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    Thread: is meat causing our diseases?
Post: is meat causing our diseases?

yudantaiteki Wrote:He constantly claims that we should look to our ancestors, and yet our ancestors died in their 30's and 40's. Of course modern medicine (with all the things that you "can't pronoun...
uberstuber Off topic 40 8,065 2010-06-16, 8:29 pm
    Thread: "Samurai Metal" this is what japanese metal should sound like!
Post: "Samurai Metal" this is what japanese metal should...

Coaltar of the deepers did a bunch of metal stuff [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BFq_1wbpg]
uberstuber General discussion 13 8,992 2010-03-24, 10:24 pm
    Thread: Just became friends with exchange students from Japan.How to learn...?
Post: Just became friends with exchange students from Ja...

Bring a little pocket notebook around and write stuff down that you didn't know, and review it later. I find it helps, and its also good for random non Japanese related stuff you want to remember.
uberstuber General discussion 13 2,839 2010-02-15, 4:50 pm
    Thread: (drum roll) JLPT RESULTS!
Post: (drum roll) JLPT RESULTS!

Passed 1級 with 75% Was hoping to score higher but whatevs.
uberstuber JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 50 16,116 2010-02-04, 5:42 pm
    Thread: Best YouTube subscriptions
Post: Best YouTube subscriptions

Jet Daisuke reviews stuff he buys and can be pretty funny http://www.youtube.com/user/jetdaisuke
uberstuber General discussion 31 20,791 2010-01-28, 1:57 am
    Thread: Polyphasic sleep to increase study time
Post: Polyphasic sleep to increase study time

radical_tyro Wrote:icecream: your natural schedule appears to be longer than a 24 hour cycle. that's pretty common actually. i have the same problem and it's quite annoying. i still haven't found a so...
uberstuber Off topic 65 16,076 2010-01-16, 3:22 pm
    Thread: Practicing for JLPT listening part
Post: Practicing for JLPT listening part

Quote:I was planning on putting all my answers on the test itself and then transferring all the answers to the answer sheet. The recording doesn't usually take up all 45 minutes, so I thought that may...
uberstuber JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 12 6,642 2009-12-03, 12:15 am
    Thread: crayon shin-chan creator dead?
Post: crayon shin-chan creator dead?

Apparently there will be a new author replacing Usui http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainmen...71328.html
uberstuber Off topic 5 2,689 2009-12-01, 1:23 pm
    Thread: Question About SARS Fansubs
Post: Question About SARS Fansubs

Just put a sticky note on your zune to cover the subs. Or a thick rubber band, or something.
uberstuber Off topic 10 1,521 2009-11-06, 2:31 pm
    Thread: Google Wave Invites
Post: Google Wave Invites

Anyone have any left? jestuber at gmail dawt com
uberstuber Off topic 168 22,115 2009-11-05, 6:42 pm
    Thread: 大変です!! My deck died :(
Post: 大変です!! My deck died :(

Do what IceCream said. Then, turn this into a positive event; buy an external hard drive (and/or a dropbox account) and learn how to backup your stuff regularly. Data is important and shit happens.
uberstuber General discussion 8 1,221 2009-10-09, 9:05 pm
    Thread: Japanese Digg?
Post: Japanese Digg?

http://b.hatena.ne.jp/ is the closest I've ever found. Reddit has a /ja/ subreddit buts it's pretty slow and mostly programming posts.
uberstuber General discussion 4 1,258 2009-10-04, 6:47 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

chochajin Wrote:If a definition is just way to complicated, wouldn't it be better to just use a translation of that word (or an image (i.e. apple *g*)) instead? I'm not even convinced yet that the mon...
uberstuber General discussion 1,517 595,029 2009-10-04, 12:52 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

chochajin Wrote:Thank you very much for your answer. So what you did is that you added another definiton for each word in your original definition if you couldn't understand that word? That sounds qui...
uberstuber General discussion 1,517 595,029 2009-10-02, 2:39 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Its definitely not too early to go monolingual, I did it way before I could pass JLPT2. Its a lot of work at first, but it gets easier quickly. If you don't understand words in the definitions, add th...
uberstuber General discussion 1,517 595,029 2009-10-02, 1:31 am
    Thread: Beyond Heisig: maintaining kanji-production practice without keywords
Post: Beyond Heisig: maintaining kanji-production practi...

