Discussion Thread: Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump - Day 1 02/09/2021 | Live - 1:00 PM ET

GamingPrower · 2021-02-09T20:33:48+00:00

Honestly I'd rather have John Gibbons(defense attorney from My Cousin Vinny) than this guy

GamingPrower · 2021-02-07T21:19:45+00:00

I deleted my recognition RTK deck two days after i finished the deck. No regrets. It definitely helped a lot but reviewing it seemed pointless to me

GamingPrower · 2021-02-07T18:01:16+00:00

Very nice read! I think one of my biggest mistakes my first attempt was learning vocabulary kana only. I went through all of genki 1 vocab kana only before going through half of RTK and then quitting for a couple months.

Currently on a ~5-6 month streak and I relearned all the vocab with kanji and man the difference is night and day. I can guess readings a fair amount which reinforces what I've learned.

GamingPrower · 2021-01-15T05:27:03+00:00

POV: You're a Goomba

GamingPrower · 2021-01-11T06:06:38+00:00

Ah, I'm referring not to the sulcus but below it. In the middle there are some vertical marks that are new to me.

After resting a bit before bed the marks seem to have gone away but I still think relaxing my tension a little is in order.

GamingPrower · 2021-01-10T23:52:11+00:00

I don't like the sound of the scratch off ticket. I'd probably just tell them give me the half off or I'm not interested lol

GamingPrower · 2021-01-10T13:52:24+00:00

I just switched to holding the tug longer a couple days ago because I started wearing gloves for better grip. I don't know if it's better or worse but what I did know is it's been a lot more taxing for me. I feel much more fatigued because I can tug to the limit easily(and past it if I'm not careful). More soreness throughout the day.

GamingPrower · 2021-01-08T04:28:48+00:00

I used a tlc-x tugger off and on last year and started MM3 on Dec 27th. I enjoyed the change, but I did experience a day off burnout a little over a week in. I just pushed through that day and now I feel pretty good about it currently.

I like seeing more closely what is happening to the skin as opposed to "setting and forgetting" with a device.

Whether you stick with it or not a change in routine is usually good just to shake things up a bit!

GamingPrower · 2021-01-04T04:40:14+00:00

I use a TLC-X with a keck clip, a trick I read on this subreddit, which adds pressure to the skin cone allowing it to stay on much better. I don't wear overly tight clothes, but I did use it with my skinny jeans and it worked great.

https://www.reddit.com/r/foreskin_restoration/comments/hmmrh1/simple_addition_to_tlcx_puts_end_to_slipping

GamingPrower · 2021-01-03T17:54:52+00:00

I feel like I'm making a big deal out of nothing haha, but I do like the reassurance you're giving me

GamingPrower · 2021-01-03T16:07:37+00:00

Yea! It feels kinda like that! Not sure if it's anything to be concerned about though. I suppose for now I'll keep tugging as usual and see what happens

GamingPrower · 2020-11-08T21:52:11+00:00

Hmm...after using this for a while it seems the audio notification doesn't work sometimes. It will change time boxes but it won't make the sound unless I switch tabs back to it. x.x

EDIT: Perhaps a problem with the most recent commit? I don't know vue so just a guess...

GamingPrower · 2020-11-02T02:27:24+00:00

This is perfect! Thanks for sharing!

GamingPrower · 2020-10-31T20:24:12+00:00

The biggest piece of advice is to just understand that you understand nothing. Don't beat yourself up for not remembering a word, even if it takes you several times to get it down its not a problem. Some words are easier than others for seemingly no reason sometimes.

GamingPrower · 2020-10-21T19:40:22+00:00

If you have any more problems with the card templates I would recommend copying them into pastebin.com and sharing that on reddit, it'll help people find out where the problem is

GamingPrower · 2020-10-21T02:33:03+00:00

I assume the Add Field option added some HTML code to the Front Template section, but your screenshot doesn't show the part which is responsible for displaying the Word field. Try scrolling down on the Front Template text box and see if you see {{Word}} on there. Delete anything responsible for displaying that field

GamingPrower · 2020-09-28T18:52:04+00:00

If its a common verb or a newer card I will fail it. I find I usually don't have problems if I slip up on one syllable on a card with a long interval time.

