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Thread: Too much free time !!! Post: RE: Too much free time !!! Really easy manga/novel without furigana? Bit of a hard ask. There are adult versions of きまぐれロボット that presumably don't have furigana. かみちゅ！ is probably the easiest manga I've read with minimal furiga... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 24 | 1,405 | 2016-06-17, 6:09 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I'm on my way out of the top 10 (currently #9), but for what it's worth... I have a core-reading session before bed where I read a novel for between 10 and 20 pages, which takes between 20-45 minutes... |
Aikynaro | Group study | 361 | 69,219 | 2016-06-15, 11:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig? Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn... I don't think anyone says RTK is useless - it is obviously useful, because many people have used it and it worked. For them. Which is great. That said, I could not recommend it, because I personally ... |
Aikynaro | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 3,940 | 2016-06-13, 8:04 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I do think it's better to look up after finishing reading if possible though, unless it's a word that keeps showing up in the section you're on. The point of extensive reading is to just suck down a ... |
Aikynaro | Group study | 361 | 69,219 | 2016-06-12, 7:45 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I think the words-per-page manga assumption is reasonable. Counting characters in manga would be hugely annoying because you can't easily automate it, and given some pages have less words than others ... |
Aikynaro | Group study | 361 | 69,219 | 2016-06-11, 3:39 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge The initial rush has worn off, but that seems to go for the other people around me battling for 5th position. It's a battle I'm probably going to lose, unless I find another life-devouring manga to re... |
Aikynaro | Group study | 361 | 69,219 | 2016-06-10, 8:39 am | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading Flameseek Wrote:Another reason I've been thinking about focusing more on reading and listening is that I've noticed Anki helps me with readings and meaning (to a lesser extent) when I have enough time... |
Aikynaro | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,706 | 2016-06-09, 7:40 am | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading Have you actually tried reading any VNs yet? Depending on where you are, 1-2 hours of reading might not actually get you all that far. Anyway, SRS is the way to go. You won't remember the vast vast m... |
Aikynaro | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,706 | 2016-06-08, 8:20 am | ||
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Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig? Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn... (2016-06-08, 6:44 am)Stansfield123 Wrote: (2016-06-06, 7:58 am)Aikynaro Wrote: Well, it's not necessary to know kanji to read, because furigana I'm aware of furigana. But I'm interested in an alte... |
Aikynaro | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 3,940 | 2016-06-08, 8:14 am | ||
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Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig? Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn... (2016-06-06, 4:05 am)Stansfield123 Wrote: Only alternative I have to offer is "don't learn to read the Kanji, focus on the Kana and the spoken language". Worry about the Kanji after you already spea... |
Aikynaro | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 3,940 | 2016-06-06, 7:58 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I don't think there's anything stopping you? |
Aikynaro | Group study | 361 | 69,219 | 2016-06-05, 6:08 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I've been reading a great deal anyway recently, so have jumped on board. Unusually, most of my page count is manga at the moment - I'm halfway through a long and quite enjoyable series, so that will p... |
Aikynaro | Group study | 361 | 69,219 | 2016-06-02, 1:28 am | ||
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Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game? Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee... If the screenshots are indicative, I don't think it should take too long to be able to read these with reasonable understanding. However! You will need to study things that are relevant. Stuff like '... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 39 | 1,672 | 2016-05-30, 6:48 am | ||
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Thread: Making Learning Japanese Fun Post: RE: Making Learning Japanese Fun I think the thing is to make it easy. Even if you're just SRSing stuff - if it's easy, it can be fun, or at least not unfun, which is a good enough substitute most days. For me, the things that kille... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 43 | 2,828 | 2016-05-23, 8:50 am | ||
