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Thread: Bilingual Romeo & Juliet production in Nagoya and Tokyo Post: Bilingual Romeo & Juliet production in Nagoya and ... Well, after a successful weekend here in Nagoya, we are bringing our bilingual Romeo & Juliet to those of you in Tokyo. With beautiful costumes and under the lights, the show really came alive an... |
decamer0n | Off topic | 7 | 4,415 | 2008-11-25, 2:17 am | ||
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Thread: Bilingual Romeo & Juliet production in Nagoya and Tokyo Post: Bilingual Romeo & Juliet production in Nagoya and ... KAZELEE: I am fortune's fool!!!!! DECAMER0N: Why dost thou stay? [KAZELEE exits, goes to Japan.] KAZELEE: おお、おれは運命の慰みもの！ DECAMER0N: ぐずぐずするな。 [KAZELEE 退場、 日本へ行きます．] |
decamer0n | Off topic | 7 | 4,415 | 2008-10-06, 2:13 am | ||
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Thread: Bilingual Romeo & Juliet production in Nagoya and Tokyo Post: Bilingual Romeo & Juliet production in Nagoya and ... I haven't been hanging around here for the past 8 months or so, and I am much too terrified to pop over and even look at my expired stacks in the review area. However, I have had an interesting reaso... |
decamer0n | Off topic | 7 | 4,415 | 2008-09-11, 1:59 am | ||
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Thread: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ? Post: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ? Tobberoth Wrote:...one also has to remember that Heisig didn't pick his keywords to let people understand compounds. If you check a kanji on jisho.org and look for Heisigs keyword, you will see that i... |
decamer0n | Remembering the Kanji | 96 | 103,400 | 2008-09-09, 2:54 am | ||
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Thread: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ? Post: What's the point of RtK (Remembering the Kanji) ? I am not sure I agree with the statement that RTK will not give you ANY ability to read Japanese. It really depends on what you mean by "reading Japanese." --If you mean being able to pronounce th... |
decamer0n | Remembering the Kanji | 96 | 103,400 | 2008-09-08, 2:54 am | ||
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Thread: Improving Brain function... Post: Improving Brain function... but don't forget that hitler was a vegetarian and therefore probably didn't eat fish oil either. so, of course it follows that you should eat fish oil and learn a constructed language that begins wi... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 40 | 9,563 | 2007-10-05, 3:38 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? resolve, thanks for giving a really clear example. it is bonkers. i really wasn't envisioning a 20 day pause. just a 2 or 3 day pause. but now i realize that using a short pause too often would ... |
decamer0n | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-10-02, 5:07 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? as i tried to say before, coming back from something like a business trip and facing a huge pile of cards is not merely a "psychological barrier" and shouldn't be discarded as such. it can be a very ... |
decamer0n | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-10-02, 1:54 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? first i want to say that really, seriously, i firmly believe in the effectiveness of SRS and the importance of following its schedule strictly. i preach it and practice it as best as possible. but, ... |
decamer0n | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-10-01, 7:03 am | ||
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Thread: Rule of thumb for ha versus wa pronunciation Post: Rule of thumb for ha versus wa pronunciation thinking about the way i think about these kana exceptions... i think it is easier not to think of these as exceptions to the pronunciation of kana, but as a completely separate use. so the kana, an... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 18 | 7,011 | 2007-09-24, 7:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Rule of thumb for ha versus wa pronunciation Post: Rule of thumb for ha versus wa pronunciation fingerscrossed Wrote:so を and お are generally pronounced the same? no. they are close, but not the same. を is pronounced "wo". it's just that the "w" in "wo" is so soft, that it usually escapes the... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 18 | 7,011 | 2007-09-24, 7:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Rule of thumb for ha versus wa pronunciation Post: Rule of thumb for ha versus wa pronunciation PrettyKitty Wrote:It's 'wa' there. Anytime は is used as a particle it's pronounced 'wa.' Also for では and には it's 'wa.' And for the greetings: こんにちは and こんばんは are both 'wa.' furthermore, to make that ... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 18 | 7,011 | 2007-09-21, 11:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1 Post: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1 Megaqwerty Wrote:the main thing is that these references are obscure for you. If you actually know what the story is alluding to, then they tend to work pretty well. I, for one, never heard of Black W... |
decamer0n | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 15,669 | 2007-09-18, 10:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1 Post: Obscure religious and cultural references in RtK1 this is an interesting thread, and i think it could be well put to use if people can ask questions to the general forum populace about particularly obscure stories and get some background information ... |
decamer0n | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 15,669 | 2007-09-18, 7:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Real Life (tm) success stories Post: Real Life (tm) success stories i finished heisig about two months ago, and beyond simple greetings and how to talk about the weather, heisig is the sum total of my systematic japanese studies thus far. of course it is hardly the e... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 8 | 3,241 | 2007-09-18, 12:04 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2007 Post: JLPT 2007 takoman Wrote:For example, this morning in the bathroom I was reading the label from the can of bathroom deodorizer and saw the kanji 消臭 a little embarassing maybe, but i am curious to know how many o... |
