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Thread: Japan on the Atomic Bombs Post: Japan on the Atomic Bombs I can't answer your question directly, but I think it's possible that current generations of Japanese people who live in a free and non-murderous country created after the war do not associate themsel... |
Dixon | Off topic | 28 | 4,222 | 2011-02-25, 1:10 am | ||
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Thread: Post your *ambitious* goal here! Post: Post your *ambitious* goal here! vonPeterhof Wrote:Move to Japan, reach native-speaker level in Japanese, naturalize and enter politics in order to reform Japan from the inside out and save its society from the imminent collapse! I h... |
Dixon | General discussion | 96 | 18,434 | 2011-02-25, 12:50 am | ||
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Thread: How are your new year's resolutions going (Japanese study) Post: How are your new year's resolutions going (Japanes... I made a simple goal. Study ten sentences per day that I have in both audio and writing. Type them and write them out by hand. Then at night, get tested by my girlfriend. She says a vocabulary keywor... |
Dixon | General discussion | 28 | 3,643 | 2011-02-25, 12:19 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method kusterdu Wrote:Is there an example of anybody who stumbled onto the AJATT site, followed the method there and became as fluent as Khatzumoto did in the same amount of time (a year and a half)? I'm no... |
Dixon | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,169 | 2010-09-18, 7:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Good study ideas for traveling? Post: Good study ideas for traveling? Is the situation you presented absolutely mandatory? I mean, must you drive to school by yourself for 40 minutes or are there other options? I know what it's like to live in a small town (grew up in ... |
Dixon | General discussion | 12 | 4,115 | 2010-09-18, 7:37 pm | ||
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Thread: iAnki vs Anki Mini Post: iAnki vs Anki Mini Tobberoth Wrote:If someone copies your book, you lose POTENTIAL money. If someone copies my book without my permission, I lose one rightfully owned instance of my property being distributed. I don't p... |
Dixon | Learning resources | 127 | 45,920 | 2010-06-23, 9:23 pm | ||
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Thread: iAnki vs Anki Mini Post: iAnki vs Anki Mini Tobberoth Wrote:My recommendation? Get off your high horse and jailbreak. My high horse of not wanting to be a thief? I never knew that was such a high ethical standard to uphold. Is this the general ... |
Dixon | Learning resources | 127 | 45,920 | 2010-05-02, 6:18 pm | ||
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Thread: iAnki vs Anki Mini Post: iAnki vs Anki Mini I fail to see why people "need" to violate copyright. Without Apple's "greed" you would have absolutely nothing, no iPod Touch and no iPhone. I'm pretty sure they opened a business to make money, and ... |
Dixon | Learning resources | 127 | 45,920 | 2010-05-02, 4:10 pm | ||
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Thread: iAnki vs Anki Mini Post: iAnki vs Anki Mini I would really like to use AnkiMini and hope it will be released in the AppStore. Are there plans to work on getting that done? In the face of the illegality and immorality of jailbreaking, it would b... |
Dixon | Learning resources | 127 | 45,920 | 2010-05-02, 3:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseries) Post: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseri... nadiatims Wrote:If the minimum age of enlistment was raised to say 25, would anyone join the army? I would, if my country was attacked and my country had a leadership that would send the military out ... |
Dixon | Off topic | 92 | 17,262 | 2010-04-29, 12:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseries) Post: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseri... nest0r Wrote:bodhisamaya Wrote:nest0r Wrote:You know who would've been happy if decent human beings didn't have a military? Hitler. Germany was a nation of decent human beings until Hitler came into p... |
Dixon | Off topic | 92 | 17,262 | 2010-04-29, 12:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseries) Post: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseri... I don't consider killing bad in self-defence and I don't consider wars of self-defence wrong either. In fact, I consider them both highly moral. It would be immoral not to go to war and eliminate the ... |
Dixon | Off topic | 92 | 17,262 | 2010-04-26, 5:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? Post: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? activeaero Wrote:Sounds like every other country in the world to me. The only difference is that in America racist/ignorant/xenophobic people have a harder time due to various "equal opportunity" law... |
Dixon | General discussion | 55 | 12,392 | 2009-11-19, 1:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? Post: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? epsilondelta Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:Many see Japan as a temporary playground, and so have no qualms about leaving the country without paying off their cellphone bills or rent, leaving the apartment a wre... |
