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Thread: Nihongo Challenge for N4 Post: RE: Nihongo Challenge for N4 It is, I like Nihongo Challenge/Soumatome a lot but the grammar explanations are extremely succinct, so you'll need an extra source for grammar! |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 2 | 448 | 2016-04-16, 1:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Genki 1 plus whatelse should I get. Post: RE: Genki 1 plus whatelse should I get. I think for N4 a vocabulary list and some listening practice would help, but you don't need a JLPT guide for those. |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 5 | 750 | 2015-12-25, 9:03 am | ||
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Thread: Genki 1 plus whatelse should I get. Post: RE: Genki 1 plus whatelse should I get. I'd say yes to all except maybe the N5 guide - I think N5 is so easy you don't really need a guide (in fact you could probably already pass it if you know some "watashi wa" Japanese). But the higher t... |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 5 | 750 | 2015-12-25, 8:06 am | ||
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Thread: Advice on continuing my studies Post: RE: Advice on continuing my studies I'd suggest getting the Dictionaries of Japanese Grammar. There is a lot of information on Imabi but the explanations aren't the clearest sometimes... make sure you have a more "natural" resource beca... |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 1 | 684 | 2015-12-22, 5:41 am | ||
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Thread: [Video] Can Japanese Actually Write Japanese (Kanji)? Post: RE: [Video] Can Japanese Actually Write Japanese (... I have a Japanese friend and she sometimes forgets kanji or gets them mixed up (but these mistakes make sense, though - for example 芯 and 針 in the context of stationery.) She also gives me weird stare... |
poblequadrat | Off topic | 32 | 4,356 | 2015-12-21, 3:36 am | ||
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Thread: Strangest word you've come across? Post: RE: Strangest word you've come across? (2015-12-01, 7:09 am)waynelam8 Wrote: 別腹 (べつばら) Having room for dessert despite being full [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Iv7O9qAHg] |
poblequadrat | The Japanese language | 57 | 9,861 | 2015-12-17, 11:57 am | ||
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Thread: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? Post: RE: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? (2015-12-10, 2:38 pm)poblequadrat Wrote: (2015-12-08, 3:17 pm)dtcamero Wrote: update... this is officially an audio version of the blue dress. apparently we process audio frequencies differently ... |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 27 | 2,645 | 2015-12-12, 8:09 am | ||
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Thread: Anki deck: JMdict complete Post: RE: Anki deck: JMdict complete (2015-06-06, 4:48 pm)anotherjohn Wrote: Btw 姫 is a very common indeed if you like anime/manga ;) Or history or mythology! |
poblequadrat | Learning resources | 15 | 3,330 | 2015-12-10, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? Post: RE: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? (2015-12-08, 3:17 pm)dtcamero Wrote: update... this is officially an audio version of the blue dress. apparently we process audio frequencies differently and if you play the audio at different spee... |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 27 | 2,645 | 2015-12-10, 2:38 pm | ||
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Thread: What's your 2016 study plan? Post: RE: What's your 2016 study plan? Turn all the Genki stuff into Anki cards, finish RTK (just 550 to go!), learn one Japanese word for every kanji in RTK, hopefully read a bit and try to actually use Japanese when talking to my Japanes... |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 28 | 3,847 | 2015-12-02, 7:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Genki. How long does it take to finish a chapter Post: RE: Genki. How long does it take to finish a chapt... However long it takes you to do the workbook exercices without having to think about it. You could spend one week on one lesson and then quiz yourself the week after as if you were taking an exam. |
poblequadrat | Learning resources | 14 | 1,557 | 2015-11-29, 4:24 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread Post: RE: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" t... (2015-10-25, 12:27 am)ginpaku Wrote: Greetings! I signed up with Koohii/this forum back in mid-2012, right when I started RTK1 6th edition. It took me a little over a year to finish RTK1, just beca... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 93 | 58,963 | 2015-11-15, 7:47 pm | ||
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Thread: If you knew then what you know now.... Post: RE: If you knew then what you know now.... (2015-11-15, 6:15 pm)Altaira Wrote: Hi, I posted here a few years ago when I first started studying Japanese. This forum was so much help and was very encouraging. Sadly, after about two years I p... |
poblequadrat | General discussion | 12 | 1,470 | 2015-11-15, 7:33 pm | ||
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Thread: 376 and it is getting hard Post: RE: 376 and it is getting hard (2015-10-01, 12:12 am)Dudeist Wrote: I did a little experiment the other day. Went through the index on a recognition trip. First 200 I was getting over 95% right, never 200, about 90% If I were tra... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 46 | 5,986 | 2015-11-15, 7:28 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: RE: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Wow, that took WAY longer than I expected (basically because I burnt out and didn't do much for 1,5 months), but I'm finally on frame 1650! I'm even starting to pick up random kanji I come across! :D... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,174 | 2015-11-15, 7:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling Post: Regarding Anki word recalling I think adding collocations and particles to cards is useful/a necessity unless we're talking about very unambiguous words such as "犬" or "食べる". They don't have to be full sentences, though! |
