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Thread: Reviewing (is it worth writing down kanji ?) Post: Reviewing (is it worth writing down kanji ?) I switched to recognition only about halfway through RtK and learned the meanings just fine. I'd say you don't have to write them down at all if you're just concerned with learning the meanings. |
apirx | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,347 | 2014-12-15, 2:06 pm | ||
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Thread: One hell of a time saver for me. Post: One hell of a time saver for me. There are already shared Anki decks with all the 3000 something RtK kanji around. Stories included. |
apirx | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,753 | 2014-12-12, 9:32 am | ||
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Thread: How old does something have to be before Post: How old does something have to be before I was in a WWII museum with some Japanese people recently and most young peoples reading ability (and mine too) seems to end at WWII newspapers. |
apirx | General discussion | 14 | 4,310 | 2014-12-02, 5:47 am | ||
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Thread: Reinforce onyomi Post: Reinforce onyomi cophnia61 Wrote:But in that case it's not the same as reviewing the word "重大" as a whole? What difference does it make between seeing "重大" in anki and test yourself in the ability to recall "じゅうだい", a... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 30 | 6,851 | 2014-11-27, 4:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Reinforce onyomi Post: Reinforce onyomi At some point I was so annoyed with my inability to produce a lot of onyomi I just created a deck with the kanji on front, one onyomi on the back and added every kanji I came across that I couldn't re... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 30 | 6,851 | 2014-11-27, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Wanting to travel to Japan next summer, advice? Post: Wanting to travel to Japan next summer, advice? If you don't want to spend a lot of money, staying for less than 2000 yen a night is definitely possible (in Tokyo). I averaged about 1500-2000 yen a night during my 6 week trip. Manga cafes, cheap ca... |
apirx | General discussion | 20 | 4,098 | 2014-08-20, 8:25 am | ||
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Thread: Question on learning kanji readings Post: Question on learning kanji readings Instead of making the hardest card ever with 6 readings though you could just pick a single one you came across. That way it stops being a bunch of random strokes and even if you see it used with a di... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 19 | 4,837 | 2014-07-22, 11:20 am | ||
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Thread: Question on learning kanji readings Post: Question on learning kanji readings I've been and probably am like this. I've read almost 25k pages, can read more than 3000 kanji without having tried to speak Japanese more than a couple times. My listening also sucks. But... I've be... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 19 | 4,837 | 2014-07-22, 2:31 am | ||
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Thread: I'm already stuck with Clannad Post: I'm already stuck with Clannad Ah I thought you were reading the VN for some reason. |
apirx | The Japanese language | 23 | 4,190 | 2014-07-21, 10:16 am | ||
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Thread: I'm already stuck with Clannad Post: I'm already stuck with Clannad I remember this sentence from the beginning of Clannad btw. You might want to consider not brooding over everything you don't understand and just read on if you actually want to finish some routes. Cl... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 23 | 4,190 | 2014-07-21, 9:33 am | ||
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Thread: I'm already stuck with Clannad Post: I'm already stuck with Clannad Both たい and ない forms are i-adjectives and also treated and conjugated as such. On mobile right now, so not really feeling like typing a lot, but considering them adjectives should make these conjugat... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 23 | 4,190 | 2014-07-21, 8:23 am | ||
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Thread: I'm already stuck with Clannad Post: I'm already stuck with Clannad I've been told that ている simply turns into past form when used in a relative clause. この場所に思い出が染み付いている。 思い出が染み付いた場所。 edit: When describing a continuous state, I should have added. |
apirx | The Japanese language | 23 | 4,190 | 2014-07-21, 8:07 am | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles john555 Wrote:For example, I wrote in kanji/kana (I do that sometimes) the sentence "雨が降れば公園え行きません。" In order to make the first kanji "rain" pop up in Microsoft Word, I had to type a-m-e on my leopar... |
apirx | Learning resources | 63 | 14,720 | 2014-06-24, 9:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Question about style/usage Post: Question about style/usage john555 Wrote:I came across something like that today. In one of my textbooks it says that many Japanese people would make little difference between the following two ways of saying "If it rains I wi... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 14 | 3,168 | 2014-06-24, 8:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles When I finished RTK1 I tried doing something similar by not learning how to read kanji and simply doing vocab only in kana form. I thought I could learn the spoken language before the written one. I ... |
apirx | Learning resources | 63 | 14,720 | 2014-06-23, 7:12 pm | ||
