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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1241 of 1702 02 January 2014 at 6:50am | IP Logged |
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AJATT's really not cheap sentence pack
Wow. I go to his site sometimes to read posts and I kept hearing about his method and how I should use it and well.. I guess his sentence packs are it? His site just seemed to be a bunch of random posts about his thoughts on language learning and a couple of posts with specific advice say on how to make a sentence flashcard. But nothing like Rosetta Stone or Remembering the Kanji or anything. Just general advice and some humor. Like my journal except funnier. Then I just stumbled on an old post on the koohi forums with people calling him a sleazebag taking advantage of people.. which threw me off. I think in most of his posts he advocates using free material on the internet as much as possible. But he has this sentence pack you can download. WOW. it's expensive. Feel free to look. I'm in awe. lol. If you're lazy I'm sure there's stuff on ANKI you can just download. I'm gonna see if anyone who bought his deck put it online for free and I can find it on google. I'd be surprised if it's something I would actually use since I'm pretty particular about how I setup my flashcards but I'm curious what sentence deck is worth hundreds of dollars. I was really thinking of not doing SRS for a month but I'm not going to do that. My SUBS2SRS deck is really fun I think so it's a good thing. I'm going to be sure to get in some reading every day though. (as mentioned I have a great windows tablet to do so so no excuses) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1242 of 1702 05 January 2014 at 4:18am | IP Logged |
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I guess I do enjoy SRS and flashcards in general. I was thinking I didn't but that's not really true. I am pretty pleased at myself for "ripping" a well done anki deck and getting it into my SRS program. FlashCards Deluxe. I'm sure anki more or less does what FCD does but I'm used to it and I really like the interface. So I took this 2k/6k modified deck and well it's got a lot in there. I set it up so it's a fill in the blank kind of deck, since the deck author provides that option for you anyway XD. Side 1 has the sentence missing a word and a picture if there is one.. side 2 has the same sentence plus an English translation in case the sentence itself doesn't give enough context on what's missing. And side three has the answer and native speaker audio with the sentence. The deck is optimized according to kanji. You can read up on the author's description for more details but he basically tried to introduce vocabulary grouped by kanji is how it seems.
I've been wanting to do a review of kanji and this is fun. I also grabbed an RTK 1 + 3 deck with the most popular stories from koohii and I got several cards into it last night starting from the beginning. Obviously review so it's easy but some cards I haven't seen in a while (we all know heisig includes some kanji in there that isn't too common). I think it's fun to read the stories - they were voted most popular afterall. I anticipate finishing the deck up through 3k but I'm doing it for fun and I think it'll be helpful but not essential by any means going forward for me. I'm pretty comfortable around kanji at least from an RTK perspective. I do need to learn more sounds but that's coming along gradually as I learn vocabulary. But I hadn't written out kanji vocab in a while. So with this deck I make myself write the answer in kanji to get it right. It's good review for me. And there's some word sin the 1st 1000 that I am rusty on and need to review... days of the month unfortunately and general counters. I can recognize them still just fine but I found I can't produce them at all. It's pretty limiting if you can't. So this deck is great right now. I have studied vocabulary according to frequency from lists or from lists I made from a manga or anime but not according to kanji. If this deck really introduces it per the kanji that might make life easier for me. I think it will work well for learning how to write vocabulary correctly with kanji as well. Seems like a win. And there's 6k cards in there so I won't need to spend hours making decks anytime soon. I'd been ripping my own decks from iknow.jp and that is really really slow. Painful. omg. I'm pretty happy at the moment. While I was ripping this deck out of anki and getting it into FCD last night I had this youtube video going on.. you can find a link on this post.. Nukemarine's Suggested Guide. I was watching him explain how to use dramas to study Japanese. I guess he also made the deck I was ripping and now I'm singing the praises of. His video is a few years old now so the specifics on how to rip video into SRS is obsolete I think. It's dated but I enjoyed watching him geek out over what he did and well figured I'm just as much of a geek since I was doing it to and liked his videos a lot heh. I'll do a little 自己紹介 in Japanese later as per the team forum request.. seems reasonable enough. I'm intermediate and I think I can hack 6 sentences now. I think intermediate can do a lot more to be honest heheh. But 6 is plenty I am lazy. And I think I need to do something like this in Chinese too for my other log - I fear I may resort to google translate for help (for Chinese, not Japanese heh). Most of my studying time goes to this language still. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1243 of 1702 07 January 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
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I tried going to bed early last night and it backfired and I woke up after 1.5 hours and didn't get any more sleep. So I'm tired and doing my SRS reviews was painful. But I did get through my word filling reviews (I was a day behind too) so I'm happy with that. I'm still liking that deck a lot. I have a lot RTK reviews pending which I"ll get to later. I really want to review that again and then do RTK 3.
