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Thread: Yearlyglot on flashcards :) Post: Yearlyglot on flashcards :) mezbup Wrote:it would be utterly useless and probably detrimental if you used SRS and solely SRS. You seem to have picked up his fondness for hyperbole. :P I can't think of anything that SRS couldn't... |
harhol | Off topic | 74 | 10,208 | 2010-11-14, 10:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Yearlyglot on flashcards :) Post: Yearlyglot on flashcards :) How to draw attention to your language-learning blog in one easy step. |
harhol | Off topic | 74 | 10,208 | 2010-11-14, 5:22 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread slivir Wrote:No matter how long or how hard you study a second language you will never attain the "fluency" of a native (unless you were raised bilingual perhaps?), sorry to break it to you guys! :P L... |
harhol | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,522 | 2010-11-13, 11:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Learn Mode plugin Post: Learn Mode plugin I tried it once but it kept picking random cards no matter what was newest or what I tagged, so I just gave up on it. It's a good idea in theory but I suspect I might have found it a little slow &... |
harhol | Learning resources | 2 | 665 | 2010-11-12, 11:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Ask Magamo!™ Post: Ask Magamo!™ Some high-ranking business schools (e.g. London Business School) have overseas exchange programs, so you could look into that if you're desperate to live in Japan while you study. |
harhol | The Japanese language | 152 | 43,445 | 2010-11-12, 4:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Potential vs. Intransitive vs. Passive verbs Post: Potential vs. Intransitive vs. Passive verbs There's a difference between being anti-prescriptivism (something which should be encouraged at all times) and just being plain wrong. Attempting to redefine centuries-old particle usage is a step too... |
harhol | The Japanese language | 17 | 8,616 | 2010-11-11, 4:17 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread JLPT1 might not test advanced material (debatable) but it's still a hard test, as the pass rate shows. And I don't see why it supposedly being at the same level of proficiency as a teenager is some ma... |
harhol | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,522 | 2010-11-08, 11:35 pm | ||
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Thread: After RTK1: Should I stop the reviews and move on to sentences? Post: After RTK1: Should I stop the reviews and move on ... From the above article: Character amnesia matters because memorisation is so crucial to character-based written languages, says Siok Wai Ting, assistant professor of linguistics at Hong Kong Universi... |
harhol | Remembering the Kanji | 43 | 12,634 | 2010-11-07, 3:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Second foreign language difficulties Post: Second foreign language difficulties Well, most people lie about how good they are at foreign languages. Polyglots are just really good at it. ;) |
harhol | Off topic | 16 | 3,418 | 2010-11-06, 9:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Second foreign language difficulties Post: Second foreign language difficulties Depends on the language surely. If you're a native English speaker and learn something like Chinese or Arabic as your FL1 and then something like French or German as your FL2, the former are obviously... |
harhol | Off topic | 16 | 3,418 | 2010-11-06, 11:47 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji, success graphs, and estimated minimum due cards plugin fix Post: Kanji, success graphs, and estimated minimum due c... The actual graphs work fine for me but whenever I click the Show/Hide button I get the following error... Traceback (most recent call last): File "ankiqt\ui\graphs.pyc", line 273, in onShowHide Key... |
harhol | Learning resources | 13 | 6,124 | 2010-11-06, 10:24 am | ||
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Thread: learning by watching and reading only? Post: learning by watching and reading only? My study methods are so ruthlessly efficient that I can spend all day arguing about them on an internet forum. In fact, even as I type this I'm absorbing more information than you could even comprehen... |
harhol | The Japanese language | 51 | 9,889 | 2010-11-04, 8:13 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread This flexible grading system is logical and common in major school exams so I don't really understand the objections. When I did my GCSEs the percentage needed for an A* ranged from high 60s to low 90... |
harhol | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,522 | 2010-11-03, 10:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Somebody punch me Post: Somebody punch me Pray that your girlfriend gets pregnant so you can be a full-time house husband. |
harhol | Off topic | 55 | 11,194 | 2010-11-01, 6:25 am | ||
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Thread: Tiger and Dragon decks Post: Tiger and Dragon decks Re: the copyright issue, surely Fair Use applies? The episodes are clearly not in a watchable state. Not to mention that there are already dozens of technically illegal textbook decks already uploaded... |
harhol | Learning resources | 38 | 10,716 | 2010-10-31, 8:14 pm | ||
