Thanks, Stuart, for creating this group. Well, here is the first comment. I use kanji flash cards with Heisig's Vol.I Kanji book. Heisig explains in his book...
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:56:25 -0700 (PDT) ... Right now, I am coming back to the book from a significant pause so I'm going to make some small flash cards again...
Another interesting link: "The existing mnemonic systems of studying kanji always deal with isolated characters and therefore have a number of shortcomings. An...
... That's my only problem with the Heisig method: quite a lot of very common kanji appear only at the end of the book, and obscure kanji at the beginning of...
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:40:46 -0700 (PDT) ... I think that is part of his grand design. I'm sure a more optimal arrangement could be made to assist the beginner...
... FYI Book 8 is the most elementary. I bought it last week and it comprises of Kanji Practice pages and puzzles in Japanese which are suitable for the...
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:34:40 -0000 ... I have a kid's kanji book and it also has little stories for the kanji and one interesting point is that many of them...
Hi, My first post - I've been waiting to get a little further into this before commenting or asking questions. I just moved to Japan less than two weeks ago...
Hello all. I thought that this blog was an interesting way to learn kanji.. http://bobsjapanese.blogspot.com/ Is anyone else documenting their study?...
Hi All! I am studying using Heisig's book, and I sometimes find it hard to make up my own stories. Do any of you know about any resources with ready-made...
Petter Dahlman
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Feb 5, 2004 9:00 am
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Hi Peter, Great to hear from this list at last. I had started to think I was the only one here. I too searched for a list of ready-made stories when I was just...
Hi Michael, I have actually been using the book every now and then for the past 3 years. I started off by doing the first 400 but after that I have just been...
Petter Dahlman
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Feb 5, 2004 12:02 pm
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Hi again, I hadnt seen Kanjican until today. I looks ok but maybe a bit outdated. But it is the first flashcard program I've seen that gives you the stories...
Hi Michael, I started to review my kanjis and creating a story for those I couldn't write properly. I think I got a little bit used to creating stories and it...
Petter Dahlman
glesbygd@...
Feb 19, 2004 4:57 am
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Hi I was a big fan of Heisig when I first started learning kanji. Of course it only takes you a fraction of the way as you still have to learn the...
Hi Andrew and other members, I admire you$B!G(Bre enthusiasm but I personally would not want to hear other peoples kanji stories. For me, hearing another...
I thought it was a good idea, but the previous comment (stevens michael) makes me feel like (a) I am out of my league or (b) this is the wrong group for me. ...
Yes, something went wrong with the encoding. I get this trouble all the time on irc, people have to keep switching encode to see what people are saying....
... I'm sorry, but if you admire his enthusiasm, why did you feel it necessary to discourage the idea? There is nothing else going on this list. Perhaps if we...
Hi Daniel, Yes you$B!G(Bre completely correct. I was too negative about the idea. I have stories for all 2042 (1600 my own and 442 modified stories from...
Hi, This may show my Japan-newbie impatience with getting up to a 3rd grade reading level in a short time :-). Please take these as ideas, and not an attempt...
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 20:16:54 +0000 ... Yes. I'm here. I'm just catching up with mail. As for stories, I think that posting them up would be fine. As Jeff ...
Any suggestions on how I can be sure to get the emails in readable format. I am able to surf the net in Japanese. Do I need to install some fonts I don't have?...
Glad to see the discussions have started. In responses to a few point in previous mails in no particular order: - Regarding getting stories confused, I...
Here are one kanji that the Heisig system but not his keywords helped me to remember almost instantly and one I have some trouble with: 931 - $BN`(B Heisig...
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