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Thread: Playing RPGs to improve your reading pace Post: Playing RPGs to improve your reading pace I'm playing Soul Blader in Japanese on my SNES, it's a nice action-rpg... but unfortunately hiragana-only. |
etpan | Learning resources | 87 | 21,503 | 2009-10-07, 2:54 pm | ||
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Thread: 恐い/怖い? Post: 恐い/怖い? You can even find words using both kanji like 恐怖 :) |
etpan | The Japanese language | 26 | 8,695 | 2009-03-08, 4:41 am | ||
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Thread: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of course) Post: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of ... This one's a total oldie too (1953), sound quality is really poor but man, that VOICE ! Btw. she was only 16 at the time. She was actually declared "living national treasure of Japan" lol Hibari Misor... |
etpan | Learning resources | 106 | 32,708 | 2009-03-07, 4:25 am | ||
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Thread: Writing&Listening=Up but....Speaking=Down Post: Writing&Listening=Up but....Speaking=Down I guess your speaking abilities aren't really going down, they're just not as high as you expected considering your writing/reading abilities. So yeah, maybe more dates and less books ? ;) |
etpan | Learning resources | 30 | 4,334 | 2009-03-04, 6:23 am | ||
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Thread: The Most You've Failed a Single Kanji? Post: The Most You've Failed a Single Kanji? I noticed that kanji with poor stories but that I already know in context (like I already know words or compounds using them) I have no problem remembering, because I have at least a vague idea of the... |
etpan | General discussion | 30 | 4,921 | 2009-02-22, 6:18 am | ||
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Thread: Sentences before finishing Post: Sentences before finishing I do the same thing, I already knew a decent amount of vocab and had a 1000+ sentence Anki deck before starting RTK. So I definitely kept going (especially since I was in Japan), adding more sentences... |
etpan | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 2,289 | 2009-02-19, 12:05 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT2 Grammar - How To Prepare Post: JLPT2 Grammar - How To Prepare I also use Kanzen Master for reference than true learning, and I plan to use it for JLPT revisions. For the actual learning, I use the J301 and J501 books, they combine vocab and grammar, with English... |
etpan | The Japanese language | 42 | 18,909 | 2009-02-13, 11:59 am | ||
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Thread: Many (younger) Japanese people have really bad kanji and keigo..? Post: Many (younger) Japanese people have really bad kan... I've also heard 申し訳ございません several times, so it DOES exist. May sound a bit over-polite though, that might be the reason why it's not as common as 申し訳ありません, so you'll likely only use it in super formal... |
etpan | General discussion | 53 | 13,716 | 2009-02-11, 5:10 am | ||
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Thread: how to surprise the japanese Post: how to surprise the japanese Another good way to surprise Japanese people is to sing a famous enka song at a karaoke. Try "Tsugaru kaikyou fuyu geshiki" for example :) |
etpan | Off topic | 44 | 7,854 | 2009-02-04, 4:29 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method I'd say doing some grammar is useful: it speeds up the learning process, and it's a reliable and solid foundation when you're not sure anymore. Like when you hesitate between two structures, you just ... |
etpan | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,143 | 2009-02-03, 7:18 am | ||
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Thread: A thread for non-native English speakers doing RTK1 in English Post: A thread for non-native English speakers doing RTK... I'd say there are TONS of people doing the same ! But unlike you, I don't really count on RTK to improve my English vocab :) |
etpan | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 1,759 | 2009-01-15, 6:17 am | ||
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Thread: Why are there "report"s on all of these kanji? Post: Why are there "report"s on all of these kanji? stoked Wrote:I have noticed that as well. For example, whenever a story has "sexual content" it gets tons of reports...although often those stories are actually great mnemonics. Looks like people get... |
etpan | General discussion | 26 | 6,999 | 2009-01-15, 4:45 am | ||
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Thread: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners Post: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners Well yeah, there are French people here, and no I'm not going to say anything. There is no need to defend anybody against such narrow-minded statements. |
