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    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

ktcgx Wrote:has obtained certificates to C2 in several other languages. Just curious, in which languages did he pass a C2?
watashimo General discussion 856 195,486 2014-10-31, 4:28 pm
    Thread: Audio Lesson Studio
Post: Audio Lesson Studio

Thanks for this wonderful tool. This was just what I had been looking for since I read about the Glossika sentence method. Just created my first file with a split up audio. I have a question: Is it ...
watashimo Learning resources 35 23,395 2014-10-13, 12:58 pm
    Thread: Rikai + Android
Post: Rikai + Android

Hi Ray, Jade Reader is wonderful. Exactly what I've been looking for. I've been using it for close to a week now (reading 君にしか聞こえない), and your tool has helped me a lot. There's only one issue that I h...
watashimo Learning resources 43 32,675 2014-09-17, 5:07 pm
    Thread: Japanese live-action TV for snobs/discerning people?
Post: Japanese live-action TV for snobs/discerning peopl...

The Long Goodbye (with Asano Tadanobu as Philip Marlowe) 坂の上の雲 (most expensive Japanese TV drama) 風林火山 (my favorite NHK Taiga drama) And I second Penance/贖罪 by Kurosawa Kyoshi. And if you like the dr...
watashimo General discussion 53 13,825 2014-06-24, 5:30 pm
    Thread: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated?
Post: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated?

Uh, I probably watch more movies from Japan than from any other country right now. Some active Japanese directors from the past ten years that I really like besides Miike, Kitano and Sono Sion: -Yamad...
watashimo Off topic 42 7,737 2013-05-28, 7:08 pm
    Thread: Core6K in Heisig order
Post: Core6K in Heisig order

I can't find it. Just looked at nukemarine's optimized Core2k/6k spreadsheet and other spreadsheets from his thread and I just can't find any with a Heisig index.
watashimo Learning resources 4 1,182 2012-12-23, 2:38 pm
    Thread: Core6K in Heisig order
Post: Core6K in Heisig order

Hi, I'm sure there is a spreadsheet out there with all the sentences from the core2k/6k decks in Heisig order or at least with a Heisig index. I downloaded the optimized Core6k, which is a wonderful d...
watashimo Learning resources 4 1,182 2012-12-22, 7:46 pm
    Thread: Dramas based in Nagoya
Post: Dramas based in Nagoya

chamcham Wrote:As of now, the current Asadora is Carnation: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Carnation This one takes place in Kansai. But most Asadora are from more obscure regions of Japan. Where can I do...
watashimo Off topic 5 1,919 2012-01-10, 8:46 am
    Thread: Article - The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades'
Post: Article - The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades'

May 25 (Reuters) - Japan's net foreign assets hit a record high of 266.2 trillion yen ($2.958 trillion) at the end of last year, making it the world's top creditor nation for the 19th straight yea...
watashimo Off topic 7 1,670 2011-02-28, 3:51 am
    Thread: Japanese sitcoms - do they exist?
Post: Japanese sitcoms - do they exist?

I love this one: やっぱり猫が好き With the cast from 「かもめ食堂」
watashimo General discussion 6 5,012 2010-12-09, 6:22 pm
    Thread: Autumn 2009 Drama Rankings
Post: Autumn 2009 Drama Rankings

You haven`t watched JIN yet? I`d rate that one as my personal favourite so far. Genre: Historical/Medical Cast: Osawa Takao, Ayase Haruka, Nakatani Miki, Uchino Masaaki Osawa Takao plays a surgeon ...
watashimo General discussion 56 29,033 2009-11-21, 9:22 am
    Thread: Lots of new Japanese subs for the new Japanese drama season
Post: Lots of new Japanese subs for the new Japanese dra...

Thanks for the pdf chamcham. I`ve printed out stuff from dramanote but never did this for the subtitle files. Is there a way to print the subtitles without the timecode? Don`t want to waste too much ...
watashimo General discussion 43 18,793 2009-11-11, 6:50 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Wow, haven`t noticed this thread before. Learnt a lot of things just by skimming through the posts. And a great opportunity to ask a question myself. I just received an email and stumbled over this se...
watashimo The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,160 2009-10-16, 4:14 am
    Thread: 出稼ぎ, the Brazilian-born Japanese that the gov't wants gone
Post: 出稼ぎ, the Brazilian-born Japanese that the gov't wa...

But these people are German, it`s just that their ancestors emigrated to Russia and unlike the Germans in Romania they adopted to Russia and lost their culture and language.
watashimo General discussion 87 11,741 2009-08-02, 11:49 am
    Thread: 出稼ぎ, the Brazilian-born Japanese that the gov't wants gone
Post: 出稼ぎ, the Brazilian-born Japanese that the gov't wa...

