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Thread: You know your writing system is complicated when ... Post: RE: You know your writing system is complicated wh... The same could be said for English spelling. Or pronunciation. (I should take a video of my poor wife attempting to say "otolaryngologist"). These kind of segments are pretty common. Mainichi Shinbu... |
gaiaslastlaugh | General discussion | 10 | 472 | 2016-06-19, 4:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Flying Witch! Post: RE: Flying Witch! (2016-06-18, 10:20 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: Oh yes, たりたり was good (and easy to follow). Kind of different from the shows I listed, but kind of the same in some ways. I feel like 部活 is kind of its o... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Off topic | 12 | 500 | 2016-06-18, 10:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Flying Witch! Post: RE: Flying Witch! Thanks! I've started watching - it's great, and seems very accessible in terms of Japanese level. For slice of life fans, I recommend たりたり, which is also on CrunchyRoll. Well timed subs also exist on... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Off topic | 12 | 500 | 2016-06-18, 3:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Too much free time !!! Post: RE: Too much free time !!! (2016-06-16, 10:34 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: On the other hand, getting into native material too early can be very demotivating. In fact, I've given up on reading Planetarian in Japanese before the anime ... |
gaiaslastlaugh | General discussion | 24 | 1,357 | 2016-06-17, 2:45 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread (2016-06-17, 9:55 am)eslang Wrote: ちなみに、「教えてgoo」や「yahoo知恵袋」のようなサイトは誰でも（悪戯者、留学生を含めて）投稿できますから、あまり真剣に考え過ぎないでくださいね。 それどころか、恐ろしい話が沢山あるようです。 http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/...1287866527 :huh: |
gaiaslastlaugh | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,566 | 2016-06-17, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread (2016-06-14, 1:20 pm)gaiaslastlaugh Wrote: (2016-06-14, 11:58 am)ariariari Wrote: That feeling when you learn a word from a textbook, pick up some native material, and immediately see it plastered... |
gaiaslastlaugh | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,566 | 2016-06-17, 11:27 am | ||
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Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan (2016-06-15, 7:33 pm)TheVinster Wrote: And appreciate your words vix86. I will take another look and see what I dig up. My company was originally a startup and I think it will be a more accommodatin... |
gaiaslastlaugh | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 51 | 6,394 | 2016-06-16, 11:18 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-06-15, 11:28 pm)Aikynaro Wrote: I'm on my way out of the top 10 (currently #9), but for what it's worth... I have a core-reading session before bed where I read a novel for between 10 and 20 ... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-16, 10:32 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge For folks in the top 10: How do you do it?!?! Seriously, though - how many hours a day are you reading? What's your reading rate (pages/hr.)? Are you reading on top of other learning activities, such... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-15, 8:57 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread (2016-06-14, 2:09 pm)yogert909 Wrote: (2016-06-14, 1:20 pm)gaiaslastlaugh Wrote: I swear to God that "word blindness" is a thing. I'll learn a word and be like, "Huh, I wonder why I've never seen ... |
gaiaslastlaugh | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,566 | 2016-06-14, 3:52 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread (2016-06-14, 11:58 am)ariariari Wrote: That feeling when you learn a word from a textbook, pick up some native material, and immediately see it plastered all over the native material :) In my case ... |
gaiaslastlaugh | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,566 | 2016-06-14, 1:20 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-06-12, 7:23 am)Zgarbas Wrote: Looking up words is not a tadoku sin at all, I used the dictionary quite extensively when I first started out (and am using it a lot for my Spanish book now). It ... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-14, 8:04 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I notice myself slowly slipping the rankings as we near the end of the work week, meaning working has had a deleterious impact on my Japanese reading. Obviously, the only rational thing to do is to qu... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-10, 5:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese learning Blogs Post: RE: Japanese learning Blogs (2016-06-09, 1:16 pm)ryuudou Wrote: And when he talks about learning Japanese his opinion should probably be discarded. He thinks RTK doesn't work and is one of those cynical people who is fast appr... |
