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Thread: Fun Stuff To Do in Osaka/Tokyo (non-sightseeing) Post: RE: Fun Stuff To Do in Osaka/Tokyo (non-sightseein... Probably a bit too late but for anyone else who might be going check out Nicolas House in Omotesando http://nicolascharles.jp/reviews.htm They do these cute little usagi choux cream and also a 'kids... |
mezbup | Off topic | 6 | 929 | 2016-05-30, 4:58 am | ||
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Thread: Studying medicine in Japan Post: RE: Studying medicine in Japan (2012-06-15, 11:33 am)Tori-kun Wrote: Just curious. Possible with an Abitur? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitur Have no JLPT certification. Not afraid of medical kanji hell :D Unless you're of As... |
mezbup | Off topic | 17 | 5,319 | 2016-05-30, 4:55 am | ||
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Thread: AJATT's How To Break Into The Translation Industry Post: RE: AJATT's How To Break Into The Translation Indu... (2016-05-25, 6:38 am)Seikou Wrote: Thanks for your input, jimeux. I actually have an academic background in coding, but recently became more interested in translation/interpretation. Now, I can't s... |
mezbup | General discussion | 11 | 1,509 | 2016-05-30, 4:51 am | ||
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Thread: Good source of Japanese tech news Post: RE: Good source of Japanese tech news Gizmodo in Japanese. |
mezbup | General discussion | 2 | 489 | 2016-05-30, 4:45 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Programming/Computer Term Deck Post: RE: Japanese Programming/Computer Term Deck I think it's worth learning about 1/10th of that. Really wouldn't bother with 6000 IT terms. I don't think I know that many in English even. Maybe a few thousand but there would be a large number I've... |
mezbup | Learning resources | 4 | 572 | 2016-05-30, 4:43 am | ||
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Thread: Overwork Post: Overwork Whenever we have our Japanese partners come over from Japan to our office for meetings, we always finish work at 5:30 and they are sometimes there til 10pm. |
mezbup | General discussion | 39 | 7,050 | 2015-05-17, 3:20 am | ||
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Thread: The KanKen Chronicles Post: The KanKen Chronicles @PotbellyPig 28.5k words is insane. I'm thinking about getting back into KanKen again... my son will be born soon and he will grow up bilingual which will include learning to write kanji too. I woul... |
mezbup | General discussion | 397 | 123,291 | 2015-05-08, 7:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here I finished reading 阪急電車！ Awesome novel btw if anyone is looking for a recommendation. It's a novel that takes place (almost) entirely on a train. Each chapter is from the perspective of a passenger li... |
mezbup | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,110 | 2015-04-28, 1:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Giongo even after all these years Post: Giongo even after all these years Seriously... I hear a new giongo almost every day it feels like. A couple of days ago my wife and I walked past a baby that was sort of fidgeting and she said 赤ちゃんもぞもぞしている。I was like.....what's もぞもぞ？ ... |
mezbup | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,002 | 2015-04-20, 1:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Switching your inner monologue to Japanese Post: Switching your inner monologue to Japanese I never tried to switch my inner monologue to Japanese, it just happened after a certain period. Also, it never fully become 100% Japanese either. Half the time I think in Japanese and half the time I... |
mezbup | The Japanese language | 17 | 2,271 | 2015-04-20, 1:10 pm | ||
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Thread: On Speaking, AJATT, Frustration Post: On Speaking, AJATT, Frustration You know, I can relate to this a little when it comes to Korean. I studied it pretty intensely via the AJ(K)ATT method for a short time (4 ~ 6 months) and expected that because grammatically it is so ... |
mezbup | The Japanese language | 14 | 2,153 | 2015-04-14, 5:24 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 3 within 1 year possible? Post: JLPT 3 within 1 year possible? I did JLPT back when the current JLPT3 didn't exist, but I skipped 4 & 3 and went straight to JLPT2 after 1 year. I think if I recall correctly I needed 55% or 60% to pass and I got 50%. Given I s... |
mezbup | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 16 | 6,601 | 2015-04-12, 5:53 am | ||
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Thread: My thoughts after 9 years of on/off study with no real progress Post: My thoughts after 9 years of on/off study with no ... I find it interesting that lack of understanding during immersion demotivated you to the point where you put the subs back on and stuff. I remember 6 years ago reading Khatz articles all in one night,... |
mezbup | Off topic | 119 | 19,199 | 2015-04-11, 5:07 am | ||
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Thread: Will not writing the kanji affect my learning? Post: Will not writing the kanji affect my learning? Here's my 2 cents on the subject: I learned to write ~2000 kanji by doing RTK and learning to read them after that worked out pretty well. I then learned how to read a further 1000+ kanji just by Ank... |
mezbup | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 2,610 | 2015-04-09, 1:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Translated my first long and technically complex document. http://www.koiki-kikan.jp/contents/20140926_rfc_01.pdf Fun stuff. Never thought I'd use Japanese for this kind of stuff haha. |
