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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work First of all, I'm glad to see that my last post has not been followed by any flaming. Again, just a few short remarks, for I don't have the time to answer at length: Eating meat/no meat/health: As ... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 316 | 42,849 | 2012-12-15, 2:32 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Sorry, I don't have the time to answer all the comments in detail. Let us summarize: Vegan food makes you faint (in turn, and probably due to a severe malnutrition [e.g. b12 deficiency] after a few da... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 316 | 42,849 | 2012-12-13, 4:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work vix86 Wrote:yowamushi Wrote:Another big problem are the huge amounts of dung (sorry, I don't know the exact English term for that, the dictionary contains too many) produced by livestock, which also l... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 316 | 42,849 | 2012-12-13, 4:03 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work First of all, sorry if I am going to repeat what has already been said, as other comments may have appeared in the meantime. Zgarbas, you seem to ignore that* animals need to be fed (they are not ju... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 316 | 42,849 | 2012-12-13, 3:47 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work It's so funny to hear and read this over and over again... let's just call it nonsense .... Don't get me wrong, I don't want to offend anyone personally here....just some general remarks... been havi... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 316 | 42,849 | 2012-12-12, 3:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Zgarbas Wrote:Because hey, who needs proteins, iron and various vitamins+satiating delicious food in their diet, eh? And sure, over-agriculturizing crops leads to a slow but sure desertification of th... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 316 | 42,849 | 2012-12-12, 3:02 pm | ||
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Thread: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers Post: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers Thora Wrote:I don't think those ability descriptions are really meant to be taken seriously. That's the important point. (Although the site is called Level Up...hmm) Yes, that's what I suspect, too. ... |
yowamushi | Learning resources | 34 | 7,349 | 2012-12-10, 3:20 pm | ||
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Thread: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers Post: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers Quote:BTW, the fluency definitions for the guarantee offered in Silverspoon were made up by the Level Up blogger. They're completely bogus The levels described on the "level up"-site are at least biza... |
yowamushi | Learning resources | 34 | 7,349 | 2012-12-10, 1:37 pm | ||
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Thread: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers Post: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers delta Wrote:AJATT's Neutrino? Really? Anyone who has learned any language to a decent level of proficiency knows that deep down it's all about vocabulary. After you have gotten + or - used to the gra... |
yowamushi | Learning resources | 34 | 7,349 | 2012-12-10, 8:56 am | ||
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Thread: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers Post: New Silverspoon/Nuetrino bloggers Yea, I noticed that phenomenon, too. I followed the blog of a certain Silverspoon user who completed about 300 days or so, and then nothing. Maybe they only get their money back under the caveat that ... |
yowamushi | Learning resources | 34 | 7,349 | 2012-12-10, 5:04 am | ||
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Thread: University vs Language School Post: University vs Language School I agree with Javizy. In my experience, there are two stages where attendance at an intensive language class (20+hours/week) can make sense: 1. between beginner's and intermediate level (you will s... |
yowamushi | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 3 | 1,544 | 2012-11-24, 5:27 am | ||
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Thread: Advice on becoming a Japanese to English Translator Post: Advice on becoming a Japanese to English Translato... Okay, let's face it: You're in your 50s, you can't read Japanese, you don't know the grammar, you don't have the opportunity to obtain a degree in translation studies or Japanese studies, you consider... |
yowamushi | General discussion | 19 | 5,135 | 2012-11-23, 4:25 am | ||
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Thread: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese? Post: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese? Jeg er også oversetter. Fransk og tysk. Jeg vil også gjerne arbeide som oversetter for japansk! Men det blir vanskelig! Som du sier, vi får se! |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 76 | 22,487 | 2012-06-20, 1:38 am | ||
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Thread: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese? Post: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese? Jaså! Men det er også bra!! :) |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 76 | 22,487 | 2012-06-20, 1:22 am | ||
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Thread: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese? Post: A Norwegian guy speaking Japanese? Zorlee Wrote:I've been getting a lot of e-mails lately and I haven't been able to answer back since I'm currently working full time as a translator. . So you are currently working as a translator for... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 76 | 22,487 | 2012-06-20, 12:58 am | ||
