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    Thread: 大好き vs. 愛してる
Post: 大好き vs. 愛してる

domokun1134 Wrote:Now what if you wanted to tell a friend that you liked them. Like a situation where you would say something like "I like you. You're funny." or "I'm going to do this only because I l...
jasdev The Japanese language 12 6,755 2011-11-11, 4:36 am
    Thread: 大好き vs. 愛してる
Post: 大好き vs. 愛してる

大好き is closer to what normal people would use. 愛してる is more like something you only hear in songs, films, TV shows and so on. If I remember correctly, it sounds slightly comical to use that in real li...
jasdev The Japanese language 12 6,755 2011-11-04, 4:14 pm
    Thread: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations?
Post: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations?

Both my Casio 電子辞書 came with microSD card slots for adding in extra dictionaries at a later date, so yeah. The price of these makes me think it's almost worth just paying the extra for a more expensiv...
jasdev Learning resources 27 11,381 2011-10-25, 1:47 am
    Thread: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations?
Post: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations?

We had a lot of good feedback on this topic in the thread I started over at Something Awful Forums, and the consensus around J-E dictionaries was that 研究者新和英大辞典 is the best. I am pretty fond of Casio...
jasdev Learning resources 27 11,381 2011-10-22, 2:51 pm
    Thread: Just because you can say it, doesn't mean you should
Post: Just because you can say it, doesn't mean you shou...

mezbup Wrote:I thought it was going to be something more shocking from the title of the thread. I don't live in Japan but where I do live has a Japanese community (English studying working holiday mak...
jasdev General discussion 23 6,419 2011-10-10, 4:23 am
    Thread: 2011 JLPT study thread
Post: 2011 JLPT study thread

Here you go: http://www.3anet.co.jp/english/books/books_06.html The full set of 新完全マスター books for N1 and N2.
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 506 139,924 2011-09-29, 4:33 pm
    Thread: 2011 JLPT study thread
Post: 2011 JLPT study thread

Hmm... if you're not planning to use an SRS program like Anki or Mnemosyne already, why not?! Otherwise I say give yourself time to experiment with how you enter facts from the JLPT books into your f...
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 506 139,924 2011-09-28, 7:14 am
    Thread: Japanese Subtitles for Korean Drama?
Post: Japanese Subtitles for Korean Drama?

I've flicked over to Fuji TV on occasion when using KeyholeTV to watch live Japanese TV, and once they were playing a subtitled Korean drama. If you sift through the TV guide and find out what time a ...
jasdev Learning resources 3 6,119 2011-09-26, 10:40 am
    Thread: anki deck for 1級 grammar
Post: anki deck for 1級 grammar

partner55083777 Wrote:Thanks for the tip. Although I don't see a way to edit the thread title :-\ But anyway, I don't really care about what book or resource the Anki deck comes from. It would be n...
jasdev Learning resources 4 1,346 2011-09-21, 2:37 am
    Thread: Exact Japanese subs for dramas and anime
Post: Exact Japanese subs for dramas and anime

Woohoo! I didn't even know this thread existed until just now :-P I'm on a Mac (Snow Leopard) so my question might be difficult or impossible to answer. I got subs from D-Addicts for a drama (a few dr...
jasdev Learning resources 55 64,773 2011-09-20, 2:31 am
    Thread: anki deck for 1級 grammar
Post: anki deck for 1級 grammar

I think people were afraid of breaching copyright issues, so it was only given to people who could post an image of their copy of Kanzen Master. If someone else has made a deck of the book that you ha...
jasdev Learning resources 4 1,346 2011-09-20, 2:24 am
    Thread: A Career Utilizing Japanese
Post: A Career Utilizing Japanese

Nuriko, I wish I could have been in your position before entering university, as I know I would have enjoyed my year abroad in Tokyo (as part of my degree) even more than I actually did (and I enjoyed...
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 21 6,809 2011-08-07, 2:50 am
    Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)
Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)

nest0r Wrote:@Thora Perhaps you can start a blog and collect negative reviews of AJATT's sleazy commercial aspects. ;p His scam/system seems designed for short-term glowing testimonials from fellow ...
jasdev Off topic 567 98,536 2011-08-01, 3:48 am
    Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)
Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)

fakewookie Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:60 bucks a month is about what I pay to meet a Japanese tutor four times a month for an hour each lesson, which means it's four hours of face-to-face time plus the time ...
jasdev Off topic 567 98,536 2011-08-01, 2:12 am
    Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)
Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)

fakewookie Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:Well, for one, people on this forum could stop treating him like he knows what he's talking about. Or, almost any veteran here could make a blog much better than his me...
jasdev Off topic 567 98,536 2011-08-01, 1:57 am
    Thread: Career vs. Study in Japan
Post: Career vs. Study in Japan

