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    Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?
Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?

dbh2ppa Wrote:deathspi Wrote:()...To me, when people moan about how hard Japanese is, it just looks like a license to throw in the towel when you realize it's harder than French...you can just shrug i...
deathspi General discussion 142 43,288 2010-04-09, 2:25 pm
    Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?
Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?

aphasiac Wrote:- Japanese is considering insanely hard to learn. I've seen figures of 5-10 years quited to achieve full fluency. - Kanji is considered near impossible to learn. Most Western learners e...
deathspi General discussion 142 43,288 2010-04-09, 6:04 am
    Thread: Things required in Japanese Grammar but aren't in English?
Post: Things required in Japanese Grammar but aren't in ...

Using the many Japanese counters? (一台、一頭、一本、一枚 etc,etc,etc,etc...)
deathspi The Japanese language 5 1,179 2010-04-07, 7:34 am
    Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?
Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization?

Personally, I always found this place a lot more inspiring than reading articles that rant on and on about the same thing. I thought learning a language was supposed to be about surrounding yourself ...
deathspi General discussion 142 43,288 2010-04-07, 7:06 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

Definatly not questions. I just done a 15 minute one to make sure. Says I got 7/8 questions right but obviously there are only 5 questions at the start. I've also noticed that even if I get full mark...
deathspi General discussion 397 123,330 2010-02-26, 4:37 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

When the results for the tests are shown, it says there are 30 questions for the 読み section, but obviously there are only 20 questions at the start. Anyone know where the other 10 come from? (Noticed ...
deathspi General discussion 397 123,330 2010-02-25, 9:02 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

That sounds like quite a challenge! Are you going to split the time you study 5,4, and 3級 equally? or just try to get to studying 3 ASAP? Congrats for doing so well in 6級 too.
deathspi General discussion 397 123,330 2010-02-12, 9:58 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

Only about 10% of 6級 completed, I got distracted by どうぶつの森 ^^; The 熟語構成 advice really helped though, so hope to get better at that. Completely forgot that you can drill, and the seen questions percen...
deathspi General discussion 397 123,330 2009-12-17, 6:03 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

6級の「熟語の構成」Is really dragging down my score. I always seem to get the 漢字 and 出題 ones wrong. There's always kanji that, to me, can be read and make sense backwards but isn't 出題, and ones that are descri...
deathspi General discussion 397 123,330 2009-12-11, 8:20 am
    Thread: Kanji Puzzles
Post: Kanji Puzzles

I remember seeing this type of puzzle on one of the DS kanji games. Just checked なぞって覚える(完璧版)and it's not in that...maybe it was in the first one...
deathspi The Japanese language 4 1,960 2009-11-18, 9:29 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

I have to say, I'm impressed with the progress you've made so far, and you done it in such a short time too. (compared to me anyway!) I had kanken 2 a couple of years or so ago and was working on 7級,...
deathspi General discussion 397 123,330 2009-11-12, 4:44 am
    Thread: Video Game blogs
Post: Video Game blogs

kotaku.jp or ファミ通 are probably the best I'lld say. ps3-fan.net is quite nice too, if you have a ps3 that is.
deathspi General discussion 6 1,237 2009-11-12, 4:27 am
    Thread: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen?
Post: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen?

Wow, thanks for all the replies! I'm seriously starting to think about ditching the 電子辞書 option and just getting some dictionaries for my iPhone. Would be so much cheaper and then I would always have...
deathspi General discussion 22 4,983 2009-10-14, 1:36 am
    Thread: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen?
Post: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen?

Thanks for the replies, (and sorry this one's late). Guess I will be getting a dictionary soon after all then! It's a real shame that Seiko don't have everything I want, otherwise I'lld get one of the...
deathspi General discussion 22 4,983 2009-10-13, 5:09 am
    Thread: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen?
Post: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen?

