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Thread: Sex ratio of this forum? Post: Sex ratio of this forum? 33:19 but I'm mostly a lurker too :) |
einahpets | Off topic | 148 | 26,514 | 2012-09-12, 7:50 am | ||
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Thread: Reading novels to expand vocabulary Post: Reading novels to expand vocabulary I just use my dictionary a lot when I read. If I encounter a word I'm not sure about I make my best guess for its pronunciation and check it. I don't want to get in the habit of associating a wrong ... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 10 | 3,324 | 2012-08-04, 9:46 pm | ||
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Thread: do you consider SRS a secret? Post: do you consider SRS a secret? Zgarbas Wrote:I don't think it's a matter of not wanting to learn. Some of the people I talked about SRS with actually reached a fairly decent (by common standards, at least; n3 in 3 years) level in J... |
einahpets | Learning resources | 79 | 14,604 | 2012-08-02, 9:07 pm | ||
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Thread: How many of you (RTK complete) are fluent? Post: How many of you (RTK complete) are fluent? I'm not fluent yet - I guess I would say I'm intermediate. I didn't do RTK when I first studied Japanese, but I decided to do it when I decided to start working on Japanese again after taking about 3... |
einahpets | General discussion | 27 | 4,462 | 2012-08-02, 8:54 pm | ||
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Thread: $200+ Amazon dollars - Japanese language book recommendations? Post: $200+ Amazon dollars - Japanese language book reco... You might be interested in Henshall's A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters if you are interested in the development of kanji. It's not a book I would read cover to cover - it's more of a refere... |
einahpets | Learning resources | 27 | 7,329 | 2012-07-31, 8:48 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread If it helps, Japanese facebook uses いいね the way English facebook uses the word "like". |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,313 | 2012-07-15, 8:27 am | ||
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Thread: Importance of being able to WRITE kanji Post: Importance of being able to WRITE kanji Maybe it's a learning style thing, but I found that after a break of about 3-4 years, I could still remember most of the kanji I had bothered to learn to write in the past (I wasn't using RTK at that ... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 130 | 29,674 | 2012-07-14, 4:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here dzurn Wrote:I'm super-proud to relate that we both passed our Level 10 test (80 kanji). OK, that only puts me at the level of a Japanese first grader, but all the nihonjin at the school are impressed ... |
einahpets | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,582 | 2012-07-13, 8:52 am | ||
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Thread: Reviewing the Kanji vs Remembering the Kanji Post: Reviewing the Kanji vs Remembering the Kanji I'm not sure, because I used an older version of RTK myself, but I think maybe the website doesn't reflect the newest version of RTK. All you have to do though is type "key" into the search on the st... |
einahpets | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 2,028 | 2012-07-12, 12:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Free / Non-Free Japanese Immersion Options Post: Free / Non-Free Japanese Immersion Options I think partner's suggestions are all really good. Are there other teachers at your school besides the English teachers that you can talk with? Generally it seems like there will be a default langua... |
einahpets | Off topic | 13 | 3,432 | 2012-06-22, 9:24 am | ||
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Thread: Buying JLPT Books Post: Buying JLPT Books My experience is several years ago with the old 2級 not N2 so I'm not sure if it'll be that helpful. I did use the Kanzen Master for grammar and felt really well prepared for that part of the test. I... |
einahpets | Learning resources | 18 | 8,603 | 2012-06-21, 8:20 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Congrats everyone who's finished recently! |
einahpets | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,688 | 2012-06-17, 4:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here I finally read a book in Japanese (よしもとばなな 初めての文学). :) All 256 pages of it... |
einahpets | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,582 | 2012-06-12, 8:50 am | ||
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Thread: NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site Post: NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site Thanks, that is a great find! I don't enough furigana to get too annoyed...within the news stories themselves I don't see any furigana. I like how it gives simple Japanese definitions of the underli... |
einahpets | Learning resources | 18 | 17,790 | 2012-06-12, 8:37 am | ||
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Thread: Brain Rejecting Japanese Post: Brain Rejecting Japanese 4. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. This means that the more Japanese you learn, the more you understand the vast depth of Japanese there is left for you to learn, which puts ... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 14 | 2,933 | 2012-06-11, 9:59 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:sikieiki Wrote:Ive been thinking about how i-adjectives shouldnt be followed with "da" Not even sure what the original reason why it isnt allowed is There's no real "reason"; that's... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,313 | 2012-05-28, 9:51 am | ||