decamer0n | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 23,028 | 2007-09-05, 5:49 am | ||
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Thread: continuation of Christine's discussion - phonetic components Post: continuation of Christine's discussion - phonetic ... the rant insertion probably wasn't such an appropriate move in this thread. but it did have its moments. especially given the human ability to "read into things" even if they are totally irrelevan... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 68 | 16,260 | 2007-09-04, 11:54 pm | ||
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Thread: continuation of Christine's discussion - phonetic components Post: continuation of Christine's discussion - phonetic ... how did the rant-generator come up with this line? i'm afraid it perfectly describes the study section of this site... jonzep's rant Wrote:He then boasts about how he'll project a stream of wishy-wa... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 68 | 16,260 | 2007-09-04, 11:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? i definitely wouldn't expect the application development to need to cater to the few people like me who still have 4gb hard drives. so don't take me the wrong way... however, taking the issue in a ... |
decamer0n | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-09-04, 8:35 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? Kurosawa Wrote:I usually use a lot of example sentences, because I noticed that they help a lot in learning new structures and if you get like three possibilities for every fourth word it gets quickly... |
decamer0n | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-09-04, 8:16 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? Kurosawa Wrote:I really wouldn't call that a minor convenience it's more like a major time saver and 50MB is nothing for that. really? i mean, seriously, it just took me less than a 1/4 second to loo... |
decamer0n | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-09-04, 5:45 am | ||
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Thread: 必 as a primitive Post: 必 as a primitive yeah, i have to be honest, invariably is one of those few primitives that invariably made its way into my stories through clever phrasing of the story rather than an outright visual reference. howeve... |
decamer0n | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 1,689 | 2007-09-04, 4:57 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? Megaqwerty Wrote:If size is the only price for better auto-furigana, then, heck, bring it on. I keep Anki on my smaller of flashdrives and even for that baby, another 50 MB is nothing. Although, it i... |
decamer0n | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-09-04, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji Post: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji Christine_Tham Wrote:The students in my class who have mastered over 1000 don't think it's a huge obstacle learning new kanji, even though they haven't done RTK1. They say getting to 1000 was a challe... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 105 | 22,956 | 2007-08-30, 8:16 am | ||
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Thread: Going to Japan for a couple of weeks and need advice Post: Going to Japan for a couple of weeks and need advi... i agree that 3 out of 15 days is not enough time for tokyo. it has a lot to offer. other people may agree or disagree with my suggestions so collect as many voices as you can. but here i go: tokyo... |
decamer0n | Off topic | 16 | 3,557 | 2007-08-30, 12:25 am | ||
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Thread: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji Post: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji JimmySeal Wrote:I would say I have a solid grasp of 1200 characters (pronunciation, writing, meaning) and still frequently come across characters I cannot pronounce. To that end, I'm glad I know 2000... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 105 | 22,956 | 2007-08-30, 12:07 am | ||
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Thread: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji Post: How the Japanese *really* learn kanji Christine_Tham, i am not going to try to catch you in some falacious error of logic or anything like that, so don't take this as a fully developed logical counter-argument. just an observation for c... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 105 | 22,956 | 2007-08-29, 9:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Going to Japan for a couple of weeks and need advice Post: Going to Japan for a couple of weeks and need advi... welcome to japan! could you start us off by letting us know the general regions you are planning on passing through? |
decamer0n | Off topic | 16 | 3,557 | 2007-08-29, 1:30 am | ||
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Thread: Writing Redundant? Post: Writing Redundant? Nukemarine: yes, you are correct about heisg's suggestion. what heisig brings to the table over the traditional repetitive writing methods is the power of engaging the kanji with the creative visual... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 10 | 2,438 | 2007-08-27, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: Writing Redundant? Post: Writing Redundant? some anecdotal evidence that trying to adapt the heisig method to IME technology may not be a step in the right direction... even before finishing RTK1, i often found that i was better able to write ... |
decamer0n | General discussion | 10 | 2,438 | 2007-08-27, 6:05 am | ||
