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    Thread: Question about this sentence
Post: Question about this sentence

Tobberoth Wrote:PrettyKitty Wrote:You sure it can't mean both? 他人の家に世話になり食べさせてもらうこと。また、その人。食客。 Of course it can. How does that change anything? If he would have read in the dictionary, he would have ...
PrettyKitty General discussion 148 29,139 2009-02-03, 11:00 am
    Thread: Question about this sentence
Post: Question about this sentence

You sure it can't mean both? 他人の家に世話になり食べさせてもらうこと。また、その人。食客。
PrettyKitty General discussion 148 29,139 2009-02-02, 2:50 pm
    Thread: What is 肉?
Post: What is 肉?

I'm not sure if it's the same in other countries or not, but in Mexico at least, most people seem to think vegetarians will eat chicken too. I think "meat" seems to mean "mammal" to many people. Do Ja...
PrettyKitty General discussion 27 3,678 2009-01-27, 10:40 am
    Thread: Minor complaint
Post: Minor complaint

It seems many of the complaints are about these threads appearing in recent topics. Is it at all possible to have an "ignore thread" option? Basically, it would make the thread not show up under Recen...
PrettyKitty Off topic 53 6,197 2009-01-23, 12:03 pm
    Thread: Question about って
Post: Question about って

You also see とは used instead って. Sometimes it's just the word + とは or って. (No 何だろう etc.)
PrettyKitty The Japanese language 10 1,757 2009-01-12, 11:47 am
    Thread: Japanese who answer in English: the other side
Post: Japanese who answer in English: the other side

kfmfe04 Wrote:PrettyKitty Wrote:What if you needed to get from Point A to Point B, it was way too far to walk, and you didn't have a way to pay? What would you do then? Just curious. 1. Call a friend/...
PrettyKitty Off topic 41 5,408 2009-01-07, 10:24 am
    Thread: Japanese who answer in English: the other side
Post: Japanese who answer in English: the other side

Tourne Wrote:I wonder if fare-dodging is seen differently in Japan? Considering that multiple Japanese people explained to me how to do it without getting caught, I would think not. Perhaps it depends...
PrettyKitty Off topic 41 5,408 2009-01-07, 9:38 am
    Thread: Introducing the Kanji Hanzi Hub
Post: Introducing the Kanji Hanzi Hub

KanjiHanzi Wrote:Compare this with Mandarin: I have bought one - 1 = a single! - grammar book and I am confident that this volume will keep me satisfied for a couple of years. What book is it?
PrettyKitty General discussion 187 31,533 2009-01-01, 2:21 am
    Thread: Any paying users at JapanesePod101.com?
Post: Any paying users at JapanesePod101.com?

igordesu Wrote:you can listen to and download any of the lessons for free. You just can't read the pdfs. OK, then I'm missing something. How do I listen to the lessons on this page for free? http://w...
PrettyKitty General discussion 44 21,540 2008-12-31, 3:15 pm
    Thread: Any paying users at JapanesePod101.com?
Post: Any paying users at JapanesePod101.com?

Tobberoth Wrote:Question is, is the gap from free subscription to paying subscription big enough to be worth the money? From my limited experience with the material you pay for, I'd say no. The voice ...
PrettyKitty General discussion 44 21,540 2008-12-31, 1:17 pm
    Thread: "Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanese?
Post: "Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanes...

How do you know that a TTS is saying the correct reading of a character? Do you write everything in kana?
PrettyKitty General discussion 127 27,797 2008-12-30, 9:34 am
    Thread: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate about religion thread
Post: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate ab...

Tobberoth Wrote:What vexes me are people who believe a book to be truth, and believe it's their job to force everyone else to accept this "truth". Lets assume you thought this book to be 100% true. Th...
PrettyKitty Off topic 465 58,542 2008-12-29, 9:56 am
    Thread: christmas in japan
Post: christmas in japan

Seriously? They take it down that fast? Do they have any sort of Black Friday type day in Japan? I'm only thinking about it cause for some reason it's Black Friday II today...
PrettyKitty Off topic 24 3,443 2008-12-26, 3:18 pm
    Thread: Heisig is rote memorization
Post: Heisig is rote memorization

I would have been able to read all the right side except 月. It just looks weird.
PrettyKitty General discussion 42 10,196 2008-12-24, 9:48 am
    Thread: Why do people think the Kana are hard?
Post: Why do people think the Kana are hard?

