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Thread: Mono-dictionaries and making the switch Post: Mono-dictionaries and making the switch Zgarbas Wrote:I request more information regarding this statement. What bias? (I actually use jisho.org as my main dictionary and only turn to goo when there's something that confuses me or a nuance;... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 43 | 9,558 | 2013-04-21, 2:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Mono-dictionaries and making the switch Post: Mono-dictionaries and making the switch Here's my 2 cents: @Zgarbas I think your bias for mastery over fluency is showing up again! :-) Really, for a beginner nailing down exact meanings from the beginning only makes sense if you're striv... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 43 | 9,558 | 2013-04-18, 5:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Passive and active listening Post: Passive and active listening Sorry, I thought I saw the thread as new. I guess it was just one post. Did not mean to engage in necromancy! ;-) Zgarbas: Taken seriously where? In the business world (or academia)? i.e. among t... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 50 | 11,471 | 2013-04-13, 5:26 am | ||
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Thread: Passive and active listening Post: Passive and active listening @Zgarbas The prose on AJATT is not to your taste. That's fine. People should not attack you for not liking it. De gustibus non disputandum est. But it seems to me like you are conflating being a ... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 50 | 11,471 | 2013-04-12, 5:27 pm | ||
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Thread: My study method (Study pack included) Post: My study method (Study pack included) @afshar So why are you asking your question here? This is not a forum for discussing Anki. It is for studying Japanese (and sometimes other languages that use Kanji). Anki does get mentioned somet... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 138 | 47,077 | 2013-04-10, 1:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki RLC Scribble plugin, can anyone upload it somewhere? Post: Anki RLC Scribble plugin, can anyone upload it som... Plugins are archived on the Anki site in: http://ankisrs.net/download/mirror/archive/plugins-1.2/ The one you want is probably: http://ankisrs.net/download/mirror/archi...le_Pad.zip CJ |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 3 | 1,462 | 2013-03-14, 11:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. amtrack Wrote:2. Just because some science supports it, doesn't mean it can be accepted as true. There's a reason the scientific method requires an experimented to be repeated as many times as possib... |
cjon256 | General discussion | 249 | 67,233 | 2013-03-02, 6:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Computer programming in Japanese Post: Computer programming in Japanese Bokusenou Wrote:try プログラミング入門 instead. Taking this a step further, here's one that looks interesting (it is for C): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5090515EFC80565E CJ |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,703 | 2012-08-05, 1:50 am | ||
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Thread: What's the language equivelent of scales? (It's not SRS) Post: What's the language equivelent of scales? (It's no... I think of shadowing full sentences as more like playing a simple (but real) song. Wouldn't playing scales would be more like the drills from JSL? Given a prompt, you need to produce a simple bit of... |
cjon256 | General discussion | 11 | 2,895 | 2012-08-05, 1:32 am | ||
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Thread: Moving from intermediate to advanced Post: Moving from intermediate to advanced I don't think there is any agreement about what advanced constitutes in this thread. It seems like some people are taking it to be an almost-native level of vocabulary across all common topics. Othe... |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 47 | 10,053 | 2012-07-14, 6:39 am | ||
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Thread: Live from Tokyo Book Review? Post: Live from Tokyo Book Review? @kodorakun According to the online 目次 is has 約93分 worth of audio. And given that the first chapter has 5 tracks, I don't think it just has "17 conversations". I don't own the book, but I think you'... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 3 | 1,416 | 2012-06-15, 12:09 am | ||
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Thread: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestions? Post: ZEN (禅): Vocabulary and Resources - Any Suggestion... 警策 「けいさく／きょうさく」 CJ |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 9 | 2,999 | 2012-06-03, 5:26 am | ||
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Thread: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictionary? Post: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictiona... dtcamero Wrote:Virtually identical. Is your paper dic's furigana worth the 5minute lookup? This is much more efficient. You're ignoring the fact that はかり has two definitions in 大辞林, the second (秤) is ... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 44 | 12,830 | 2012-05-12, 3:15 am | ||
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Thread: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictionary? Post: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictiona... @dtcamero This just isn't true. I tried a couple words at random (both very basic words) just now: きちょうめん and はかり And in both had long complex definitions in 大辞林 (iphone version), and short simple... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 44 | 12,830 | 2012-05-10, 12:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictionary? Post: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictiona... There are at least a couple books that are approximately what you want: 外国人のための楽しい日本語辞典 日本語を学ぶ人の辞典 英語・中国語訳つき The first is really only useful for beginners (~750語), but the second is good up through... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 44 | 12,830 | 2012-05-10, 10:33 am | ||
