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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . gyuujuice Wrote:1） Make attendance a huge part of the grade -- not just the classroom but with reviewing/practice. For example, you could require 10-20 min. of Smartfm and 1 journal in lang-8 a week. ... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-16, 12:04 am | ||
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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Daichi Wrote:Get Kana out of the way within the first week or two. No reason to put it off. I'm not sure how my dream lessons for Kanji would be but I'd want to be taught something about them.... I fe... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-15, 11:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . andres9888 Wrote:. . . The reason I say this is that the kids will not focus only on learning words from text book. They will go out and try to read real material and learn how to get through it on th... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-15, 11:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Aijin Wrote:My suggestion would be to count it as homework... Self-study for classrooms is a tricky thing.... Another idea is to offer prizes for the best scores on finals/mid-terms.... All in all,... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-15, 11:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Aijin Wrote:My personal suggestion is to have students create accounts at the japan-guide.com forums, and for each grammar point they learn in the class, send a message to one of the Japanese classifi... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-15, 8:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . lang-8.com looks nice. I haven't made an account, yet, but I'll try it out sometime. I know there are negative aspects to learning in a big classroom, but a lot of learners start out that way. I di... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-15, 8:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Thank you, Aijin! I'll look for the book and check out japan-guide.com. |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-15, 6:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . Post: Describe your dream Japanese class . . . I've been away from the site for awhile, working toward finishing graduate school and looking for a job. I'm applying to teach Japanese at the college level, and I'm making up some sample syllabi to ... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 14 | 2,640 | 2011-01-15, 6:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Page 1 Vocabulary (Anki Deck) Post: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Page 1 Voc... Grinkers Wrote:This seems like the best place to ask... but how are the books in Japanese? I don't want to start a fight or anything, but I'm curious. Why read it in Japanese instead of English? I'm ... |
KristinHolly | Learning resources | 120 | 31,076 | 2009-12-30, 9:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate about religion thread Post: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate ab... I just came back to the forums briefly to wish everyone a merry Christmas and ended up catching up on most of the last few months of this thread. Wow . . . I hardly know where to begin, which probabl... |
KristinHolly | Off topic | 465 | 58,536 | 2009-12-24, 8:53 pm | ||
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Thread: please help me with my life!! ^_^ Post: please help me with my life!! ^_^ IceCream Wrote:the only careers help i ever had was at school where some computer program told me i should work in a supermarket or library or become an undertaker. ;P ... The only other work that re... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 38 | 8,157 | 2009-12-06, 5:50 am | ||
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Thread: Minimum Japanese Learning Requirements! Post: Minimum Japanese Learning Requirements! activeaero Wrote:For example: This past year I've averaged a 25+ page paper, due EVERY 8 weeks, for the entire year, in addition to my other classes. Now a lot of college kids would say "25 pages OMG... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 44 | 5,253 | 2009-10-08, 6:36 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 days? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 days? I just got a little postcard in the mail today saying I passed with 80%. I am so happy to have it over with. Thanks to everyone for the RTK website and stories and suggestions -- that really helped. |
KristinHolly | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 3,197 | 2009-09-01, 5:43 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese people are stressed because they can only read 500 Kanji. Post: Japanese people are stressed because they can only... Jarvik7 Wrote:If his girlfriend only knew 500 kanji she wasn't in university.. Maybe she didn't know the English word for the kanji and found it easier to pretend not to know the character. The poor ... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 99 | 19,314 | 2009-08-27, 5:28 am | ||
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Thread: Translation for a personal ad please? Post: Translation for a personal ad please? Just on the off chance that you're in Tokyo and willing to wait until late March . . . I have a cute little 3 cup rice cooker from Tiger (model JAU-A550). I believe it is programmable, though I haven... |
KristinHolly | The Japanese language | 24 | 4,690 | 2009-08-12, 3:34 am | ||
