| Post | Author | Forum | Replies | Views | Posted [asc] | ||
|
Thread: Questions about International Travel and Time in Japan Post: Questions about International Travel and Time in J... You guys are incredible, thanks so much |
somstuff | Off topic | 7 | 1,989 | 2013-08-23, 10:15 pm | ||
|
Thread: Questions about International Travel and Time in Japan Post: Questions about International Travel and Time in J... First off, sorry if these have already been discussed, I couldn't seem to find anything. Secondly, I know there's probably tons of stuff about this online elsewhere, but I'm not sure where to look or ... |
somstuff | Off topic | 7 | 1,989 | 2013-08-23, 8:10 pm | ||
|
Thread: When to use single-kanji words (when others exist)? Post: When to use single-kanji words (when others exist)... When do you use words like 市 instead of 都市 or 説 instead of 学説? Are they just more general forms? If 都市 has already been used, do you use 市 almost like a pronoun? |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,158 | 2013-08-10, 12:30 am | ||
|
Thread: passive skills into active skills Post: passive skills into active skills Can you describe what's a one dollar bill, besides George and numbers in the corners, despite having seen them your whole life? (assuming your in the US) |
somstuff | General discussion | 17 | 4,244 | 2013-07-21, 4:04 pm | ||
|
Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An... Awesome tool, I love it. Some suggestions: 1. An option where it chooses sentences with kanji you already know (given the user inputs a list of acceptable kanji), aside from the new word of course. ... |
somstuff | Learning resources | 182 | 70,681 | 2013-07-14, 3:40 pm | ||
|
Thread: Aspects of Japanese besides Vocab and Grammar? Post: Aspects of Japanese besides Vocab and Grammar? Names and cultural references are a big part of any language. What are some names and references I should be familiar with so I can survive in Japan? Here's what I got so far: -Being able to read the... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,483 | 2013-07-08, 7:56 pm | ||
|
Thread: How to make the most of a month in Japan? Post: How to make the most of a month in Japan? -_- |
somstuff | Off topic | 3 | 683 | 2013-06-13, 7:11 pm | ||
|
Thread: Synonyms Post: Synonyms How do you guys handle learning synonyms, especially for output? Also, anyone know if there exists a thesaurus that's in English and Japanese? http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/thsrs/ is pretty good, but n... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,165 | 2012-12-31, 12:48 pm | ||
|
Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread This isn't really a word/phrase but.. If you're walking home with someone, and you wanna say "this path is old" would you say この道は古い or この道が古い ? Assume path hasn't come up in conversation yet. If it'... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,051 | 2012-12-30, 12:36 pm | ||
|
Thread: Lol why am I so slow/bad at reading katakana? Post: Lol why am I so slow/bad at reading katakana? I know all the katakana of course, but for some reason I'm really slow at reading/recalling it. Anyone have any tips on how to improve this? "Just reading more katakana" doesn't really seem to be wor... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,591 | 2012-12-27, 7:16 pm | ||
|
Thread: Why RTK if I don't need to write kanji? Post: Why RTK if I don't need to write kanji? わかりました。 I not really arguing about production vs recognition but whatevs... Another question: I don't remember any of my stories, and I don't need them - when I see new kanji, repetition makes me re... |
somstuff | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 5,557 | 2012-12-27, 7:05 pm | ||
|
Thread: Why RTK if I don't need to write kanji? Post: Why RTK if I don't need to write kanji? I guess what you guys are saying makes sense. I never really tried to study before doing RTK so I don't understand what it'd be like. So I think I'm just underestimating what it's done for me. @TwoMo... |
somstuff | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 5,557 | 2012-12-26, 7:52 pm | ||
|
Thread: Why RTK if I don't need to write kanji? Post: Why RTK if I don't need to write kanji? What's the point of keeping up reviewing RTK (or doing RTK at all), assuming I don't care for writing kanji? I finished RTK, I kept reviewing for awhile, then I stopped and basically just forgot all ... |
somstuff | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 5,557 | 2012-12-26, 3:14 pm | ||
|
Thread: Working with single word vocab lists... Post: Working with single word vocab lists... I do a lot of vocab this way. Right now I have decks for (1) Audio/Kana>Eng, (2) Eng>Audio/Kana, and (3) Jap>Eng/Kana. Deck 1 I do first, then 2 trailing behind, then 3; 1 is quite easy to do... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 5 | 2,039 | 2012-11-28, 3:22 pm | ||
|
Thread: Video on Japanese Pitch Accent Post: Video on Japanese Pitch Accent Thanks for the vids. I have a question - for something like 一段動詞 [いちだんどうし], is that considered two words with each having its own pitch rules, or are there 4-kanji words with its own pitch? Are 4-kan... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 39 | 10,239 | 2012-11-27, 3:34 pm | ||
|
Thread: How to be less shy when talking to Japanese People Post: How to be less shy when talking to Japanese People So I finally made some Japanese friends, but I'm pretty shy when I talk to them, mainly because I suck at speaking and, to a lesser extent, listening (but that can be improved on my own). Anyone have ... |
somstuff | General discussion | 9 | 2,233 | 2012-11-06, 1:34 am | ||
|
Thread: Resources like JGram Post: Resources like JGram Anyone know any resources like JGram, with just a giant list of grammar points and example sentences? JGram's really messy and there are often disagreements over the examples in the comments, so I don... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,441 | 2012-09-10, 5:07 pm | ||
|
Thread: Help me set pimsleur intervals in anki Post: Help me set pimsleur intervals in anki I really wanted to do this too, and I don't really like Anki 2. I just get a group of words in Anki, go through them, ctrl+z all of them, run a timer for however long, randomize the order of the word... |
somstuff | Learning resources | 2 | 870 | 2012-09-04, 10:46 pm | ||
|
Thread: avoiding synonyms issue in production model in Anki Post: avoiding synonyms issue in production model in Ank... FRONT huge, gigantic, enormous *not 大きい、雄大 ------------------------ BACK 巨大[きょだい] Add to the "*not" list as your vocab gets bigger. Also, 大きい is more like "big" and 巨大 is more like "gigantic", so th... |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,175 | 2012-08-28, 8:38 pm | ||
|
Thread: "A Life in Japan" Documentary Post: "A Life in Japan" Documentary ＾面白い！ |
somstuff | General discussion | 40 | 10,505 | 2012-08-27, 1:05 pm | ||
|
Thread: RTK reviews aren't going below 130+ Post: RTK reviews aren't going below 130+ I'll definitely add stuff to the keywords. Thanks for the tips. |
somstuff | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 1,482 | 2012-08-27, 12:14 pm | ||
|
Thread: RTK reviews aren't going below 130+ Post: RTK reviews aren't going below 130+ Been done with RTK for about 15 days and my reviews don't seem to be going down. Is this normal, do you guys have similar experiences? I think a big part of the problem is the keywords and those image... |
somstuff | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 1,482 | 2012-08-27, 12:12 am | ||
|
Thread: After Tim Kae what to do or focus on. Post: After Tim Kae what to do or focus on. I love Tim Kae. |
somstuff | Learning resources | 14 | 4,590 | 2012-08-23, 8:49 pm | ||
|
Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An... ^Seconded :] Though it is great already |
somstuff | Learning resources | 182 | 70,681 | 2012-08-15, 6:29 pm | ||
|
Thread: Different ways to say near/vicinity? Post: Different ways to say near/vicinity? ありがとう。 |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 3 | 1,553 | 2012-08-15, 1:00 am | ||
|
Thread: ２級○文法と単語○学び方 Post: ２級○文法と単語○学び方 Thanks for backing me up, louischa :). I agree with most everything you wrote. For Eng>Jap sentences, I just do English sentence on front, Japanese sentence on back, maybe with the grammar point b... |
somstuff | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 20 | 4,749 | 2012-08-14, 2:43 pm | ||
|
Thread: ２級○文法と単語○学び方 Post: ２級○文法と単語○学び方 Everyone here seems to hate this, and I will probably get bashed for saying it, but I recommend doing English>Japanese sentences in SRS (that is, English sentence on front, Japanese sentence on bac... |
somstuff | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 20 | 4,749 | 2012-08-13, 7:14 pm | ||
|
Thread: Different ways to say near/vicinity? Post: Different ways to say near/vicinity? Could someone please explain in detail the differences between 辺、そば、近く「ちかく」、辺り「あたり」，一帯、周り、付近 ? They all seem very similar, even after looking at example sentences. |
somstuff | The Japanese language | 3 | 1,553 | 2012-08-13, 6:56 pm | ||
|
Thread: Kanji Definition Text File & Plugin Idea Post: Kanji Definition Text File & Plugin Idea Yes!! Thanks so much! Here's the .py file for anyone that wants it. Hopefully it works, I'm pretty bad with computers. Anki wouldn't let me upload it there, so I used 4shared. For the noobs out there... |
somstuff | Learning resources | 2 | 716 | 2012-08-09, 6:07 pm | ||
|
Thread: Kanji Definition Text File & Plugin Idea Post: Kanji Definition Text File & Plugin Idea HI :P. Anyone have a text file with kanji definitions, somewhat like the "English meanings" section on jisho here: http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E6%84%8F? If not, anyone know how I can extract that... |
somstuff | Learning resources | 2 | 716 | 2012-08-09, 5:10 pm | ||
