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    Thread: Trip to Canada/US
Post: Trip to Canada/US

Yeah, time flew by so quickly since I left high-school and could graduate med school half-way! Due to administrative reasons I have to take a one year break and could find a full-time occupation in a ...
Tori-kun Off topic 6 889 2015-11-04, 11:52 am
    Thread: Trip to Canada/US
Post: Trip to Canada/US

Hey guys, how's it going? :) As I have started working full-time in a hospital now and earning some decent money, I am thinking of taking a 3 week vacation and discovering some spots in Canada (takin...
Tori-kun Off topic 6 889 2015-11-03, 2:40 pm
    Thread: Do physicians in Japan write their prescriptions in kana?
Post: Do physicians in Japan write their prescriptions i...

Am I the only future-to-be doc with legible handwriting?! :D People mock me already now T_T
Tori-kun Off topic 17 3,137 2015-02-16, 8:50 am
    Thread: ブログ始めやした
Post: ブログ始めやした

はーい、生きてるよ。ごめんね、あんまりmoderatorのうつわじゃありませんね、俺w てか、役に立ってないね:D 残念なことに毎日の日本語の勉強をやめてから日本語能力が随分低下しちゃった気がしてる…。 drdunlapさんのブログを読んだら日本語を理解するのはどれでも難しくなっちゃったかとちょっとびっくりしたけど、同時にそのちょっとだけわかった言葉(しかも関西弁に書かれた多くの言葉)にわくわく...
Tori-kun Off topic 27 8,245 2014-11-03, 1:02 pm
    Thread: ブログ始めやした
Post: ブログ始めやした

drdunlap: バンバン記事を投稿して下さい。関西弁とても可笑しいんです(笑) 1年間もハンガリーに住んできた僕。全くデブじゃなかったのにビールが安すぎるのでその一年間ですごく太っちゃった~ ダイエットを始めることあるいは筋トレしようと思いますけど、医学生のresponsibilitiesのせいであんまり時間作れそうもないなあー ハンガリーからよろしく☆
Tori-kun Off topic 27 8,245 2014-11-03, 9:44 am
    Thread: Wanting to travel to Japan next summer, advice?
Post: Wanting to travel to Japan next summer, advice?

Don't go in summer T_T
Tori-kun General discussion 20 4,094 2014-08-18, 1:06 pm
    Thread: 日本語中級会話 (Japanese Only)
Post: 日本語中級会話 (Japanese Only)

ハンガリーの医学部の一年生で6ヶ月ぐらい日本語喋ってないので会話力がずいぶん悪くなったはずだけど…。Kudos~
Tori-kun General discussion 237 101,079 2014-02-27, 11:27 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

@Betelgeuzah: It stands for ご面倒をかける like in ご迷惑をかける. It was simply formalised by saying おかけします :) Regards from Hungary btw lol
Tori-kun The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,035 2013-11-09, 5:30 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

Took the N2 in Düsseldorf. Will we be sent the certificates for free to the given adress or do we have to order it?
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-08-30, 4:10 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

IN YOUR FACE. Total score 151 / 180 Vocab/Grammar 52 / 60 Reading 51 / 60 Listening 48 / 60 Vocab A Grammar A And I thought I would definitely fail lol Big party tomorrow.
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-08-29, 4:03 pm
    Thread: Song from 복수는 나의 것
Post: Song from 복수는 나의 것

Can someone tell me what "korean enka" means in Korean and how this folk (?) song is called that is played in the film once or twice?
Tori-kun Off topic 1 416 2013-07-31, 5:11 am
    Thread: Number of words for N2
Post: Number of words for N2

Mostly in the JLPT N2 they will make annotations for difficult words and explain them but for me it was always a hassle jumping down to the end of the page and read the explanations. I was blessed wit...
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 6 2,839 2013-07-25, 3:43 am
    Thread: passive skills into active skills
Post: passive skills into active skills

I'm having an eye on the development of this thread.
Tori-kun General discussion 17 4,244 2013-07-21, 6:02 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

おも‐くるし・い【重苦しい】__形__ 1) 圧迫されるようで息苦しく感じる。「胸が─」 2) 押さえつけられるようで気分が晴れない。「場内に─空気が漂う」「─沈黙が続く」 You're right I think T_T
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-07-16, 5:24 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