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Thread: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp... Post: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp..... Haruhi is not the easiest things to read for a first novel, they get pretty philosophical at times and have lots of weird references. If you are about the same level I was when I read my first novel, ... |
apirx | Learning resources | 36 | 14,592 | 2014-06-09, 9:02 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Yeah that's exactly how it's done. Count the characters, 400 characters are one page, 20 are one game screen. |
apirx | Group study | 361 | 69,424 | 2014-06-08, 5:59 am | ||
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Thread: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp... Post: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp..... Only the paperwhite officially supports Japanese. It's impossible to buy Japanese books for any kindle older than the paperwhite. |
apirx | Learning resources | 36 | 14,592 | 2014-06-08, 5:57 am | ||
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Thread: Statistics on readings Post: Statistics on readings john555 Wrote:Sorry what I meant by "remembering" was being able to produce them by writing as well as read them. For me personally I think unless I'm capable of writing a specific kanji I can never ... |
apirx | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 5,569 | 2014-06-07, 7:13 pm | ||
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Thread: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp... Post: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp..... I was able to buy like 4 or 5 books before it stopped working without a Japanese IP, so be aware. |
apirx | Learning resources | 36 | 14,592 | 2014-06-07, 7:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji forms for particles Post: Kanji forms for particles Sauzer Wrote:DrJones Wrote:The kanji form of の is 之. It's one of the most commonly used hanzi in China, but I've never seen it being used in japanese. It is used a lot on monuments I've seen it on gra... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,504 | 2014-06-07, 3:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Statistics on readings Post: Statistics on readings john555 Wrote:That's a pity if true because in order to really remember the kanji I think you have to write them by hand. I don't think that's true at all. I can read about 3000 kanji, but can write b... |
apirx | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 5,569 | 2014-06-07, 4:33 am | ||
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Thread: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp... Post: How exactly /does/ one buy ebooks from Amazon.jp..... You need a Japamese IP address to buy from the kindle store. At least in my experience. A VPN or proxy can do that for you. |
apirx | Learning resources | 36 | 14,592 | 2014-06-07, 4:05 am | ||
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Thread: PSP game suggestions? Post: PSP game suggestions? On mobile, so no links. But here is what you need if you want to play VNs. You can find everything on google. ITH (interactive text hooker), grabs the text as it runs in the game, making it selectabl... |
apirx | Learning resources | 19 | 3,994 | 2014-06-06, 11:18 am | ||
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Thread: Statistics on readings Post: Statistics on readings You make it sound like you've never used Japanese input on a computer. There's no direct kanji input because no keyboard has 3000 keys. Not even hiragana input is used. The common form to write Japane... |
apirx | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 5,569 | 2014-06-06, 1:13 am | ||
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Thread: PSP game suggestions? Post: PSP game suggestions? Yeah you're probably right yudantaiteki. I probably played the wrong games. Played FF 13 and its sequels, which mainly have dialogue during cutscenes that are basically videos. They do have some click... |
apirx | Learning resources | 19 | 3,994 | 2014-06-05, 8:06 pm | ||
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Thread: PSP game suggestions? Post: PSP game suggestions? I played some Final Fantasy games in Japanese and let me tell you something, cutscenes with subtitles will not teach you to read anything new. Just too fast to remember any of the new kanji you just s... |
apirx | Learning resources | 19 | 3,994 | 2014-06-05, 6:38 pm | ||
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Thread: If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself Post: If you could go back in time, what would you tell ... If anything, I think most manga just isn't dense enough to teach you much after some point. Can still enjoy them as a light form of entertainment though. |
apirx | General discussion | 53 | 11,163 | 2014-06-05, 12:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Study Plan Suggestions/Improvements Post: Japanese Study Plan Suggestions/Improvements In my opinion you should try to get into reading native materials as soon as possible. The thing that's probably keeping you from that is low vocabulary and coming from that low kanji reading ability.... |
apirx | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,470 | 2014-06-04, 5:29 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I got used to scanning over text because of a lot of time spent on reddit. Not every comment is interesting, so I can kinda glance over a paragraph now and know if it's something I'm interested in. Wh... |
apirx | Group study | 361 | 69,424 | 2014-06-04, 11:18 am | ||
