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Thread: What do you google in Japanese? How? +tips + advice Post: What do you google in Japanese? How? +tips + advic... Bokusenou Wrote:Interesting thread! I'll add a few: 「word 入門」 for an introduction to/tutorial on a subject (Photoshop/Javascript/Spanish, etc) [word 感想] for reviews of an anime/manga/book/game/movi... |
shang | Learning resources | 31 | 6,617 | 2011-04-29, 1:25 am | ||
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Thread: Addiction to Lang-8 Post: Addiction to Lang-8 I love the idea of Lang-8, but I find it hard to keep writing even semi-regularly. It's so difficulty to try to come up with a topic that would be at least somewhat interesting, but also within the re... |
shang | Learning resources | 26 | 5,277 | 2010-09-08, 1:12 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread How do you pronounce 突剣? I inferred the meaning (and google image search confirms it), but I can't find it in any dictionary so I don't know if it's supposed to be とつけん or とっけん or something completely... |
shang | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,256 | 2010-08-18, 2:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Distinguishing シand ツ Post: Distinguishing シand ツ You'll get used to it with more practice. It might be helpful to compare the katakana form to the corresponding hiragana forms. I.e. つ ツ し シ If you trace a line in your mind through the two katakan... |
shang | The Japanese language | 21 | 9,804 | 2010-08-17, 2:19 am | ||
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Thread: Game Reviews Post: Game Reviews I read http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/ |
shang | Learning resources | 3 | 911 | 2010-08-14, 2:41 am | ||
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Thread: Time to switch to chinese... Post: Time to switch to chinese... Ryuujin27 Wrote:Anyone in here who says they are learning Japanese and never think of any of the economic benefits it can lead to for themselves is... well, a liar. Eh, what? Learning Japanese is a fu... |
shang | Off topic | 50 | 7,799 | 2010-06-13, 2:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki Reps Post: Anki Reps Regarding 4). I think it's counter-productive to SRS from Kanji to Heisig's keyword, because the keyword is supposed to be mainly a mnemonic aid, and does not always correspond to any real meaning (or... |
shang | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 2,464 | 2010-05-25, 1:02 am | ||
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Thread: SRS - Separate cards for meaning? Post: SRS - Separate cards for meaning? Ah, I was a bit unclear. I meant kanji to meaning and kanji to reading cards for a post-RTK vocabulary deck. |
shang | General discussion | 5 | 1,311 | 2010-05-22, 2:40 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS - Separate cards for meaning? Post: SRS - Separate cards for meaning? I started thinking today, that for an SRS to work optimally, it should clearly test one thing per card, and one thing only. But I (and think most here) have, for example, Kanji -> reading + meaning... |
shang | General discussion | 5 | 1,311 | 2010-05-22, 1:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Ah, you're right, the rooting is only required for the custom fonts. I was skimming the AnkiDroid page and misread. |
shang | Learning resources | 401 | 86,886 | 2010-05-22, 5:50 am | ||
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Thread: Where does you nickname come from? Post: Where does you nickname come from? My nick is completely unimaginative. It's just the first letter of my first name ('s') and the first four letters of my surname ('hang'). I got this as my UNIX user account name back in my university ... |
shang | Off topic | 66 | 10,378 | 2010-05-22, 5:43 am | ||
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Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Any plans for an official Android Anki app? AFAIK AnkiDroid still requires rooting and AnkiMini is slow and somewhat cumbersome to use. I'd pay good money for a well functioning, no-hassle Android Ank... |
shang | Learning resources | 401 | 86,886 | 2010-05-22, 5:30 am | ||
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Thread: RevTK Google Wave Project? Post: RevTK Google Wave Project? Just a heads up, that Google Wave is now open to everyone, so something like this might be more feasible in the future. |
shang | Group study | 2 | 1,577 | 2010-05-22, 5:20 am | ||
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Thread: Free Bilingual resources Post: Free Bilingual resources For entry level material, there's Kids Web Japan, which has lot of the same articles in both English and Japanese. Also, less creepy than some cult material. |
shang | Group study | 18 | 8,431 | 2010-05-22, 5:18 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia I'm working on some new stuff with the Wikipedia corpus analysis. Currently rewriting the parser to get better data faster, so nothing too interesting yet, but here's one new table I've generated so f... |
shang | General discussion | 78 | 75,004 | 2010-05-20, 1:38 pm | ||
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Thread: What's with that rolling R thing? Post: What's with that rolling R thing? gfb345 Wrote:The only thing I can suggest is to compare the subjective difference between any voiced and unvoiced consonants. For instance, if I compare v and f in English, I see that the only differ... |