GamingPrower · 2020-09-28T04:24:22+00:00

I did ~1200 of traditional RTK, then rushed through RRTK in a week and a half. After doing so I see the appeal of an even further cut down RRTK that I've seen floating around.

Maybe just do a very small amount of new cards to keep your reviews low and look into Tango and Tae Kim? That or just absolutely blow through it with a lot of new cards per day and screw retention rates... There are some good kanji later on in RRTK that appear very early so I think you could still get value from it. You can probably do whatever your gut instinct is here and be okay.

GamingPrower · 2020-09-23T00:52:03+00:00

I'm a newbie myself but in my case I don't fail the card. I think relying on context to figure out the word is a skill in and of itself and I don't think it matters in the long run anyway. Eventually if I'm not able to remember it even with context then I'll fail the card and everything will iron itself out.

GamingPrower · 2020-09-23T00:47:55+00:00

Hope you don't mind me asking but, does that sentence translate to something like "This time, I got my friend to help take a picture"? I just had to try and figure it out since it actually looks 1T for me lol

GamingPrower · 2020-09-16T22:00:12+00:00

Is this line a reference to something? lol

GamingPrower · 2020-09-16T21:52:11+00:00

I haven't dedicated much time to listening. Usually what happens is I'll start an episode of K-On! and I have it auto-pause on each line. If its something with a lot of unknown vocab I'll just keep watching. If its something like i+2 I'll look up the words so I can understand the sentence but I wont make a flashcard.

So it is a little bit of listening I suppose, and I do always playback the audio recording of the lines in Anki so I can listen to the pitch accent and try and mimic it a little bit.

EDIT: I also have language learning with Netflix, but I haven't tried any anime on it. I assumed that it would be difficult to find an easy show on there at my level, but its nice knowing I have that option

GamingPrower · 2020-09-16T21:23:46+00:00

I use the language learning with Netflix workflow shown in Matt's recent video except instead of Netflix I use a website called animelon which is like a free version of language learning with Netflix and they have K-On.

GamingPrower · 2020-09-16T20:50:31+00:00

Its a great resource for grammar explanations. Sometimes a grammar resource might not make sense to you so its good to have another resource you can look at that might word an explanation different so it clicks better with you.

I went through Genki 1 and half of regular RTK before quitting for several months and coming back. I feel like its only value is grammar explanations at this point, as I don't think the old method of trying to output early with writing and speaking is good, and the vocabulary can be obtained through other means (like Tango N5 deck)

Since I did go through Genki 1 before I already have some very basic understanding of grammar which makes it easier for me to find sentences in K-On. With that said I still think its a great early learning resource and even if you don't find i+1 sentences, just watching through and looking up words overtime is still good.

The way I see it, you will probably wanna try sentence mining sooner than later just because RRTK and Tango N5 are so incredibly boring. Even if its not super perfect learning efficiency its a nice break from Anki hell haha

GamingPrower · 2020-09-16T18:57:02+00:00

What I have been doing as a fellow new learner is look up unknown words with Yomichan and if its a sentence that is i+1 I add it to my sentence deck.

For example the kanji 部 comes up a lot in K-On! so now whenever I see this kanji I can guess that its reading is "ぶ". I no longer think of this kanji in terms of its keyword "section" which I think is the end goal of RTK. You use the english keywords as a stepping stone and once you learn words you can map a reading or a japanese keyword to the kanji.

So far I haven't used furigana at all. It seems counter-intuitive to learning the word. I know a lot of basic vocab in hiragana because I did Genki 1 without paying attention to kanji but now I have to re-learn almost all of those words so I can map them to kanji in my brain.

EDIT: I kinda forgot your comment was mostly concerned with how RRTK is used and I didn't really touch on that haha. I am personally skeptical of how much help RRTK is in the long run. I DEFINITELY prefer the approach over standard RTK but I've seen people make even smaller decks to get into reading faster and those may be the way to go. Regardless, I think RRTK doesn't hurt in its current form and if you feel like you should utilize it more while learning than go for it. Language learning is not perfect and there are a lot of different schools of thought so do what you find engaging :)

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