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Thread: What are you currently reading? Post: RE: What are you currently reading? I am currently just finishing up 高い城の男 (http://goo.gl/CIhw5o), which is the Japanese translation of 'The Man in the High Castle' by Philip K Dick. I read this in English as a teenager and loved it, an... |
NickT | Off topic | 109 | 48,769 | 2016-03-03, 3:11 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: Where's Khatzumoto? Am I the only person that every time I see this thread pop up it makes me think of Satoshi Nakamoto? |
NickT | Off topic | 529 | 102,655 | 2015-10-24, 1:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Equivalent of The Economist? Post: Japanese Equivalent of The Economist? エコノミスト (週刊) is quite good I think. Not as good as The Economist, but I have a few recent issues on the Greek debt crisis and the recent Chinese stock market turmoil, which I quite enjoyed reading. Yo... |
NickT | Learning resources | 17 | 3,090 | 2015-10-15, 4:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Is there such a learning tool as this? Post: Is there such a learning tool as this? I have a version of 'Murder on the Orient Express' in Japanese fully glossed with hiragana over every kanji. The ISBN is 4061485113, if you google that you can find it in many different stores. I als... |
NickT | Learning resources | 31 | 3,675 | 2015-10-11, 3:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Manga with good/interesting Japanese? Post: Manga with good/interesting Japanese? I'm not qualified to judge the quality of writing in an absolute sense, but as a non-native speaker of Japanese I found the writing style of the following manga engaging and good learning material: P... |
NickT | General discussion | 8 | 1,994 | 2015-08-29, 5:27 am | ||
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Thread: Books on learning (not just Japanese)/mastering skills Post: Books on learning (not just Japanese)/mastering sk... A few books I've read in Japanese that fall vaguely into the self-improvement category are as follows: 人生がときめく片づけの魔法 - This book has become quite popular in the Western world, so I thought I should r... |
NickT | Off topic | 13 | 2,500 | 2015-08-21, 2:08 am | ||
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Thread: Book Report Post: Book Report Aikynaro Wrote:I have to wonder - is no one else reading novels, or are you just not interested in posting about them? Not that I mind talking to myself here, just - y'know - it's a bit lonely. I'm s... |
NickT | Group study | 41 | 9,840 | 2015-07-09, 6:52 am | ||
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Thread: Advanced Vocabulary Post: Advanced Vocabulary drdunlap Wrote:Also, just a friendly warning, if that beer+plane ticket offer stands for everyone else too then you owe a lot of people beer and plane tickets. :P The beer offer stands for anyone. I w... |
NickT | General discussion | 29 | 4,790 | 2015-06-07, 5:20 am | ||
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Thread: Advanced Vocabulary Post: Advanced Vocabulary EratiK Wrote:@NickT I respect your own experience of course, but we were talking averages, and by "average westerner" I understood "average western learner", who for me is a guy in college taking Japa... |
NickT | General discussion | 29 | 4,790 | 2015-06-06, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Advanced Vocabulary Post: Advanced Vocabulary EratiK Wrote:AussieTrroper Wrote:I agree with vtx. I'd guess that to pass JLPT1, the average westerner has been studying for 10 years or more, or lives in Japan. 10 years for N1, what? Pretty sure the... |
NickT | General discussion | 29 | 4,790 | 2015-06-06, 6:51 am | ||
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Thread: Book Report Post: Book Report Thanks for the review of 家族八景 - You have convinced me now to not go back and finish it (which I was vague contemplating), so you have saved me some time there. I liked 七瀬ふたたび a lot, so give it a try ... |
NickT | Group study | 41 | 9,840 | 2015-05-11, 4:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Starting my reading rampage Post: Starting my reading rampage If you are concerned about wasting money, my advice would be not to buy too many things in one go. My experience is that every time I buy multiple books at once, I pick one to read first, and by the t... |
NickT | Learning resources | 19 | 4,899 | 2015-04-09, 1:59 am | ||
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Thread: Starting my reading rampage Post: Starting my reading rampage The Mitsukoshi in London is long gone I'm afraid. The best place to get Japanese books in London now is JP books in Piccadilly, imho. That is where I bought 容疑者Xの献身 recently. They have some in the Ja... |
NickT | Learning resources | 19 | 4,899 | 2015-04-08, 2:08 am | ||
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Thread: August 2014 Book Club - Advanced: 「All You Need is Kill」 by 桜坂洋 Post: August 2014 Book Club - Advanced: 「All You Need is... RandomQuotes Wrote:I just checked my physical copy, it's got pictures roughly every 80 or so pages, plus from a marketing stand point the last page advertising All You Need is Kill 2 quotes "最強のライトノベル... |
NickT | Group study | 27 | 9,361 | 2015-01-28, 5:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Good japanese books with translation Post: Good japanese books with translation Yoko Ogawa, Ryu Murakami and Natsuo Kirino are widely available in English. Keigo Higashino also seems to be available on Amazon, although I don't personally recall every seeing anything of his in th... |
NickT | Off topic | 3 | 937 | 2015-01-10, 7:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Best books you read last year Post: Best books you read last year Stansfield123 Wrote:I don't understand why people insist on writing the titles and names in Kanji alone. Especially the names. Do you really think everyone on this forum can read Japanese names withou... |
