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    Thread: JLPT 2012 Results!
Post: JLPT 2012 Results!

I passed N1 too ... I was so happy when I saw the results! My score was: 言語知識: 40/60 読解: 44/60 聴解: 32/60 Total Score: 116/180 A in voc. and B in grammar That's not a big surprise because I never act...
Asakk JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 96 25,550 2013-02-02, 8:13 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

yudantaiteki Wrote:Asakk Wrote:May someone help me? What does this mean exactly?? : 妖しくもきらびやかな世界観は多くの人々を酔わせ、熱狂 させてきた。 It's just to make sure I understand, thank you in advance You've posted this twice...
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2010-04-12, 9:08 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

May someone help me? What does this mean exactly?? : 妖しくもきらびやかな世界観は多くの人々を酔わせ、熱狂 させてきた。 It's just to make sure I understand, thank you in advance
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2010-03-25, 12:55 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

May someone help me? What does this mean exactly?? : 妖しくもきらびやかな世界観は多くの人々を酔わせ、熱狂 させてきた。 It's just to make sure I understand, thank you in advance =)
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2010-03-21, 5:04 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Sorry, I've been having trouble with the word 'くらい' for sometime, and would like to know what this phrase means exactly x_x: "身だしなみじゃないですか?大人の男の。そのくらいは最低限知っておかないと。" I have put the rest for context und...
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2010-03-13, 7:57 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

mr_hans_moleman Wrote:Asakk Wrote:"僕、わりとちっちゃい頃から興味あったんですよ。人一倍映画が好きですごい観てる人でもないけど、なんかいいなと思ってたんで。なんだろう?" 僕、わりとちっちゃい頃から興味あったんですよ I've been interested in it ever since I was little. 人一倍映画が好きですごい観てる人でもない...
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2010-03-08, 3:46 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Hello, while reading a magazine article about "home theaters" there's a part where they ask someone about since when the person has got an interest in home theaters. But I didn't really got the answer...
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2010-03-07, 7:56 pm
    Thread: Nintendo DS Games (japanese immersion environment)
Post: Nintendo DS Games (japanese immersion environment)

As someone suggested, Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten is a MUST if you have DS and is learning japanese =) Really, my life got sooo much better with this dictionary...it's easier to use if you don't kno...
Asakk General discussion 33 14,761 2010-01-05, 5:33 pm
    Thread: On to beginning jap - jap sentences. Help please
Post: On to beginning jap - jap sentences. Help please

thank you all for the advice, I already changed the card and added other ones following it :) Oh, and thank you for the dictionary advice too.. oops, I'm sorry, I didn't intend to offend anyone, just ...
Asakk General discussion 9 5,513 2009-12-31, 10:17 am
    Thread: On to beginning jap - jap sentences. Help please
Post: On to beginning jap - jap sentences. Help please

Hello I started learning Japanese this year. I did RTK and KO since my prior knowledge of Japanese was nothing. So now I'm going to mine my own sentences. My idea was to go jap - jap right from the s...
Asakk General discussion 9 5,513 2009-12-30, 8:04 pm
    Thread: Company shopping for you and shipping from Japan?
Post: Company shopping for you and shipping from Japan?

YogaSpirit Wrote:Asakk, what is your criteria to consider http://www.crescent-shop.com/ as the best? Because with other services that buy auctions for you, you need to e-mail them asking them to bid f...
Asakk General discussion 14 2,729 2009-09-13, 11:07 pm
    Thread: Company shopping for you and shipping from Japan?
Post: Company shopping for you and shipping from Japan?

http://www.crescent-shop.com/ the best in my opinion, at least for buying in Yahoo auctions
Asakk General discussion 14 2,729 2009-09-10, 4:27 pm
    Thread: Where to buy manga (UK)
Post: Where to buy manga (UK)

you could try buying used manga in yahoo auctions japan (yes, you can't buy there if you don't live in Japan, but there's a way...)
Asakk General discussion 9 6,543 2009-09-06, 9:10 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

hello, I'm doing KO and got to this sentence: 日本の文化についての本を読んだ。私の国の文化と違うので、おもしろかった。 I don't understand the "と" particle in "私の国の文化と違うので" , I thought it should be another one, may somone explain it to ...
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2009-08-27, 10:14 pm
    Thread: Counter Productive Production.
Post: Counter Productive Production.

