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Thread: Korean Version of bookmeter.com / goodreads.com Post: RE: Korean Version of bookmeter.com / goodreads.co... (2015-11-17, 10:02 pm)Bokusenou Wrote: Google gave me this. Maybe it might help? Perfect! It's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you so much! |
ashman63 | General discussion | 3 | 583 | 2015-11-18, 4:29 am | ||
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Thread: Korean Version of bookmeter.com / goodreads.com Post: Korean Version of bookmeter.com / goodreads.com A questions for those of you studying Korean: Is there any website/app like bookmeter or goodreads that Koreans use to keep a log of which books they have read and see what their friends are reading?... |
ashman63 | General discussion | 3 | 583 | 2015-11-17, 7:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Help for deciphering a cursive signature on a painting Post: Help for deciphering a cursive signature on a pain... I'm sitting in a Japanese junior high school staffroom, and the best that the kokugo teacher and I could come up with - with little confidence - was: 己己初喜 己己 - means something like 'everyone' or 'y... |
ashman63 | Off topic | 2 | 875 | 2015-07-08, 7:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Why did you choose that Kanji for your avatar? Post: Why did you choose that Kanji for your avatar? Because I find turkeys amusing, especially the one that appears in my RTK stories. And, being a rebel, I also liked the idea of using a primitive that's not really used as a kanji in its own right. |
ashman63 | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 5,371 | 2015-07-08, 12:38 am | ||
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Thread: tadoku/graded readers Post: tadoku/graded readers The １０分で読めるお話 series discussed here is not aimed at L2 learners, but it is graded by elementary school level, and is really good. |
ashman63 | Learning resources | 10 | 2,417 | 2015-07-08, 12:32 am | ||
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Thread: People taking the July JLPT in Kansai/Osaka Post: People taking the July JLPT in Kansai/Osaka I didn't see this thread til now. But I too did it in Kansai (Wakayama). Felt pretty good coming out of it. Hopefully I've improved on last year's score. |
ashman63 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 7 | 1,890 | 2015-07-05, 8:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Post: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Zgarbas Wrote:Futoi means fat in Japanese, but "I have sex with sheep" in Romanian. This is the most interesting part of the whole thread. I love that this is the first Romanian word/sentence I have e... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 136 | 29,620 | 2015-05-21, 9:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Starting my reading rampage Post: Starting my reading rampage Ganbatte on your reading rampage! I too am trying to read more and more. Here are a few threads I've bookmarked from the past that might help you in your quest to find appropriate books: http://forum... |
ashman63 | Learning resources | 19 | 4,901 | 2015-04-07, 11:48 pm | ||
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Thread: What JLPT level would you roughly put DOBJG into? Post: What JLPT level would you roughly put DOBJG into? I'd imagine you could get pretty far on N3 with it too. |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 3 | 947 | 2015-03-05, 9:13 pm | ||
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Thread: what would be a good idea for a Japanese lady for her birthday Post: what would be a good idea for a Japanese lady for ... Tzadeck Wrote:If we're going by Japanese sensibilities, both money and gift cards aren't great. I've never heard of people doing that in Japan except among family members. But if it's outside of Jap... |
ashman63 | General discussion | 6 | 1,580 | 2015-02-26, 9:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Sleeping in Capsule or Internet Cafe Post: Sleeping in Capsule or Internet Cafe Yeah, good advice from those above. A cheap business hotel for 4000-5000 yen is a good alternative if you don't mind spending a bit more. But at 2000-3000 for a capsule, if you really don't want to sp... |
ashman63 | Off topic | 9 | 1,652 | 2015-02-20, 1:55 am | ||
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Thread: Sleeping in Capsule or Internet Cafe Post: Sleeping in Capsule or Internet Cafe I live in the inaka of the inaka, so whenever i can, I spend a small fortune to catch the train into a big city for a weekend. Because of the cost of the train, I regularly stay in capsule hotels. To... |
ashman63 | Off topic | 9 | 1,652 | 2015-02-20, 12:17 am | ||
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Thread: 〆 (& 乄) Post: 〆 (& 乄) Katsuo Wrote:gfb345 Wrote:Pointers to examples of real-life uses of these symbols would be appreciated. First time I saw this character in the wild was at a kaiten-zushi place in Tateyama, Chiba. The ... |
ashman63 | General discussion | 10 | 6,576 | 2015-02-09, 6:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese live-action TV for snobs/discerning people? Post: Japanese live-action TV for snobs/discerning peopl... Thank you so much Helena4 for the great post with really interesting-sounding dorama write-ups. I'll check them out. Helena4 Wrote:I like: Bitter Blood - Mother - Yakou Kanransha 夜行観覧車 - Face ... |
