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Thread: Pissed off, How does this visa thing work Post: Pissed off, How does this visa thing work what are these US travel laws that you mention? I've flown to Japan about 10 times in the past 4 years using 1 way tickets, originating from the USA, and a few other countries. I'm going again in 3... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 22 | 4,917 | 2015-03-06, 10:20 pm | ||
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Thread: WWII Kanji Translation Offering Post: WWII Kanji Translation Offering right.. it was produced by the Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. First line is the description, 2nd is 4th model, 3rd is Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, 4th is the serial number, ... |
jasberg | Group study | 16 | 3,261 | 2015-02-13, 12:47 am | ||
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Thread: 2014 Reflections and 2015 Resolutions Post: 2014 Reflections and 2015 Resolutions . |
jasberg | General discussion | 51 | 10,052 | 2014-12-31, 2:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese) Post: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japa... Nayr182, thanks to you, your wife and everyone involved in putting this deck together. It seems great. Just wanted to point out one small mistake I found while going through it. The sentence is 今議会... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 204 | 74,729 | 2014-11-04, 5:43 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT results mailing (in Japan) Post: JLPT results mailing (in Japan) penguins42v Wrote:It's not quite as awesome as the certificate pictured there, but there is a basic certificate. Mine from the N3 in December looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/wyR5JBU.jpg?1 If you ... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 6 | 1,703 | 2014-09-06, 12:13 am | ||
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Thread: Hearthstone Post: Hearthstone Yes, way too much. I've uninstalled it from my laptop and sworn it off a couple of times because it was getting in the way of my studying. Now that the JLPT is over, i've reinstalled. |
jasberg | Off topic | 2 | 527 | 2014-09-05, 5:58 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT results mailing (in Japan) Post: JLPT results mailing (in Japan) A question for anyone who took the JLPT in Japan. I took the JLPT in Tokyo, but don't live there. I was just notified that a letter was received at the address I supplied in Japan. I'm trying to de... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 6 | 1,703 | 2014-09-05, 1:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Skype lesssons Post: Skype lesssons have you tried italki.com? If not, it's worth a look. There are quite a few native Japanese instructors that offer casual conversation lessons for around that rate. |
jasberg | General discussion | 4 | 1,091 | 2014-08-28, 1:46 am | ||
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Thread: Authentic Japanese: Progressing from Intermediate to Advanced Post: Authentic Japanese: Progressing from Intermediate ... I have a copy of Authentic Japanese: Progressing from Intermediate to Advanced, as well as Rapid Reading. It has been maybe a year since I looked at them, but I remember at the time not finding the c... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 1 | 897 | 2014-08-26, 9:12 pm | ||
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Thread: A controversial idea: learning with romaji Post: A controversial idea: learning with romaji I think you bring up a good point, which is that your years of exposure to roman letters makes it preferable to read in terms of memorizing (at least for the song lyrics). For the short term, it may ... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 14 | 2,525 | 2014-08-22, 10:20 am | ||
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Thread: Wanting to travel to Japan next summer, advice? Post: Wanting to travel to Japan next summer, advice? Traveling alone internationally is great. I don't think you'll be lonely. I do it often, and for long durations, and am always looking forward to doing it more. As for Japan, I echo the 'don't go i... |
jasberg | General discussion | 20 | 4,094 | 2014-08-20, 11:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese) Post: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japa... Thanks for the deck. It looks like it has a lot of quality content. It would be amazing if it had native audio for words and sentences. |
jasberg | Learning resources | 204 | 74,729 | 2014-08-20, 12:03 am | ||
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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! ariariari Wrote:I live in the US but was hoping to take JLTP while on a work trip/vacation in Japan in December. Do you know if this is possible? I haven't been able to find out information on whether... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,239 | 2014-08-17, 1:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Using text-to-speech for automatic anki audio Post: Using text-to-speech for automatic anki audio somewhat off topic.. but does anyone know if the voice used for NHK easy news articles is real or tts? I've always thought it was tts. It would be great to have that for example sentences, etc. in A... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 6 | 2,261 | 2014-08-09, 11:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Fluency to be able to read light novels Post: Fluency to be able to read light novels I'm not sure what qualifies as a light novel. I'm at somewhere between 5-6k in the core 10k. I'm currently reading まよわずいらっしゃい from the 七つの怪談 3 book series. Each book is about 170 pages long. Ther... |
