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Thread: Are your Half kids happier in Japan or in your country? Post: Are your Half kids happier in Japan or in your cou... tashippy Wrote:I have no kids and don't live in Japan. But SammyB, what citizenship does your 7-month old have? Dual? What about you, Mennon? Your kids were born in Japan, right? Do they have Australi... |
SammyB | General discussion | 7 | 2,342 | 2014-09-25, 6:01 am | ||
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Thread: Are your Half kids happier in Japan or in your country? Post: Are your Half kids happier in Japan or in your cou... Hmmm, not jealous of your situation, that's a tough call. Hopefully someone has been through a similar situation and can give you some insight... I currently live in Japan with my wife and 7-month ol... |
SammyB | General discussion | 7 | 2,342 | 2014-09-23, 7:21 am | ||
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Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE Post: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE Here's my quick and dirty take. I'm not sure if I've seen the episodes where these come from, but I've tried to let my general familiarity with the series guide me... but without all the context it's ... |
SammyB | General discussion | 96 | 30,414 | 2014-03-01, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE Post: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE Luke you said help me make it more literal. What do you mean by that? Do you want the English to be a "correct" translation of the text without regard to natural sounding English, or do you want the t... |
SammyB | General discussion | 96 | 30,414 | 2014-03-01, 8:51 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT December 2013 Scores Available - Discuss! Post: JLPT December 2013 Scores Available - Discuss! This was my first JLPT experience and I honestly had no idea how I went after the test, but looks like I passed N2! :) Vocab/Grammar 52 ／ 60 Reading 48 ／ 60 Listening 48 ／ 60 V... |
SammyB | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 39 | 12,050 | 2014-01-30, 4:35 am | ||
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Thread: Printable core 2000 vocabulary list Post: Printable core 2000 vocabulary list ^ grammatically correct I suppose but not something I would say (in English either for that matter). ;) "You are my God..." O_O Anyway, I'm pretty sure a simple 助かりました！would sound more natural in th... |
SammyB | Learning resources | 46 | 37,430 | 2014-01-11, 1:48 am | ||
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Thread: Unique kanji in Core2k Post: Unique kanji in Core2k I don't think they exist! I remember wanting them too at the time for some reason. But you'll get used to not having them very quickly. ;) |
SammyB | Learning resources | 9 | 3,299 | 2013-12-29, 1:05 am | ||
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Thread: Vocab study without Anki Post: Vocab study without Anki nadiatims from this forum is the boss when it comes to anki-free ( vocab study if I recall. Ok I had a look and found this link to the RevTK wiki: http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Nadiatims_method ... |
SammyB | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,670 | 2013-12-06, 6:37 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT December 2013 - GAME ON! Post: JLPT December 2013 - GAME ON! For me the N2 equivalent of とこたん was 要するに which turned up a number of times! Worst part was I knew I'd learnt it before but just couldn't remember what it meant. :( Took N2 in Nishinomiya, not too fa... |
SammyB | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 156 | 35,090 | 2013-12-06, 6:10 am | ||
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Thread: Simple question on past participle (e.g. "have written") Post: Simple question on past participle (e.g. "have wri... But what's the nuance/difference between this and just saying もう頼んだ/注文した ??? |
SammyB | The Japanese language | 37 | 9,557 | 2013-11-29, 5:12 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT December 2013 - GAME ON! Post: JLPT December 2013 - GAME ON! Wow rich_f that seems like important information! Haha.. I had no idea they were weighted so differently. "reading" questions seem closer to 3 points each compared to basically 1 point each for the gr... |
SammyB | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 156 | 35,090 | 2013-11-26, 3:28 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT December 2013 - GAME ON! Post: JLPT December 2013 - GAME ON! Guys less than a week out now. How you all feeling? Did a timed mock exam (N2) today and got 54/75 for the vocab/grammar/reading section and 28/32 for listening. Feeling a little better after that, ... |
SammyB | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 156 | 35,090 | 2013-11-25, 5:59 am | ||
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Thread: How should an intermediate learner start listening practice? Post: How should an intermediate learner start listening... I remember looking through those books briefly in a bookstore one time... I thought in the introduction it explained fairly clearly how to do it? I seem to remember there was a suggested order/process... |
SammyB | The Japanese language | 55 | 13,881 | 2013-11-08, 4:48 am | ||
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Thread: やっと！ I Finished Core2k/6k/10k, the thread Post: やっと！ I Finished Core2k/6k/10k, the thread Vempele Wrote:Mature just means the interval is at least 21 days. I already knew most of the words, so I set the easy interval (=the interval you get when you press 'easy' on a new card) to 60 days. I... |
SammyB | General discussion | 95 | 30,550 | 2013-11-04, 8:12 am | ||