etpan | Off topic | 104 | 14,402 | 2009-01-06, 6:53 am | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread thanks for the encouragements guys :) |
etpan | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,094 | 2008-12-19, 6:52 am | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread 1300 today... but wow motivation is dropping and I don't feel like working hours on Heisig everyday :( |
etpan | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,094 | 2008-12-19, 5:11 am | ||
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Thread: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners Post: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/15/idi...-tour.html |
etpan | Off topic | 104 | 14,402 | 2008-12-17, 7:26 am | ||
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Thread: J-Doramas- Why dont they ever kiss? Post: J-Doramas- Why dont they ever kiss? Just watch "Mahou no jouken" it's got loads of really hot kisses ^^ |
etpan | Off topic | 26 | 4,303 | 2008-12-11, 5:20 am | ||
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Thread: Music Post: Music it's enka !! I love Kiyoshi, but I wouldn't call that groovy :p e.g. [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvsFrUYWl0] |
etpan | General discussion | 100 | 24,346 | 2008-12-03, 4:34 am | ||
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Thread: Book/Novel recommendation thread Post: Book/Novel recommendation thread I'm reading "Homeless chuugakusei" by Hiroshi Tanimura, it's an autobiography and it's fairly easy to read. The guy tells how he managed to survive in a park when he was in junior high school. |
etpan | General discussion | 34 | 6,425 | 2008-11-14, 6:30 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! Yay ! Just finished Lesson 27, thanks to Chuck Norris :-D Took me 6 months to get there, I hope I can finish RTK by the end of the year... Thanks to story-sharing people and to Fuaburisu of course ! |
etpan | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,468 | 2008-10-24, 4:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Food for thought Post: Food for thought I disagree with most people here saying the JLPT is useless. I think it's a great way to keep yourself motivated and to reward yourself with a nice certificate, but you should definitely do it "on the... |
etpan | General discussion | 10 | 1,413 | 2008-10-23, 11:43 am | ||
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Thread: Recommended Video Games Post: Recommended Video Games I'm playing FF1 on GBA right now. I use this site for the game's transcript, making mining waaay easier :-) http://ex-potion.com/ff1/sc1.html You can get the same thing for the other Final Fantasies ... |
etpan | Learning resources | 56 | 11,574 | 2008-10-23, 4:17 am | ||
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Thread: Why Japanese? Post: Why Japanese? Many reasons for me, my family has always had Japanese friends, I love Japanese music (yes, particularly Enka), I did watch anime on TV when I was a kid. Though I had never read a single manga before ... |
etpan | General discussion | 63 | 8,713 | 2008-08-27, 5:54 am | ||
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Thread: Music Post: Music "or do the Japanese just not like good music"... because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not good ;-) The biggest rock band in Japan is B'z (n.1 disk sales ever), and it might be close to what yo... |
etpan | General discussion | 100 | 24,346 | 2008-07-30, 8:40 pm | ||
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Thread: anyone else sick of perverted stories? Post: anyone else sick of perverted stories? And why should stories that are suggestive but not explicit, and even then depicting situations that cannot be called sick or whatever (even less than Heisig's own stories) get reported ? there are cl... |
etpan | General discussion | 138 | 45,397 | 2008-06-17, 2:18 am | ||
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Thread: anyone else sick of perverted stories? Post: anyone else sick of perverted stories? nice point Dragg :-) |
etpan | General discussion | 138 | 45,397 | 2008-06-13, 5:20 am | ||
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Thread: anyone else sick of perverted stories? Post: anyone else sick of perverted stories? I'd say: relax and focus on the kanji, rather than offuscating yourselves on dirty stories :-) It's true that most people can make up their own dirty stories if they want to, so the need for sharing t... |
etpan | General discussion | 138 | 45,397 | 2008-06-13, 12:11 am | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! I hit 550 today, though I started 1.5 months ago... not that fast, but I got tons of things to do on the side :-S |
etpan | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,143 | 2008-06-12, 3:34 am | ||