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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread zigmonty Wrote:chair Wrote:nadiatims Wrote:lol This actually made me start laughing when it was played. Yeah, likewise. IT HAUNTS MY NIGHTMARES!! |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-12-05, 7:51 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread Took mine at Saitama Daigaku in Yono CURSE YOU MONKEY!!!!!!!!! *points finger* I thought the listening was very manageable too. Noticeably harder than N2 for the most part... but yea the step up for... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-12-05, 10:20 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread Signormu Wrote:Got back from taking the N1 in Japan. Horrible test. I was thinking about spamming the japan foundation and ask to get back the old JLPT lol. lol those days are done, but I feel you. WT... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-12-05, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread 3 hours to go in Saitama prefecture...... 頑張るぞ！ |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-12-04, 7:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Getting your foot into the translation industry Post: Getting your foot into the translation industry Interesting thread. Back on the first page someone said technical translation is "in," and he's right. If you're cool doing manuals and technical stuff - especially medical equipment - there's bound ... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 61 | 24,157 | 2010-09-24, 6:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanzen Master 1kyuu 文法 Post: Kanzen Master 1kyuu 文法 Okonomiyaki Wrote:I have this book and would be super happy if I could get in on this as well. what he said. I was planning on doing teh grueling work of typing up the example sentence manually but th... |
bennyb | Group study | 56 | 32,657 | 2010-09-22, 4:10 am | ||
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Thread: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Remembering the Kanji"? Post: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Rememb... they are mutually exclusive IMO. If I'm stumped on a kanji I'm reading and trying to recognize, I draw out the stroke order with my finger/pen and that "muscle memory" fires some neuron in my brain wh... |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 26 | 9,813 | 2010-09-22, 4:08 am | ||
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Thread: Discussion on Textbooks Post: Discussion on Textbooks No matter what I say dropping any dependence on romaji like a bad habit is an excellent starting point. And 3 cheers to Genki book I for doing that after the second chapter, was a huge help to me in t... |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 46 | 14,896 | 2010-09-15, 10:11 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread Post: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread Fillanzea Wrote:Yeah. I don't know how N1 is going to be different from previous years' 一級, but I read a fair bit of contemporary literature, and I probably would have picked up the vocab to pass ikky... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 70 | 33,014 | 2010-09-01, 12:21 am | ||
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Thread: Interesting article regarding JLPT Post: Interesting article regarding JLPT Yea, definitely a lot of flawed points. 9 months of intensive study for level 2 raised my Japanese from lost puppy status to able to communicate with other human beings. That is merit in and of itself... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 17 | 8,013 | 2010-08-26, 10:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Yet Another Kanji Chains/Movie Method Blog Post: Yet Another Kanji Chains/Movie Method Blog @vileru, I don't know about such a list per se, but in that movie methods materials thing I downloaded from megauplaod there's the .xls file containing a vast data chart of onyomi. You can flip throug... |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 17 | 4,210 | 2010-08-26, 9:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Yet Another Kanji Chains/Movie Method Blog Post: Yet Another Kanji Chains/Movie Method Blog hello again meredithcat. =D Funny, I actually know the guy who runs kanjidamage, real wild Californian dude with a multicolored beard and a deep-entrenched love for punk rock. I haven't actually looke... |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 17 | 4,210 | 2010-08-26, 8:53 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread Post: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread coverup Wrote:@akimoto - I am also using the Kanzen Master book for kanji, but it sucks because they don't have example sentences for the 音読み. Anyone know a good resource other than Kanji In Context ... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 70 | 33,014 | 2010-08-25, 10:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Strange request: Japanese equivalent of Calvin and Hobbes Post: Strange request: Japanese equivalent of Calvin and... worlds apart, but since C&H was always great "pick up and read any time," I think of Azumanga Daioh. |
bennyb | Learning resources | 16 | 7,086 | 2010-08-23, 6:48 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread Post: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread working with a teacher twice a week, just finished kanzen master but of course lots and lots of review is needed to cement it in and catch the minute details.... vocabulary is your ultimate enemy in t... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 70 | 33,014 | 2010-08-23, 10:43 am | ||
