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Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback Otsukare-sama! It looks great :) |
ktcgx | General discussion | 122 | 15,609 | 2015-11-15, 9:38 pm | ||
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Thread: intensive reading Post: intensive reading Dudeist Wrote:What sort of vocab count are you looking at for 96% Surely it is more than 2000 96% coverage of a particular text can happen at any level. It depends on the difficulty level of the text.... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 24 | 2,326 | 2015-11-05, 2:10 pm | ||
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Thread: intensive reading Post: intensive reading cophnia61 Wrote:Also I've crossed above a post where you say you did core10k, and this is sort like an equivalent to intensive reading... just I'm not doing core 10k so I must study new words as I enc... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 24 | 2,326 | 2015-11-05, 1:42 pm | ||
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Thread: intensive reading Post: intensive reading cophnia61 Wrote:Ktcgx, thank you for your answer! So you basically suggest to always read at comprehensive level. In other words, to always choose something slightly above your level? Do you suggest t... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 24 | 2,326 | 2015-11-05, 1:36 pm | ||
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Thread: intensive reading Post: intensive reading cophnia61 Wrote:Yes but, in order to gain that level of comprehension, don't you need to learn words? And how do you acquire them? There's research for English that suggests that beyond the most commo... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 24 | 2,326 | 2015-11-05, 4:03 am | ||
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Thread: intensive reading Post: intensive reading Komori, K., Mikuni, J., & Kondoh, A. (2004). What percentage of known words in a text facilitates reading comprehension? A case study for exploration of the threshold of known words coverage. Jour... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 24 | 2,326 | 2015-11-05, 1:14 am | ||
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Thread: intensive reading Post: intensive reading Research into reading is pretty clear that you *cannot* gain reading fluency through intensive reading. Fluency, the ability to read texts at a reasonable speed (i.e. similar to the speed you would re... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 24 | 2,326 | 2015-11-05, 12:43 am | ||
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Thread: intensive reading Post: intensive reading Intensive reading defined in language teaching as a: “grammar-translation approach where the teacher works with the learners, using the first language to explain the meaning of the text, sentence by s... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 24 | 2,326 | 2015-11-04, 3:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Post: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Zgarbas Wrote:Every time I see someone becoming an English teacher Just because they want to go to Japan but have no real interest or ability to teach I feel the need to beg them not to, because disin... |
ktcgx | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 25 | 2,914 | 2015-10-31, 3:51 am | ||
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Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW Looking at the mock-up, I notice the reply 'button' acts like a button in that it moves when your mouse hovers over it. I was thinking that might be unnecessary, but perhaps it's not something you add... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 65 | 7,875 | 2015-10-16, 3:47 am | ||
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Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW Can we keep the same colour scheme at least? I like the low key colours here, it's very easy on the eyes. |
ktcgx | General discussion | 65 | 7,875 | 2015-10-06, 2:51 am | ||
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Thread: Database of Japanese novels for learners Post: Database of Japanese novels for learners Other graded readers: http://tadoku.org/teachers/order I think they've joined forces with the reberu betsu guys. These, the reberu betsu, and the sendai graded readers are designed for adult readers... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 8 | 1,660 | 2015-09-07, 2:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Just finished Anki Deck of all Genki 1 sentences Post: Just finished Anki Deck of all Genki 1 sentences Hey, thanks for sharing this! I showed my students last semester the genki decks, but it was right around the big copyright freak-out, and a whole lot of decks got taken down, so they found they could... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 3 | 896 | 2015-09-06, 3:44 am | ||
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Thread: Radiation levels (moved posts) Post: Radiation levels (moved posts) Hi guys, I lived in Fukushima for 4 years, and did my effing homework on radiation. Any increase in cancer rates is very much likely to be negligible. It's total bullsh*t to think you can compare outc... |
ktcgx | Off topic | 37 | 4,674 | 2015-09-03, 7:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Equivalent of The Economist? Post: Japanese Equivalent of The Economist? I would recommend nippon.com. It's not economics focussed, but it does a lot of interesting reporting on issues in Japan and the wider region. It publishes articles each article in several languages, ... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 17 | 3,090 | 2015-08-30, 2:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Books on learning (not just Japanese)/mastering skills Post: Books on learning (not just Japanese)/mastering sk... gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:I love FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Flow theory? Lol, I was literally just writing a paragraph on that this evening for one of my research papers :) Totally off topic though,... |
