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Thread: One thing I wish the RTK2 book had... Post: One thing I wish the RTK2 book had... That would make RTK1 kind of pointless. |
DrJones | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 912 | 2015-08-06, 4:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Can u mirror a kanji without changing its meaning? Post: Can u mirror a kanji without changing its meaning? If you mirror the positions of those two radicals, the resulting kanji means "Dog" instead of "God". :P |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 11 | 1,268 | 2015-05-22, 2:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Has anyone done a survey on RTK completion times? Post: Has anyone done a survey on RTK completion times? A person once made an approximate one, by looking at the registration date of each user on that thread, and then at the date of their triumphant posts. However, I can't point you to the thread in whic... |
DrJones | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 1,044 | 2015-05-15, 1:47 am | ||
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Thread: satire in Japan Post: satire in Japan It looks like this is akin to the quack of the duck being indistinguishable from its echo. |
DrJones | Off topic | 54 | 7,321 | 2015-05-14, 10:07 am | ||
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Thread: Is it really possible to Learn Vocabulary without readings? Post: Is it really possible to Learn Vocabulary without ... You can learn the words while being unable to pronounce them. In the end, ideograms are just pictures to which you assign meaning, so you can memorize them as "pictures" rather than "words" and it doe... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 25 | 5,842 | 2015-04-17, 12:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Thread radical Post: Thread radical I've seen both versions quite a lot, but I think it's due to Google Chrome defaulting to a chinese font for japanese text when no language is specified on a page. If you find that behaviour unacceptab... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 12 | 1,354 | 2015-04-16, 4:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji You just made me incredibly happy, because I've always felt that 軌 was a typo, and that this kanji should actually be written 䡄. The reason is that 几 is a 'phonetic component', all kanji featuring it... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,772 | 2015-03-10, 6:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Spanish RTK3 Keywords Post: Spanish RTK3 Keywords ¡Felicidades, KanjiHantaa! Yo este año traté de pasar el N1 pero me quedé a las puertas, tal vez si no hubiera estado a la vez estudiando japonés y alemán habría arañado los puntos que me faltaron. E... |
DrJones | Remembering the Kanji | 110 | 43,240 | 2015-02-08, 8:42 am | ||
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Thread: 「～たがる」について (About ~tagaru) Post: 「～たがる」について (About ~tagaru) The reason of using ~garu is that it is easy for you to personally know if you like or want something, because you can read your own mind. As you cannot read other people's minds, it is therefore impo... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,701 | 2015-01-12, 3:59 pm | ||
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Thread: *Sigh* which one should I use? Post: *Sigh* which one should I use? I would use お見舞い I once read that, when a compound word uses KUN readings, it's a good practice to include okurigana in the word as a way to signal it to the reader, even if the word can be written w... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,063 | 2014-12-28, 1:15 pm | ||
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Thread: If you're a guy, do you tend to refer to yourself as "boku"? Post: If you're a guy, do you tend to refer to yourself ... I would use 僕, but I feel it is too bold and informal, so I prefer the more polite 私. |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 102 | 19,279 | 2014-12-26, 9:15 am | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji According to the data I got, the old form of 踏 is 蹈 http://glyphwiki.org/wiki/u8e48 Though now that you mention, I definitely made the wrong assumption that 沓 would likewise have the same old form. G... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,772 | 2014-12-20, 1:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji 爪＋臼 is also the original version of 沓, as seen in 踏. I wouldn't call it simplification, as the current forms arguably have made recalling the kanji and the readings harder. |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,772 | 2014-12-19, 12:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Reinforce onyomi Post: Reinforce onyomi I have a special deck that groups kanji without clear signal primitives, but that either feature visual simmilarities, or have related meanings. It's still incomplete but for N1 it gets the work done.... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 30 | 6,850 | 2014-12-13, 4:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Richard Wiseman, in his book "Quirkology" coins the theory that all professions create their own obscure terms as a measure to prevent intrusism/professional encroachment. |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,772 | 2014-12-13, 7:21 am | ||