mezbup | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,110 | 2015-04-08, 4:00 am | ||
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Thread: Preparing for Trip to Japan Post: Preparing for Trip to Japan I took my first trip to Japan in 2011 and my second one in 2014 so it sounds like a similar situation haha. 2nd trip was even more epic than the first. If you're in Tokyo you'll no doubt be hitting u... |
mezbup | Off topic | 12 | 2,287 | 2015-04-01, 12:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Nihongo's methodology recommendation Post: Nihongo's methodology recommendation "From where do you actually learn vocab?" Well 2 places really. Initially you learn it through your textbook / learning resources whatever you choose to go with first when you're learning some gramma... |
mezbup | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,001 | 2015-03-29, 1:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Had my first interpreting gig this week... Post: Had my first interpreting gig this week... So, I'm back to learning Japanese after a 3 year hiatus. Long story short I passed JLPT1 in 2011 then did computer science at uni for 3 years and now I'm working in an international software company i... |
mezbup | General discussion | 4 | 1,058 | 2015-03-27, 5:23 am | ||
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Thread: Anki Evangelism Post: Anki Evangelism Interesting thread, I've tried and failed many times and succeeded a few others. I swear by it as I wouldn't be fluent in Japanese without it and recently my best mate just started studying Japanese a... |
mezbup | Off topic | 37 | 7,315 | 2014-06-17, 8:00 am | ||
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Thread: The KanKen Chronicles Post: The KanKen Chronicles Thats insane dude. Congrats! Can you do a write up of how you stripped the data from the NDS rom into Anki? I'm sure others would find it useful. I recently did the same thing for on a Japanese DS rom... |
mezbup | General discussion | 397 | 123,291 | 2014-06-16, 4:01 am | ||
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Thread: Manage Anki reviews, double productivity: like a boss! Post: Manage Anki reviews, double productivity: like a b... Hey guys, back again! Thanks for all the feedback on my last post! Glad you guys enjoyed it. This time I wrote my definitive guide to taming the review dragon. Check it out at: http://www.supernews... |
mezbup | General discussion | 0 | 663 | 2013-02-03, 12:50 am | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. stehr Wrote:mezbup, just curious, but did you set your vocabulary cards to study from E-J, or J-E, or both? I remember you released an E-J sentence deck a year or so back, but I was wondering if you h... |
mezbup | General discussion | 249 | 67,199 | 2013-02-02, 1:54 pm | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. hey guys, I did a write up of something that I've been meaning to do for ages! Slowly getting round to writing up and posting my strategies I used to get fluent so I can share my wisdom with the great... |
mezbup | General discussion | 249 | 67,199 | 2013-02-01, 9:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Immersion Media Player Post: Immersion Media Player Hey, thanks for the reply. Yeah! Mp4 isn't currently supported. Also, I will get round to fixing the problem with "UNKNOWN" tags. This is a known bug and happens when something either doesn't have i... |
mezbup | Learning resources | 16 | 5,914 | 2013-01-29, 9:46 am | ||
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Thread: Do you still SRS after fluent? Post: Do you still SRS after fluent? I haven't studied Japanese actively for about a year now though I still use it in my everyday life. I used to SRS every day and built a massive vocab deck of 18,000 words. I definitely notice that I ... |
mezbup | General discussion | 10 | 1,781 | 2013-01-14, 9:45 pm | ||
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Thread: How well does RTK transfer to chinese? Post: How well does RTK transfer to chinese? Irixmark Wrote:Mezbup, I've been pretty impressed with how well you learned Japanese, and I'm just judging that from your blog posts--especially getting to really advanced levels without actually livi... |
mezbup | General discussion | 16 | 6,240 | 2013-01-10, 7:17 pm | ||
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Thread: How well does RTK transfer to chinese? Post: How well does RTK transfer to chinese? I've actually just started studying Mandarin and I'm making wicked progress. I've got N1 for Japanese, can read novels and such know roughly 3000 ~ 3500 kanji i'd say. Seriously... if you have that mu... |
mezbup | General discussion | 16 | 6,240 | 2013-01-10, 4:38 am | ||
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Thread: I feel kinda stuck Post: I feel kinda stuck I'm a huge fan of vocab decks (built mine to 18,000 before I stopped studying)... but... I think you did it wrong. I mean it's a bit late now but you should have done grammar up to N2 level first an... |
mezbup | The Japanese language | 22 | 5,388 | 2013-01-10, 4:29 am | ||
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Thread: Immersion Media Player Post: Immersion Media Player Just released a new update. 1.1.2.4! Now includes rikai-chan style mouse over look ups of known words you've added to your wordlist. Also you can now add a reading for the example sentence (don't kno... |
mezbup | Learning resources | 16 | 5,914 | 2013-01-08, 1:44 pm | ||
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Thread: REAL Heavy Metal! Post: REAL Heavy Metal! Ok it's officially the future now. I love it. |
mezbup | Off topic | 6 | 1,122 | 2013-01-06, 10:49 am | ||