After using the sonomama dictionary on the DS for a couple of years I've found that although it's been great, I need something a bit 'more' now, and thus am thinking about buying an electronic diction...
deathspi General discussion 22 4,983 2009-10-09, 8:03 am
    Thread: Silent Hill
Post: Silent Hill

Also, alot of the PSN games will work in Japanese, best thing to do is get a demo and try it out.
deathspi General discussion 33 4,189 2009-09-22, 10:39 am
    Thread: Silent Hill
Post: Silent Hill

I've noticed that Odin Sphere (ps2) and Enchanted Arms (ps3/360) will let you have Japanese voices, some ps3 games can be set entirely to Japanese. The ones I've found so far are Restance (not sure if...
deathspi General discussion 33 4,189 2009-09-22, 9:29 am
    Thread: Anyone else got this problem with anki?
Post: Anyone else got this problem with anki?

I got the same thing the other day. Restarting the computer seemed to make it go away, but it's happened a few times since then... Wonder what it could be. :S
deathspi Learning resources 4 1,871 2009-09-18, 7:17 am
    Thread: Japanese Quiz TV Shows
Post: Japanese Quiz TV Shows

Try looking on D-addicts if you have a particular show in mind, although most of them don't get uploaded very often anymore. If you don't want to go for torrents then they only other thing I would su...
deathspi Learning resources 15 4,011 2009-04-13, 1:36 pm
    Thread: Anki donation Run
Post: Anki donation Run

Donated when I found out I had passed this years JLPT, couldn't of done it without Anki. :)
deathspi Learning resources 21 4,512 2009-03-27, 9:07 am
    Thread: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club
Post: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club

2053 expired cards. I'm a bad person :(
deathspi General discussion 48 12,421 2009-03-03, 7:05 am
    Thread: How to Pretend to Read Kanji
Post: How to Pretend to Read Kanji

Hopefully that is a joke, it looks a bit rubbish to me! Also, it's not often you see something in full furigana anyway, and then what happens if someone wants you to read something else?! :P
deathspi The Japanese language 5 1,483 2009-03-02, 6:43 am
    Thread: Learn kanji via Yo Mama jokes?
Post: Learn kanji via Yo Mama jokes?

I stumbled apon this a while back too, ended up leaving it to continue with Heisig, but still remember most of the memoronics, somehow the stories stuck very well!
deathspi Learning resources 25 10,283 2009-03-02, 6:40 am
    Thread: How do you set up your reading environment?
Post: How do you set up your reading environment?

I don`t know how everyone manage to read manga off a screen, I can`t stand doing it! though I wish I could..would save me a lot of money and shelf space. I tend to just sit somewhere comfortable and...
deathspi General discussion 26 5,258 2009-01-21, 3:44 am
    Thread: Final Fantasy XIII demo...
Post: Final Fantasy XIII demo...

Been waiting for this to become available for pre-order, I`ll have to go grab myself a copy! :) stehr, the game will be out in 2010 for most of the world, but if you`re playing the Japanese version, ...
deathspi Off topic 31 5,393 2009-01-21, 3:22 am
    Thread: Online Japanese School
Post: Online Japanese School

I tried about 25 of those lessons last year, it sounded really good, but in the end I stopped doing them. Because there is no placement test i.e. anyone can join any lesson they want, you end up with...
deathspi Learning resources 4 753 2009-01-08, 12:16 pm
    Thread: Online J-TV
Post: Online J-TV

I also used to use TVU, was great until they took the decent Japanese channels away, and I`m also using Keyhole TV,(well, trying to make something out from the noise anyway!) This usually shows some ...
deathspi General discussion 11 2,386 2008-12-05, 5:17 am
    Thread: Read The Kanji web application
Post: Read The Kanji web application

Just made an account and have to agree, it`s very nice, especially when you have a spare few minutes to kill. It`s also good that you have to type in the reading yourself, unlike most apps where you h...
deathspi Learning resources 64 9,487 2008-11-04, 6:15 am
    Thread: Famitsu magazine
Post: Famitsu magazine

You can get a single issue, or subscription from The Japan Centre (in the UK) though the latter is kind of expencive, but there are other magazines too which are cheaper (and come monthly rather than ...
deathspi General discussion 15 2,628 2008-09-19, 5:57 am
    Thread: Long-term study at a Japanese language school: Questions
Post: Long-term study at a Japanese language school: Que...

rich_f Wrote:The only thing I didn't like about Yamasa were the "beds" in the student village. Those things should be put on a UN human rights watch list or something. -_- Aww, I thought the beds were...
deathspi General discussion 18 5,048 2008-09-07, 5:39 am