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Thread: Writing Kanji faster Post: Writing Kanji faster Helltrixz Wrote:I guess it's fine if you're only making notes for yourself. It's mostly unreadable for me though. I have no problems reading printed text, but I've seen native examples that were far l... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 12 | 3,605 | 2013-11-30, 5:34 am | ||
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Thread: Are you self-teaching yourself another skill aside from Japanese? Post: Are you self-teaching yourself another skill aside... I've been jumping on the JavaScript bandwagon recently. It's a much more fun and flexible language than I thought when you avoid the abundance of unfortunate features. It's kind of a given if you do w... |
Javizy | Off topic | 56 | 10,082 | 2013-11-25, 9:30 am | ||
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Thread: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana coverting method? Post: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana covertin... howtwosavealif3 Wrote:Yeah it sucks i had to look up the word メッソド only to find out its actually english. The point is no matter how much you complain they will not modify their katAkana words to what... |
Javizy | Off topic | 49 | 10,324 | 2013-10-10, 11:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese blog sites written in English Post: Japanese blog sites written in English http://www.japantoday.com/ is general news. |
Javizy | Off topic | 16 | 3,537 | 2013-10-10, 8:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana coverting method? Post: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana covertin... The bad accent is usually the least ridiculous thing about katakana words when you look at the ways they're used, often in superficial attempts to sound cool or intellectual, especially in marketing a... |
Javizy | Off topic | 49 | 10,324 | 2013-10-10, 8:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan's economy Post: Japan's economy qwertyytrewq Wrote:So who wants to be the first person to cut their own wages and work below minimum wage for the "greater good" of the economy? Does it count if I work 60-100 hours of unpaid overtime... |
Javizy | Off topic | 40 | 7,034 | 2013-07-18, 8:10 am | ||
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Thread: Aspects of Japanese besides Vocab and Grammar? Post: Aspects of Japanese besides Vocab and Grammar? dizmox Wrote:There's no need to watch variety shows any more than there is a need to watch Kamen Rider if you're not interested in that kind of thing though. ... This is silly, you're not going to be ... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,483 | 2013-07-09, 8:22 am | ||
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Thread: Aspects of Japanese besides Vocab and Grammar? Post: Aspects of Japanese besides Vocab and Grammar? dizmox Wrote:Like anywhere else, only people who care about celebrities know about celebrities. You don't need to go out of your way to memorize them. It's not much use just knowing names anyway. This... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,483 | 2013-07-08, 9:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Help! More Kanji after Jouyou Kanji, quite frustrated Post: Help! More Kanji after Jouyou Kanji, quite frustra... You can forget jinmei-you kanji. Natives can't read names half the time. It's up to you if you learn additional kanji used in words. There's not much value in it unless you want to write novels by han... |
Javizy | Learning resources | 15 | 6,017 | 2013-07-01, 10:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Questions about my trip Post: Questions about my trip You're brave coming in the peak of summer. |
Javizy | General discussion | 6 | 1,851 | 2013-06-21, 6:08 am | ||
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Thread: Recommend manga thread Post: Recommend manga thread @NickT You should check out Urasawa's other manga too. He seems to consistently be involved with serious stories that non-ヲタ adults can enjoy. Pineapple Army was a bit "manga-ish", but the recommenda... |
Javizy | Learning resources | 51 | 77,909 | 2013-06-19, 12:27 am | ||
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Thread: Mangas with furiganas Post: Mangas with furiganas yudantaiteki Wrote:Javizy Wrote:The majority of them have furigana. Are you sure about that? Maybe if you mean "majority" as anything over 50%, but there are a lot of manga publications for adults or... |
Javizy | Off topic | 19 | 4,395 | 2013-06-14, 10:10 am | ||
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Thread: Mangas with furiganas Post: Mangas with furiganas The majority of them have furigana. You'll have more trouble when you want to find ones without it. Everything by Jump has furigana, but the language difficulty can differ. If you're a beginner, I r... |
Javizy | Off topic | 19 | 4,395 | 2013-06-14, 8:49 am | ||
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Thread: Maintaining Interest in Japanese (or anything) Post: Maintaining Interest in Japanese (or anything) Try to avoid "getting into" things and just try to get exposure as often as possible through whatever suits your mood. Try mixing in chatting on Skype, Shared Talk etc too. Variety is ultimately bette... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 23 | 3,684 | 2013-06-13, 8:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo Post: Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo You could try watching ネブ＆イモトの世界番付、世界のみんなに聞いてみた or YOUは何しに日本へ？ if you want to hear foreigners speaking. I don't think they make many mistakes in the first two. If you don't know where to find them, tr... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,467 | 2013-06-11, 8:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Recommend manga thread Post: Recommend manga thread Doraemon Plus (Difficulty ＊) This is a 5-volume series that I started reading with. The stories are great and a lot of adults tell me how they appreciate the storytelling. The short series length sto... |