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Thread: When will you stop relying on English to understand Japanese? Post: When will you stop relying on English to understan... I think it's a process. For me anyway, it wasn't like there was a day when I suddenly was just thinking in Japanese. At some point I realized that I could carry on or listen to a lot of everyday con... |
einahpets | General discussion | 8 | 1,994 | 2012-05-25, 9:20 am | ||
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Thread: Video on Japanese Pitch Accent Post: Video on Japanese Pitch Accent Good video and easy to follow. Thanks for posting! |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 39 | 10,243 | 2012-05-22, 8:46 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I hadn't come across the size of places thing in regards to に／を before either so I was kind of surprised to see it in "All About Particles" recently, but once I read the description there, I was think... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,313 | 2012-04-18, 9:24 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Tzadeck Wrote:You use に to mark what you're 乗るing. Adding to this, according to "All About Particles," use に to indicate movement from a larger to a smaller place and を for movement from a smaller to ... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,313 | 2012-04-18, 7:35 am | ||
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Thread: Who has shared their RTK stories with this site? Post: Who has shared their RTK stories with this site? I just finished a few months ago. Whenever I thought of an original story, or for whatever reason modified a story I found, I would post it. When I was stuck on a kanji I would scan through the stor... |
einahpets | Learning resources | 13 | 2,981 | 2012-04-16, 8:11 am | ||
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Thread: Looking to work in Japan on a short-term (1 year) basis Post: Looking to work in Japan on a short-term (1 year) ... Things may have changed with Interac but the impression I had when I lived in Japan was that they were pretty sketchy. From what I heard it sounded like they hired people who already were teaching in... |
einahpets | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 25 | 11,849 | 2012-04-03, 8:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Frustration setting in - feeling like taking a short break... Post: Frustration setting in - feeling like taking a sho... Something that happened to me the further along I got was that I would mix up similar keywords. I didn't want to get bogged down obsessing about English keywords, so I would add some kind of hint to ... |
einahpets | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 2,300 | 2012-03-28, 10:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Read More or Die reading contest Post: Read More or Die reading contest Any chance you can alert us here when the next round starts? I'm too busy the next few weeks to challenge myself to much reading but I'd love to try it later. Thanks! |
einahpets | Group study | 18 | 4,623 | 2012-03-21, 2:18 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread HonyakuJoshua Wrote:SomeCallMeChris Wrote:進んでやらなくては：must advance -なくては is an understood contraction of なくてはいけない You don't know how happy I am. Is there any list of these contractions online, or do you... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,313 | 2012-03-06, 9:35 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Congrats everyone! I just finished today with RTK1 and the supplement! Woo hoo! I started in mid-October so it took me about 4 1/2 months, although there were times along the way I didn't do any st... |
einahpets | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,688 | 2012-02-29, 10:46 am | ||
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Thread: More Japanese = less enjoyment of Japan? Post: More Japanese = less enjoyment of Japan? Another thought on the topic...After leaving Japan I backpacked around Asia for a few months before coming home. It was an amazing trip, but after having learned to communicate in Japanese and having... |
einahpets | General discussion | 119 | 21,846 | 2012-02-27, 2:08 pm | ||
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Thread: More Japanese = less enjoyment of Japan? Post: More Japanese = less enjoyment of Japan? For me, I enjoyed Japan more the more Japanese I learned. I went to Japan after one year of college-level Japanese class and stayed for about three years. The more I learned, the more I could actual... |
einahpets | General discussion | 119 | 21,846 | 2012-02-27, 12:18 am | ||
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Thread: Asking question using でしょう, ですか and ですね confusion. Post: Asking question using でしょう, ですか and ですね confusion. Also, both でしょう and ですね include an expectation that the listener will agree with the speaker. When asking 寒いですか。you don't necessarily expect that the answer will be yes (although I guess this could d... |
einahpets | The Japanese language | 8 | 957 | 2012-02-23, 10:00 pm | ||
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Thread: CIR interview advice, anyone? Post: CIR interview advice, anyone? I don't know if this happens in CIR interviews, since I was an ALT. But I learned that one thing they do in ALT interviews is to purposely ask questions that make it awkward and throw you off balance... |
einahpets | General discussion | 5 | 2,268 | 2012-02-08, 3:28 pm | ||
