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    Thread: Reasons to say にっぽん instead of にほん?
Post: Reasons to say にっぽん instead of にほん?

Bokusenou Wrote:I think にっぽん is more nationalistic, and maybe more formal. You see a lot of "頑張れにっぽん!" stuff around Olympics time. I think にっぽん is almost always used in the context of sports chants a...
furrykef The Japanese language 7 2,135 2011-06-10, 6:40 pm
    Thread: Read wikipedia, blew mind...
Post: Read wikipedia, blew mind...

Mayan writing was likewise partly logographic and partly phonetic. Korean writing is, too, though the use of hanja (Korean word for kanji) is dying out, and unlike hiragana and katakana, the hangul al...
furrykef The Japanese language 4 1,385 2011-06-10, 6:39 pm
    Thread: Japanese at Stack Exchange
Post: Japanese at Stack Exchange

japanese.stackexchange.com just launched its public beta. It's basically a Yahoo! Answers sort of website, except it's all about Japanese. If you're familiar with Stack Overflow or other Stack Exchang...
furrykef Learning resources 1 524 2011-06-08, 1:09 am
    Thread: Weird IME problem - can't write 鼻血 or ぢ character
Post: Weird IME problem - can't write 鼻血 or ぢ character

thecite Wrote:And ディ is dhi. Thanks for this. Until now I've typed てぃ as 'teli' rather than 'thi'. For some reason I find that much more awkward even though it's only one letter more.
furrykef The Japanese language 6 1,756 2011-04-03, 2:41 am
    Thread: Little Charo bilingual scripts
Post: Little Charo bilingual scripts

I've concatenated the text files, which might make it easier to weed out all the junk data and focus on the text. (The concatenated files are here.) I did this using the following bash script: Code:...
furrykef Group study 5 4,991 2011-02-19, 9:03 pm
    Thread: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games
Post: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Game...

Hmm, maybe. And since it's a wiki, anybody could expand the list...
furrykef Learning resources 11 1,707 2010-10-18, 7:37 am
    Thread: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games
Post: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Game...

If somebody wants to add a "word of the day" to the site, I won't stop them. I won't do it myself, though, because I know I'd never have the discipline to update it every day (or even every week). I ...
furrykef Learning resources 11 1,707 2010-10-18, 7:04 am
    Thread: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games
Post: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Game...

There could be. I haven't exactly scoured the 'net for text dumps. It'd be good to have them, it's just that I'd rather concentrate our energies on projects that are more practical while the site is s...
furrykef Learning resources 11 1,707 2010-10-18, 5:49 am
    Thread: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games
Post: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Game...

Well, I'd like them too, but that's a huge chunk of text you're talking about there. I'd like to concentrate on smaller games before moving up to really huge projects like that. (I have Zelda 3 as an ...
furrykef Learning resources 11 1,707 2010-10-18, 3:19 am
    Thread: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Games
Post: Introducing: Learning Languages Through Video Game...

A couple weeks ago I started a website called Learning Languages Through Video Games (LLTVG for short). Now that I've added a forum to the site, I think I'm ready to start posting about it everywhere,...
furrykef Learning resources 11 1,707 2010-10-18, 2:13 am
    Thread: use of iteration mark in words like 時々
Post: use of iteration mark in words like 時々

From Wikipedia: Wikipedia Wrote:The repetition mark is not used in every case where two identical characters appear side by side, but only where the repetition itself is etymologically significant. W...
furrykef The Japanese language 7 3,208 2010-10-18, 1:59 am
    Thread: Looooooooooooooooong Anki Reviews
Post: Looooooooooooooooong Anki Reviews

fleet street Wrote:I write the word down on a piece of paper Here's your problem. Don't do this. Just scribble the shape in the palm of your hand using the index finger of your other hand. I've been d...
furrykef Learning resources 38 12,533 2010-10-09, 12:47 pm
    Thread: How to kick that ol' Katakana habit?
Post: How to kick that ol' Katakana habit?

Mushi Wrote:You're *from* California, and they think they can correct you on how to say "California"?? I mean, I have a French colleague, and when she talks about "Pah-ree", I sure don't correct her ...
furrykef The Japanese language 30 8,012 2010-10-05, 12:04 pm
    Thread: Quick question: one or two 'drops' at frame 279
Post: Quick question: one or two 'drops' at frame 279

To be more precise, if I understand correctly, the "road" radical used to always have two drops. When the Tōyō and Jōyō kanji lists came about, they simplified the radical to have one drop. Any kanji ...
furrykef Remembering the Kanji 4 2,099 2010-08-01, 12:39 am
    Thread: Doing recognition only when starting sentence mining
Post: Doing recognition only when starting sentence mini...

I would strongly recommend against recognition-only. I tried it with Spanish (a much easier language than Japanese!) and I didn't get nearly as much mileage out of it as I get using production. I woul...
furrykef The Japanese language 11 4,905 2010-08-01, 12:16 am
    Thread: Use a spaced repetition system to learn Japanese!!!
Post: Use a spaced repetition system to learn Japanese!!...

