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    Thread: Accent-less Speech
Post: Accent-less Speech

This book has quite a lot of good drills and exercises: http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%...4883192954
Evangelo The Japanese language 6 1,703 2012-05-26, 11:20 pm
    Thread: My story of JLPT 1 in 2.5 years
Post: My story of JLPT 1 in 2.5 years

Thanks for the links to the polyglot plugin, it's really helpful!
Evangelo JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 30 15,405 2011-06-11, 6:35 pm
    Thread: Long Kanji Words Thread.
Post: Long Kanji Words Thread.

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Evangelo The Japanese language 18 5,429 2010-09-09, 4:28 pm
    Thread: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread
Post: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread

xeno_panda Wrote:If those lists are the same as the ones from tanos.co.uk (http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/jlpt1/vocab/), then I'm using it too (I finally settled on a list to study!). But for the tanos ...
Evangelo JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 70 33,014 2010-09-07, 3:53 am
    Thread: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread
Post: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread

Here's a list of free 社説: http://www.asahi.com/paper/editorial.html http://www.nikkei.com/news/editorial/ http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/ http://mainichi.jp/select/opinion/editorial/ If you r...
Evangelo JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 70 33,014 2010-08-27, 2:30 am
    Thread: Getting a job in Japan
Post: Getting a job in Japan

I'd grind out Japanese to at least 2kyuu, and get a job in Japan as a copy checker or the like. There's plenty of need for foreigners in this country, and the need is growing drastically.
Evangelo JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 18 8,481 2010-07-08, 4:37 pm
    Thread: Any advice on buying Japanese-language books in Japan?
Post: Any advice on buying Japanese-language books in Ja...

I'd third Book-Off, and highly suggest getting manga. There's lots of 105 yen manga, most of it is very good, and most manga has furigana to go with the kanji. It's a fun way to learn to words and re...
Evangelo Learning resources 5 1,109 2010-06-30, 4:11 pm
    Thread: Dr. James W. Heisig on Remembering The Kanji
Post: Dr. James W. Heisig on Remembering The Kanji

Thanks for the link! This is a million times better than reading it in his book!
Evangelo Remembering the Kanji 7 3,276 2010-06-25, 11:07 pm
    Thread: Cramming for JLPT Level 1 in 1 Week
Post: Cramming for JLPT Level 1 in 1 Week

Try reading 社説 from newspapers. They're usually used on the long reading sections as the hardest of the hard. If you can get through a couple dozen of these in a week, you'll be in good condition. ht...
Evangelo JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 13 7,462 2010-06-25, 11:03 pm
    Thread: Optimizing Sentence Mining News
Post: Optimizing Sentence Mining News

I've decided to make my next goal to work my way through news stories. I've finished sentence mining RTK, KO2001, Kanji in Context, the JLPT 2 and 1 vocab lists, and I want to really round out my lear...
Evangelo General discussion 0 544 2010-06-09, 7:20 am
    Thread: Japanese from Japanese Porn
Post: Japanese from Japanese Porn

So anyone interesting in making a "Filthy, Dirty, Horrible Japanese" Anki Deck?
Evangelo The Japanese language 113 126,285 2010-06-04, 4:21 am
    Thread: RTK Screen Saver?
Post: RTK Screen Saver?

Thanks for all the posts everyone! I tried the screensaver in nest0r's last post, and it works great!
Evangelo Remembering the Kanji 49 22,273 2010-05-30, 4:35 am
    Thread: RTK Screen Saver?
Post: RTK Screen Saver?

Blahah- Thanks for the reply. If there's already a screensaver that allows you to input text, then that might be able to work fine. That said, there's thousands upon thousands of "Matrix Screensav...
Evangelo Remembering the Kanji 49 22,273 2010-05-29, 9:07 am
    Thread: RTK Screen Saver?
Post: RTK Screen Saver?

