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Thread: What kind of headphones do you use? Post: What kind of headphones do you use? Skullcandy HESH over-ear headphones. Ok quality for the price ($35 - I'm cheap!) But the designs only really apply to emo/goth/hipster high school college students which is fine if you fit that ... |
theBryan | General discussion | 51 | 15,750 | 2011-04-09, 12:33 am | ||
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Thread: My Darling is a Foreigner Post: My Darling is a Foreigner I think I met this guy once! I can't be sure but from his picture he sure could have been a older guy I met in a Starbucks near Meiji-Jingu a couple years ago. Me and my roommate were studying Kan... |
theBryan | General discussion | 20 | 8,369 | 2010-12-23, 8:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I the only one that can't stand drama? Post: Am I the only one that can't stand drama? Yeah I've never been a big fan of j-drama's either. Put simply, the lack of production value and generally cheezy plots and 2-d characters are just too distracting for me. I did make it through some... |
theBryan | General discussion | 43 | 12,975 | 2010-12-22, 1:04 am | ||
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Thread: Christmas Donations for Fabrice Post: Christmas Donations for Fabrice $13.57 (10 euro) donated. Happy Holidays ファブリスさん！！ |
theBryan | Off topic | 393 | 86,428 | 2010-12-12, 1:36 am | ||
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Thread: Unconventional explanation for te-form: 連用中止 and its handy variations Post: Unconventional explanation for te-form: 連用中止 and i... I think Magamo's explanation is good for those of us like to know Why? Why things are the way they are. But of course not everyone is like that which is good, life is boring when everyones the same.... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 66 | 15,765 | 2010-12-12, 1:28 am | ||
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Thread: Study that shows passive practice is beneficial. Post: Study that shows passive practice is beneficial. There's an interesting writeup on Wired about a study that seems to show that by passive listening to a related material in conjunction with determined practice is more effective than just practice al... |
theBryan | Off topic | 1 | 1,705 | 2010-09-28, 5:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Cool new robots in Japan Post: Cool new robots in Japan The company AIST has a pretty impressive new robot called the HRP4. The balance the thing is able to achieve is quite impressive. The hardware for robotics seems to advancing quite well, now just fo... |
theBryan | Off topic | 0 | 522 | 2010-09-18, 11:25 pm | ||
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Thread: is it possible to learn without formally learning grammar? Post: is it possible to learn without formally learning ... Yeah sure--if by not learning grammar you mean looking it up on a website or in a book. I've have a friend of a friend--yeah anecdotal, I know--that came to Japan not knowing Japanese and absorbed it... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 32 | 8,436 | 2010-08-21, 12:01 am | ||
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Thread: Hilarious video -- and you might learn some new Japanese too. Post: Hilarious video -- and you might learn some new Ja... Yeah I managed to find them amongst the torrents, some of the others seem to be on youtube too if you can find them. Some of the others are even better. The Hashi one especially, the "phoenix" lol ... |
theBryan | General discussion | 9 | 1,887 | 2010-08-10, 1:04 am | ||
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Thread: Hilarious video -- and you might learn some new Japanese too. Post: Hilarious video -- and you might learn some new Ja... [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCpbBVthD7o] It's by the comedy duo ラーメンズ and apparently it's from a series they did to "introduce" Japanese culture to the rest of the world. This one covers ... |
theBryan | General discussion | 9 | 1,887 | 2010-08-08, 11:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to get a dog in Japan but... Post: Want to get a dog in Japan but... The notion of hypocrisy is just an abstract concept. Our brains like to build models of the world around us in order to direct our behavior, and therefore don't take inconsistency well. But, human ... |
theBryan | Off topic | 28 | 6,684 | 2010-07-22, 11:08 pm | ||
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Thread: is meat causing our diseases? Post: is meat causing our diseases? Dramatically oversimplifying analogy time: our bodies are kind of like cars. We run on food rather than gasoline and just like burning gasoline in an engine causes wear and tear, burning calories cau... |
theBryan | Off topic | 40 | 8,068 | 2010-06-14, 5:31 pm | ||
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Thread: What's with that rolling R thing? Post: What's with that rolling R thing? This may have been discussed before, but if anyone's normal Japanese 'r' (no trilling involved) sounds weird or more like an english 'r' than you can use a similar method to help improve it. The word... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 22 | 11,658 | 2010-05-16, 1:22 am | ||
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Thread: Chinese actors portraying Japanese in American movies Post: Chinese actors portraying Japanese in American mov... Nukemarine is right, casting directors would prefer japanese actors and actresses but they often go with chinese, korean, or asian-american actors because there is a dearth of japanese actors willing ... |
theBryan | Off topic | 10 | 8,143 | 2010-05-13, 4:27 pm | ||
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Thread: -ず verb ending Post: -ず verb ending liosama Wrote:Afaik it's only used in written, you won't see it much outside of written Japanese. Well that's what I learnt so far anyway. i think it is used in speech too, just not as much as the oth... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 13 | 5,441 | 2010-04-28, 5:46 pm | ||