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Thread: best approach to learning japanese while living there Post: best approach to learning japanese while living th... Depends on your time frame really. If you plan to be there long term then you might as well start from the ground up with literacy (your speaking will develop naturally over time). If you can handle i... |
harhol | Learning resources | 10 | 1,923 | 2010-10-31, 7:26 am | ||
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Thread: Language school in Kyoto Post: Language school in Kyoto Did you work for Realtime Worlds by any chance? |
harhol | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 7 | 4,023 | 2010-10-30, 10:53 am | ||
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Thread: PC games in Japanese? Post: PC games in Japanese? The only problem with that is that you have to play FF14. :D |
harhol | Off topic | 19 | 8,958 | 2010-10-30, 10:51 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method J-Js can be useful if you want to know the difference between words like 応用, 実用, 活用 and 運用, but even so I think example sentences are more useful. Using a J-J to look up concrete nouns or anything wit... |
harhol | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,029 | 2010-10-29, 7:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Working in Japan as an English teacher with an Engineer Diploma. Post: Working in Japan as an English teacher with an Eng... Have you tried contacting an embassy? This seems like the kind of thing that can be put to rest with a phone call. |
harhol | Off topic | 8 | 3,430 | 2010-10-29, 5:53 am | ||
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Thread: Thinking Japanese Post: Thinking Japanese The Japanese are a unique and beautiful species from the planet Nihonjin. They think only in terms of bushido, sushi and transgressive sexual fetishes. |
harhol | General discussion | 48 | 7,811 | 2010-10-29, 5:34 am | ||
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Thread: Working in Japan as an English teacher with an Engineer Diploma. Post: Working in Japan as an English teacher with an Eng... A Certificate of Eligibility is issued before a visa application by a regional immigration authority under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice as evidence that the foreign national meets the c... |
harhol | Off topic | 8 | 3,430 | 2010-10-28, 4:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Manga Desk Calendar like Dilbert? Post: Manga Desk Calendar like Dilbert? There's a free app for iWhatever which does this. Search the app store for 漫画 and it's the icon with 漫 on a green background. |
harhol | Learning resources | 3 | 1,185 | 2010-10-28, 1:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Don't learn kanji Post: Don't learn kanji Eh, there's too much sniping about accents imo. Khatz, those business people and now this guy... everyone has a terrible accent apparently. All that really matters is that you can communicate and that... |
harhol | General discussion | 65 | 11,211 | 2010-10-28, 10:07 am | ||
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Thread: Don't learn kanji Post: Don't learn kanji He's a preschool teacher trying to sell materials for preschool children, so it wouldn't really do his cause much good if he dressed in a suit and went around talking like a dour salaryman. I'm sure h... |
harhol | General discussion | 65 | 11,211 | 2010-10-28, 9:09 am | ||
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Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in) Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in) Proxx Wrote:In a next step we could think about items :) This is the kind of thing that I had in mind: [Image: http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/3944/akub.jpg] I'd be happy to compile a bunch of im... |
harhol | Learning resources | 195 | 62,171 | 2010-10-28, 5:43 am | ||
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Thread: Anki Wall Post: Anki Wall Wakela Wrote:A software application into which you load the kanji/words you want to study and it finds example sentences on the internet. There's an example sentences plugin for Anki which does this. ... |
harhol | Learning resources | 17 | 3,742 | 2010-10-27, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Split Ateji readings into Kanji portions Post: Split Ateji readings into Kanji portions Surely plains (野) and livelihood (暮) for foolishness/boorishness (野暮) can't just be a coincidence... seems like the Japanese equivalent of "redneck". |
harhol | The Japanese language | 17 | 5,536 | 2010-10-27, 6:22 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread つかせる is the causative (~saseru) form of the nightmare verb つく, which can mean a million and one things, including "to be immersed". For u-verbs, the saseru form (which basically means "to cause to b... |
harhol | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,065 | 2010-10-27, 2:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Spotted this on AOL Celebrities and Japanese Post: Spotted this on AOL Celebrities and Japanese This is America. The only people who speak two languages are illegal immigrants working for politicians who are anti-immigration. |
harhol | General discussion | 2 | 654 | 2010-10-27, 9:24 am | ||
