Wow, signed in with my old smart.fm account and it’s telling me the last time I studied there (basic な adjectives) was January last year… Feels like a lifetime, old friend :’)

Don’t know if it’s worth the money though. It sounds like it’s probably a decent service, but any more than FREE is too much money for me ;) Will have a look at it properly with my 5 free trial sessions later though, maybe see if it’s good enough to shell out a little for. My anki deck doesn’t have any images, so it could be a bit more interesting here.

Ah, that jingle as the window opens is so nostalgic :P And the nice blue colour. Reminds of the very start of my Japanese journey (around September ’10) – learned hiragana and katakana on smart.fm, which it taught me pretty effectively. That was back when I first started TextFugu, a time when Anki was just a secondary option alongside the main man that was smart.fm :P

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I’d say vocab is the most important thing to learn and to work on, so yes, go for it :D If I remember correctly, Ultimate Nouns contains the vast majority of the “in-Season” noun vocab, and Ultimate Verbs/Adjectives contain *all* the “in-Season” stuff. I whizzed through a large chunk of the Ultimate decks because TextFugu had covered a lot of the words before, so it makes more sense to just go directly onto Ultimate.

I don’t haha. Whether a word uses on- or kun-yomi doesn’t really matter. I learn words, and just kinda “notice” when kanji are pronounced the same way frequently. I don’t learn readings separately, they just come through learning vocab.

Why bother learning that 日 can be pronounced ひ、に、にち、じつ、たち or か and which is on/kun when you could just spend that time learning words that use it? :D Just learn 日陰（ひかげ）、日本（にほん）、毎日（まいにち）、本日（ほんじつ）、一日（ついたち） and 二日（ふつか）, and that way you have 6 new words to play with, instead of just abstract readings haha.

@Mark: What is that supposed to say?

@oshi: I’m glad you didn’t begin your post that way because then it would make people think we actually *do* say it! :D Let’s hope you get into Edinburgh then, for the sake of your bank balance. Fantastic city to be in; I’m staying in 1st year student accommodation just now and I love it here :D Gotta move back home at the end of May though :( Any questions about the uni, the city or just Japanese in general, feel free :)

On jisho.org, there are 111 example sentences for 英国 and 199 for イギリス, so no, I don’t think they’re all that uncommon.

@Chado: Why? Just why… ¬.¬
Instead of making pointless posts, you should spend the time learning your kana. Come on, chop chop!