Javizy | Learning resources | 51 | 77,909 | 2013-06-09, 8:23 am | ||
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Thread: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated? Post: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated? I can't make any deep conclusions about the guy, but that so-called "Japanese Dirty Harry" film wasn't worth the time, and Zatoichi was what I generally expect from Japanese films in general (poor act... |
Javizy | Off topic | 42 | 7,734 | 2013-05-29, 2:48 am | ||
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Thread: dotinstall.com (for developers and aspiring developers) Post: dotinstall.com (for developers and aspiring develo... Cool stuff. I was looking into getting a Sakura VPS and there's 21 videos about it :D |
Javizy | Learning resources | 5 | 1,665 | 2013-05-17, 9:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone else hate kana? Post: Anyone else hate kana? I was thrown off by 冒とく today, but perhaps 冒涜 wouldn't have been any easier. |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 27 | 4,738 | 2013-05-16, 10:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Please help me translate this literally into English Post: Please help me translate this literally into Engli... JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:Javizy Wrote:There's no situation where you'd use motherf**ker in a back-and-forth in place of 'you', PS. Watch the first 30 seconds of this, and you'll see my frame of reference... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 53 | 6,462 | 2013-05-08, 9:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Need help! Confused about reading kana. Post: Need help! Confused about reading kana. yudantaiteki Wrote:Also dictionaries only have the base forms of words, so if you don't know the conjugations you won't know what to look up. e.g. if you see かいて you need to look up かく, or if it's たか... |
Javizy | General discussion | 20 | 3,877 | 2013-05-07, 8:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Please help me translate this literally into English Post: Please help me translate this literally into Engli... JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you on this, although discussing English usage is a bit tangential to this discussion. I'll just say that when I lived large cities in t... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 53 | 6,462 | 2013-05-07, 8:41 am | ||
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Thread: Please help me translate this literally into English Post: Please help me translate this literally into Engli... JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:You should be extremely careful when using お前. It's pretty offensive. Just something for you motherf-----s to think about. That's a pretty bad translation. I can think of more ... |
Javizy | The Japanese language | 53 | 6,462 | 2013-05-06, 11:19 pm | ||
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Thread: アメリカ人っぽい日本語 (日本語スレ） Post: アメリカ人っぽい日本語 (日本語スレ） 「マイガールフレンドのアスがビューティフルです」は？ |
Javizy | Off topic | 14 | 4,390 | 2013-04-24, 9:09 pm | ||
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Thread: アメリカ人っぽい日本語 (日本語スレ） Post: アメリカ人っぽい日本語 (日本語スレ） 「いいケツしてる」とかは別に間違った日本語ではない。「アメリカ人っぽい」っていったら、逆に「私は私の母が大好きです」みたいな教科書っぽい日本語が思い浮かべるんじゃないか？言葉遣いにはもちろん好き嫌いはあるけど、「アメリカ人っぽい」のはもしかしてアクセントかもしれない。 例えば、僕は先日ミンティアCMでの本田さんをモノマネしようとしたけど、質問のイントネーションが下手すぎて「持ってる？」のじゃなく... |
Javizy | Off topic | 14 | 4,390 | 2013-04-24, 8:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Places to practice your Japanese Post: Places to practice your Japanese Stian Wrote:I don't think メンヘラ mean "mentally handicapped" but rather people with stuff like bipolar disorder, etc. It comes from メンタルヘルス as far as I know. I'm not sure how the ラ ended up in there tho... |
Javizy | Learning resources | 15 | 5,349 | 2013-04-23, 7:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Places to practice your Japanese Post: Places to practice your Japanese http://www.sharedtalk.com/ http://atskype.jp/ (watch out for ニート and メンヘラ) |
Javizy | Learning resources | 15 | 5,349 | 2013-04-22, 7:22 pm | ||
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Thread: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here. Post: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here. vix86 Wrote:It never shows up. If you type ごめんなさい on Google, you'll never see it. You'd have to misspell it, but if you type ごめなさい you get it immediately. I could definitely see it being an innocent m... |
Javizy | General discussion | 46 | 11,092 | 2013-04-22, 12:10 am | ||
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Thread: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here. Post: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here. Does it count as insulting when the guy's just a troll? Has anybody actually tried typing 米なさい？ How many times did you have to press return and space to deliberately get that conversion? |
Javizy | General discussion | 46 | 11,092 | 2013-04-21, 9:22 pm | ||
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Thread: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here. Post: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here. Hyperborea Wrote:かんんぱってねぇ！ A couple more iterations of intentional mistakes and we'll be speaking 岩手弁... http://www.hougen-love.com/dialect_iwate...epparu.php |
Javizy | General discussion | 46 | 11,092 | 2013-04-21, 7:38 pm | ||
