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Thread: Anyone in Japan who will proxy buy from iTunes? Post: Anyone in Japan who will proxy buy from iTunes? You can buy the Japanese iTunes gift cards. I don't know how hard it is to get them if you aren't in Japan, but if you're in Japan, they're sold at a lot of places. |
Grinkers | Off topic | 1 | 881 | 2010-07-30, 10:45 pm | ||
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Thread: stuff ive learnt from japan Post: stuff ive learnt from japan Jarvik7 Wrote:Even then you'd be making less than private teaching with a good number of students (I'm up to about 15 now). 15? That's an impressive amount. How do you manage to schedule that all? I'... |
Grinkers | General discussion | 134 | 25,122 | 2010-07-17, 2:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Left vs Right Brain & Learning Kanji Post: Left vs Right Brain & Learning Kanji oregum Wrote:As long as you are either left or right handed, being able to see the girl spin in either direction is believed to positive because you can employee a combination of L+R hemispheres to he... |
Grinkers | The Japanese language | 23 | 8,363 | 2010-07-12, 1:06 am | ||
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Thread: Left vs Right Brain & Learning Kanji Post: Left vs Right Brain & Learning Kanji The lady was twirling back and forth from the instant I saw it, does that make me weird? I have trouble getting her to stay in one direction for more than a few rotations. I declare I'm front brain! |
Grinkers | The Japanese language | 23 | 8,363 | 2010-07-11, 10:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Dictionary thread time! ^_^ Post: Dictionary thread time! ^_^ I'm thinking about selling my denshi jisho and just using my iphone. For the people using epwing dictionaries on the iphone, how is it? I remember seeing people saying they can use daijirin and NHK ac... |
Grinkers | Learning resources | 22 | 9,163 | 2010-07-05, 12:20 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread There was 4 (and sometimes 3) possible questions. So 20% seems pretty low. |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,543 | 2010-07-04, 8:25 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread I took a look at last year's JLPT1 to compare with today's N1, and it seems like a much better test overall. I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like the content is more practical, which probab... |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,543 | 2010-07-04, 6:47 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread I just got back from taking N1 too. I've never taken JLPT before and did no studying for the test, but I found it pretty easy. I heard it was supposed to be much harder than the previous 1, so it was ... |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,543 | 2010-07-04, 5:35 am | ||
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Thread: The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2010 Post: The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2010 I live in Tokyo, and I'm only at about $1300usd/month, including all living expenses. It's actually significantly cheaper than San Francisco and Silicon Valley, where I used to live. In the US my ... |
Grinkers | Off topic | 115 | 33,081 | 2010-06-29, 3:30 am | ||
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Thread: PS3 JRPGs? Post: PS3 JRPGs? arch9443 Wrote:Grinkers Wrote:You can get Valkyria Chronicles and FF13 for under 2000 yen used in Japan now. That's cheap enough to buy again. If you aren't in Japan, I'm not sure how you'd order the... |
Grinkers | General discussion | 26 | 7,171 | 2010-06-28, 4:36 am | ||
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Thread: PS3 JRPGs? Post: PS3 JRPGs? You can get Valkyria Chronicles and FF13 for under 2000 yen used in Japan now. That's cheap enough to buy again. If you aren't in Japan, I'm not sure how you'd order them though. |
Grinkers | General discussion | 26 | 7,171 | 2010-06-28, 4:20 am | ||
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Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Yay! I can't wait. Well worth the $25. I hope saves have helped boosted your revenue. It's great getting such great support. |
Grinkers | Learning resources | 401 | 86,877 | 2010-06-26, 6:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? I love the application! I'm just wondering if it's possible to support iOS4's multitasking features. Most specifically the "fast switch" one. It'd be great if a deck was "always open". Is it even pos... |
Grinkers | Learning resources | 401 | 86,877 | 2010-06-26, 6:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Cramming for JLPT Level 1 in 1 Week Post: Cramming for JLPT Level 1 in 1 Week Kind of off topic, but are you allowed to use hearing aids during the test? I did a 2009 level 1 practice test at school last week without my hearing aids (forgot them in the morning). I passed all t... |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 7,462 | 2010-06-25, 9:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Monbukagakusho Scholarship Post: Monbukagakusho Scholarship vix86 Wrote:Oh shit really? Is this across the board increase? Because my personal goal at the moment is a masters state side and then hopefully do my Ph.D under a professor there doing some interesti... |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 71 | 34,071 | 