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Thread: Lang-8, Best Place to Practice Japanese Writing Post: Lang-8, Best Place to Practice Japanese Writing I agree with bodhisamaya -- while I'll correct English entries without Japanese translation, I always supply an English translation with my own entries. (I write them in Japanese and then translate p... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 55 | 12,780 | 2010-02-16, 3:08 pm | ||
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Thread: One rat race after another... Post: One rat race after another... Re your original post: I'm sorry to hear that! I like my self-management pretty lean (just a smart list and a calendar, both electronic), and it helps keep my mind clear, but you've presumably though... |
epsilondelta | Off topic | 47 | 7,071 | 2010-02-13, 10:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Tell me what to do with my life :) Post: Tell me what to do with my life :) igordesu Wrote:I have decided that building a life in Japan is my major goal. I know that may sound silly and immature, but I have thought about it a lot. I don't think it sounds silly or immature at ... |
epsilondelta | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 38 | 15,712 | 2010-01-23, 4:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese Post: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese Just wanted to chime in: My first day was basic self-introduction in Japanese, how to say "-san" and "-sensei", how to bow, etc. Then we learned hiragana for several days. No kanji for more than one... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 98 | 13,962 | 2010-01-08, 10:20 am | ||
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Thread: Western Europe Travel Advice Needed Post: Western Europe Travel Advice Needed Here's some random advice: * You'll be able to get by pretty well with only English. As mypapa12 said, France can be a bit painful sometimes, but even there you should be able to get around I think. ... |
epsilondelta | Off topic | 9 | 1,165 | 2010-01-01, 2:40 pm | ||
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Thread: What is your immersion environment like? Post: What is your immersion environment like? delenir Wrote:I'm very curious about what fellow Japanese learners are doing to create a Japanese immersion environment at home, etc; especially those in the beginner/early intermediate stage. IMHO be... |
epsilondelta | Learning resources | 33 | 8,162 | 2009-12-31, 11:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Site idea: would you be interested in something like this? Post: Site idea: would you be interested in something li... emesto Wrote:An example of its use could be that instead of going to an English speaking forum and asking for recommendations for TV programs/manga etc, you would write it in Japanese and the whole co... |
epsilondelta | Off topic | 6 | 1,019 | 2009-12-31, 11:34 pm | ||
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Thread: purging the queen's english Post: purging the queen's english Javizy Wrote:There's a retarded 和製英語 word made up every 30-seconds to the point that it's practically destroying the integrity of the language. Sorry, I don't think it's destroying the integrity of th... |
epsilondelta | Off topic | 9 | 1,871 | 2009-12-31, 11:25 pm | ||
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Thread: When Does A Deck Become Obsolete? Post: When Does A Deck Become Obsolete? thurd Wrote:It's not that 80 reviews takes a lot of time (30mins usually) Actually, since (if I understand correctly) you're only maintaining your existing kanji repertoire, I think you're spending to... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 30 | 4,562 | 2009-12-01, 7:14 pm | ||
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Thread: 2nd language changes the way bilinguals read in their native tongue Post: 2nd language changes the way bilinguals read in th... nest0r Wrote:Wish I could afford to read the original article In case "afford" = "have to pay", I'm getting it for free from my college network; message me if you can't download the PDF. |
epsilondelta | Off topic | 9 | 1,906 | 2009-11-29, 6:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Why I don't recommend taking a 4 month break from kanji reviews Post: Why I don't recommend taking a 4 month break from ... I've taken a break of several months before and it didn't really hurt -- the first time I reviewed them I had forgotten like 50%, but they came back immediately, and in the next round of reviewing I w... |
epsilondelta | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 2,472 | 2009-11-26, 7:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Loving the change to Japanese OS Post: Loving the change to Japanese OS donjorge22 Wrote:@ Nyanda: stop wishing for a Mac, stop hating Windows, and just install Ubuntu No, don't use Linux for Japanese stuff. I'm using Debian Linux (which Ubuntu is based on) and OS X, and... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 21 | 6,227 | 2009-11-26, 7:14 pm | ||
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Thread: The characters with the "mandala" radical seem messy Post: The characters with the "mandala" radical seem mes... For the "慢/ridicule" kanji you can use the Chinese meaning "slow" instead, which according to Jisho seems appropriate. Uh, I guess I'll just paste my story here: In Chinese this simply means "slow",... |
epsilondelta | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 9,828 | 2009-11-26, 6:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Maintaining high level Japanese knowledge? (JLPT1+) Post: Maintaining high level Japanese knowledge? (JLPT1+... Hm, yeah, true. My Latin? So gone. ;-) |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 24 | 4,171 | 2009-11-21, 8:08 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I'm not an expert, but... ちゃう is an informal contraction of てしまう; conjugated like an う-ending godan-verb -- e.g. 忘れちゃった＝忘れてしまった (also じゃう＝でしまう e.g. 飲んじゃう＝飲んでしまう) Regarding the 下手, perhaps the idea... |
