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Thread: Hang drum session at Kyoto Uni :) Post: Hang drum session at Kyoto Uni :) Really really cool. Now I want to get one, either for myself or for one of my drummer friends. Any suggestions on where to look to find one? |
nyquil | Off topic | 8 | 1,700 | 2012-11-16, 5:07 am | ||
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Thread: Language Sci Fi Book (English) Post: Language Sci Fi Book (English) You can find a lot of info/comments on Mieville on Crooked Timber. Haven't read anything myself but it's quite high on the list of books I'll read once I stop reading exclusively Japanese. |
nyquil | Off topic | 5 | 857 | 2011-06-20, 11:41 am | ||
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Thread: working on Harry Potter Anki deck Post: working on Harry Potter Anki deck @bertoni: If this comes from the Harry Potter deck I uploaded, the sentences are taken from the dictionnaries included in the Apple Dic application: プログレッシブ英和・和英中辞典 and 大辞泉. I actually don't care much... |
nyquil | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,686 | 2011-02-20, 5:54 am | ||
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Thread: The "Where's nest0r" thread Post: The "Where's nest0r" thread Welcome back nest0r! If your current incarnation is still learning french, you might enjoy this. |
nyquil | Off topic | 29 | 7,026 | 2010-09-02, 4:59 am | ||
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Thread: Heisig, A Somewhat Lazy Approach Post: Heisig, A Somewhat Lazy Approach I tend to agree that this is a possible route and I meant to post a little about it. I think the main point is how RTK prepares your brain to have a space for the kanji. You can then use native materi... |
nyquil | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 7,318 | 2010-08-10, 7:27 am | ||
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Thread: How to say "sort of like" leaning to the positive side. Post: How to say "sort of like" leaning to the positive ... ali.najaf Wrote:I've gotten into the habit of saying 悪くないな。。。 but I'm not sure how natural that is. Mimicking the French "c'est pas mal", I used to say this too, but a Japanese friend of mind would al... |
nyquil | The Japanese language | 9 | 2,527 | 2010-08-10, 7:08 am | ||
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Thread: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows? Post: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows? Thank you for the list chochajin. And since IceCeam is here too: thank you for the drama threads you made. I watched "My girl" because you rated it for beginners and it was perfect, at least for the l... |
nyquil | General discussion | 40 | 17,394 | 2010-07-23, 6:23 am | ||
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Thread: World Cup 2010 Post: World Cup 2010 georgative Wrote:If I was in Japan I'd be watching sumo. I <3 Sumo, but it's not on TV here in the US. Did you try the streams linked to in this post? Sumo is on BS2, just figure out the schedule d... |
nyquil | Off topic | 63 | 10,641 | 2010-05-12, 7:12 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese keywords Post: Japanese keywords wrightak, do you have a new version of the Japanese keywords deck? I may give it another go. Thanks for your hard work in any case. |
nyquil | Remembering the Kanji | 410 | 149,038 | 2010-05-10, 6:08 am | ||
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Thread: After RTK1: Should I stop the reviews and move on to sentences? Post: After RTK1: Should I stop the reviews and move on ... Well I went the lazy route too, i.e. I stopped reviewing the keywords, not so much because of the reviews themselves but because of the English keywords. I tried a long time ago switching to Japanese ... |
nyquil | Remembering the Kanji | 43 | 12,635 | 2010-05-10, 6:05 am | ||
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Thread: french core 2000? Post: french core 2000? Elidan456 Wrote:You're right in every points, some of these sentences are grammaticaly incorrect, but in a spoken context, the person in front of you should be able to understand you without any diff... |
nyquil | Off topic | 70 | 23,066 | 2010-04-05, 4:36 am | ||
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Thread: french core 2000? Post: french core 2000? nest0r Wrote:@nyquil - Oh, thanks for the breakdown. Well that sucks. Why would anyone invest in having so many sentences read by a native speaker, using unnaturally literal translations? They must th... |
nyquil | Off topic | 70 | 23,066 | 2010-04-04, 3:37 am | ||
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Thread: french core 2000? Post: french core 2000? nest0r Wrote:I guess I'm wondering if you can go into more detail of what you mean? It's not a huge thing, I will explain for each sentence what feels wrong. Bear in mind that for French I can be a bi... |
nyquil | Off topic | 70 | 23,066 | 2010-04-03, 4:30 am | ||
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Thread: french core 2000? Post: french core 2000? nest0r Wrote:I found this site: http://www.example-sentence.com/french - But looks like it's been hamstrung to encourage some kind of subscription to another site, unfortunately. So I guess if you ref... |
nyquil | Off topic | 70 | 23,066 | 2010-04-02, 5:08 am | ||
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Thread: Speed reading Post: Speed reading ruiner Wrote:@nyquil We don't read by word shapes--that's what the pseudo-mythic (?) Cambridge study was suggesting, which was debunked. We process letters individually, even the most common 3-lette... |
