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    Thread: New program for vocabulary and sentence mining
Post: New program for vocabulary and sentence mining

Great program. Easy and useful. The only question I have is, does it keep track of which words you have gotten correct or are they just random. For example if I get a word correct today is will I see ...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 37 8,426 2010-01-29, 12:56 am
    Thread: The SRS Musician's Thread
Post: The SRS Musician's Thread

Nii87 Wrote:But just knowing the intervals aren't enough. Surely you need to connect the muscle movement and physical distance of a piano (or any instrument) with an interval? I'm thinking of going d...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 27 5,675 2009-08-03, 6:52 am
    Thread: The SRS Musician's Thread
Post: The SRS Musician's Thread

Nii87 Wrote:Is it even a useful skill? Does it need to be a sine wave, or would a piano suffice? This pitch interval training thing has me really interested. I've played piano for quite some time but...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 27 5,675 2009-08-03, 3:43 am
    Thread: The SRS Musician's Thread
Post: The SRS Musician's Thread

Sorry I'm late. I've did this about 1 month ago. I just did intervals. I played C and then another note. Then on the card I asked "What is the interval". After 1 month I can see a big difference. One ...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 27 5,675 2009-08-03, 2:48 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

I think people should just try everything themselves and research things instead of just following what someone else did. I like AJATT, but that doesn't mean it's perfect or that a lot of things on th...
Chandlerhimself General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-08-03, 2:30 am
    Thread: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex
Post: Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex

To be honest I don't what's going on over here. I see and hear about this kind of thing and it seems like the solution is obvious, but nobody does it. From what I've heard, a lot of young people live ...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 20 6,067 2009-07-27, 9:21 am
    Thread: Diminishing Return
Post: Diminishing Return

It's not just physical things that it applies to other things are effected as well. As for things like adults not being able to become classical pianist or dancers, this has more to do with the system...
Chandlerhimself General discussion 55 8,767 2009-07-25, 6:35 pm
    Thread: Diminishing Return
Post: Diminishing Return

Outliers is a really good book and you can find it in Japanese now(It's called 天才 I think). However there is a book that I think is even better, "Talent is Overrated" by Geoff Colvin. It's similar, bu...
Chandlerhimself General discussion 55 8,767 2009-07-25, 7:35 am
    Thread: Number One Idiot in Japan
Post: Number One Idiot in Japan

Well this thread didn't disappoint. That was extremely stupid. I wonder if that guy had ever seen a Japanese person before coming to Japan. What I learned from that video is 1). Japanese people look J...
Chandlerhimself General discussion 14 2,048 2009-07-19, 5:23 am
    Thread: What the Heck does it feel like to finish KO2001?
Post: What the Heck does it feel like to finish KO2001?

vosmiura Wrote:I finished the first half. Now I also finished half of Reibun de Manaubu. Making progress on these books translates into very noticeable gains, but at the same time they cover only ab...
Chandlerhimself The Japanese language 46 7,419 2009-07-13, 5:43 am
    Thread: Forum suggestion: 日本語の会話
Post: Forum suggestion: 日本語の会話

Tobberoth Wrote:The problem is that the japanese threads we have aren't being used, for several reasons. 1. People don't know where they belong (I personally find some posts in the intermediate threa...
Chandlerhimself General discussion 28 6,208 2009-07-02, 4:45 am
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

ahibba Wrote:Codexus Wrote:Understanding 70% is useless, the most common words are the glue that make everything fit together, not the words that carry the most meaning Yes, I know: ahibba Wrote:Do y...
Chandlerhimself General discussion 395 64,356 2009-07-01, 6:46 am
    Thread: Best SRS ????
Post: Best SRS ????

AmberUK Wrote:I thought that my vocab problems was to do with use of words. And fine with words like taberu, iru etc you use all the time maybe. But I have words like ant and fly I learned in a word l...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 33 10,469 2009-06-25, 1:00 pm
    Thread: The future of education, Star Trek and the Vulcan SRS program.
Post: The future of education, Star Trek and the Vulcan ...

Anki is a computer program after all, so it wouldn't be hard to have it generate random numbers. That way you could have problems like 3x=9 and then the next time you see the card it says 3x=15. This ...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 42 6,343 2009-06-23, 2:17 am
    Thread: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all example sentences
Post: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all ex...

resolve Wrote:Someone should approach Coscom and ask them if they'll distribute the .anki deck on their CD. Users would get the convenience of a ready-made study solution, and Coscom would get paid. I...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 215 71,721 2009-06-15, 8:08 am
    Thread: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all example sentences
Post: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all ex...

ahibba: I don't think you understand the concept of lend. Anyway, it might not be a bad idea to delete this thread. Not only is it getting off topic, but it's also drawing a lot of attention to thin...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 215 71,721 2009-06-15, 7:26 am
    Thread: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all example sentences
Post: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all ex...

