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Thread: Some guy at Kotaku rants on Japan... Post: Some guy at Kotaku rants on Japan... vileru Wrote:FutureBlues, I recommend reading this article, which I linked earlier in the thread. The article mentions some of the fundamental differences between thought patterns in Western and Easte... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 131 | 24,148 | 2010-03-06, 6:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Smartfm/iKnow help! Post: Smartfm/iKnow help! They are trying for over half a year now and they really suck with it. Somehow they managed to destroy a really good idea by introducing more new bugs than fixing old ones... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 8 | 1,960 | 2010-03-02, 4:39 pm | ||
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Thread: For people going to Japan soon. Post: For people going to Japan soon. I would take it as I am going to Japan next month but I don't know if its worth the trouble to send it to Germany. Besides that, isn't it heavy? Actually I have no clue but carrying a lot of extra we... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 32 | 4,036 | 2010-03-02, 12:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Blu Ray or External HDD for storage Post: Blu Ray or External HDD for storage Codexus Wrote:Mirroring is *not* a backup! It's useful, and will offer a good protection against hard drive failures but it's not enough. Yeah, something like Raid isn't going to help you, when you ac... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 29 | 7,110 | 2010-02-26, 9:18 am | ||
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Thread: Certificate of Eligibility Post: Certificate of Eligibility This part confused me as well so I put everything under self.. as I have or going to have the money on my bank account - even if my parents or some scholarship pays me some of it. Perhaps that explain... |
thorstenu | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 7 | 5,583 | 2010-02-16, 9:19 am | ||
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Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... georgative Wrote:I study for about 2-3 hours a day (of those 1.5-2 of actual studying) and I get through about 1 page of Tae Kim a day. I do about 50 cards a day + I add about 10. I've read some othe... |
thorstenu | The Japanese language | 16 | 5,247 | 2010-02-07, 12:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Where can I get sursong.ttf? Post: Where can I get sursong.ttf? Can't be that hard? [Image: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3694/sungx.jpg] |
thorstenu | General discussion | 6 | 3,310 | 2010-02-01, 9:34 am | ||
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Thread: Streamed Japanese Television Post: Streamed Japanese Television TV Ants is really great... when it works. Just record some channels while it is working, then you have something to watch, when its not working. Depending where you live, it makes sense to record anyw... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 10 | 6,177 | 2010-02-01, 6:55 am | ||
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Thread: Invasive SRS Post: Invasive SRS That's a nice idea but I think an anki-plugin, that does the same, would be good enough to do the job. It is the normal anki-behaviour to automatically show new due cards instead of the "Congratulatio... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 23 | 2,770 | 2010-01-22, 8:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Making the most of my trip to Japan Post: Making the most of my trip to Japan As I am in a similar situation (going in two months), I started a similar thread some time ago. Sadly, I don't have the time now to find and manage real language partners but the phrasebook idea seems... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 13 | 1,635 | 2010-01-19, 8:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Loving My R4 Post: Loving My R4 I bought a DS + Cyclos just for Japanese learning purposes and lost a lot of time by playing various English games on it :/ |
thorstenu | General discussion | 63 | 10,353 | 2009-12-28, 8:12 pm | ||
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Thread: best way to handle the 24 hr time format? Post: best way to handle the 24 hr time format? meolox Wrote:I assume you're outside Europe since most us here in Europe grow up with it, but I remember being young and using 18 = 6pm as an "anchor point" to know what the time was on a 24 hour cloc... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 31 | 4,347 | 2009-12-25, 1:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Whats best to do 3 months before going to Japan? Post: Whats best to do 3 months before going to Japan? wildweathel Wrote:If I were in the same situation, this is what I'd do: Study a phrasebook with an SRS, doing as much as you can in 3 months. Listen to as much as you can; maybe get a little TV or s... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 11 | 1,868 | 2009-12-23, 10:28 am | ||
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Thread: Whats best to do 3 months before going to Japan? Post: Whats best to do 3 months before going to Japan? Hi, if everything works out as planned, I'm going to Japan for 6 months, starting in april. I am currently an M.S. student and it is planned that I do some sort of a research project in a grad school... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 11 | 1,868 | 2009-12-22, 9:01 pm | ||
