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Thread: What's with all the Star Wars prequels hate? Post: What's with all the Star Wars prequels hate? @RandomQuotes, I love that RedLetterMedia youtube review! It's hilarious, serious, and creepy all at once. He brings up some very good points. I don't think the prequels are horrible. I'd give Episo... |
jishera | Off topic | 17 | 2,641 | 2014-09-16, 11:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Long-term burnout leaving me unable to read? Post: Long-term burnout leaving me unable to read? Looks like others beat me to it, but definitely check out your eyes. I have friends who were getting headaches, thought something was wrong with them, and then it just turned out they needed glasses! ... |
jishera | Off topic | 19 | 3,921 | 2014-07-15, 11:18 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks, that is very helpful. Since I didn't know the term 連濁 I wasn't finding anything relevant. I don't think my textbooks mentioned it. It's been bugging me for a while! |
jishera | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,129 | 2014-06-05, 2:42 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Some words have a different pronunciation than I would expect. When I looked up these kanji, I didn't see these pronunciations listed under onyomi or kunyomi. For example: 葉隠れ - はがくれ - Hidden leaves... |
jishera | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,129 | 2014-06-05, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: Recommendations for TV Shows/Anime Post: Recommendations for TV Shows/Anime I second Moribito. While it's something older kids could watch as well, it has hardly any of the overacting/silliness that is the stereotype for anime (maybe a very minor character says a couple lines... |
jishera | General discussion | 41 | 10,680 | 2014-05-11, 12:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Real handwriting -> letter I received Post: Real handwriting -> letter I received This makes me feel better about my handwriting! Mine is bad but this is actually pretty similar in messiness. Thanks for the reading practice :-). |
jishera | General discussion | 9 | 2,620 | 2014-03-21, 11:52 am | ||
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Thread: HabitRPG Japanese study guild? Post: HabitRPG Japanese study guild? I don't know if I would necessarily want to join a guild, but I didn't know about this habitRPG--looks cool! I may try it out since I've been looking for a way to track my habits. So thanks for the in... |
jishera | General discussion | 14 | 5,092 | 2014-02-28, 1:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Replacing Anki with reading Post: Replacing Anki with reading I am also having trouble returning to Anki. I'm looking to do something similar, but I'm unfortunately not at the point right now that I can read much native material (I'm about halfway through Japan... |
jishera | General discussion | 10 | 3,210 | 2014-02-26, 2:18 am | ||
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Thread: Which particle book to buy from these two? Post: Which particle book to buy from these two? So I don't know about A Dictionary of Japanese Particles, but the following discussion will give you more info about How to Tell the Difference and its counterpart, All About Particles. Actually...no... |
jishera | Learning resources | 9 | 1,241 | 2014-02-24, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Beginner question about readings Post: Beginner question about readings OK, I see what your question is. In order to actually learn vocab, going through either some textbooks, or doing a core2k/core6k Anki deck like Betelgeuzah suggested is good. I'm going through my te... |
jishera | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,336 | 2014-02-05, 1:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Beginner question about readings Post: Beginner question about readings I'm still a beginner, so someone with more experience should chime in after me, but this is how I've approached it so far. I knew some words from anime and then some in hiragana from my textbook (Jap... |
jishera | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,336 | 2014-02-05, 3:00 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks Tzadeck and Vempele! This makes much more sense now. Looks like I was actually thinking about this way too hard. I think I was immediately biased when I read the sentence because as soon as I s... |
jishera | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,129 | 2014-02-04, 2:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread This is about using the "te" form to say "consequently/therefore". Of course, by the time I finished typing this I ended up answering my original question...so now I'm looking for some tips about rec... |
jishera | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,129 | 2014-02-03, 10:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Leaning Japanese & anti-Japanese friends/family/peers Post: Leaning Japanese & anti-Japanese friends/family/pe... One of my cousins (rather, cousin-in-law) is of Chinese descent. She has found she enjoys anime, but recently divulged to me that while she would like to study Japanese her family would definitely dis... |
jishera | Off topic | 32 | 6,956 | 2014-02-03, 4:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Searching Anki by field. Post: Searching Anki by field. Try opening the deck as if you were going to review, then do search. That way it is easier to do deck:current I'm not sure what you are trying to search for. Are you searching literally for "that ... |
