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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
