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Thread: *Insert here a language* Extensive reading contest Post: *Insert here a language* Extensive reading contest I decided to join in. Well, I'm mostly just reading kids' books around middle elementary school level, but that's all I can do now without going into super-slow decryption mode which would defeat the... |
inertia | Off topic | 46 | 9,902 | 2011-10-02, 11:00 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone have this experience? Post: Anyone have this experience? I'm in nearly the same situation. I passed N2 in December. 1 on 1 conversations are usually okay, if not as smooth and fast as I'd like. But in larger groups where I'm the only foreigner, I often... |
inertia | General discussion | 12 | 2,106 | 2011-09-17, 1:09 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese bands a la X JAPAN Post: Japanese bands a la X JAPAN Can't believe I forgot Sex Machineguns. ファミレス・ボンバー The lyrics tell the story of a guy waiting for his date to arrive at a family restaurant. http://youtu.be/l0U10i8M_4k みかんのうた Yes, it's about th... |
inertia | General discussion | 9 | 2,898 | 2011-07-10, 3:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese bands a la X JAPAN Post: Japanese bands a la X JAPAN When I was a kid in the '80s I was a big fan of glam metal, and now I'm into visual kei. I think you might find a lot to like in the visual scene. These are my top 3 recommendations. All 3 bands ar... |
inertia | General discussion | 9 | 2,898 | 2011-07-10, 9:36 am | ||
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Thread: Please recommend me some materials for shadowing... Post: Please recommend me some materials for shadowing..... I've been using the Shadowing books since March. I finished book 1 and am about 1/3 of the way through book 2. I use simple Anki cards in order to help myself remember to do it daily and review olde... |
inertia | Learning resources | 22 | 11,673 | 2011-05-24, 11:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Most failed Kanji Post: Most failed Kanji My worst kanji is easily 呼 call: because the right primitive is so weird and rare! Honorable mentions: 統 overall: Kept mixing it up with 総. Changed the story recently, maybe this will help. 氷 icicle:... |
inertia | Remembering the Kanji | 30 | 8,559 | 2011-04-15, 11:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Your most embarrassing situations in japanese? Post: Your most embarrassing situations in japanese? My favorite band had a meet and greet, and one of the members had posted on his blog in advance that he wanted fans to hug him instead of doing the usual handshaking. So I hugged him. After the even... |
inertia | General discussion | 31 | 6,989 | 2010-12-08, 2:38 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread I took N2 yesterday. The first part was tough for me. But even though it was tough, in a way I didn't feel like it was especially difficult, it's just that the material on the test didn't have much ... |
inertia | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,554 | 2010-12-05, 11:32 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT Vocabulary Post: JLPT Vocabulary I took the N3 in July. The vocabulary that we weren't expected to know had furigana above it. There was quite a bit of it in the reading comprehension sections. Test-takers aren't expected to know ... |
inertia | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 6 | 2,917 | 2010-11-06, 1:07 am | ||
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Thread: How closely do you read? Post: How closely do you read? I do a lot of skimming, looking up words that seem important, and if they still seem important after the lookup then I add them to my SRS. I don't think it's useful to look up every single word I don... |
inertia | General discussion | 35 | 5,531 | 2010-09-21, 12:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here I rented an apartment! :) It was difficult sometimes, I know my grammar wasn't as clean or polite as it could have been, and there were a lot of times when I had to ask the real estate agents to exp... |
inertia | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,554 | 2010-08-02, 4:36 am | ||
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Thread: Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook Post: Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook I have this book. I got it last year because I wanted to address the gap between my comprehension and output, work on pronunciation, and basically just get my tongue and brain accustomed to having mo... |
inertia | Learning resources | 14 | 7,755 | 2010-05-31, 2:04 am | ||
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Thread: How fast can you conjugate a verb? Post: How fast can you conjugate a verb? I was having trouble with this too so I made a verb conjugation production deck. Obviously there are some verbs which are used so frequently that it's easy to pick them up just by listening/reading, ... |
inertia | General discussion | 46 | 9,272 | 2010-04-14, 5:13 am | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! I reached the 3/4 point a couple of weeks ago. For the last quarter of the book, I decided to do the RtK Lite kanji first and then go back and finish up the rest at my leisure later. I'm somewhere... |
inertia | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,196 | 2010-04-14, 4:51 am | ||
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Thread: Users study methods Post: Users study methods I currently have 3 active decks. RtK Question: English keyword and Japanese Answer: Kanji I've changed or added to the English keywords in some cases, when I felt that Heisig's keyword was strange/... |
inertia | The Japanese language | 178 | 128,261 | 2010-02-04, 9:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! I reached 1100 kanji this week! |
inertia | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,466 | 2010-01-15, 2:51 am | ||
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Thread: Mixing up words Post: Mixing up words Have you tried adding Japanese keywords to the questions? I think that makes it much easier if you already know some spoken Japanese. Also, since you're in Japan, you're probably running across many... |
inertia | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 4,414 | 2010-01-15, 2:40 am | ||