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    Thread: So I started over
Post: So I started over

kazelee Wrote:Applying an exaggerated version of your logic... everyone with a low IQ's would be rich. They'd just have an aptitude for making money while those with high IQ's could barely form senten...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 40 7,499 2009-09-21, 4:58 pm
    Thread: On why it's important to make your own stories
Post: On why it's important to make your own stories

atylmo Wrote:AmberUK Wrote:I am sooooo poor at my own stories. I seem to get an image in my head when I read the keyword and it doesn't fit the meaning of the word of the primitives. ... That's what m...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 24 4,576 2009-09-21, 3:38 pm
    Thread: On why it's important to make your own stories
Post: On why it's important to make your own stories

I am sooooo poor at my own stories. I seem to get an image in my head when I read the keyword and it doesn't fit the meaning of the word of the primitives. The words that are not solid objects are the...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 24 4,576 2009-09-21, 2:53 pm
    Thread: So I started over
Post: So I started over

kazelee Wrote:@AmberUK One method does fit all. Save for those special cases, we are not really so varied when it comes to learning. This insistence on learning styles and their dramatic impact seems...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 40 7,499 2009-09-21, 2:51 pm
    Thread: So I started over
Post: So I started over

Yonosa Wrote:One year? To get to 1750 on RTK?...You've got to be kidding me... Sorry for the hate. But....if you aren't more motivated you may as well reevaluate your situation. or some of us just st...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 40 7,499 2009-09-21, 11:31 am
    Thread: memory tips/aids
Post: memory tips/aids

Thanks! I will have a look at it when it arrives next week.
AmberUK General discussion 11 3,391 2009-09-19, 10:41 am
    Thread: memory tips/aids
Post: memory tips/aids

zazen666 Wrote:I would suggest a good book on memory. there are some decent tips and tricks that you can use. I suggest "Your Memory" by Kenneth L higbee PHD Thanks, I just ordered a copy.
AmberUK General discussion 11 3,391 2009-09-18, 7:31 am
    Thread: memory tips/aids
Post: memory tips/aids

undead_saif Wrote:AmberUK Wrote:The weird thing is I have some words like ant and fly I learned once and never used (3years ago) and yet remember them easily. I cannot work out why, I wonder if its be...
AmberUK General discussion 11 3,391 2009-09-18, 6:47 am
    Thread: memory tips/aids
Post: memory tips/aids

Heisig has a list of words for each Hiragana 'letter' in book 2. He does like you say in your example of corn and cat. he uses it as the way to learn the Japanese reading of the kana, which has no pat...
AmberUK General discussion 11 3,391 2009-09-17, 12:56 pm
    Thread: Japanese or US electrical devices in Europe?
Post: Japanese or US electrical devices in Europe?

And all of Europe is not the same is it? I am sure the UK is different. Why not just use an adapter?
AmberUK General discussion 5 1,468 2009-09-13, 3:05 pm
    Thread: Final Fantasy XIII demo...
Post: Final Fantasy XIII demo...

Hashiriya Wrote:have you played the demo? i actually like the battle system just fine... I play turn based games because I am terrible at real time games. I have tried and tried them and they end up g...
AmberUK Off topic 31 5,390 2009-09-09, 4:56 am
    Thread: Final Fantasy XIII demo...
Post: Final Fantasy XIII demo...

real time battles ;-(((( ahhhh I just cannot do them. Its why I love RPG's and now FF is a no go ;-( Freaky how with video games my square your always sure you kinda know that person from before as t...
AmberUK Off topic 31 5,390 2009-09-08, 5:38 pm
    Thread: Good Japanese Wii games?
Post: Good Japanese Wii games?

Surely it depends what type of games ur into? Adventure, puzzle, RPG? Its not region locked so you can get whatever games you want (except Chinese apparently). When you set your lang to Japanese wou...
AmberUK Learning resources 11 10,258 2009-08-31, 4:15 pm
    Thread: Jpod's
Post: Jpod's

kittycate44 Wrote:I've done 150 beginner lesson PDF's in the last 2 days so it's really fast!!! (prob would count as a whole normal lesson). I think it builds a really good +1 method, as long as you d...
AmberUK Learning resources 37 5,977 2009-08-23, 3:49 pm
    Thread: Another one struggling
Post: Another one struggling

The problem is if you forget 30% then thats 30% that comes up again and again. And then there are the forgotten ones in the longer term. Surely its better to spend time now and work out why? That wou...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 27 4,305 2009-08-17, 6:58 am
    Thread: Self study or School?
Post: Self study or School?

