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    Thread: Good PS3 games for learning Japanese?
Post: Good PS3 games for learning Japanese?

Just agreeing with esgrove - Fallout 3 in Japanese is fantastic. Though you do wind up learning a lot of strange nuclear and radiation-related vocabulary. :) I found it was really weird how all of ...
zanzou Off topic 52 18,934 2010-08-03, 11:42 pm
    Thread: Japan - The Strange Country
Post: Japan - The Strange Country

Best part's the "Don't forget to bow on your way home. And again, and again, and again." as they back away from each other bowing. It's fun watching Japanese businessmen doing this in the middle of...
zanzou Off topic 23 3,773 2010-07-11, 5:46 pm
    Thread: Studio Ghibli/Shanghai reference + Forbidden Island
Post: Studio Ghibli/Shanghai reference + Forbidden Islan...

I've seen Gunkanjima a few times on Japanese tv programs... pretty cool. Kowloon walled city is really awesome, as well.
zanzou Off topic 9 1,438 2010-07-09, 4:55 am
    Thread: Stories of amazed Japanese people
Post: Stories of amazed Japanese people

FutureBlues Wrote:He may have just been trying to be polite, but he seemed to backpedal and get a little embarrassed when I was like, "Yeah, you're talking to him." Reminds me a bit of this: http://ww...
zanzou Remembering the Kanji 57 14,406 2010-07-08, 8:43 pm
    Thread: Studying without Anki
Post: Studying without Anki

brianobush Wrote:My particular issue is not Anki, but the computer - basically the study mechanism. I face much the same problem... I get tired of being stuck behind a computer for several hours a da...
zanzou The Japanese language 20 10,630 2010-07-08, 8:26 pm
    Thread: PS3 JRPGs?
Post: PS3 JRPGs?

Fallout 3 - If you've played Morrowind or Oblivion, Fallout 3 is basically the same (but radically different setting). If you haven't played those, Fallout 3 might be a bit overwhelming. It's very mu...
zanzou General discussion 26 7,171 2010-06-30, 9:15 am
    Thread: PS3 JRPGs?
Post: PS3 JRPGs?

Sorry, it's not a JRPG but playing Fallout 3 in Japanese has been pretty awesome for me. Dialogue voice acting is all pretty good and everything has Japanese subtitles you can turn on or off. I don'...
zanzou General discussion 26 7,171 2010-06-29, 10:29 pm
    Thread: The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2010
Post: The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2010

That pic's funny. Also, I live in Nagoya. Ouch :( This is definitely the most expensive place I've ever lived (having lived in 3 other Japanese prefectures before this, as well as various places in...
zanzou Off topic 115 33,086 2010-06-28, 12:17 pm
    Thread: Top 5 Interests
Post: Top 5 Interests

1. I live in Japan, so I figured I should learn Japanese. That's about the end of it. Hard to pin down why I still study... combination of stubbornness and genuine interest. Been generally disappoi...
zanzou General discussion 49 9,147 2010-06-25, 12:06 pm
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

Just a heads up... I'm not sure who all has access to Japanese apps in the Android market, but there seems to be quite a few English-japanese dictionaries in it now. Just do a search for 辞書 I thi...
zanzou Learning resources 157 85,756 2010-06-24, 9:13 pm
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

The IME I use, Simeji, integrates with Social IME... so if the word you want isn't displayed, you can hook into the internet and grab it from there. Then the word is stored locally in a dictionary f...
zanzou Learning resources 157 85,756 2010-06-23, 8:09 am
    Thread: Core 2000 pronunciation question
Post: Core 2000 pronunciation question

They're boring, contextless sentences constructed as examples for random vocabulary words. Of course they sound contrived. :) That said, they're good enough for beginner materials. They're slowish,...
zanzou General discussion 3 895 2010-06-23, 1:31 am
    Thread: Teaching English to a Japanese native
Post: Teaching English to a Japanese native

About every Japanese person has had several years of English in junior high and high school. Their underlying knowledge of English is well established enough for a trip overseas (unless many years ha...
zanzou General discussion 47 11,019 2010-06-23, 1:28 am
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

What dictionaries do you guys use with DroidWing?
zanzou Learning resources 157 85,756 2010-06-21, 5:15 am
    Thread: 10-month progress-(Constructive Criticism Welcome)
Post: 10-month progress-(Constructive Criticism Welcome)

It's not all that unbelievable as he's said before he spends the vast majority of every day learning Japanese. Being able to approach JLPT2 in one year of study isn't all that crazy at that level of ...
zanzou The Japanese language 175 34,983 2010-06-18, 2:40 am
    Thread: Understanding the Japanese speak English
Post: Understanding the Japanese speak English

Yeah, you get used to the accent after a while. Still, my friends'll throw a random English word into a sentence and I'll try to parse it like its Japanese... almost always trips me up. Haha, al...
zanzou General discussion 27 7,325 2010-06-17, 2:50 am
    Thread: Frogs in the toilet...
Post: Frogs in the toilet...