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Thread: Too much free time !!! Post: RE: Too much free time !!! I recommend a subs2srs deck. Make it yourself from anime you enjoy. It will improve your listening, reading, and vocabulary - and handily, it will be words that tend to show up in anime/related media,... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 24 | 1,405 | 2016-05-20, 8:24 am | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels (2016-05-16, 6:07 am)Shenhua Wrote: ふたごの魔法使い and 風と火の国 both seem very interesting to me and it's definitely reading material that I'd like to check out. I will see if I can find them on amazon and ... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 24 | 1,888 | 2016-05-16, 7:33 am | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels Well, if we're going to specifically talk about children's books, I guess I can drop recommendations. In rough order of difficulty: ふたごの魔法使い - a series of 13 books. Taught me that I can read even at ... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 24 | 1,888 | 2016-05-14, 9:13 pm | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels If you're going to start on novels, you should get a bookmeter account. This is mine: http://bookmeter.com/u/339621 If I had to recommend one book, it would be 雨の日のアイリス. It's intense. 'Emotional roll... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 24 | 1,888 | 2016-05-13, 9:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Evaluation Post: RE: Evaluation This is not the best place to ask for this sort of thing. Go to lang-8.com and you can get corrections from native speakers. |
Aikynaro | The Japanese language | 4 | 531 | 2016-05-09, 12:00 am | ||
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Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence Post: RE: Fairly easy material with free licence Stuff written by Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川乱歩) is in the public domain as of this year, apparently - though I'm not 100% sure on that, it's what some googling tells me. I've read one of his books and it was n... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 15 | 1,231 | 2016-05-03, 12:04 am | ||
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Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Quote:I think the TV show 'Youは何しに日本へ’ epitomises this welcoming attitude. Seriously? I think that show epitomises everything that is wrong about the way Japanese people view foreigners. 'Let's gawk a... |
Aikynaro | Off topic | 168 | 10,712 | 2015-10-01, 9:53 am | ||
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Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Zgarbas: Just a suggestion, but I think it would be good if you clearly differentiated your speaking-as-a-moderator bits to your personal opinion bits. I'm pretty sure you're not, but it sounds a litt... |
Aikynaro | Off topic | 168 | 10,712 | 2015-09-30, 9:40 am | ||
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Thread: Abe's Administration Censoring the Media Post: Abe's Administration Censoring the Media @nihonpoi Keep in mind that these protests and such are very recent and a result of Abe crossing a line. Up until a couple of months ago he could do basically whatever he liked and people would just ... |
Aikynaro | Off topic | 28 | 3,955 | 2015-09-27, 9:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Abe's Administration Censoring the Media Post: Abe's Administration Censoring the Media Can't find the actual video of this but I saw it a while ago: https://globalvoices.org/2014/09/23/new-...oadcaster/ The video is worse than the article indicates, even - just hilariously delusional. A... |
Aikynaro | Off topic | 28 | 3,955 | 2015-09-26, 9:08 am | ||
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Thread: Reading, furigana, and learning vocab Post: Reading, furigana, and learning vocab Furigana is fine and I think you're seeing a problem where there is none. Glossing over kanji with furigana is great. Each time you gloss over it, you give yourself more of a chance to recognise it wh... |
Aikynaro | The Japanese language | 31 | 3,837 | 2015-08-20, 11:12 am | ||
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Thread: What's a good method of learning to speak/hear better? Post: What's a good method of learning to speak/hear bet... Have to disagree with gaiaslastlaugh on that one a bit. If your only goal is listening then sure, that might be better - but if you are also learning vocabulary at the same time subs2srs is definitely... |
Aikynaro | General discussion | 22 | 3,306 | 2015-07-24, 7:39 am | ||
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Thread: Do I have a chance at the JLPT 2 under these circumstances? Post: Do I have a chance at the JLPT 2 under these circu... I have to agree with Tzadeck. Really, I think you shouldn't go into this with the idea that you're going to become an interpreter. That's one of those goals that's way away and there's a reasonably h... |
Aikynaro | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 26 | 6,218 | 2015-07-23, 8:58 am | ||
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Thread: Do I have a chance at the JLPT 2 under these circumstances? Post: Do I have a chance at the JLPT 2 under these circu... Don't give up anything worthwhile like volunteering or job hunting in order to take a test that you don't really need. Why do you even want JLPT? Why not just go and learn Japanese then take it when ... |
Aikynaro | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 26 | 6,218 | 2015-07-22, 10:40 am | ||
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Thread: Learning to speak Japanese before learning kanji? Post: Learning to speak Japanese before learning kanji? yogert909 Wrote:Aikynaro Wrote:...for the first year or so all of my study was subs2srsing anime, and that's an extremely rich source of vocabulary, sentences, and listening practice which doesn't req... |
Aikynaro | The Japanese language | 45 | 6,193 | 2015-07-21, 9:00 am | ||
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Thread: Learning to speak Japanese before learning kanji? Post: Learning to speak Japanese before learning kanji? @z1bbo Sure, but OP was asking whether he could avoid having to sit down and learn kanji as the first order of business, not if he could avoid ever looking at it at all. I doubt picking them up for fr... |
Aikynaro | The Japanese language | 45 | 6,193 | 2015-07-18, 8:24 am | ||
