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Thread: stuff ive learnt from japan Post: stuff ive learnt from japan Wow, that's awesome IceCream. Before I started posting I was lurking quite a bit and really found your posts on how your Japanese studies were going pretty motivating. Maybe one day I can get there to... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 134 | 25,116 | 2010-07-10, 9:27 am | ||
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Thread: Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature Post: Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature Another author who I don't see often mentioned is Elizabeth Moon. She wrote a high fantasy trilogy (+ extended books) called the Deed of Paksenarrion, which I thought was quite an enjoyable read. Reco... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 60 | 13,939 | 2010-07-03, 8:41 am | ||
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Thread: 1Q84/Haruki Murakami Post: 1Q84/Haruki Murakami Aijin Wrote:Recipe for creating a Murakami novel: • Marinade a lb of incoherent plot in three cups of awkward sex scenes. - Brand with large age differences in the couple is preferred. Sex Betwee... |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 42 | 12,831 | 2010-07-03, 8:27 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese without learning to speak? Post: Learning Japanese without learning to speak? Interesting, thanks. Well it was five years ago since I read that book but I don't remember the particular section on feral children. :p But yes, I know the feral/deaf children evidence was in dispute... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 31 | 9,243 | 2010-04-26, 7:15 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese without learning to speak? Post: Learning Japanese without learning to speak? I see, I think I misunderstood. Granted I didn't read through all the papers linked but skimmed through most of them. But the Critical Period Hypothesis you're referring to is about second language le... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 31 | 9,243 | 2010-04-26, 5:57 am | ||
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Thread: アル + Handwriting Post: アル + Handwriting Thanks Caivano! I found this blog of Tokyo indie music but haven't checked out all the indiepop on there: http://tokyooutthere.com/ Also I am enjoying this from Naivepop and Petitfool: [Video: http:/... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 3 | 799 | 2010-04-26, 5:11 am | ||
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Thread: Dreams Linked to Better Memories Post: Dreams Linked to Better Memories I'm also skeptical about deeper meanings of random dreams, but I have had dreams where I repeatedly solved the same problem (maths or otherwise) over and over again in different ways until I woke up a... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 24 | 4,149 | 2010-04-26, 5:06 am | ||
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Thread: Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution Post: Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution Blahah Wrote:Nemotoad Wrote:I must say I'm somewhat curious, though not overly so, at what field of work/study you happen to be in. Linguistics? Neuroscience? Cognitive science? Psycholinguistics? Cla... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 5 | 2,943 | 2010-04-26, 4:54 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese without learning to speak? Post: Learning Japanese without learning to speak? Hmm, I used to think I was a linguist, but now I'm not Saussure. Clearly I'm really behind on my reading. I do remember critical periods, what the hell happened while I was away leaving the linguistic... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 31 | 9,243 | 2010-04-26, 4:48 am | ||
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Thread: アル + Handwriting Post: アル + Handwriting I'm really enjoying this video by アル at the moment, especially for all the shots of handwriting. Since there've been a few threads about handwriting I thought other people might enjoy it too: [Video:... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 3 | 799 | 2010-04-25, 9:40 am | ||
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Thread: Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution Post: Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution Interesting, thanks nest0r (before someone else adds the same link and I thank them accidentally). I must say I'm somewhat curious, though not overly so, at what field of work/study you happen to be i... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 5 | 2,943 | 2010-04-25, 8:44 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseries) Post: Anyone's Son Will Do (Part of an Anti-War Miniseri... Blahah Wrote:I think it's pretty unnecessary to try to categorize military personnel like several people here have been doing... they might be hateful, but equally they might not. It's really no diffe... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 92 | 17,255 | 2010-04-25, 7:54 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching a Computer to Watch TV Post: Teaching a Computer to Watch TV This is interesting: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/media/feature-taskar.php Not sure what the results are like. I wonder what the results would be for something more stylised that also has a huge fanbas... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 0 | 484 | 2010-04-25, 4:17 am | ||
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Thread: How would you recommend starting Chinese? Post: How would you recommend starting Chinese? I'm not learning Chinese, but I came across this frequency list during my research and thought it might come in handy for someone: Top 10,000 Characters: http://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing...p?... |
Nemotoad | Chinese and Hanzi | 55 | 19,355 | 2010-04-25, 3:33 am | ||
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Thread: List of Free Audiobooks Post: List of Free Audiobooks @nest0r, see, this is what happens to first generation links - early adopters always get left by the wayside... I mean, er, thanks to you too nest0r. |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 117 | 218,070 | 2010-04-23, 8:18 am | ||
