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Thread: How do Japanese people play videogames? Post: How do Japanese people play videogames? Or any games really? I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh and without fail over 1/2 of the popular cards' Japanese names are just katakana of English words. Stuff like "ライトパルサー・ドラゴン" for "Light Pulsar Dragon". It... |
Marble101 | Off topic | 6 | 1,650 | 2014-02-08, 11:28 am | ||
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Thread: Tolerance Post: Tolerance I read through the above link to the Basic Laws of Stupidity and it was really interesting. Is it meant to be taken seriously or as a joke? Personally, I'm intolerant of people that misrepresent the ... |
Marble101 | Off topic | 38 | 7,223 | 2013-11-17, 9:49 am | ||
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Thread: Uncommon kanji Post: Uncommon kanji While I second the other 2 posts, if you're worried that you're learning "unnecessary" kanji, there is an RTK-lite deck out there, which cuts down a lot of kanji (I think roughly half the book) that s... |
Marble101 | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,226 | 2013-11-06, 11:10 pm | ||
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Thread: How do japanese people percieve/remember/operate Kanji? Post: How do japanese people percieve/remember/operate K... Exactly; Because that's what really matters. Apparently people above learned the Kanji without any attached meaning for each character. I can say that that idea would never have worked for me. My bra... |
Marble101 | Remembering the Kanji | 28 | 14,462 | 2013-11-04, 7:06 pm | ||
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Thread: I am the ultimate beginner - now time for conjugation Post: I am the ultimate beginner - now time for conjugat... What I do (for any language be it Spanish or Japanese) is to take it a tense at a time. Learn all of the present-tense -masu (polite) forms once. Create a table (writing by hand seems to stick the bes... |
Marble101 | The Japanese language | 16 | 4,178 | 2013-10-25, 9:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you speak/learn any other languages? Post: Do you speak/learn any other languages? My family language is Gujarati, a language from the West Coast of India. I grew up in the United States, so I also speak English natively. Since my family is still pretty Indian, I was also encouraged... |
Marble101 | Off topic | 32 | 6,728 | 2013-10-01, 3:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Which method for children learning Kanji? Post: Which method for children learning Kanji? erlog Wrote:I would suggest immersion in your home and with your wife along with something like the Kanji Kentei step books. If your child is getting enough Japanese input(TV, music, conversation, man... |
Marble101 | The Japanese language | 22 | 3,842 | 2013-09-10, 10:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Class or Self-Study? Post: Japanese Class or Self-Study? I am a staunch supporter of independent language learning. Classes do help, they enable you to 1) have a structured approach to learning, 2) Have the guidance of a teacher and 3) interact with others ... |
Marble101 | The Japanese language | 18 | 4,291 | 2013-09-10, 10:09 pm | ||
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Thread: RTH Vol 1 -- Out of print? Where can I buy this book? Post: RTH Vol 1 -- Out of print? Where can I buy this bo... ... Can someone please explain to me why the price on Amazon is $180 but it is sold for less than $40 on the website? |
Marble101 | Chinese and Hanzi | 8 | 3,945 | 2013-03-17, 11:16 am | ||
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Thread: How many reps do you do in 10 minutes in Anki? Post: How many reps do you do in 10 minutes in Anki? How are you this fast? I can get through 30 RTK cards in 10 minutes, so like 3 a minute! |
Marble101 | Off topic | 14 | 2,385 | 2012-07-13, 8:25 pm | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji Left to go ! - Woo Hoo! Anyone else? Post: 100 Kanji Left to go ! - Woo Hoo! Anyone else? http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/...lement.pdf It's an extra 157 kanji that I realized that I'll have to go through after RTK. So (unless you're using the 6th edition) you have 257 left. |
Marble101 | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,037 | 2012-07-07, 9:49 pm | ||
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Thread: What Else Can You do While RTKing Post: What Else Can You do While RTKing Genki I starts with practically 0 Kanji. I was planning on doing it with RTK, but everytime I tried to type one of the sentences in it from Romaji to Kana, Google Transliterate would ask me if I meant... |
Marble101 | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 1,909 | 2012-07-07, 9:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Remembering the Hangul? Post: Remembering the Hangul? "How to read Korean in 15 minutes" http://9gag.com/gag/3968335 It's in English though. |
Marble101 | General discussion | 26 | 15,116 | 2012-07-06, 10:43 am | ||
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Thread: Are you on the right path in learning Japanese? Post: Are you on the right path in learning Japanese? My order of emphasis is: 1) Accent 2) Vocab 3) Grammar My reasoning is that if you don't constantly focus on working on your accent, then you will slip up. I'm learning Hindi and I'm just now starti... |
Marble101 | General discussion | 42 | 8,131 | 2012-07-05, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: What's the Purpose of RTH? Post: What's the Purpose of RTH? So, my brother is learning Mandarin and he saw me using RTK for Japanese. I explained to him the advantages of the Hesig System, ect. And encouraged him to try it for Mandarin. He did, but gave up, po... |
