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