study to match what works for you. CharleyGarrett makes great suggestions. My style: I work out or pick stories in the evening and ... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 3,749 | 2007-12-11, 8:49 pm | ||
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Thread: emperor and chief Post: emperor and chief ooooo, Ramchip, thanks for the etymology on 雄 and 雌, but even more thanks for the pointer to kanjinetworks.com! What an amazingly useful site! |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,140 | 2007-12-11, 2:46 pm | ||
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Thread: emperor and chief Post: emperor and chief I don't know the answer to ivoSF's question, but can I climb on with a parallel one? Both 雄 male and 雌 female have the turkey primitive. Is there some connection between this primitive and gender? |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,140 | 2007-12-11, 11:12 am | ||
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Thread: Disambiguating "before" and "in front" Post: Disambiguating "before" and "in front" Good suggestions, thanks! |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 3,793 | 2007-12-07, 9:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Disambiguating "before" and "in front" Post: Disambiguating "before" and "in front" I keep mixing up 先 and 前 upon review, and looking at comments embedded in stories, it seems like a lot of other folks have the same trouble. I'm considering building a distinction around 先 being temp... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 3,793 | 2007-12-07, 9:06 am | ||
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Thread: A RevTK "Lite" Option Post: A RevTK "Lite" Option My instinct is that this doesn't work, not for programming reasons, but for pedagogic reasons. Heisig's system is so structured that it just feels difficult to tease out an internally self-supporting... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 209 | 126,785 | 2007-12-06, 9:34 am | ||
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Thread: Memorizing radical stroke counts? Post: Memorizing radical stroke counts? Katsuo, thanks for the radical list in the other thread, but even more thanks for offering a different approach to the problem than I'd considered. It's almost like you applied a Fourier transform to... |
dwhitman | General discussion | 9 | 1,631 | 2007-12-04, 6:07 am | ||
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Thread: Memorizing radical stroke counts? Post: Memorizing radical stroke counts? Well, so much for that idea. I still think knowing them would make dictionary lookups quicker, but if my senpai are doing well without actively trying to memorize, it cuts the urgency for me. And I'm... |
dwhitman | General discussion | 9 | 1,631 | 2007-12-03, 3:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Memorizing radical stroke counts? Post: Memorizing radical stroke counts? In the past, I've used SKIP codes to look up kanji, but I'm finding that as I work through RtK I can almost always recognize primitives even in kanji I don't know. With this realization, I'm finding ... |
dwhitman | General discussion | 9 | 1,631 | 2007-12-03, 8:15 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! vosmiura Wrote:Congrats! Don't leave the learning waiting too long though! It is easier to stay in the groove than to get in the groove. You know, I started feeling nervous about this as soon as I wr... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,287 | 2007-11-29, 8:05 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! Now, I wouldn't sneak into the "I'm finished" thread for this 準功, but I just hit the half way mark in RtK1! :cool: Rewarded myself with a copy of Heisig's RtKana. Taking a few days off adding new k... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,287 | 2007-11-28, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Where are the tests? Post: Where are the tests? (Guessing what the problem is) To takes tests here, go to the Review section. Add flashcards to your stack down in the "manage flashcards" area at the bottom. The site assumes you're learning in th... |
dwhitman | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,245 | 2007-11-16, 9:23 am | ||
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Thread: Hello, folks. A newbie here. Post: Hello, folks. A newbie here. Quote:I find that Heisig's ordering has always worked well for me, as it did in his Remembering the Kana series, but I never really remember the stories that he makes. Magnadoodle made the suggestion ... |
dwhitman | General discussion | 21 | 4,309 | 2007-11-07, 12:04 pm | ||
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Thread: 3 Japanese Novels: Please help me select them. Post: 3 Japanese Novels: Please help me select them. I'm not even remotely near being able to read him in Japanese, but the novels of Haruki Murakami are amazingly good in English translation. I dream of the day I might be able to go back and read them ... |
dwhitman | General discussion | 11 | 2,844 | 2007-11-07, 11:36 am | ||
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Thread: Plagiarism Post: Plagiarism I have many times posted an edited version of someone else's story - correcting grammar, tightening up the prose, adding some minor change that makes it more mnemonic for me, rearranging to make the p... |
dwhitman | Off topic | 16 | 3,415 | 2007-11-05, 12:39 pm | ||