poblequadrat | Learning resources | 48 | 5,513 | 2015-11-12, 5:16 am | ||
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Thread: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to say the compounds Post: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to... john555 Wrote:Zgarbas Wrote:Quote:What you're overlooking here though is that to native English speakers (in North America anyway) some meanings of these homonyms are much more common than others, so ... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 30 | 5,381 | 2015-11-09, 5:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Remaining Jinmeiyou not in the CJK Unified Ideographs range Post: Remaining Jinmeiyou not in the CJK Unified Ideogra... eh, those are almost like differences in calligraphic style, although I understand the stroke order/stroke count is altered honestly i don't see the point in having unsimplified kanji in the jinmeiyo... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 1,144 | 2015-11-07, 7:07 am | ||
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Thread: Question about learning compounds...kanji vs. phonetic Post: Question about learning compounds...kanji vs. phon... I find jukugo very difficult to remember without the kanji. Kanji plus pronunciation does trip you up when you start learning a word, but it gets easier after a while (one week of Anki-style reviews -... |
poblequadrat | Learning resources | 5 | 834 | 2015-11-04, 6:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Zgarbas Wrote:And there are most definitely no cases of people who are raised in bilingual environments which end up not being fluent in either language, and even if there were, it does not pose a pro... |
poblequadrat | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,104 | 2015-10-30, 2:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) You could probably abandon kanji for kun-yomi and keep them for on-yomi without much hassle at all. IIRC this is what Koreans used to do before dropping hanja altogether. In fact, this is to some exte... |
poblequadrat | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,104 | 2015-10-28, 4:45 pm | ||
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Thread: help with long reviews / should I finish the RTK earlier Post: help with long reviews / should I finish the RTK e... you make it sound as if ignoring stroke order made things easier, which in my experience is not true - it helps you break the kanji down, develop muscle memory and gives you yet another clue to rememb... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 1,514 | 2015-10-24, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: help with long reviews / should I finish the RTK earlier Post: help with long reviews / should I finish the RTK e... Don't mess with the review process, just don't add any new cards for three or four weeks - I got to 1512 in about one month and now I'm down to ~35-40 reviews a day. If I don't fail that many cards I ... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 1,514 | 2015-10-24, 5:51 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread viharati Wrote:poblequadrat Wrote:I came across the line いつも知らんプリ in a song. It's a liaison of 知らぬ and 振り. Ohhhhhh I see! I'm so ignorant! Thanks a lot to you and Tzadeck! |
poblequadrat | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,194 | 2015-10-22, 5:47 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I came across the line いつも知らんプリ in a song. I'm assuming this プリ is for "pretend", but is this an actual construction used in real Japanese? Or is it some sort of outdated slang? The song is from the l... |
poblequadrat | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,194 | 2015-10-18, 6:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... There are very few Roms where I'm from so maybe that's why there isn't any sort of active scene against them - in fact I live in a neighbourhood with a traditional Rom presence and it's just like a co... |
poblequadrat | Off topic | 168 | 10,713 | 2015-10-01, 2:56 am | ||
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Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Zgarbas Wrote:poblequadrat Wrote:"whiteness" doesn't really exist in europe (outside nazi circles) so i'm probably missing something. Doesn't it? Whiteness is a pretty huge deal where I'm from. Everyo... |
poblequadrat | Off topic | 168 | 10,713 | 2015-10-01, 2:36 am | ||
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Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... kameden Wrote:Zgarbas Wrote:'someone called insulted because she over-generalised people of a group she disliked and denied my individual agency in the matter' 'That's because this girl is an idiot, l... |
poblequadrat | Off topic | 168 | 10,713 | 2015-09-30, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... quite simply: that's what you get when your left-wing doesn't come from the communist tradition |
poblequadrat | Off topic | 168 | 10,713 | 2015-09-29, 6:13 pm | ||
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Thread: 376 and it is getting hard Post: 376 and it is getting hard Dudeist Wrote:I seem to be having a problem with element order. For example Is 書, Write... I WRITE with my BRUSH all over the DAY or I WRITE all DAY with my BRUSH Even worse are Kanji where in ord... |
poblequadrat | Remembering the Kanji | 46 | 5,986 | 2015-09-29, 6:11 pm | ||
