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    Thread: Any interesting (native) material at N4 level?
Post: Any interesting (native) material at N4 level?

I don't remember exactly when I started trying to read Dragonball, but I don't think I'd been studying for all that long at the time. There was also a baseball manga called Major I used to read that I...
NightSky Learning resources 21 4,563 2014-08-09, 12:05 pm
    Thread: Any interesting (native) material at N4 level?
Post: Any interesting (native) material at N4 level?

sunehiro Wrote:Talking about DragonBall, I found very easy, the first part in particular. You just have to skip the hard parts, but I do this even today. I suppose everything is easy if you just "skip...
NightSky Learning resources 21 4,563 2014-08-09, 7:08 am
    Thread: Any interesting (native) material at N4 level?
Post: Any interesting (native) material at N4 level?

sunehiro Wrote:My first picks were Dragonball and Yotsubato. I always recommend Murakami's Norwegian Wood, too. I have Norwegian Wood sat on my shelf next to me. Why, exactly, would you recommend t...
NightSky Learning resources 21 4,563 2014-08-09, 12:17 am
    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

Arupan Wrote:You didn't understand my questions... OK. A quick explanation: → The question about the JLPT had a connection with the one before it. → Japanese complain about not being able to write k...
NightSky Remembering the Kanji 89 12,571 2014-08-05, 5:51 pm
    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

Helltrixz Wrote:NightSky Wrote:So what you are saying is it *is* necessary to spend the time learning how to write by hand in order to learn Japanese well? So you want to say that you'd rather not lea...
NightSky Remembering the Kanji 89 12,571 2014-08-05, 10:41 am
    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

So what you are saying is it *is* necessary to spend the time learning how to write by hand in order to learn Japanese well?
NightSky Remembering the Kanji 89 12,571 2014-08-05, 8:51 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

I for one quite like Benny. There I said it. Just because it takes us so long to learn Japanese, we shouldn't let it upset us that he can learn Spanish or German so quickly when studying full time...
NightSky General discussion 856 195,471 2014-08-05, 7:19 am
    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

yudantaiteki Wrote:Arupan Wrote:It's more like what you do for a living in my opinion. That's the main thing. A lot of people will need some level of handwriting ability, but very few foreigners will...
NightSky Remembering the Kanji 89 12,571 2014-08-05, 7:16 am
    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

I've only skimmed the thread, but it seems funny to me how the more experienced hands seem to think being able to write is not so important, whereas the beginners think its extremely important. At lea...
NightSky Remembering the Kanji 89 12,571 2014-08-04, 6:55 am
    Thread: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?
Post: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?

Bokusenou Wrote:All the links are up for me, but if it's ever down, you can just use a site which has the same dictionary like http://www.tangorin.com or http://www.jisho.org. Yeah but I like to use t...
NightSky Learning resources 8 1,770 2014-07-26, 9:53 pm
    Thread: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?
Post: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?

Vempele Wrote:Works for me, even in Chrome, but Chrome displays kanji in a Chinese font so I'd start by using a different browser anyway. How about http://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1C ? T...
NightSky Learning resources 8 1,770 2014-07-26, 10:23 am
    Thread: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?
Post: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?

Yeah, that link doesn't even open for me. Really weird. ======================================= Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to http://www.csse.monash.edu.au Try reloading the page
NightSky Learning resources 8 1,770 2014-07-26, 10:10 am
    Thread: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?
Post: Is Jim Breens Dictionary broken?

I figure it must not be because I can't find anything online that suggests the site would be down, and if it was I'd expect to see lots of people complaining or asking about it. But I've been complete...
NightSky Learning resources 8 1,770 2014-07-26, 9:53 am
    Thread: Planning to take N2 next December
Post: Planning to take N2 next December

PotbellyPig Wrote:Passing N2 in less than a year without any previous kanji background sounds like a superhuman feat to me. But you are in Japan and are immersed so I don't know how much that can boo...
NightSky JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 13 3,557 2014-07-11, 12:39 am
    Thread: Should I learn vocab via production or recognition, and at what rate?
Post: Should I learn vocab via production or recognition...