Pauline Wrote:Besides, all copyright laws requires a work to reach a certain threshold of originality to qualify. I very much doubt that there are any country which would consider a string of numbers ...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 215 71,721 2009-06-15, 2:17 am
    Thread: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all example sentences
Post: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all ex...

The point was someone said all information should be free. If people are trying to argue that the information has to increase your knowledge somehow, then how can people justify the copying of fiction...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 215 71,721 2009-06-15, 12:25 am
    Thread: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all example sentences
Post: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all ex...

I hope that everyone that thinks that all information should be free, posts their real name, credit card number, SS number and bank account numbers in this thread. All those things are intangible and ...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 215 71,721 2009-06-14, 10:59 pm
    Thread: KO2001 Kanji- Aaaaaah
Post: KO2001 Kanji- Aaaaaah

I finished KO2001 about 3 weeks ago and one of the things that helped me get through it is to just suspend cards that are too hard. I was doing 5 new kanji every day(a page a day) and if I had one car...
Chandlerhimself Learning resources 30 10,379 2009-06-10, 7:56 am
    Thread: The meaning of が particle.
Post: The meaning of が particle.

I always thought of は as the topic marker. For example the thing you are going to talk about in the next sentence and so doesn't need to be said. Kind of like when people use pronouns in English inste...
Chandlerhimself The Japanese language 89 17,863 2009-06-10, 4:59 am
    Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level
Post: KO2001 and JLPT level

thermal Wrote:activeaero, Let's say mining from natural sources is 70% as fast overall. If two twins did the same amount of immersion, but one had 10,000 KO sentences and one had 7,000 i + 1 native s...
Chandlerhimself JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 94 17,481 2009-06-02, 2:16 am
    Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?
Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?

You said you thought Anki's UI wasn't nice enough and you thought it should be more intuitive and eye catching. Other people disagreed or at least didn't see a problem with it. You insisted it doesn't...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 127 19,221 2009-06-01, 12:23 am
    Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?
Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?

You were rude in insisting he help you, after he already told you he didn't have time. Unless you paid him he doesn't owe you anything. Where I could from if someone says "Sorry, I can't help you, I'm...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 127 19,221 2009-05-31, 11:57 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level
Post: KO2001 and JLPT level

I don't think the sentences in KO are that bad. Some of them are weird, but others are really good. Some I have seen later in magazines, etc. Anyway, I don't think it even matters if some of them are ...
Chandlerhimself JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 94 17,481 2009-05-31, 11:48 pm
    Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?
Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?

This is ridiculous. If you really want to help people take everyone's advice and make what people want. I think most people on here want an Anki client for iPhone/iPod touch ,android or windows mobile...
Chandlerhimself Off topic 127 19,221 2009-05-31, 7:32 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate m...

I just finished the 2nd book 3 days ago and I have to say that it was one of the best things I've ever done. My vocabulary has increased 10x. 2001 and RTK took me a year to complete however it was wor...
Chandlerhimself General discussion 120 33,808 2009-05-23, 9:55 am
    Thread: MSG 魔法使い(♂)と弟子(♀)の不適切なカンケイ 1
Post: MSG 魔法使い(♂)と弟子(♀)の不適切なカンケイ 1

Sorry I've been MIA. I'll start working on in right now. I just finished pg 5 through 10. They may have some errors, but we can check for those later.
Chandlerhimself Group study 9 3,482 2009-05-07, 7:02 am
    Thread: Manga Study/Translation Group
Post: Manga Study/Translation Group

I'm down for it. So let's do "Loose Relation between Wizard & Apprentice(魔法使い(♂)と弟子(♀)の不適切なカンケイ)". Monthly is good for me since, I'm trying to finish KO2001 right now and I have 100 more to go. Ho...
Chandlerhimself Group study 65 18,912 2009-05-05, 4:19 am
    Thread: Manga Study/Translation Group
Post: Manga Study/Translation Group

nac_est Wrote:But who does the actual graphical insertion of the translated lines into the balloons? a scantailation(sp) group. They put everything into bubbles etc.
Chandlerhimself Group study 65 18,912 2009-05-04, 2:04 am