I dunno about that. The point of trolling, as I understand the definition of the term, is to incite a flame war. That hasn't really happened here.
furrykef General discussion 23 7,129 2009-11-08, 10:13 pm
    Thread: Use a spaced repetition system to learn Japanese!!!
Post: Use a spaced repetition system to learn Japanese!!...

magamo Wrote:Some threads are totally random, and some are civil. The rest are insanely stupid. I don't think 2ch speak is the most practical Japanese net speech, but it'll be pretty funny if foreigne...
furrykef General discussion 23 7,129 2009-11-08, 12:31 am
    Thread: Smart.fm's new update
Post: Smart.fm's new update

brianobush Wrote:my answer: anki! I use smart.fm as a source of sentences to put into Anki. The new interface makes this more cumbersome, so it's automatically vile in my book.
furrykef Learning resources 14 3,192 2009-11-08, 12:28 am
    Thread: Katakana Fail
Post: Katakana Fail

I speak Spanish (as a foreign language) and I don't get it. EDIT: Oh. プター = "puta", i.e., "whore". Got it. It doesn't quite work, though, since I imagine most speakers will devoice the "u", resulting...
furrykef The Japanese language 133 26,159 2009-11-02, 6:43 pm
    Thread: Way off the mark
Post: Way off the mark

Welcome to the Japanese language. :P
furrykef General discussion 2 834 2009-11-02, 2:04 pm
    Thread: Anki: Everything is gone.
Post: Anki: Everything is gone.

freezes Wrote:I put my Anki program (with the folder of course) in my external hard drive and I even tried opening it from my external hard drive just to test. And it worked perfectly and everything w...
furrykef General discussion 7 3,882 2009-11-02, 2:02 pm
    Thread: Quick Tae Kim sentences question...
Post: Quick Tae Kim sentences question...

sethg Wrote:I think he might have culled them from the Tanaka Corpus, which is notoriously bad. From what I understand, most of the problems with the current Tanaka Corpus are bad translations into En...
furrykef General discussion 4 1,022 2009-11-02, 1:53 pm
    Thread: Katakana Fail
Post: Katakana Fail

yudantaiteki Wrote:Koujien says Latin. A lot of words were taken from latinized pronunciation of Greek sources. Merriam-Webster says the word itself came from New Latin, which I wouldn't really confl...
furrykef The Japanese language 133 26,159 2009-11-02, 1:47 pm
    Thread: Printed vs. Written Kanji
Post: Printed vs. Written Kanji

There are very few kanji or primitives for which handwritten forms and printed forms significantly differ. There are often variant handwritten forms, but you don't have to use them. You definitely sh...
furrykef The Japanese language 4 4,044 2009-11-02, 1:45 pm
    Thread: Mistakes in RTK1, 5th edition
Post: Mistakes in RTK1, 5th edition

(Sorry for necroposting... didn't see this post until now.) Jarvik7 Wrote:furrykef Wrote:Heisig says that map 図 contains Milky Way 斗 as an element, but does not explain that the shape and the stroke ...
furrykef Remembering the Kanji 14 6,645 2009-11-02, 6:29 am
    Thread: Amazing Kanji Ability - Strange Grammar Use.
Post: Amazing Kanji Ability - Strange Grammar Use.

Quote:the smartfm / KO sentences don't really help in practising or producing natural sentence structures to a great extent in any case, i think. (i mean, for things you might actually want to say). I...
furrykef The Japanese language 29 7,338 2009-11-02, 6:24 am
    Thread: 有る and 在る
Post: 有る and 在る

And note furthermore than when 有る and 在る appear in modern Japanese, it's usually because the typist is ワープロ馬鹿 and likes to use the IME to get as many kanji as possible. ;) So I strongly recommend agai...
furrykef Remembering the Kanji 3 1,177 2009-11-02, 6:17 am
    Thread: Amazing Kanji Ability - Strange Grammar Use.
Post: Amazing Kanji Ability - Strange Grammar Use.

IceCream Wrote:sure. but why not just actually learn the words instead instead of spending the time on the boring sentences? Because it would deprive the words of their context (not all words require ...
furrykef The Japanese language 29 7,338 2009-11-02, 5:46 am
    Thread: Amazing Kanji Ability - Strange Grammar Use.
Post: Amazing Kanji Ability - Strange Grammar Use.

brianobush Wrote:or even better, take sentence patterns, add a dash of nouns and verbs turning them into something you would like to say and study those. If you mean taking pre-made sentences and maki...
furrykef The Japanese language 29 7,338 2009-11-02, 1:59 am
    Thread: Weird handwriting for ”ふ”
Post: Weird handwriting for ”ふ”

I wouldn't go that far. Many kana have hane (the "hooks" we're talking about) in handwritten forms. Many people wouldn't write い or り without the hane on the left stroke.
furrykef The Japanese language 9 4,046 2009-11-02, 1:46 am