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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks to Vempele and Ash_S for your explanations! And so much for my current Japanese course for not even attempting to explain anything about this kind of construction... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-09-28, 12:41 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread チャンピオンが必ずしも勝とは限らない is translated in my Japanese course as: "The champion will not necessarily win." The problem I have with this is that 必ずしも translates as "not always" and 限らない looks like the n... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-09-27, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Tae Kim and IMABI Post: Tae Kim and IMABI vtx4848 Wrote:Just read and look up grammar as you come across it. No point going much further than the basics before you start reading, just get into it. Imabi is easier to look things up when you co... |
Eminem2 | Learning resources | 8 | 2,528 | 2015-05-14, 6:34 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread viharati Wrote:I Wrote:3. よこす has more or less sense of nuisance. I'm reading it and find it excessive. I'd like to correct it. In a nut shell, a robbery would say 金をよこせ in stead of 金をくれ for "give me ... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-05-14, 6:13 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread viharati Wrote:1. やる means the gift goes away from the possesser of your perspective (not necessarily you), whether you are the giver or not. 2. くれる means the gift approaches to the possesser of your ... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-05-13, 1:54 pm | ||
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Thread: What I thought about kanji today.... Post: What I thought about kanji today.... john555 Wrote:While working through (phonetically) my Japanese reader this morning it occurred to me that I would gladly have all my RTK1 knowledge erased from my brain if in return I were given immed... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 44 | 6,615 | 2015-05-10, 3:31 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:Politeness is not a good thing to leave "implied." You do sometimes have to be careful with the terms that indicate giving originating from yourself (あげる、差し上げる、やる) but you should ne... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-05-04, 3:01 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Splatted Wrote:I think I see the problem now. Giving and receiving words are often used to make explicit the implicit assumptions regarding who owes who for what just took place, regardless of how obv... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-05-04, 2:49 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Splatted Wrote:Substitution is always the only possible possible meaning of かわりに regardless of whether the subject is inanimate or animate and this is independent of any giving receiving words that mi... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-05-03, 3:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:代わりに is used for doing something in someone else's place (i.e. substituting for someone). It doesn't have the meaning of doing something as a favor for someone else. While I underst... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-05-01, 12:43 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread @ Splatted Thanks again for taking the time to reply! I agree that writing a letter on behalf of someone is not that odd, but to express it as "to write a letter for someone else" strikes me as str... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-04-30, 1:33 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread @ Splatted Ah, I see! Thanks! I wouldn't have thought of that possibility very soon, since writing a letter for someone else doesn't sound like something that would happen very often. Or perhaps thi... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-04-29, 3:12 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread There's something I don't understand about the way the following (admittedly fairly basic) sentence was translated: 母の 代わりに私が手紙を書きます。 It came out as: "I will write a letter for my mother". But that d... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,024 | 2015-04-29, 12:45 pm | ||
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Thread: New "How to" and other guides from Cooori Post: New "How to" and other guides from Cooori Cooori Wrote:Hello Everyone My name is Eric, and I am from Cooori (you have probably seen the ad before in the upper left). Well, I wanted to let you all know that we have been actually working nearl... |
Eminem2 | Learning resources | 3 | 1,445 | 2015-04-27, 3:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Time for a new donation run for Fabrice! Post: Time for a new donation run for Fabrice! I donated € 50,- a little over a year ago. And since then I've mostly moved on to other study methods, although the forums are still interesting to visit every once in a while. |
Eminem2 | Off topic | 42 | 9,480 | 2015-03-21, 5:22 am | ||
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Thread: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? Post: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? EratiK Wrote:Eminem2 Wrote:Ah, I see. Now that you mention it, I do remember encountering a flash card just yesterday about the て-form of です being で (or でして in really formal writing). So that would me... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,156 | 2015-03-02, 10:06 am | ||
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Thread: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? Post: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? EratiK Wrote:Basically na-adj are like nouns, which means when used (actualized) a form of the copula です/だ should be present, and the continuative form of the copula is で (and with na-adj the copula b... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,156 | 2015-03-01, 2:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? Post: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? manman2a Wrote:@Eminem2 : Just so you do not get the wrong impression, I am not saying that JapanesePod101.com, 'The Site', is not flawed. The flash card system may be laughable and the constant spams... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,156 | 2015-03-01, 4:22 am | ||
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Thread: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? Post: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? yudantaiteki Wrote:(That should be 静かで, by the way.) Any -te form can act as a weak causal relationship, but doesn't have to. It depends on the context. Interesting. I didn't know that. I've mostly s... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,156 | 2015-03-01, 4:18 am | ||
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Thread: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? Post: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? @manman2a Well, it's good to hear that at least 1 later season of J-Pod101 is of a better quality than their very first. Still, the fact that their "Founder" Peter Galante was so heavily involved wit... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,156 | 2015-02-28, 2:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? Post: Can Anyone Confirm If My Way of Studying is Right? manman2a Wrote:I completed RTK. I read the BASIC Tae Kim Guide. I searched for many methods. After tons and tons of experimenting I found a perfect match for me. Can this work in the long run? . Can y... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,156 | 2015-02-28, 6:05 am | ||
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Thread: What tv series are you watching? Post: What tv series are you watching? "Battlestar Galactica" (2004 remake) for at least the 3rd time. "Once Upon A Time" (on and off) "Elementary" "South Park" "Mitsudomoe" (brilliant tongue-in-cheek anime) "Detective Conan" (only about e... |
Eminem2 | Off topic | 19 | 3,342 | 2015-02-18, 10:39 am | ||
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Thread: Last movie you saw (rate it) Post: Last movie you saw (rate it) "Take Shelter" (7.5/10), a moviehouse flick made about 5 years ago. Interesting approach to portraying the fears and experiences of someone who has a history of paranoid schizofrenia in his family t... |
Eminem2 | Off topic | 67 | 15,236 | 2015-02-12, 7:59 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar While Studying RTK1 Post: Grammar While Studying RTK1 Robik Wrote:I am at 600 in RTK1 and i just started learning grammar from Tae Kim, just like you. I have lot of time I can spend on learning Japanese, but if I do more than 30 kanji a day, I am going c... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 12 | 2,032 | 2015-02-12, 7:30 am | ||
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Thread: New grammar and miscellaneous decks based on JTMW Post: New grammar and miscellaneous decks based on JTMW I just edited the original post in this rather modest thread about some corrections and expansions that I made for the original decks that I posted about some two months ago. Only it turns out that th... |
Eminem2 | Learning resources | 2 | 1,415 | 2014-12-07, 3:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Need help learning interrogatives Post: Need help learning interrogatives Perhaps a deck concentrating on specifically these words can help? See https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/496526742. |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,043 | 2014-12-07, 11:46 am | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Aikynaro Wrote:As for why not to go the extra mile ... because it's paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiinful. Perhaps you don't understand, but for some of us, reading grammar explanations is the very definitio... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,023 | 2014-11-10, 11:09 am | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Aikynaro Wrote:Eminem2 Wrote:My own experience has been that Japanese grammar is too extensive and refined to really pick up on "on the go", so to speak. My experience is that you are wrong. By studyi... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,023 | 2014-11-10, 9:44 am | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Aikynaro Wrote:I think you should do vocab in sentences. You can pick up vocabulary and grammar at the same time with no extra effort. My own experience has been that Japanese grammar is too extensive... |
Eminem2 | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,023 | 2014-11-09, 4:04 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Congratulations to everyone who finished RTK1 since the last time I posted here. Well done! |
Eminem2 | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,630 | 2014-10-18, 3:30 am | ||
