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Thread: Twig, branch and bough... how on earth?! Post: Twig, branch and bough... how on earth?! Just be careful, because the keyword for "岐" is "branch off". |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 6,285 | 2009-03-31, 12:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Twig, branch and bough... how on earth?! Post: Twig, branch and bough... how on earth?! The sense of "branch" is "to be a branch of" something -- like a branch office of a bank or a branch line of a railway. That's why it appears in "岐", for instance. A "bough" is part of a tree which ... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 6,285 | 2009-03-31, 11:17 am | ||
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Thread: each <-> every Post: each <-> every I gave "every" an alternate primitive meaning "Sigmund Freud", which helps in some cases; and I try to use stories with "each" that list examples, emphasizing that the keyword applies to "each" exampl... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 1,216 | 2009-03-16, 12:49 am | ||
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Thread: Frames #27 and #43 - 'Rise up' and 'Rising Sun' Post: Frames #27 and #43 - 'Rise up' and 'Rising Sun' Somehow "the measuring box of the rising-up sun" has always stuck with me. |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 2,367 | 2009-03-15, 2:16 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Direct Input Methods Post: Japanese Direct Input Methods If you use Windows, and you have a Tablet PC or purchase a pen input device for a regular PC, the handwriting recognition (both English and Japanese) in Vista is great and in Windows 7 it's absolutely... |
joxn_costello | The Japanese language | 28 | 9,784 | 2009-03-15, 2:12 am | ||
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Thread: How to interpret Reports? Post: How to interpret Reports? kazelee Wrote:This is interesting. I think a good question would be... where did all this shame come from? I find it sad that shame is ingrained to the point where one feels it even in death... If the... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 1,884 | 2009-03-15, 2:08 am | ||
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Thread: Reviewing and RSI... Post: Reviewing and RSI... I write the kanji during reviews, and write with the same hand I type "space"/"y"/"n" with, and that ends up giving me a nice range of motion during the reviews; certainly much more pleasant than my d... |
joxn_costello | Learning resources | 17 | 2,072 | 2009-03-13, 2:49 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Well, I found my copy of RTK3 (under a stack of other, also unread, books), so it's off to the races. |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,650 | 2009-03-06, 4:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji 牙 stroke count? Post: Kanji 牙 stroke count? One calligraphy teacher I had said that [kana]kokoro[/kana] needs to be written with the three small dots in a rising line (i.e., NOT how it is printed in mincho-type fonts); but [kana]kanarazu[/kana]... |
joxn_costello | The Japanese language | 27 | 4,443 | 2009-03-05, 9:54 am | ||
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Thread: Universities near Iwama (Ibaraki-ken) Post: Universities near Iwama (Ibaraki-ken) I don't know anything about Ibaraki University. Tsukuba is a world-famous institution when it comes to science and supercomputing, and that's why I was interested in it. (Also, when I was interested... |
joxn_costello | Off topic | 4 | 1,908 | 2009-03-04, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Thanks, Nukemarine. My next milestone is to finish the iKnow Core 2000 and 6000. I'm finding that a lot of the native Japanese vocabulary is review, but the kanji compounds are almost all new and ac... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,650 | 2009-03-04, 4:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Universities near Iwama (Ibaraki-ken) Post: Universities near Iwama (Ibaraki-ken) Tsukuba University is close enough to Iwama to make training regularly at the Ibaragi dojo a possibility-- I looked into this when I was in grad school. Of course you could have some other reason for... |
joxn_costello | Off topic | 4 | 1,908 | 2009-03-04, 2:48 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Today I just passed the "90% in box 4" mark, which is my criterion for "done with RTK1". Naturally, reviews will always be ongoing, but hopefully I can stay in a steady state with box 4 always > 9... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,650 | 2009-03-03, 9:08 pm | ||
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Thread: my name in katakana Post: my name in katakana As Ben_Nielson says, the "a" is a lengthener in "Joan", so [kana]JOAN[/kana] would be perversely literal. [kana]JO-N[/kana] would also be okay, I think. The problem (as I see it) with "John" is that... |
joxn_costello | Off topic | 61 | 15,077 | 2009-03-01, 12:51 pm | ||
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Thread: my name in katakana Post: my name in katakana When I went to Japan I rendered my name in kana as [kana]JAN[/kana], and everyone thought it was funny until I pointed out that [kana]JON[/kana] was pronounced "Joan", which is my mother's name. Then... |
