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Thread: Does sugar makes your mind fuzzy/hazy? Post: Does sugar makes your mind fuzzy/hazy? nest0r Wrote:masaman Wrote:I pretty much don't eat processed sugar. I rarely have sweet stuff or pops. I don't put sugar in my tea. The majority of food I eat don't contain sugar as an ingredient. But... |
masaman | Off topic | 27 | 8,109 | 2010-11-10, 11:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Does sugar makes your mind fuzzy/hazy? Post: Does sugar makes your mind fuzzy/hazy? I pretty much don't eat processed sugar. I rarely have sweet stuff or pops. I don't put sugar in my tea. The majority of food I eat don't contain sugar as an ingredient. But I eat an apple in the morn... |
masaman | Off topic | 27 | 8,109 | 2010-11-10, 9:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese thurd Wrote:Yesterday I've been watching this whole series of videos about various subjects in Japan. One of them was the issue of being polite & modest (it appears almost everywhere but the Blac... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-11-08, 12:09 pm | ||
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Thread: A quick Japanese history question that's driving me nuts. Post: A quick Japanese history question that's driving m... I don't think there is any particular name for it. Japan back then was a united nations. The law varied depending on where you were. And the Tokugawa period spans across 265 years. Surely, the law i... |
masaman | General discussion | 2 | 951 | 2010-11-08, 1:29 am | ||
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Thread: After RTK1: Should I stop the reviews and move on to sentences? Post: After RTK1: Should I stop the reviews and move on ... zachandhobbes Wrote:This is a really old thread, but @Jarvik: What do you think that Japanese people do? They do not write every single Kanji every day, or even every week or every month. Why is it ... |
masaman | Remembering the Kanji | 43 | 12,635 | 2010-11-07, 1:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Study of bilinguals hints language may help create thoughts & feelings Post: Study of bilinguals hints language may help create... So this is IAT, I guess. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/de...atest.html It's very interesting, and I had fun taking the test, at least for a couple of times. According to this, I like the youn... |
masaman | Off topic | 5 | 2,073 | 2010-11-05, 9:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Study of bilinguals hints language may help create thoughts & feelings Post: Study of bilinguals hints language may help create... "It's like asking your friend if he likes ice cream in English, and then turning around and asking him again in French and getting a different answer." I thought this was a given. There is no such th... |
masaman | Off topic | 5 | 2,073 | 2010-11-04, 12:02 pm | ||
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Thread: learning by watching and reading only? Post: learning by watching and reading only? I'm a majority whore, I go with whatever seems to be the majority when it comes to English. I just copycat how people are using the term :P But yeah, I don't think running Japanese audio in the backg... |
masaman | The Japanese language | 51 | 9,889 | 2010-11-02, 9:28 pm | ||
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Thread: learning by watching and reading only? Post: learning by watching and reading only? Totally possible. Genuine exposure cannot be replaced with anything. But, SRS helps you remember things you want to remember too. I think it's all about the balance. I spend average of 10 to 15 minute... |
masaman | The Japanese language | 51 | 9,889 | 2010-11-02, 8:57 pm | ||
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Thread: その質問に対する答えが見つからなかった。 ? Post: その質問に対する答えが見つからなかった。 ? In this case, 対する = ある対象に向かう/facing = For The answer FOR that question was not found. You can ommit 対する and say その質問の答えは見つからなかった。 This is "The answer OF that question was not found." |
masaman | General discussion | 5 | 1,966 | 2010-11-01, 3:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Somebody punch me Post: Somebody punch me Yeah, robnonstop brought up a good point. I was pretty depressed several months ago, and started taking Vitamin A B C D E and and Calcium Magnecium and Zinc (Careful not to take too much Vitamin A an... |
masaman | Off topic | 55 | 11,197 | 2010-11-01, 11:06 am | ||
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Thread: Somebody punch me Post: Somebody punch me Maybe home sick? Have you gone back to the US since April? |
masaman | Off topic | 55 | 11,197 | 2010-11-01, 10:48 am | ||
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Thread: stuff ive learnt from japan Post: stuff ive learnt from japan Congratulations! |
masaman | General discussion | 134 | 25,123 | 2010-11-01, 1:41 am | ||
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Thread: My wall Post: My wall You matched the lampshade too. Hats off to you. |
