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    Thread: Free Bilingual resources
Post: Free Bilingual resources

Chancham, it's a free country. You're free to ignore it. It wasn't an advertisement, and if you notice the content of the articles that were posted, they are general interest. Can't get more general i...
atomiton Group study 18 8,431 2010-05-22, 7:51 pm
    Thread: Free Bilingual resources
Post: Free Bilingual resources

Are you seriously making a comparison to white nationalists? Gimme a break. Anyway, a listing of all the articles on plants and animals available here: http://www.watchtower.org/j/archives/index.htm#...
atomiton Group study 18 8,431 2010-04-05, 10:38 pm
    Thread: Free Bilingual resources
Post: Free Bilingual resources

nest0r Wrote:There's also: http://www.scientology.jp/ ^_- Very true... but there are fewer general interest articles. [^.^] That's why I linked to the sloth... it's about the pace of my Japanese stud...
atomiton Group study 18 8,431 2010-04-05, 6:58 pm
    Thread: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application.
Post: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application.

I'd be interested in doing testing. I don't develop in Obj-C but I can read it. I'm an iTouch guy, though. Not that I'm being selfish... but making the app an off-line synchronizing app would open th...
atomiton General discussion 76 29,475 2010-04-05, 6:47 pm
    Thread: Free Bilingual resources
Post: Free Bilingual resources

Hi all, I thought I'd point you guys to a resource that you may not have thought about. The site is translated into hundreds of languages and the translations are pretty much identical. Japanese: h...
atomiton Group study 18 8,431 2010-03-30, 2:12 am
    Thread: Americans Fluent in Japanese -Youtube Video
Post: Americans Fluent in Japanese -Youtube Video

ta12121 Wrote:Smackle Wrote:Are you serious about MASTERING 2-3 languages in just 7 years? Pretty much for Japanese i'm 100% serious in mastering it. But for other languages, not sure just yet. I need...
atomiton General discussion 28 6,915 2010-03-13, 1:27 am
    Thread: Thread for cool people who do 100+ a day. 30 kanji people stay out.
Post: Thread for cool people who do 100+ a day. 30 kanj...

Crap! I did 99 today. I'm no longer awesome. Can I make up for it by doing 101 tomorrow?
atomiton Remembering the Kanji 72 18,409 2010-03-08, 11:20 pm
    Thread: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on youtube
Post: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on y...

My wife says that she sounds like Tohoku-ben. She uses the same words and repeats herself a lot but pretty good, anyway.
atomiton General discussion 120 27,250 2010-03-05, 10:59 pm
    Thread: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?
Post: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?

I second http://www.youtube.com/user/cookingwithdog Awesome video blog. I made the オムライス for my JP wife when she was sick. Super easy, very well laid out instructions. Better instructions than any c...
atomiton Off topic 53 13,324 2010-02-09, 7:27 pm
    Thread: Finished RTK1, what now? (need advice)
Post: Finished RTK1, what now? (need advice)

They may take 9 years ( The last three years are non-jouyou ), but they also internalize the kanji, learn how to write it elegantly, practice writing it elegantly, learn readings and multiple meanings...
atomiton Learning resources 30 5,360 2010-02-09, 2:23 am
    Thread: Politically Correct: Word usage
Post: Politically Correct: Word usage

Just as gay changed from its meaning of "happy" to "homosexual" it's now changing to something akin to "lame" English has other cases where two words are spelled the same but have different meanings....
atomiton General discussion 231 30,700 2010-02-05, 3:46 pm
    Thread: At 500, but..
Post: At 500, but..

Interesting method. Thanks for that. I end up doing something similar. The RTK "day" ends at 10PM for me. That's when new reviews come in. So, after 10PM, I study the ones that I want to add ( from t...
atomiton Remembering the Kanji 46 9,200 2010-02-01, 12:53 pm
    Thread: きみ、あなた、& おまえ
Post: きみ、あなた、& おまえ

Well sort of... そちら is a very indirect way of introducing someone. そちらは田中さんです。It's sort of like saying, over here [ in this direction] is Mr. Tanaka. そちら by itself is rude, and is equivalent to callin...
atomiton The Japanese language 53 11,887 2010-01-26, 8:38 pm
    Thread: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese
Post: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese

I used http://www.nihongoresources.com//media/flash/kana.swf as a flash card program for the Kana. You can turn off the ones you don't want to learn and I just went right to left, getting faster and f...
atomiton General discussion 98 13,962 2010-01-19, 1:05 pm
    Thread: World's most difficult languages
Post: World's most difficult languages

Since the article was written in English, I think it is assumed that "World's hardest language" applies pretty much to English speakers. That being said, French seems easy to me... English has a heav...
atomiton General discussion 54 10,492 2010-01-06, 3:09 am
    Thread: best offline dictionary?
Post: best offline dictionary?

I use "Japanese" for iPod Touch. It has just enough information without too much.
atomiton General discussion 21 13,236 2009-12-25, 4:30 am
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

"Japanese" by CodeFromTokyo is one of the best "dictionary" apps out there. Version 1.0 wasn't worth the price, but version 2 is MUCH improved. That being said, it should be a $9.99 app... I'm su...
atomiton Learning resources 128 54,989 2009-12-19, 12:55 am
    Thread: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for study?
Post: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for s...

ahibba Wrote:Thank you very much, atomiton. I'm very happy to find the JW translation in Japanese online. Is there a printed version with furigana? If I remember correctly, the printed version indeed...
atomiton General discussion 110 28,120 2009-11-06, 4:09 pm
    Thread: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for study?
Post: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for s...

ahibba Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:True Believers are desperate to convert people so they'll give out copies for free. Unfortunately, it is hard to find them in my place. magamo Wrote:It's translation is so...
atomiton General discussion 110 28,120 2009-11-06, 11:13 am
    Thread: I don't quite get how mnemonics work from a kanji-based context.
Post: I don't quite get how mnemonics work from a kanji-...

I tend to think in pictures or stories or examples when I explain things to people so examples often work best for me. I tend to be visual... however my sun Up to sun DOWN is auditory. Do a search fo...
atomiton Remembering the Kanji 13 5,162 2007-05-16, 1:18 pm