Dixon | General discussion | 55 | 12,392 | 2009-11-19, 12:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? Post: Japanese roommate in Tokyo. Any drawbacks? Jarvik7 Wrote:For the most part I think that they are justified (just take a look at gaijinpot forums to see the average foreigner in Japan), but it sucks for the rest of us well-behaved Japanese spea... |
Dixon | General discussion | 55 | 12,392 | 2009-11-19, 12:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Immersion Post: Immersion I use my computer alarm clock to play an MP3 with Korean on it which wakes me up in the morning. This usually gets me going from the get-go. Most freeware computer alarm clocks will do, but you could ... |
Dixon | Learning resources | 8 | 1,359 | 2009-11-09, 6:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Saying thanks in Japan; when is it appropriate? Post: Saying thanks in Japan; when is it appropriate? Aijin Wrote:I understand that point of view, but to most Japanese people things like that aren't worth acknowledgment because the person doing the service isn't doing it out of the kindness of their h... |
Dixon | General discussion | 76 | 12,378 | 2009-10-28, 6:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Saying thanks in Japan; when is it appropriate? Post: Saying thanks in Japan; when is it appropriate? Aijin Wrote:When I moved to California I thought it was kinda' weird that I always heard people thank shop clerks, waiters at restaurants, etc. My friends would say "thank you" everytime someone refil... |
Dixon | General discussion | 76 | 12,378 | 2009-10-28, 6:28 pm | ||
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Thread: The Japan P.E.N. Club Digital Library Post: The Japan P.E.N. Club Digital Library Is this anything like the Pen15 club? |
Dixon | Learning resources | 9 | 1,367 | 2009-10-27, 8:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? liosama Wrote:I did read your posts. However, I was not clear in my response. Excuse me for my rage response, this is how I usually react to these threads titled learn by srs where Nukemarine always c... |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-22, 2:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? magamo Wrote:[ Whatever you say, I believe an SRS works for any intellectual pursuits. I agree that an SRS could work okay for almost everything as a form of initiating and scheduling practice. This w... |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-21, 6:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? liosama Wrote:No. Go read a damn book and understand it, challenge it. I do read books, understanding and challenging them. I am a philosophy major with a 3.9. Maybe you should read the original posts... |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-21, 6:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Why is there this argument about whether one can "learn" philosophy with an SRS? Maybe, with incremental reading on Supermemo, that's possible. But I'm just talking about reviewing facts and arguments... |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-21, 6:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? IceCream Wrote:However, what I can't do, is link those theories to particular philosophers, especially in areas i didn't study intensely. If someone said to me, for example, what do you think of Arist... |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-20, 1:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? You're right (even about many of the ideas being nuts). After a bit of introspection, I realized that I typically remember philosophical issues fairly well. That's because in order to digest them, yo... |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-19, 11:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Well I wouldn't mind this thread becoming a topic about how to study them. So is close deletion kind of like fill in the blanks? I can't help but think the questions would just be about dates or nam... |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-19, 10:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? Post: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? He ballooned up in water weight when he was in the hospital bed. He was never obese. People cite his weight at death but that was never the weight he walked around at. It's extremely dishonest. What ... |
Dixon | Off topic | 47 | 16,831 | 2009-10-19, 10:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? Post: Can I Study Philosophy with an SRS? I'm sure it's possible, but I have no idea how I would go about making cards for it. Does anyone have any suggestions? |
Dixon | Off topic | 44 | 6,166 | 2009-10-19, 10:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Speaking Japanese in Japan Post: Speaking Japanese in Japan ocircle Wrote:I've never met a non-Korean who can speak Korean like a native, so I can't say what my reaction would be like, but generally they've been very anglofied and difficult to understand. I do... |
Dixon | General discussion | 56 | 9,997 | 2009-09-05, 11:18 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese at university (in England) -- worth it? Post: Japanese at university (in England) -- worth it? I've spoken to a couple translators, and read some of their blogs, and the ones that get a lot of work tend to have done a bachelors degree in a technical field in their native language. For example, ... |
Dixon | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 35 | 15,976 | 2009-09-04, 6:15 pm | ||
