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Thread: Christmas Donations for Fabrice Post: Christmas Donations for Fabrice Another donation bump. This site is much appreciated, and has helped me find so many different resources to keep improving. Happy New Year! |
Quufer | Off topic | 393 | 86,398 | 2013-12-28, 4:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Travelling in Japan this December Post: Travelling in Japan this December I know what you mean on being tired. I was in western Honshu (中国地方) and Kyushu for 23 days in November and December - mostly hiking and yakimono, though I did some traditional sightseeing as well. I... |
Quufer | General discussion | 38 | 7,081 | 2013-12-28, 12:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Travelling in Japan this December Post: Travelling in Japan this December Onomichi can be done in a day. There are two trails there - one is unimpressive old temples, the other has literary quotes that were hard to read on stone. But the views of the Seto Inland Sea are p... |
Quufer | General discussion | 38 | 7,081 | 2013-12-28, 9:18 am | ||
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Thread: Guests! Post: Guests! Tashippy, the upcoming trip is to Japan. My wife (native speaker) is unlikely to be able to make it, so it'll probably be 3 weeks by myself in 中国地方 and 九州. I'm rather nervous about it; I can probabl... |
Quufer | Off topic | 31 | 8,706 | 2013-10-18, 12:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Guests! Post: Guests! I've been around, and posted a little here and there, but usually on side topics. I usually have no issues with stayed logged in on either of the computers I use. I'm really wondering about the tort... |
Quufer | Off topic | 31 | 8,706 | 2013-10-18, 11:04 am | ||
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Thread: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Post: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn ryuudou Wrote:With FFXIV:ARR it's possible to play on English speaking servers while using the Japanese UI. That's what I would recommend for someone not too decent at the language, as you can still f... |
Quufer | Learning resources | 23 | 6,290 | 2013-09-30, 8:04 am | ||
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Thread: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Post: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn I played FFXI a lot. Possibly more than was healthy. A bunch of my old linkshellmates are playing FFXIV, though I don't know which server they're on (http://panicmotion.sawedoff.com/forum/). I look... |
Quufer | Learning resources | 23 | 6,290 | 2013-09-29, 6:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... Interesting article that ties into this discussion: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinio...wanted=all "Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity. ... |
Quufer | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-11, 7:50 am | ||
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Thread: I finished, but these things slowed me down. Post: I finished, but these things slowed me down. I'd like to talk about #1. I finished RTK1 in March, and I've been working on Core6k and some grammar since then. I'm currently a bit over halfway through Core6k, and expect to finish in June, so I ... |
Quufer | Remembering the Kanji | 1 | 1,178 | 2012-12-11, 11:58 am | ||
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Thread: Curriculum Ideas Post: Curriculum Ideas Understood on the Classical Japanese. I don't really understand what you mean about kanji, but I think I've said enough about it. The text examples you mention would probably be helpful, yes. You'd... |
Quufer | The Japanese language | 8 | 1,753 | 2012-11-29, 9:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Curriculum Ideas Post: Curriculum Ideas I'm probably an intermediate student, but after 2 years I still feel beginner, because while I did RTK and am over halfway through Core6k... I still don't have much grammar, and therefore I can't actu... |
Quufer | The Japanese language | 8 | 1,753 | 2012-11-29, 4:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Grouping Vocabulary by Kanji When Learning Post: Grouping Vocabulary by Kanji When Learning I group by kanji on Core6k. I don't do anything fancy. All words not learned yet are suspended. I basically go down a kanji frequency list and unsuspend all cards that use the target kanji and any ... |
Quufer | The Japanese language | 30 | 5,637 | 2012-10-10, 6:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Back to studying Japanese after a break Post: Back to studying Japanese after a break Inny Jan - thanks. Having never played before, I started studying/playing 囲碁 for around 3 months, and I remember that the 2 or 3 servers I played on all had fairly well-populated rooms for Japanese p... |