Made me laugh out loud in my very quiet Japanese high school staff room. No advice, though. You handled it like a champ.
zanzou Off topic 7 1,830 2010-06-16, 1:47 am
    Thread: Which phone for the kanjihead?
Post: Which phone for the kanjihead?

Yeah, iPhone's got it beat on Apps... Android kills the iPhone with its multitasking* which was a deal breaker for me. Also remember that Anki has an official app for the iPhone... Anyway, don'...
zanzou General discussion 19 4,636 2010-06-15, 2:57 am
    Thread: Keeping it at RTK, is it possible?
Post: Keeping it at RTK, is it possible?

I'd put it on the back burner (i.e. stop reviewing), then before you dive back into Japanese go through RtK again. You'll have learned them once so you'll be able to blaze through them in 1-2 months ...
zanzou Remembering the Kanji 7 2,116 2010-06-12, 10:18 am
    Thread: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study method)
Post: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study met...

@Offshore You can't really fault my friend. I know a lot of people want to be here, but my friend had the opportunity and came here. No, he isn't in love with Japan and Japanese culture - but he...
zanzou The Japanese language 21 3,924 2010-06-12, 2:14 am
    Thread: Expectations
Post: Expectations

You also get 店内でお召し上がりでしょうか a lot at restaurants, too... You can respond with: こちらで 店内で 持ち帰りで テイクアウトで Or just a はい if they offered up the one you wanted in the first place. :) Related kotonoha: ht...
zanzou General discussion 21 5,636 2010-06-11, 11:03 pm
    Thread: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study method)
Post: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study met...

Original post: zanzou Wrote:He knows very little Japanese, though he does know the kana And luckily, he's already gotten a strong anti-romaji streak in him. I think there's some flaw to learning by b...
zanzou The Japanese language 21 3,924 2010-06-11, 10:45 pm
    Thread: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study method)
Post: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study met...

Which is basically my point... my friend's not so inclined to completely absorb himself in it and everyone has different reasons for studying. He doesn't want to (spend the incredible amount of time...
zanzou The Japanese language 21 3,924 2010-06-11, 9:56 pm
    Thread: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study method)
Post: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study met...

Thanks everyone for the advice! Codexus Wrote:I don't really get how one can live somewhere for 2 years and not be more motivated to learn the local language. He's actually not really interested in l...
zanzou The Japanese language 21 3,924 2010-06-11, 9:32 pm
    Thread: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study method)
Post: Light conversational Japanese in a year (study met...

I've a friend that's interested in learning some Japanese during his stay here (he's got another 2 years or so), but really only wants to spend the first year learning to kinda enhance his second year...
zanzou The Japanese language 21 3,924 2010-06-11, 12:06 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Yeah, I liked the old method. I think I just need to switch things up from time to time. :) I've been doing the new method for about a month, cramming vocabulary like crazy. My success rate really ...
zanzou The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-06-11, 9:45 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

The paragraph detailing my vocab memorization method (on paper) was confusing. As a quick example. I would write them like this: 1 行く       い・く to go 2 大きい     おお・きい Big...
zanzou The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-06-11, 2:59 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

When learning new words, I find it's better to do some repetition drills with them to get them bouncing around in your head. A while back, I used to just keep a word notebook. I'd put down a new wor...
zanzou The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-06-11, 2:52 am
    Thread: 日本語のrandomstuffのスレ
Post: 日本語のrandomstuffのスレ

http://kotonoha.cc/no/68082 kotonoha for だいじょうばない. A little late to the party :P
zanzou The Japanese language 37 10,415 2010-06-10, 8:18 am
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

DroidWing - An EPWing reader for Android to load EPWing dictionaries. This is GREAT. Simeji - Great Japanese IME.. I like it's flick style. BeyondPod - Great podcast manager I use to handle my Japane...
zanzou Learning resources 157 85,756 2010-06-08, 6:57 am