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Thread: List of Free Audiobooks Post: List of Free Audiobooks @astrangerhere, that's awesome! Thanks for the link! |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 117 | 218,070 | 2010-04-23, 6:21 am | ||
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Thread: Dreams Linked to Better Memories Post: Dreams Linked to Better Memories Yeah, I threw the BBC one in there because it was the first one I came across and I was amused at their take on it, i.e. Take a nap, you'll learn better! Because I certainly haven't found that transla... |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 24 | 4,149 | 2010-04-23, 6:18 am | ||
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Thread: Question regarding Anki Post: Question regarding Anki @Ryuujin27 - Interesting. I read the description of Genius, but I wasn't quite clear on how it's different to Anki. What are the advantages of using that and then Anki - why not use Anki from the star... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 43 | 10,276 | 2010-04-23, 6:09 am | ||
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Thread: Dreams Linked to Better Memories Post: Dreams Linked to Better Memories http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8638551.stm http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/20...ories.html |
Nemotoad | Off topic | 24 | 4,149 | 2010-04-23, 5:38 am | ||
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Thread: Raccoons Damage Japanese Temple Post: Raccoons Damage Japanese Temple I once saw a very fat raccoon in New York City late at night, standing on a fire hydrant, before leaping in the air and somehow landing and getting stuck between the bars of an iron fence and just... ... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 5 | 1,295 | 2010-04-22, 4:06 am | ||
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Thread: Where do you get your subtitles for anime (英 + 日) Post: Where do you get your subtitles for anime (英 + 日) pm215 Wrote:This is a feature :-) Certainly English subbed and dubbed anime are aiming at audiences with different preferences about where in the 'fidelity of translation <-> natural speech' co... |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 31 | 26,940 | 2010-04-22, 3:43 am | ||
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Thread: linking to specific pages in pdfs Post: linking to specific pages in pdfs Fine, fine, reject my wired marker add-on with scorn then. :-p |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 15 | 6,520 | 2010-04-22, 2:16 am | ||
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Thread: Brain Games don't improve cognition. Post: Brain Games don't improve cognition. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8632254.stm Discuss. :) I might reject this reality and substitute my own as they say in some other (pseudo)science-based show, because I find brain games fun and I... |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 7 | 1,508 | 2010-04-21, 8:06 am | ||
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Thread: No linking to Japanese newspaper without permission Post: No linking to Japanese newspaper without permissio... But hmm, this has very little to do with protecting intellectual property. I think it's a terrible idea - for Nikkei. Isn't the whole point of the web linking? When blogs or other news sources link to... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 13 | 2,636 | 2010-04-21, 7:35 am | ||
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Thread: Where do you get your subtitles for anime (英 + 日) Post: Where do you get your subtitles for anime (英 + 日) Mind you, this is true of other languages also. For some reason a lot of shows get dubbed into other languages and then the production company seems to get some completely different department to do t... |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 31 | 26,940 | 2010-04-21, 3:01 am | ||
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Thread: No linking to Japanese newspaper without permission Post: No linking to Japanese newspaper without permissio... I am gobsmacked. I wonder if in the interests of being somewhat consistent they intend to write to every website they wish to link to to ask for permission. They're effectively going to cut themselves... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 13 | 2,636 | 2010-04-21, 2:47 am | ||
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Thread: linking to specific pages in pdfs Post: linking to specific pages in pdfs I mentioned the wired marker add-on for Firefox before: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5393. It allows you to link to sentences or selected text (or images) in pdfs as well as other docume... |
Nemotoad | Learning resources | 15 | 6,520 | 2010-04-21, 2:36 am | ||
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Thread: Computer Science / IT / programming Post: Computer Science / IT / programming I'm not a programmer but I play one on TV. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ruby here considering it was invented in Japan by Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto! http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ I picked it up... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 26 | 3,656 | 2010-04-19, 5:52 am | ||
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Thread: The Weirdness of Japan Post: The Weirdness of Japan Oh well - the reason I found it odd/interesting is because it was made by a Japanese artist, originally for a Japanese audience. I'm actually not quite sure what the end statement is supposed to be - ... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 48 | 10,285 | 2010-04-14, 6:04 am | ||
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Thread: The Weirdness of Japan Post: The Weirdness of Japan Sorry for reviving this thread, but this video seemed appropriate for it, has anyone seen it? [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgsbIfI0uIg] This is the original Japanese version: [Video: http:... |
Nemotoad | General discussion | 48 | 10,285 | 2010-04-14, 5:27 am | ||
