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Thread: JLPT4 through JLPT2 Post: JLPT4 through JLPT2 mpacheco Wrote:I understand that JLPT1 gives you some cred for jobs and is required for many school admissions over here.. But what's the point of JLPT2, 3, or 4? To keep the Japan Society budget aflo... |
ocircle | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 27 | 8,174 | 2010-11-20, 8:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Literacy’s imprint on the brain Post: Literacy’s imprint on the brain Quote:Learning to read is a sufficiently important experience for the brain that it reallocates some of its resources, so that other functions like face recognition have to give up some of their turf ... |
ocircle | Off topic | 3 | 885 | 2010-11-13, 5:59 am | ||
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Thread: Sleep Makes Your Memories Stronger Post: Sleep Makes Your Memories Stronger Sleeping about 8 hours a night will also boost your immune system. Or so it is rumored. With these things you've gotta remember that every body is different, so it may not be true for everyone. |
ocircle | Off topic | 2 | 1,029 | 2010-11-13, 5:57 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread JLPT1 is not a mastery of the Japanese language. Quite the contrary actually: It's just the beginning of realizing how little you know. |
ocircle | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-11-09, 8:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Forced to study a language next to Japanese Post: Forced to study a language next to Japanese Oh well. Life's tough, but perhaps in the future you'll have a chance to take Japanese classes at the college level after you've graduated. I've been out of college for 1.5 years now, and I'm just w... |
ocircle | General discussion | 13 | 1,989 | 2010-11-08, 9:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Starcraft II Post: Starcraft II In order to play against another player, you must play online. No exceptions. |
ocircle | Off topic | 60 | 13,184 | 2010-10-27, 8:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Starcraft II Post: Starcraft II I love to play starcraft 1 and starcraft 2, but why why why why doesn't SC2 have LAN mode? :| |
ocircle | Off topic | 60 | 13,184 | 2010-10-27, 7:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Project Proposal - Anime Transcripts/Subtitles Post: Project Proposal - Anime Transcripts/Subtitles Oh. So by "subtitles' you mean "captions" as in "closed caption". Good luck! |
ocircle | Group study | 24 | 18,367 | 2010-10-24, 7:26 pm | ||
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Thread: What's the Best Baby Name? Post: What's the Best Baby Name? vrythngiseasy Wrote:my partner is Japanese Solution: Have partner decide a name. However, if you're going to be living in an English speaking area, by golly, give the poor kid an English name and sa... |
ocircle | Off topic | 22 | 4,319 | 2010-10-22, 1:51 pm | ||
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Thread: 青空 ... as a last name!? Post: 青空 ... as a last name!? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jpnwgw/Names.html |
ocircle | Off topic | 8 | 1,440 | 2010-10-14, 12:35 am | ||
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Thread: Looooooooooooooooong Anki Reviews Post: Looooooooooooooooong Anki Reviews All of my anki decks have a time limit of 10 minutes (8 decks), and I try to answer within 2 seconds. If I take any longer than that it's obvious I don't know the word as well as I hope I could know i... |
ocircle | Learning resources | 38 | 12,540 | 2010-10-09, 1:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Funniest Japanese name Post: Funniest Japanese name This reminds me of when Taro Aso was the PM. My Japanese acquaintances often referred to him as the "as~hole". I guess his policies were unpopular. |
ocircle | Off topic | 24 | 24,553 | 2010-10-08, 10:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Cultural cringe in Japan? Post: Cultural cringe in Japan? Damn, Korea's not even on the list. We're that ... badass. |
ocircle | General discussion | 185 | 33,004 | 2010-10-05, 6:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers Post: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers I'm afraid you'll only be able to find said examples by interacting with Japanese people and reading Japanese books. English speakers learning Japanese are typically only concerned with trying to lear... |
ocircle | General discussion | 11 | 3,254 | 2010-10-01, 10:18 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 Boston Career Forum Post: 2010 Boston Career Forum Hmm... I think my Japanese is so deteriorated from last December that I should just give up :| I can only hope the US economy will pick up soon. Thank you for the information though. |
ocircle | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 44 | 16,948 | 2010-09-30, 10:12 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 Boston Career Forum Post: 2010 Boston Career Forum I wish I could go (I even reserved a spot) but it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to afford to go :( |
