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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread それでは「カルテノー戦没者追悼式典」のあと、 我々に声をかけてもらえますかな？ What I can't grasp here is the usage of に. If に in morau sentences is supposed to indicate the agent of the sentence, wouldn't that mean that "wareware" is the... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,168 | 2014-10-02, 5:58 am | ||
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Thread: How do you deal with not feeling like studying? Post: How do you deal with not feeling like studying? Stansfield123 Wrote:Quote:How do you deal with not feeling like studying? I don't study. But I can see how my method is less than optimal. Yes, this is what I do. Sometimes for six months at a time. T... |
Betelgeuzah | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 5,924 | 2014-09-30, 6:56 am | ||
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Thread: Haters gonna hate: Tae Kim Grammar Guide Post: Haters gonna hate: Tae Kim Grammar Guide One massive issue I have with Tae Kim's guide is also that the particles aren't explained well enough in my opinion. At least I never came across a lesson where he would explain the meaning of に in mo... |
Betelgeuzah | Learning resources | 67 | 12,249 | 2014-09-29, 3:16 am | ||
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Thread: Fear of speaking in Japanese? Post: Fear of speaking in Japanese? haley_usa Wrote:This is good, it's progress. But I'm afraid of the unknown related to speaking one-on-one with a Japanese person rather than fellow English speakers. I don't know how to find a good pa... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 17 | 2,739 | 2014-09-27, 4:12 am | ||
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Thread: Advice for N2 Equivalent Self Learner Post: Advice for N2 Equivalent Self Learner erlog Wrote:Now, this can become a bit of a grind, and that's why I talked about smaller goals more often being better. You want to kind of always be a few weeks away from some milestone like completi... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 57 | 12,015 | 2014-09-25, 6:18 am | ||
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Thread: Your frustrations with the japanese language Post: Your frustrations with the japanese language anotherjohn Wrote:Betelgeulzah Wrote:Something like ageru/kureru/morau is alright by itself, but when you start using causative+honorific giving/receiving it's easy for me to get lost in the sentences... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,982 | 2014-09-24, 4:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Your frustrations with the japanese language Post: Your frustrations with the japanese language buonaparte Wrote:Betelgeuzah Wrote:Something like ageru/kureru/morau is alright by itself, but when you start using causative+honorific giving/receiving it's easy for me to get lost in the sentences. ... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,982 | 2014-09-24, 10:41 am | ||
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Thread: Your frustrations with the japanese language Post: Your frustrations with the japanese language The lack of sounds. Especially different grammatic terms feel so similar (and in many cases are similar), as there's so much overlap and no kanji to distinguish between them. The heavy context-dependa... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,982 | 2014-09-24, 6:12 am | ||
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Thread: Haters gonna hate: Tae Kim Grammar Guide Post: Haters gonna hate: Tae Kim Grammar Guide IMABI material is still too dense for it's own good. He may know a lot about the subject; unfortunately that doesn't make him good at teaching it to others. However his site can be useful since it is... |
Betelgeuzah | Learning resources | 67 | 12,249 | 2014-09-23, 7:56 am | ||
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Thread: Haters gonna hate: Tae Kim Grammar Guide Post: Haters gonna hate: Tae Kim Grammar Guide hyvel Wrote:Sometimes I'm really surprised that people are too parsimonious to buy a 20$ textbook and instead solely rely on free resources. If you're gonna spend countless of hours learning Japan... |
Betelgeuzah | Learning resources | 67 | 12,249 | 2014-09-22, 5:33 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 個人的な意見ですが、日本のクリスマスには宗教的なバックボーンはありませんよね。もちろん休日にもなりませんしね。それに対してユーロッパのクリスマスは、まさに確立した「文化」です。家族全員が集まり、一緒にターキーを食べる。それは、文化以外の何ものでもありません。 I don't understand the bolded sentence. "It is nothing but culture?" |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,168 | 2014-09-06, 9:47 am | ||
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Thread: My favorite thing about Japan. Post: My favorite thing about Japan. Their humor is different, unconventional, surprising and sometimes even unintended which is awesome. Which leads to my least favorite thing about the Japanese: My kind of sarcastic humor is lost on mo... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 26 | 4,910 | 2014-09-06, 8:01 am | ||
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Thread: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language in addition ... Post: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language ... Stansfield123 Wrote:Betelgeuzah Wrote:Hardly so, in my opinion. It depends on a few factors though. Are the languages different enough from each other? e.g. italian vs spanish or italian vs. japanese... |
Betelgeuzah | Off topic | 53 | 6,139 | 2014-09-02, 6:19 am | ||
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Thread: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language in addition ... Post: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language ... Stansfield123 Wrote:As an aside :) , learning two languages at once is a bad idea. Learn one, then learn the other one. Hardly so, in my opinion. It depends on a few factors though. Are the languages... |
Betelgeuzah | Off topic | 53 | 6,139 | 2014-09-02, 3:08 am | ||
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Thread: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language in addition ... Post: [CLOSED] Is anyone else studying another language ... Italian (because I have to & I want to) Swedish (because I have to & I kind of want to) It's hard to find enough time for all three but I manage. |