So after rewatching "The Matrix" today in J, I saw that there was a lot of Japanese characters thrown into the "code". So it got me thinking, what if there was a way to make a screen saver that loope...
Evangelo Remembering the Kanji 49 22,273 2010-05-29, 8:51 am
    Thread: Creation Museum in Kentucky (US)
Post: Creation Museum in Kentucky (US)

Thanks for the pics. That museum was a really a big joke.
Evangelo Off topic 35 5,136 2010-05-28, 6:34 pm
    Thread: So I'm moving to Japan in a couple of months...
Post: So I'm moving to Japan in a couple of months...

nalcomis Wrote:Zorlee, My advice to you is to MAKE people speak to you in Japanese. ... Just do it! This is awesome advice. I just started doing this about a week ago and wish I had done it soon...
Evangelo The Japanese language 33 5,475 2010-05-24, 7:16 am
    Thread: Japanese Commercials thread
Post: Japanese Commercials thread

[Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8zwPhtgs...re=related]
Evangelo General discussion 28 5,963 2010-05-17, 4:46 am
    Thread: Maximize my listening skill in 2 months without being a hikikomori
Post: Maximize my listening skill in 2 months without be...

gyuujuice Wrote:http://www.whiterabbitpress.com/catalog/...16739.html ... People have told me many times that the first book is amazing. I haven't used it though. Here's something similar, for free: ...
Evangelo The Japanese language 29 8,712 2010-05-17, 4:31 am
    Thread: TV news and talk shows request
Post: TV news and talk shows request

Most news stations have started streaming their news in the past year or two. I like NHK the most because it's the driest, most straightforward news available. Also, they have the best setup. That ju...
Evangelo Learning resources 13 2,256 2010-05-16, 8:12 am
    Thread: Tips on one-to-one tutoring
Post: Tips on one-to-one tutoring

For the students that don't know what they want, you can just print these free lessons, and tailor it to their needs: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
Evangelo Off topic 7 1,679 2010-05-09, 10:11 am
    Thread: Better sleep with F.lux
Post: Better sleep with F.lux

Thanks for this! This is really easy on the eyes and, hopefully, my sleep cycle as well.
Evangelo Off topic 47 19,436 2010-04-01, 2:53 pm
    Thread: Massive Collection of Videos of Non-Native Speakers Speaking Japanese
Post: Massive Collection of Videos of Non-Native Speaker...

RTK Forum, First, thanks for helping me immeasurably with my Japanese studies and coming up with countless ideas and tweaks to help make learning Japanese more fun and productive. I can't really expr...
Evangelo General discussion 5 1,681 2010-03-21, 8:00 am
    Thread: Hey Guys I made it on Japanese TV! 会社の星
Post: Hey Guys I made it on Japanese TV! 会社の星

Saizen- Congratulations on making to such a big show! I've actually watched it here several times in Osaka over other shows. I think you did a great job showing how even in a short time you can lear...
Evangelo General discussion 76 16,368 2010-03-20, 2:19 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Congrats to everyone on taking this massive step towards fluency!
Evangelo Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,633 2010-02-13, 1:50 pm
    Thread: Kanji In Context sentences project
Post: Kanji In Context sentences project

If anyone on the group is interested in adding simple English translations, let me know. I would be interested in collaborating on that as well.
Evangelo Group study 109 61,168 2010-02-13, 3:11 am
    Thread: Kanji In Context sentences project
Post: Kanji In Context sentences project

cm2jr4 Wrote:email sent Same here. Excite to get into this thing.
Evangelo Group study 109 61,168 2010-02-12, 4:24 am
    Thread: I want to make a sentence pack of pick up lines
Post: I want to make a sentence pack of pick up lines

johnny_s Wrote:There is a book called 'Making out in Japanese'. It's not bad and has quite a lot of casual Japanese for informal situations. The phrases for freeting and like and dislikes of food are ...
Evangelo Group study 17 9,584 2010-02-12, 4:20 am
    Thread: Kanzen Master 2kyuu 文法
Post: Kanzen Master 2kyuu 文法

skinnyneo Wrote:Yeah, I did split them off. I personally don't have the 1級 books so I can't really mine it with anybody but if somebody would want to take it on then I'll make them the owner of it. ...
Evangelo Group study 253 93,882 2010-01-09, 9:47 am
    Thread: Best way to become efficient in writing Japanese?
Post: Best way to become efficient in writing Japanese?

If you got free time, check out Lang-8. Lots of native speakers correcting your blog. http://lang-8.com/
Evangelo General discussion 14 5,901 2010-01-09, 9:40 am
    Thread: The way things used to be, a condensed history of AJATT
Post: The way things used to be, a condensed history of ...

All things considered, you guys should present alternates or new twists on AJATT instead of writing so much about it. Everyone would benefit. :D
Evangelo Off topic 97 24,503 2010-01-09, 9:36 am