Got to the end of an article from Famitsu (http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1226784_1124.html -about the 2009 Pokemon World Championship lol. I only read it because of the hilarious picture showing the winners to be two tiny kids and a big fat American, I swear.) before I realised I hadn't needed to look anything up.

Last edited by blackmacros (2009 August 21, 3:36 am)

It just turned up in one of my google reader feeds. Might have been from kotaku, or the famitsu feed.

Reached Kanji 1000 yesterday:D And the Half-way milestone today

KO2001 is going way faster!
2 weeks ago I spent 4-5 hours on 25 sentences. Today I used 2 hours and 15 minutes on 25 sentences! Woho!

Took me ~9 months (after excluding mult-month breaks where I fell into another dimension that operates according to different temporal constraints), but in four days I'll finally be finished with my foundational phase of studying Japanese (not counting RTKana/RTKanji pre-June '08). Feels nice.

wildweathel wrote:

nest0r wrote:

...my foundational phase ...

Congratulations.  May I ask what that consisted of?  KO2001, Core 2000, UBJG?

Classified, sorry. When I've finished Phase 2 I will release that information. That will give me time to polish the revised history of my Japanese self-study.

I'm not sure it's a milestone (certainly not one I had planned on) but I have been doing translation work!

It's kind of interesting and a good test for me. The subject is a little bit.... "naughty".

For those who are offended by sexual stuff, read no further.

性的サービスの派遣型。男性客が宿泊するホテルなどへ出張（深夜２４時以降も営業が出来る）してくれるので、恋人気分でセクシーな夜が愉しめる。女性の手、口、胸、股間で射精する。部屋のタイプがシングルなどの場合、出張できないホテルもある。

It was really amusing to me to be translating this stuff, for some reason.

SammyB wrote:

hknamida wrote:

I have 600 unseen cards left in my Smart.fm Core 2000+6000 Anki deck.

What the heck?! That's huge... so you've hit up like 5400 cards already? I'm guessing you deleted cards with nothing new to you along the way but man...
How has it impacted your Japanese? Are you doing production or recognition?
Respect.

Nope, haven't deleted any cards. Most of them did offer something new, and the rest won't show up again for another 2 years, anyway.

I've been doing recognition (question: 漢字, answer: かな + audio). It has done wonders for my reading comprehension and my ability to guess the (音読み) reading of unfamiliar words, making it easier to find them in my 電子辞典 without using its somewhat unreliable handwriting recognition feature. I've also gotten better at reading long sentences out loud.

As of today, I have less than 500 unseen cards left in my deck, but I have recently cut down on my number of new cards per day from 50 to 10, to solve the problem of overwhelming reviews. After I finish what's left of Core 6000, I will go back to picking sentences from material that actually interests me.

EDIT: Another positive effect of the Core *000 lists is that they've given me plenty of words for my ongoing project of getting rid of the English in my Heisig deck.

Last edited by hknamida (2009 August 24, 4:26 pm)

Damn you and bless you for posting that prefecture matching link atylmo.

Halfway through KM1kyuu grammar! Should hopefully be done by Friday...

Also, as a sidenote I recently discovered that ひらがな can, somewhat counterintuitively (in my opinion), be written in kanji: 平仮名. Katakana too: 片仮名 although that surprises me less for some reason.

Last edited by blackmacros (2009 August 26, 7:32 am)

Donated to anki devels and khatz
http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=71130
(its an achievement because paypal finally unfroze my account!)

200 kanji! It's not much, but I actually feel like I'm getting somewhere again now.