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    Thread: Eikaiwa Schools
Post: Eikaiwa Schools

PrettyKitty Wrote:A man I met working for eikaiwa said they won't hire Japanese Americans or Asian Americans in general either. These people grew up in the USA speaking only English, then learned Japa...
tuuli Off topic 57 8,857 2008-12-03, 10:22 am
    Thread: Eikaiwa Schools
Post: Eikaiwa Schools

No doubt your English is near perfect but I disagree with you on your point 3. Tobberoth Wrote:3. Teachers don't give input. They hold class and answer questions. The input is gotten from the textboo...
tuuli Off topic 57 8,857 2008-12-03, 9:42 am
    Thread: Eikaiwa Schools
Post: Eikaiwa Schools

Tobberoth Wrote:What is needed to be hired by an eikaiwa? Is it the same as most schools in Japan IE "Oh you're from an English speaking country but have no experience what so ever in studying English...
tuuli Off topic 57 8,857 2008-12-02, 10:26 am
    Thread: Eikaiwa Schools
Post: Eikaiwa Schools

snallygaster Wrote:If you're graduating in May, I'm not sure there's any point in applying before February or so. If you get hired, I believe they need your actual physical diploma to apply for the v...
tuuli Off topic 57 8,857 2008-12-01, 11:56 pm
    Thread: An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese - Review?
Post: An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese - ...

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1784 I wrote my "review" of this book in this thread at some point.
tuuli Learning resources 63 36,113 2008-12-01, 1:04 pm
    Thread: scholarship for Japanese study
Post: scholarship for Japanese study

I think all the concerns are valid and I myself would rather go to an immersion program in the country itself, but... In general, the Middlebury programs are extremely well-respected and known for tur...
tuuli General discussion 22 2,645 2008-11-18, 11:39 am
    Thread: NYC Japanese newspapers
Post: NYC Japanese newspapers

Also lots of Japanese restaurants carry a couple of them in their entryways, especially in the East Village.
tuuli General discussion 21 13,072 2008-10-05, 10:38 am
    Thread: Research on Sebastian Leitner and Spaced Repetition Systems
Post: Research on Sebastian Leitner and Spaced Repetitio...

Psychologists Bahrick, and Landauer & Bjork have done some classic studies titled something like "Maintenance of foreign language vocabulary and the spacing effect" and "Optimum rehearsal patterns...
tuuli General discussion 5 1,782 2008-09-05, 8:15 am
    Thread: JET Program
Post: JET Program

While all of these criticisms are valid and good things to think about, I just want to say, don't let them discourage you too much. When you're 40 and have established yourself in whatever career you...
tuuli Off topic 16 5,019 2008-08-29, 8:04 am
    Thread: Making the most of my time
Post: Making the most of my time

hey miki76 - thanks for those links!
tuuli General discussion 15 2,328 2008-08-28, 10:30 am
    Thread: confused on Volume II Pure groups
Post: confused on Volume II Pure groups

I share the same confusion about some of those discrepancies, sorry I can't help. But I am just ignoring his descriptions and going through it with the motto that "ALMOST ALL of the time this will be...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 3 1,336 2008-08-27, 10:33 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Nukemarine Wrote:Trust me, I live in Japan and I have to GO OUT OF MY WAY just to get in a Japanese environment. I hear all the excuses in the world about what people will be doing later. And later co...
tuuli General discussion 1,517 595,156 2008-08-25, 10:57 am
    Thread: Other Things to do along with RTK.
Post: Other Things to do along with RTK.

The idea of not doing other stuff while working on RTK (such as audio/speaking) isn't about interference at all. It's about spending as much time on RTK to get through it faster, as the most efficien...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 74 14,172 2008-08-19, 9:31 am
    Thread: An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
Post: An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese

I used this textbook when I had weekly tutoring and lived in Japan, here are my impressions: Strong points: Good explanations of grammar points Mostly natural spoken style Japanese in the sample dial...
tuuli Learning resources 3 2,986 2008-08-17, 12:03 pm
    Thread: Best use of learning time
Post: Best use of learning time

Jarvik7 Wrote:To the best of my knowledge there isn't a word for a defined group of morae anyways. Just the singular and plural. This seems unimportant here but incidentally they are usually grouped i...
tuuli General discussion 18 7,058 2008-08-15, 9:12 am
    Thread: Best use of learning time
Post: Best use of learning time

One thing to keep in mind is that "morae" and "syllables" are used to talk about phonological structure (the sound system of the language), where as a "syllabary" refers to an orthographic system, so ...
tuuli General discussion 18 7,058 2008-08-15, 9:09 am
    Thread: Why not combine classic learning with the Heisig approach?
Post: Why not combine classic learning with the Heisig a...

