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    Thread: Question: 行こうねって ; 逃げてねって - ーてねって aux verb
Post: Question: 行こうねって ; 逃げてねって - ーてねって aux verb

Thanks! All clear.
jimbojones99 The Japanese language 4 1,909 2011-09-26, 7:37 am
    Thread: Question: 行こうねって ; 逃げてねって - ーてねって aux verb
Post: Question: 行こうねって ; 逃げてねって - ーてねって aux verb

Apologies if this is really basic, but I'm reading over a transcript of an interview for a friend and the phrases 行こうねって ; 逃げてねって crop up and I'm not sure what the ーてねって auxiliary verb is doing. From ...
jimbojones99 The Japanese language 4 1,909 2011-09-26, 7:24 am
    Thread: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal ammount of vocab.?
Post: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal...

Quote:I guessed 渡米 correctly when i saw it in your post (hadn't seen it before). What's so funny about transiting to America? You know 米 means America in tons of words right? Well to steer the convers...
jimbojones99 The Japanese language 104 20,369 2011-06-06, 6:21 pm
    Thread: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal ammount of vocab.?
Post: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal...

Lots of interesting examples so far, mostly around compound nouns - I find the profusion of suru verbs more infuriating. I actually laughed aloud the first time I read 渡米する.
jimbojones99 The Japanese language 104 20,369 2011-05-25, 11:52 pm
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

harhol Wrote:新和英大辞典第5版: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id316543513?mt=8 Yours for only $109.99! Really not worth it imo. Not worth it for me either (yet). I find the slimmer $30 version works...
jimbojones99 Learning resources 128 55,001 2010-10-19, 9:13 pm
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

Any news on the Kanji handwriting recognition front? I'm frustrated that apple has not implemented this from the bottom up. Daijirin's implementation is amazing, my current system for unknown kanji c...
jimbojones99 Learning resources 128 55,001 2010-10-17, 2:03 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Done! Proof that you can crash out numerous times and still limp over the finish line. Took me about two years, equating almost exactly to four two-month bursts with intervening four-month pauses. ...
jimbojones99 Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,771 2010-09-29, 7:37 am
    Thread: Changing Anki strategy mid-deck from JLPT to survival focus
Post: Changing Anki strategy mid-deck from JLPT to survi...

Thanks folks, I took a look and downloaded the core 2000/6000 deck on your advice. I'm glad I ditched the most of the remaining JLPT deck - way too much obscure / low frequency stuff at this stage ...
jimbojones99 Learning resources 6 3,911 2010-01-24, 12:03 am
    Thread: Changing Anki strategy mid-deck from JLPT to survival focus
Post: Changing Anki strategy mid-deck from JLPT to survi...

Hi folks, I've been lurking this fantastic site for a year and if I may, I'm going to bother some of the anki geniuses here with a question. Up to now a significant part of my study time has been p...
jimbojones99 Learning resources 6 3,911 2010-01-19, 2:41 pm