ashman63 | General discussion | 53 | 13,825 | 2015-02-08, 8:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Inappropriate stories Post: Inappropriate stories I think it's great what you've done towards hiding the most-reported stories. But I would like someone to let me know - this has confused me for years - why my story below was reported by so many peo... |
ashman63 | Off topic | 121 | 18,936 | 2015-01-23, 12:40 am | ||
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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Thanks for the heads up! |
ashman63 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,268 | 2015-01-23, 12:08 am | ||
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Thread: Furueru (震える) and Yureru (揺れる) Post: Furueru (震える) and Yureru (揺れる) I went hiking on the kumano-kodo the other day, and my leg muscles started trembling on the downhill parts. I used "yureru" to tell my friend, and we had the same conversation we're having now. So ju... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,123 | 2015-01-21, 8:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Just found out I passed the Kanji Kentei level 6. Hooray for fifth grader literacy! |
ashman63 | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,529 | 2014-02-26, 1:20 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread trumpet Wrote:what is the grammar in the bolded part of this sentence: 最後まで笑っちゃいけないんだぜ 勝負ってもんは！ does the って have anything to do with という or is ってもん some kind of casual version of ても ＋ explanatory の?... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,156 | 2014-02-03, 1:32 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji for fireworks (hanabi) noob question Post: Kanji for fireworks (hanabi) noob question hazwanium Wrote:is there a name for this inconsistency? i want to find the list of compound words that uses kunyomi that aren't kokuji The list would be enormous. This is not rare at all. I don't know... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 12 | 3,360 | 2014-01-24, 1:51 am | ||
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Thread: Where is uisukii? Post: Where is uisukii? astendra Wrote:tashippy Wrote:PS is there a way to type 笑 without first typing 笑い and then deleting the い？ Try わら。 わら doesn't work for me, but typing warai in full and hitting space twice works (笑 wit... |
ashman63 | Off topic | 27 | 4,949 | 2013-12-20, 8:37 am | ||
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Thread: The Political Discussion Thread Post: The Political Discussion Thread qwertyytrewq Wrote:I was on Reddit and there's some random news involving Japan. Eventually and inevitably, commenters demanded that Japan apologize. Then other commenters start posting this link: htt... |
ashman63 | Off topic | 60 | 24,058 | 2013-12-20, 1:22 am | ||
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Thread: Passed the 漢字検定４級 Post: Passed the 漢字検定４級 Nice work, congratulations! I passed 8級 in July, and have registered to take 6級 at the end of January. Any further elaboration of your study methods would be most welcome! |
ashman63 | General discussion | 2 | 828 | 2013-12-11, 5:48 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Post: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Wow, this thread's still going! Don't you people have anki reviews to get on with!? ;-) |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 136 | 29,620 | 2013-12-10, 12:36 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Post: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? You know what's really amazing? My theory that after kana was derived from hebrew, English was derived from kana! Here's the (pretty convincing) proof: あ----------> a い、イ----------> i, I う ----... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 136 | 29,620 | 2013-12-07, 7:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Post: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? I thought kana were derived from the Matrix movie. |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 136 | 29,620 | 2013-12-06, 11:29 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread kaizer Wrote:An example would be, (seeing as I just heard this like 20 minutes ago) something like 間違いなく, which obviously comes from 間違いない. I'm not quite sure on how those two are different to be hone... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,156 | 2013-12-06, 5:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Pronunciation of the R sound Post: Pronunciation of the R sound ktcgx Wrote:This is actually a huge misconception. When you look at ultrasounds of people pronouncing "r", the tip of the tongue has nothing to do with it, rather the blade and back of the tongue are... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 42 | 7,358 | 2013-11-25, 2:05 am | ||
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Thread: Pronunciation of the R sound Post: Pronunciation of the R sound The English R sound, the English L sound, and the Japanese /r/ sound are three(or 4) different sounds. Consider them separately, rather than as combinations of each other, or "halfway between" each ot... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 42 | 7,358 | 2013-11-24, 7:18 pm | ||
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Thread: old japanese -dakuten? Post: old japanese -dakuten? I don't really know about old Japanese writing, but in terms of having two words spelled the same and pronounced differently, this occurs in English all the time: I *read* a book yesterday. Did you *... |
ashman63 | The Japanese language | 2 | 628 | 2013-11-20, 7:29 am | ||