ktcgx | Off topic | 13 | 2,497 | 2015-08-19, 5:23 am | ||
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Thread: After finishing RTK 1?? Post: After finishing RTK 1?? sakumaru Wrote:I'm in sort of an interesting situation though, I guess. I can speak Japanese decently because I am Japanese and was raised in Japan until I was 5, but my reading and writing is not as ... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 17 | 1,884 | 2015-08-19, 5:20 am | ||
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Thread: RTK1 (-and?) Which app's best? NihongoShark's m.o.? Memrise? Skritter? Post: RTK1 (-and?) Which app's best? NihongoShark's m.o.... My advice, use this site's SRS.... Fabrice spent a lot of time recently making it work well for mobile devices, so now there's no need to dl another app to your phone or anything. |
ktcgx | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,127 | 2015-08-14, 11:32 pm | ||
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Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese kapalama Wrote:ktcgx Wrote:I don't know if I've heard of Aozora Bunko, Way back in the early for Japan days of the internet a Japanese guy started getting all public domain works he could up in text f... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 53 | 6,954 | 2015-08-13, 4:35 pm | ||
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Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese The books I posted are really thin, they're not 'book books', they're about 5-15 pages long. Especially at level 0. But even level 4 is only like 35 pages long on average :) As far as electronic re... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 53 | 6,954 | 2015-08-13, 2:41 am | ||
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Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Hmm, ok, so it sounds like you're definitely an upper beginner. My advice: 1. Don't wait to get into 'native materials', start reading now. As in, jump straight on whatever online book ordering ser... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 53 | 6,954 | 2015-08-12, 9:59 pm | ||
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Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Lol, well, you have, your native one ;) Where are you up to in learning Japanese? I can give you some pointers grounded in language acquisition research, if you want. Personally, in terms of JFL ed... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 53 | 6,954 | 2015-08-12, 8:01 pm | ||
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Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese I think that the Spanish cognate level would be well below 60%. I think for German it's around 20-30%. Combined with grammar which is quite different to English, unless you're familiar with older st... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 53 | 6,954 | 2015-08-12, 7:35 pm | ||
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Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese I'm not staff, I'm still in my first year of post grad. However, I have already put together a handout of different ways to learn kanji (because yes, even though Heisig's is the most efficient, a lot... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 53 | 6,954 | 2015-08-12, 6:39 pm | ||
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Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese kapalama Wrote:Two cases of 'Japanese speaking" Case one: "studied Japanese at college" speakers can't carry a conversation, and have horrible accents. And work becomes conversation school for them, ... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 53 | 6,954 | 2015-08-12, 5:10 pm | ||
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Thread: I read today that people don't use "LOL" anymore... Post: I read today that people don't use "LOL" anymore..... Lol, I always use lol, especially when I can't think of anything else to say, but don't want to say nothing... |
ktcgx | Off topic | 8 | 1,155 | 2015-08-12, 3:48 pm | ||
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Thread: What on Earth is this thing? Post: What on Earth is this thing? RandomQuotes Wrote:john555 Wrote:Sorry, but if a word is in the OED it's real. Time to move on. Yea, no. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The OED isn't a prescriptive dictiona... |
ktcgx | The Japanese language | 25 | 2,943 | 2015-08-11, 4:54 am | ||
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Thread: Dokugakusha 1.1 released Post: Dokugakusha 1.1 released Is Mazec free? I use Aedict, but it's not free any more, so I can't really recommend it to my students to use because of that... EDIT, sorry early morning, I just realised I misunderstood your reply.... |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 21 | 2,786 | 2015-08-03, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Dokugakusha 1.1 released Post: Dokugakusha 1.1 released Does it have the ability for multi kanji look-up with handwriting? That would make it so useful. |
ktcgx | Learning resources | 21 | 2,786 | 2015-08-02, 2:33 pm | ||
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Thread: What's a good method of learning to speak/hear better? Post: What's a good method of learning to speak/hear bet... kapalama Wrote:Not trying to take anything away from that study as it applies to use as adult learners, but the case of Pacific Islanders learning English is a little different because they are alread... |
ktcgx | General discussion | 22 | 3,306 | 2015-08-01, 8:34 pm | ||
