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Thread: Pitch Accent (高低アクセント) Post: Pitch Accent (高低アクセント) NightSky Wrote:Socky Wrote:HAshi WA kiSU suRU. (I kiss the bridge.) I don't know the OP's actual level of Japanese but I'm suprised no-one else bothered to point out this extremely simple sentence isn... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 42 | 9,375 | 2013-07-22, 4:27 am | ||
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Thread: MEXT Scholarship 2012 Post: MEXT Scholarship 2012 Congratulations Zorlee!:) I'll be spending a year in Kyoto myself starting this september. Although we haven't really talked that much before, it would be fun to meet up and say hi! Being fellow sca... |
Fleskmos | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 187 | 64,091 | 2012-07-31, 2:15 am | ||
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Thread: I quit Post: I quit Very sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I remembering being severely scolded by one of my teachers once for taking an inappropriate attitude towards her. What I thought was an intelligent discuss... |
Fleskmos | Off topic | 58 | 11,523 | 2012-07-27, 4:44 am | ||
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Thread: crazy fake kanji? Post: crazy fake kanji? Could this be one of the characters you're looking for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi%C3%A1ngb...ng_noodles |
Fleskmos | General discussion | 14 | 5,521 | 2012-07-12, 9:52 am | ||
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Thread: I am teaching a 1 hour japanese class. Post: I am teaching a 1 hour japanese class. I've been teaching Japanese part-time at a school in the same city as my university for some time. One of the first things I learned was how long an hour and fourty five minutes really is. It is proba... |
Fleskmos | General discussion | 9 | 2,339 | 2012-06-28, 2:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Difference in meaning and usage of 動詞+ように、動詞+ために、and 動詞+には Post: Difference in meaning and usage of 動詞+ように、動詞+ために、a... Generally speaking, you'll encounter ために after punctual verbs related to actions, such as 食べる, whereas ように frequently appears after verbs related to a state, such as 分かる. Similarly, potential verb for... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 3 | 1,796 | 2012-05-22, 3:14 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries Post: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries My EX-word XD-B4800 has become an invaluable companion lately. Although the 英和 dictionaries don't offer perfect coverage, the JP -JP dictionaries are great. Before I got my 電子辞書, I used my iphone to l... |
Fleskmos | Learning resources | 21 | 8,483 | 2012-05-13, 5:40 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Rayath Wrote:Fleskmos Wrote:If you had to read my explanation carefully, that's probably because a sign that my writing is a bit unclear today. I've been struggling with my own thesis the whole day so... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,587 | 2012-05-09, 2:32 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Rayath Wrote:Fleskmos Wrote:Rayath Wrote:What's the meaning here? "Verb-た、verb-た!" is used as a sort of imperative command. Imagine a hot dog salesman adressing people passing by his hot dog wagon wi... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,587 | 2012-05-09, 1:45 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Rayath Wrote:Fleskmos Wrote:買った、買った！ What's the meaning here? "Verb-た、verb-た!" is used as a sort of imperative command. Imagine a hot dog salesman adressing people passing by his hot dog wagon with a... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,587 | 2012-05-09, 1:07 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread eubankp Wrote:Yesterday a girl said to me 「明日は雨でした。」 I said "It was rain tomorrow?" It seemed very strange, but she explained that it really means. "I found out it will rain tomorrow." Anyone have an... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,587 | 2012-05-09, 8:35 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese calligraphy class Post: Japanese calligraphy class Beautiful pictures! I am truly sorry to hear that your teacher is no longer around. Being in the middle of all those exquisite works of art must have been so soothing and relaxing. |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,829 | 2012-04-15, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? Post: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? nadiatims Wrote:I think trying to learn correct pitch by memorizing it from accent markers without using audio is a huge waste of time. You need to get to the point that your ears can recognize it eff... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 46 | 7,556 | 2012-04-13, 6:30 am | ||
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Thread: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? Post: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? AlexandreC Wrote:Fleskmos Wrote:I'm thinking that maybe it would be worth to start studying Kyoto speech pitch accent for the sake of consistency but is it even remotely possible to find a dictionary ... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 46 | 7,556 | 2012-04-13, 4:03 am | ||