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Thread: AJATT : The dark side Post: AJATT : The dark side And I thought the dark side of AJATT is a preacher, who is looking for methods to get more and more money from his cultists (e.g. "This video is a lot like sitting with me, in my “Fortress of Solitude... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 55 | 12,428 | 2009-12-13, 9:00 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone studying German here? Post: Anyone studying German here? ahibba Wrote:[...] zazen666 Wrote:2. Basic-German-Vocabulary-Langenscheidt http://www.amazon.com/Basic-German-Voca … 3468494009 The KO of german![...] Yes, this book is the equivalent of KO2001 for... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 58 | 20,318 | 2009-12-04, 7:07 am | ||
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Thread: About To Start K2001. Post: About To Start K2001. nwatkins Wrote:So, I've been searching the forums for an answer to a question about the KO2001 deck. I have ahibba's text-kana deck. The ordering for the first 20 or so sentence corresponds to book-or... |
thorstenu | Learning resources | 25 | 4,803 | 2009-12-01, 6:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Quick question about smart.fm sentence recognition. Post: Quick question about smart.fm sentence recognition... I learn isolated vocabulary first with iKnow and add (unsuspend) the complete sentence in anki, when I reach 100% (EDIT: like kazelee wrote). If there are a lot (or few difficult) unknown words in th... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 20 | 4,098 | 2009-11-28, 10:40 am | ||
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Thread: the problem of loanwords in japan, and returning them Post: the problem of loanwords in japan, and returning t... Its exactly the same with Japanese loanwords in the western world. Kamikaze and Harakiri are never nice to look at and Judo/Karate are known as special techniques for brutally beating people to death ... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 13 | 3,504 | 2009-11-28, 8:22 am | ||
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Thread: The Pomodorro Technique Post: The Pomodorro Technique nest0r Wrote:Yes, I referred/linked to the above hack two or three times already in this 2-page thread. ^_^ Sorry, I somehow missed it. I deleted my redundant post. nest0r Wrote:There's no 'normal' ti... |
thorstenu | General discussion | 48 | 9,636 | 2009-11-26, 12:33 pm | ||
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Thread: desktop customization Post: desktop customization intermu Wrote:ocircle Wrote:ruiner Wrote:changing OS to Japanese Already done. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3929/esrgdhfjgk.jpg (You can change the entire OS operating language to Japanese in Vist... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 24 | 5,160 | 2009-11-22, 6:05 am | ||
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Thread: sushi often not what you think Post: sushi often not what you think Codexus Wrote:Jarvik7, it makes perfect sense to have different standards for different categories of living things. A bacteria is a living organism too, just because I think it's OK to kill bacterias... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 33 | 4,548 | 2009-11-20, 11:39 am | ||
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Thread: Is learning Chinese (Mandarin) worth it? Post: Is learning Chinese (Mandarin) worth it? ocircle Wrote:http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6707/...heworl.gif It's gotta be worth it. Like 8 times more worth it than Japanese, even with anime. I think people overestimate those numbers. I don'... |
thorstenu | Chinese and Hanzi | 94 | 25,793 | 2009-11-16, 5:49 am | ||
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Thread: Lucid Dreaming? Post: Lucid Dreaming? ruiner Wrote:You don't have to have an all or nothing equation, re: creator/observer/actor/et cetera. Similarly with the levels of awareness and control amidst those positions. That's what I meant wit... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 136 | 22,536 | 2009-11-13, 7:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Lucid Dreaming? Post: Lucid Dreaming? yukamina Wrote:It's about control. I can't just wait for the dream I want to happen. Chances are, I'm never going to have a flying dream unless I can take control and make it happen. I find it odd th... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 136 | 22,536 | 2009-11-13, 7:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Lucid Dreaming? Post: Lucid Dreaming? Since I was a child I am able to remember most of my dreams and I had sometimes lucid dreams without knowing about the term. After founding some information about "lucid dreaming" in the internet I tr... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 136 | 22,536 | 2009-11-13, 6:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Ｗｈａｌｅ ｗａｒｓ Post: Ｗｈａｌｅ ｗａｒｓ We all know that whales are special since Star Trek IV, that's why we shouldn't kill them. |
thorstenu | Off topic | 226 | 35,379 | 2009-11-10, 7:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Smart.fm's new update Post: Smart.fm's new update I am glad, that iKnow still works like usual. I tried the new app and it had too much errors, e.g. I wasn't able to continue after the first 4 items of the list I tested. Yeah I know, that anki is th... |
thorstenu | Learning resources | 14 | 3,194 | 2009-11-06, 10:53 am | ||
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Thread: Windows 7 Post: Windows 7 Thora Wrote:But I agree - it seems the Ultimate version is needed for languages... Vistalizator (http://www.froggie.sk/notes.html) seems to support Win 7 now. |
thorstenu | Off topic | 53 | 12,051 | 2009-10-29, 12:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Windows 7 Post: Windows 7 lerris Wrote:I've been running Windows 7 Professional for about 3 weeks now (free copy via MSDNAA through my school, yay!) and absolutely love it. Best Windows OS I've ever used, and I'd venture to sa... |
thorstenu | Off topic | 53 | 12,051 | 2009-10-23, 5:48 am | ||
