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Thread: きみ、あなた、＆ おまえ Post: きみ、あなた、＆ おまえ Yeah, I had a kind of awful misunderstanding with the usage of きみ. After dating my girlfriend for a while, I started using "きみ" in conversation quite often. I thought it was a term of endearment mo... |
Ben_Nielson | The Japanese language | 53 | 11,884 | 2009-12-21, 1:05 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS for High Schoolers Post: SRS for High Schoolers Couldn't agree more with what IceCream said. I couldn't imagine putting my kid in front of a computer and having him drone through flash cards memorizing facts. When they're in high school, I'd prob... |
Ben_Nielson | Off topic | 36 | 6,055 | 2009-12-17, 4:43 am | ||
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Thread: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of course) Post: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of ... For a cool female singer and some jazz.. :) Ego-Wrappin [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySWleEi2_Io] |
Ben_Nielson | Learning resources | 106 | 32,704 | 2009-12-09, 3:52 am | ||
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Thread: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of course) Post: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of ... If you like bands like The Strokes: 8otto [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPVARCuIRk] (also the drummer has an afro, and is the singer. nice) |
Ben_Nielson | Learning resources | 106 | 32,704 | 2009-12-08, 9:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Breaking my immersion for an important question. About Keitai billing Post: Breaking my immersion for an important question. ... Yeah, I'm trying to wrap my head around what ￥150,000 or so worth of television equipment would be... unless he means an actual, rather high quality television? But it's probably just extremely high... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 35 | 6,998 | 2009-12-08, 6:58 am | ||
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Thread: Breaking my immersion for an important question. About Keitai billing Post: Breaking my immersion for an important question. ... Jarvik7 Wrote:I guess we now know who in this thread is a 迷惑外人. Well, I tend to pay my bills (or I should say, would just go cancel my contract), though people can think of me what they will. I'm jus... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 35 | 6,998 | 2009-12-08, 6:26 am | ||
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Thread: Breaking my immersion for an important question. About Keitai billing Post: Breaking my immersion for an important question. ... Wow... ￥200,000... Depending on how long you plan on being in Japan and how you feel morally about it, you could've absolutely gotten away without paying that. Just use a different company... it w... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 35 | 6,998 | 2009-12-08, 3:31 am | ||
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Thread: Looks like John beat out Khatz. Post: Looks like John beat out Khatz. captal Wrote:When I started I thought it would be cool to learn a 2nd language, now it's this... monster that I'm in the middle of. And I couldn't agree with this more. |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 32 | 9,533 | 2009-12-07, 3:40 am | ||
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Thread: Looks like John beat out Khatz. Post: Looks like John beat out Khatz. Came to Japan 2 1/2 years ago with no interest in learning Japanese. Began studying 2 years ago. Found Anki 15 months ago. Found Heisig 1 year ago... At 1 year: Speaking - Zero Reading - I had a... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 32 | 9,533 | 2009-12-07, 3:35 am | ||
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Thread: google's new japanese ime Post: google's new japanese ime Oh sweet...wonder how long before this makes its way onto my Android phone. :) |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 46 | 24,962 | 2009-12-03, 6:07 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Bikkuri Adverbs Post: Japanese Bikkuri Adverbs Agreed esgrove... having no kanji to hook onto really makes them hard to remember. These three drive me insane. そっくり すっかり すっきり |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 16 | 6,489 | 2009-12-01, 7:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Short Term Memory and Vocabulary Post: Short Term Memory and Vocabulary This is a bit confusing, sorry. This is a PASSIVE VOCABULARY learning technique, by the way. :) I think that trying to force output of the words you're learning too soon maybe frustrates some peop... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 1 | 1,893 | 2009-11-30, 12:59 am | ||
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Thread: Complete set of stories for RTK1 Post: Complete set of stories for RTK1 Would say my experience was the opposite, Piotoro... my ability to recall the kanji didn't decrease at all (and perhaps increased) when I started using other people's stories from this site. Probabl... |
Ben_Nielson | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 4,906 | 2009-11-26, 10:38 am | ||
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Thread: Just started RTK 1 ^_^ Post: Just started RTK 1 ^_^ 85-90% retention is good. Anything below that and you're not taking enough time formulating stories/visualizing them... You should never have a bunch with under 80% retention. Now keep in mind that... |
Ben_Nielson | Remembering the Kanji | 24 | 3,830 | 2009-11-19, 4:03 am | ||
