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    Thread: Today Chuck Norris broke the sound barrier.....
Post: Today Chuck Norris broke the sound barrier.....

Cheesemaster64 Wrote:The kanji for Chuck Norris has over 900 strokes, and no reading. That many strokes, and no reading: That's the very definition of hell (i.e. 地獄). ... Wait, you meant over 9000 s...
ryuukohito Off topic 23 3,870 2010-10-12, 11:16 pm
    Thread: Quicktionary - Anybody using this?
Post: Quicktionary - Anybody using this?

I have an iPod Touch 4 (which is basically an iPhone 4 without the phone), in which I've installed EBPocket Pro and Skybook. I've got all the major EPWING dictionaries. My point is this: once you ge...
ryuukohito Learning resources 7 3,568 2010-10-12, 10:58 pm
    Thread: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers
Post: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers

Javizy Wrote:As for sounding more eloquent in Japanese, you might be interested in the sort of training news/TV announcers go through. It's called 発声練習. Try the sentences in the blue boxes here. That ...
ryuukohito General discussion 11 3,255 2010-10-01, 10:14 am
    Thread: Writing online in Japanese, especially emails and blogs
Post: Writing online in Japanese, especially emails and ...

I don't know whether you're being satirical or you're honestly inquiring, but I find the above post to be so funny.
ryuukohito General discussion 15 2,709 2010-09-30, 9:09 am
    Thread: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers
Post: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers

My question is mainly concerned with the standard of eloquence (or what is considered as "eloquent") among Japanese people. I'm currently working hard on my Japanese speech production skills, and giv...
ryuukohito General discussion 11 3,255 2010-09-30, 5:04 am
    Thread: How grammatical/natural are the ALC sentences?
Post: How grammatical/natural are the ALC sentences?

Katsuo Wrote:The sentences I linked to are not part of Eijiro and were presumably created in-house by ALC (a major publisher of language texts). The translation direction of these sentences is Japanes...
ryuukohito Learning resources 10 3,407 2010-09-29, 9:53 am
    Thread: How grammatical/natural are the ALC sentences?
Post: How grammatical/natural are the ALC sentences?

I've been going through the ALC sentence compilations here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...0#pid43560 The spreadsheet notes at the top that the sentences are for "Japanese native speakers...
ryuukohito Learning resources 10 3,407 2010-09-29, 3:21 am
    Thread: Japanese audio+grammar drills
Post: Japanese audio+grammar drills

Asriel Wrote:Just coming from personal experience, I think that the best way to boost up your speaking is to find people to speak with. Drills do you pretty good, but I've found that to learn you sp...
ryuukohito The Japanese language 4 2,552 2010-09-26, 10:30 am
    Thread: Japanese audio+grammar drills
Post: Japanese audio+grammar drills

Hi, longtime (and very heavy) user of the forum here, but I've only just registered. A fair description of myself: Basically I'm at that nice intermediate-advanced stage -- I've completed the 常用漢字 +...
ryuukohito The Japanese language 4 2,552 2010-09-26, 8:22 am