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Thread: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? Post: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? AlexandreC Wrote:They do change a fair bit. In particular, verb endings generally dictate where pitch falls, depending on whether the verb had pitch to begin with or not. The worst case scenario woul... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 46 | 7,556 | 2012-04-12, 3:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? Post: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? I would very much like to start actively improving my pitch accent, but I'm afraid about what messing around too much without a consistent audio reference frame could do to the way I sound. How do you... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 46 | 7,556 | 2012-04-12, 2:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Grammar Discussion Post: Grammar Discussion nadiatims Wrote:Fillanzea Wrote:there are some grammatical constraints that seem to apply across all languages, and these things aren't arbitrary; they're based on the underlying phrase structure of t... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 29 | 3,436 | 2012-04-09, 10:03 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar Discussion Post: Grammar Discussion Fillanzea Wrote:It's an example in Wikipedia under Wh-movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wh-movement It's been a while since I had a class in syntax, it's hard for me to think up examples on th... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 29 | 3,436 | 2012-04-09, 9:57 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar Discussion Post: Grammar Discussion Fillanzea Wrote:"What did you go home because you needed to do?" I could swear I've heard that sentence used as an example before! Did you read it somewhere or is my head just playing a trick on me? :... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 29 | 3,436 | 2012-04-09, 9:36 am | ||
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Thread: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club Post: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club Had 1400 cards expired when I returned home heavily jet-lagged after two weeks away from my computer! Needless to say, it took me quite some time to finish that up. Luckily, most of it was vocabulary ... |
Fleskmos | General discussion | 48 | 12,426 | 2012-04-09, 9:15 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar Discussion Post: Grammar Discussion yudantaiteki Wrote:Linguistics usually separates "syntax" and "pragmatics"; they're not 100% separable but syntax does not associate with meaning as much as pragmatics does. I think the difference is... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 29 | 3,436 | 2012-04-09, 8:57 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar Discussion Post: Grammar Discussion vix86 Wrote:But is this not still pragmatics. I believe it was stated earlier. Grammar is really nothing more than the agreed upon conventions in a language. There is no rhyme or reason why one thing ... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 29 | 3,436 | 2012-04-09, 8:19 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar Discussion Post: Grammar Discussion I suppose that maybe there are no such things as universal grammatical categories. I wonder what differences there are between English adverbs and the category of words we refer to as 副詞! |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 29 | 3,436 | 2012-04-09, 7:19 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar Discussion Post: Grammar Discussion vix86 Wrote:@HonyakuJoshua: Grammar is pragmatics, best way that I can tell. Even in English classes, what gets taught as grammar is still fairly close to "sentence patterns with defined meaning that ... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 29 | 3,436 | 2012-04-09, 6:36 am | ||
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Thread: What's your least favorite kanji to write? Post: What's your least favorite kanji to write? yudantaiteki Wrote:I started studying Japanese in 1999 and read Tale of Genji (Seidenstecker translation) around that time, and it quickly became my favorite book. In 2003 I went to Japan on the JET ... |
Fleskmos | Remembering the Kanji | 39 | 10,697 | 2012-04-08, 7:44 am | ||
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Thread: What's your least favorite kanji to write? Post: What's your least favorite kanji to write? yudantaiteki Wrote:Count the number of 子 and the number of syllables in the reading again. :) (The の is not represented in the kanji; it was commonly inserted in between kanji sequences in classical ... |
Fleskmos | Remembering the Kanji | 39 | 10,697 | 2012-04-08, 6:05 am | ||
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Thread: What's your least favorite kanji to write? Post: What's your least favorite kanji to write? yudantaiteki Wrote:2. 子 cannot be used for the particle "no"; I think the initial person replied to the wrong post and others were trying to guess at what it could have meant. [Edit: The following is ... |
Fleskmos | Remembering the Kanji | 39 | 10,697 | 2012-04-08, 5:50 am | ||
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Thread: Am I the Only One?!! Post: Am I the Only One?!! undead_saif Wrote:Babyrat Wrote:Reading can not prepare you for the way Japanese speak, certainly as they love mixing words together and skipping certain parts of a word or just mumble them together. ... |
Fleskmos | The Japanese language | 20 | 4,603 | 2012-02-27, 3:07 pm | ||
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Thread: This guy = the man Post: This guy = the man kusterdu Wrote:That's odd that his Afrikaans would be almost native-live but his Dutch would be a little "off." I thought they were closely related languages. I know very little about Afrikaans or Du... |
Fleskmos | Off topic | 112 | 19,945 | 2012-02-25, 4:31 pm | ||
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Thread: This guy = the man Post: This guy = the man HonyakuJoshua Wrote:meh Seriously though, I was looking at this site http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com...difficulty and he would need to spend at least 242.70833333333334 Days studying the 8 ... |
Fleskmos | Off topic | 112 | 19,945 | 2012-02-23, 9:35 am | ||