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Thread: 墨絵 and other art~ Post: 墨絵 and other art~ Thank you for sharing! Very nice photos. |
KristinHolly | Off topic | 1 | 586 | 2009-07-05, 9:07 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 days? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 days? Just got home from the JLPT. I don't think anything was worse than in practice, and the grammar section was considerably easier after looking at the grammar book. So I'm about 90% sure I passed, and... |
KristinHolly | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 3,197 | 2009-07-05, 2:35 am | ||
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Thread: How to prepare for JLPT 2級 by December? Post: How to prepare for JLPT 2級 by December? The hardest part of any test is whatever you happen to be worst at. So, you can help yourself by taking a practice test before you decide where to focus. Also, I just started (yesterday) using ALC's... |
KristinHolly | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 74 | 28,910 | 2009-07-03, 1:47 am | ||
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Thread: Surprising my friends with plane tickects to Japan. Best time to go? Post: Surprising my friends with plane tickects to Japan... activeaero Wrote:I think I'm going to surprise my two best friends since childhood with tickets for all three of us to go to Japan. I've already been to Tokyo but both of them have never traveled any... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 19 | 3,049 | 2009-07-02, 8:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese ebooks and ebook readers? Post: Japanese ebooks and ebook readers? Ryuujin27 Wrote:So I know ebooks aren't very popular in Japan ... It sounds like you are mostly interested in finding the appropriate hardware, about which I know little, but if you haven't seen the A... |
KristinHolly | Learning resources | 20 | 7,058 | 2009-07-02, 12:46 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 days? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 days? kazelee Wrote:Where are these mock exams? The mock exams I used were from 『あなたの弱点がわかる!日本語能力試験1級模式ｘ２』 by Unicom. There are grammar explanations, so I'm going through those now for the questions I misse... |
KristinHolly | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 3,197 | 2009-07-02, 12:34 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 days? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 days? I am taking JLPT 1 on Sunday, 3 days from now. I've been studying Japanese for a long time, but the kanji and some of the grammar tend to slip away from me. I passed a mock exam back in January, aft... |
KristinHolly | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 3,197 | 2009-07-01, 11:09 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months? ahibba Wrote:Nukemarine Wrote:Can the JLPT 1 be passed with only 1000 hours of studying. The official estimation says that you need about 900 hours to pass JLPT 1. Trouble is that the official estimat... |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 395 | 64,333 | 2009-06-30, 9:28 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1級 Summer 2009 Post: JLPT 1級 Summer 2009 I got mine last week, finally. Anyone else taking it at Kaetsu Univ. near the Hana-koganei station? 頑張りましょう! |
KristinHolly | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 2,566 | 2009-06-21, 7:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Kana or Romaji Post: Kana or Romaji I still use romaji a fair bit if I'm writing quick notes for myself on the spot somewhere. I remember being surprised once recently to see the writing come out in romaji instead of kanji -- too much ... |
KristinHolly | The Japanese language | 69 | 17,360 | 2009-06-08, 9:03 am | ||
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Thread: Anti-kanji-learning article (in jpn & eng) Post: Anti-kanji-learning article (in jpn & eng) Evil_Dragon Wrote:That in its own way seems overly optimistic for the kanji learning success rate. Maybe I'm being fooled by my mediocre Japanese skills (feel free to correct me), but doesn't it rathe... |
KristinHolly | The Japanese language | 44 | 8,786 | 2009-06-08, 8:00 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1級 Summer 2009 Post: JLPT 1級 Summer 2009 Have you gotten your confirmation and test site information, yet? Now that it is only a month away, I'm worried that maybe my application didn't go through. I haven't done any specific preparation l... |
KristinHolly | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 2,566 | 2009-06-08, 7:40 am | ||
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Thread: HELP! 3-4 Minute Speech in Japanese Post: HELP! 3-4 Minute Speech in Japanese Congratulations! |
KristinHolly | General discussion | 36 | 21,133 | 2009-04-07, 8:07 am | ||
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Thread: my name in katakana Post: my name in katakana I don't think people are going to make too much of a fuss over one kana if you explain that it's more accurate for pronunciation. I lived in Japan right after college and officially registered my nam... |
KristinHolly | Off topic | 61 | 15,072 | 2009-02-28, 10:45 pm | ||
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Thread: The weirdest clock you'll ever see Post: The weirdest clock you'll ever see It's just after midnight in Japan, and all the dancers are asleep. Even the music sounds sleepy. |
KristinHolly | Off topic | 59 | 10,595 | 2009-02-27, 10:04 am | ||
