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Thread: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to say the compounds Post: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to... I think that the problem is not just homonyms. For me, all the kyou / gyou / kou / gou or ken / gen / gan / kan sound so similar to each other, and the fact that a single kanji can change between thos... |
daaan | Remembering the Kanji | 30 | 5,393 | 2015-11-08, 4:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Should you delete these Kanji Post: Should you delete these Kanji My Japanese is only very basic, I only spent half a year learning it for a holiday back in 2011. Still, even I think that some kanji on that list aren't useless at all. For example: 暦 - 西暦 Western cal... |
daaan | Remembering the Kanji | 28 | 5,369 | 2015-07-11, 2:53 am | ||
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Thread: Comparisons with のほうが and より Post: Comparisons with のほうが and より yogert909 Wrote:I've seen it reversed (but I don't think you can use the のほう) something like AがBより大きい. This translates to something like regarding A, B is bigger. The other way around, AFAIK. "A -rat... |
daaan | The Japanese language | 8 | 1,147 | 2015-07-10, 3:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan Times Column - "Microagressions" Post: Japan Times Column - "Microagressions" I think that if you want to notice prejudices, you will. For example: During my three-week trip to Japan I did not notice any pattern of the seats on the train right next to me staying empty more oft... |
daaan | General discussion | 99 | 12,522 | 2012-05-23, 3:47 am | ||
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Thread: Sarcasm in Japanese Post: Sarcasm in Japanese alizarine Wrote:Hinode Wrote:It wouldn't. ._. Sarcasm is very common in the German language. Though, of course, if you say it in a deadly serious tone of course there is the chance that you will be mi... |
daaan | The Japanese language | 34 | 14,182 | 2012-01-04, 9:02 am | ||
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Thread: Sarcasm in Japanese Post: Sarcasm in Japanese This thing certainly varies across cultures. For example, in the Netherlands this kind of sarcasm would generally be understood and considered funny, but in Germany the same would happen as in the exa... |
daaan | The Japanese language | 34 | 14,182 | 2012-01-02, 4:50 pm | ||
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Thread: The claim: Japanese (and other Asians?) people "lack creativity" Post: The claim: Japanese (and other Asians?) people "la... zigmonty Wrote:What follows is a poorly thought out generalisation based on my extremely limited experience. It seems japaense people are very good at improvement creativity, or creativity "within the... |
daaan | Off topic | 51 | 13,554 | 2011-12-06, 6:42 pm | ||
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Thread: 尻取り forum game! Post: 尻取り forum game! 地名 |
daaan | Off topic | 203 | 24,659 | 2011-11-03, 10:08 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Prefectures Post: Japanese Prefectures kainzero Wrote:well, it seems that every time i talk to a japanese person and tell them i stayed in iwakuni where my cousin is an ALT, they've always asked where iwakuni is, then follow up by asking w... |
daaan | Learning resources | 44 | 12,799 | 2011-11-02, 6:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Approaches to pitch accent? Post: Approaches to pitch accent? vonPeterhof Wrote:Edit: Also, the Wikipedia article about the Tokyo dialect talks about the decreased distinction between [çi] and [ʃi]. I am not sure if [ʃi] was meant to be [ɕi], but it does seem to... |
daaan | The Japanese language | 215 | 42,871 | 2011-10-31, 9:08 am | ||
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Thread: Approaches to pitch accent? Post: Approaches to pitch accent? My Japanese is still really bad, but maybe I could still add two things from my holiday to Japan. First, if there's one thing about which I got corrected often when trying to speak Japanese, it was t... |
daaan | The Japanese language | 215 | 42,871 | 2011-10-29, 8:29 am | ||
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Thread: Windows IME Trick -- Switch Between Hiragana and Katakana Fast Post: Windows IME Trick -- Switch Between Hiragana and K... Left alt + backtick (`) is used to switch between hiragana mode and direct input. |
daaan | General discussion | 13 | 18,461 | 2011-05-29, 5:25 am | ||
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Thread: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal ammount of vocab.? Post: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal... zigmonty Wrote:Well, i did mention that i found it confusing specifically because it's a combination of a common prefix 来 with 日, which is a part of a group of kanji that pair with 来 to mean next X. I... |
daaan | The Japanese language | 104 | 20,369 | 2011-05-27, 5:42 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:daaan Wrote:My grammar book lists multiple uses of こと. This one seems to make most sense: "こと is also used to highlight parts of lists of orders, points, and rules, etc." This is n... |
daaan | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,540 | 2011-05-18, 5:55 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread My grammar book lists multiple uses of こと. This one seems to make most sense: "こと is also used to highlight parts of lists of orders, points, and rules, etc." |
daaan | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,540 | 2011-05-18, 4:07 pm | ||