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    Thread: Focusing on ONLY radicals?
Post: Focusing on ONLY radicals?

I am curious if anyone has had success with this. Has anyone focused purely on associating keywords with the radicals and then immediately applying them to the kanji of vocabulary words they are actu...
NyahK Remembering the Kanji 3 1,294 2011-09-01, 5:49 pm
    Thread: Help with 博多弁? What sounds OK for guys?
Post: Help with 博多弁? What sounds OK for guys?

I live around 博多 and have heard a lot of different 博多弁 during my time here. ーと? ーっちゃけど ーったい ーきんしゃった Changing ーない endings to ーん ... (ーくれんと?) やけん etc. I know there are a lot of variations/etc. I want...
NyahK The Japanese language 1 1,209 2011-08-29, 11:59 pm
    Thread: Question about ALC sentence compilations in sticky thread...
Post: Question about ALC sentence compilations in sticky...

So, regarding the ALC sentence compilations... how useful are those 6,000 daily expressions? I consider myself at a mid-intermediate level and thus already know many of these words, but there are sti...
NyahK The Japanese language 0 521 2011-02-19, 10:04 am
    Thread: Help distinguishing words such as すっきり, すっかり, ぴったり, ばっちり, etc.
Post: Help distinguishing words such as すっきり, すっかり, ぴったり...

There are a lot of words such as these that all seem similar in meaning. I am hoping someone can provide a list of the ones most commonly used and in what situations each of them most commonly appear...
NyahK The Japanese language 1 632 2011-02-17, 7:21 am
    Thread: ~の時 vs. ~のころ
Post: ~の時 vs. ~のころ

Yes, 最初 is used often, but 初めの頃 is used as well (I have verified this with a couple of people). Anyway, thanks for the responses. Seems there is no concrete explanation, though, as everyone seems to...
NyahK The Japanese language 13 6,458 2010-01-31, 6:34 am
    Thread: のほかに vs. 以外 vs. しか
Post: のほかに vs. 以外 vs. しか

彼女のほかに日本の友人 (は/が) いません。 彼女以外に日本の友人 (は/が) いません。 彼女しか日本の友人 (は/が) いません。 Sorry about the (は/が), but I wasn't sure which to use in each example. Does it matter? If so, can someone explain? Anyway, on t...
NyahK The Japanese language 0 898 2010-01-26, 9:29 pm
    Thread: ~の時 vs. ~のころ
Post: ~の時 vs. ~のころ

Thank you for your replies. Is ころ usually written in hiragana or kanji (頃)? Anyway, would the following basically be the same? 子供の時 vs. 子供の頃 16歳の時 vs. 16歳の頃 etc. From what I gather, その時 seems much...
NyahK The Japanese language 13 6,458 2010-01-26, 9:03 pm
    Thread: ~の時 vs. ~のころ
Post: ~の時 vs. ~のころ

I find myself a bit confused as to what the difference is between these two. Are they interchangeable or are there specific situations when one should be used over the other? An easy-to-follow expla...
NyahK The Japanese language 13 6,458 2010-01-25, 10:55 pm