I guess that'd be the best way to improve your Japanese, yeah. If you go over there as an English teacher you'd be best off as a JET ALT. Since you're above the required JLPT N2 level of fluency (if y...
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 34 9,277 2011-07-21, 4:51 am
    Thread: Career vs. Study in Japan
Post: Career vs. Study in Japan

Now I think it's a lot more difficult to transfer over with your company, but I'm just going by what I think I read in a newspaper. It's still worth giving it a shot though! I hope someone with actual...
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 34 9,277 2011-07-21, 4:43 am
    Thread: Career vs. Study in Japan
Post: Career vs. Study in Japan

If you're interested in finance and Japan, there are a handful of people who post in the Japan Megathread over at the Something Awful Forums who have experience in that area, so if you don't mind shel...
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 34 9,277 2011-07-21, 3:43 am
    Thread: 2011 JLPT study thread
Post: 2011 JLPT study thread

Kanji, vocabulary, grammar. Those were the three things I kept repeating to myself as I worked my way through JLPT2 this month. "If only I had done more kanji, vocab, grammar!" I found myself wonderin...
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 506 139,924 2011-07-12, 2:44 pm
    Thread: Kanji In Context sentences project
Post: Kanji In Context sentences project

I started putting vocabulary and sentences from KiC into Anki about 2 weeks ago, at a rate of 1 lesson per day, and now I'm at lesson 15, and it's beginning to feel like quite a slog when I approach t...
jasdev Group study 109 61,171 2011-04-18, 2:26 pm
    Thread: How to buy N1 Study Books?
Post: How to buy N1 Study Books?

Or you use this website which has a lower cost of shipping than Amazon.co.jp http://www.bk1.jp/
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 7 2,184 2011-04-13, 5:52 am
    Thread: Displaying Kanji on IE?
Post: Displaying Kanji on IE?

No-one else seems to have suggested this, so try clicking the View menu on the menu bar, then select the correct encoding option, there are normally 3 types of Japanese encoding. You don't need japane...
jasdev General discussion 13 3,483 2009-10-13, 12:42 pm
    Thread: Anki - new cards per day when learning 20+ daily?
Post: Anki - new cards per day when learning 20+ daily?

I'm really struggling with my Anki reviews... I'm going through Heisig for 1 hour a day, and on my 1st day I picked up 20 kanji, yesterday I picked up 45. I'm suspending cards that I haven't seen yet ...
jasdev Remembering the Kanji 12 13,005 2009-10-05, 3:24 am
    Thread: KO2001 - Then what?
Post: KO2001 - Then what?

Zorlee Wrote:One last thing - Can you guys recommend me one (or several) books on grammar? I know about Tae Kim, but the problem for me with that guide was the sentences. They were really bad, in my o...
jasdev The Japanese language 9 3,100 2009-09-29, 8:38 am
    Thread: A pointless rant I needed to write about smart.fm
Post: A pointless rant I needed to write about smart.fm

Cool, I downloaded the plug-in and imported Lesson 4. How many lessons should I import at a time? Should I just complete Lesson 4 entirely before importing Lesson 5? Also, what about the previous less...
jasdev Learning resources 6 1,385 2009-09-25, 1:38 pm
    Thread: A pointless rant I needed to write about smart.fm
Post: A pointless rant I needed to write about smart.fm

After getting back from a mandatory study abroad year in Tokyo, I'm about to enter the final year of my degree at university. My Japanese ability is intermediate, by my own assessment. I base this upo...
jasdev Learning resources 6 1,385 2009-09-25, 10:53 am
    Thread: Failed 2級 in July, any hope of passing 1級 in December?
Post: Failed 2級 in July, any hope of passing 1級 in Decem...

I sat 2級 in Tokyo this July and received scores of 222/400 (overall), 62/100 (文字・語彙), 67/100 (聴解) and 93/200 (読解・文法). Now I've left Japan and am resuming my final year of study at university, but I wo...
jasdev JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 3 1,436 2009-09-10, 8:52 am