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Thread: Japanese Dance Music Post: Japanese Dance Music Their music is not going to help you learn the language, but Takkyu Ishino and Ken Ishii are a couple very good techno producers/DJs. I was lucky enough to see Ishino DJ at the Liquid Room on new yea... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 5 | 3,202 | 2011-05-22, 4:04 pm | ||
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Thread: 豆しば (Mameshiba!) Post: 豆しば (Mameshiba!) 豆しば。 Mameshiba: not quite a dog, nor quite a bean but a hybrid of both. They love to appear out of nowhere and offer random bits of trivia whether you asked for it or not. Mameshiba Animated Shorts ... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 6 | 2,309 | 2010-02-01, 8:03 am | ||
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Thread: Life in ALT Limbo Post: Life in ALT Limbo Gosh! I sound so negative. It hasn't been all bad. Nara and Kyoto were both pretty cool, and there are lots of smart, cool nihonjin to meet and chat with. Japan will be a difficult place to leave,... |
vrtgo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 20,401 | 2010-01-20, 10:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in ALT Limbo Post: Life in ALT Limbo Thurd et al., here, you can pick my brain for a bit. Lately, I'm thinking about things like Haiti, American politics and environmental issues. I think about the changes that the world needs to see, ... |
vrtgo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 20,401 | 2010-01-20, 9:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in ALT Limbo Post: Life in ALT Limbo AFAIK, for Eng. teaching work, the ideal is to find placement teaching at a university. As for eikaiwa work, one makes more money than ALTs, but the hours are nighttime and on Saturdays, and it doesn... |
vrtgo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 20,401 | 2010-01-17, 10:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in ALT Limbo Post: Life in ALT Limbo Hey Jarvik, what's happening in Higashi Betsuin? I found the kaikan website but not any kind of schedule or calendar. |
vrtgo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 20,401 | 2010-01-17, 7:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in ALT Limbo Post: Life in ALT Limbo Hello Beloved RtK Forumers, Keeping this post as concise as possible, I hope for some words of wisdom regarding ways forward for me and other ALTs in my shoes. The ALT business is a dirty, corrupt o... |
vrtgo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 20,401 | 2010-01-16, 5:48 am | ||
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Thread: Interesting Things to Do in Tokyo Post: Interesting Things to Do in Tokyo The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo-to Shashin Bijutsukan) has great stuff from Ihei Kimura and Henri Cartier-Bresson. I just went last weekend and liked it quite a bit. You'll find ... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 2 | 808 | 2010-01-16, 4:51 am | ||
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Thread: Is there a Good Monolingual Dictionary for Mac OSX? Post: Is there a Good Monolingual Dictionary for Mac OSX... OMFG. RisuMiso, that has persuaded me to upgrade at last to Leopard--er, Snow Leopard. Dictionary 2.0 only came in after Tiger. Maybe this weekend. Thanks for the protip. ^_^ |
vrtgo | Learning resources | 18 | 3,262 | 2009-12-04, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: Is there a Good Monolingual Dictionary for Mac OSX? Post: Is there a Good Monolingual Dictionary for Mac OSX... Hi Folks, I'm looking for a good monolingual dictionary for Mac OS X. Right now I'm using JEdict, which only uses single-word English definitions and doesn't convey any nuance, as a dictionary shoul... |
vrtgo | Learning resources | 18 | 3,262 | 2009-12-04, 1:04 am | ||
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Thread: Ｗｈａｌｅ ｗａｒｓ Post: Ｗｈａｌｅ ｗａｒｓ ADMIN Please stay courteous and respectful to other forum members. Animosity towards others will not be tolerated, even in the Community forum. If you can not respect these simple rules, then you may... |
vrtgo | Off topic | 226 | 35,384 | 2009-11-10, 7:52 am | ||
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Thread: How do you memorize Sentences, Vocab? Post: How do you memorize Sentences, Vocab? *seconded* Adding twenty sentences and doing reviews (including digging them out of source materials, writing the new compounds in a word-list and putting them in Anki) takes me about four hours dail... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 25 | 6,570 | 2009-11-04, 4:21 am | ||
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Thread: Move to Japan --> Hair falls out? f(o_O) Post: Move to Japan --> Hair falls out? f(o_O) yukamina Wrote:Chlorine is bad for you anyway. That rings true: I got a Pur water filter too, figuring that chemicals I don't want in my hair, I also don't want in my drinking water. I'll look into t... |
vrtgo | Off topic | 20 | 5,820 | 2009-10-08, 9:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Move to Japan --> Hair falls out? f(o_O) Post: Move to Japan --> Hair falls out? f(o_O) I got to Japan about five months ago. One of my coworkers said something early on that unnerved me: "You think you got some hair now... Just wait a while. First time I came to Japan, I lost all th... |
