After seeing this post by Vosmiura on the RtK forums, I’m going to try Iversen’s method of learning lists of vocabulary before entering them into Anki. I’m not usually obsessed with getting particularly high pass rates or having high long-term retention percentages (mine is already around 96%), but I have been noticing lately that there … Continue reading
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How I Learn Japanese (Now) (part 3) (Kanji!)
In a previous post I talked about James Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji, Volume 1. (RTK1 from here on out.) It’s a really cool book, and I have drunk the Kool-Aid to become a believer in his approach to studying kanji. Sort of. First, I must dispel a myth. Learning kanji is NOT HARD. It’s very … Continue reading
How I Learn Japanese (Now) (part 1)
EDIT: I put the links in at the bottom of the page, in a more coherent order. I also added a couple I found recently. This is something I’ve been wanting to talk about for a while, but I never really got around to doing it for various reasons. But now I want to try … Continue reading
Touring Around Okazaki
Fun day today. I got back on the ol’ Buttbuster 9000 and did some touring around Okazaki. I’m going to miss that bike… okay, no, not really. I managed to send about 20 lbs. worth of stuff home for only about $60. Fortunately, it’s all stuff I won’t need for the next 8-10 weeks, because … Continue reading