Zgarbas wrote:

I'd love to, but all my books are in Romanian and English, so I don't think they'd present much interest .

Ah, I didn't mean a book, I meant anything, haha.  I don't know anything about Romania, but I assume there must be something small and cheap you can buy there that would be interesting to someone who's never been to Romania.

Oooh, I didn't know about the Rakuten deal. Thanks for the tip . They don't have キノノ旅, though .

The thing with White Rabbit is that they're the only non-Amazon (Amazon+Romania don't work together well) that had the Kanzen Master. I cried a bit when I saw the full price. Ok, maybe a bit more.

I liked yesAsia, and I found some really good prices for some books(takes a while to find them, but that's true to most shops), it's just that spending 40$ at once is not something I can afford to do too often.

The things I do because I can't read on a screen *sigh*.

Tzadeck: Well, we're pretty only much known for our booze and food, but I don't think I can ship those =/.

What is Rakuten?

Thanks kitakitsune ! How did you land a job there?

I won third place at a speech contest today. Although I didn't win first, I'm very satisfied since I prevailed against Tohoku University students (there were even grad students who partipicated!). As an introvert who loathes addressing large groups of people in the form of monologue, I count it as not only as a milestone in my Japanese learning but also as another victory in the realm of charisma and superstars, i.e. the social sphere/the public stage.

I will surpass 1,000 flashcards today, hurrah. But for now I'm reviewing old characters and I'll reach it later on.

about to finish donna toki dou tsukau! N1~N5

(though only studied the N2 and N1 grammar points, and checked all the others to see if I missed some N5,4,3 grammar point.

Tori-kun wrote:

@CarolinaCG: Did you study it with an Anki deck or in what way did you study with that ressource?

I only use anki to study, unless I have tests.

Me? I just added example sentences from Genki after having studied the grammar part of the chapter thoroughly. I just feel that it's better than just using a core-deck without knowing the context of the sentences I added. SRS only really helps me with the details after having studied the big picture I took them from...

EDIT: I'm effing stupid...

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Watched all of Erin's challenge without any subs on my 1st try. I was surprised that I got the general idea of what was happening. Didn't understand everything that was said but I point out what were words, particles and when sentences began/ended.

I thought my listening skills were terrible but I guess it's not as bad as I thought. Just need to continue RTK and eventually work on grammar and vocab It's subtle progress

Tykkylumi wrote:

He recommended some Japanese philosophy for me to check out.

Would you mind sharing what he recommended?

Just finished core6k, yay! I started RTK on Jan 1st (coincidence, I don't do resolutions), so it took me slightly more than 7 months to get here...good enough I guess. I regret wasting my time going really slow during my first month. I let my daily reviews expire exactly three times, one of which was yesterday - I basically rushed the last 1000 new cards on core6k in two days, because I'm on vacation and can review 20 hours per day, and on that day I took an extra 400 new cards, but ran out of time for the last 70 reviews.

When the review count drops below 500, probably in a week, I'll start the 10k deck. I'm already a few hours in my Clannad playthrough, so I'll probably dig sentences from there. Hopefully I can read native materials without dictionary abuse/furigana by the end of the year. Quite hyped for that.

warakawa wrote:

if you do the core6 and do the core10, will that mean you will know 16 000 words? of the core10 contains all the 6000 words in core6 meaning you really only learn 4 000 words?

Can someone explain that to me.

It's 4,000 words that are in addition to the 6,000, so 10,000 total.  I don't know how one can add 1000 cards in two days though and comprehend anything.  I use the iKnow! site which is based on production, meaning you are usually given the english meaning first and then have to come up with the word in Japanese.  I usually spend time on each word to understand the readings, etc.  If I add 25 words a day on average, I'm doing good.  Maybe if you using Anki and are in recognition mode, you can do it a lot faster.  I'm going to use Anki for the remaining 4,000 words at some point, but right now I'm trying to get through the 6,000.  I think I'm at 3300 words now.