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    Thread: Flying Witch!
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(2016-06-17, 11:31 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: Ahh, I just discovered this (current season) Anime, and I'm really enjoying it. It's a tranquil, slice-of-life sort of show that reminds me a whole lot o...
ariariari Off topic 12 500 2016-06-18, 2:54 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-17, 7:55 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: (2016-06-17, 7:20 pm)RawrPk Wrote: That's awesome! Actually I feel my vocab has improved when I actually don't worry so much about my progress. Extensive read...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-18, 11:27 am
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-17, 7:36 pm)yogert909 Wrote: (2016-06-17, 7:28 pm)ariariari Wrote: The irony is that I don't even like amusement parts. Which parts don't you like? :D Idk, I guess the whole thing. I gue...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-17, 7:41 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-17, 7:21 pm)yogert909 Wrote: I've been getting a lot of 遊園地 lately too.  Maybe it's global phenomenon involving comet dust and magnetic storms. The irony is that I don't even like amusemen...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-17, 7:28 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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here's another one regarding word blindness. I just went back to yotsubato to finish the first issue. (I read the first half a few days ago, and posted about reading "出勤"). Well, this time I noticed...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-17, 6:11 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Yay - just finished kanji chapter 15. Feels like a slog recently, so it's nice to have the milestone.
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-17, 5:12 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Some people here are seriously good at Japanese. [Image: http://www.meaningfulideas.com/wp-conten...ect-yo.jpg]
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-14, 6:46 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-14, 2:14 pm)yogert909 Wrote: (2016-06-14, 1:42 pm)ariariari Wrote: But I was also out with a friend recently who just passed the N1. He just started memorizing the 4 kanji phrases (yojiju...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-14, 2:31 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-14, 1:20 pm)gaiaslastlaugh Wrote: (2016-06-14, 11:58 am)ariariari Wrote: That feeling when you learn a word from a textbook, pick up some native material, and immediately see it plastered...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-14, 1:42 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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That feeling when you learn a word from a textbook, pick up some native material, and immediately see it plastered all over the native material :) In my case that word is 出勤. Just learned it in my ka...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-14, 11:58 am
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-12, 3:32 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Why don't you guys try to watch it more often? The time we really learn things is when we go to bed and our brains finally get to organize everything properly i...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-12, 3:54 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Overall things are going well. I really wanted to take a break this week, because I was crunching hard for my "JLPT anniversary" goal last Sunday. And I pretty much did that. I pretty much just coas...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-12, 3:48 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-12, 12:27 am)RawrPk Wrote: Had to watch shirokuma ep 22 twice! I just couldn't understand much of it with the English subs. Another Penguin centered episode of course. More info on the epis...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-12, 2:36 pm
    Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE
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Thank you pm215!
ariariari General discussion 96 30,120 2016-06-12, 2:23 pm
    Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE
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Thank anotherjohn!
ariariari General discussion 96 30,120 2016-06-12, 12:01 pm
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I'm adding in sentences from shin kanzen N3 grammar and want to make sure I am translating this correctly. The grammar point is 〜ほどだ 傘をさすほどではないが、少し雨が降っている。 Is this translation correct? There was so...
ariariari General discussion 96 30,120 2016-06-12, 11:12 am
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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So, another anniversary of the JLPT, another update: Compared to last month: Mature grammar cards: 572 (June) - 568 (May) = +4 Mature Kanji cards: 707 (June) - 715 (May) = -8 Mature vocab cards: 4,87...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-05, 11:37 am
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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And just finished the 2nd chapter in my grammar book, along with the review for the first 2 chapters. Another nice milestone for the month. I think next month I'll try and add 1 new card a day for gra...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-04, 5:28 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Nice little milestone today. Last month I set a goal of finishing 1 chapter a week of my kanji book, and I just finished it today: [Image: http://s33.postimg.org/jvpi8zwl7/kanji_book.jpg] You can se...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-04, 4:41 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who posted suggestions to me about how to deal with this problem I've been having with grammar!
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-02, 12:40 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-06-01, 11:57 pm)RawrPk Wrote: Time for the monthly Anki stats! I put a reminder in my Calendar app so I don't forget ;) [Image: http://i.imgur.com/WTYs9fv.png] Mature Core 2k/6k cards: 231 (t...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-02, 11:10 am
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Yeah, so I slept on this and decided to try and branch out with my reading. The questions were really technical (at least for me)! Like, should it be 間 or 間に here, should it be dictionary form here o...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-06-01, 11:55 am
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-05-31, 8:40 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: (2016-05-31, 8:05 pm)ariariari Wrote: Has anyone else had trouble with answering grammar questions from the JLPT, despite having a good foundation in th...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-05-31, 8:46 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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So today I finished adding in all the cards from chapter 2 of my grammar book. I decided to start the next section, which was the review questions from the first 2 chapters. My results are very mixe...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-05-31, 8:05 pm
    Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game?
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Hey there. For a while I was using a study approach that might be applicable for you. Basically, for vocabulary, I had 2 decks. One was called "In Class" and one was called "Out of Class". For a whi...
ariariari General discussion 39 1,666 2016-05-31, 6:56 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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And another one: I just watched my weekly shirokuma episode. For the second time I watched it once without subtitles, and then with English subtitles. It really does help me a lot. I also think that,...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-05-29, 2:08 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Quick update: I finished chapter 13 of my kanji book this morning (only 1 mistake!), so I'm keeping in line with my goal of 1 chapter a week this month.
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-05-29, 11:12 am
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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Man oh man. I just finished the first 内容理科 question in "drill and drill" book and wow was it hard! I only got 1 out of the 3 questions correct, despite totally understanding the gist of the passage.
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-05-27, 7:13 pm
    Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread
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(2016-05-26, 3:53 am)EratiK Wrote: (2016-05-22, 5:20 pm)ariariari Wrote: So I just did something I hadn't done in a while. After watching my weekly shirokuma episode I decided to watch it with sub...
ariariari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 355 39,567 2016-05-26, 4:10 pm
    Thread: Studying medicine in Japan
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(2012-06-16, 4:15 pm)dizmox Wrote: Today I asked an experienced doctor from Japan about it. She said she's never seen or heard about a single foreign doctor there. (2012-06-16, 1:01 am)kitakitsune...
ariariari Off topic 17 5,319 2016-05-25, 9:18 am