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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread What is the difference between 服･服装・衣服・衣類･衣装･衣料? And maybe also 洋服 (they seem to use it, even if there is no need to contrast to 和服, right?) |
Lionel | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,950 | 2012-02-17, 3:42 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Elenkis Wrote:私の犬がインターネットケーブルを食べてたので、私は新しいインターネットケーブルを買いました！ I understand everything here aside from the -てたので, it's just the た I'm unsure of (I understand ので). Did she perhaps mean to remove the て a... |
Lionel | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,950 | 2010-11-15, 1:43 pm | ||
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Thread: How to learn to read? Post: How to learn to read? I'll try to describe my experience with advancing to the reading stage. Hope it will be of some use for you as well. Before I started reading, I had done Heisig I, read through half of Tae Kim, did a... |
Lionel | The Japanese language | 31 | 8,391 | 2010-11-12, 3:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Misogyny Post: Misogyny 「女、女、女」 「いいえ、姦」 |
Lionel | Off topic | 67 | 17,081 | 2010-09-10, 12:41 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:Lionel: Those look like mistakes in the English translation to me. Thanks. Thought as much, but after seeing two of them I somehow doubted myself a bit. |
Lionel | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,950 | 2010-08-28, 12:10 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I'm interested in those two sentences from KO2001: 娘が結婚する。相手は２つ年下だ。 My daughter is getting married. Her fiance (lit. partner) is 2 years older than her. NTTは来月から電話料金を約10％値下げする。 NTT (Nippon Telegrap... |
Lionel | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,950 | 2010-08-28, 6:48 am | ||
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Thread: RevTK not consistent with RTK characters? Post: RevTK not consistent with RTK characters? You could use this site to check for correct handwriting: http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjid...enDocument The first picture is the printed style, the second is what you should aim for when writi... |
Lionel | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,134 | 2010-08-28, 6:21 am | ||
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Thread: Trouble typing 知 Post: Trouble typing 知 Mcjon01 Wrote:sethg Wrote:When I first started learning Japanese, the small つ was my greatest enemy. I remember having a lot of trouble with パーティー when I wasn't used to the IME. I thought for sure th... |
Lionel | The Japanese language | 10 | 1,556 | 2010-06-03, 9:02 am | ||
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Thread: Is my RTK learning process correct? Post: Is my RTK learning process correct? enerccio Wrote:English meanings spine; backbone Actually, it's wwwjdic that usually uses Heisig's keywords for the first meaning of the kanji, except for a few cases when the keywords have practica... |
Lionel | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 4,983 | 2009-08-20, 10:46 am | ||
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Thread: About Japanese Names Etymology Post: About Japanese Names Etymology Well, I looked the cast up, and it seems that the first names of all the girls in the show, including side characters, are a single kanji long. It looks like an intentional design decision, and as for... |
Lionel | General discussion | 12 | 4,522 | 2009-07-09, 4:13 pm | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji a day Post: 100 Kanji a day erlog Wrote:There's also the fact that I'm a much more visual learner. Stories didn't work well for me when I first started Heisig. What did work was using my imagination to create an image for the ka... |
Lionel | Remembering the Kanji | 435 | 87,052 | 2009-07-06, 11:40 am | ||
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Thread: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... Post: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... Well, Heisig does choose unusual meanings for the kanji from time to time. Another good example would be 乙. Maybe he thought it would be easier to remember 条 as a twig than as an article. |
Lionel | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 4,558 | 2009-07-01, 3:44 am | ||