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Thread: Studying medicine in Japan Post: Studying medicine in Japan Dedication in "The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary" by Andrew N. Nelson: To my son Richard Andrew Nelson, M.D. who as a busy surgeon and against great odds passed the Japanese... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 17 | 5,350 | 2012-06-16, 4:51 pm | ||
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Thread: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough? Post: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough? Learning kanji in a systematic fashion has also done a lot for my listening comprehension. Imagine kanji like 総 or 合 that appear very often and that are used e.g. as prefixes. Knowing all common kanji... |
yowamushi | General discussion | 35 | 10,497 | 2012-06-11, 4:47 am | ||
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Thread: Cementing grammar for output? Post: Cementing grammar for output? I find it very helpful to memorise key sentences. Besides your normal vocabulary/kanji decks you could have something like a production deck where you translate complete specimen sentences, from your ... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,433 | 2012-06-06, 12:51 am | ||
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Thread: 日本人の知らない日本語 Post: 日本人の知らない日本語 It is indeed terrible. If you like to spend your time in a most unbearable fashion, or if you are still in elementary school, go ahead, watch it. It may be something for you. But even then it might be... |
yowamushi | General discussion | 24 | 5,741 | 2012-06-01, 1:00 am | ||
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Thread: Language / Cultural Exchange in Japan Post: Language / Cultural Exchange in Japan Chiller Wrote:Have you thought of wwooffing? Has anyone done this? WWOOF Japan http://www.wwoofjapan.com/ I did it six years ago. It was a great experience. You have to work 6 hours a day (1 day off... |
yowamushi | General discussion | 4 | 1,536 | 2012-05-31, 1:20 am | ||
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Thread: Has Japan Let You Down? Post: Has Japan Let You Down? Interesting but difficult topic. LivingNexus Wrote:As for my moral stance though, I think any person who willingly commits murder (as in, other than self defense) or rape and does not repent and ref... |
yowamushi | General discussion | 372 | 53,098 | 2012-02-11, 3:40 am | ||
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Thread: Cancer for 3.50$ a Galloon! Post: Cancer for 3.50$ a Galloon! It depends on what is important to you. If that sensation of butter fat taste is more important than the fact that cows are suffering (they do indeed) and that dairy products are more or less harmful ... |
yowamushi | Off topic | 80 | 9,958 | 2012-02-11, 2:02 am | ||
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Thread: What is necessary to become a professional J-E translator? Post: What is necessary to become a professional J-E tra... No, I wouldn't say that the CPE is easy. I cannot imagine any high school student here would be able to tackle the test. A near native level of English is required in order to pass the CPE... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 21 | 5,687 | 2012-02-03, 3:54 am | ||
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Thread: What is necessary to become a professional J-E translator? Post: What is necessary to become a professional J-E tra... Mennon Wrote:yowamushi Wrote:I wouldn't bother becoming a translator if I hadn't _at least_ JLPT N1. Don't bother then. We have 4 Western translators here, in-house, and only one of use has L1, and he... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 21 | 5,687 | 2012-02-03, 2:52 am | ||
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Thread: What is necessary to become a professional J-E translator? Post: What is necessary to become a professional J-E tra... I wouldn't bother becoming a translator if I hadn't _at least_ JLPT N1. I'm really surprised that there are companies that hire translators with only JLPT N2, since that's a quite low intermediate lev... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 21 | 5,687 | 2012-02-02, 3:07 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese routine Post: Japanese routine I don't have the time to excessively learn Japanese at the moment, so I stick to the following daily schedule: Morning: 15 kanji reps (each consisting of 5 compounds) 10 cloze deletion reps (vocab... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 16 | 4,090 | 2012-02-01, 5:58 am | ||
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Thread: Studying vocab methods (SRS)? Post: Studying vocab methods (SRS)? mmhorii Wrote:After you download both zip files, unzip them, and you'll have a big set of mp3 files. Copy all of these files into your .media folder for the deck, and then start studying... It works p... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 42 | 7,827 | 2012-01-06, 9:16 am | ||
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Thread: Studying vocab methods (SRS)? Post: Studying vocab methods (SRS)? Betelgeuzah and mmhorii, thank you for your quick reply! mmhorii Wrote:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0C84FEL6 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S1FLTWLN Thank you for the link. Do I have to use both file... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 42 | 7,827 | 2012-01-06, 8:36 am | ||
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Thread: Studying vocab methods (SRS)? Post: Studying vocab methods (SRS)? Betelgeuzah Wrote:Core10k, a bigger version of core2k/6k. Might be an overkill but so far so good! Here's a link http://www.mediafire.com/?nieqms7ju0ome5a Hi! I have a question: Are there any audio f... |
yowamushi | The Japanese language | 42 | 7,827 | 2012-01-06, 7:47 am | ||