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    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

What would you guys say is the most normal (in regular polite speech) way to ask where someone is from? I'm writing out a lesson plan for tutoring basic Japanese and realised there are so many ways to...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2013-09-27, 11:44 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

Thanks guys. The problem is just basically I left anki for awhile due to personal stuff that was going on and it spiked up to about 500. I do set maximum reviews a day, but it does not help. I'll have...
Tykkylumi Learning resources 448 98,624 2013-09-25, 2:52 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

Sorry to bump, but does anyone know what I'm talking about? It would really help me out. It was just a plugin that spread out x amount of review cards over however many days.
Tykkylumi Learning resources 448 98,624 2013-09-24, 4:12 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

I remember there used to be an addon for spreading out your cards if you had a huge build up of them, does this still exist?
Tykkylumi Learning resources 448 98,624 2013-09-17, 3:11 am
    Thread: Documentaries about Japan
Post: Documentaries about Japan

Thanks for that, I've never heard of that series before! Managed to find quite a few on youtube as well, watched a very interesting one about a Buddhist pilgramage.
Tykkylumi General discussion 4 1,299 2013-07-25, 4:49 am
    Thread: Documentaries about Japan
Post: Documentaries about Japan

This can be a topic for people to post documentary recommendations and possibly links to them. I'm personally looking for documentaries about religion, philosophies and the history of Japan-- but I t...
Tykkylumi General discussion 4 1,299 2013-07-23, 1:36 pm
    Thread: Vocabulary won't stick. Does it take longer than RTK?
Post: Vocabulary won't stick. Does it take longer than R...

Mystery Wrote:Initially I wrote the sentences for each review, but that did take up way too much time. Now I just write the sentence once the very first time I encounter it. After that, I always just ...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 46 10,130 2013-07-22, 12:28 pm
    Thread: Vocabulary won't stick. Does it take longer than RTK?
Post: Vocabulary won't stick. Does it take longer than R...

I would recommend not writing the full sentence down, just say it aloud once and focus on the new word. Say the new word aloud as many times as you wish. You learn best when you learn one thing at onc...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 46 10,130 2013-07-22, 11:10 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

I have a quick question to those of you doing core6k, do you learn the cards before you go through it in anki or do you just jump straight into it on anki?
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 712 401,348 2013-07-02, 5:16 am
    Thread: AnkiEmperor - Build your own empire (aka AnkiWarrior 2.0)
Post: AnkiEmperor - Build your own empire (aka AnkiWarri...

AnkiEmperor is coming up in a seperate window for me and it's a pain having to reposition it every time... is there any way to just make it stay back in the main window?
Tykkylumi Learning resources 180 52,977 2013-07-01, 5:23 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Getting there with Core6k... nearly at 500 words now! Have done anki for 9 days in a row now, and whereas that may not sound like much, I'm normally very bad at making myself do anything everyday. Des...
Tykkylumi General discussion 1,389 294,315 2013-06-24, 9:49 am
    Thread: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor?
Post: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor?

Sorry to bump my own thread (will do it just this once), but does anyone have any advice before I jump into it?
Tykkylumi JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 5 2,913 2013-06-11, 1:50 pm
    Thread: I Love Anki
Post: I Love Anki

Anki is great, but I agree about the new version. Finding it really hard to use compared to the old version and for some reason no plugins are working for me.
Tykkylumi Learning resources 14 3,936 2013-06-05, 6:57 am
    Thread: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor?
Post: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor?

Thanks, I will check this out ASAP! The sound on my laptop is being dodgy atm and I don't know why, not playing anything at all.
Tykkylumi JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 5 2,913 2013-06-05, 6:55 am
    Thread: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor?
Post: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor?

So I'm planning on becoming a personal tutor for awhile, partially for teaching experience and partially for money whilst I'm at university. I'll be tutoring beginner Japanese for now, at a relatively...
Tykkylumi JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 5 2,913 2013-06-04, 1:42 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Ah, I just meant to distinguish between master's degree/phd type things and what I'm doing. Just didn't want to put the wrong meaning forward. But thanks a lot, that helps! If people usually say 論文 I'...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2013-05-02, 7:14 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Just a quick one: does anyone know how to say "dissertation" in Japanese? Particularly, an undergraduate degree's dissertation. I've looked it up in the dictionary but a lot of the results say the mea...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2013-05-02, 6:43 am
    Thread: I need to take the JLPT N2 next year, need some advice
Post: I need to take the JLPT N2 next year, need some ad...

Thanks everyone, this is all really helpful. @sizen, khakionion: Great advice guys. Actually no, I don't need the N3 certification at all... I guess I just thought it'd make sense to take each level ...
Tykkylumi JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 10 5,781 2013-05-02, 5:31 am
    Thread: I need to take the JLPT N2 next year, need some advice
Post: I need to take the JLPT N2 next year, need some ad...

So basically, I want to apply for a postgraduate teacher training degree next year and it requires that I have around an N2 level understanding of Japanese. As my undergraduate degree that I am curren...
Tykkylumi JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 10 5,781 2013-05-01, 1:24 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

That's a brilliant site, thank you! Going to be using this a lot now...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2013-01-17, 8:22 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Me again, stressed about assignments and not being able to think properly... How would you say "influenced by"? As in "I listen to a lot of music that is influenced by this band." Also "Other bands ...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2013-01-16, 4:24 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I need to stop using this thread so much, lol. However, my brain has melted after trying to do my work for hours on end and google is failing me. When I am using と思います, does the thought beforehand ne...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2012-11-25, 11:49 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Tzadeck Wrote:Tykkylumi Wrote:Does anyone know how you would say "stream" as in "streaming videos"? ストリーミング http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E...3%E3%82%B0 Thank you, I don't know why I didn't ...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2012-11-13, 10:06 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Does anyone know how you would say "stream" as in "streaming videos"?
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2012-11-13, 9:33 am
    Thread: Tofugu's Ultimate Japanese Vocab Combo Pack
Post: Tofugu's Ultimate Japanese Vocab Combo Pack

http://www.tofugu.com/shop/ultimate-japa...cab-combo/ Has anyone tried this out? Thoughts/opinions? I got a $5 off voucher for it so I was thinking about trying it but would rather not spend my ...
Tykkylumi Learning resources 1 1,618 2012-09-11, 9:43 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I'm trying to write a quick message to my Japanese teacher asking him if he knows what day Stage 3 Japanese will be on... but my brain is not working -_- Just wanna know how to write something like "D...
Tykkylumi The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,177 2012-08-28, 4:45 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Awesome! I am definitely going to play them in Japanese some time in the near future (once I've gotten through this textbook maybe). Have played the first 4 in English so that should help me out a bit...
Tykkylumi General discussion 1,389 294,315 2012-08-24, 3:14 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

I've started recognising words a lot more easily now, even if I haven't seen them for awhile. As well as this, I keep saying words that I'm not sure where the hell I even learned, but apparently know....
Tykkylumi General discussion 1,389 294,315 2012-08-24, 2:24 pm
    Thread: "Don't repeat my mistakes" thread
Post: "Don't repeat my mistakes" thread

Don't be such a goddamn perfectionist. Got something wrong? Finding something a bit tricky? Worried about missing something? Just move on, carry on. It doesn't matter. Who cares if you miss one word, ...
Tykkylumi General discussion 135 48,917 2012-08-24, 1:55 pm
    Thread: Japanese for Busy People
Post: Japanese for Busy People

Thanks, have had a look through those but most of them only contain a few chapters and aren't quite what I'm looking for. Thanks for the heads up though!
Tykkylumi Learning resources 3 1,009 2012-08-23, 6:15 pm