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    Thread: Do you believe Japan is a high tech country?
Post: Do you believe Japan is a high tech country?

This is an unimaginably one-sided, poorly thought-out piece. Reminds me of people with "Buy American" stickers on their GM cars, with their "American-made" Suzuki engine, Korean/Taiwanese electronics,...
revdrkevind Off topic 47 16,367 2010-07-21, 9:59 am
    Thread: Merits of doing a textbook...
Post: Merits of doing a textbook...

This is kind of going in a circle, but I have Japanese the Manga Way. Should you ever be faced with the choice- Japanese the Manga Way doesn't come with a workbook, which sucks. The competing product ...
revdrkevind General discussion 35 6,892 2010-04-19, 8:55 am
    Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?
Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?

Jarvik7 Wrote:From what I hear, comments are mostly positive because he deletes anything negative. Not to handwave, but the entire point of the site is motivation, so that's understandable.
revdrkevind General discussion 142 43,287 2010-04-16, 10:06 am
    Thread: The Weirdness of Japan
Post: The Weirdness of Japan

Tzadeck Wrote:Also, walk through a book-off or something in Japan and look at all the dirty manga. Yet the people who would be most against this are the same ones fueling the paparazzi and drooling ov...
revdrkevind General discussion 48 10,288 2010-04-15, 3:27 pm
    Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?
Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?

rochel Wrote:I think my main motivation for signing up was to support Khatz. I have read his blog for the last year[...] This year I made my first contribution to public radio, and I ordered kanjipost...
revdrkevind General discussion 142 43,287 2010-04-15, 3:12 pm
    Thread: Aiming to fail
Post: Aiming to fail

NibelungValesti Wrote:I was thinking a chart would be a good idea Personally, I've found having a kanji poster / chart / whatever to be immense. There's so many things it does- casual reminder, motiva...
revdrkevind Remembering the Kanji 15 5,040 2010-04-15, 3:03 pm
    Thread: Can someone help me understand....
Post: Can someone help me understand....

kainzero Wrote:memorizing 日 and 時 and 持 and treating them all differently instead of noticing the similarities, etc. Cut out everything else, and zero in on this. Learning Heisig / RTK, you get a util...
revdrkevind Remembering the Kanji 8 2,400 2010-04-15, 8:59 am
    Thread: Aiming to fail
Post: Aiming to fail

NibelungValesti Wrote:I must say my confidence took a knock when I took someones suggestion not to review shortly after studying(I found this identified crap stories sooner - more focus), the next day...
revdrkevind Remembering the Kanji 15 5,040 2010-04-15, 8:20 am
    Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?
Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?

thurd Wrote:I hope at least one positive thing will come out of this thread and that would be donating money to ファブリス for creating and supporting this great community. I think everyone here can spare...
revdrkevind General discussion 142 43,287 2010-04-09, 1:45 pm
    Thread: I study Nihongo because...
Post: I study Nihongo because...

Current reasons: -US sucks. Not that I expect Japan to be a magic place, but it'd be a change of scenery. -Restaraunts. Through RTK I'm already recognizing half the kanji on Chinese menus too. That's ...
revdrkevind Off topic 358 111,128 2010-03-25, 10:58 am
    Thread: Why does Rosetta Stone fail?
Post: Why does Rosetta Stone fail?

gyuujuice Wrote:I guess for someone without any sort of initiative would use this but I have a higher image of the genral public than that. Welp, there's your problem. No, seriously.
revdrkevind General discussion 11 7,006 2010-03-18, 1:53 pm
    Thread: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ?
Post: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ?

I was watching some horrible kung-fu movie last night, and there's a shot of a plaque that is subbed "black dragon"- but I recognized the kanji for "black" before the prompt appears. Later, there's a ...
revdrkevind Remembering the Kanji 96 103,403 2010-03-18, 1:45 pm
    Thread: Kanji Pict-o-grafx...
Post: Kanji Pict-o-grafx...

Agree with the negatives. Kanji p-o-g seems like a great idea, right up until you start Heisig. Heisig does the same thing, only in Heisig's method, everything builds on a system. Put another way. KP...
revdrkevind Learning resources 17 3,356 2010-03-15, 10:55 am
    Thread: Blu Ray or External HDD for storage
Post: Blu Ray or External HDD for storage

If you want to be truly secure, most people are missing a critical aspect-you can keep a million copies in your home, and the problem is, what if you home is broken into, or there's a fire, or a power...
revdrkevind Off topic 29 7,110 2010-02-26, 1:55 pm