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    Thread: What music video is this?
Post: What music video is this?

I have no idea but spontaneously I would say try looking for Pitbull videos on youtube and see if you can tell if he's the guy you saw in the video.
Shirow66 Off topic 7 1,296 2010-07-21, 12:18 pm
    Thread: Move to Japan --> Hair falls out? f(o_O)
Post: Move to Japan --> Hair falls out? f(o_O)

And everyone enjoys getting head, right? :P
Shirow66 Off topic 20 5,819 2009-10-13, 2:41 pm
    Thread: Favorite 日本語 YouTube Clips Project!
Post: Favorite 日本語 YouTube Clips Project!

I just found this and I found it hilarious: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEZWS7VZ5jY]
Shirow66 Learning resources 30 7,231 2009-08-26, 1:54 pm
    Thread: Endless eight at last over !!!!!!
Post: Endless eight at last over !!!!!!

I guess I'm one of the few people that never got the Haruhi craze at all. There was nothing special about it at all imho. I love Hirano Aya though.
Shirow66 General discussion 44 5,974 2009-08-09, 3:27 pm
    Thread: 一日に何が日本語の勉強の方法を使っていますか?(beginner)
Post: 一日に何が日本語の勉強の方法を使っていますか?(beginner)

LOL! デカポストね。頭がいたい。
Shirow66 The Japanese language 55 15,359 2009-08-04, 12:26 pm
    Thread: Pronunciation assessment anyone?
Post: Pronunciation assessment anyone?

This is a great thread. You are all very brave lol. It's a bit late, but I just wanted to point out that Tobberoth speaks a charming southern dialect of Swedish that is sometimes considered a bit hard...
Shirow66 General discussion 252 53,474 2009-07-28, 1:21 pm
    Thread: MP3 players
Post: MP3 players

I'm not saying drawing kanji on the D2 is awesome or something, I'm just saying it's possible. I do it sometimes when I'm bored and I don't have a pen and paper around. The D2+ has the upgraded BBE+ ...
Shirow66 Learning resources 37 4,895 2009-07-16, 12:26 pm
    Thread: MP3 players
Post: MP3 players

If you were being serious then yes, all mp3 players do that. I recommend getting a Cowon D2 which has a touchscreen with a small stylus you can use for drawing kanji, it also has a memory card slot wh...
Shirow66 Learning resources 37 4,895 2009-07-16, 11:15 am
    Thread: 一日に何が日本語の勉強の方法を使っていますか?(beginner)
Post: 一日に何が日本語の勉強の方法を使っていますか?(beginner)

I think it's fantastic to have Japanese people on these forums, but I'm a bit curious as to how you came to join us magamo, as I'm sure learning the kanji isn't a concern for you. Sorry if it's been a...
Shirow66 The Japanese language 55 15,359 2009-07-05, 5:30 pm
    Thread: Micheal Jackson:(
Post: Micheal Jackson:(

He was my big idol when I was a kid until I saw the new Bad video and went WTF!? He made some great songs, but I personally feel he was massively overrated and didn't really deserve the "King of pop" ...
Shirow66 Off topic 87 12,314 2009-06-26, 1:59 pm
    Thread: "Military time"
Post: "Military time"

I have no idea, but wouldn't it be wonderful if the whole world used the logical 24 hour time system instead of the stupid confusing AM-PM crap?
Shirow66 General discussion 30 8,463 2009-06-10, 1:49 pm
    Thread: Kanji Causing Hand Pains
Post: Kanji Causing Hand Pains

I think it mostly depends on your pen. When I used regular cheap ball point pens I had some problems, I'm now using either brush pens or a really fine tip office style ball point which both work well.
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 26 6,043 2009-06-08, 11:15 am
    Thread: Revised Jōyō kanji
Post: Revised Jōyō kanji

I did a quick glance through those 191 and I believe most of them are already included in RTK1.
Shirow66 General discussion 11 6,039 2009-05-02, 5:09 pm
    Thread: Remembering the Kanji, the story...
Post: Remembering the Kanji, the story...

Frankly, no it doesn't. The story wouldn't make any sense and would take to long to go through each day, and it doesn't do anything to help you learn Japanese. You want to just move away from English ...
Shirow66 General discussion 18 6,134 2009-01-07, 3:51 pm
    Thread: Japanese who answer in English: the other side
Post: Japanese who answer in English: the other side

Argh.. Must resist.. Must not go apeshit on public transportation costs.. I almost didn't make it folks. You got lucky this time.
Shirow66 Off topic 41 5,408 2009-01-07, 1:50 pm
    Thread: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on youtube
Post: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on y...