I think the approaches aren't incompatible, it's just that the BENEFIT of Heisig comes from not have to wade through, say 50 some lessons of vocab, grammar, etc (which really would be about 4 semester...
tuuli General discussion 5 1,013 2008-07-18, 4:32 pm
    Thread: Why that kanji for your forum avatar?
Post: Why that kanji for your forum avatar?

tuuli means "wind" in Finnish
tuuli General discussion 35 5,487 2008-07-17, 8:56 am
    Thread: Things are getting difficult for me now [mid 300s-mid 400s]
Post: Things are getting difficult for me now [mid 300s-...

A lot of advice that I read on here made me realize that you shouldn't worry too much about judging the story as you are creating it. Even if you think it's not a good story at first (no cute mnemoni...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 19 2,528 2008-07-13, 12:15 pm
    Thread: How important is stroke order?
Post: How important is stroke order?

Stroke order is very important if you are using traditional writing pens or brushes, since the thickness of the line will be affected by the place you start it...also for reading and writing cursive. ...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 17 4,412 2008-07-11, 7:09 pm
    Thread: Eventually, you have NO CHOICE but to learn Japanese
Post: Eventually, you have NO CHOICE but to learn Japane...

I think one difference in opinion here comes from the environments people are talking about when they say AJATT...if you're in an physical immersion environment, living in Japan with Japanese friends,...
tuuli General discussion 58 8,442 2008-07-10, 8:24 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Yay! I finished, or, added the last ten cards. I actually held off for a couple days with the last few to savor the moment...took 8 months, which is a little longer than I originally hoped, but it's ...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,693 2008-07-09, 9:34 pm
    Thread: Japanesepod101
Post: Japanesepod101

I just subscribed to the Basic service, to be able to get the pdfs, about a month ago. For the intermediate lessons, they often talk a little bit about the kanji makeup of the compounds they introduc...
tuuli Learning resources 17 6,891 2008-07-07, 9:18 am
    Thread: On 577 and running into trouble
Post: On 577 and running into trouble

Katsuo's advice is right on. Be sure to pick stories that go from the keyword to the story, and not vice versa. Lots of people have written very clever stories (including Heisig) that may work for t...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 8 1,581 2008-06-16, 8:44 am
    Thread: Is my method ok?
Post: Is my method ok?

Also, if you have only been doing this for 4 days (50-60 a day, at #230) you should still remember everything. However, if you were using the SRS, you would now be able to not review the first 50 for...
tuuli General discussion 15 2,241 2008-04-24, 8:49 am
    Thread: Kanji to Keyword - anyone else expieriencing this?
Post: Kanji to Keyword - anyone else expieriencing this?

I've been having this problem too, but I notice that once cards are in the fourth stack you have reviewed them enough times that it seems to get less and less likely to happen. The other thing is, if ...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 16 3,956 2008-04-19, 9:59 am
    Thread: On Reviewing Cards
Post: On Reviewing Cards

I do "review all" as well, but there is one good point about doing stack by stack that might be worth considering; if you do stack by stack, you will know which stack/time point it is that you have ...
tuuli General discussion 9 2,014 2008-04-13, 2:42 pm
    Thread: Improving my reading?
Post: Improving my reading?

Don't get down on yourself about grammar! Part of the problem here is you not only have to know about wa, ga, and to, but mainly that in order for it to be "today's class" it would have to be kyou NO ...
tuuli General discussion 18 8,815 2008-04-09, 8:17 am
    Thread: How often do you look at a kanji before you test yourself?
Post: How often do you look at a kanji before you test y...

I think there was a discussion about this in another thread, but I can't find it... I do about 20-30 a day, and this has been working (at 1530 now) 1) Write down the list of English keywords you are g...
tuuli Remembering the Kanji 10 2,387 2008-03-30, 10:37 am
    Thread: mangajin magazine
Post: mangajin magazine

They don't put in a word-for-word translation in Nihongo Journal, but in addition to the overall translation you get a vocab section at the bottom of the page, so you get direct translations of those....
tuuli Learning resources 17 7,643 2008-03-28, 5:50 pm