Category Archives: study tools

Remember Heisig with Art!

What I love about language learning, or any kind of learning, is that you always find people doing similar things to you. I stumbled upon a cool video (at the bottom of this post) of a young lady explaining the … Continue reading

Posted in study tools | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Missing Link: The Action step of AJATT

  Scrolling through my twitter feeds, I noticed a post by AJATT about “why most people forget the action step of AJATT” and in reading it, I came to a revelation. As a person somewhat actively tracking what I am … Continue reading

Posted in AJATT, study tools | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

950 Kanji – Motivation hurdle

I’m at 950 Kanji now and I’m not feeling the same way I did last week. I’m pleased to be here, but my mind is tired from a lot of other stuff going on with me in my life. At … Continue reading

Posted in Heisig Method, learning Japanese, milestone, motivation, Remembering the Kanji, RTK1, study tools | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Ka-Douken! Ryu Kanji

This is a continuation on more character based Kanji series. I won’t post much on this anymore. I’m about to start using the primitive for the Flash to represent  行 (iku). But I used the images of Ryu and street fighter … Continue reading

Posted in Heisig Method, language, learning Japanese, motivation, RTK1, study tools | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Homer Simpson Kanji

  I’m at 876 Kanji now, trying to Hit 900 by the end of the day, but I’m losing steam. Sometimes the Kanji are so abstract that sitting and making up stories (or even reading really good ones on Remembering … Continue reading

Posted in Heisig Method, language, learning Japanese, marcus bird, motivation, study tools | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Old School SRS

This isn’t really SRS-ing (which for the newbies means Spaced Repetition System). This is something I do when again, I’m idle, which happens quite a lot. I’ll have a word list of Heisig Kanji with me, and practice writing them. … Continue reading

Posted in AJATT, Heisig Method, learning Japanese, motivation, RTK1, study tools | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

850 Kanji! and another rant

I’ve hit a nice 850 Kanji now, and i’m finding its getting easier to learn certain Kanji. In a previous post, I mentioned “Marty McFly and Linking Images” and it is turning out to be MONEY with certain Kanji memorizations. … Continue reading

Posted in AJATT, Heisig Method, language, learning Japanese, marcus bird, milestone, motivation, Remembering the Kanji, RTK1, study tools | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

にに行きましょ!;p Make things personal

Another quick language post. I was doing my Sound of Music translation, and another sentence said, “I had nine and a half children then.” So I translated it as: Sono toki (then) watashi wa (I) kyuunin no kodomotachi motte imashita. … Continue reading

Posted in language, learning Japanese, marcus bird, motivation, Remembering the Kanji, study tools, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

をVSに How well can you spreeak?

  Another random post. I sometimes practice sentence translations to see where my mind is, and I was translating a passage from a Japanese English textbook about the  Sound of Music movie. In one sentence, it read: “Maria didn’t listen … Continue reading

Posted in learning Japanese, marcus bird, RTK1, study tools | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

650 Kanji and thoughts

とてもおそいよう!ごめね。。。 I definitely fell off the wagon for the last two weeks. Juggling my design work, video editing and full-time job makes Remembering the Kanji harder than i’d like it to be. However, I have reach 650 and I’m finally … Continue reading

Posted in Heisig Method, learning Japanese, motivation, Remembering the Kanji, study tools | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment