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    Thread: Kana compounds (キャ...)
Post: Kana compounds (キャ...)

dingomick Wrote:I absolutely hate it when people speak Japanese words as if they were loan words...while living in Japan and speaking Japanese! With other foreigners, okay, I'll give you that. And I r...
matticus General discussion 16 4,356 2007-03-08, 6:36 pm
    Thread: Kana compounds (キャ...)
Post: Kana compounds (キャ...)

This has been bothering me forever. Japanese people always tell me that it must be convenient to already know so many words in their language (like ドンマイ、ドタキャン、グラビアアイドル, of course!) when in reality I a...
matticus General discussion 16 4,356 2007-03-08, 3:31 pm
    Thread: Retention rate after finishing RTK1
Post: Retention rate after finishing RTK1

The weird thing is, it is very rare that I fail an RTK 1 kanji these days, even though I finished the book last year. It's probably because I am reviewing kanji chains every day, which really reinforc...
matticus Remembering the Kanji 7 1,831 2007-03-06, 12:44 am
    Thread: If you finished RTK1, why change your keywords?
Post: If you finished RTK1, why change your keywords?

leosmith Wrote:I learned some good stuff from the 10,000 sentence guy (he's a little rant-ish though). I've got about 800 sentences for grammar right now, and I'll have about 1,000 when I finish. Man,...
matticus Remembering the Kanji 16 3,901 2007-01-06, 3:25 am