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Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?! Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ... (2016-06-08, 12:13 am)NinKenDo Wrote: Do like five cards. You're only obligation is five cards. You can do more, but five cards is your obligation. Congratulations you've finished all 50 cards 20 m... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 1,323 | 2016-06-08, 12:41 pm | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels I regularly read Japanese light novels on my Kindle Paperwhite, and it has no problems with furigana. Note however that if you want to buy ebooks from amazon.co.jp you have to jump through a few hoop... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 24 | 1,884 | 2016-06-07, 4:00 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" threa... This is a passage from the first chapter of 月の影影の海 by 小野不由美. The last sentence is what I'm having trouble with. The second-to-last sentence is saying that the animals are approaching in what seems l... |
shaydwyrm | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,846 | 2016-06-02, 1:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit card Post: RE: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit car... I know White Rabbit Japan has a proxy buying service, though I haven't yet used it. It's a bit pricey for the book I looked up, but it's probably more manageable if you're buying multiple items, and ... |
shaydwyrm | Off topic | 6 | 602 | 2016-05-18, 9:48 am | ||
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Thread: なんでマンドリルは食べるのが得意ですか？ Post: RE: なんでマンドリルは食べるのが得意ですか？ (2016-05-13, 8:57 pm)RawrPk Wrote: I did a bit of research on Madrills and found this: Quote:Mandrills are omnivorous animals and therefore eat almost anything. The mandrill primarily feeds on frui... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 3 | 369 | 2016-05-13, 9:32 pm | ||
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Thread: なんでマンドリルは食べるのが得意ですか？ Post: なんでマンドリルは食べるのが得意ですか？ In Shirokuma Cafe, episode 1, a bunch of animals come in to the cafe for an interview. Here's the scene: Quote:白熊：では、最初の方、どうぞ 穴熊:はい。穴熊です。 白熊:えーと、ホール係りやれますか？ 穴熊:はい！ホールなら任せてください。 白熊、ペンギン:ほ~ 穴熊:穴を掘るの、得意... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 3 | 369 | 2016-05-13, 7:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Good source of Japanese tech news Post: Good source of Japanese tech news I'm thinking it might be time to start moving some of my tech news input to Japanese. Does anyone have any recommendations for sites they like? In particular I'm looking for sites that have good cove... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 2 | 489 | 2016-04-24, 11:01 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: RE: The "I just finished RTK1, please congrat... Done! Second time through the book was still pretty hard, though I clearly retained a few stories. I'm pumped to be able to put the time I was spending on new kanji into something more interesting, ... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,367 | 2016-04-20, 9:16 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-04-06, 8:58 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: I'm reading this article on 迷信 in Tobira and stumbled upon this: カミナリが鳴るとおへそを取られるので、すぐにお腹を隠すこと。 I have not idea what this means. I think the only thing I get ... |
shaydwyrm | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,846 | 2016-04-06, 10:26 pm | ||
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Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback This is a pretty specific bug, but when I type "un-" into the keyword box in the Browse section of the site, 非 (1632) shows up as an autocomplete option. When I click on that, however, I am taken to ... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 122 | 15,675 | 2016-04-03, 8:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Some doubts regarding RTK1 Post: RE: Some doubts regarding RTK1 The research I've read recently says that, while some people may have a preference for visual vs verbal/written learning, almost everyone has better results when using both at the same time. With tha... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 1,264 | 2016-04-01, 4:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Shadowing resources Post: RE: Shadowing resources I have the Shadowing Japanese book, and it definitely has useful dialogues in it, but I can't clearly say that they're more useful than, say, the dialogues on JapanesePod101.com. I think you could pr... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 13 | 1,328 | 2016-04-01, 4:13 pm | ||
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Thread: App for NHK Easy News with links to original articles Post: RE: App for NHK Easy News with links to original a... If I was studying on desktop, that would totally work. On Android/Chrome, however, I can't see any of the pop-up definitions or furigana on NHK Easy. |
shaydwyrm | Learning resources | 5 | 658 | 2016-03-30, 12:10 pm | ||
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Thread: App for NHK Easy News with links to original articles Post: RE: App for NHK Easy News with links to original a... I've done so :) I was in a kind of frustrated mood when I wrote the OP, so it's making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill. After thinking about it a bit, my workflow is now: Read an article in t... |
shaydwyrm | Learning resources | 5 | 658 | 2016-03-30, 11:22 am | ||
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Thread: App for NHK Easy News with links to original articles Post: App for NHK Easy News with links to original artic... I've been using the NHK Easy Japanese News app daily for a while now, and apart from crashing periodically it works great. However, recently I've been wanting to read the unsimplified versions of the ... |
