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Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game? Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee... (2016-05-29, 5:00 pm)Queen of Mars Wrote: (2016-05-29, 4:49 pm)anotherjohn Wrote: I didn't have a word that uses 晄 but thanks to 魔晄炉 my kanjipeen has grown to 3431 (and one step closer to 100% 人名用... |
Taishi | General discussion | 39 | 1,735 | 2016-05-29, 5:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game? Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee... (2016-05-29, 1:34 pm)Queen of Mars Wrote: When is a good time to introduce more fun learning material like games and manga? The short and easy answer to this is: when it is enjoyable. In the begin... |
Taishi | General discussion | 39 | 1,735 | 2016-05-29, 4:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game? Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee... (2016-05-29, 11:50 am)RandomQuotes Wrote: If you don't mind using a dictionary to look up nearly every word, then you could do it now, but in would be, in a word, unpleasant. The thing about RPGs i... |
Taishi | General discussion | 39 | 1,735 | 2016-05-29, 12:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Need help learning kanji Post: RE: Need help learning kanji Depending on how good your (non-reading) Japanese is, it's probably a better idea to learn how to write some common words. In your example with 上, there is really no reason to separately memorize the ... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 12 | 827 | 2016-05-29, 7:42 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese input when you can't install IME Post: RE: Japanese input when you can't install IME I just use the built in IME on Google translate. |
Taishi | General discussion | 8 | 3,791 | 2016-05-25, 12:19 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-05-12, 10:06 am)satanael Wrote: What does this sentence mean in english? "あぁん？ お前が俺たちの応援に駆けつけた民警だ" (esp. "民警") 民警 is short for 人民警察，meaning people's police. I can't tell you how important th... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,443 | 2016-05-12, 12:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji You're probably right. I was thinking about how the basic meanings of 教 and 令 etc. can have a lasting impact on the meaning of causative sentences. But that's a different situation altogether. While ... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,769 | 2016-01-18, 5:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji At least with 莫し its use is widespread and is easy to differentiate from 無し and 亡し. However with いずくんぞ there are myriad of kanji with this reading and most of them have secondary meanings (安焉奚烏惡寧). I... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,769 | 2016-01-17, 7:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji On the other hand, the problem with searching for "誂う" からかう is that you only get results that contain the word written in both kanji and kana. Not to mention only getting the dictionary form. It's a l... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,769 | 2016-01-17, 6:44 am | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji (2016-01-14, 5:26 pm)Vempele Wrote: 小さな不満が降り積もり、嫌がらせをしたくなった。夜子を、思いっきり誂いたい。 119 results for "誂う" からかう on Google (plus "very similar entries" for a total of 616). Rarest legitimate spelling of anythi... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,769 | 2016-01-16, 4:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it worth it to learn traditional characters? Post: RE: Is it worth it to learn traditional characters... (2015-11-25, 5:29 pm)kameden Wrote: So the characters in Hong Kong are different? But don't they usually just read in a non-Cantonese written text anyway? So do they learn Hong Kong characters, and ... |
Taishi | Chinese and Hanzi | 22 | 2,777 | 2015-11-26, 3:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it worth it to learn traditional characters? Post: RE: Is it worth it to learn traditional characters... Just want to add that you might want to avoid calling Taiwanese Mandarin just Taiwanese, since that usually refers to a different language altogether. 臺語 pronounced as tâi-gí in "Taiwanese" and táiyǔ... |
Taishi | Chinese and Hanzi | 22 | 2,777 | 2015-11-23, 5:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Customized RTK1/3/KanKen準1級 Deck (Better Keywords/+Example Vocab) Post: Customized RTK1/3/KanKen準1級 Deck (Better Keywords/... ReneSac Wrote:For 曽, are you sure the readings are split that way: 未（ゾウ）有? 未曾有 should be 未（ゾ）有. 有 is read as ウ here. For another example with that reading, see 有無 (うむ). |
Taishi | Remembering the Kanji | 29 | 10,890 | 2015-10-10, 1:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Are You An Above Average Language Learner? Post: Are You An Above Average Language Learner? I don't think my language learning ability differs much from most people. The difference lies in HOW I learn and how MUCH I do it. The average learner probably spends hours weekly learning a language.... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 27 | 3,354 | 2015-10-08, 5:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Question about an obscure kanji Post: Question about an obscure kanji yudantaiteki Wrote:No, because the right side of 博 is not the same as 尃, which has 甫 on top. (尃 is exceedingly rare; it's likely that you would never encounter that kanji in your life.) 博 was former... |
Taishi | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 804 | 2015-10-08, 8:58 am | ||
