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    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I am overwhelmed by the responses, great! It is from an email and I have a feeling the New Year card attachment was not visible so the person only saw their name and nothing else.
mizunooto The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,168 2013-01-01, 9:11 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Sorry to interrupt the above crystal blue sky... "なんか名前だけ呼ばれているけど、どうかした??" Can you help me with the meaning of this? Thank you!
mizunooto The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,168 2013-01-01, 8:15 pm
    Thread: OH MY GOSH!!! I JUST FINISHED RTK1!! THANK GOD!!
Post: OH MY GOSH!!! I JUST FINISHED RTK1!! THANK GOD!!

@RawrPk can you first look through things thoroughly before posting? This here is the thread for people who OH MYY GOOOOD CANT BELIEEEVEEEEE THHEEEYYY ACTUALLLLY FINISSSSHHHHEEEEDDDDD
mizunooto Remembering the Kanji 12 4,180 2012-08-26, 8:54 am
    Thread: Tips for making SRS decks from Tatoeba
Post: Tips for making SRS decks from Tatoeba

Thanks for the replies and suggestions so far! I will look into the plugin etc. At least I can "save as..." for the audio and it has the same ID number as the sentence so I can find it. There is a...
mizunooto Learning resources 3 1,486 2012-08-24, 2:36 pm
    Thread: Tips for making SRS decks from Tatoeba
Post: Tips for making SRS decks from Tatoeba

Have you made SRS decks from Tatoeba sentences? It's easy to download the sentences but I was wondering what's the most efficient way to get the audio down. I downloaded a few good Tatoeba decks fro...
mizunooto Learning resources 3 1,486 2012-08-24, 6:18 am
    Thread: Tae Kim Issues
Post: Tae Kim Issues

We like it - because we can't speak Japanese. Japanese speakers pointed out mistakes to me in TK, and since then I have not looked at it.
mizunooto Learning resources 18 5,393 2012-07-17, 3:52 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

That's interesting, thanks for looking. @Rayath, the sense of all those meanings seems to be "swallow" - i.e. you could insert the word 'swallow' in each sentence and it would figuratively make sense....
mizunooto The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,168 2012-07-03, 3:42 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

On Facebook today somebody has used 呑む - does it indicate some nuance of 飲む or does it just tell me something about that person? (I see the dictionary has 飲む 呑む [服む 飮む])
mizunooto The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,168 2012-07-03, 9:14 am
    Thread: Ironic weight problem
Post: Ironic weight problem

Check the amount of calories you are getting and if you have any problems like feeling weak or light-headed or whatever, consider increasing this. Many people think they "need to get more protein" b...
mizunooto Off topic 76 10,730 2012-06-10, 11:51 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

When/where do/did they say "おはいおござんす" ? It's in this film, Tokyo Story 東京物語。
mizunooto The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,168 2012-05-27, 6:05 pm
    Thread: Not sure how to effectively learn next. Help?
Post: Not sure how to effectively learn next. Help?

On the subject of accent, if you go through the whole list of consonants, vowels, and pitch in Japanese - such as the Wikipedia page on Japanese Phonology, then you can check each one and see if it's ...
mizunooto The Japanese language 8 2,309 2012-05-11, 7:37 pm
    Thread: Don't know what to do....
Post: Don't know what to do....

Many people are drifting. They may not realise it but they are. Yet to me the real drifters are often people who've followed the required course of life. If you don't yet have a car a job a family a p...
mizunooto Off topic 108 19,488 2012-03-31, 1:33 am
    Thread: Kanji Causing Hand Pains
Post: Kanji Causing Hand Pains

Writing is a simple thing but as you're doing a lot of it it could be good to learn to do it more easily. And you could use the information in other physical tasks you are doing. Obviously pain is a...
mizunooto Remembering the Kanji 26 6,043 2012-03-04, 5:22 pm
    Thread: Success with Kanji Chains
Post: Success with Kanji Chains

That sounds quite good, I can see you say it gets a little bit out of hand but if it's working that's not really a problem. I'm sure someone will be along directly to tell you it doesn't work, but you...
mizunooto Remembering the Kanji 2 3,352 2012-01-30, 1:41 pm
    Thread: Completing Kanji Gold - just under 6000 kanji
Post: Completing Kanji Gold - just under 6000 kanji

fakewookie Wrote:Someone I know told me yesterday that she passed Level 1 of the Kanji Kentei while in high school :o Yes I have a friend who did the same thing!
mizunooto General discussion 72 15,451 2012-01-12, 8:20 pm
    Thread: Help a Japanese speaker who can't read!
Post: Help a Japanese speaker who can't read!

