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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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Thread: Should I worry? Post: Should I worry? No. |
NightSky | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,225 | 2014-05-13, 9:44 am | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