vrtgo | Off topic | 20 | 5,820 | 2009-10-08, 7:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Where do you get your Japanese music Post: Where do you get your Japanese music http://lightsnevershine.blogspot.com/ Tasteful mix of Japanese and other stuff. |
vrtgo | General discussion | 34 | 11,185 | 2009-10-07, 9:52 pm | ||
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Thread: 「外人嫌い」 Post: 「外人嫌い」 thermal Wrote:It is not racist to dislike foreigners LOLWHUT? Anyway you're right to say he did it to impress his friends, and that it was a lie or exagerration. Fillanzea Wrote:What it really means... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 44 | 5,602 | 2009-10-07, 7:34 am | ||
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Thread: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Post: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Typhoon Melor |
vrtgo | General discussion | 14 | 2,234 | 2009-10-07, 6:54 am | ||
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Thread: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Post: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Typhoon or sunshower, class cancellation or no: I am reporting to school tomorrow. It's the only way I get my day-rate! =( |
vrtgo | General discussion | 14 | 2,234 | 2009-10-07, 5:40 am | ||
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Thread: 「外人嫌い」 Post: 「外人嫌い」 Heh. I've calmed down now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement. I think the alpha student in a given class sets the tone more than the teachers do. Usually, that's the noisiest, worst behaved st... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 44 | 5,602 | 2009-10-07, 5:36 am | ||
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Thread: 「外人嫌い」 Post: 「外人嫌い」 One of my middle school students, with no provocation, announced so much to me and the rest of the class just a few minutes ago. I was totally unready to be suddenly reduced to a hate object, and it ... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 44 | 5,602 | 2009-10-07, 2:20 am | ||
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Thread: Post RTK1-What are you guys doing? Post: Post RTK1-What are you guys doing? THAT WAS AN EPIC DERAIL. To get this thread back on track, I second (nth?) Naoko Chino's "Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns". I am finding it much more readable than TaeKim's guide. (I... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 53 | 14,700 | 2009-09-30, 11:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Fluent japanese Post: Fluent japanese I lol'd. I lol'd a lot. |
vrtgo | Off topic | 11 | 2,682 | 2009-09-10, 8:22 am | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Today, the Ito sisters drove me 100km into the wilderness, where we did partake of 馬刺し (basashi). That's raw horse meat sushi, y'all. |
vrtgo | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,585 | 2009-08-18, 7:54 am | ||
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Thread: FireFox Extension Kanjilish turns Characterizer Post: FireFox Extension Kanjilish turns Characterizer Kanjilish was forever causing java-script errors and slowing Firefox to a snail's pace, so I had to uninstall. Not sure why that was happening. My guess is b/c I'm running OS X. Wanted to keep it... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 2 | 2,402 | 2009-08-18, 7:50 am | ||
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Thread: Studying with music on? Post: Studying with music on? Nobody has mentioned ambient music. It's made to be as easy to ignore as it is to appreciate. I like me some ambient jams to study by. I think ambient music has certain cognitive benefits, but that... |
vrtgo | General discussion | 26 | 3,240 | 2009-08-11, 10:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Translation PARTY! Post: Translation PARTY! Please laugh at this! http://translationparty.com/tp/#1207743 |
vrtgo | General discussion | 42 | 8,362 | 2009-08-11, 10:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Translation PARTY! Post: Translation PARTY! e.g. http://translationparty.com/tp/#317256 ;P |
vrtgo | General discussion | 42 | 8,362 | 2009-08-07, 10:07 am | ||
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Thread: Translation PARTY! Post: Translation PARTY! http://translationparty.com/tp/ |
vrtgo | General discussion | 42 | 8,362 | 2009-08-07, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Wowowowow. I finished the first 1100, and skipped half the last 900+ according to RtK lite. So, having studied a prime 1571 kanji, I've "finished" RtK 1. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. One can alw... |
vrtgo | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,691 | 2009-08-02, 10:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Struggling with the method Post: Struggling with the method If any of you are struggling with "the method," then I recommend RevTK Lite. I did this after 1100 cards, and I am much happier not to review so many rare kanji while I'm learning how to read and wri... |
vrtgo | Remembering the Kanji | 65 | 10,389 | 2009-07-15, 9:04 pm | ||