RTK with Japanese keywords.
mizunooto General discussion 36 10,413 2011-12-20, 1:29 pm
    Thread: www.imabijapaneselearningcenter.com
Post: www.imabijapaneselearningcenter.com

Hello imabi! Congratulations on your big project, it's very impressive. It's good that you're getting some advice here, I think it's useful. By now you probably can't follow all the advice, so I supp...
mizunooto Learning resources 503 66,738 2011-12-17, 1:24 pm
    Thread: Which Kana set do you like better ? Hiragana or Katakana ?
Post: Which Kana set do you like better ? Hiragana or Ka...

Hiragana absolutely. I found Katakana much harder to remember as they pretty much have about one stroke or less per character. Hiragana seemed much more pleasing.
mizunooto The Japanese language 19 4,783 2011-12-12, 5:40 pm
    Thread: When do you fail a card?
Post: When do you fail a card?

If I get it wrong. If I can't remember one or some of the primitives or if I get them in the wrong order that's a fail for me.
mizunooto Remembering the Kanji 18 3,414 2011-12-07, 7:20 am
    Thread: 'Emergency' memory technique
Post: 'Emergency' memory technique

Thanks for your input everyone!
mizunooto General discussion 20 3,408 2011-10-15, 2:00 pm
    Thread: Post your *ambitious* goal here!
Post: Post your *ambitious* goal here!

socks Wrote:I felt it was a really adorable thread. please adore! :) I'm going to look at what I wrote now! Edit: I haven't achieved my goal yet but it seems more achievable now (I said I wanted to ...
mizunooto General discussion 96 18,431 2011-10-14, 11:53 am
    Thread: 'Emergency' memory technique
Post: 'Emergency' memory technique

IceCream Wrote:the more new stuff i come across in a day, the harder it is to stay awake. Well that's interesting. I haven't experienced this myself, but I will look out for it. So if I do 6000 kanji ...
mizunooto General discussion 20 3,408 2011-10-13, 3:01 am
    Thread: 'Emergency' memory technique
Post: 'Emergency' memory technique

zzzzzzz Oh sorry I missed that...:)
mizunooto General discussion 20 3,408 2011-10-12, 5:31 pm
    Thread: 'Emergency' memory technique
Post: 'Emergency' memory technique

I already knew that if you read the thing you need to memorise before you sleep, you will know it better when you wake up. What was interesting to discover is that the more often you do this, the bet...
mizunooto General discussion 20 3,408 2011-10-12, 3:45 pm
    Thread: Baby talk
Post: Baby talk

@bcrAn Well, I can tell you one thing - in my opinion some of the best native materials in English are super-high-quality children's books. (My own definition of high quality) My favourites are the ...
mizunooto General discussion 35 7,102 2011-09-24, 7:00 pm
    Thread: Baby talk
Post: Baby talk

magamo Wrote:it's important for babies' language development I think people are finding it hard to understand the OP because they are not babies. But I think it is an interesting point. If we were n...
mizunooto General discussion 35 7,102 2011-09-24, 4:14 pm
    Thread: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese?
Post: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese?

That sounds good, and I'm happy that you have worked consistently hard to get to where you are! I'm a musician and I often hear that supposedly musicians are good at getting accents right. Could be t...
mizunooto The Japanese language 76 22,487 2011-09-24, 4:04 pm
    Thread: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"...
Post: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"...

louischa Wrote:But need we any more evidence of our collective insanity than this very forum? ;-) Eek, I was just searching for polyphonic Hanzi and ended up in a 'Chinese-learning forum'. I'm glad I'...
mizunooto Chinese and Hanzi 23 5,605 2011-09-23, 6:37 pm
    Thread: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"...
Post: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"...

Right, I'm on the side of the hanja now for definite. You have persuaded me! Plus I like her because she said the same thing as me (about Latin) - isn't that why people like people anyway (I'm joking ...
mizunooto Chinese and Hanzi 23 5,605 2011-09-23, 4:33 pm
    Thread: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"...
Post: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"...

I really should not use it - it gets everything else wrong! Thanks for pointing this out. Oh g@@gle! I mean Googlet.
mizunooto Chinese and Hanzi 23 5,605 2011-09-23, 3:35 pm