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    Thread: Speech practice site?
Post: Speech practice site?

Yes, I guess I need to look into that site a little more! I do like the structured idea of 'My Language Exchange', like the fact that they set a time to speak in each language and give you topics to...
tharvey Learning resources 8 1,179 2009-09-25, 7:08 am
    Thread: Speech practice site?
Post: Speech practice site?

I found it! I thought of some new search terms that might work, and sure enough it popped right up. ~ http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
tharvey Learning resources 8 1,179 2009-09-24, 6:05 am
    Thread: Speech practice site?
Post: Speech practice site?

Thanks kazelee ;) That's not the one I had seen before, but it will be nice to have a few back-ups in case I can't find it again. One of the reasons I really liked the other site was that it gave you ...
tharvey Learning resources 8 1,179 2009-09-24, 5:54 am
    Thread: Speech practice site?
Post: Speech practice site?

No, it's similar to the idea of Lang-8, but you are talking with one another instead of writing.
tharvey Learning resources 8 1,179 2009-09-23, 10:12 am
    Thread: Speech practice site?
Post: Speech practice site?

There is a site I am trying to find, hopefully you can help. I only looked at it briefly before, but it seemed really good for speech & listening practice. Basically you work with someone else t...
tharvey Learning resources 8 1,179 2009-09-23, 8:35 am
    Thread: Admonish, chastise, rebuke...
Post: Admonish, chastise, rebuke...

I just finished RtK and the first thing I did was go through the words and put them into categories so I can study the similar kanji together and separate them better in my mind. I was confusing 'each...
tharvey Remembering the Kanji 7 3,412 2009-08-12, 7:37 am
    Thread: onyomi or kunyomi or...?
Post: onyomi or kunyomi or...?

Ok, I think I have it sorted out.... (I hope) I was under the assumption that both the on'yomi and kun'yomi were only referring to the phonetic reading of the kanji, formed from either the Chinese or...
tharvey The Japanese language 15 5,259 2009-08-07, 9:40 pm
    Thread: onyomi or kunyomi or...?
Post: onyomi or kunyomi or...?

Sorry to make such a bumbling mess out of my previous questions. I believe I understand how the onyomi and kunyomi readings work, but quickly realized I didn't know the proper terminology to ask what ...
tharvey The Japanese language 15 5,259 2009-08-07, 8:49 pm
    Thread: onyomi or kunyomi or...?
Post: onyomi or kunyomi or...?

So you are saying that it is rarer for a kanji to be used for just sounds (which I was calling the on/kun-yomi, or just yomi which I guess caused more confusion) and more often the kanji will point to...
tharvey The Japanese language 15 5,259 2009-08-07, 8:30 pm
    Thread: onyomi or kunyomi or...?
Post: onyomi or kunyomi or...?

I guess I didn't word my question well enough... What I meant to ask was how you can tell whether a word is using a yomi reading or a non-yomi reading?
tharvey The Japanese language 15 5,259 2009-08-07, 7:30 pm
    Thread: onyomi or kunyomi or...?
Post: onyomi or kunyomi or...?

I am just about to finish up RtK, and based on the advice I've read on here I'm planning on skipping RtK2 and just learning the on/kun-yomi sounds as I learn vocabulary. But, I've been wondering... H...
tharvey The Japanese language 15 5,259 2009-08-07, 3:11 pm
    Thread: Kana help - feeling insecure!
Post: Kana help - feeling insecure!

I've heard arguments both ways, if it does matter or if it doesn't matter. But if I'm going to be writing these things over and over again I'd like to know I've learned the correct order in case it *d...
tharvey The Japanese language 15 2,341 2009-08-07, 10:02 am
    Thread: Kana help - feeling insecure!
Post: Kana help - feeling insecure!

I have a (unrelated) kana question of my own ~ I learned the kana quite a while ago, but came to realize that the stroke orders were wrong on a few from the source I used (DS Japanese Coach). Now tha...
tharvey The Japanese language 15 2,341 2009-08-07, 9:28 am
    Thread: Finished RTK1, but overwhelmed with methods for RTK2
Post: Finished RTK1, but overwhelmed with methods for RT...

I have a similar question to the original poster, about what to do after finishing RTK1. Currently I'm only about halfway through the book, but doing 30-40 a day, I'll hopefully be finished in another...
tharvey Remembering the Kanji 39 11,466 2009-06-26, 7:45 am
    Thread: Majide? (aka. "I Survived a Japanese Gameshow")
Post: Majide? (aka. "I Survived a Japanese Gameshow")

They are about to start up a new season of I Survived a Japanese Gameshow, and I was wondering ~ does anyone knew what time and channel Majide (the gameshow) comes on on Japanese television? I tried s...
tharvey Off topic 17 3,059 2009-06-15, 5:49 pm
    Thread: Help with a few sentences
Post: Help with a few sentences

Both of those explanations make a lot of sense. I had learned the ん です か pattern before, but did not realize it was related to の です か. I learned ん です in the context of 'want'... that it was seen as ...
tharvey The Japanese language 35 5,561 2009-04-17, 6:51 am
    Thread: Help with a few sentences
Post: Help with a few sentences

I have a new sentence question for you ~ What are you studying? あなた は なん の べんきょう を して いる の です か。 I'm not really understanding the reason for the second の in this one. I would have expected more of a...
tharvey The Japanese language 35 5,561 2009-04-16, 9:22 pm
    Thread: iKnow
Post: iKnow

Thanks for all of the info! I can't see myself using the iKnow, since I would rather put the info in my Anki, but the Dictation and podcasts sound like they are worth looking into. I've been listening...
tharvey Learning resources 599 117,020 2009-04-01, 2:32 pm
    Thread: Help with a few sentences
Post: Help with a few sentences

Ah, yes, I meant to say that I was assuming I could switch and use わたし instead of using ぼく, since I'm female (and the sentence would be the same). You are correct, the まらいました was a typo, so that make...
tharvey The Japanese language 35 5,561 2009-04-01, 2:20 pm
    Thread: Help with a few sentences
Post: Help with a few sentences

Hello everyone! I am pretty new to all of this, I've been studying Japanese for a few months now (since Christmas). I try to use a wide variety of resources ~ learning the kanji, sentences from a Japa...
tharvey The Japanese language 35 5,561 2009-04-01, 12:51 pm
    Thread: iKnow
Post: iKnow

I looked around iKnow the other day, interested in practicing with some of the audio sentences, but I couldn't really figure my way around the place. (Most of the info I found on this forum was from b...
tharvey Learning resources 599 117,020 2009-04-01, 11:23 am