Nicely done :D How long do you spend on cards a day? I’m probably just quite slow, but that number seems to take me forever to do. Also, how far along 6k are you now (if you haven’t already completed it, can’t remember if you’ve said).

My Core deck says I’ve done 55310 reps in 587 days, but the majority of that’s been in the past year (39201 reps in 337 days). The overall number for Anki would higher since I had TextFugu and RTK decks on there way back. I also did 35697 reps in total over on Koohii, but I’m not sure exactly what length of time that was in. Definitely doing more reps recently and adding more cards than I have done in quite a while, so maybe that number will shoot up over the summer ;)

Something like 「～たり、～たりしています。」?

Also Mark, 働いてて should be 働いていて – if he’s writing things (especially in the ~masu style), is it not best to stay away from contractions like that? Would it not be better to practise the correct form first?

I never really used the forum much – I was never an active user – but it’s still kinda sad. I can definitely see why he wants to do it; it’s probably a whole lot of work, a lot of his time spent on it. He probably doesn’t get as much out of it any more as he once did.

Is this maybe a cue for Bbvoncrumb and… – Tubatime2010 was it? – to try and attract these migrants to their own forum? Is that thing even still going? Can’t remember what it was called…

“I wrote kanji 10, 20 even 50x each on my professors word that it would help to retain the kanji.”

They only do it that way because that’s how it is taught in Japanese schools. They feel that because they did it that way when they were young that it’s the correct method. They seemingly don’t realise that A: adults learn differently than children, and B: they spent more than a decade of their lives doing it that way, which is mind-numbingly slow out in the real world (that is, outside of school).

Here’s a (short) video YouTube polyglot Moses McCormick (laoshu50500) did recently on the topic:

May I make a few suggestions? How about “button”, since you also have game pad (controller) and joystick (are you referring to the sticks on a controller or an old-school Atari/flight sim style thing?)? And maybe instead of monitor have screen, just since it seems like a word you might use more often, and can apply to TVs and phones too. I see you’ve added game cartridge – are you more into pre-CD era games, yeah?

I know it’s only *supposed* to be 20 words, but if you’re really passionate about it, I’d say add more if you want! :D Maybe include words you think you might see while playing a game (as these will be useful when you come to actually play a game in Japanese):

Jump, punch, kick, shoot, reload, collect (as in coins or rings), kill, run, walk, dodge, options, menu, restart, win, lose, final battle/round, item, flee, attack, move, turn, backpack/inventory, trainer, capture/catch, route ## (as in Pokemon), objectives, story, mission, multiplayer/singleplayer, RPG, online, opponent, characters, quest, villain/hero, cast (a spell), magic, damage, HP, MP, armour, defense, agility, party (the group you’re fighting with), hit/miss, critical, faint, dead, protagonist, antagonist, NPC, sidekick…

That’s a big (certainly not exhaustive) list that I just typed as it came to me; I’ve no idea where you’d find out how to say all that stuff, but you can maybe just take a handful and ask around :) There are a number there that I thought of with Pokemon in mind ;)

Today, I resurrected this classic thread ;)

Listened to about 50 Jpod101 “Lower Intermediate” lessons so far and they’ve been great :D In a lesson I listened to on the bus yesterday, they mentioned this:

「～にルーズ（な）」 – roughly meaning “to be careless with”. Seems it can be pretty versatile, but mostly used with 「時間にルーズ」 – “unpunctual/always late/bad at staying on time”

Can also say 「お金にルーズ」 – “bad with money”
or
「育児にルーズ」 – “careless parenting/unfit to be a parent”

Garuda, I’ve got almost exactly a week till the start of my exams this year (i.e. pretty busy) and I’m still managing to do a little each day, even if it’s only Anki reviews, so don’t worry about it :D Yeah, there will be times when you’re busier and you can’t do as much, but it shouldn’t be enough to have to drop it completely.

Another thing to look out for, even if you don’t take Japanese as part of your degree, there might be some smaller, independently-run classes available. I go to a class that’s held by my uni’s Japanese Society – may only be once a week, but it can be fun and doesn’t take up too much time :D