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Thread: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... Post: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... I had forgotten that the deeper people get into learning a new language, the more their brains get fried regarding the older one... Maybe it will be harder after all... |
zohar | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 73 | 25,530 | 2009-12-23, 6:13 am | ||
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Thread: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... Post: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... Grinkers Wrote:Has any other native speaker taken the test? I'm seriously scared to look at the test... imagine how pathetic it'd be if I had to study for it. It seems silly I'd have to take it, but i... |
zohar | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 73 | 25,530 | 2009-12-23, 4:12 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Zorlee Wrote:Another question here: 雑誌でパスタの店の広告を見た。今晩行ってみよう。 The 行ってみよう thing... When I meet the -てみる grammar, I don't know whether or not I should read it as 行って見る (go and have a look) or the "to t... |
zohar | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,657 | 2009-12-23, 4:05 am | ||
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Thread: きみ、あなた、＆ おまえ Post: きみ、あなた、＆ おまえ In Oita-ken, almost everyone uses おまえ at home to family members. My fiancee's father affectionately calls my fiancee おまえ、 and vis-a-vis. However, the main characteristic of the dialect in Oita is th... |
zohar | The Japanese language | 53 | 11,889 | 2009-12-23, 3:59 am | ||
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Thread: Adressing friends Post: Adressing friends Definitely avoid ちゃん unless you grew up with her, or she's 10 and you're at least 30 something... Generally, if you aren't hanging out with her in private all the time, you might not be close enough ... |
zohar | General discussion | 3 | 802 | 2009-12-23, 3:42 am | ||
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Thread: Whats best to do 3 months before going to Japan? Post: Whats best to do 3 months before going to Japan? Surprised that no one has mentioned this yet, but... When you watch the dramas, listen to the mp3 stuff, whatever before going, try REPEATING what you hear, AGAIN and AGAIN! Even if it goes to fast ... |
zohar | General discussion | 11 | 1,869 | 2009-12-23, 3:36 am | ||
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Thread: Cool Japanese girl's name Post: Cool Japanese girl's name You can't really register a middle name... It would have to be connected to the given name (and therefore in their eyes be PART of the given name). That's the main way around it, think. Japan doesn... |
zohar | Off topic | 68 | 15,435 | 2009-12-21, 10:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The KanKen Chronicles Post: The KanKen Chronicles Not to derail the thread, but does Kanken DS3 allow you to look up non-joyo kanji in the dictionary, or does it still give you the annoying "not within the joyo kanji" message? |
zohar | General discussion | 397 | 123,350 | 2009-12-21, 10:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Cool Japanese girl's name Post: Cool Japanese girl's name bodhisamaya Wrote:Blahah Wrote:bodhisamaya you're buddhist right? You could give a nod to the Japanese buddhist tradition by choosing a name which refers to it in some way. I don't know any off the to... |
zohar | Off topic | 68 | 15,435 | 2009-12-21, 10:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Stroke order not so important after all... Post: Stroke order not so important after all... Plus, when you spell out words on other people's palms, you'll lose them completely if the stroke order's off... |
zohar | General discussion | 7 | 3,718 | 2009-12-21, 4:23 am | ||
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Thread: polyglot dream list Post: polyglot dream list *English (native & educated up to college-level; not sure I can do much more here) *Spanish (native but not educated in school, so "proper" grammar blows...) *Hebrew (semi-native but limited to re... |
zohar | Off topic | 73 | 14,899 | 2009-12-21, 3:37 am | ||
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Thread: Cool Japanese girl's name Post: Cool Japanese girl's name Guess it also really depends where you two will decide to live. Obviously, if you live in Japan, a kanji Japanese name will lead to less headaches legally and socially. Some people still go the othe... |
zohar | Off topic | 68 | 15,435 | 2009-12-21, 3:17 am | ||
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Thread: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... Post: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... Meanwhile, because Japan won't recognize medical licenses from other countries (America is the same though), I am studying to try to go for an advanced degree in nursing here. Reading Japanese nursin... |
zohar | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 73 | 25,530 | 2009-12-21, 3:11 am | ||
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Thread: 誰 「だれ」not a joyo kanji? Post: 誰 「だれ」not a joyo kanji? I could of sworn reading somewhere that 「熊」 at least was once on the list, but I could be wrong. It may be that the kanji lists before the post-war reforms can't be considered Joyo or not, and in tha... |
zohar | The Japanese language | 14 | 6,689 | 2009-12-21, 2:55 am | ||
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Thread: Nihongo Kentei - The JLPT for native Japanese Post: Nihongo Kentei - The JLPT for native Japanese If this test gains a lot of recognition though, it might be good for people who want to demonstrate native-like skills to potential employers (translators & interpreters come to mind.) |
zohar | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 4 | 7,746 | 2009-12-19, 9:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... Post: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... What about going to an American university and studying abroad in Japan for a year (a year and an extra semester is sometimes possible too...)? You can actually get a lot of scholarship assistance th... |
zohar | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 73 | 25,530 | 2009-12-19, 9:10 pm | ||
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Thread: 誰 「だれ」not a joyo kanji? Post: 誰 「だれ」not a joyo kanji? You would think that prefecture name kanji would be considered important enough to keep in the list, which makes me wonder why they were dropped in the first place, never mind being *re-introduced* no... |
zohar | The Japanese language | 14 | 6,689 | 2009-12-19, 9:00 pm | ||
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Thread: 誰 「だれ」not a joyo kanji? Post: 誰 「だれ」not a joyo kanji? And then there's 「熊」（くま）which for some inexplainable reason was only recently re-introduced to the joyo list even though it's part of the name of a freaking prefecture for goodness' sake... When you ... |
zohar | The Japanese language | 14 | 6,689 | 2009-12-19, 10:03 am | ||
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Thread: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... Post: Trying To Get A Start In Japan... I would add that depending on the area, you may not be able to get a job regardless of 1.) having proper permission, 2.) Japanese ability 3.) whether it is part-time dish-washing or something more dec... |
zohar | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 73 | 25,530 | 2009-12-19, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Finally finished my first Japanese novel （「チルドレン」 by 伊坂 幸太郎） yesterday... In every sentence there is usually one word that I didn't know, but often could guess from context. I still have to break ou... |
zohar | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,688 | 2009-12-07, 7:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread pm215 Wrote:brandon7s Wrote:たくさん is listed as an adjectival-noun, common noun, and adverb in the E-J dictionary I use (tangorin.com). Why is there a の after たくさん then? I would have thought that since ... |
zohar | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,657 | 2009-12-07, 7:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Responding to Compliments - Semi lame Newbie Q Post: Responding to Compliments - Semi lame Newbie Q Lately, I use 「いや、まだへたくそです〜」 I'm not sure how "natural" it sounds though... Before that was 「いや、まだ小学一年生みたいです〜」 |
zohar | The Japanese language | 32 | 14,778 | 2009-12-07, 9:38 am | ||