nyquil | General discussion | 31 | 8,358 | 2010-03-24, 8:54 am | ||
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Thread: Speed reading Post: Speed reading wccrawford Wrote:The Cambridge scrambled text thing was debunked. We are able to read English quickly because the shape of the word is recognized quickly, instead of recognizing each individual chara... |
nyquil | General discussion | 31 | 8,358 | 2010-03-23, 5:54 am | ||
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Thread: Speed reading Post: Speed reading ruiner/nest0r, thank you for the summary. I don't read all your posts but it's nice to get a quick summary like this. ruiner Wrote:I believe each letter requires individual serial processing, which ... |
nyquil | General discussion | 31 | 8,358 | 2010-03-23, 5:36 am | ||
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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... Well I was mostly joking about the archaic words in Harry Potter. Aijin Wrote:In conclusion: the overuse of archaic words in the wrong company is pointless simply because it contradicts the entire p... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2010-01-20, 6:31 am | ||
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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... Tobberoth Wrote:Maybe. There is a clear difference though: native writers write in a natural language. Therefor, no matter how much they differ internally, there's no problem. While an interesting com... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2010-01-19, 11:43 am | ||
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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... I've put up a shared deck with the vocabulary for books 1 & 2 on the anki website: As noted in the description it may also include some vocabulary for "kami no shizuku", a manga about wine (fun b... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2010-01-15, 10:01 am | ||
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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... JimmySeal Wrote:Nonetheless, given the vast difference in grammar and ways of expressing things, there's no denying that translators have to make sacrifices in fidelity and naturalness translating in ... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2010-01-01, 7:18 am | ||
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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... Tobberoth Wrote:You're probably right, incorrect usage is automatically fixed from enough exposure. However, reading 7 Harry Potter books is a LOT of books and takes a lot of time, and it might be the... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2010-01-01, 4:42 am | ||
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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... Jarvik7 Wrote:In any case, a reversal of the commonly held belief (3,4) is still a disparity between translations and non-translations. But what is the damage then? Reading Harry Potter puts one at ri... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2009-12-30, 3:03 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... Jarvik7 Wrote:Ch 4.2 mentions ~5 different common characteristics. She only discusses two of them in the main part of the thesis for the sake of focus. Not from my reading. There is a list of 5 charac... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2009-12-29, 7:32 am | ||
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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... Jarvik7 Wrote:See http://repository.library.ualberta.ca/ds...l+2009.pdf for a paper about it by my former translation professor. Also: http://members.shaw.ca/yukarim/03Meldrum http://members.shaw.ca/y... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2009-12-29, 6:38 am | ||
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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... I think the Harry Potter series are great books to read before delving into native literature, provided you enjoy the story: - the setting is familiar. - there is a lot of vocabulary which is containe... |
nyquil | Learning resources | 120 | 31,183 | 2009-12-28, 6:05 pm | ||
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Thread: 人 － じん、 にん or ひと? Post: 人 － じん、 にん or ひと? heromode Wrote:I have more trouble with 所 ... しょ or じょ ... ><" Yep, me too. For the moment exposure isn't helping me very much with those. Wait and see. |
nyquil | The Japanese language | 13 | 5,709 | 2009-09-08, 10:14 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... masaman Wrote:encephalitis? I had no idea what it means but I knew 脳炎. See? if you know 脳(brain)炎（flame）, you can pretty much guess what it is. I completely agree and I love this aspect of kanji (when... |
nyquil | General discussion | 99 | 19,314 | 2009-08-29, 3:37 am | ||
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Thread: Working with NHK 高校講座' pdf files-sentence minning Post: Working with NHK 高校講座' pdf files-sentence minning For anyone with a mac, you can use the free Soundflower to route system audio output to any other software (Audacity for example) and record it. |
nyquil | General discussion | 29 | 8,739 | 2009-07-05, 6:29 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese keywords for RTK! Post: Japanese keywords for RTK! I've been thinking about making the change to Japenese keywords several times and I am not sure how much I can gain from it. Still, I agree with wrightak that if your story is a strong image/situation... |
nyquil | General discussion | 32 | 7,463 | 2009-07-02, 7:32 am | ||
