For all those using mnemosyne or similar programs with import methods, and as a follow-up to what Charles A. said, do you think it would be possible for you to “export” your sentences (editing the one you’d feel uncomfortable about :)) . I’d really like to be able to edit someone else’s personal deck of cards and add my own (contributing it back, obviously).
Anyway, if you feel uncomfortable about this, sorry for the request and in any case, Thanks again for this absolutely fantastic website.

Also, btw, you said: Do the Remembering The Kanji thing now and thank me later. Now, I want to officially thank you. :))

Khatz, think the time will come when someone (or group) will create a site similar to Reviewing the Kanji, but with one to two thousand sentences organized and vetted for efficiency to get the foundation started for Japanese? What would be your current opinion of such a site?

Just got a question for you. You say 10,000 sentences. My SRS program (Anki) inputs each sentence twice, one as question-answer, the other as answer-question. Are you saying that 5000 sentences, either way (10000 in total) is the way to go, or is it 10,000 unique sentences, 20,000 all together in my SRS? At the moment I’m up to 508 unique sentences, 1016 all up.

Cheers,

Bucko

Also, check out the rest of the thread for more discussion on it. I found it quite enlightening.

Those Avery stickers were ones I bought in the US, at my college bookstore. I ran out of them so now I use a local Japanese brand.

I have a random question from one of your old posts. You mentioned that you were using stickers to mark unknown readings in your books, and that the ones you found didn’t stick well enough to destroy the surface of the page when you took them off. Do you mind sharing the brand and/or where you got them? I’ve tried a few that I found near me, but they all rip off the text underneath when I take them off.

I do have some “visual novels” on my computer though, like カノン, CLANNAD, fate stay/night, AIR, かな妹、月姫 and others of a less plot-heavy and more graphic nature.

I agree with you about trad chars, but still, I was really thrown off when I saw 丰 for 豐 and 击 for 擊, as in I had no clue what they were supposed to be until I saw the TC. I was just wondering if you’ve had that problem at all, because I’m sure you can’t have the good fortune of everything you read being in TC.

>Do you know those as well, or have you decided just to not deal with them?
I suppose I do get to see the jianti when I do lookups in this particular dictionary, but
I find fanti much more logical, so, I deal almost exclusively with them. We’re changing back, dude, end of story 8)

The j-dic is…Super日本語大辞典

Have you looked into 吉本ばなな or 村上春樹（むらかみ　はるき）? They’re both pretty popular Japanese fiction writers, and I believe they’re styles are on the easier side. I’ve read some of their stuff, and it is interesting.

@khatzu

What dictionaries are you using? The Japanese one doesn’t seem to be either 広辞苑 or 大辞林. The 中日辞典 looks to be the 小学館中日辞典第2版. That’s the one I have, and it has the exact same example sentences that you have in your SRS. I see you aren’t messing with the 簡體字 that the dictionary uses exclusively. Do you know those as well, or have you decided just to not deal with them?

>Is this intentional
Yes. It’s because I was having trouble recalling the reading of 愚蠢 in other QA pairs, so I wanted to see it in as many places as possible. Also, if a sentence is really long, I often enter the original, whole sentence + most/all of its component clauses; this helps me get used to long sentences but provides some breaking-down so I’m not overwhelmed with one big thing to remember.

>BTW, can you recommend any good native Japanese fiction?
I actually don’t read a lot of fiction in any language, all my non-comics are non-fiction…but…I’ll let you know soon if I come across something good.

>you used 清浦 奎吾 as a sentence. Just to learn the kanji?
清浦 奎吾 was a PM of Japan. I wanted to learn to read the character 奎…it’s meaning was easy enough to remember that I haven’t bothered learn it as a separate kanji. Furthermore, this is how I learn personal and place names.

btw, I don’t if you know, but 膾炙人口 is a　成語 in Chinese.

I notice you put 「這不是愚蠢是什麼？」 in 2 cards. One by itself and another in a longer sentence. Is this intentional? Or were they from two different extracts? If so, is the purpose to aid in understanding one sentence by itself?

BTW, can you recommend any good native Japanese fiction? Preferably science fiction or fantasy but anything is good.