joxn_costello | Off topic | 61 | 15,077 | 2009-03-01, 12:14 am | ||
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Thread: Ugliest and most Beutiful kanji? Post: Ugliest and most Beutiful kanji? I really like 龍. The meaning is cool, of course, and the pictograph of the dragon on the left side is pretty awesome. The simplified 竜 is nowhere near as cool. |
joxn_costello | Off topic | 65 | 15,535 | 2009-02-12, 2:00 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... やった！ Took me 101 days! Hopefully by the end of the month I'll have box 4 90% full... Thanks to all of you, but especially: ... fuaburisu for the wonderful site ... dingomick, Nukemarine, and bodhisa... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,650 | 2009-02-09, 10:12 pm | ||
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Thread: 「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人」: Grammar question Post: 「嘘を嘘と見抜けない人」: Grammar question 嘘を嘘と見抜けない人 Grammatically this clause has a similar structure to: "People (人) who are incapable (けない) of recognizing (見抜く) a lie (嘘を) as a lie (嘘と)." In context, I think your sentence means "If you ... |
joxn_costello | General discussion | 4 | 2,188 | 2009-01-30, 9:03 am | ||
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Thread: meeting, mi-tingu, iknow Post: meeting, mi-tingu, iknow Also, lowercase x in front of a vowel makes a little version of that vowel. So you could do "te xi" to get it. |
joxn_costello | Learning resources | 4 | 877 | 2009-01-30, 1:54 am | ||
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Thread: overview(s) on krashen, et al Post: overview(s) on krashen, et al I recommend Japanese Verbs at a Glance and All About Particles, from the Power Japanese series. |
joxn_costello | General discussion | 38 | 13,436 | 2009-01-29, 9:55 am | ||
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Thread: 書道 supplies Post: 書道 supplies In lieu of an actual teacher, you need a book. I recommend Sho: Japanese Calligraphy. Also excellent is The Chinese Art of Writing, but it is hard to find. |
joxn_costello | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,603 | 2009-01-28, 8:45 pm | ||
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Thread: overview(s) on krashen, et al Post: overview(s) on krashen, et al One thing the author of The Loom of Language (a book which for the most part focused only on Indo-European languages) points out is this: If you learn the auxiliary and helping verbs very early on in... |
joxn_costello | General discussion | 38 | 13,436 | 2009-01-28, 4:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Interesting/Cool Jukugo Post: Interesting/Cool Jukugo 電脳世界 -- Cyberspace? |
joxn_costello | General discussion | 35 | 8,691 | 2009-01-28, 1:29 am | ||
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Thread: Interesting/Cool Jukugo Post: Interesting/Cool Jukugo The Power Japanese book "Kanji Idioms" is filled with these 4-character set phrases. It's a pretty awesome reference. |
joxn_costello | General discussion | 35 | 8,691 | 2009-01-25, 5:14 am | ||
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Thread: Remembering Of and From and the like Post: Remembering Of and From and the like Smackle Wrote:mullr Wrote:之 has been easy for me ever since a Chinese guy in my Japanese class told me that it's used in Chinese exactly how の is used in Japanese. It is also used in Japanese names su... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 1,643 | 2009-01-23, 2:01 pm | ||
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Thread: obama teaches japanese Post: obama teaches japanese Nukemarine Wrote:Tobberoth Wrote:I don't understand it. Why would Japanese people want to learn about Obamas speeches? Makes no sense. 1. It's in English. 2. It's articulate and well spoken. 3. It us... |
joxn_costello | Learning resources | 33 | 4,186 | 2009-01-22, 1:04 am | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Oh, and a success story! I was looking over my intermediate Japanese textbook, and in the second dialog one student says of another (foreign student) "とても知識豊富なんだよ。" And I thought, "知識豊富", let's see:... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,195 | 2009-01-15, 2:54 am | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! I got my motivation at the halfway point and made it to 1531 today, which is 2 weeks ahead of schedule. Somehow my brain got used to learning kanji and I've been able to sustain 30-50 per day since I... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,195 | 2009-01-14, 11:21 pm | ||
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Thread: why are some elements not primitives? Post: why are some elements not primitives? What about "pegasus", "turkey coop", "birdhouse"? But I agree that it's rare. I was amused to learn that "sunglasses" is really "dancing legs", and relieved not to have to learn another damn legs pr... |
joxn_costello | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 31,932 | 2009-01-12, 11:29 am | ||
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Thread: Question about って Post: Question about って You got it right. How to Tell the Difference Between Japanese Particles says that って is used for reported speech (things a person has heard from other people), and is mostly used in casual contexts... |
joxn_costello | The Japanese language | 10 | 1,757 | 2009-01-12, 10:57 am | ||