jishera | Learning resources | 5 | 3,476 | 2013-11-18, 8:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Searching Anki by field. Post: Searching Anki by field. Hi BlueBomber, Instead of using a new deck for my textbook vocab, I just add tags to the cards. I have the huge Core plus deck and I've gotten good at searching for fields using a combination of Ka... |
jishera | Learning resources | 5 | 3,476 | 2013-11-18, 5:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Kabocha pumpkin: delicious winter squash! Post: Kabocha pumpkin: delicious winter squash! A bit of randomness: I've been obsessed with kabocha pumpkin recently. I made kabocha nimono (simmered pumpkin) the other day and it was delicious!!! I keep buying Kabocha...so many ways you can make ... |
jishera | Off topic | 6 | 1,630 | 2013-10-12, 12:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Pokemon X/Y are multilingual! Post: Pokemon X/Y are multilingual! Oh, cool! Thanks for posting about this. Hmmm, this may have to be the first game I try to play in Japanese. Technically I also have Tales of Hearts for the DS, but that's too advanced for me right no... |
jishera | Learning resources | 14 | 8,425 | 2013-10-12, 12:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana coverting method? Post: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana covertin... I think every language does this. "Karate" and "karaoke" spring to my mind as some loan words which we do not pronounce the same as a Japanese person would. Karaoke is especially bad actually....I'm n... |
jishera | Off topic | 49 | 10,324 | 2013-10-11, 11:03 am | ||
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Thread: JFE Post: JFE tashippy, it depends on what you want to do. Do you feel like you need a big review? If so, then go through JFE quickly to review. Otherwise, I'd just move on to an intermediate textbook and keep chal... |
jishera | Learning resources | 72 | 34,435 | 2013-09-09, 4:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Thoughts on anki review limiting. Please help!! Post: Thoughts on anki review limiting. Please help!! I learned the hard way that sometimes less is more. If I had done fewer new vocab cards per day I would have stuck with my reviews and I'd be more ahead than I am now. Instead, I crashed and burned an... |
jishera | The Japanese language | 19 | 7,856 | 2013-09-02, 1:47 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT July 2013 Post: JLPT July 2013 Congrats Tzadeck! And to everyone else too :-). |
jishera | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 65 | 18,234 | 2013-08-27, 11:16 am | ||
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Thread: What is your most failed kanji? Post: What is your most failed kanji? For me it is "ring" and "send back." I don't even have to look at my stats to know that! I don't know what it is about these kanji. They drive me nuts though. I need to work on better stories for the... |
jishera | Remembering the Kanji | 24 | 9,115 | 2013-08-16, 6:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Posters (Level 1,3, Supplement) Post: Kanji Posters (Level 1,3, Supplement) These look cool! Thanks :-). |
jishera | Remembering the Kanji | 2 | 1,128 | 2013-07-27, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese SAT II Post: Japanese SAT II I wouldn't necessarily say forget about taking the SAT II. If you would get credit for it at a college you are applying to, it could be useful. It would also be good to take it if you need an SAT II t... |
jishera | General discussion | 7 | 3,114 | 2013-07-25, 3:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese SAT II Post: Japanese SAT II Before doing all this studying, I would make sure that the colleges you are interested in even use the SAT II test for placement (and if they do, what score you would need). I've heard of using the AP... |
jishera | General discussion | 7 | 3,114 | 2013-07-23, 12:50 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... The cake is a lie! Congrats! And I like your metaphor about Pokemon :-). You gotta catch 'em all! |
jishera | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,527 | 2013-06-05, 5:38 pm | ||
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Thread: What should I do after Genki 2? Post: What should I do after Genki 2? Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese is also recommended instead of IAtIJ. It has more modern topics, like food, pop culture, geography, etc. So you might want to check it out if you want an intermedi... |
jishera | Learning resources | 18 | 12,431 | 2013-06-05, 5:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Need a study plan for N4 Post: Need a study plan for N4 I haven't taken the JLPT, so I don't know what the listening section is like, but I've been listening to the JapanesePod101 podcasts while driving and I like them so far as a fun audio supplement. I s... |
jishera | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 4 | 1,996 | 2013-06-05, 5:01 pm | ||
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Thread: 2 months before Tokyo -- how do I leverage my 漢字 knowledge? Post: 2 months before Tokyo -- how do I leverage my 漢字 k... I went to Japan last year with my family and it was awesome. Unfortunately, my kanji knowledge was not super useful because they have English on pretty much all of the subway/train signs, and other pl... |
jishera | The Japanese language | 16 | 7,369 | 2013-04-16, 4:46 pm | ||