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Thread: Got my copy of RTH 1 (Traditional) Post: Got my copy of RTH 1 (Traditional) I got mine too..... rotting on my shelf lol. I want to finish RTK3 before I run off with traditional characters... just ain't enough time in a life, is there? =P |
bennyb | Chinese and Hanzi | 1 | 1,379 | 2010-08-08, 11:38 am | ||
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Thread: Stories of amazed Japanese people Post: Stories of amazed Japanese people they are quite easily surprised/amazed etc.. My teachers always say that I know more kanji than they do... that's just cuz they learned it all in grade school! (and don't have need to write them by ha... |
bennyb | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 14,407 | 2010-07-07, 5:34 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread thurd Wrote:bennyb Wrote:my strategy: 100+ vocab cards a day (Adding new ones all the time), 30-40 RTK reviews a day, reading lots of manga and newspaper articles and stuff. Also taking classes twice ... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-07-06, 6:26 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread KM is boring but rocks my socks in being comprehensive. I mean.... show me a grammar book that's exciting?? I got another one my teacher recommended, brand-spankin new, N２文法総まとめ if memory serves. It's... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-07-06, 9:52 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread esgrove Wrote:ーEasiest 文字 question: 壊される SERIOUSLY? I knew I should have taken N1 already. WOW. I wanted to try the N2 since I only passed the old 2 by a small margin last year sounds like I would ha... |
bennyb | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-07-04, 6:11 pm | ||
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Thread: What is James W. Heisig doing .... Post: What is James W. Heisig doing .... Womacks23 Wrote:bennyb Wrote:wish I could have seen him, stupid work on stupid monday night.... Since this has morphed into a convo about the Japanese educational system, let me toss in the reminder ... |
bennyb | Off topic | 59 | 24,114 | 2010-06-25, 3:48 am | ||
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Thread: What is James W. Heisig doing .... Post: What is James W. Heisig doing .... wish I could have seen him, stupid work on stupid monday night.... Since this has morphed into a convo about the Japanese educational system, let me toss in the reminder that according to a change in... |
bennyb | Off topic | 59 | 24,114 | 2010-06-24, 8:27 am | ||
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Thread: Modified Movie Method - onyomi Post: Modified Movie Method - onyomi Figured I might as well mention my blog since it's relevant to the post: http://tmmia.blogspot.com/ I do movies (and occasionally t.v. shows) for people who've already finished RTK1, and possibly 3.... |
bennyb | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 5,629 | 2010-04-10, 4:55 am | ||
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Thread: About the upcoming "Reviewing Hanzi" website Post: About the upcoming "Reviewing Hanzi" website Still eagerly awaiting this! I'm probably going to China next year so I'd like to be able to use a model just like RevTK when I study up for it. Thanks!!!! |
bennyb | Chinese and Hanzi | 26 | 13,871 | 2010-01-20, 7:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Playsay? Post: Playsay? WHEW. Pricy. For those who live in Japan I recommend RTK via your cellphones, pretty much all phones can do it from what I understand. I've been reviewing that way for almost a year, it's fantastic (a... |
bennyb | General discussion | 4 | 948 | 2009-11-21, 4:27 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese South Park DVDs Post: Japanese South Park DVDs Ahaha I've never seen that link before, funny stuff! |
bennyb | Off topic | 8 | 2,720 | 2009-11-06, 8:30 am | ||
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Thread: Katakana Fail Post: Katakana Fail マフラー is a scarf (or a car muffler), fair enough, but then スカーフ doesn't mean scarf in the sense of a winter scarf, only those fashionable little handkerchiefs like the kind flight attendants wear. Mor... |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 133 | 26,168 | 2009-11-02, 11:46 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? I don't ever plan to formally study classical Japanese, but it's fascinating to look at the language in an older form and observe the differences. Sort of like an appreciation for books written 200 ye... |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,839 | 2009-10-21, 8:13 pm | ||
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Thread: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Post: The Japanese subject marker doesn't exist? Read "making sense of Japanese" if you want a good essay that explains the usage of は and が in terms you can understand. That's a solid book. |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 100 | 20,839 | 2009-10-21, 10:18 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread kimagure Wrote:I believe there is a kanji error in the sentence. I recently saw 私用で出かける (I think it was in Core 6000). 私用 is read the same way as 使用. beautiful. That makes perfect sense out of it. Tha... |
bennyb | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,229 | 2009-08-31, 4:08 am | ||