And what do you guys think about "listening"? I have a deck where the cards are recognition and listening, and listening takes a lot of time to review. Do you think it's a waste of time to do?
Asakk General discussion 25 3,125 2009-08-22, 11:01 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

ocircle Wrote:Asakk Wrote:よって It's a word meaning "depending on" 土地によって: "Depending on the soil...." ah,thank you very much :)
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2009-08-20, 12:17 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Studying the smart.fm KO list I came with this sentence "土地によって衣食住は変化する。". I looked up at dictionaries, but couldn't understand what よって means in this sentence, may someone help me? Thank you.
Asakk The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,622 2009-08-20, 10:49 am
    Thread: RTK : am I correct or wrong? Am I cheating?
Post: RTK : am I correct or wrong? Am I cheating?

I think it's better to not have the story on the question side (you can put it there with white color so you'll have to select the story to read it in case you fail the kanji). I used to have the st...
Asakk Off topic 24 5,307 2009-08-14, 9:35 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

sorry, may I ask a question? I used the plugin to import all the sentences to anki. Now I study them on smart.fm (and when I say study I mean that I hear the audio, read the sentence, identify each wo...
Asakk Group study 304 90,289 2009-08-14, 7:08 pm
    Thread: Lion King JPN dub on YouTube
Post: Lion King JPN dub on YouTube

Thank you, already downloaded it in case it gets deleted :D
Asakk Learning resources 57 22,411 2009-08-03, 5:46 pm
    Thread: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS
Post: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS

wow, thank you for the Chrono Trigger script :) Chrono Trigger is my favorite game ever, and I just got a DSi and decided to get the japanese version, since I've been through the entire game around 20...
Asakk Learning resources 231 128,203 2009-08-02, 11:41 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Finished after 3,7 months and an average of 18,5 cards per day \o/ Aaaah, I can't wait to study real japanese now :) Thank's for your wonderful stories, I used about 50 or 60% of them , and made the r...
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,758 2009-08-02, 12:24 pm
    Thread: Frame 155 圭
Post: Frame 155 圭

well, there's an artist with this name as you can see here: http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/%E5%9C%AD =)
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 15 6,463 2009-07-23, 9:00 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Just did 1545, so more than 3/4 of the way done. According to Anki my deck was created 3 months ago, and I had planned to finish it in 3 months when I was beginning. Buuut it doesn't matter, I'm happy...
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 462 138,228 2009-07-13, 10:15 pm
    Thread: ANKI users: What's the furthest due card in your RTK deck?
Post: ANKI users: What's the furthest due card in your R...

6.2 months for 首
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 20 2,986 2009-06-28, 10:49 am
    Thread: Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)?
Post: Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)...

I'm also not an native english speaker and couldn't understand what float was either, so I used it as the verb 'to float', and I think I did good stories, anyway...
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 16 7,143 2009-06-13, 6:20 pm
    Thread: Most failed Kanji
Post: Most failed Kanji

now that I saw about that on anki, most of my top 5 failed kanji are from the beginning of the book...hm... 晶 - at the beginning I used to put 2 suns above and one down, nowadays I put the sun avove t...
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 30 8,563 2009-06-13, 6:18 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

I'm at kanji 1060 now...it's a great feeling. I remember when I was beginning, and used to look at the kanji 1000 and so, thinking how much it would take to get there, and I'm already there. I feel th...
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 616 180,497 2009-06-05, 10:49 pm
    Thread: Lesson 23 is a BEAST
Post: Lesson 23 is a BEAST

I'm doing lesson 23 too :D...I'm in kanji 674 right now... It's a long lesson, and the stories with "finger" are not very easy (well,most of them), but I plan to finish it by friday...:)...and almost ...
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 17 5,075 2009-05-21, 2:37 pm
    Thread: RTK Beginner
Post: RTK Beginner

but the hints Heisig gives to memorize these 15 (if you don't know them) is quite useful...
Asakk Remembering the Kanji 15 2,135 2009-05-17, 3:11 pm