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    Thread: Business Japanese Proficiency Test to be scrapped
Post: Business Japanese Proficiency Test to be scrapped

ocircle Wrote:Even the JLPT won't help you get a job or open any doors unles you have some other specialty skill (like medicine or computers/technology) A Japanese learner telling another that their J...
Capsule JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 7 3,870 2010-08-18, 8:52 pm
    Thread: Resources to learn good written Japanese?
Post: Resources to learn good written Japanese?

Can I ask if anyone knows of any good resources - either books or online - for learning how to write well in Japanese? By this I mean something which explains (in depth) how to write appropriately in ...
Capsule Learning resources 14 2,431 2010-02-08, 12:32 am
    Thread: Question about new version of Anki
Post: Question about new version of Anki

Thanks man. Do you know if it's possible to change a previous card that was set only as 'Recognition' to 'Recall' as well?
Capsule General discussion 2 865 2009-09-09, 9:14 pm
    Thread: Question about new version of Anki
Post: Question about new version of Anki

Hi, I haven't upgraded my version of Anki for ages because it got to a certain point where the automatic reading recognition wasn't working with a newer version, and so I just kept refusing to downloa...
Capsule General discussion 2 865 2009-09-09, 9:21 am
    Thread: JLPT 1級 Summer 2009
Post: JLPT 1級 Summer 2009

I got mine through the post yesterday, and I sent mine off at the very last moment. I'm sure yours will come soon. I'm massively underprepared, particularly (arguably the most important part) vocabula...
Capsule JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 9 2,567 2009-06-15, 9:16 pm
    Thread: Help with a financial translation! Would be very grateful!
Post: Help with a financial translation! Would be very g...

Hi guys, thanks to everybody for all your help. I already sent the translation off but I raised some of my concerns about the ambiguities with the company. I don't think I'll be taking any stuff like ...
Capsule The Japanese language 28 4,850 2009-05-30, 5:46 am
    Thread: Help with a financial translation! Would be very grateful!
Post: Help with a financial translation! Would be very g...

Jarvik7 Wrote:A bit of advice from a fellow translator: don't translate outside of your field of expertise. If you need to ask this forum of all places for help on it, you shouldn't be translating tha...
Capsule The Japanese language 28 4,850 2009-05-28, 12:20 am
    Thread: Help with a financial translation! Would be very grateful!
Post: Help with a financial translation! Would be very g...

Actually, re: my last question I was just told it most likely means July 3rd, August 3rd etc... That sounds about right.
Capsule The Japanese language 28 4,850 2009-05-27, 11:46 pm
    Thread: Help with a financial translation! Would be very grateful!
Post: Help with a financial translation! Would be very g...

Hi there, I have recently been doing some freelance translation work and have a few questions regarding the meaning of some Japanese sentences. The stuff I've been given to do has been mainly technic...
Capsule The Japanese language 28 4,850 2009-05-27, 11:25 pm
    Thread: What does 気分が高まる and 気分が高める mean?
Post: What does 気分が高まる and 気分が高める mean?

First of all, thanks everyone for your help. KristinHolly Wrote:高める is a transitive verb, and 高まる is intransitive. So one is "to raise" and the other is "to be raised". Can you give us the context?...
Capsule General discussion 11 4,294 2009-01-14, 4:17 am
    Thread: What does 気分が高まる and 気分が高める mean?
Post: What does 気分が高まる and 気分が高める mean?

Can anyone tell what the phrases 気分が高まる and 気分が高める mean? I've looked bloody everywhere and I can't find an actual translation. I guess they both mean something like raising morale/spirits or becoming ...
Capsule General discussion 11 4,294 2009-01-13, 11:44 am