I think you need to be honest with yourself, in what you want and what kinda of study person you are. What motivates you, why your doing this. I think bandwidthjunkie has a good point. I did one cour...
AmberUK General discussion 40 6,579 2009-07-29, 8:09 am
    Thread: Diminishing Return
Post: Diminishing Return

mezbup Wrote:Nukemarine Wrote:This daily practice though goes into the next area. Impact over the long haul which goes into the law of diminishing returns. We see it on this site. The 1000 kanji that ...
AmberUK General discussion 55 8,765 2009-07-25, 2:51 pm
    Thread: Struggling with the method
Post: Struggling with the method

Musashi Wrote:Ampharos64 Wrote:Done. ^_^ Feels weird. I kind of miss it, already, though it'll be a while till they're all solidified. Finally get to play that PS3, yay, Valkyria Chronicles is fun (th...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 65 10,387 2009-07-22, 4:50 pm
    Thread: What do multiple commas mean?
Post: What do multiple commas mean?

There can't be anything thats confusable with that surely?
AmberUK The Japanese language 28 8,989 2009-07-21, 6:43 am
    Thread: All Asian People Don't Look the Same (Anymore).
Post: All Asian People Don't Look the Same (Anymore).

I think there have been several studies showing that people usually cannot tell the difference between people from a different race unless they normally interact with people of that race. Its just one...
AmberUK General discussion 33 12,777 2009-07-21, 6:41 am
    Thread: What do multiple commas mean?
Post: What do multiple commas mean?

Thats one ugly/messey hanzi. Someone must have made it up for a joke to see if it would catch on.
AmberUK The Japanese language 28 8,989 2009-07-21, 6:34 am
    Thread: Re-examining your SRS workflow
Post: Re-examining your SRS workflow

I think this is what makes RTK hard. As its such a large number of cards/data its easy to keep adding. And then a week or month later it bites you on the ass. I found with lessons in books that doing...
AmberUK General discussion 176 48,561 2009-07-20, 7:30 am
    Thread: Reccomended Manga?
Post: Reccomended Manga?

So about a year from starting manga to get it? Though its a long time. It is good to know how long is reasonable to have to be plugging away at it.
AmberUK General discussion 56 26,477 2009-07-19, 2:21 pm
    Thread: Not understanding what you SRS
Post: Not understanding what you SRS

what is production and what is recognition? People go on about this a lot and I don't understand what it is, I know its an Anki thing?
AmberUK Learning resources 17 2,107 2009-07-16, 8:09 am
    Thread: Struggling with the method
Post: Struggling with the method

Ampharos64 Wrote:AmberUK Wrote:Ampharos64 Wrote:No prob., am being good and not spending long on *this* forum. ^_^ GameFaqs on the other hand... what games? Pokemon Platinum, mostly, I should really h...
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 65 10,387 2009-07-16, 3:33 am
    Thread: Struggling with the method
Post: Struggling with the method

Ampharos64 Wrote:No prob., am being good and not spending long on *this* forum. ^_^ GameFaqs on the other hand... what games?
AmberUK Remembering the Kanji 65 10,387 2009-07-11, 12:36 pm
    Thread: A program for handling vocab databanks?
Post: A program for handling vocab databanks?

ahhh cannot sort out the quoting syntax, too many replies in replies. To the person who struggled with Romaji. I also struggle. I use kana/kanji and only touch romaji to type into my PC. If I didn't ...
AmberUK Learning resources 51 6,100 2009-07-10, 6:57 am
    Thread: A program for handling vocab databanks?
Post: A program for handling vocab databanks?

It would have to be pretty clever to know that there were two words the same in there. Esp if you have more than one definition. If fiction is the first definition for one word but the second for anot...
AmberUK Learning resources 51 6,100 2009-07-08, 1:49 am
    Thread: A program for handling vocab databanks?
Post: A program for handling vocab databanks?

If you do file - import in anki it says that it imports text separated by tabs or semicolon's. Have you tried that? http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/FileImport Then you can order by different fields and se...
AmberUK Learning resources 51 6,100 2009-07-08, 1:02 am
    Thread: Best SRS ????
Post: Best SRS ????

DeadLugosi: I have been fiddling with Anki for probs 5 or 6 updates that I know of and even in that time I have seen a lot of changes. Its certainly worth relooking at if previous updates have not had...
AmberUK Learning resources 33 10,424 2009-06-28, 10:19 am