jasberg | The Japanese language | 16 | 6,837 | 2014-07-23, 9:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Duendecat - Sentence looper / reading practice app Post: Duendecat - Sentence looper / reading practice app Transality Wrote:Hi Jasberg. Yes, there is: on the 'Levels' panel (right side of the screen) there is a stopwatch symbol near the top; click on that and some more sliders appear. Text size is the se... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 13 | 3,475 | 2014-07-18, 10:09 pm | ||
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Thread: removing furigana core 6k closed delete field Post: removing furigana core 6k closed delete field you should be able to take care of this directly in anki by changing the formatting that is used for the area that you'd like to change. For example in my core 10k deck, it used to show furigana beca... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 6 | 1,572 | 2014-07-18, 4:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Duendecat - Sentence looper / reading practice app Post: Duendecat - Sentence looper / reading practice app looks good. is there an option to decrease the text size? i find the font of the sentences to be too large, even with the page zoomed all the way out in firefox. |
jasberg | Learning resources | 13 | 3,475 | 2014-07-18, 3:58 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT July 2014 Post: JLPT July 2014 lanval Wrote:Did you guys finish the Core 6k? I haven't (missing about 2000 words), so that's what I'm gonna do next. I keep thinking vocab is most important when trying to learn this beast of a langu... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 55 | 14,394 | 2014-07-08, 5:57 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference allowed? Post: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference al... i ended up not copying down the answers. I suppose I could have copied them down on the envelope they made everyone put their cell phone's in, since it seemed like they weren't very strict about coll... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 2,515 | 2014-07-06, 4:34 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference allowed? Post: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference al... well, the test seems to always leak in china the following day of the JLPT. People weren't memorizing their answers, and it wasn't the Chinese, it was a bunch of people on this forum that had just co... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 2,515 | 2014-07-05, 7:09 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference allowed? Post: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference al... i can't seem to find the post from last year, but it seemed a lot of people had copied their answers down during the test and could then check them as soon as the answers were published on a website i... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 2,515 | 2014-07-05, 8:53 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference allowed? Post: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference al... I'm taking the JLPT in Tokyo tomorrow and noticed that in the past the answers have been posted online well before the results are officially posted. I tried searching around, but couldn't find any d... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 2,515 | 2014-07-05, 5:50 am | ||
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Thread: iiKanji: learning the readings of the kanji Post: iiKanji: learning the readings of the kanji I haven't looked too much at frequency statistics, but 等 seemed to appear much earlier than I would have expected. In addition, I may be wrong, but in this sentence：そのホテルにはプールやテニスコート等がある。, wouldn't t... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 105 | 18,062 | 2013-10-04, 4:05 pm | ||
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Thread: iiKanji: learning the readings of the kanji Post: iiKanji: learning the readings of the kanji It looks interesting. I've been testing it out a bit. One suggestion would be to have some way to easily indicate which Kanji you don't want to study. Clicking 'I've already mastered this' while re... |
jasberg | Learning resources | 105 | 18,062 | 2013-10-03, 10:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Changing my life at 40, moving to japan to study & work. Need help Post: Changing my life at 40, moving to japan to study &... congrats on living your dream. I'm in a somewhat similar situation, but haven't yet pulled the ripcord. As for schools, I did some time at Yamasa in Okazaki. If you don't mind not being in Tokyo I'... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 11 | 5,197 | 2013-08-07, 7:33 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! It was my first time taking the JLPT, and I was pretty sure I bombed the listening due to distractions in the room. I'm pretty surprised and happy that I squeaked by and passed. N3 Language: 30/60 R... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,523 | 2013-01-31, 1:16 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! unless you're in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, or Malaysia, the official jlpt site says they'll be available the 31st at 5pm JST. So in about 12 hours. |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,523 | 2013-01-30, 3:20 pm | ||
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Thread: disturbances during the jlpt Post: disturbances during the jlpt quincy Wrote:If you've got a problem then speak up! Of course they won't play the questions again if nobody says anything. Next time raise your hand or just say "hey I can't hear anything because this... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 5,236 | 2012-12-21, 1:38 pm | ||
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Thread: disturbances during the jlpt Post: disturbances during the jlpt I just took the jlpt in San Francisco. It was my first time taking the JLPT, so I wasn't sure what to expect, especially for the listening section. I was pretty surprised that it was done by playing... |
jasberg | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 5,236 | 2012-12-19, 3:54 pm | ||
