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    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

Hmm Not bad. But on the other hand, I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to call it good. Maybe I'm just forgetting what it was like being at that level though. But overall I don't think this const...
dareka General discussion 856 195,594 2013-11-08, 11:42 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

ktcgx Wrote:I think that, much the same way as it was fashionable to pepper your English with as much French as you could 2-300 years ago, Japanese people like to use "English" words in their everyday...
dareka General discussion 856 195,594 2013-11-02, 12:25 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

ドリンクは doesn't seem odd to me at all, also u see ドリンクバー all the time. A huge amount of katakana English is used all the time and is completely standard Japanese. I've heard foreigners in the past expre...
dareka General discussion 856 195,594 2013-11-01, 2:58 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

Actually not that bad for 6 weeks.
dareka General discussion 856 195,594 2013-10-31, 10:43 am
    Thread: Pronunciation of J vowels
Post: Pronunciation of J vowels

this is hardly the biggest thing english speakers get wrong. If you Just pronounce it like a j, while speaking kind of out the front of your mouth it should be close enough if you're getting the other...
dareka The Japanese language 23 3,911 2013-10-31, 10:38 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

I don't think 1-2 years to get a passing grade in n1 is that unbelievable if you really are consistent at it instead of just talking about studying. N1 is not that hard, it's just a matter of knowing ...
dareka General discussion 856 195,594 2013-10-14, 7:04 am
    Thread: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。
Post: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。

或るパン(?)ありがとう! 優しい人ですね もう一本上げました↓ soundcloud 他の人はなかなか来ないな みんな、あまり考えすぎずアップしてね。恥ずかしがることはないですよ。
dareka General discussion 19 7,266 2013-10-04, 8:16 am
    Thread: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。
Post: 少し日本語をしゃべるけど。。。

what the heck i'll update my recording too: sound cloud i couldn't be bothered doing this multiple times, so sorry about the poor quality. Man it's hard talking without a topic. would be good if we ...
dareka General discussion 19 7,266 2013-10-02, 9:41 am
    Thread: Game for vocabulary learning and training
Post: Game for vocabulary learning and training

Do girls not buy games if the female characters are too sexy? I would assume that video game companies make sexy female characters because they sell better to male gamers. It's a business decision. ...
dareka Learning resources 11 3,603 2013-09-30, 7:29 am
    Thread: For those working in Japan...
Post: For those working in Japan...

Much of the western world, especially the anglosphere, has much larger numbers of foreigners though. US/Canada/Australia would all have foreign born populations of at least 20% imagine in the bigger c...
dareka Off topic 32 6,808 2013-09-29, 8:47 am
    Thread: For those working in Japan...
Post: For those working in Japan...

i don't know but one reason for the 'rice ceiling' could be that non-japanese may not be as committed to the country/company and as such may seem a more risky proposition for promotion to a higher res...
dareka Off topic 32 6,808 2013-09-28, 7:14 am