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Thread: Reinforce onyomi Post: Reinforce onyomi 左-月: 佐 左 サ That group is lacking 差 and its derivates. |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 30 | 6,850 | 2014-11-27, 4:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Reinforce onyomi Post: Reinforce onyomi I use the phonetic components anki deck I created because I had the exact same problem as you do. There's a shared (albeit a bit dated) version in the "shared decks" sections of Ankiweb. https://ankiw... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 30 | 6,850 | 2014-11-27, 11:27 am | ||
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Thread: onyomi and kunyomi that confuse you Post: onyomi and kunyomi that confuse you Readings ending on -つ can sometimes morph to -ち. 立つ/立ち is an example, another common one is 一 (いつ/いち) |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 9 | 2,070 | 2014-11-23, 7:07 am | ||
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Thread: Are those words or MeCab mistakes? Post: Are those words or MeCab mistakes? It may be because 里 does not mean just 'RI', but also 'sato', which is a common word that means 'village'. |
DrJones | Learning resources | 19 | 2,464 | 2014-11-13, 8:42 am | ||
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Thread: Hilarious Photo? Post: Hilarious Photo? john555 Wrote:Not to argue but I know/know of many white men with oriental wives. Not a big deal, for some reason the picture ticked me off a bit. The house is oriental, the wife is oriental, and the... |
DrJones | Off topic | 17 | 3,805 | 2014-11-07, 9:34 am | ||
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Thread: Hilarious Photo? Post: Hilarious Photo? It's done so that it becomes more obvious that the person coming through the door is the husband. |
DrJones | Off topic | 17 | 3,805 | 2014-11-07, 7:21 am | ||
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Thread: Move up some reviews Post: Move up some reviews I think you spent more time thinking about it that just reviewing them. I also suggest you to add to Anki the load balancer plugin https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1417170896. |
DrJones | Learning resources | 5 | 970 | 2014-11-04, 5:52 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Spanish smartly Post: Learning Spanish smartly These 3 words represent 14% of spanish: de la que If you add these 8 words, you get 30%: el en y a los se del las If you add these other 162 words, you reach 50%: un por con no una su para al lo com... |
DrJones | Off topic | 7 | 1,355 | 2014-10-30, 7:23 am | ||
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Thread: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language in addition ... Post: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language ... This is truly surrealistic. |
DrJones | Off topic | 53 | 6,139 | 2014-09-02, 1:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Which translation sounds better? Post: Which translation sounds better? Furansugo ga yomeru (koto/no) wa ani dake desu. |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 6 | 961 | 2014-08-29, 11:45 am | ||
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Thread: 間： あいだ, かん or ま? Post: 間： あいだ, かん or ま? anotherjohn Wrote:There's a core6k sentence with this issue too: その間に彼は居なくなっていました。 The (native) speaker reads it as そのかん, but both そのあいだ and そのかん (in that order) are given as viable readings on Tang... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 24 | 8,299 | 2014-08-17, 5:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Reading and listening troubles Post: Reading and listening troubles Read and listen more until the brain streamlines the process. Until you get used to japanese, read texts with already available translations to make sure you get the real meaning of a sentence. Also,... |
DrJones | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,120 | 2014-08-10, 3:38 pm | ||
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Thread: How easy is it to adapt to everyday speech and local dialects? Post: How easy is it to adapt to everyday speech and loc... Tokyo accent is the "official" one, which means it's the one you hear if you are a student of japanese. It's known for removing trailing ~u and ~i from syllabes (most obvious example, "des" instead of... |
DrJones | General discussion | 23 | 4,696 | 2014-08-07, 10:53 am | ||
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Thread: Can anyone decipher the lyrics to this? Post: Can anyone decipher the lyrics to this? Song 2: Since I looked at that chick my heart got all fired up every morning, every night it burns and consumes itself. Oh no no no no no Don't make me suffer Oh no no no no no I feel like dying Plea... |
DrJones | Off topic | 4 | 1,102 | 2014-08-05, 6:19 am | ||
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Thread: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the onyomi Post: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the onyo... Vempele Wrote:aldebrn Wrote:With the movie method, kanji that are related like this (i.e., similar primitive elements) aren't going to be close to each other, and you're going to have to notice the re... |
DrJones | Learning resources | 11 | 3,345 | 2014-08-04, 5:24 am | ||
