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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Got it. thanks for your help! |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,863 | 2013-12-07, 3:00 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks a lot! If you don't mind I have one more question. I've also seen なく in contexts like 理由もなく泣く. Is it performing the same function here? |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,863 | 2013-12-06, 6:11 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread An example would be, (seeing as I just heard this like 20 minutes ago) something like 間違いなく, which obviously comes from 間違いない. I'm not quite sure on how those two are different to be honest. sorry fo... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,863 | 2013-12-06, 5:17 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Just a quick question, can anyone explain how the adverbial form of 無い, 無く works? Seems to convey a sense of "without", but I'm 100% sure on that. Usually when you change an i adjective into it's く ... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,863 | 2013-12-06, 4:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? it seems that if you put in the effort moleman he claims he did, then you can certainly get great results in any language. That's thousand's of sentences and patterns that you're being exposed to for ... |
kaizer | General discussion | 856 | 195,596 | 2013-10-16, 3:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Starting out with a manga? Post: Starting out with a manga? I went through Tae kim's grammar guide slowly, at my own pace, while exposing myself to native material. I don't know if I'd recommend jumping straight into manga without knowing what even simple part... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 15 | 4,230 | 2013-10-07, 2:03 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks for clearing that up! I thought it may have been substituting for が. I just got so used to the possessive の being used with people names etc. |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,863 | 2013-09-25, 4:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread This seems to be a pretty basic, common phrase, but I was having a little trouble with the "の言う通り" e.g. 田中さんの言う通り、 あなたの言う通り。 I understand the phrase as a whole ("as [somebody] says.") But I'm unsure ... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,863 | 2013-09-25, 1:55 am | ||
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Thread: Questions Ending in だ? Post: Questions Ending in だ? JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:kaizer Wrote:Agree with the above poster. I remember being discouraged by text books not to use the な negative command form, but it seems (as the above poster says), if you use a... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 28 | 5,226 | 2013-09-17, 3:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Questions Ending in だ? Post: Questions Ending in だ? Agree with the above poster. I remember being discouraged by text books not to use the な negative command form, but it seems (as the above poster says), if you use a different intonation, it doesn't s... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 28 | 5,226 | 2013-09-15, 5:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Questions Ending in だ? Post: Questions Ending in だ? yudantaiteki Wrote:kaizer Wrote:mrbryce Wrote:bottom point being, however tempting it might be, dont learn from anime.. at least thats what i keep saying to myself... What's wrong with learning from ... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 28 | 5,226 | 2013-09-14, 5:20 am | ||
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Thread: Questions Ending in だ? Post: Questions Ending in だ? mrbryce Wrote:bottom point being, however tempting it might be, dont learn from anime.. at least thats what i keep saying to myself... What's wrong with learning from anime? You can hear/read questio... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 28 | 5,226 | 2013-09-13, 6:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Thoughts on anki review limiting. Please help!! Post: Thoughts on anki review limiting. Please help!! Vempele Wrote:Putting a cap on your reviews while still adding 30 cards per day could start a nasty chain reaction of forgetting. Adding fewer cards per day is a better way of limiting your reviews. D... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 19 | 7,862 | 2013-09-02, 1:33 pm | ||
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Thread: passive skills into active skills Post: passive skills into active skills What do people mean when they say they "understand"? I'm at the stage where I can understand simple sentences and dialogues, but I only understand them... cognitively (for lack of a better word), in o... |
kaizer | General discussion | 17 | 4,246 | 2013-07-21, 12:21 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Probably seems a silly question, but - I recently watched an action movie and one of the characters said a number of times 口ほどにもない奴め. The structure of the sentence confuses me, but when I first heard... |
kaizer | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,863 | 2013-07-15, 6:25 am | ||
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Thread: De-motivation Post: De-motivation Aspiring Wrote:kaizer Wrote:[...] @Aspiring - that's another thing that bugs me, this "identity" thing, in the back of my mind I have this worry about "becoming" or "being seen as" Japanese. By 'ident... |
kaizer | General discussion | 22 | 4,155 | 2013-07-10, 4:19 pm | ||
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Thread: De-motivation Post: De-motivation Stansfield123 Wrote:Why is it wrong that you only did your reviews, and haven't done any more Japanese today? Are you in a hurry somewhere? The beauty of doing something you don't desperately need to... |
kaizer | General discussion | 22 | 4,155 | 2013-07-10, 2:58 pm | ||
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Thread: De-motivation Post: De-motivation @chigun - good advice, you've given me something to think about. I think more people would learn languages if they knew it didn't have to be a slog - it's an unhealthy mentality that needs to go. The ... |
kaizer | General discussion | 22 | 4,155 | 2013-07-10, 2:49 pm | ||
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Thread: De-motivation Post: De-motivation Wow, so many helpful responses, not sure where to start. @Bokusenou - My reasons for studying studying Japanese are similar to yours - I figured, I'm gonna watch that anime, read that manga, play tha... |
kaizer | General discussion | 22 | 4,155 | 2013-07-10, 2:22 pm | ||
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Thread: De-motivation Post: De-motivation Thanks for the response - I'm definitely interested. My main reasons for learning Japanese are anime, manga and video games, the former two of which I used to previously hate. My problem stems from t... |
kaizer | General discussion | 22 | 4,155 | 2013-07-10, 12:14 pm | ||
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Thread: De-motivation Post: De-motivation Not quite sure where to post this... but oh well. So, lately I've been feeling incredibly burnt out on studying Japanese. Apart from half-heartedly doing my reviews, I've not listened to, nor read any... |
kaizer | General discussion | 22 | 4,155 | 2013-07-10, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: Not sure what to do... Post: Not sure what to do... Thanks! That sounds like pretty good advice. My reasons for using the JLUP deck on anki are that it includes a japanese keyword next to the heisig one, and as a have a sentence deck with 700 sentences... |
kaizer | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 829 | 2013-06-14, 5:54 am | ||
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Thread: Not sure what to do... Post: Not sure what to do... Hey guys, got a bit of a problem. I've been way, way, way too lenient on myself when reviewing kanji I've learned. I reviewed most of the kanji by relying too heavily on the story - i.e. making the st... |
kaizer | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 829 | 2013-06-14, 3:46 am | ||