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Thread: Studying abroad in Japan Post: RE: Studying abroad in Japan Since you said you are only going for a month, you should definitely look into the JR Rail Pass for easy travels around the country: http://www.jrpass.com/ I know someone who would go to places like ... |
mc962 | Off topic | 5 | 589 | 2016-06-03, 7:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit card Post: RE: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit car... Paypal? After a quick google into what you mentioned and scrolling down to the bottom i did see a paypal logo there. Maybe that would fit the middle man purchaser you want |
mc962 | Off topic | 6 | 616 | 2016-05-17, 6:21 pm | ||
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Thread: textbook help Post: RE: textbook help I personally liked Tobira, but I also got the chance to use a bit of J501 (just type that into amazon and you can find it). It has a fair number of grammar points, exercises, etc. that you might find ... |
mc962 | General discussion | 15 | 1,115 | 2016-05-14, 11:05 am | ||
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Thread: Smartphone for Japanese Post: RE: Smartphone for Japanese One thing that annoyed me about my smartphone is that they never allowed me to switch the system language to japanese. Keyboards and other stuff were fine, they even had chinese in there, but never ja... |
mc962 | Off topic | 20 | 1,445 | 2016-04-18, 11:37 am | ||
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Thread: Options for learning intermediate and advanced Japanese grammar Post: RE: Options for learning intermediate and advanced... One of my Japanese teachers recommended this book: どんどん使える!日本語文型トレーニング 中級 for those of us who were finishing up our study abroad soon and wanted more new examples to practice what we had learned. Unf... |
mc962 | Learning resources | 15 | 1,680 | 2016-04-08, 9:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Help with production Post: RE: Help with production As far as having issues with finding the right words to use, most advice I have gotten in that area is to talk around it/ describe the missing word with the words that you do know. While it still requ... |
mc962 | General discussion | 9 | 973 | 2016-04-07, 12:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Student Visa Post: RE: Student Visa The only way I can see a language school rejecting you is if they had a small + very competitive program. Those exist, but they you can usually tell which they are (like they are very explicit about t... |
mc962 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 5 | 694 | 2016-04-04, 10:25 am | ||
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Thread: Good Place to Start for Consistent Immersion Post: RE: Good Place to Start for Consistent Immersion I second Nobunaga Concerto, it was very entertaining. I also liked Jin. It's about a brain surgeon who ends up in the time period towards of the Edo period, and gets caught up in the events of that ... |
mc962 | General discussion | 27 | 3,177 | 2016-03-24, 11:37 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT Book Advice Post: RE: JLPT Book Advice I've been planning a rough little study schedule for Kanzen Master to follow so that I stay on track. For those who used it, about how much did you tend to do per week (like X number of chapters/pages... |
mc962 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 1,469 | 2016-03-18, 9:59 pm | ||
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Thread: New to learning kanji, suggest Anki kanji decks Post: RE: New to learning kanji, suggest Anki kanji deck... Sorry about that, I won't put that one up in the future. *I don't know what you may have done about it that I am not aware of, but would it make sense to contact the deck creator/anki maintainer to a... |
mc962 | General discussion | 5 | 769 | 2016-03-17, 8:44 am | ||
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Thread: New to learning kanji, suggest Anki kanji decks Post: RE: Anki Kanji Decks LINK REMOVED. ^^I believe this is the one I used with RTK (which I think is based off this site, but I'm not sure). This site also has its own application on it that you can use (I used Anki so I don... |
mc962 | General discussion | 5 | 769 | 2016-03-16, 7:04 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT Book Advice Post: RE: JLPT Book Advice Just got a delivery of Kanzen Master (Amazon Japan delivery times for international shipping are amazing), and from what I can see from some light skimming it looks good. It might take some extra stud... |
mc962 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 1,469 | 2016-03-16, 4:24 pm | ||
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Thread: how long did you continue daily review after finishing rtk ? Post: RE: how long did you continue daily review after f... I'm not saying there is no use in reviewing them, I just had other reviews building up, along with other stuff that took higher priority for me, so dropping something that was taking a huge chunk of m... |
mc962 | General discussion | 16 | 1,653 | 2016-03-16, 1:15 pm | ||
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Thread: how long did you continue daily review after finishing rtk ? Post: RE: how long did you continue daily review after f... I dropped off fairly quickly, it just wasn't really something I wanted to do and I felt that I got what I wanted out of it (familiarity with the majority of kanji shapes I would likely run into), and ... |
mc962 | General discussion | 16 | 1,653 | 2016-03-16, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little discouraged... Post: RE: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little d... While Genki I definitely has some useful grammar and vocab., I felt that a lot of the real "meat" of the beginner section was in Genki II. There are a lot of forms and key grammar points that are nece... |