Anyway, what prompted me to write another entry here is that I stumbled upon an anime with not just Japanese subs but furigana on the subs. 蟲師(むしし). There's a new series this season on Crunchyroll and the 1st episode looked interesting. It's kind of a fantasy anime but the characters look like they will have good development. When I hit google looking for info I found out there was a series a few years ago already and it had these subs to go with it. So this should be pretty awesome. I haven't used japanese subs much - I think the furigana will make it good. I don't plan to go looking stuff up just read along. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1244 of 1702 08 January 2014 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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I definitely recommend Mushishi. I watched it about 4-5 years ago and it remains to this
day as one of my favorite anime. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sizen Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4337 days ago 165 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Catalan, Spanish, Japanese, Ukrainian, German | Message 1245 of 1702 08 January 2014 at 10:11am | IP Logged |
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Ha, what a coincidence. I just started watching Mushishi yesterday because my friends
have been telling me for years now that it's one of their favourite series. I have to say I was actually surprised by how much the first episode absorbed me. I mean, I was really into it and was a bit disappointed that I didn't have enough time to watch another episode. I have to say though, I was really scared because the title was leading me to believe it would be some lame pokemon rip-off or something. Also, where are your Japanese subs from? Mine have all these mistakes because they're based off of some simplified Chinese subs... They're not glaring mistakes, but it's funny to see all these simplified characters thrown into the mix. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1246 of 1702 09 January 2014 at 4:03pm | IP Logged |
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heh I switched to English promising myself I'll rewatch them right away with Japanese subs. I'm still working through them. Yeah I have seen several episodes now and it's a good series. I am on the 10th now. I get all of my subs from kitsunekko.net/. They seemed ok. I don't think anyone would take the trouble to add furigana if it's just a bad translation of the Chinese translated subs lol. That's weird that yours don't seem to match up with the dialogue. (Or maybe it's the correct Japanese except they used the chinese hanzi instead of the Japanese kanji the way all android devices do?) The series is different than most anime I watch in that each episode stands on its own. The ムシシ guy (my IME doesn't pop up with the title's kanji)seems to be the only character consistent from each episode. Well him and this doctor friend, but that doctor doesn't seem to have much character development. I usually don't like anime like this without continuity but this one is still addictive after watching several shows.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1247 of 1702 11 January 2014 at 11:31pm | IP Logged |
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Complete set of ヒラクの碁 just arrived from Japan. Started last night.. will be reading this quite a bit.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1248 of 1702 17 January 2014 at 6:58am | IP Logged |
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Well the ヒカルの碁 is going well. I've read several of the novels already. Everything has furigana so it's easy to look stuff up - I am getting quite a list. I'm using the iOS app Japanese while I read and as I've mentioned before this app has a good built in SRS flashcard function. It's not as configurable as Anki or Flashcards Deluxe but it's so awesomely linked into the dictionary that adding words and kanji is so nice. And you can have separate lists and have a word on more than one list.. so if you read a book and then another and go to add the word to your new list you will see it's on both lists and think it's time to not forget that word heh.
I haven't had that yet. What's kind of neat is that I'm adding kanji to the decks along with the the vocab. So I have a word like 爽快 （そうかい）, I can also just add 爽 to the deck with like two taps and no effort. And then study that kanji in the same deck individually to reinforce it. The idea is that focusing on kanji for words I'm studying right now will make both the kanji and and the words stick better. Typically I've done the two totally separately. Vocab in one deck and if I bother with a kanji deck at all it's separate and the kanji I chose were dictated in order by a book or website or Heisig. It usually didn't last long. I'm presently ignoring my sentence deck. This might be a bad idea I'm not sure yet. I'm reading lots more though (and adding tons of words to my Hikaru deck). I've still got more than half of the series to go if I'm going to read every book (23 or so in all). I'm not sure how much I'll review this deck after I move on. I'm thinking I'll just put it aside and start a new deck for a new series or whatever. But it depends. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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