Betelgeuzah | Off topic | 53 | 6,139 | 2014-08-31, 11:23 am | ||
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Thread: Good videogames to "learn" japanese Post: Good videogames to "learn" japanese FFXIV:新生エオルゼア is a good game for practicing Japanese. The dialogue is mostly bite-sized, the vocabulary is varied though perhaps more fancy than in your average JRPG, and you also get plenty of practi... |
Betelgeuzah | Learning resources | 27 | 10,851 | 2014-08-02, 9:11 am | ||
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Thread: Why do you want to move to Japan? Post: Why do you want to move to Japan? dtcamero Wrote:you won't read about that in your history books tho. just how japan committed war crimes. but how about dropping nukes on civilian centers? shouldn't that be an equivalent war crime? ev... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 72 | 10,249 | 2014-06-09, 2:29 am | ||
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Thread: Why do you want to move to Japan? Post: Why do you want to move to Japan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre_denial Two of the most common ways of denial are showcased back-to-back: that to criticize something must mean one dislikes it, and that "everyone else d... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 72 | 10,249 | 2014-06-08, 2:35 am | ||
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Thread: Why do you want to move to Japan? Post: Why do you want to move to Japan? Arupan Wrote:I don't see how they haven't come into terms with it. They are paying reparations to South Korea to this very day (or at least they were until last year as far as I know), although most p... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 72 | 10,249 | 2014-06-08, 2:09 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Could you help me verify the translation I came up with for this sentence: 俺は「黒渦団」のエリートで期待の新人だからして～。 "Since I am the anticipated newcomer within the elite of the 黒渦団." |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,168 | 2014-06-08, 1:50 am | ||
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Thread: Why do you want to move to Japan? Post: Why do you want to move to Japan? TsugiAshi Wrote:john555 Wrote:qwertyytrewq Wrote:9. Similarly, due to them getting their butts seriously kicked in WW2 (atomic bombs, firebombings etc), their pacifist ideals are also refreshing and i... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 72 | 10,249 | 2014-06-08, 12:28 am | ||
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Thread: Why do you want to move to Japan? Post: Why do you want to move to Japan? You aren't completely in touch with reality if you want to move to Japan permanently in this day and age. At the very least there's some heavy grass is greener stuff going on. Granted, I wish that ev... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 72 | 10,249 | 2014-06-07, 11:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Study Plan Suggestions/Improvements Post: Japanese Study Plan Suggestions/Improvements Switch to native materials ASAP. + possibly add new words to anki that you encounter. |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,470 | 2014-06-04, 11:26 pm | ||
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Thread: I'm somewhere over 3000 words in core2k/6k Post: I'm somewhere over 3000 words in core2k/6k This is why I always recommend going recognition first, output later. Core is not very good by default for output precisely because of this issue. When learning the words in JP>EN order you can use... |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 12 | 2,799 | 2014-06-04, 3:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Very casual speech learning resource (website, book) Post: Very casual speech learning resource (website, boo... Tbh casual speech is hard not only because some grammar structures get shortened but because there seems to be a lot more ambiguity in an already ambiguous language. More often than not I "get to" par... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 26 | 8,516 | 2014-06-02, 4:43 am | ||
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Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k) Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k... comeauch Wrote:I find it almost hard to believe that you "can still barely read anything" at 10k. I think OP's main issue is that he expects the process to be as fast and tangible as during the Anki/R... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 79 | 14,736 | 2014-05-30, 4:43 am | ||
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Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k) Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k... learningkanji Wrote:Betelgeuzah Wrote:You know, I have learned maybe 15k English words since I started learning the language, but I've found that it doesn't really hinder me when it comes to doing thi... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 79 | 14,736 | 2014-05-29, 4:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k) Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k... You know, I have learned maybe 15k English words since I started learning the language, but I've found that it doesn't really hinder me when it comes to doing things with the language (even regarding ... |
Betelgeuzah | The Japanese language | 79 | 14,736 | 2014-05-29, 12:44 pm | ||
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Thread: How long did/are you study Japanese a day? Post: How long did/are you study Japanese a day? At most 4 hours a day (maybe 1~5% of the time), at least 20 mins a day (roughly 50% of the time). Average is probably closer to 1h than 30mins per day. |
Betelgeuzah | General discussion | 52 | 13,145 | 2014-05-29, 7:27 am | ||
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Thread: Buying all 3 Japanese Grammar Dictionaries Post: Buying all 3 Japanese Grammar Dictionaries erlog Wrote:Those dictionaries aren't really that special. People talk about them a lot here only because they're widely pirated and easily available as PDF's. If you're willing to shell out money the... |
Betelgeuzah | Learning resources | 18 | 3,320 | 2014-05-29, 4:26 am | ||
