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Thread: If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself Post: If you could go back in time, what would you tell ... For the original question I would say practice listening more and learning phrases over individual words. Regarding the work in japan comment. Especially for people in the software industry, you can... |
socrat | General discussion | 53 | 11,163 | 2014-06-03, 1:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Real handwriting -> letter I received Post: Real handwriting -> letter I received Transcribed below... context is I ordered a hand made tripod bag. Also, this person is older so uses some older styles of words (pointed out below) ソックさん、 お元気ですか 日本はまだまだ寒いです 今回の注文の袋は上手に縫えておりません。上の方... |
socrat | General discussion | 9 | 2,622 | 2014-03-01, 11:55 am | ||
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Thread: Real handwriting -> letter I received Post: Real handwriting -> letter I received yes, it's the repeating symbol for hiragana まだまだ。 only for vertical writing. (first time I have seen it too). |
socrat | General discussion | 9 | 2,622 | 2014-03-01, 11:23 am | ||
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Thread: Real handwriting -> letter I received Post: Real handwriting -> letter I received See if you can transcribe this letter I received yesterday. Will post up the answer later :) https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0...sp=sharing |
socrat | General discussion | 9 | 2,622 | 2014-03-01, 10:55 am | ||
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Thread: What is the "ideal" vocab goal? Give me your theory and practice. Post: What is the "ideal" vocab goal? Give me your theor... CaLeDee Wrote:riogray Wrote:sunehiro Wrote:I review cards like アルバム to improve my pronunciation of Katakana words, which is often "unnatural" and quite hard. (also considering the fact that I am not a... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 79 | 17,220 | 2014-02-10, 1:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying to find a good method for reading and getting into a groove. Post: Trying to find a good method for reading and getti... 3 techniques depending on your mood or if you get too bored with one way. Atleast that's what I did/do. 1. Read intensively. Read one page looking up every word you don't know and writing it down.... |
socrat | General discussion | 9 | 2,570 | 2014-01-23, 7:42 pm | ||
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Thread: More talking at a computer in Japanese AKA 噛み祭り Post: More talking at a computer in Japanese AKA 噛み祭り nadiatims Wrote:@socrat The guy in that video is speaking very very good Japanese. Probably native Japanese or grew up bilingual. @nadiatims, yea very good! amazing what he can do with all those la... |
socrat | Off topic | 21 | 4,095 | 2014-01-08, 12:16 am | ||
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Thread: More talking at a computer in Japanese AKA 噛み祭り Post: More talking at a computer in Japanese AKA 噛み祭り dude, nice video. but what's with the ads? Is that allowed to post to a video with ads. I always make sure I have no ad's enabled on videos I post on this site. Definitely the more videos we shar... |
socrat | Off topic | 21 | 4,095 | 2014-01-07, 9:57 pm | ||
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Thread: How do japanese people percieve/remember/operate Kanji? Post: How do japanese people percieve/remember/operate K... I'll jump in on this one. When you see the words/images 2 or 3, etc.. how to you perceive it ? You could think of those as kanji. Just lines drawing some random shape that we have some meaning/word... |
socrat | Remembering the Kanji | 28 | 14,469 | 2013-11-01, 6:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? A fun exercise would be to take this thread and translate it to japanese. I usually don't have much to say or write about so I take interesting english content from other folks and translate it and g... |
socrat | General discussion | 856 | 195,540 | 2013-10-17, 1:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Kansai-ben Podcasts Post: Kansai-ben Podcasts I've made a few videos with my kansai ben partner where we use kansai ben as learning material. Here's one for example: [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZFkVAa4k7Y] |
socrat | Learning resources | 11 | 2,390 | 2013-06-17, 11:37 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread magamo Wrote:Growl Wrote:What's this dialect? (It's dialect right?) 心配せんといてね don't worry about me Sounds like a variant of a dialect spoken somewhere in mid-western Japan. If it were the typical Kan... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,568 | 2013-03-11, 10:39 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread corry Wrote:ごめんなさい軽い気持ちで入部するなんて書いたから期待させるだけさせて何て謝ったらいいか What is させて doing there. Even with magamo's great post I couldn't wrap my head around させるだけさせて 2 させる‘s in a row. Asked my tutor for help and s... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,568 | 2013-03-11, 8:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Some practice videos Post: Some practice videos No specific purpose just having fun with it and hopefully something instructional. Think the 2nd video was just some random news article I picked. The first one I didn't ad much explanation but it's... |
socrat | General discussion | 3 | 777 | 2013-01-14, 10:26 am | ||
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Thread: Some practice videos Post: Some practice videos Still practicing.... Made some practice videos with my tutor. Not sure if it's helpful for other folks and forgive my bad japanese and video skills. Some slang practice, but didn't translate too muc... |
socrat | General discussion | 3 | 777 | 2013-01-13, 11:11 pm | ||
