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As I've been reviewing the 1st 1000 kanji, it keeps occuring to me that most of these kanji I don't really need to practice. At first I thought it was just the...
Scott Stygar
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Oct 6, 2005
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got this error while being tested on the kanji Warning: array_shift(): The argument should be an array in /home/faburisu/public_html/kanji/review.php on line...
macj444
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Oct 7, 2005
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Hi macj This happens after 20 min of inactivity on the reviewing section, your 'session' expires. You don't have to restart anything, all the flashcards you...
faB
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Oct 8, 2005
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Hi Scott, I am at 450 kanjis so far and reviewing the primitives several times really help me nail them down. I guess at your level it might be different and I...
tatoeba2
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Oct 9, 2005
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Hi Fabrice, I don't know if you got the mail I sent you but again hats off for the fantastic job you are doing with your website ;) It is really helpful for...
tatoeba2
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Oct 9, 2005
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Hi tatoeba, thanks, I just checked and I did receive an email from you (in french right?), and I replied on 19/09, but your reply-to address was 'tatoeba AT...
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Oukoulele
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Oct 10, 2005
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I am sorry Fabrice I must have missed it. Can you send it again to my email with '2' in it? Thanks a lot and thanks again for making Heisig's Kanjis a little...
tatoeba2
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Oct 10, 2005
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I've been in Japan about four years now. I bought RTK1 almost as soon as I got here and zipped through part one. In part 2 where he only gave the plots I did...
rizzolaplante
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Oct 13, 2005
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Hi Rizzo, Just to let you know.. You're not alone.. :) When I had the time, I was able to finish up to 700++ kanji in about 2-3 months.. But during the last...
Athan Salatan
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Oct 15, 2005
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I'll add my "me too". I bought RTK1 in August 2004. Over the course of 2 or 3 months I made it through section 1...then stalled out. I didn't touch RTK for at...
Joe Wright
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Oct 15, 2005
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Wish I could help, the first stall for me was Chapter 3, at first I thought it was just too hard to make stories. I still do. There are times of the day I just...
faB
Oukoulele
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Oct 16, 2005
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Making primatives into people is one of the best tricks I've learned. When you did it with shrek and fingers I thought it was pretty silly but now that I've...
Scott Stygar
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Oct 16, 2005
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Thanks Fabrice for taking the time to write such a long and detailed explanation on the memorization process. You are really helping us a lot! tatoeba...
tatoeba2
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Oct 17, 2005
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As I'm racing to try and get back up through the old Kanji from my previous attempts I'm finding the plots section the most tedious. Too often the "plot"...
rizzolaplante
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Oct 18, 2005
3:08 am
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Hmmm. I usually avoid trying to explain the Heisig method to Japanese since to many it seems so backwards. (And for them I'm sure it is). But last night my...
rizzolaplante
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Oct 19, 2005
2:58 am
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Hi rizzo something interesting here is that Heisig might have well used the happy primitive for "accomplished", and add "one", passing through the vertical...
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Oukoulele
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Oct 19, 2005
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PS: what's a Pocky ? :) what's a pocky? what's a pocky? OMG http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocky...
Scott Stygar
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Oct 19, 2005
3:38 am
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I'll echo that thanks. I'm about to start reviewing the first 650 in order to move on with Book 1, and plan to incorporate your tips into the learning process....
Joe Wright
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Oct 19, 2005
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Okay then, this sheep had ATTAINED/ACCOMPLISHED/REALIZED the peak of "Pocky" (tm) stick detection. You see, this sheep was raised on a diet of Pocky(tm)...
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Oukoulele
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Oct 19, 2005
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Hmmm actually my wife was not leading me so far astray after all. After a second glance I discovered 'happiness' as a Heisig keyword for kanji #1505 and in...
rizzolaplante
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Oct 19, 2005
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Take care that "spicy" (a chinese radical) + "one" to make a cross shape at the top of spicy, is 8 strokes (that is, HAPPINESS is 8 strokes). "sheep" + "soil",...
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Oukoulele
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Oct 19, 2005
4:52 pm
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... It reminds me of a SNES game I used to play: Pocky & Rocky. There's even a Wikipedia page about it. (Is there anything left that's _not_ in Wikipedia? :)) ...
Jarkko Huijts
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Oct 19, 2005
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... Oops you're right. It seems that everytime I look at these kanji again I realize another mistake. Though it turns out that the Pocky my wife was is the...
rizzolaplante
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Oct 20, 2005
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Frame 586 is given the keyword "-times". I found in my notes however, the word "merry-go-round" scrawled in the margin and it seems to me to be a fine...
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Oct 21, 2005
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Merry-go-round sounds good, you'll have to use something else than Heisig's hint on frame 1046. 1046 is "rotation" but merry-go-round is closer to the idea of...
faB
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Oct 21, 2005
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I get the impression that almost everyone else has finished. Is there anyone in the group just starting out or better yet near my position? (I'm just starting...
rizzolaplante
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Oct 24, 2005
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I'm about halfway in RTK1. After I finish this I'll have only around 20+ days to prepare for 2Q test. It's obvious that I don't have enough time to make it...
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Oct 24, 2005
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Hey rizzo, I used to be your neighbor at 652, but didn't pay the rent for a few weeks and now I have to move back to a less prestigious part of town. I'm...
Joe Wright
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Oct 24, 2005
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... Rizzo, thanks for the invitation via my blog at <a href="http://www.zanthan.com/ japan">nipponDAZE</a>. Earlier this year I made it to 1000 kanji, but then...
msinclairstevens
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Oct 24, 2005
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... how long it takes me to ... That's exactly what I was thinking about two weeks ago until I stumbled onto a link to Denis's site....
rizzolaplante
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