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Thread: Best book about Japan? Post: Best book about Japan? The books that made the most impact on me have been: Haruki Murakami 'Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche'; especially why he wrote it (claim that Japanese would not discuss the... |
chorismos | General discussion | 44 | 11,435 | 2010-01-15, 12:38 am | ||
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Thread: Dealing with English Practicers Post: Dealing with English Practicers I've encountered this issue many times in Japan over the course of a couple of years, in fact it crops up every couple of days. Based on this experience I think the reasons are: * Kindness: Japanese ... |
chorismos | Off topic | 74 | 14,761 | 2009-12-27, 9:53 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT is over! Post: JLPT is over! jonjimbo2000 Wrote:Well at my test site the person behind me was given a yellow card warning. The proctor just came over and showed it to her and pointed to something in his booklet. I'm not sure what... |
chorismos | General discussion | 116 | 19,064 | 2009-12-06, 11:49 pm | ||
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Thread: iAnki vs Anki Mini Post: iAnki vs Anki Mini The steps below worked for me on Win XP SP2 to iTouch 2nd Gen. The only problem I ever had was when there was a firewall on the local network. Disabling the firewall did the trick. iAnki seems very ... |
chorismos | Learning resources | 127 | 45,914 | 2009-10-31, 7:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? I contend that the ancient Western philosophers (especially those dealing with the art of rhetoric) would have loved SRS. This is because they were already using a variation of systematic memorisation... |
chorismos | Off topic | 44 | 6,165 | 2009-10-21, 9:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? I think a SRS could be useful for drilling basic philosophical facts, definitions, labels and theorems, especially at first-second year level. I wouldn't dismiss it. If an SRS helps discipline your m... |
chorismos | Off topic | 44 | 6,165 | 2009-10-20, 11:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Great idea! Can't think of a better way to discipline input and hard-wire concepts and definitions in the brain for longer term retention. Also (the SRS) builds a kind of 'memory nexus' or repository ... |
chorismos | Off topic | 44 | 6,165 | 2009-10-20, 8:43 am | ||
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Thread: Don't sit the JLPT Post: Don't sit the JLPT ghinzdra Wrote:...it so damn hard to get into a japanese university for a 外人 that except for the sake of fulfilling a dream it s not really worth to do that...japanese university are not even well ran... |
chorismos | General discussion | 121 | 20,859 | 2009-08-15, 12:38 am | ||
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Thread: Love in Japan... Post: Love in Japan... I'm sorry that I didn't include links in my original post. These links are to what I've seen/read on the web in the last year. They may be of background interest/use to anyone interested in how soci... |
chorismos | General discussion | 578 | 67,333 | 2009-07-15, 9:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Love in Japan... Post: Love in Japan... I don’t like generalisations but statistical/empirical patterns can be difficult to ignore; the observations below (aimed at anyone contemplating a longer-term, committed relationship to a Japanese Wo... |
chorismos | General discussion | 578 | 67,333 | 2009-07-15, 9:06 am | ||
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Thread: Learning martial arts by yourself? Post: Learning martial arts by yourself? I can only speak about Tai-Chi, Illustrisimo Arnis, Aikido and Kenjutsu. You cannot 'learn' these arts via DVD, self-training or self-instruction. You cannot 'progress' in these arts via self-trainin... |
chorismos | General discussion | 29 | 8,581 | 2009-04-19, 2:45 am | ||
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Thread: "Post your sentence" game Post: "Post your sentence" game なんと楽しいことが。Ok: Q: 物語の結末を教えない！ A: ものがたりのけつまつを教えない！ このカードには絵が入っている。 |
chorismos | Off topic | 41 | 8,063 | 2009-02-20, 7:48 am | ||
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Thread: No Script Firefox Addon kills IME Language Bar Post: No Script Firefox Addon kills IME Language Bar Sorry for late reply - travelling around Japan at the moment. Curious that your IME works ok with XP and Noscript on default settings - I have to >Allow All in NS to let IME work on a FF tab or en... |