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Thread: やっと！ I Finished Core2k/6k/10k, the thread Post: やっと！ I Finished Core2k/6k/10k, the thread Must have changed the settings or something? o_O |
SammyB | General discussion | 95 | 30,550 | 2013-11-03, 1:39 am | ||
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Thread: Arcane Secrets! (or one man's language learning story) Post: Arcane Secrets! (or one man's language learning st... ^ I don't think anyone is saying starting with a class or a textbook is a terrible idea... And I don't think Dr. Dunlap is saying "don't study" either. As you said, he did do classes, some textbooks, ... |
SammyB | General discussion | 104 | 37,109 | 2013-10-22, 7:48 am | ||
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Thread: I LOVE MCHN DRM Post: I LOVE MCHN DRM Duuuuuuude that was excellent. Just wish it was longer!! Haha.. Really enjoyed it. Had to hold yourself back from overplaying on that one right? You did a good job, especially the intro, if you weren'... |
SammyB | Off topic | 9 | 1,772 | 2013-10-17, 7:39 am | ||
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Thread: Arcane Secrets! (or one man's language learning story) Post: Arcane Secrets! (or one man's language learning st... Thanks for taking the time to write this up!! |
SammyB | General discussion | 104 | 37,109 | 2013-10-17, 6:59 am | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? ^ Yeah it's much of a muchness I think. There are arguments for starting with either one, but basically you NEED to be able to use both anyway so who cares? That said... As someone who started all de... |
SammyB | General discussion | 856 | 195,485 | 2013-10-16, 9:01 am | ||
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Thread: I LOVE MCHN DRM Post: I LOVE MCHN DRM Will listen tomorrow when I get a chance! I remember your drumming clip you posted ages ago. (I'm a drummer so of course I loved it haha) Looking forward to having a listen. :) |
SammyB | Off topic | 9 | 1,772 | 2013-10-16, 8:45 am | ||
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Thread: looking for certain voice chat site... Post: looking for certain voice chat site... sharedtalk? |
SammyB | Off topic | 3 | 1,122 | 2013-10-15, 5:42 am | ||
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Thread: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana coverting method? Post: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana covertin... Anyone who could work out what ウイルス was supposed to be the first time they heard it deserves a medal. I agree with the OP in the sense that yes there are plenty of examples like this where katakana c... |
SammyB | Off topic | 49 | 10,325 | 2013-10-11, 5:47 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Yeah I remember coming across quite a few like that where the translation wasn't as direct as it could be. Perhaps to make it sound more natural in English I don't know... There are also times where ... |
SammyB | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,140 | 2013-10-11, 5:36 am | ||
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Thread: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。 Post: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。 スレを復活してくれてありがとう～！ せっかく適当トーク第２録音してくれたので、返事しないと失礼だろうと思った。drdunlapの関西弁を聞くと僕はなんか嬉しい。この１年間神戸に住んでるので、毎日関西弁を聞いたり、まるで標準語より普通になってしまった。まあ、普通といっても、自然に使かうことはまだ無理だ。まねとか冗談として使えば大丈夫だけど、本物の話で使ったら、なんか変な感じがする。drdunlapの... |
SammyB | General discussion | 19 | 7,261 | 2013-10-01, 7:36 am | ||
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Thread: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。 Post: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。 Haha love the 適当トーク. More please. :p Is there room in this thread for suggestions/advice from those that feel comfortable speaking in Japanese to those who aren't quite there yet... I've been living... |
SammyB | General discussion | 19 | 7,261 | 2013-09-29, 3:56 am | ||
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Thread: How does one make the Core 6k 'fun'? Post: How does one make the Core 6k 'fun'? I found that picking up the pace and seeing the number of unseen cards go down daily to be the only thing that really motivated me enough to get through core6k... That, and the fact that it kept getti... |
SammyB | The Japanese language | 42 | 10,210 | 2013-03-19, 7:41 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese level determining system Post: Japanese level determining system Stian Wrote:So where's the empirical data behind this list? How many Japanese learners did you survey? I don't think this is supposed to be taken seriously. ;) |
SammyB | General discussion | 20 | 5,107 | 2013-03-12, 6:30 am | ||
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Thread: Finding the established loan words Post: Finding the established loan words There may be fixed rules about foreign words --> katakana these days... but that doesn't help with all the words that received stuuuuupid katakana in the past. To me there seems to be no consisten... |
SammyB | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,464 | 2013-03-12, 6:08 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar? Post: Grammar? ^ I think you forgot how all the native speakers learnt Japanese. ;) The grammar/training wheels analogy seems apt. As you mention it's possible to learn how to ride a bike without training wheels. Yo... |
SammyB | The Japanese language | 77 | 11,220 | 2013-02-12, 7:49 am | ||
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Thread: Passive and active listening Post: Passive and active listening Khatz's sarcastic writing is one of the first things that attracted me to his site (which stopped me from giving up as a beginner). I will admit I don't bother checking in on his site much these days.... |
SammyB | Learning resources | 50 | 11,469 | 2013-01-24, 8:00 am | ||