Quufer | General discussion | 25 | 5,059 | 2012-09-24, 9:11 am | ||
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Thread: Back to studying Japanese after a break Post: Back to studying Japanese after a break I've been studying for about 18 months now, and don't think I've ever missed more than a day, for the reasons described above. I'm sure you can find material on chess in Japanese that would kill two ... |
Quufer | General discussion | 25 | 5,059 | 2012-09-24, 5:01 am | ||
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Thread: Pittsburghers - Yinz Interested in Sharing a Tutor? Post: Pittsburghers - Yinz Interested in Sharing a Tutor... I'm in Pittsburgh, and the going rate for tutors is $40/hour, which is a bit too much for me. However, some of them are open to having two or more people split the cost, bringing it down to a muc... |
Quufer | Group study | 0 | 572 | 2012-09-16, 3:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Hiting the vocab wall. Post: Hiting the vocab wall. One thing you could do is go through Core 2k or 6k and suspend all the cards that use a kanji you don't know. This is probably easier if you go through studying words instead of sentences (I'm going ... |
Quufer | The Japanese language | 21 | 4,857 | 2012-09-16, 12:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Sex ratio of this forum? Post: Sex ratio of this forum? 41:21 It's not just the women who are lurkers. |
Quufer | Off topic | 148 | 26,506 | 2012-09-13, 12:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Studying time management Post: Studying time management If you're trying to qualify for Boston, you're running out of time. To run in the 2013 race, you have to register by Sept. 21, which means that your qualifying race has to be before that - in all lik... |
Quufer | General discussion | 20 | 3,518 | 2012-09-12, 11:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Tofugu's Ultimate Japanese Vocab Combo Pack Post: Tofugu's Ultimate Japanese Vocab Combo Pack I've been a member of Textfugu since I started learning Japanese in January 2011, so I got these for free as part of that. They're decent, but if you've already gone through RTK, you're probably bett... |
Quufer | Learning resources | 1 | 1,618 | 2012-09-11, 11:39 am | ||
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Thread: "Young and Global Need Not Apply in Japan" Post: "Young and Global Need Not Apply in Japan" Just as a note, the linked article, though it appears under Fallows' byline, was actually written by Eamonn Fingleton (whose blog link appears at the bottom of the article). Fallows writes more about... |
Quufer | General discussion | 32 | 6,231 | 2012-05-31, 7:36 am | ||
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Thread: "Young and Global Need Not Apply in Japan" Post: "Young and Global Need Not Apply in Japan" Not that Japanese companies always do everything right, but it's pretty typical for the US business press to tell Japanese companies (and the government) that they're doing everything wrong and need t... |
Quufer | General discussion | 32 | 6,231 | 2012-05-31, 6:28 am | ||
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Thread: Does anyone have opinions on textfugu/tofugu and/or skritter Post: Does anyone have opinions on textfugu/tofugu and/o... It really depends on what you mean by "beginner". I started Textfugu as a complete beginner, and did the first 4 seasons before switching over to RTK full-time. Now that I finished RTK a couple of m... |
Quufer | Learning resources | 10 | 20,168 | 2012-05-14, 8:17 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! I'm at 1962/2042 now, so well past 3/4, though the Final Countdown thread is 3 years old now... Believe it when people say that 3/4 is really halfway. The long slog of doing 100-150 reviews every da... |
Quufer | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,190 | 2012-03-06, 3:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I doing this right? Post: Am I doing this right? In addition to the good advice above, think about dialing back the number of new kanji/day, especially if you're having trouble. Maybe even take a few days off from new kanji and just review/solidify... |
Quufer | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 2,444 | 2012-02-29, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: Requesting info about Tea Ceremony schools in Japan Post: Requesting info about Tea Ceremony schools in Japa... A friend of mine is currently studying tea ceremony at the Midorikai in Kyoto (http://wiki.chado.no/Midorikai). You have to pay for it (there's a scholarship for people from Finland, but not for othe... |
Quufer | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 4 | 3,081 | 2012-02-07, 2:27 pm | ||