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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