shaydwyrm | Learning resources | 5 | 658 | 2016-03-28, 11:25 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: RE: Half way! Just made it past 1100 on my second run through RTK, the first being more than 6 years ago. This time around I'm making the effort to put a reading or two on the front of each card. I know a lot mor... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,282 | 2016-03-13, 5:36 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-03-10, 7:03 pm)Ash_S Wrote: (2016-03-10, 12:23 pm)shaydwyrm Wrote: Thanks! I didn't realize ことができる was a grammar point, I'll have to add it to my SRS. Edit: Wait, of course I know ことができる, I... |
shaydwyrm | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,846 | 2016-03-10, 7:41 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-03-10, 11:46 am)Ash_S Wrote: We can say that スタービジョン is our eyes which have advanced/extended into the milky way. 銀河系に進出した modifies わたしたちの目, hence "our eyes which have..." ～～～ということができましょう we... |
shaydwyrm | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,846 | 2016-03-10, 12:23 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread This is from ようこそ地球さん, a book of short stories by 星新一. This particular story is about a TV show covering the arrival of an interplanetary probe (nicknamed スタービジョン) on another planet, and this phrase ... |
shaydwyrm | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,846 | 2016-03-10, 11:16 am | ||
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Thread: Extensive reading and kanji compound readings Post: Extensive reading and kanji compound readings I've read that with extensive reading, it's best to already know something like 96-98% of the words in the text. At this level you can infer the meaning of the words from context, and thus acquire ne... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 4 | 637 | 2016-02-12, 5:17 pm | ||
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Thread: About Japanese Names Etymology Post: About Japanese Names Etymology Maybe there's an additional connotation of, like, concern the hardships of others, a sort of sympathetic pain? 憂国 (patriotism) isn't so depressing, but still has that element of sort of supportive wo... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 12 | 4,520 | 2009-07-08, 11:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Struggling with the method Post: Struggling with the method There are two possibilities. Yes, one is that you are going too fast - everyone has a different pace that's appropriate for their memory and their time constraints. The other, however, is that you'r... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 65 | 10,385 | 2009-07-02, 1:36 am | ||
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Thread: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... Post: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... magamo Wrote:一筋ずつ書き並べた文 is really hard to translate in English... It's not "a series of sentences listed in a row." It's more like "one of sentences listed in a row," but still there is something not ... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 4,552 | 2009-07-01, 6:05 pm | ||
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Thread: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... Post: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... magamo Wrote:一筋ずつ書き並べた文 is something like this: 1. XXX 2. YYY 3. ZZZ This style of itemizing is called 箇条書き (かじょうがき) in Japanese. A to-do list is a typical example of the style; each item is usually... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 4,552 | 2009-07-01, 5:12 am | ||
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Thread: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... Post: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... magamo Wrote:条 means an article as in "the Article of War" and "the ninth article of the Constitution." So each article of the Articles of Confederation is sort of 条, though it is translated as 規約 for... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 4,552 | 2009-07-01, 4:41 am | ||
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Thread: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... Post: 条 ... twig? Really? I'm skeptical ... 柳条 is all I could find, along with a small number of plant biology terms, in WWWJDIC. However, the Yahoo! dictionary entry for this kanji has this as the first meaning: 「木の細い枝」, citing 枝条 and 柳条 as (... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 4,552 | 2009-07-01, 4:09 am | ||
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Thread: Starting over...too fast? Post: Starting over...too fast? kioku Wrote:I think the most important thing to ask yourself is why you stopped using Japanese a year ago; address that issue. If you stopped studying because you got sick of daily reviewing, it migh... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 9 | 1,831 | 2009-07-01, 12:34 am | ||
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Thread: Suggested Pace Post: Suggested Pace There are people on this forum that have gone as quickly as 100 per day or more, so 40 per day doesn't seem overly ambitious. You will, however, quickly find your own pace once your SRS of choice sta... |
shaydwyrm | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 1,986 | 2009-06-30, 9:45 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK book review Post: RTK book review I posted my own endrosement of RTK on my blog. As a total novice blogger and book reviewer, I'd love to get some feedback from the rest of you RTK enthusiasts! |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 3 | 1,063 | 2009-06-30, 6:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Starting over...too fast? Post: Starting over...too fast? It's been about a year since I last used any Japanese, but I'm working on getting back into studying in the hopes of going back there in a year or two. Since starting to study again, the biggest thin... |
shaydwyrm | General discussion | 9 | 1,831 | 2009-06-30, 12:26 am | ||
