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Warp3
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 Message 825 of 844
01 January 2015 at 3:33am | IP Logged 
Woodsei wrote:
Ok, now onto Warp3's log, lol :)


My log would be a lot longer had I started it earlier rather than posting so much in CZ's log
originally...hehe :)
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Woodsei
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 Message 826 of 844
01 January 2015 at 4:35pm | IP Logged 
Warp3 wrote:
Woodsei wrote:
Ok, now onto Warp3's log, lol :)


My log would be a lot longer had I started it earlier rather than posting so much in CZ's
log
originally...hehe :)


No kidding :P



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The Real CZ
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 Message 827 of 844
01 January 2015 at 4:54pm | IP Logged 
Numeric Goals for 2015:

6,000 MCDs for Mandarin
5,000 MCDs for Japanese
4,000 MCDs for Korean
3 passes through each grammar book in each language
3 passes through hanzi book


I read Benny's new year resolution post (http://www.fluentin3months.com/keep-a-new-
years-
resolution/) and knew I needed concrete goals. I have really vague goals in 2014 and
didn't do anything.

Edited by The Real CZ on 02 January 2015 at 1:28am

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Warp3
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 Message 828 of 844
01 January 2015 at 5:23pm | IP Logged 
I agree. Quantifiable goals are easier to track and if you can't track a goal, you don't have
visual confirmation that you are accomplishing anything (which can lead to dissatisfaction
with your apparent lack of progress, even if you did make progress). I've made my goals this
year more flexible (so I don't run into some of the issues I did in TAC 2014), but I still kept
counters on them since I can't really track my progress otherwise.
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 Message 829 of 844
01 January 2015 at 10:50pm | IP Logged 
Hi fellow East Asian members!

Just had to drop by to say I totally support Woodsei's concept of hyper-awareness. It is exactly the opposite of what I did in 2014, so I don't want to repeat the mistake of unfocused learning in 2015 because that's not what works for me. Had I performed at least a bit more of 'awareness', I could have learned twice as much Chinese (and other languages) in half the time.
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The Real CZ
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 Message 830 of 844
11 January 2015 at 6:41pm | IP Logged 
For Korean learners:

There's a somewhat new (as in 2014) pop-up dictionary for Korean called "Toktogi". It
works similar to Rikaikun/Rikaichan and Peraperakun. It's still in the beginning
stages, so it doesn't have every definition. Aside from that, my only complaint is
that they don't have the hanja for the words, as I find hanja very helpful to remember
the meaning of words. That's a minor complaint from my end, and a lot of Korean
learners never take advantage of hanja anyway, so I see why they left it out. However,
always have Naver and/or Daum open in another tab just in case. I tried highlighting a
somewhat common word "국정" and nothing came up. However, this tool will greatly
reduce the number of times you have to copy and paste words into those dictionaries.
It's also faster than the Daum popup dictionary, and as good as that one is, its
slowness and intrusiveness makes it a pain to use. I'll definitely be using Toktogi
from here on out.
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 Message 831 of 844
12 January 2015 at 6:04pm | IP Logged 
Very nice find! I've tried using it and it is indeed pretty useful. Finally something
similar to rikaikun etc.
Unfortunately, as you said, it doesn't recognize all the words yet but I guess it's just
a matter of time before it does.
In the meantime, I have been using a Naver dictionnary add-on on Chrome which allows to
just double-click on a word and the naver translation will appear in the top right corner
of the page (or you can highlight the word, right click on it and click on the line that
says 네이버 영어사전에서...검색. It cqn help greatly as well.
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The Real CZ
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 Message 832 of 844
12 January 2015 at 7:38pm | IP Logged 
yuhakko wrote:
Very nice find! I've tried using it and it is indeed pretty useful.
Finally something
similar to rikaikun etc.
Unfortunately, as you said, it doesn't recognize all the words yet but I guess it's
just
a matter of time before it does.
In the meantime, I have been using a Naver dictionnary add-on on Chrome which allows
to
just double-click on a word and the naver translation will appear in the top right
corner
of the page (or you can highlight the word, right click on it and click on the line
that
says 네이버 영어사전에서...검색. It cqn help greatly as well.


Yeah, that's the same as the Daum pop-up dictionary. You can switch between Daum and
Naver using that pop up dictionary. However, it's pretty slow for an plugin and it got
really annoying having that thing pop-up whenever I double-clicked anything. That's
why I stopped using it.


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