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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