Marble101 | Chinese and Hanzi | 8 | 1,914 | 2012-07-05, 12:41 pm | ||
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Thread: I study Nihongo because... Post: I study Nihongo because... You also have to consider exposure to the language. In India, every state speaks a different language (you get a weird hosh-posh in the cities, as many different people live there) while in America, p... |
Marble101 | Off topic | 358 | 111,073 | 2012-07-04, 5:27 pm | ||
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Thread: A different culture expresses things differently. Post: A different culture expresses things differently. eslang Wrote:They were talking about what a Japanese person might tend to say during a sex climax. The Japanese person says "Iki sou! Iku iku!!" however the American goes "I'm gonna come! / I'm comi... |
Marble101 | General discussion | 40 | 11,016 | 2012-07-04, 5:18 pm | ||
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Thread: How People Stutter Post: How People Stutter Where did you get that from? |
Marble101 | General discussion | 4 | 1,232 | 2012-07-03, 10:59 am | ||
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Thread: How to study failed cards Post: How to study failed cards Once you fail a card in Anki [or any other SRS], what do you do? Do you go back and study the failed sentences, or do you simply move on and try to pass them tomorrow? |
Marble101 | Learning resources | 5 | 845 | 2012-07-03, 10:42 am | ||
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Thread: Tower of Babelfish Language Learning Method Post: Tower of Babelfish Language Learning Method I'm definitely going to try this. Not for Japanese, when there are already so many resources, but with Hindi, which I'm learning. Hindi has pretty much no resources out on the web, so I'm making my o... |
Marble101 | Learning resources | 29 | 8,762 | 2012-07-03, 10:40 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia The OP posted that 2062 Kanji cover 99% of Wikipedia. That number is so tantalizingly close to 2044 that I wonder if it would be worth putting them into a spreadsheet alone to learn RTK-style after co... |
Marble101 | General discussion | 78 | 74,963 | 2012-07-02, 10:41 pm | ||
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Thread: How People Stutter Post: How People Stutter In English, when someone stutters, they'll say something like "I wanted a c-c-c-cookie" where -c- is pronounced like the cu in "cut". In Hindi (another language) the same thing applies. How do people... |
Marble101 | General discussion | 4 | 1,232 | 2012-07-02, 10:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Any one learning Spanish with an SRS? Post: Any one learning Spanish with an SRS? Well, the the only language I have mastered is English, as I am growing up in America (I wouldn't say I have mastered Gujarati; my native language, as I'm illiterate in it). So, it makes sense for my ... |
Marble101 | General discussion | 12 | 2,934 | 2012-07-02, 5:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Little Things and Techniques When Working on RTK Post: Little Things and Techniques When Working on RTK I look at the key word and write my own story based on the first thing that comes to mind. It is slower, but I think it helps cement the kanji in my head. If I have no idea, then I pick one from the l... |
Marble101 | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,532 | 2012-06-26, 11:52 am | ||
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Thread: A different culture expresses things differently. Post: A different culture expresses things differently. nadiatims Wrote:I don't think theres much to gained by us language learners in thinking too much about this. Just take it as yet more evidence of the importance of massive exposure. You have to get us... |
Marble101 | General discussion | 40 | 11,016 | 2012-06-26, 9:30 am | ||
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Thread: A different culture expresses things differently. Post: A different culture expresses things differently. No, what he means is that 2 people will express identical ideas differently depending on their native language. For example, there are languages in the Americas and Australia that lack a "left" and a... |
Marble101 | General discussion | 40 | 11,016 | 2012-06-25, 11:11 pm | ||
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Thread: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? Post: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? So are gender differences mostly in sentence endings (these "da yo"'s and "no instead of ka"'s you guys are discussing), or do men and women even use different vocabulary (aside from personal pronouns... |
Marble101 | Learning resources | 15 | 6,162 | 2012-06-21, 10:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Post-RTK Revisions Post: Post-RTK Revisions After RTK, how long, though, should someone continue to review their RTK deck? Or does it become redundant after a while? |
Marble101 | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,409 | 2012-06-21, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? Post: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? Thanks! |
Marble101 | Learning resources | 15 | 6,162 | 2012-06-21, 4:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice Post: Advice rich_f Wrote:I tried Pimsleur, and it bored me to tears. To tears? I basically dropped out when it kept asking you "shinjuku dori wa doko desu ka?" over and over again (every 30 seconds). If I wanted... |
Marble101 | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,693 | 2012-06-21, 4:52 pm | ||