shang | The Japanese language | 22 | 11,658 | 2010-05-19, 1:26 pm | ||
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Thread: What's with that rolling R thing? Post: What's with that rolling R thing? Kinda related, but does anyone know of a good method to practice the z-sound of Japanese? My native tongue doesn't have that sound, and when trying to pronounce e.g. ず, it usually ends up sounding lik... |
shang | The Japanese language | 22 | 11,658 | 2010-05-19, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia Snarp Wrote:This is a kind of selfish first post, but if someone would post or email copies of the .CSV or .TXT compound list(s) I would love them forever. (shang's domain looks like it expired and go... |
shang | General discussion | 78 | 75,004 | 2010-04-19, 1:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Best way to become efficient in writing Japanese? Post: Best way to become efficient in writing Japanese? I don't know if there's any easy way to do it at the point where you are, but this is exactly the reason why I've started adding vocab facts to ANKI with both recognition and production cards. I try t... |
shang | General discussion | 14 | 5,901 | 2010-01-09, 6:24 am | ||
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Thread: Such a logically thought out kanji. Post: Such a logically thought out kanji. Here's a couple of kanji that I came across recently that were amusingly logical: 姑 - mother-in-law 窺う - to peep (through a hole) |
shang | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,799 | 2010-01-09, 6:05 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji-kana or kana-kanji, which one is effective? Post: Kanji-kana or kana-kanji, which one is effective? I've been doing both kanji-to-kana and kana-to-kanji for all vocabulary cards for about 4-5 months now, and I've noticed a huge improvement in retaining new words. Doing the vocabulary cards both ways... |
shang | General discussion | 15 | 1,952 | 2010-01-08, 10:07 am | ||
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Thread: best method of learning how to pronounce kanji Post: best method of learning how to pronounce kanji This is of course entirely subjective, but I'd say forget about learning any pronunciation for _kanji_ altogether. Concentrate on learning the pronunciation for words instead. IMHO, you are going to g... |
shang | General discussion | 27 | 12,472 | 2009-12-14, 1:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Goodbye Sentences Post: Goodbye Sentences I, too, started doing sentences from Core2000 at first, but let's face it: the sentences in the Core-series are pretty boring. And while you'll have a sentence to provide some context for new vocabula... |
shang | General discussion | 123 | 46,563 | 2009-12-10, 10:35 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread brandon7s Wrote:「昨年は地震が多い年でした。」 Last year there were a lot of earthquakes. What's the purpose of 年 after the word 多い here? If 年 was left out, the sentence would make perfect sense, but I'm not sure ... |
shang | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,256 | 2009-12-09, 6:42 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread brandon7s Wrote:Core2000 defines 持つ as "last long, maintain", but I can find no trace of a meaning that is even remotely similar in a dictionary. Granted, I'm not using a J-J dictionary yet, as that's... |
shang | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,256 | 2009-12-08, 3:21 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread pm215 Wrote:もの in this context is referring to RPGs, so something like "in many games..." would be closer. (もの tends to refer to tangible things and こと to intangibles; I thinkことがある is a bit of a red h... |
shang | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,256 | 2009-12-04, 6:07 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I'm reading a review of a game called "勇者３０" here and I have been bashing my head against this sentence for some time now: 各アクションを行なうのに制限時間は特に設定されていないものが多い。 制限時間は設定されていない I guess would mean somethin... |
shang | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,256 | 2009-12-04, 4:12 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread brandon7s Wrote:I'm back with another question regarding a Core2000 sentence. 「彼に会えて嬉しかった。」 I was glad to meet him. (translation given) I'm trying to fully understand the reasoning for the use of 会え... |
shang | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,256 | 2009-11-30, 3:13 am | ||
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Thread: Question about のに grammar Post: Question about のに grammar Yep, it seems perfectly clear now. Thanks everybody! I ordered the "All about Particles" book too. Seems like an excellent reference for these kind of things. |
shang | The Japanese language | 20 | 5,531 | 2009-11-30, 3:03 am | ||
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Thread: Question about のに grammar Post: Question about のに grammar Thanks! I knew about using の after a verb to turn it into a noun, but this is what tripped me up: mezbup Wrote:of course に here functions like it usually does indicating that what is about to come ne... |
shang | The Japanese language | 20 | 5,531 | 2009-11-29, 5:12 am | ||