NickT | General discussion | 30 | 5,820 | 2015-01-09, 2:41 am | ||
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Thread: Best books you read last year Post: Best books you read last year Here are my top 9 books for 2014. Actually, I only read 9 books (in Japanese), so I just put them in order. http://bookmeter.com/u/510208/cat/317606 My favourite was BORDER, by 金城 一紀. I enjoyed the ... |
NickT | General discussion | 30 | 5,820 | 2015-01-08, 5:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Second Book Club Nomination Thread Post: Second Book Club Nomination Thread sunehiro Wrote:I've actually just started the same book a few days ago, what are the chances? :D It's the third book of the "Galileo series", I've read the first two but the stories are totally uncor... |
NickT | Group study | 23 | 6,473 | 2015-01-04, 6:48 am | ||
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Thread: Second Book Club Nomination Thread Post: Second Book Club Nomination Thread Well, this seems to have died a death. Rather than relying on democracy, I may as well just put it out there that I have just started reading 容疑者Xの献身 by 東野圭吾. If any else is interested and wants to re... |
NickT | Group study | 23 | 6,473 | 2015-01-03, 5:52 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese sci-fi literature Post: Japanese sci-fi literature 新世界より is available in ebook format (Kindle) – It is on my reading list, it is just the length that has intimidated me a bit thus far… If you like Philip K Dick, a lot of his work is available in Japa... |
NickT | General discussion | 12 | 3,541 | 2014-12-25, 6:49 am | ||
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Thread: Kindle Paperwhite: Better to Buy from Amazon U.S. or Amazon Japan? Post: Kindle Paperwhite: Better to Buy from Amazon U.S. ... Splatted Wrote:Is it actually possible to use it for both English and Japanese? I thought you had to register it to one store or the other. You can read in both English and Japanese, as long as you ar... |
NickT | Learning resources | 7 | 5,270 | 2014-11-05, 3:12 pm | ||
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Thread: any way to buy amazon.jp ebooks without having a kindle device? Post: any way to buy amazon.jp ebooks without having a k... You can't read Japanese books on the Cloud Reader, or on the Kindle for PC App, even once you've managed to buy them. For some reason those programs don't support Japanese text. You can only read you... |
NickT | Learning resources | 16 | 6,843 | 2014-10-28, 3:05 am | ||
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Thread: Kindle Paperwhite Post: Kindle Paperwhite The Kindle Paperwhite works with Japanese straight out the box. However the bigger problem will be registering on Amazon.co.jp so you can easily buy Japanese ebooks online. It's possible, but it can b... |
NickT | Learning resources | 25 | 5,231 | 2014-10-19, 4:01 pm | ||
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Thread: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一紀 Post: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一... NickT Wrote:tashippy Wrote:By the way, how similar is Go to the movie? I haven't seen the movie yet but I have it and it is on my to-do list. I might have some time over the weekend... I'll report bac... |
NickT | Group study | 18 | 5,607 | 2014-10-19, 3:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Second Book Club Nomination Thread Post: Second Book Club Nomination Thread I'm in. My nomination is 蹴りたい背中 by 綿矢 りさ (Risa Wataya) I don't know that much about it, but it won the Akutagawa prize and she wrote it when she was still a student, which piqued my interest. It ... |
NickT | Group study | 23 | 6,473 | 2014-10-18, 1:07 pm | ||
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Thread: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一紀 Post: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一... sunehiro Wrote:I do have an offline dictionary, and I use it to search the words I don't know and save them on a list. When I come back home I search the words with ctrl+f on the innocent version of t... |
NickT | Group study | 18 | 5,607 | 2014-10-18, 5:58 am | ||
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Thread: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一紀 Post: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一... tashippy Wrote:Here's a screen shot with the referenced work: http://imgur.com/AoIg7jt Ahh, them. Yes I thought they were a bit weird, I wondered what the deal with them was. 'm trying to remember if ... |
NickT | Group study | 18 | 5,607 | 2014-10-18, 4:47 am | ||
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Thread: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一紀 Post: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一... tashippy Wrote:I just realized I have also (recently) watched the whole Border ドラマ which was pretty good, especially the ending and the Simon and Garfunkel references (are those in the book(s)? It see... |
NickT | Group study | 18 | 5,607 | 2014-10-17, 1:52 am | ||
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Thread: Book Club Post: Book Club I can buy Kindle books from outside Japan without any problems - But different people seem to have different experiences. Its worth noting that although you can read Japanese books on a Kindle Paperw... |
NickT | Group study | 159 | 27,925 | 2014-10-17, 1:43 am | ||
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Thread: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一紀 Post: August 2014 Book Club - Intermediate: 「Go」 by 金城 一... sunehiro Wrote:First of all I like to thank the guy(s) that suggested this book, it's surely one of my favourites books I've read in Japanese, maybe one of the book I enjoyed most in general (which is... |
NickT | Group study | 18 | 5,607 | 2014-10-16, 5:29 pm | ||
