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Thread: World Cup 2010 Post: World Cup 2010 If I was in Japan I'd be watching sumo. I <3 Sumo, but it's not on TV here in the US. |
georgative | Off topic | 63 | 10,643 | 2010-05-11, 5:12 am | ||
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Thread: Silly question about Kana -> Kanji cards Post: Silly question about Kana -> Kanji cards I'm going through the Core 2000 at the moment and I'm not sure if I am "doing it right" for the Kana -> Kanji cards. What I do is I just listen to the sentences (or I read them) and see if I can u... |
georgative | The Japanese language | 2 | 676 | 2010-05-06, 4:06 am | ||
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Thread: Trouble speaking...in english!! Post: Trouble speaking...in english!! I actually new a guy who spoke like 4 languages but wasn't really fluent in any of them. He grew up speaking Russian, but even at 40 he spoke like a peasant and forgot words. |
georgative | The Japanese language | 32 | 5,196 | 2010-05-04, 9:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Are Japanese people afraid of the toilet? Post: Are Japanese people afraid of the toilet? I'm a little afraid of spiders in the toilet. I have arachnophobia, so the thought of a spider crawling on my ass is pretty.. unpleasant. But a quick prelim check usually clears things up, and I jus... |
georgative | General discussion | 34 | 10,482 | 2010-05-02, 12:48 am | ||
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Thread: -ず verb ending Post: -ず verb ending http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/gra...tiveverbs2 second half of the first section |
georgative | The Japanese language | 13 | 5,439 | 2010-04-28, 7:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Economics and Physics major Post: Economics and Physics major Tell me if I missed some questions! =) 1) Yah, there is a BA program. It's meant to be more liberal-artsy I guess. It means you take a few less physics classes and a few more general classes (so for ... |
georgative | General discussion | 25 | 7,365 | 2010-04-28, 3:39 am | ||
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Thread: Economics and Physics major Post: Economics and Physics major As someone who is finishing his major in physics, here is my rant =P I highly don't recommend it. As someone already mentioned, it's sorta prestigious and you can probably make a lot of money (though... |
georgative | General discussion | 25 | 7,365 | 2010-04-27, 5:51 am | ||
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Thread: Do you know where the banks get their money? The Money Masters. Post: Do you know where the banks get their money? The M... IceCream Wrote:these are the kind of issues i wondered if anyone would comment on in the microfinance thread. actually, i think capitalism is a horrible system, always have. but this kind of vague (o... |
georgative | Off topic | 52 | 9,284 | 2010-04-23, 7:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Survey: When, where, and why did you start RTK? Post: Survey: When, where, and why did you start RTK? I started last Summer. Finished last October, just finished Tae Kim and am antsy to start boosting my vocab (kinda frustrating I still don't understand anything =/ ) So about 2 years ago I decided I ... |
georgative | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 4,455 | 2010-04-21, 11:56 pm | ||
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Thread: How to write faster Post: How to write faster caivano Wrote:This is a good resource for writing kanji properly to begin with: http://www.geocities.jp/ki07ji/muryo/muryo.html Interesting. They shut down the US Geocities, but the Japanese one still... |
georgative | Learning resources | 18 | 7,737 | 2010-04-19, 6:03 am | ||
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Thread: Bringing SRS to University Students Post: Bringing SRS to University Students What you guys are doing is great! I've been making a deck for my Chinese Art History class. Maybe I'll talk to my professor about it. I hope you guys have started a trend. Who knows maybe this will c... |
georgative | Learning resources | 34 | 5,953 | 2010-04-16, 4:06 am | ||
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Thread: Better sleep with F.lux Post: Better sleep with F.lux Shit. I was just typing out how cool this thing is, then I right clicked on it in the taskbar next to the clock and my computer spontaneously restarted... Now my computer turns back on, and the prog... |
georgative | Off topic | 47 | 19,438 | 2010-03-06, 5:00 am | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Hey, thanks for this guideline. Btw. You're Tae Kim deck is absolutely amazing. I'd recommend it to everyone. I'm just about at the Vocab part and I'm getting more and more confused as I keep trying... |
georgative | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,407 | 2010-03-01, 12:38 am | ||
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Thread: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted? Post: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted? btw, how do you do what danieldesu wanted to do properly? I'm always really scared about installing Anki on a new computer because I think it's gonna mess up my deck |
georgative | Learning resources | 12 | 14,811 | 2010-02-27, 5:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Why is this funny? Post: Why is this funny? It kinda looks like a medieval Norman haircut. |
georgative | The Japanese language | 20 | 5,196 | 2010-02-27, 7:21 am | ||