ocircle | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 44 | 16,948 | 2010-09-30, 8:28 pm | ||
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Thread: reasons some of you are learning japanese Post: reasons some of you are learning japanese 100% to read more Japanese books. |
ocircle | General discussion | 13 | 2,432 | 2010-09-29, 10:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese IME on Linux Post: Japanese IME on Linux Come tell us when you find out. A few years back I tried to use linux, but had to give up when I realized it had no way (that I could figure out with my layman's knowledge) to input Korean. |
ocircle | General discussion | 12 | 5,916 | 2010-09-28, 11:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Is this a typo? Post: Is this a typo? 平年（へいねん）より６日（むいか）、昨年（さくねん）より１２日早（にちはや）い冠雪（かんせつ）です。 Instinct tells me to read that as じゅうににち, but I can't remember if any dates besides 1-10 and 20 get a different reading. From: http://mainichi.jp/... |
ocircle | The Japanese language | 2 | 994 | 2010-09-28, 8:22 am | ||
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Thread: Speech Recognition Post: Speech Recognition I've played around with voice recognition in Vista (音声認識システム) and it was fun. It seemed to work just about as well as it did in English (which means you'll be repeatedly saying 番号表示 and then いち/に/さん/よ... |
ocircle | Learning resources | 6 | 1,147 | 2010-09-27, 11:31 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread in the old JLPT some questions were worth 2 points and some questions were worth 1 point. Maybe the new JLPT also has some questions that weigh more heavily. There was on partial credit for close gu... |
ocircle | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,556 | 2010-09-27, 6:21 pm | ||
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Thread: The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese Post: The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Ja... I'm surprised the "Rate my pronunciation" thread died off, seeing how there are so many confident speakers in this thread. |
ocircle | General discussion | 31 | 6,232 | 2010-09-26, 12:55 pm | ||
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Thread: University placement test - how to prepare? Post: University placement test - how to prepare? Chances are you will probably still learn something from "mina no nihongo" if you have failed JLPT4. I wouldn't skip the basics unless there was a reason. |
ocircle | The Japanese language | 9 | 4,630 | 2010-09-26, 8:39 am | ||
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Thread: Non-Typical Anime Post: Non-Typical Anime When I think "non-typical" I think of stuff like Kaiba or Windy Tales (風人物語). Cowboy Bebop and Champloo are mainstream anime. |
ocircle | General discussion | 104 | 23,884 | 2010-09-20, 12:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Only Women Teach Japanese Post: Only Women Teach Japanese Education has traditionally been viewed a female job (there are more female teachers than male teachers, everywhere) and linguistics, a humanities subject, is again, traditionally female. zzzzz you ... |
ocircle | General discussion | 61 | 14,152 | 2010-09-19, 10:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you think japanese will take you anywhere? Post: Do you think japanese will take you anywhere? wulfgar Wrote:Hello, do you think Japanese will take you anywhere? Nope, I am pretty sure it will lead to nothing. It's just something I do to fill the gaps during everyday life, such as while I'm wai... |
ocircle | Off topic | 34 | 9,308 | 2010-09-15, 9:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Let's Video Chat (9PM EST, 5/5) Post: Let's Video Chat (9PM EST, 5/5) I'm not interested in this anymore. However, feel free to continue this. If people are interested, I'm sure it will succeed. |
ocircle | Group study | 78 | 21,780 | 2010-09-13, 2:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning a job skill to be useful in Japan Post: Learning a job skill to be useful in Japan Hm.. I don't know if this really qualifies as a job skill, but I would learn to play the guitar. It doubles as an easy lesson plan (teach kids some campfire song = lesson for the day) |
ocircle | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 11 | 5,975 | 2010-09-11, 12:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan Fattens Textbooks to Reverse Sliding Rank Post: Japan Fattens Textbooks to Reverse Sliding Rank In an educator's standpoint, there's nothing more delightful than to teach a kid how to teach himself. However, there are times when memorizing large seas of information is also necessary, as it is a ... |
ocircle | General discussion | 43 | 7,805 | 2010-09-07, 8:14 pm | ||
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Thread: How does "underexplaining" come across in Japanese? Post: How does "underexplaining" come across in Japanese... Everyone has a different way of talking. A kid doesn't talk like a full grown male adult, and females don't talk like males, superiors don't talk like their employees... etc. I think showing those ki... |
ocircle | General discussion | 9 | 1,806 | 2010-09-02, 5:59 pm | ||