Quick question on the vocab section of the test. Was つらい or 重苦しい correct for the sentence that went along the lines of "parting from my friends gives me a ____ feeling."? I chose the first :s
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-07-16, 4:59 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

vonPeterhof Wrote:I think I went with 差し上げます, but I'm also not entirely sure. I still can't believe I got こうぎ wrong! I was certain about the first kanji thanks to RTK, but for some reason I thought th...
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-07-10, 12:13 pm
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

@Nagareboshi: 久しぶりー Well, the last long text before the "advertisement" was an excerpt from 潰れない生き方 and it kind of matched with my life phase now and that's why it was really nice reading it in the t...
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-07-10, 6:20 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

甘い does mean something like 手緩い here, if that helps you. "not strict/lax/lenient". Probably some construction wasn't done properly and there are some 手抜き in it? Have no idea about the second sentence...
Tori-kun The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,035 2013-07-09, 3:45 pm
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

For the Vocabulary/Grammar part (N2), I just blazed through it. Like that I had more time for the 読解, which was, in terms of difficulty of texts, easier than what I have practiced, however, I don't kn...
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-07-09, 3:23 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2013
Post: JLPT July 2013

Good luck to everyone taking the July exam tomorrow!! :D
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 18,233 2013-07-06, 2:19 pm
    Thread: Kansai-ben Podcasts
Post: Kansai-ben Podcasts

@drdunlap: Thanks for reminding me what this podcast was all about :s I totally forgot that. I just remembered having had something on my iTunes that had a lot of Kansai-ben in it. ったく
Tori-kun Learning resources 11 2,375 2013-06-17, 9:31 am
    Thread: Kansai-ben Podcasts
Post: Kansai-ben Podcasts

Not sure if it's your taste and if it is entirely Kansai-ben, but I think I spotted some in here: http://blog.fmosaka.net/tenga/podcast.xml
Tori-kun Learning resources 11 2,375 2013-06-17, 7:07 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Onelove_yo Wrote:I don't think I've seen this this v+te+bakari+iru form before, and I definitely haven't studied it, but my intuition tells me it means something like "It kinda seems like I'm doing no...
Tori-kun The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,035 2013-06-17, 2:42 am
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

Reading "Fight Club" in English right now, but is it available in Japanese, too? Tyler is just awesome XD
Tori-kun Group study 361 69,126 2013-06-16, 4:37 am
    Thread: Mangas with furiganas
Post: Mangas with furiganas

@pauro02: The thread quark linked you to has plenty of manga. If you want to know which have Furigana look out for the ふ in the listing - I could swear it indicates exactly that.
Tori-kun Off topic 19 4,395 2013-06-15, 7:11 am
    Thread: What should I do after Genki 2?
Post: What should I do after Genki 2?

Btw there is also a follow-up book after Genki 2. I wonder why it did not get mention, but I liked it very much. I think it's called "An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese" by Akira Miura. ...
Tori-kun Learning resources 18 12,430 2013-06-14, 3:51 pm
    Thread: December JLPT N2 - study plan
Post: December JLPT N2 - study plan

I'm reading a lot in Japanese (news, novels) and I still find the reading section of the JLPT a pain in the ass. Sometimes the answers presented are very vague. I think I suck at multiple-choice in ge...
Tori-kun JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 17 9,135 2013-06-10, 7:16 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

It's read つつむ as you would expect a year-end present to be fully wrapped -- like a present. くるむ is used when something is very loosely wrapped, or at least not fully (like e.g. a present etc.) See th...
Tori-kun The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,035 2013-06-09, 10:44 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

つまらない can also mean 取るに足らない・問題にする価値がない besides simply "boring/uninteresting". Perhaps the narrator wants to say something "a warp not worth mentioning". I expect 歪み to be used here to describe a pers...
Tori-kun The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,035 2013-06-02, 10:50 am
    Thread: Please correct my Japanese
Post: Please correct my Japanese

@pauro02: Seconding EratiK, but to be quite frank your Japanese is just not comprehendible and I think Lang-8 is also the wrong place. Just take this criticism constructively and go through Tae Kim a...
Tori-kun The Japanese language 9 1,139 2013-06-02, 9:47 am