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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