gaiaslastlaugh | General discussion | 11 | 1,097 | 2016-06-10, 11:36 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I'm enjoying the forcing function of Tadoku. I feel like I'm definitely reading at a much faster clip, and reading more, in order to maintain my pathetic ranking. I'm also feeling that desire to stud... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-10, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-06-10, 12:58 am)RawrPk Wrote: 13 manga pages. Not much but most I had a chance to read this week. Rank 50 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ How is everyone else doing? (I'm pretty sure no one is lower than I am atm.... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-10, 7:22 am | ||
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Thread: how to write kanji Post: RE: how to write kanji (2016-06-08, 7:30 pm)Joker Wrote: Sorry, what I am interested in is 硬筆書写 Do you mean calligraphy? Or plain writing? For the latter, pick up any book or web site that explains basic stroke order con... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Learning resources | 15 | 824 | 2016-06-08, 8:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading (2016-06-08, 10:05 am)CureDolly Wrote: The problem with core decks is that they don't give you the vocabulary you need for what you are reading at the time, so I think it is better to acquire vocabu... |
gaiaslastlaugh | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,542 | 2016-06-08, 3:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese learning Blogs Post: RE: Japanese learning Blogs (2016-06-08, 11:37 am)ryuudou Wrote: (2016-06-02, 6:08 pm)gaiaslastlaugh Wrote: Any such post would be remiss without mentioning Japanese Rule of 7: http://japaneseruleof7.com/ If you've never re... |
gaiaslastlaugh | General discussion | 11 | 1,097 | 2016-06-08, 2:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading (2016-06-08, 8:20 am)Aikynaro Wrote: Have you actually tried reading any VNs yet? Depending on where you are, 1-2 hours of reading might not actually get you all that far. Anyway, SRS is the way to... |
gaiaslastlaugh | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,542 | 2016-06-08, 9:05 am | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels Yes, I read most of my material on the Kindle app for iPad. It works great. Furigana works fine. Also, it's really easy to copy a word from the app and add it to a Midori list for later study/Anki imp... |
gaiaslastlaugh | General discussion | 24 | 1,882 | 2016-06-07, 4:14 pm | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels Bookmeter: http://bookmeter.com/u/388077 I will reiterate my broken record recommendation: Anything by 赤川次郎. He was a favorite read of a lot of Japanese people of my generation during their middle s... |
gaiaslastlaugh | General discussion | 24 | 1,882 | 2016-06-07, 7:03 am | ||
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Thread: Living Japanese DVD Post: RE: Living Japanese DVD Thanks, all! YouTube + offliberty did the trick! Between this, 相棒 and YouTube ranters, I should be set with listening material for June. |
gaiaslastlaugh | Learning resources | 10 | 670 | 2016-06-07, 6:44 am | ||
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Thread: Living Japanese DVD Post: RE: Living Japanese DVD Great idea! But, sadly, no one in the area has it. :-( I bitched to the seller, as their description didn't say the DVD was missing. Hopefully I can at least get my money back. |
gaiaslastlaugh | Learning resources | 10 | 670 | 2016-06-06, 9:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Living Japanese DVD Post: Living Japanese DVD I just bout the book, and it came without the DVD. Grrrrrr. Please pm me if someone can help a brother out. |
gaiaslastlaugh | Learning resources | 10 | 670 | 2016-06-06, 9:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig? Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn... Man, I like Ken's blog (mainly because he's a witty writer). But that post was out of line. And I say that as someone who didn't use RTK. Re: The actual topic - there are a lot of people who love RT... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 3,892 | 2016-06-05, 4:02 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-06-05, 6:08 am)Aikynaro Wrote: I don't think there's anything stopping you? You raise a fine point. I'm in. |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-05, 6:33 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Are after the fact sign ups allowed? I didn't sign up for this earlier because I "read too slow". Having just blown through four volumes of a manga and about 25% of 俺たち花のバブル組 in the past two days or s... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Group study | 361 | 69,012 | 2016-06-05, 5:53 am | ||
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Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?! Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ... In the vein of anotherjohn, I'm a big fan of the "Anki is for remembering, not for learning" mindset. My own approach with my vocab deck is to not add new cards by default. I steal time for reviews ... |
gaiaslastlaugh | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 1,318 | 2016-06-05, 3:46 am | ||
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Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope (2016-06-04, 5:49 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: I'm not exactly expecting a positive answer, but would you guys happen to have any tips to speed up the ability to immediately recognize numbers and dates when ... |
gaiaslastlaugh | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 60 | 4,299 | 2016-06-04, 10:08 pm | ||