2010-06-22, 3:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Monbukagakusho Scholarship Post: Monbukagakusho Scholarship TheVinster Wrote:Grinkers, looked at Waseda and I don't think they have any majors I'm looking for. I wish to work in the game industry, so it'll have to be more of a technical school. Outline of the ... |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 71 | 34,071 | 2010-06-21, 11:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Monbukagakusho Scholarship Post: Monbukagakusho Scholarship @TheVinster You should check out Waseda. They've been trying to increase foreign students lately, and have a program to enter without any Japanese ability. If I recall correctly, 1st year is English,... |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 71 | 34,071 | 2010-06-21, 5:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Time to switch to chinese... Post: Time to switch to chinese... BlueFinger Wrote:Japan is believed to become economically worse than Argentina in the next two decades. I don't see that as a huge investment. Some also believe Japan will ride right through all the p... |
Grinkers | Off topic | 50 | 7,796 | 2010-06-12, 10:42 am | ||
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Thread: Keeping it at RTK, is it possible? Post: Keeping it at RTK, is it possible? If you're using an SRS, then you won't forget them. You'll probably reach an asymptote after a certain point (forgetting and having reviews spread out so due cards per day don't change much). I'm gu... |
Grinkers | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 2,115 | 2010-06-12, 8:52 am | ||
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Thread: Time to switch to chinese... Post: Time to switch to chinese... Also, don't forget us native English speakers learning Japanese have a huge advantage over Japanese learning English. We have an an advantage of doing Japanese to English, and they have an advantage o... |
Grinkers | Off topic | 50 | 7,796 | 2010-06-12, 6:17 am | ||
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Thread: Expectations Post: Expectations I've had some interesting situations with expectations. My name and body is Japanese (3rd generation Japanese-American), so when I speak Japanese they're *expecting* me to be good to perfect. I just t... |
Grinkers | General discussion | 21 | 5,635 | 2010-06-11, 9:13 am | ||
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Thread: What constitutes Meaning? Post: What constitutes Meaning? IceCream Wrote:The dissertation I got lost on the word "dissertation". :( I looked it up, is it different from the word "theory"? Either Japan ruined my English, or I've never heard it before... I'll... |
Grinkers | Off topic | 8 | 2,385 | 2010-06-06, 12:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Monbukagakusho Scholarship Post: Monbukagakusho Scholarship bebio Wrote:my suggestion would be... ビンス・ジョーセフ・ラディサ in case Joseph is pronounced like "Ioseph", then it would be ヨーセフ ヴィンス also works, and it's more "cool" |
Grinkers | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 71 | 34,071 | 2010-06-04, 12:11 am | ||
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Thread: Introducing the iPed! Post: Introducing the iPed! It's cheap enough to buy on a whim too. I'd be interested if the battery life was decent. |
Grinkers | General discussion | 8 | 1,484 | 2010-05-31, 10:22 am | ||
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Thread: a good names deck? Post: a good names deck? When using a names deck, I think one should be cautious as well. There's LOTS of names with many readings, so you might actually make mistakes with people's names later down the road. I'm all for lea... |
Grinkers | The Japanese language | 16 | 2,386 | 2010-05-31, 12:03 am | ||
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Thread: a good names deck? Post: a good names deck? I personally don't think studying names of people you don't know is that great. I personally study names/name kanji/etc as I meet them. It gives you something to picture with the name, and also you ca... |
Grinkers | The Japanese language | 16 | 2,386 | 2010-05-30, 11:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Looking forward to LaTeX for equations! I just started adding a few physics formula to test the waters for non-Japanese cards a few days ago, so perfect timing. Thanks for the hard work Resolve. |
Grinkers | Learning resources | 401 | 86,877 | 2010-05-30, 6:52 am | ||
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Thread: Magnets - How do they work? Post: Magnets - How do they work? Jarvik7 Wrote:nest0r Wrote:What's this got to do with learning Japanese?? Mcjon, care to explain? They have magnets in Japan, but they are, on average, not as fat as our magnets. I found that offensiv... |
Grinkers | Off topic | 59 | 8,988 | 2010-05-29, 2:58 am | ||
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Thread: Magnets - How do they work? Post: Magnets - How do they work? You learn something new everyday on these forums! :rolleyes: |
Grinkers | Off topic | 59 | 8,988 | 2010-05-28, 10:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying? I found multitasking pretty underwhelming on my 3G iphone. If I had a 3Gs I'd be all over it, but I just don't have enough ram. I jailbreak only for Anki (now I don't need it), SSH, and flashlight. I... |
Grinkers | Learning resources | 401 | 86,877 | 2010-05-28, 12:10 pm | ||