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Thread: hacks for better pronunciation Post: hacks for better pronunciation howtwosavealif3 Wrote:There's YouTube videos on this Like for the r sound http://www.tofugu.com/2009/12/30/how-to-...e-r-sound/ thx! that's exactly it. he does a better job of explaining the D and L... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 13 | 2,794 | 2012-10-05, 3:54 pm | ||
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Thread: hacks for better pronunciation Post: hacks for better pronunciation magamo Wrote:Japanese /r/ is known to include a very wide range of sounds, so it shouldn't be difficult to produce a sound good enough for the perceptual magnet effect to kick in on the native speaker... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 13 | 2,794 | 2012-10-05, 11:17 am | ||
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Thread: hacks for better pronunciation Post: hacks for better pronunciation Thanks a lot guys for the good input. :) Listening and practicing helped me get to about 90% with pronunciation but over the years still made the same mistakes on those sounds. With these hacks it's... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 13 | 2,794 | 2012-10-04, 9:57 pm | ||
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Thread: hacks for better pronunciation Post: hacks for better pronunciation Working with a lang partner and we came up with a couple of pronunciation hacks for areas where mine was off a little. Probably this is more for native english speakers and not sure if I heard thes... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 13 | 2,794 | 2012-10-04, 6:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Does watching TV get much easier? Post: Does watching TV get much easier? Tori-kun Wrote:@OP: Just to let you know. To my own disappointment, I cannot understand spoken Japanese at all (merely basic greetings nothing else), although I know already far more than 12.000 uniqu... |
socrat | General discussion | 26 | 5,652 | 2012-09-24, 12:23 pm | ||
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Thread: 本音 rant, critical articles Post: 本音 rant, critical articles NijiRanger Wrote:socrat Wrote:not sure this is exactly what your are looking for but thought this was interesting... 実は腹黒い？女性の本音と建前 http://nanapi.jp/42749/ That was really interesting. It kinda scar... |
socrat | Off topic | 18 | 3,855 | 2012-08-22, 9:32 pm | ||
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Thread: 本音 rant, critical articles Post: 本音 rant, critical articles gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:socrat Wrote:not sure this is exactly what your are looking for but thought this was interesting... 実は腹黒い？女性の本音と建前 http://nanapi.jp/42749/ Interesting. If for nothing else, it's ... |
socrat | Off topic | 18 | 3,855 | 2012-08-22, 5:49 pm | ||
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Thread: 本音 rant, critical articles Post: 本音 rant, critical articles not sure this is exactly what your are looking for but thought this was interesting... 実は腹黒い？女性の本音と建前 http://nanapi.jp/42749/ |
socrat | Off topic | 18 | 3,855 | 2012-08-22, 3:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Common Traits of an "English/American Accent" Japanese Perspective Post: Common Traits of an "English/American Accent" Japa... kitakitsune Wrote:Americans have these common problems 1. Difficulty distinguishing between long and short vowels. This is by far the biggest problem. 2. Not getting the R's right. 3. Using the Engl... |
socrat | General discussion | 31 | 14,608 | 2012-07-31, 2:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Casual Abbreviations Post: Casual Abbreviations If you are looking for casual ways to say the same thing another (very common) option would be... long way: 勉強しないといかない casual short way: 勉強しないと think the long way is usually spelled out in grammar... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 16 | 4,180 | 2012-07-24, 5:00 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I Feel Motivated Right now" thread. Post: The "I Feel Motivated Right now" thread. Been steadily increasing my conversation lately. A few months ago I could read but always spoke in short sentences, but lately suddenly I've found I can explain long stories without much effort. And... |
socrat | General discussion | 46 | 14,729 | 2012-06-13, 6:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Live from Tokyo Book Review? Post: Live from Tokyo Book Review? It's pretty good but not great. Most of the dialogs are advanced travel related dialogs so I could see how it could be useful, but for me personally I would give it an average(3 star) review just c... |
socrat | Learning resources | 3 | 1,417 | 2012-06-13, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Help With Honorifics Post: Help With Honorifics One thing area I noticed some of us non natives make a mistake is using honorifics too much... What I learned from my jp friends is when japanese speak to each other in a non business/formal situation... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 11 | 3,677 | 2012-06-09, 11:26 pm | ||
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Thread: How to stop spewing Japanese gibberish?!! Post: How to stop spewing Japanese gibberish?!! Just to add to all the other good tips.... Think you need more of what I call 'killer' sentences to help with confidence. Sentences that you have heard many many times(input) and recited to yourself ... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 22 | 4,793 | 2012-04-30, 6:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Reading Suggestions for Advanced Learners Post: Reading Suggestions for Advanced Learners The strategy that helped me for reading books... Timeboxing. Tell myself I only have 1 minute to read a page. I can do quick look ups of a few words if needed but I only have a minute to read and u... |
socrat | The Japanese language | 25 | 4,996 | 2012-04-25, 2:21 pm | ||