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Thread: Question on a Core2000 sentence: Post: Question on a Core2000 sentence: 遊ぶ also means "hang out" as well as "play" - which leads to tons of Japanese people asking you in English if you "Want to go play sometime?"... sounds like they're about 7 years old when they ask tha... |
Ben_Nielson | The Japanese language | 24 | 3,109 | 2009-11-17, 3:45 am | ||
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Thread: Google Wave Invites Post: Google Wave Invites Thanks, thanks. :) |
Ben_Nielson | Off topic | 168 | 22,136 | 2009-11-11, 4:22 am | ||
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Thread: Google Wave Invites Post: Google Wave Invites Would love an invite! nielson.ben at gmail |
Ben_Nielson | Off topic | 168 | 22,136 | 2009-11-11, 3:01 am | ||
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Thread: 脳の内容 Post: 脳の内容 Man, mine's kinda scary... like I'm a stalker or something. http://nounaimaker.com/?a=Maker&oo=%A5%D...5%BD%A5%F3 |
Ben_Nielson | Off topic | 9 | 1,421 | 2009-11-03, 4:07 am | ||
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Thread: Katakana Fail Post: Katakana Fail Laughed out loud at that one. |
Ben_Nielson | The Japanese language | 133 | 26,166 | 2009-11-02, 9:28 am | ||
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Thread: Lots of new Japanese subs for the new Japanese drama season Post: Lots of new Japanese subs for the new Japanese dra... Lets not get all defensive just because we're studying Japanese. :P Japanese shows are, in general, about the equivalent in production of American soap operas and the acting is right around that leve... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 43 | 18,793 | 2009-10-25, 5:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Changing elements and Radicals to your advantage Post: Changing elements and Radicals to your advantage I changed mine as well...hated that name. I tend to change mine to people or archetypes of people. Pinnacle became "sniper" FYI.. was easy to create a series of stories with this character same ... |
Ben_Nielson | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 2,374 | 2009-10-21, 3:43 am | ||
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Thread: SRS sucks! Post: SRS sucks! I wonder as well what percentage of those Kanji outside the list were used in people and place names? |
Ben_Nielson | Learning resources | 111 | 18,162 | 2009-10-19, 4:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Katakana Fail Post: Katakana Fail プリクラ And yeah, the unnecessary usage of these loanwords wears on me. I'm sick of learning Japanese words only to later find out that more often a katakanized version of an English word is used in it... |
Ben_Nielson | The Japanese language | 133 | 26,166 | 2009-10-19, 3:22 am | ||
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Thread: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Post: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Damn your good luck. |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 14 | 2,234 | 2009-10-07, 4:58 am | ||
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Thread: 「外人嫌い」 Post: 「外人嫌い」 Yup, I got my fair share of it too... best advice is to ignore it. Don't try to make an example out of them, as you're just the Assistant teacher...it'll cause more problems with your school than it... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 44 | 5,602 | 2009-10-07, 4:19 am | ||
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Thread: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Post: Good luck with the Typhoon :) Typhoon hitting soonish for anyone on Honshuu. First looks like it'll hit the Wakayama area, then move north...sorta looks like it'll follow Japan all the way to Hokkaido. I'm living in Gifu by the ... |
Ben_Nielson | General discussion | 14 | 2,234 | 2009-10-07, 3:50 am | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and Japanese Keywords Post: KO2001 and Japanese Keywords Perhaps consider starting your RtK deck over and re-adding the cards as you added new Japanese keywords from KO? Reading/comprehending a kanji compound is much, much different than pulling that compo... |
Ben_Nielson | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 1,555 | 2009-10-05, 4:15 am | ||
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Thread: When do you start flying on kanji, and Japanese? Post: When do you start flying on kanji, and Japanese? Good question and would be pretty interested in seeing if anyone has ever really reached this point. Unfortunately what I wrote below doesn't even come close to answering the question. :) From my ex... |
Ben_Nielson | The Japanese language | 35 | 5,269 | 2009-10-04, 9:18 am | ||
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Thread: Making the most of iGoogle (immersion environment related, I suppose) Post: Making the most of iGoogle (immersion environment ... Jarvik - Yeah, though during that "getting comfortable" period I found I was way less productive, way more annoyed at my computer, and way less likely to actually do anything using it. When I think m... |
Ben_Nielson | Learning resources | 13 | 1,881 | 2009-09-30, 5:09 am | ||
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Thread: Making the most of iGoogle (immersion environment related, I suppose) Post: Making the most of iGoogle (immersion environment ... At one point, I had all my computer programs switched to Japanese... but that quickly got old. I sorta thought I'd just get used to it, but it was still just annoying every time I went to mess wit... |
Ben_Nielson | Learning resources | 13 | 1,881 | 2009-09-30, 4:03 am | ||