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Thread: Memory storage finally figured out? Post: Memory storage finally figured out? vix86 Wrote:Every nuclear disaster to occur has been the result of the incompetence of management. So nuclear power would be fine if it wasn't being run by human beings? CJ |
cjon256 | Off topic | 21 | 2,809 | 2012-03-23, 7:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Technique to improve listening and speaking Post: Technique to improve listening and speaking AlexandreC Wrote:We all use a variety of techniques and methods to learn languages, and it takes a fair amount of introspection to determine, years later, which mattered most. I would argue that it's ... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 105 | 15,252 | 2012-03-19, 6:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Technique to improve listening and speaking Post: Technique to improve listening and speaking AlexandreC Wrote:It is most certainly not the cure for accent problems that so many people purport it to be. Shadowing can help you "improve pronunciation." This is rather vague. You seem to have tak... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 105 | 15,252 | 2012-03-15, 2:00 am | ||
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Thread: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? Post: Pitch accent - how to get better at it? Zorlee Wrote:containing words and phrases that I usually don't hear around me. I didn't realize how difficult this was before I actually tried it! I think you're just setting the bar a little bit too ... |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 46 | 7,555 | 2012-03-11, 8:26 am | ||
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Thread: A funny Japanese chilli product name + grammar parsing. Post: A funny Japanese chilli product name + grammar par... Quote:もしかしたら からそうで からくない すこしつらい らーゆ かもしれないな http://mudainodqnment.blog35.fc2.com/blo...-1286.html CJ |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 3 | 1,190 | 2012-02-05, 2:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? Post: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? raharney Wrote:Well, as Terry Eagleton and others have pointed out, the neo-atheists and paleo-Christian fundamentalist have a lot in common. Namely, an inability to enjoy and respect the stories and ... |
cjon256 | Off topic | 143 | 19,774 | 2011-12-06, 1:46 am | ||
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Thread: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? Post: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? raharney Wrote:I don't understand why people can't enjoy a diversity and plurality of stories from many traditions. It is a perversity of the liberal secular tradition to think that we must ban all im... |
cjon256 | Off topic | 143 | 19,774 | 2011-12-05, 10:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it really worth....? Post: Is it really worth....? EratiK Wrote:Perhaps you mean "there is no immanent self (are you talking about the atma?) as in Hinduism". I'm pretty sure there's a transcendental self somewhere. I remember an essay by D.T. Suzuki ... |
cjon256 | Off topic | 55 | 6,983 | 2011-11-27, 7:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it really worth....? Post: Is it really worth....? MacMiller Wrote:Buddhism is the answer. A religion centered around the "self"-- not "god[s]". This doesn't seem to fit what I've seen. I'm not an expert, but from what I've seen Buddhism rejects the ... |
cjon256 | Off topic | 55 | 6,983 | 2011-11-27, 9:17 am | ||
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Thread: Approaches to pitch accent? Post: Approaches to pitch accent? AlexandreC Wrote:Some people contrast LH / LH or else LH / LH* with the same effect. Ah, I expected something like that. I like that the 大辞林 notation is compact. Just a personal preference perhaps. ... |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 215 | 42,861 | 2011-11-19, 8:27 am | ||
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Thread: Approaches to pitch accent? Post: Approaches to pitch accent? @AlexandreC The chart merely illustrates the notation used by 大辞林. Pretty much every entry is annotated with these codes. I've seen it used elsewhere too, including earlier in this thread. Also kn... |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 215 | 42,861 | 2011-11-16, 7:34 am | ||
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Thread: iPhone All-Japanese Dictionary with e-mailable word list? Post: iPhone All-Japanese Dictionary with e-mailable wor... 大辞林 will let you quickly post the word and definition to twitter (it automatically snips long definitions to fit). It also has history, so you can go back and do words later if you look up a whole bu... |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 8 | 2,716 | 2011-11-16, 7:25 am | ||
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Thread: Approaches to pitch accent? Post: Approaches to pitch accent? I prefer the notation used by 大辞林： http://www.sanseido-publ.co.jp/publ/dict...in_ac.html I have the top chart hanging on the wall above my monitor. CJ |
cjon256 | The Japanese language | 215 | 42,861 | 2011-11-14, 8:52 am | ||
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Thread: What would your ideal srs cards be like? Post: What would your ideal srs cards be like? @dtcamero Not sure if you're aware, but you can use "regenerate Readings" in the card browser, you don't have click in each expresion field. CJ |
cjon256 | Learning resources | 24 | 15,418 | 2011-11-04, 10:27 pm | ||
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Thread: AJATT+ refunds Post: AJATT+ refunds Hi All, I got my refund. Khatz replied and asked for: Khatzumoto Wrote:Just hit me with any 2 of the following 3 pieces of info ・ Your PayPal email ・ Your profile ID for AJATT+ (from PayPal) ・ An A... |
cjon256 | Off topic | 12 | 3,380 | 2011-09-20, 8:56 am | ||