epsilondelta | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,240 | 2009-11-21, 3:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Maintaining high level Japanese knowledge? (JLPT1+) Post: Maintaining high level Japanese knowledge? (JLPT1+... In my experience as a native German speaker studying at an American college (English being a second language), you can take long breaks from a language and it won't go away. Granted, when you go back... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 24 | 4,171 | 2009-11-20, 7:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? Post: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? Jarvik7 Wrote:Many see Japan as a temporary playground, and so have no qualms about leaving the country without paying off their cellphone bills or rent, leaving the apartment a wreck, having loud par... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 55 | 12,392 | 2009-11-18, 12:24 am | ||
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Thread: Maintaining high level Japanese knowledge? (JLPT1+) Post: Maintaining high level Japanese knowledge? (JLPT1+... hhannahhjp Wrote:I can do two things at once, but NOT listening to a language and reading in another at the same time. :-) I remember listening to J-pop once while doing Spanish homework, looking up t... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 24 | 4,171 | 2009-11-17, 6:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Technology TTS Text to speech Post: Technology TTS Text to speech Regarding using Mechanical Turk to get human recordings for pay: I've successfully used MTurk to get a recording of a single Chinese text of several sentences; it cost me $1 and took 12h turnarou... |
epsilondelta | Learning resources | 9 | 1,836 | 2009-11-17, 5:56 pm | ||
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Thread: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) Post: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) Oh well... I seem to end up with a random mixture of "Lance Armstrong", "Greek column", and at least one "train". It's not consistent, but perhaps it'll still work without consistency. This way at l... |
epsilondelta | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,658 | 2009-11-16, 4:11 am | ||
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Thread: RTK to traditional/simplified hanzi spreadsheet Post: RTK to traditional/simplified hanzi spreadsheet Old topic, but... I'm not sure if hanzi and kanji have a good enough 1:1 correspondence to be able to convert traditional hanzi to kanji, as you are asking. However, Wiktionary usually cross-referen... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 6 | 2,830 | 2009-11-15, 10:19 pm | ||
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Thread: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) Post: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) Hm, I see -- thanks! Perhaps I'll dig up memories from my Latin lessons then and use "Ancient Rome" as a context for the column stories. |
epsilondelta | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,658 | 2009-11-14, 5:45 pm | ||
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Thread: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) Post: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) Hey everyone, I'm finding the "column/going/line" primitive (the left part of the "行" kanji) too abstract to remember easily, but I couldn't find anything useful in the stories... Has anyone found a... |
epsilondelta | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,658 | 2009-11-14, 4:07 pm | ||
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Thread: What do you expect from a tutor? Post: What do you expect from a tutor? mgbp7 Wrote:I try to speak Japanese, but the minute I don't know how to say something I panic and switch to English. Ah! The one most important survival phrase my professor taught us (we were even al... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 21 | 3,452 | 2009-11-10, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: OS X: How to enter Heisig kanji directly (with TextExpander) Post: OS X: How to enter Heisig kanji directly (with Tex... Wow, I have Snow Leopard, but never noticed it had that. It doesn't seem to work in non-Cocoa applications though, and I'm not sure if you can load a list of conversions like I posted above (haven't ... |
epsilondelta | Learning resources | 4 | 1,111 | 2009-11-10, 2:39 am | ||
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Thread: Working on Conjugations: Post: Working on Conjugations: captal Wrote:I never specifically worked on conjunctions- I think it is one of those things best left to natural listening. Eventually you'll get it. I think there are just too many to practice. I'm p... |
epsilondelta | The Japanese language | 23 | 2,518 | 2009-11-10, 1:42 am | ||
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Thread: What do you expect from a tutor? Post: What do you expect from a tutor? I'm not a fan of doing the "only Japanese" policy dogmatically -- for example, grammatical explanations or translations for vocabulary usually go faster and better in English -- but the "switching you... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 21 | 3,452 | 2009-11-10, 1:35 am | ||
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Thread: Problem: ordering the primitives from memory. Post: Problem: ordering the primitives from memory. I pretty much ignore the issue; if I end up putting the primitives in the wrong place, I just click "hard" in Anki but otherwise move on. Primitive placement (beyond the standard rules) is something ... |
epsilondelta | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 3,808 | 2009-11-10, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for study? Post: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for s... ahibba Wrote:[Jason] BeDuhn states that "most of the differences are due to the greater accuracy of the NW (the JW's translation) as a literal, conservative translation." He says that "it emerges as ... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 110 | 28,120 | 2009-11-10, 1:25 am | ||
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Thread: What do you expect from a tutor? Post: What do you expect from a tutor? I'm surprised you guys seem to be talking about weekly tutoring. I'm thinking about continuing Japanese after college by hiring someone for tutoring, and I'm planning to have lessons at least three t... |
epsilondelta | General discussion | 21 | 3,452 | 2009-11-09, 4:15 pm | ||