I used to do production flashcards for years. Biggest mistake I ever made and in hindsight it slowed me down massively. Now I only do recognition and find it 10x more effective.
NightSky The Japanese language 26 4,868 2014-07-10, 9:22 am
    Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday
Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday

Ah okay, probably misunderstanding each other then. Yes I otherwise agree with you! At this level to learn another 100 words a day probably requires around 3 hours reading, followed by another 2 hour...
NightSky Learning resources 81 10,443 2014-07-08, 9:17 am
    Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday
Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday

kameden Wrote:It's not difficult because 16,000 words really isn't that much. I constantly run into new words. I would definitely not consider myself advanced at all. I think you are either reading re...
NightSky Learning resources 81 10,443 2014-07-08, 8:58 am
    Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday
Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday

RandomQuotes Wrote:If you know 16,000 words you should be advanced as far as reading goes. If your're not, I think you need to consider what you mean by the word "know." For sure. I think I'm just un...
NightSky Learning resources 81 10,443 2014-07-08, 7:41 am
    Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday
Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday

Stansfield123 Wrote:NightSky Wrote:I remember ages ago hearing something like "if its a choice between learning a new noun or adjective, learn the adjective. If its a choice between learning a new adj...
NightSky Learning resources 81 10,443 2014-07-08, 6:24 am
    Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday
Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday

cophnia61 Wrote:NightSky Wrote:I don't know why people are so quick to ditch grammar study ("because it can be picked up through immersion") when they want to cram 500 words a day instead. The are far...
NightSky Learning resources 81 10,443 2014-07-07, 10:12 am
    Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday
Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday

I don't know why people are so quick to ditch grammar study ("because it can be picked up through immersion") when they want to cram 500 words a day instead. The are far more words out there than gram...
NightSky Learning resources 81 10,443 2014-07-06, 11:09 am
    Thread: What is your strategy for remembering on-yomi?
Post: What is your strategy for remembering on-yomi?

Learning all the onyomi separately is a ridiculous thing to do. Massive waste of time.
NightSky The Japanese language 22 6,233 2014-07-06, 11:02 am
    Thread: Programming Jobs in Japan and general travel questions
Post: Programming Jobs in Japan and general travel quest...

This is exactly what I did, except I was teaching English at first to get a valid visa. Found a developer job inside of 2 months. The market might be quite different now, but if you are actually any...
NightSky JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 30 10,393 2014-05-23, 6:39 am
    Thread: Should I worry?
Post: Should I worry?

No.
NightSky Remembering the Kanji 9 2,225 2014-05-13, 9:44 am
    Thread: A program for storing an entire website in a textfile?
Post: A program for storing an entire website in a textf...

On Linux (or after installing cygwin on Windows) you can just use wget to mirror the whole website. Then if you want all the .html files as one you can just concatenate them together. Easy peasy.
NightSky Learning resources 9 2,182 2014-04-19, 10:56 am
    Thread: Doing RTK twice.
Post: Doing RTK twice.

Dustin - When I first started learning Japanese (I think 2006?) I'm quite sure I remember seeing posts written by you talking about Heisig on thejapanesepage.com. And I'm quite sure you have redone RT...
NightSky Remembering the Kanji 19 4,337 2014-04-18, 11:15 am
    Thread: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)?
Post: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)?

vebaev Wrote:anritsi Wrote:jbudding Wrote:日本語単語スピードマスター Quick mastery of vocabulary N4-N5 Basic 1800 w CD Kurashina Sayaka ISBN978-4-86392-010-1 Also available 3 more levels: standard, intermediate an...
NightSky Learning resources 10 2,821 2014-04-15, 7:26 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2014
Post: JLPT July 2014

It looks like I've missed the registration deadline for this again (for HK based exam). So annoying, I've wanted to take N1 for years now but keep not being able to register for different reasons. A...
NightSky JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 55 14,407 2014-04-11, 12:28 am
    Thread: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan?
Post: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan?

When my parents visited in Japan they were really grateful when people tried to use English to help them. I had other friends visit too and they were also really appreciative. But they don't come to l...
NightSky General discussion 125 23,367 2014-03-14, 7:36 am
    Thread: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan?
Post: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan?

I lived in Mie-ken in a city with no foreigners, so I understand it is quite different to Tokyo or the other major cities. afterglowefx - in your case it probably isn't culture shock as such, it soun...
NightSky General discussion 125 23,367 2014-03-10, 1:26 am