Has anyone ever met a Japanese person that thought all foreigners knew katakana regardless of whether they knew any Japanese or not? I have met a few who thought this.
PrettyKitty The Japanese language 92 28,250 2008-12-19, 5:51 pm
    Thread: multiple subject SRS
Post: multiple subject SRS

I'm not sure if this has already been discussed or not. Does anyone know if it's better to have all subjects intermingled in your SRS program or to have separate decks for each subject? If you're al...
PrettyKitty General discussion 2 584 2008-12-19, 11:22 am
    Thread: Using an SRS for mathematics study
Post: Using an SRS for mathematics study

Are you just adding mathematical terms and formulas? What about math problems?
PrettyKitty Off topic 34 14,151 2008-12-18, 9:29 am
    Thread: WHY ARE J-DRAMAS SO FLIPPING EXPENSIVE?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post: WHY ARE J-DRAMAS SO FLIPPING EXPENSIVE?!?!?!?!?!!!...

I figured they price things aimed at collector types. There are some people that will buy something because they are big fans regardless of the price.
PrettyKitty Off topic 22 4,439 2008-12-17, 2:47 pm
    Thread: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners
Post: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners

I love how they wrote half of what 'the foreigners' said in katakana.
PrettyKitty Off topic 104 14,398 2008-12-17, 9:22 am
    Thread: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners
Post: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners

Is this news video online anywhere? The Obama one too?
PrettyKitty Off topic 104 14,398 2008-12-17, 12:54 am
    Thread: Pet Peeves with the Japanese Language
Post: Pet Peeves with the Japanese Language

Quote:This girl watched a lot of anime before she came to Japan and picked up the annoying habbit of using the translated words. They're accurate, but out of context. She did that because she watched ...
PrettyKitty General discussion 117 15,033 2008-12-16, 12:43 pm
    Thread: Defaulting to L2
Post: Defaulting to L2

I insert Japanese into Spanish if I forget a word, which probably adds to the overall confusion because they probably think I'm inserting English. I mainly do this with nouns though, probably because ...
PrettyKitty General discussion 17 1,973 2008-12-16, 9:39 am
    Thread: First person pronouns (cont. from pet peeves)
Post: First person pronouns (cont. from pet peeves)

「うちのネコです」 sound like when you're talking about your family or things of that nature. (My husband, my daughter, my cat...) I see that pretty frequently. Did she use うち for all her sentences which had p...
PrettyKitty General discussion 12 1,819 2008-12-15, 10:38 am
    Thread: Pet Peeves with the Japanese Language
Post: Pet Peeves with the Japanese Language

iSoron Wrote:Tobberoth Wrote:Isn't arigatou originally from portugese obrigado? I thought that hoax was only known in Portuguese-speaking countries. I've seen it cited in articles as an example of ear...
PrettyKitty General discussion 117 15,033 2008-12-13, 12:34 pm
    Thread: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use
Post: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use

Yeah, it would depend on what games you play. Back to the newspaper frequency list, when I did a script check on a game I've played, 俺 was in the top 10 most frequently used kanji, but it's down at ...
PrettyKitty General discussion 65 18,393 2008-12-12, 5:59 pm
    Thread: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use
Post: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use

I saw 寺 often in Japan, but rarely in video games. Anyway, I think the topic was on the order best suited for learning kanji, then drifted into vocabulary learning order which really isn't the same t...
PrettyKitty General discussion 65 18,393 2008-12-12, 4:55 pm
    Thread: Combining similar kanji in meaning in one card
Post: Combining similar kanji in meaning in one card

I don't really think of 'hear' and 'listen' as the same thing, nor 聞 and 聴. Similar, but not the same. What happens if you get 聞 correct and miss 聴? you could just have two cards like this 聞 hear (...
PrettyKitty Remembering the Kanji 3 916 2008-12-12, 12:23 pm
    Thread: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use
Post: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use

Not sure if you've got this or not: http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publ...sample.pdf
PrettyKitty General discussion 65 18,393 2008-12-12, 11:51 am
    Thread: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use
Post: Memorizing Kanji by frequency of use

There are a lot of characters high up on that list which are not all that frequent outside of the news. Considering newspapers are typically one of the harder things to reach reading fluency in, I wou...
PrettyKitty General discussion 65 18,393 2008-12-12, 10:09 am
    Thread: Kanji Tattoo Errors, Yikes!
Post: Kanji Tattoo Errors, Yikes!

joxn_costello Wrote:PrettyKitty Wrote:I saw a guy with ホモ written on his arm here in my town. That might have been on purpose. I would have thought so if he didn't obviously have a girlfriend. Though...
PrettyKitty The Japanese language 7 3,342 2008-12-11, 4:27 pm