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Thread: low motivation Post: RE: low motivation (2015-12-18, 2:59 am)fxlle Wrote: Recently, I am in low motivation. How can I do to avoid this? It's simple. Don't depend on motivation. Motivation is unreliable. Focus on creating an habit of stud... |
jahnke | General discussion | 4 | 1,082 | 2015-12-21, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: What are your thoughts on Tatoeba.org? Post: RE: What are your thoughts on Tatoeba.org? (2015-12-03, 4:09 am)laurenk Wrote: I seldom use it because I doubt the accuracy of the examples But it is so simple to solve this problem. Just get the examples you think are good enough for you a... |
jahnke | Learning resources | 12 | 1,911 | 2015-12-12, 7:21 pm | ||
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Thread: I will probably be an undergraduate exchange student next year in Japa Post: I will probably be an undergraduate exchange stude... klloud Wrote:I believe it would facilitate getting into a master's degree. Experience abroad in no way will help you to get into a master's program. To be accepted as a graduate student you need an ad... |
jahnke | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 8 | 11,857 | 2014-12-16, 3:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese in the Global Language Network Post: Japanese in the Global Language Network I didn't know that French had so many translations! If I knew that I probably would have started reading in French I long time ago. About French graded readers, I have a collection with 50 adapted bo... |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 5 | 10,767 | 2014-12-16, 1:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese aldebrn Wrote:2000 root words would be a snap to learn with the power of SRS technology over a few months, plus the agglutination rules, according to op and Alexander, shouldn't take more than a few w... |
jahnke | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-10, 9:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji and mathematical ability--are they related? Post: Kanji and mathematical ability--are they related? I'm a mathematician and I understand mathematics as a extremely precise language and culture. The language is being developed to to ask and answer questions in a extremely precise way. The mathematica... |
jahnke | Off topic | 11 | 3,770 | 2014-11-19, 8:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you add new cards during reviews? Post: Do you add new cards during reviews? I don't study really add new material while I'm reviewing, I don't think that's productive. For example, for core6k what I do is, first I have all new cards suspended. Then I search for useful and in... |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,943 | 2014-11-18, 8:14 pm | ||
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Thread: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years Post: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years klloud Wrote:> I understand well what you mean. However, I would dare to say that I'm used to heavy and disciplined routine studies. Here in Brazil, to get into a good public university, we have th... |
jahnke | General discussion | 31 | 7,806 | 2014-11-17, 4:55 am | ||
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Thread: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years Post: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years Stansfield123 Wrote:And there are people in Japan who speak foreign languages. For the time it takes him to learn enough Japanese, he can have Portuguese or English speaking friends. Just an interesti... |
jahnke | General discussion | 31 | 7,806 | 2014-11-16, 11:14 am | ||
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Thread: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years Post: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years klloud Wrote:When I get interested in a particular subject, I get really focused on it and, some times, even relegate other activities. That could be considered a problem, but is actually something th... |
jahnke | General discussion | 31 | 7,806 | 2014-11-16, 11:06 am | ||
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Thread: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years Post: From scratch to N1 in 2 and half Years JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:Props to you for what you've done, drdunlap, but you're not exactly the median Japanese learner. Zero to N1 in under 3 years, for a non-bilingual Westerner, is remarkable. (You d... |
jahnke | General discussion | 31 | 7,806 | 2014-11-16, 10:50 am | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Sorry if I'm being rude, but I have to say. This discussion will never end because you guys are using different definitions of "fluency" and are using different ways to measure it. And about how fast... |
jahnke | General discussion | 856 | 195,490 | 2014-10-31, 2:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Second Book Club Nomination Thread Post: Second Book Club Nomination Thread Hello, The idea of a book club is excellent. I'm not good enough to start reading a book, but if there is a group interested in read an easy manga, I will surely participate. About the easy book, wi... |
jahnke | Group study | 23 | 6,474 | 2014-10-17, 2:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages) Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages) Quote:Do you mean "The dog sees the cat"? No, I did that on purpose because I wanted to show that Esperanto don't have a fixed word order. In that case the endind "n" turns the word dog into a direct ... |
jahnke | General discussion | 34 | 4,742 | 2014-07-26, 3:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji system for English (and other languages) Post: Kanji system for English (and other languages) I know that it is silly, but I tried to use kanji to write in Esperanto. What I did was very simple, I created an one to one association with some kanji and morphemes and I used hiragana for grammar.... |
jahnke | General discussion | 34 | 4,742 | 2014-07-26, 1:19 am | ||
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Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k jeffberhow Wrote:What method are you using for your vocabulary building, and what is your average rate? Also, are you using the same method as you used for English? I'm "done" with Tae Kim, but I can ... |
jahnke | Learning resources | 58 | 14,535 | 2014-07-12, 1:28 am | ||
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Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k jeffberhow Wrote:I was curious and did an online test, and I only know about 22k words in English as a native speaker: http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=4258365 I did this test some months ago and ... |
jahnke | Learning resources | 58 | 14,535 | 2014-07-11, 7:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Should I learn vocab via production or recognition, and at what rate? Post: Should I learn vocab via production or recognition... I agree that you can never really prepare for a good conversation, but there is something you can do to improve your "output": write about topics you like. With this you will naturally practice to rem... |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 26 | 4,870 | 2014-07-09, 1:12 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Even a river of pure shit can "flow". :P Talking seriously, I know more than 10k words in English, I read in English for several hours everyday, I study in English and I have fun in English. Even tho... |
jahnke | General discussion | 83 | 18,609 | 2014-03-20, 6:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)? Post: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)? A dictionary for kids? |
jahnke | Learning resources | 10 | 2,822 | 2014-03-16, 10:22 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese listening and pronunciation - minimal pairs Post: Japanese listening and pronunciation - minimal pai... DrJones Wrote:I can't access all the docs. I just changed the permission of those documents, now they are accessible. Thank you very much for you contribution, Dr Jones. |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 2 | 2,411 | 2014-03-03, 11:13 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese listening and pronunciation - minimal pairs Post: Japanese listening and pronunciation - minimal pai... Hello everyone, I'm sorry for create another thread. The other has a misleading name. I think this will be better. I'm creating Anki decks with the purpose to train my ears to notice some details in... |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 2 | 2,411 | 2014-03-02, 3:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Post: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds viharati Wrote:[..] おもう and うれい don't include any long vowels. Just more evidence that I don't here the sounds. For me, おもう sounds exactly like おもお. =( |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 13 | 3,363 | 2014-03-02, 1:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Post: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Hi, I'm insisting in this, so I'm creating a list of minimal pairs. Up to now I have this: Pitch accent minimal pairs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?...sp=sharing Long vowels minimal pair... |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 13 | 3,363 | 2014-03-01, 4:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Post: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Thank you all very much. I will follow your suggestions. I just noticed I can add information about the pronunciation (like pitch accent) on my deck (core2k/6k) using an Anki plugin. I will probably ... |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 13 | 3,363 | 2014-02-16, 5:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Post: Difficult hearing the Japanese sounds Hello everyone, I need some help (and I probably can help some here). I am having problems hearing some Japanese sounds. My problems are basically: some consonants sound like each other, like "ぐ" and... |
jahnke | The Japanese language | 13 | 3,363 | 2014-02-16, 2:04 pm | ||