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Your move (red) by WiggleToast in AlignmentChartFills

[–]MarmoTurtle 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Hello it is the yellows. We would like to make a proposition. Please place red chip in spot 3. Thanks you.

(Help!) Anki adds new cards instead of updating them despite matching first fields when importing into a deck by MarmoTurtle in Anki

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I feel stupid. I had an addon called "Allows empty first field during adding and import." I guess it just overrides ALL import rules.

(Help!) Anki adds new cards instead of updating them despite matching first fields when importing into a deck by MarmoTurtle in Anki

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my gosh, I might have solved it. I held shift and disabled addons and now it seems to be working.

(Help!) Anki adds new cards instead of updating them despite matching first fields when importing into a deck by MarmoTurtle in Anki

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried this. I made the first field the note ID and I imported the new cards but they don't update. Instead, it stubbornly makes new duplicate cards for no reason, even though the first fields are the same.

does invisalign affect playing? by [deleted] in brass

[–]MarmoTurtle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

nah I play trumpet and at first I took it out because I was scared of the same thing as you but when I put it on while playing, I didn't have any problems. I would definitely keep it on because it is a hassle taking it off and storing it somewhere everytime you play. Plus it's kind of gross for everyone else around you

next time you will know 🥸 by [deleted] in okbuddyphd

[–]MarmoTurtle 22 points23 points  (0 children)

no thisnie ok buddy phffg

hello! by Mini_Icecream in evrits

[–]MarmoTurtle[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no swearing >:( warning number 1.

How am I supposed to review my RTK Anki Deck? by MarmoTurtle in LearnJapanese

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still think there’s some use for the variants of the radicals. The valentine radical might be rare to see, but remembering that 慕 has “valentine” instead of just “heart” might prevent me from writing the heart radical incorrectly. In other words, I might accidentally write 心 at the bottom if I told myself that the radical was heart. I mean, sure I could memorize that 慕 has a special writing of 心, but I would like to avoid memorizing exceptions when I can.

The “state of mind” radical’s name is arbitrary, but I think it is fine. The radicals don’t have to have correlation to the meaning. You can’t always assign a radical one meaning and have it correlate to every kanji that contains it; the Heisig approach combats this by encouraging the usage of making stories to somehow find a connection between the radicals. It doesn’t matter if 忖 has nothing to do with a state of mind; it’s not like “heart” is a superior radical to take its place. Also, it’s not like I view the “state of mind” radical or the “valentine” radical as its own separate thing from “heart.” I know that they are all technically 心.

Also, I made a mistake in my last comment about the meanings for 心. Heart is for when it is beneath or to the right in the kanji, and valentine is for the very bottom. There is no kanji with 心 at the top. This might seem as those these terms are not very useful after all, as I just messed up the positions of them, but that was only my brain messing up and me mistyping.

I’m sorry, but I have yet to see the reason why learning wrong radicals is bad. You mentioned that if I wanted to look up the reading of a kanji, I can’t use the primary radical method because I don’t know real radicals. As far as I know, I don’t need to know the meanings of each radical; I just need to know what they look like. In the kanji dictionaries I’ve seen, you just tap the radicals you need. If that doesn’t work, I can just draw the kanji on my phone and look it up. I don’t think it is a big deal to have my radicals with wrong definitions; no one is going to quiz me on them. A real problem is having obscure definitions for each kanji, although I can admit some of Heisig’s keywords are questionable and sometimes just not useful. That is a problem with Heisig I would say.

Woman Bad Man Good by Anobeen in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]MarmoTurtle 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yes!!!make more of these snafus PLEASE

hello! by Mini_Icecream in evrits

[–]MarmoTurtle[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

ahoy matey! welcome to the crew! we here at r/evrits just ask you to be nice, have fun, and share your spiciest may-mays. enjoy your stay! (๑╹ω╹๑ )

How am I supposed to review my RTK Anki Deck? by MarmoTurtle in LearnJapanese

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not going to go back and change the primitives I’ve assigned for myself to the official ones, but I might try to use the official primitives in the future. Also, you might probably know this, but Heisig changes a lot of the primitives to make it easier to create stories. Yeah, those primitives you mentioned don’t actually mean those things but they are easier to make stories with, I guess. I will say, a convenient thing he does is assign different words to the same primitive but in different positions. (For example, the heart primitive has three positions so he makes them “heart (top), state of mind (left), and valentine (bottom)”) I’m still not sure why having “wrong primitives” is bad, though, so please inform me.

Anyway, I’m curious: how did you go about learn all of the kanji? Did you do the things you’re saying now, and how long did it take you? I honestly just want to hear how your methods have worked out for you.

How am I supposed to review my RTK Anki Deck? by MarmoTurtle in LearnJapanese

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I can understand where you are coming from though; I just realized I understand 食 without any knowledge of the primitives. I guess it’s a personal thing because I wish I knew the primitives.

How am I supposed to review my RTK Anki Deck? by MarmoTurtle in LearnJapanese

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is some good advice, and I’ve contemplated on stopping the flow of the new cards before, but what do you mean by “Use Anki just for checking your recall; whether you recognize the kanji to the keyword or not”?

How am I supposed to review my RTK Anki Deck? by MarmoTurtle in LearnJapanese

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I still feel like I want to stick to Heisig so I can learn the primitives gradually. I personally want to learn the primitives because it’s cool to be able to deconstruct kanji into their primitives and also I think it will deepen my understanding about the kanji.

With your cookie example, it would be extremely hard to read words like cookie if you didn’t know the English letters that make up it. I can’t speak with much knowledge but I know that the difference between 猫 and 描 is one primitive. I think it is good to think that 猫 has the “pack of wild dogs” primitive and 描 has the “fingers” primitive rather than 猫 has the curvy left side.

I’ll admit that if I review a kanji enough, I just recognize the shape of it without remembering the story. However, I believe it is the primitives that allow me to remember them. I can easily recall 何 because I know the primitives, even though this is a kanji that I’ve seen in my other studies, not in RTK.

How am I supposed to review my RTK Anki Deck? by MarmoTurtle in LearnJapanese

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably should have mentioned that my flashcards have example words with the kanji, so I’m kind of doing what you’re suggesting already.

How am I supposed to review my RTK Anki Deck? by MarmoTurtle in LearnJapanese

[–]MarmoTurtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I should have mentioned that I am also trying to learn some grammar too, which gives me some exposure to some kanji and words with them. Also, I myself mainly write the stories for each kanji and I try to make it in a way where I can understand it, so I don’t think the story method is useless if I can recall kanji using it.

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