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Thread: If you're a guy, do you tend to refer to yourself as "boku"? Post: If you're a guy, do you tend to refer to yourself ... I don't think using "ore" is as taboo as some people think, it's perfectly normal to hear from adult males outside of work or formal situations. I've never been commented by japanese about my use of i... |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 102 | 19,279 | 2014-12-27, 10:49 am | ||
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Thread: Obsolete kanji? Post: Obsolete kanji? I don't think they are obsolete at all, if anything, 貴方 gives a more formal/serious impression. There's also a variation of it used when refering to a woman, 貴女 (the reading is the same, just a nuance... |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 10 | 1,810 | 2014-09-17, 11:35 am | ||
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Thread: Which is best method to learn kanji's pronounces? Post: Which is best method to learn kanji's pronounces? Study words, not separate kanji readings, these will come naturally as your vocabulary increases. Many kanji have multiple readings so knowing them separately won't necessarily make you able to guess ... |
Odin89 | General discussion | 6 | 1,471 | 2014-09-17, 10:44 am | ||
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Thread: Good videogames to "learn" japanese Post: Good videogames to "learn" japanese albion Wrote:「ポイント＆クリック」風のアドベンチャーゲームでも、周囲を調べることによって「こんなものはなんて言う」か勉強することができるでしょう。「クロックタワー」シリーズ（PS1・2）や小島秀夫の「スナッチャー」（PS1）があります。まだ未プレイですけど、自分もかならずいつかプレイします orz 俺もスナッチャーに一票。たまには小島監督なりの難しい専門用語は出てきたりするけど（特... |
Odin89 | Learning resources | 27 | 10,851 | 2014-07-27, 3:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Fluency to be able to read light novels Post: Fluency to be able to read light novels What Linval said, many of the words included in Core are not exactly what you can expect to find in a juvenile LN, I seem to recall it doesn't have much literature-based vocabulary either. It would be... |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 16 | 6,843 | 2014-07-23, 12:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Inny Jan Wrote:If in 10 years (2004 to 2014) you would have learned ~2200 kanji, which is 2200/365*10 = 0.6 kanji a day, and kept them reviewing all that time, your review workload these days would be... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-22, 2:17 am | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . It's a perfectly valid point vosmiura, I can't argue you back how knowing the components facilitates making sense of a new word and why it is formed by those particular kanji, I remember how I was sho... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-22, 1:20 am | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . I apologize for my lacking English, I sincerely hope you NEVER make mistakes in a forum where you are not using your native language. Using again my previous example, what I was trying to say is that... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 6:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Stansfield123 Wrote:No, you didn't say that there are other methods available, aside from RtK. You said he doesn't need to learn the Kanji at all. That is false, you can't read Japanese without learn... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 6:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Stansfield123 Wrote:Kanken is short for Kanji Kentei. It's not a vocabulary test, it's a Kanji test. Yes, it's a kanji-focused test but vocabulary is made up of kanji. Kanken tests how well you can ma... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 5:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Stansfield123 Wrote:So if my method for reading is to forget about paying attention to individual Kanji, and just try and remember all the words by staying in frequent contact with them (this is the a... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 5:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . vosmiura Wrote:Also as far as just getting enough exposure, word and kanji frequency varies; a great many appear as infrequently as 1 in 10,000, 1 in 100,000 words and so on, therefore without SRS the... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Stansfield123 Wrote:Which part of the language should one stay in frequent contact with? With whatever suits your tastes? I may not be interested in politics but someone who is could spend his time re... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 5:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . With the language of course. |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 4:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . I see. At the end of the day however, one can read fast enough to not pay conscious attention to every kanji in a sentence. RtK may be useful at very early stages but I don't think it's something that... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 4:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Question on learning kanji readings Post: Question on learning kanji readings Learning vocabulary will make you learn the readings as you advance, but not the other way around (and that's without taking into account special readings or combinations, not everything is on + on) |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 19 | 4,837 | 2014-07-21, 3:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Stansfield123 Wrote:Good Lord, please ignore this guy. Abandoning RtK after having put in the effort and worked through it is the worst advice I've seen on this board. He doesn't seem to be enjoying i... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 3:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Kanji quiz show ? Post: Japanese Kanji quiz show ? I used to watch クイズプレゼンバラエティー Qさま!! Looks like youtube has a good amount of videos. |
