Comments on: Max Out The Cause Card: The Omnipotence of Precursors

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By: Rout

Rout — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:46:27 +0000

Uh, it depends, since I usually don’t do anything after school, it could 1-2 hours or more, but I usually don’t spend as much time on it, because I just don’t feel like it.

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:34:50 +0000

How much time do you have a day for kanji?

By: Rout

Rout — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:50:14 +0000

I was thinking about trying out the lazy kanji method, but I’m just wondering how to switch, considering I’ve already done over 750 kanji the “normal” Heisig method. Getting through those kanji again would take a while…

@魔法少女☆かなたん
I think one per hour is perhaps too little, but I decided to try out something similar, and I’m adding one story every 15 minutes, gonna see how that works out.

By: michael

michael — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:39:45 +0000

its normal. just pronounce it the way you read it, and try to catch examples of how a native speaker pronounces ‘O’ vowels just before the ‘o’ particle. yes its somewhat ambiguous when spoken at natural speed, but context should be sufficient to clue you in on the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

there are similar ambiguities in the sounds of english and every language all the time, that we all have learned to take for granted and that a lot of times we dont even realize exist.

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:37:01 +0000

Then he’ll learn less and be stuck with the bad experience for longer.

I recommend to just try your hardest and learn as many as you can every day until you are finished. (it’s what i did)

I pushed through 50 a day for the last 700 kanji

By: ahndoruuu

ahndoruuu — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:06:07 +0000

Yeah dude honestly Heisig’s book was boring as heck for me. I don’t like coming up with stories. I got to about 120 using the Heisig way and then I couldn’t force myself to keep going. Granted, those 120 kanji stuck EXTREMELY well, and now I use Lazy Kanji and they don’t stick nearly as well but I actually have fun doing Lazy Kanji so I accept the retention trade-off 🙂

By: 魔法少女☆かなたん

魔法少女☆かなたん — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:53:53 +0000

I didn’t actually do Heisig because his book was boring. That may be part of your problem, but I don’t have advice for that.

But you could also learn 1 kanji every hour instead 15 every day. Just try it and let us all know how it works out.

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:17:15 +0000

Learn more, get done sooner, complain less.

By: Rout

Rout — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:44:52 +0000

I wonder if somebody could help me with this one…
Basically, I’m at around 750 kanji in Heisig’s book, and it took me like 2 months to get here. I aim for learning 15 kanji each day, and I’m wondering how I could ensure that I would actually learn those 15 kanji every day instead of skipping every other day because I don’t feel like adding new stories.

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:56:21 +0000

Just a quick question-

If an O group syllable (しょ、こ、ぼ) comes right before an を should it sound obvious?

Such as-
空所を埋めろ
くうしょ　を　うめろ
when i say it it sounds like kuushyo-o. The を doesn’t sound obvious, but is this normal?

By: 魔法少女☆かなたん

魔法少女☆かなたん — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:41:13 +0000

“You could go anywhere you wanted, but you couldn’t choose how to get there. That would suck.”

I remember that! It was called mum’s car.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:38:57 +0000

Yup, people freak out too much about things that are out of their control, when if they’d simply A) Calm down and focus, and B) Focus on those things they can control, then they’d increase their effectiveness several fold.

I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure that above passage can be completely expressed with the phrase “Do the best you can with what you’ve got.” or something like that, right? Something along those lines?

Cheers,
Andrew

By: David

David — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:21:37 +0000

The idea of controlling your actions and desires, rather than results, sounds like Stoicism at its finest.

Let me introduce you to my good buddy エピクテトス。

web.me.com/ohtayuuki/Meandering_at_Sentimental_Notions/Enchiridion_by_Epictetus.html

By: Leonardo Boiko

Leonardo Boiko — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:03:37 +0000

I can’t believe I can get the gist of that passage 😀

hey guys listen to this man, it works!