sethg Wrote:This is a lengthy topic, but Khatzumoto once suggested in a post to arrange your sentences deck so that the question side has the sentence 100% in kana with spaces to separate words, then ...
uberstuber Remembering the Kanji 25 6,563 2009-09-16, 8:25 pm
    Thread: Hexagon.cc
Post: Hexagon.cc

http://revtk-share.hexagon.cc/invitations/p8YbcP71ql
uberstuber General discussion 43 9,889 2009-09-04, 12:32 am
    Thread: the arrows in dictionaries
Post: the arrows in dictionaries

http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/help/jn/03.html (2) 常用漢字とその音訓を表示した。 【 】の中の漢字が「常用漢字表」にないものには「▼」、その漢字が「常用漢字表」にはあるが見出しに相当する音訓が示されていないものには「▽」を漢字の右肩に付した。また、「常用漢字表」の「付表」の語は《 》で囲んで示した。 ただし、固有名詞には「▼」「▽」を付さなかっ...
uberstuber Learning resources 4 1,988 2009-08-21, 5:35 pm
    Thread: Rising or falling intonation
Post: Rising or falling intonation

In standard dialect: 橋 HAsi 箸 haSI These two are reversed in Kyoto dialect I think. It gets more interesting when you add particles too. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent
uberstuber The Japanese language 20 6,790 2009-08-21, 5:20 pm
    Thread: Where do you get your Japanese music
Post: Where do you get your Japanese music

jpopsuki
uberstuber General discussion 34 11,181 2009-08-20, 1:58 pm
    Thread: RTK without the mnemonics
Post: RTK without the mnemonics

With an SRS, brute forcing RTK is doable, but you may find yourself struggling a lot more as you go on. If mnemonics really aren't your thing, who are we to tell you to do them? I do suggest you give...
uberstuber Remembering the Kanji 72 17,540 2009-08-17, 6:46 pm
    Thread: Most essential train stations in Tokyo?
Post: Most essential train stations in Tokyo?

I think 20 is too many just for the major touristy places in Tokyo. Yamanote line will get you to almost everything. Here's ten off the top of my head Yamanote line -- Tokyo, Ueno, Akihabara, Shinjuk...
uberstuber Off topic 4 1,674 2009-08-17, 6:39 pm
    Thread: What kind of headphones do you use?
Post: What kind of headphones do you use?

AKG K240 Sextett (late production) out of a starving student millet hybrid when I'm at my computer. These are old, but great. I like them better than the current K24x line, and I got them for a lot ch...
uberstuber General discussion 51 15,741 2009-08-04, 6:26 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese fast - Why not use frequency lists for 80% coverage?
Post: Learning Japanese fast - Why not use frequency lis...

Aijin Wrote:I don't know if the analogy is fair. I'd compare the roman alphabet more to hiragana/katakana, which of course has to be learned before it can be used. But for kanji, it's hard for me to i...
uberstuber Remembering the Kanji 74 20,287 2009-06-19, 8:11 pm
    Thread: Japanese Pronunciation
Post: Japanese Pronunciation

I was told を is like 'o' most of the time, and 'wo' sometimes. That's what I hear too. Japanese r is a flap, not rolling. Its not just ぎ、all (I think) of the g sounds can be changed to a nasal (like...
uberstuber The Japanese language 61 11,489 2009-06-05, 2:46 am
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

As a native speaker of English, I think the quality of English on these boards is very good. I haven't seen any other forums that even come close to 'correct' English as RvTK. Magamo: your English is...
uberstuber General discussion 395 64,325 2009-06-02, 10:02 pm
    Thread: Troll Slaying (by XKCD)
Post: Troll Slaying (by XKCD)

nac_est Wrote:Haha that comic is awesome. They should do a Japanese version... http://ameblo.jp/xkcd-trans/
uberstuber Off topic 26 5,656 2009-06-01, 8:25 pm
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

ghinzdra Wrote:...uberman sleep and all this stuff... pavlina and other guys have sucessfuly tried this kind of method to cut down on the sleep without any side effect on a long term ... which means 2...
uberstuber General discussion 395 64,325 2009-06-01, 12:12 pm
    Thread: Why is Japanese so anal about seemingly insignificant things?
Post: Why is Japanese so anal about seemingly insignific...

hknamida Wrote:...I prefer the company of computers over that of humans. http://imgur.com/2uzee.jpg
uberstuber General discussion 50 6,505 2009-05-28, 12:45 pm
    Thread: 若い世代の言葉の中性化
Post: 若い世代の言葉の中性化

better: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3mtrY2GWRM]
uberstuber General discussion 19 3,067 2009-05-22, 1:37 am