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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Hey guys, quick question. I came across this sentence in Anki: 雨が降っているから、出かけるのはやめます。The translation they give is, "I will not go out, because it’s raining." I know that [雨が降っているから] means, "because ... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,286 | 2014-11-19, 6:25 pm | ||
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Thread: The Post-JET/ALT Job Hunt - Now What? Post: The Post-JET/ALT Job Hunt - Now What? Just as an aside, there are plenty of jobs similar to ALT available that you can do until you find something better. Teaching English in Japan pretty much has unlimited job opportunities, so it's not ... |
frosty_rain | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 36 | 8,694 | 2014-11-13, 9:13 am | ||
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Thread: The Post-JET/ALT Job Hunt - Now What? Post: The Post-JET/ALT Job Hunt - Now What? Actually, I have heard of quite a few people who've worked as a translator/interpreted with Japanese as a second language learned later in life. And they only had some college Japanese plus maybe a ye... |
frosty_rain | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 36 | 8,694 | 2014-11-11, 9:26 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Weird. Anyway, moving on. あの、ちょっとお聞きしたいんですが、バス乗り場はどこですか The bold part in this sentence I'm having trouble understanding. Actually, it's mostly the いんです part of it. I pretty much have the whole sent... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,286 | 2014-11-11, 9:04 pm | ||
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Thread: OK, here's my basic question about reading ability in Japan Post: OK, here's my basic question about reading ability... ktcgx Wrote:Haha, I actually am not too sure what I want to do in life. I guess maybe I could look at doing translation, or teaching Japanese (or English), but I'm not sure I could ever get my lan... |
frosty_rain | Off topic | 38 | 7,639 | 2014-11-11, 5:55 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks guys :) I really gotta start going over Tae Kim's grammar guide a lot more lol *EDIT: One question about your explanations though. If こと in this case means "things", why didn't they use the... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,286 | 2014-11-11, 5:02 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread This is a pretty noob question. Came across this in Nayr's deck: はっきり言うと、あなたの言っていることは無意味です。 The bold parts are what confuse me. I'm not all that familiar with all the ways to use と, why would it be ... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,286 | 2014-11-10, 10:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Quote:Come to think of it though, I'd probably come up blank if someone asked me to say something in english too... Actually, now that I think about it, we had a French transfer student back in high s... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-10, 7:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Stansfield123 Wrote:Smart choice. One final piece of advice: some of the sentences in Nayr's deck are quite difficult; don't be shy about suspending sentences that are too difficult for you. You can a... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-10, 5:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost I think the misunderstanding? between Eminem2 and Aikynaro is two totally different learning styles. I have tried the more formal way, textbooks and grammar dictionaries, and as much as I tried to b... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-10, 11:51 am | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Thanks for the advice, I'll look into subs2srs. I also went ahead and read some of AJATT's blog posts. The philosophy written there has drastically changed my perspective of this whole language lear... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-09, 1:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Downloaded that grammar deck, since it's small and seems like it wouldn't be too hard to get through. Definitely going to look into Nayr's deck. One of my biggest failures with Anki, is that I rea... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-09, 5:52 am | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Quote:Can you expand a bit on what you do when you're reading? What did the actual process involve? How much did you do for how long before giving up and moving on to something else? How much material... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-09, 3:55 am | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Thanks for the answers guys, although I think you might be overestimating my ability a tad. For example, I can't read any of the example sentences for that Anki deck. When I said I know a handful of K... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-09, 1:20 am | ||
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Thread: Totally lost Post: Totally lost Sorry if this is an innapropriate topic for these boards...this may end up coming off as just a big whiny rant, but I would like any advice that can be given, provided there is any to be had. ...That... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 55 | 8,027 | 2014-11-08, 10:49 pm | ||
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Thread: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language in addition ... Post: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language ... Well..came here because I thought this was a discussion about learning additional languages, not some kind of religion argument. Gotta love forums. Anyway, back on topic... I'm not learning it now... |
frosty_rain | Off topic | 53 | 6,139 | 2014-08-31, 8:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Confused about what studying approach I should take Post: Confused about what studying approach I should tak... Sorry to hear you don't have any language schools near you, that's a bummer. Although you might possibly be able to find a personal tutor if there's a Japanese person who lives somewhere near you who... |
frosty_rain | General discussion | 15 | 3,579 | 2014-08-31, 7:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Confused about what studying approach I should take Post: Confused about what studying approach I should tak... Jesus....x2 what rich_f said. He's very, very right on two very important points. 1. Don't quit. This...is a difficult topic. For one thing, it's a lot easier to say than to do. Chances are good t... |
frosty_rain | General discussion | 15 | 3,579 | 2014-08-31, 5:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese printed horizontally versus vertically Post: Japanese printed horizontally versus vertically I'm not that able a reader yet, but has always been my belief that if you're going to learn or do something, it's best to adapt to the way things are supposed to be done, rather than try to adapt ever... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 11 | 1,766 | 2014-08-31, 4:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Confused between Intransitive verbs and Passive Post: Confused between Intransitive verbs and Passive I'm reading a great book right now that covers this exact topic. It's called "Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You" by Jay Rubin. I'm actually reading the section about passiv... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 21 | 6,038 | 2014-08-29, 11:51 pm | ||
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Thread: College Degrees for Japan? Post: College Degrees for Japan? 1. You need at least bachelor's degree to work in Japan as a foreigner. It's the law. 2. Getting a degree in Japanese is not a good idea, as it's not a very marketable degree. 3. The easiest job to g... |
frosty_rain | General discussion | 14 | 2,393 | 2014-08-29, 11:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners ehh, no idea lol. I just extracted all the media files into the media collection folder in Anki. |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,417 | 2014-08-28, 9:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Oh, another thing...I downloaded and installed all the media files for the Optimized Kore deck, but no audio is playing. The pictures are there, but no audio. Does that deck just not have audio? Cuz I... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,417 | 2014-08-28, 7:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks very much for clearing that up for me! Haha, but now I have another question... I just started the Anki deck Optimized Kore 2k/6k and in one of the sentences it has a kanji I don't recognize. ... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,286 | 2014-08-27, 10:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners ahh, something else I don't know how to do lol. Well, I can always just not pay much attention to the sentences I suppose. And if I see them it might help to kinda-sorta familiarize myself with them a... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,417 | 2014-08-27, 9:22 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I have a question, It's been kinda annoying me lately. I always seem to run into contradictory vocab or grammar points, one book will say one thing and another will say something different... So...... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,286 | 2014-08-27, 9:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners yogert909 Wrote:Click on the deck and then click 'browse', then click on 'fields'. Depending on the deck you have, there should be a field called 'new-opt-voc'. Click on that, then 'click sort by th... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,417 | 2014-08-27, 9:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Hey, new here. I just downloaded the Kore 2k/6k Optimized deck for Anki, and all the media files for it, and I have a really, really dumb question for you guys. How do I unsuspend only the first 5... |
frosty_rain | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,417 | 2014-08-27, 5:32 pm | ||