masaman | Off topic | 11 | 1,881 | 2010-10-31, 11:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese Sorry, i'm like germs that only grow on off topic stuff :P But you are seeing how a Japanese mind works in front of your eyes right now. How do you think we think? I mean honestly. Do I sound like I ... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-30, 12:17 am | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese You know too much of these cra.. things. Are you sure your study of primates doesn't include homo sapiens? http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/girl-toys.html This video reminded me though, that ... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-30, 12:00 am | ||
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Thread: What's your interpretation? Post: What's your interpretation? Well, do you know how Venezuelan immigration laws work? You need to talk to a lawyer. really. They are the ones who interpret them. We have no idea. But in general, I find Japanese visa policy for Eng... |
masaman | General discussion | 3 | 731 | 2010-10-29, 11:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese The left guy is a pretty old art teacher. The word "ビニ本" was used way back my time, in the 70's for xxx magazines. They were wrapped in vinyl bags so they were called ビニ(vinyl) ボン(本) "エロ(erotic) ぼん (... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 10:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese シシマイ君？ never heard of it... [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-PzYOrXiI] ...wow, it's a bit dark lol. And many expressions are extremely... mmm what's the word? idiomatic? not. Slangy? no. Subt... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 10:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese IceCream Wrote:personally, i think aquateenhungerforce is a better test of english than Ulysses :P I found this on youtube and what the??? The Japanese equivalent to this I can think of is すごいよ!!マサルさ... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 9:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese nest0r Wrote:Ha. I am actually seeking an equivalent work to Ulysses in Japanese literature, though so far looking at the most popular and canonized Japanese works I haven't found anything. Once I fin... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 8:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese nest0r Wrote:If you can read Joyce's Ulysses and develop a deep understanding of it, you'll have mastered English, since nothing written before or after it comes close to its English-language nextleve... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 7:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese OK. Forget about lurking on internet forums. All the bad grammar will rub off on you. I'll read more books ;) But Shakespeare... I already gave up on Ulysses... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 6:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese I swear i've seen someone used "me thinks" but was it somewhere else??? I just don't want to admit I stole it from nest0r :P |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 5:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese Thanks, but no, I was trying at "get my brains around" part but I guess "get my brain around" is much more common so I missed to nail that one. It's not like you are talking only about left cerebrum. ... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese As you may already know, Japanese places more weight on the object of a sentence, and the subject is often omitted. Misuse of a subject is common among the learners of Japanese whose 1st language is E... |
masaman | General discussion | 48 | 7,812 | 2010-10-29, 4:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Don't learn kanji Post: Don't learn kanji Sorry it's off topic but, in my opinion, an accent is OK. Wrong pronunciation is not. I don't mean each phoneme needs to sound like a native speaker's, but if you meant to say a word and pronounced a ... |
masaman | General discussion | 65 | 11,212 | 2010-10-28, 8:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Don't learn kanji Post: Don't learn kanji He has a point. The advice can help some learners I believe. I'm not good at making my points like that in a video so I admire him for that. Though, if he pronounced 禁止 with the proper stress and mora... |
masaman | General discussion | 65 | 11,212 | 2010-10-26, 11:21 pm | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... My butt is saying thank you. I know, I'm rather proud of my butt :D I'm not saying anybody else is talking form their butts though. Just in case. It's just me. |
masaman | General discussion | 139 | 44,876 | 2010-10-21, 12:06 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread FooSoft Wrote:そりゃーあんたはいいよ。あんたには私がいて、あんたが好きな人に会うために協力してくれるんだもの。でもね、私には私はいないの。 Yeah, you are.. ...You have me who work for you to.. ..But I don't have (a person like) me (to you). FooSoft Wrote:B:「これでも... |
masaman | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,141 | 2010-10-20, 11:18 pm | ||