chorismos | Learning resources | 2 | 1,292 | 2009-01-15, 5:46 am | ||
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Thread: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Post: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Thora Wrote:I'm not sure why you are using Japanese here. Are you seeking corrections? v.quick reply mate: cos I'm in lockdown AJATT, even production mode. Playing devil's advocate btw why are you usi... |
chorismos | General discussion | 127 | 24,775 | 2009-01-07, 9:36 am | ||
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Thread: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Post: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? MeNoSavvy Wrote:Don't take this the wrong way but a lot of younger people on this forum seem to have an unrealistic image of Japan. I'm not saying it is a bad country, but being a foreigner in Japan i... |
chorismos | General discussion | 127 | 24,775 | 2009-01-07, 4:11 am | ||
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Thread: No Script Firefox Addon kills IME Language Bar Post: No Script Firefox Addon kills IME Language Bar Firstly, I highly recommend the No Script FF addon - allows active content (eg Javascript, Java etc) on trusted sites as maintained by the user and protects against XSS/clickjacking, also an ideal com... |
chorismos | Learning resources | 2 | 1,292 | 2009-01-06, 3:43 am | ||
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Thread: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate about religion thread Post: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate ab... ええ？どうしてこのフォーラムで宗教について話しています？宗教と言えば、外で続けたほうがいいです。代わりに日本の駅前でマイクロフォンを使います。イヴァデェリストのように。。。 ’するとその異人が金牛宮の頂にある七星の話をして聞かせた。。。最後に自分に神を信仰するかと尋ねた。自分は空を見て黙っていた。’ http://www.amazon.co.jp/Ten-Nights-Dream...275&a... |
chorismos | Off topic | 465 | 58,543 | 2008-12-28, 11:19 pm | ||
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Thread: in japan Post: in japan 東京で五ヶ月ほどたちました。この五ヶ月間、ほんとに色々な経験することができました、けれでも来たばかりのころは言葉がよく分からなくて、失敗してばかりいました。 日本語の使い方について話したいんです。 For me, living in Japan the last few months, it is simply unskilful and unhelpful not to attempt to ... |
chorismos | Off topic | 111 | 13,279 | 2008-12-16, 8:16 am | ||
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Thread: Real Flashcards for sale anywhere? Post: Real Flashcards for sale anywhere? If there's a Kinokuniya in Nagoya they might have a set (their store in Shinjuku had two when I was there a week ago but I didn't check the price). Beautifully boxed, real 'old school' quality. Also ... |
chorismos | General discussion | 11 | 1,280 | 2008-12-10, 6:44 am | ||
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Thread: Do NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4 Post: Do NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4 Word about says that the latest Visa security patch has been causing Exception Access errors and/or Data Execution Protection (DEP) triggers on FF 3.0.4 with Vista 64bit. Other common problems (but n... |
chorismos | Learning resources | 11 | 2,513 | 2008-11-17, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: Do NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4 Post: Do NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4 Glad to hear that not everyone has been affected! If you run into drastic trouble you could grab a previous release at the following link until they patch 3.0.4: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozil... |
chorismos | Learning resources | 11 | 2,513 | 2008-11-15, 3:40 am | ||
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Thread: Do NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4 Post: Do NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4 Attn all Firefox users: do NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4 when auto-prompted it has serious bugs which is causing users mayhem. Further information is at: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Supp...ite... |
chorismos | Learning resources | 11 | 2,513 | 2008-11-15, 3:05 am | ||
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Thread: iKnow Post: iKnow http://www.iknow.co.jp/free In sum: 'In the future, we?re planning on providing paid services for premium subscribers, as well as introducing intelligent advertising. These new premium services will... |
chorismos | Learning resources | 599 | 116,993 | 2008-09-26, 1:09 am | ||