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Thread: Help: how to use new book after getting almost halfway through RTK? Post: Help: how to use new book after getting almost hal... john555 Wrote:Vempele Wrote:And a keyword list you can Ctrl+F if you have the character in digital form: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/heisigwords.html What order is this list in? Seems random. ... |
Taishi | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 1,058 | 2015-10-06, 7:14 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread rantony420 Wrote:Taishi Wrote:rantony420 Wrote:… I would translate 迷雲（めいうん） as foreboding clouds. For a related vocabulary you can look at 暗雲低迷. It doesn't contain the word per se, but it might aid yo... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,443 | 2015-09-18, 11:06 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread rantony420 Wrote:… I would translate 迷雲（めいうん） as foreboding clouds. For a related vocabulary you can look at 暗雲低迷. It doesn't contain the word per se, but it might aid you in grasping the feeling of t... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,443 | 2015-09-17, 12:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji I can't read Post: Kanji I can't read yudantaiteki Wrote:One thing I find interesting about this game is that they consistently use 早い for "fast" as well as "early". This isn't the first game I've seen that does this. It's interesting tha... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,744 | 2015-08-13, 6:20 am | ||
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Thread: What makes a radical a radical? Post: What makes a radical a radical? I think it's easier to think about radicals as central pieces of characters used to look them up in a dictionary, instead of as "common sub-characters". If every common sub-character would be a radica... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,022 | 2015-08-12, 8:11 am | ||
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Thread: RTK kanji without an on'yomi Post: RTK kanji without an on'yomi Not just some, most of the kanji in that list have onyomi. 蚊虻走牛 ぶんぼうそうぎゅう 頁岩 けつがん 松柏 しょうはく 芝蘭 しらん 建坪率 けんぺいりつ 虞犯 ぐはん 爪牙 そうが 野鶴 やかく etc. However many of these readings you will not encounter in modern t... |
Taishi | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 3,390 | 2015-07-30, 9:07 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Kuroro Wrote:Hello everybody :D I don't really get the meaning of this word: 菜々, I came across it while reading a dialogue about two people discussing what to do during the holidays, here is the sente... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,443 | 2015-07-26, 11:23 am | ||
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Thread: Why did you choose that Kanji for your avatar? Post: Why did you choose that Kanji for your avatar? I call myself Taishi→大志→志 And it also reflects my ambitions with Japanese. ぴったり！ |
Taishi | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 5,369 | 2015-07-07, 10:20 am | ||
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Thread: Vocab "Today I Learned" Thread Post: Vocab "Today I Learned" Thread tetsueda Wrote:穿く (What's wrong with 履く?) 履 implies shoes or socks, while 穿 does not. |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 72 | 24,977 | 2015-06-21, 5:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it really possible to Learn Vocabulary without readings? Post: Is it really possible to Learn Vocabulary without ... sholum Wrote:If you meant "doesn't know how to pronounce the words at all": Possible, but impractical and inefficient. You can memorize just about anything... If you meant "didn't learn the readings ... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 25 | 5,840 | 2015-04-17, 1:10 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Tzadeck Wrote:There's a part of the book Kiki's Delivery Service where Kiki notices a woman waving in the distance. Then it says, 「せわしなくおいでおいでをして、どうもキキにむかってふっているようにみえるのでした」. The meaning of the sente... |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,443 | 2015-04-14, 3:00 am | ||
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Thread: Does learning Japanese kanji compounds help with Mandarin? Post: Does learning Japanese kanji compounds help with M... yudantaiteki Wrote:And of course the Japanese doesn't help you with the pronunciation at all. While you won't be able to take immediate use out of your knowledge in the pronunciation in Japanese, you ... |
Taishi | Off topic | 4 | 1,432 | 2015-03-13, 4:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Does learning Japanese kanji compounds help with Mandarin? Post: Does learning Japanese kanji compounds help with M... Most compounds with onyomi are imported vocabulary from Chinese (not necessarily Mandarin), so most of them will exist and will often mean the same thing in Chinese. However, since quite some time has... |
Taishi | Off topic | 4 | 1,432 | 2015-03-13, 3:36 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread My guess for the second one would be 死何懼, which I would interpret as "What's scary about death?". |
Taishi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,443 | 2015-03-13, 7:26 am | ||
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Thread: The KanKen Chronicles Post: The KanKen Chronicles PotbellyPig Wrote:It's been a while since I played around with the kanken game for the 3DS. But I was wondering, do you guys consider the kanken step books a good source of vocabulary? I'm currently... |
Taishi | General discussion | 397 | 123,309 | 2015-03-12, 6:40 am | ||