Odin89 | General discussion | 2 | 564 | 2014-07-21, 3:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it true that even natives Japanese people will struggle on JLPT N1? Post: Is it true that even natives Japanese people will ... Seriously, most high schoolers would pass the JLPT1 with flying colors, it is challenging enough for foreign students but it doesn't include especially hard Japanese. Kanken 2 and up are way harder. |
Odin89 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 53 | 28,401 | 2014-07-21, 2:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . cophnia61 Wrote:What to do? Suspend RtK and do only words? Or do both but flip RtK in recognition mode, with kanji on front and, instead of a keyword, put the "real" meaning of the kanji on the answer... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 7:27 am | ||
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Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . . Good lord, you don't even need RTK to learn Japanese or kanji, what keeps you from stop reviewing? There's no need to learn how to write them by hand at such an early stage. It's like you were trying ... |
Odin89 | Remembering the Kanji | 56 | 10,104 | 2014-07-21, 6:31 am | ||
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Thread: How much English do Japanese people know to understand Katakana words? Post: How much English do Japanese people know to unders... It's "ambitious". (Were you thinking of Cowboy Bebop's villain?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Clark Clark's visage overlooks Sapporo from several statues and his parting words to his Japane... |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 15 | 5,547 | 2014-07-08, 2:40 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference allowed? Post: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference al... Do it and tell us how it went. |
Odin89 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 2,522 | 2014-07-05, 10:02 am | ||
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Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday Don't be hasty with Japanese, you are not going to get fluent fast however you try to do it so be patient. This is not an exam, being constant is better than cramming for a short period of time and th... |
Odin89 | Learning resources | 81 | 10,445 | 2014-06-27, 7:23 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Taurus Wrote:What does 論をかけて mean? Nothing, you're looking for 輪をかける which means ものごとに勢いをつける / 倍加する http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/237261/m0u/ |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,210 | 2014-04-02, 2:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Post: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds I honestly wouldn't worry too much about pitch accent. Discerning "橋" from "箸" would come from context (if you come across a side by side comparison they would be forcing their pronunciation of both w... |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 13 | 3,363 | 2014-02-16, 5:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Novels to read around the N3 level Post: Novels to read around the N3 level The 三毛猫ホームズシリーズ by 赤川次郎 are probably among the easiest novels you will find. |
Odin89 | Learning resources | 29 | 7,479 | 2014-02-05, 8:15 am | ||
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Thread: Some tips needed on playing my first Japanese game! Post: Some tips needed on playing my first Japanese game... yudantaiteki Wrote:Fortunately the Tales games are fully voiced for the plot events, so you can get the readings of the kanji from there. Indeed, but as you know, reading and hearing require a differe... |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 26 | 4,677 | 2014-02-04, 10:38 am | ||
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Thread: Some tips needed on playing my first Japanese game! Post: Some tips needed on playing my first Japanese game... Problem is you won't be able to look for unknown words easily as you won't know their reading. You can form a kanji by their radicals using NJStar or sites like this though http://jisho.org/kanji/radi... |
Odin89 | The Japanese language | 26 | 4,677 | 2014-02-03, 11:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Working in Japan while hired by an overseas company? Post: Working in Japan while hired by an overseas compan... I know a working visa is required to get legally employed in Japan under a Japanese company, but are you able to stay there under a tourist visa working as an interpreter of an overseas company who ne... |
Odin89 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 0 | 825 | 2013-11-22, 2:22 am | ||