Someone posted this as a comment to the video: "wow - no idea what you're saying but sounds good.. isn't the finnish language descended from japanese? so you already have a big advantage there.. " ...
Shirow66 General discussion 120 27,244 2009-01-02, 8:38 pm
    Thread: "Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanese?
Post: "Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanes...

"Back in the day", that was a Wednesday. Did you know that?
Shirow66 General discussion 127 27,794 2008-12-30, 9:22 pm
    Thread: Do you use "cool" Japanese?
Post: Do you use "cool" Japanese?

oregum Wrote:I wish I was cool. LOL. Don't we all.
Shirow66 General discussion 15 2,062 2008-12-26, 6:09 am
    Thread: 'R' or 'L'?
Post: 'R' or 'L'?

I'm often rather annoyed when I hear Japanese pronounce R sounds as L, because it reminds me of all the terrible "Chinese people say L instead of R, LMAO!" jokes that I'm so tired of. In my experience...
Shirow66 General discussion 44 5,891 2008-12-25, 6:22 pm
    Thread: ヱヴァンゲリヲン vs エヴァンゲリオン
Post: ヱヴァンゲリヲン vs エヴァンゲリオン

I noticed just recently that the new Evangelion stuff seem to be using an alternate katakana spelling, ヱヴァンゲリヲン. Does anyone have an idea why they suddenly changed it?
Shirow66 Off topic 14 2,204 2008-12-20, 5:10 am
    Thread: Someone hates this kanji
Post: Someone hates this kanji

The sex worse than violence thing is more or less only an issue in the USA (and possibly the UK) afaik. In Sweden you can have full frontal nudity in a PG rated film without problems. We don't have an...
Shirow66 General discussion 16 2,501 2008-12-10, 2:54 pm
    Thread: using the "hole" primitive for "window"
Post: using the "hole" primitive for "window"

According to Heisig, the primitives in Widow are house, head, dagger. If you change the lower part to the part primitive, you'll mess up the rest of the primitives.
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 24 19,463 2008-11-28, 1:00 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I just entered the final 65 kanji cards. Took me almost exactly 3 months total, and approximately 10250 reviews. I'm very excited to move on to the next step and I'm very curious to see if I feel any ...
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,611 2008-11-15, 9:54 am
    Thread: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up?
Post: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up?

I'm almost done with the book now, and I had a similar goal of around 30-50 kanji per day. I found that it was very hard to do because I don't have time certain days of the week because of other activ...
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 37 9,066 2008-11-09, 10:52 am
    Thread: Kanji #514 stroke order and primitives
Post: Kanji #514 stroke order and primitives

I just came across the "drag" primitive at the start of chapter 50, and I was reminded of kanji #514, horse chestnut, where the cliff primitive has that little bent roof in its printed form, just like...
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 6 3,985 2008-11-08, 11:18 am
    Thread: sudden, huge drop in new kanji "passed" percentages
Post: sudden, huge drop in new kanji "passed" percentage...

Maybe your brain ran out of space? ;P
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 15 2,387 2008-10-31, 2:52 pm
    Thread: Learning environment and methods, whoa!
Post: Learning environment and methods, whoa!

First of all, great thread. alyks Wrote:5. Script for show playing. If I can't figure out a word, I'll search for it on the script. If I find it, it's instant context. Sometimes I hit a word in the s...
Shirow66 General discussion 40 8,406 2008-10-07, 11:45 am
    Thread: Will Power Leveraging
Post: Will Power Leveraging

I don't think turning kanji learning into a life or death situation is very healthy. It' s supposed to be fun, your not supposed to have a gun to your head. Sure, you might get it done, but what do yo...
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 24 3,735 2008-09-28, 4:58 am
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

I just completed chapter 27! Woohoo! It was fun to use my best friend as the person in chapter 27 lol.
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 616 180,452 2008-09-13, 6:01 pm
    Thread: Do I honestly NEED the book?
Post: Do I honestly NEED the book?

The second book is basically to teach you the on-yomi readings for the kanji in book 1. It does this by grouping together kanji with the same readings and teaching you to identify certain "signal prim...
Shirow66 Remembering the Kanji 50 11,595 2008-08-30, 7:54 am