BTW, Germany has a similar situation with the "Russian Germans", the German minority groups in Russia that "came back" to Germany during the 90s. A large part of this group spoke either basic German o...
watashimo General discussion 87 11,741 2009-08-02, 11:14 am
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

I`m currently reading Donald Keene`s autobiography "Chronicles of my life". After Pearl Harbor they recruited talented students to train them as Japanese interpreters/translators. Back then, there wer...
watashimo General discussion 395 64,340 2009-06-02, 2:27 am
    Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder?
Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese...

A Japanese friend of mine told me that she has been reading newspapers in Japnese since 4th grade. And I seem to remember an article that states that most American don`t reach a decent level of lite...
watashimo General discussion 225 39,101 2009-03-10, 9:42 am
    Thread: Writing&Listening=Up but....Speaking=Down
Post: Writing&Listening=Up but....Speaking=Down

My recommendation: Shadowing. When I got started I put my Assimil lessons on my mp3-player and did nothing else but shadowing. I left my apartment early in the morning with my headphones on and shad...
watashimo Learning resources 30 4,334 2009-03-05, 3:47 am
    Thread: How long do you think it takes to be fluent in Japanese?
Post: How long do you think it takes to be fluent in Jap...

JLPT3?!? I`m around JLPT2 level and I found it rather tough to make my way through his books. That`s why I put his books back to my shelf to spend more time with the works of Yoshimoto Banana, which i...
watashimo Off topic 132 22,581 2009-02-09, 6:23 am
    Thread: How long do you think it takes to be fluent in Japanese?
Post: How long do you think it takes to be fluent in Jap...

At the JLPT 2008 I met a guy from the Netherlands who`s been studying Japanese for nearly three years. He told me that he`s reading Murakami Haruki in Japanese just for fun. That doesn`t mean that he`...
watashimo Off topic 132 22,581 2009-02-07, 5:33 am
    Thread: FLNewsBrowser for Mac
Post: FLNewsBrowser for Mac

I was just looking around for Japanese News with English transcripts. Couldn`t find what I was looking for, but stumbled across this tool that could be useful for some Mac users: http://mac.softpedia....
watashimo Learning resources 0 596 2009-01-30, 5:09 pm
    Thread: News Discussion
Post: News Discussion

Just thought that it would be nice to translate some of these news items. Other members could use these as parallel texts. I`ve found lots of parallel texts for Japanese-English (worked on a few by my...
watashimo General discussion 32 5,843 2008-12-21, 4:36 pm
    Thread: 10 hours of studying a day
Post: 10 hours of studying a day

Around two years ago I did study Japanese up to 10 hours a day. Helped me to reach conversational level in just a few months. (SRS + hours of shadowing). Vocabulary and complicated sentence structures...
watashimo General discussion 56 18,463 2008-12-18, 3:16 am
    Thread: Kanji speed reading or Reading speed
Post: Kanji speed reading or Reading speed

I kind of speed-read through the JLPT2 reading part (skimming through the texts to find the relevant parts), so I guess that it shouldn`t be much of a problem for Japanese people to do it properly. Ju...
watashimo General discussion 8 3,543 2008-12-16, 3:27 am
    Thread: Migrating Heisig to Anki - need suggestions
Post: Migrating Heisig to Anki - need suggestions

I like this site, so I never considered moving my Heisig reviews to Anki. Well, due to the fact that I was cut off from the internet for a longer period of time I`ve now changed my mind. Problem is t...
watashimo Learning resources 57 9,567 2008-12-14, 2:11 am
    Thread: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use
Post: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use

joxn_costello Wrote:and alyks, who invented an interesting method based on Heisig for learning readings along with meanings. Haven`t been here for awhile. Where can I find more information on alyks`s ...
watashimo General discussion 65 18,393 2008-12-12, 11:11 am
    Thread: Why Japanese?
Post: Why Japanese?

@kazelee: You are not alone. On my list: Korean, Chinese(Cantonese), Cambodian, Romanian, Italian, Russian.
watashimo General discussion 63 8,713 2008-08-29, 2:45 am
    Thread: Why Japanese?
Post: Why Japanese?

Never cared for Japan or Japanese back in highschool. I loved HK films, but didn't care about videogames or animes. Things changed when I saw my first Japanese film: Hana-Bi by Kitano Takeshi. Add oth...
watashimo General discussion 63 8,713 2008-08-27, 7:48 am
    Thread: My Japanese roommate!
Post: My Japanese roommate!

AJATT works. I went to Japanese classes at university and dropped out after two months. The only person from that course who's fluent in Japanese now has spent a year in Japan. I studied Japanese on...
watashimo General discussion 32 6,213 2008-08-23, 2:37 am
    Thread: A good amount to review each day? / Managing the workload
Post: A good amount to review each day? / Managing the w...

I did my reviews first thing in the morning. Nothing and nobody to distract you. And I did have 200-300 reviews.
watashimo Remembering the Kanji 21 3,564 2008-08-17, 4:42 pm