mc962 | General discussion | 27 | 2,813 | 2016-03-14, 11:32 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT Book Advice Post: RE: JLPT Book Advice I might try the Kanzen Master then. Finding good images of Sou Matome was a bit harder to find, but from what I saw of Kanzen Master it didn't look too bad, and I have several months to get used to it... |
mc962 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 1,469 | 2016-03-11, 11:58 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT Book Advice Post: JLPT Book Advice I finally decided to take the JLPT, and after looking at what I have learned so far I plan to start with N2. However, since I have never done the test before/learn better from the book, I have been lo... |
mc962 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 1,469 | 2016-03-11, 7:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Good Place to Start for Consistent Immersion Post: RE: Good Place to Start for Consistent Immersion As a study habit, I never found it very useful. My attention span, while never great, tends to wander even quicker when I don't understand what is being said, and as a result the stuff I don't compreh... |
mc962 | General discussion | 27 | 3,177 | 2016-03-11, 7:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Fun Stuff To Do in Osaka/Tokyo (non-sightseeing) Post: RE: Fun Stuff To Do in Osaka/Tokyo (non-sightseein... I think all my suggestions will be semi-touristy as you're in the city, but I'll try my best. Onsen: http://www.ooedoonsen.jp/en/top/ A little pricier than average, but it also has this big festival ... |
mc962 | Off topic | 6 | 940 | 2016-03-11, 10:39 am | ||
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Thread: Smartwatch Post: RE: Smartwatch If you're just interested in times, flashcards would probably be better. On top of that, I generally see watches that have the same numbers as everyone else (1234...) so I don't think you'll have as m... |
mc962 | Learning resources | 11 | 1,061 | 2016-03-08, 10:22 am | ||
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Thread: How to handle words with similar meanins and/or readings. Post: RE: How to handle words with similar meanins and/o... Some of it is context (such as when the word is exactly the same), and some of it is grammar related 上げる｜上がる、見つける｜見つかる I don't know where you are in grammar, so this might be a little farther out, bu... |
mc962 | General discussion | 13 | 1,362 | 2016-02-28, 11:43 am | ||
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Thread: Will you/do you in verbs. Post: RE: Will you/do you in verbs. Talk to people. Doing stuff like reading a lot/memorizing things helped to a point, but my largest "advance" in using more natural phrases just came from talking to people a lot. Although you could... |
mc962 | The Japanese language | 17 | 1,448 | 2016-02-18, 8:02 am | ||
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Thread: Advanced goals Post: RE: Advanced goals Depending on where you are, JLPT might be one well-defined goal, with the plus of being a useful metric for your Japanese if you need to apply for something. I don't think I'm quite at your wall yet,... |
mc962 | General discussion | 15 | 1,387 | 2016-02-17, 9:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Will you/do you in verbs. Post: RE: Will you/do you in verbs. I'd say it depends on what you want to convey, and how close you want it to be to what you are thinking about. Some things take a bit more to convey in japanese, some can be done in a fraction of the ... |
mc962 | The Japanese language | 17 | 1,448 | 2016-02-17, 5:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan or Taiwan. Post: RE: Japan or Taiwan. Well, if you have netflix in japan you can watch a lot of things dubbed into japanese (including big bang theory). Most of the japanese tv that i've seen tends to not be that great, although there are... |
mc962 | General discussion | 28 | 3,385 | 2016-02-13, 8:53 pm | ||
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Thread: A Genki question. Post: RE: A Genki question. Graded readers can come in different levels; I found that readers in this series: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Graded-Re...4872176243 to be pretty good (it goes from level 0->4) and by the time y... |
mc962 | The Japanese language | 11 | 1,366 | 2016-02-03, 9:42 pm | ||
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Thread: A Genki question. Post: RE: A Genki question. I used Tobira after Genki, and preferred it a bit more over Integrated Approach (I liked the explanations more, as well as the organization). http://www.amazon.com/Tobira-Japanese-En...rds=tobira You... |
mc962 | The Japanese language | 11 | 1,366 | 2016-02-03, 4:16 pm | ||
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Thread: New to Japanese and needed help Post: RE: New to Japanese and needed help I did something along the lines of learn a couple hundred as I went through the lessons in Genki, go through RTK which in the end let me become "familiar" with the rest of the shapes. After that, alth... |
mc962 | General discussion | 19 | 1,806 | 2016-01-31, 5:34 pm | ||
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Thread: "immigration" vs "residency" in Japan Post: RE: "immigration" vs "residency" in Japan http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/12...kxUyHwrLVh Well, you can become a citizen, so immigration should exist I think. And I believe permanent residence is considered a form of immigration, which... |
mc962 | General discussion | 6 | 743 | 2015-11-18, 5:57 am | ||
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Thread: Where are all the good Core anki decks? Post: Where are all the good Core anki decks? http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=12568&page=1 I believe this thread explains it. |
mc962 | Learning resources | 15 | 3,846 | 2015-10-13, 10:35 am | ||