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Thread: Why is this funny? Post: Why is this funny? Whats with the kid's head? Are his brains coming out the back of his skull? |
georgative | The Japanese language | 20 | 5,196 | 2010-02-27, 7:08 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo Post: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo Out of curiosity. Does this TaeKim page cover it all? http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/honorific Or is it more complicated? I've been struggling with that page for a whole week. It's not... |
georgative | The Japanese language | 40 | 16,444 | 2010-02-25, 4:21 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree Post: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree I think the advice of waiting till after you get your degree isn't really good, because you're always going to be busy. Just time box Japanese, cut back on whatever else you waist your time on and wor... |
georgative | General discussion | 32 | 6,583 | 2010-02-23, 10:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Heisig's method, Remembering the kanji vol 1, 2 , 3 ...........? Post: Heisig's method, Remembering the kanji vol 1, 2 , ... Oh man.. I feel horrible for you Haruhi89 Can you imagine thinking there are ~200 kanji, then learned them all, and then finding out that NEVERMIND; you've got another 1800 to go... |
georgative | Remembering the Kanji | 26 | 21,798 | 2010-02-23, 7:52 am | ||
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Thread: What was the point of RTK? Post: What was the point of RTK? I get asked about RTK quite often, and I can never really explain what I got from it. I know I wouldn't be able to do japanese like am doing right now if it weren't for RTK, but it's a little hard to ... |
georgative | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 1,423 | 2010-02-23, 6:13 am | ||
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Thread: My Story Post: My Story This is a reoccurring theme. I spent about a 2 years on and off doing Pimsleur and just like for you, it was all pretty much a waist of time. I had this idea that I could somehow learn how to speak Ja... |
georgative | General discussion | 3 | 943 | 2010-02-18, 3:25 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Congratulations! I tried stopping for a couple of days when I was doing RTK and I found A day's break = at least 2 days of catch up. |
georgative | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,651 | 2010-02-13, 1:03 am | ||
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Thread: One rat race after another... Post: One rat race after another... mezbup Wrote:Make a Do-Not-Do-Ever-Again-List. Put enough stuff on that and you'll have a lot more time free. This! My general criteria is that if I'm doing something for more than an hour a day (li... |
georgative | Off topic | 47 | 7,071 | 2010-02-10, 6:44 am | ||
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Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... mezbup Wrote:Happens to me too but yeah, as you develop a firmer grasp on reading kanji it will come to you a bit easier. That's what I hoping for! After a while the characters start to repeat and it'... |
georgative | The Japanese language | 16 | 5,247 | 2010-02-07, 7:29 pm | ||
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Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... Thanks for all the feedback. Looks like I'm doing okay then I'm using Nukemarine's deck. I usually add the cards as I go along the page, but I generally don't remember most of them the next day (I fa... |
georgative | The Japanese language | 16 | 5,247 | 2010-02-07, 7:27 pm | ||
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Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... I feel like I'm doing something wrong... I study for about 2-3 hours a day (of those 1.5-2 of actual studying) and I get through about 1 page of Tae Kim a day. I do about 50 cards a day + I add about... |
georgative | The Japanese language | 16 | 5,247 | 2010-02-07, 9:30 am | ||
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Thread: Accounting with an SRS Post: Accounting with an SRS I think if you studied something like Organic Chemistry, where you need to memorize zillions of amino acids and amines ethers and whatever SRS would work. But it's definitely not applicable to all cla... |
georgative | Off topic | 11 | 3,288 | 2010-01-28, 2:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Starting Tae Kim Post: Starting Tae Kim When you're vocab is literally zero, I think ko2001 is a little tough... And you can't really just read through Tae Kim without understanding the vocab he uses (but there isn't THAT much vocab since h... |
georgative | Learning resources | 12 | 5,487 | 2009-12-12, 1:47 am | ||
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Thread: Starting Tae Kim Post: Starting Tae Kim 3 a day? damn.. =( I do one a day and it's hard. How long does 3 a day take you? |
georgative | Learning resources | 12 | 5,487 | 2009-12-12, 12:08 am | ||
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Thread: Breaking my immersion for an important question. About Keitai billing Post: Breaking my immersion for an important question. ... No, common. He wasn't using the service they provided, so it's not like they did something for him and then he didn't pay (well except for the equipment part). It's more like stealing train tickets ... |
georgative | General discussion | 35 | 6,998 | 2009-12-08, 5:09 am | ||