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Thread: The Weirdness of Japan Post: The Weirdness of Japan kyotokanji Wrote:[Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWFHGT8Iq8] Youtube seems to have removed the vid. Out of curiosity do you remember the name so I can track it down through other totally inno... |
theBryan | General discussion | 48 | 10,292 | 2010-04-14, 7:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese at a University Post: Studying Japanese at a University auxetoiles Wrote:@theBryan: my teachers used that method in high school and university French classes in the 90s and 00s. I thought it was pretty standard practice? Do courses still exist where you le... |
theBryan | General discussion | 74 | 13,285 | 2010-04-11, 1:40 am | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese at a University Post: Studying Japanese at a University The most intriguing method I've come across being taught at a university was at 東京外言語大学 (aka TUFS). Some friends of mine (日本人） went here to study German, and in their German classes the instructor wo... |
theBryan | General discussion | 74 | 13,285 | 2010-04-10, 6:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Don't worry! Japanese can't read kanji either Post: Don't worry! Japanese can't read kanji either wccrawford Wrote:Good communication is extremely important, but not more important than being good at your job. Oh well yes of course! What I thought I was implying but apparently wasn't clear was th... |
theBryan | General discussion | 118 | 20,505 | 2010-03-31, 4:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Don't worry! Japanese can't read kanji either Post: Don't worry! Japanese can't read kanji either It's unfortunate that this kind of stuff doesn't get taught more rigorously in HS or middle school. I catch myself making these kind of dumb mistakes (esp. your/you're) even more now that I'm learnin... |
theBryan | General discussion | 118 | 20,505 | 2010-03-30, 2:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Baoding Balls Post: Baoding Balls I hear Schweddy Balls are also quite effective (and tasty) [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxRrzVs8...re=related] Sorry couldn't resist Or you can try Lotus Pond HEALTHY BALL which is the se... |
theBryan | Off topic | 7 | 2,735 | 2010-03-26, 12:57 am | ||
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Thread: Ask Magamo!™ Post: Ask Magamo!™ ありがとうございます！！ You answered in much more detail than I expected. So Thank you kindly. So it seems my intuition was on the right track, にくい is the most general and universally applicable while づらい ... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 152 | 43,464 | 2010-03-26, 12:44 am | ||
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Thread: Ask Magamo!™ Post: Ask Magamo!™ I apologized if this has already been discussed elsewhere, I searched for it to no avail. I was wondering if there's any difference in nuance between ~にくい ~づらい ~がたい. Like for example Hard to hear. ... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 152 | 43,464 | 2010-03-25, 2:06 am | ||
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Thread: Any rule on using 下さい versus ください? Post: Any rule on using 下さい versus ください? And so what is the stylistic difference? The rule of thumb I've learned was more kanji = more polite I could see here that since the kanji means below and is associated with lowering one's self it ... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 30 | 5,490 | 2010-03-17, 1:38 am | ||
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Thread: What doesn't translate? Post: What doesn't translate? magamo Wrote:By the way, I'm of the opinion that every expression in a human language is an idiom to an extent. And I think every human language is the same language. I definately can agree with that.... |
theBryan | General discussion | 18 | 2,376 | 2010-03-17, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: Basic English that I learned today. Post: Basic English that I learned today. the question is "why is the cat dead?" because it killed the cuckoo bird and its vengeful only put it in there. which brings me to the basic english i learned today. to cuckold - to cheat on your h... |
theBryan | Off topic | 45 | 7,039 | 2010-03-15, 9:41 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Whatsifsowhatsit Wrote:So I had a question of my own again. 「本郷にはいるとまもなく、道ばたに下駄屋さんがあります。」 I'm confused about the さん in that sentence. Why a getaya-san? I didn't now you could do that with stores as we... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,561 | 2010-03-13, 3:12 am | ||
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Thread: How is suicide different in Japan? Post: How is suicide different in Japan? From my experience and the experiences of people I know I've come to the belief that depression and ultimately suicide are a very personal and subjective disorder and so its very difficult to give ade... |
theBryan | General discussion | 59 | 11,963 | 2010-03-13, 2:38 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread it's short for the てform of ~ている, so ～てて and means like what you would expect, "wait and stay waiting" so like ちょっと待ってて would be something like "just wait right there" basically it implies doing somet... |
theBryan | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,561 | 2010-03-09, 1:11 am | ||
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Thread: Need transcription/translation for recent Lost episode. Post: Need transcription/translation for recent Lost epi... blackmacros Wrote:The actor is (I think) a fairly well known Japanese actor, but there is something a bit...odd about the Japanese he uses in Lost. It seems like he *always* uses pronouns that would u... |
theBryan | General discussion | 14 | 5,705 | 2010-02-25, 12:59 am | ||
