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Thread: American History Post: American History thecite Wrote:smartazjb0y Wrote:Thair be some pretentious shiz goin' on in her'! Politics always brings on intense debate, although I agree that I go over the top sometimes and end up sounding like a ... |
smartazjb0y | Off topic | 90 | 16,348 | 2010-08-06, 12:55 am | ||
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Thread: American History Post: American History Thair be some pretentious shiz goin' on in her'! |
smartazjb0y | Off topic | 90 | 16,348 | 2010-08-06, 12:43 am | ||
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Thread: Any recommended text books? Post: Any recommended text books? Genki I and II are pretty good textbooks, especially with the CD's and workbook. They have vocabulary, dialogues, practice exercises, and grammar, and they do use kanji/furigana. |
smartazjb0y | Learning resources | 5 | 1,149 | 2010-07-25, 7:57 pm | ||
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Thread: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows? Post: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows? I wouldn't mind an American/Western Drama, except in Japanese. Imagine House or Breaking Bad or something like that, but in Japanese. That'd be cool. |
smartazjb0y | General discussion | 40 | 17,394 | 2010-07-23, 10:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Caption2Ass Post: Caption2Ass Cyborg Ninja Wrote:yudantaiteki Wrote:That has to be one of the worst names for a program I've seen. For some reason it reminds me of Requiem for a Dream. The movie? Vaguely, I guess. |
smartazjb0y | Learning resources | 12 | 6,267 | 2010-07-19, 10:03 pm | ||
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Thread: *walking legs, *taskmaster Post: *walking legs, *taskmaster The ">" shape in walking legs is one stroke, while in taskmaster, it's two. To make them look different, make the first part of the stroke extend farther out horizontally in taskmaster. |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,785 | 2010-07-11, 10:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki + Japanese = 6 pack abbs Post: Anki + Japanese = 6 pack abbs I have twig arms and I really need to start exercising, and I would love to do this, but no iPhone =/ |
smartazjb0y | Learning resources | 17 | 5,177 | 2010-07-11, 12:40 am | ||
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Thread: Not remembering stories... Post: Not remembering stories... I don't know if it's "wrong" or "bad for learning," but maybe try learning just the keyword and story together, without the kanji. At first I did that: I printed out a sheet listing just the keyword a... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 5,860 | 2010-07-11, 12:38 am | ||
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Thread: Not remembering stories... Post: Not remembering stories... 95% is a godly retention rate. |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 5,860 | 2010-07-09, 12:26 am | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners In that case, use this site's stuff. The Anki deck has a lot of extra information that might be overwhelming. On this site, it's just the keyword and the kanji, and the story if you need it. |
smartazjb0y | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,405 | 2010-07-08, 7:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Not remembering stories... Post: Not remembering stories... As ファブリス detailed in his post, that's the technique you should eventually be using. I'd say stop learning until you feel comfortable with that technique, and when you think you have it down, try learn... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 5,860 | 2010-07-08, 5:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Not remembering stories... Post: Not remembering stories... Well, I'd say to stop learning new kanji for a while. You want to focus on the 100 you already have and try to remember your story for each one. Again, make the story something that's memorable so tha... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 5,860 | 2010-07-08, 5:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Possible plan for studying sorted-kanji vocab along w/ RTK? Post: Possible plan for studying sorted-kanji vocab alon... http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5110 Here, Nukemarine talks about kind of doing sorted vocabulary and RTK at the same time. Maybe have a look and see if that's what you meant. |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,804 | 2010-07-07, 12:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Benefits of RTK. Post: Benefits of RTK. RTK2 teaches you readings, not new kanji. As far as I know, many don't really like RTK2, and just choose not to use it. If you follow Nukemarine's guide, I believe that you learn many readings when do... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 53 | 12,313 | 2010-07-07, 9:37 am | ||
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Thread: Swearing in Japan Post: Swearing in Japan Womacks23 Wrote:smartazjb0y Wrote:Womacks23 Wrote:If you want to "curse" in Japanese you just buck up, roll your r's, and stop speaking with polite grammar. Wonder how that would work in French. When ... |
smartazjb0y | Off topic | 17 | 13,677 | 2010-07-06, 9:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Swearing in Japan Post: Swearing in Japan Womacks23 Wrote:If you want to "curse" in Japanese you just buck up, roll your r's, and stop speaking with polite grammar. Wonder how that would work in French. When talking to a superior, use "tu" an... |
smartazjb0y | Off topic | 17 | 13,677 | 2010-07-06, 8:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Benefits of RTK. Post: Benefits of RTK. Groot Wrote:Genki worked out well for me. It was the first Japanese text I used as a total beginner, and I don't regret it. It's a traditional text, with a dialog, followed by a vocab list, followed... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 53 | 12,313 | 2010-07-06, 12:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Benefits of RTK. Post: Benefits of RTK. Groot Wrote:Quote:Great! One more thing, I was just taking a look at the Tae Kim website and it's confusing. Should I be reading the complete guide or the grammar guide? They seem a lot different and ... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 53 | 12,313 | 2010-07-06, 12:44 am | ||
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Thread: Benefits of RTK. Post: Benefits of RTK. Arckus Wrote:*edit* I see now that you're supposed to do RTK lite in the heisig order and not 2001KO order which is why they were all messed up :P I'm still a little confused though, aren't there goin... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 53 | 12,313 | 2010-07-06, 12:38 am | ||
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Thread: Benefits of RTK. Post: Benefits of RTK. Arckus Wrote:Yeah that's what I was using, I was just finding it difficult to read kanji I can't write yet. I'm doing a different RTK lite from the shared decks, it's 1000 JLPT2 kanji from heisig I th... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 53 | 12,313 | 2010-07-06, 12:01 am | ||
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Thread: Benefits of RTK. Post: Benefits of RTK. Arckus Wrote:Well, I may have gotten a bit cocky. After reviewing all the stuff I learnt from Tae Kim so far it's proving difficult to review sentences with kanji that I haven't seen in RTK yet. I may... |
smartazjb0y | Remembering the Kanji | 53 | 12,313 | 2010-07-05, 11:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Hmm, that makes sense. Thanks, time to get to it! |
smartazjb0y | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,405 | 2010-07-04, 7:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners Just a question: for the first step, when you do Core 2K6K, should some of the kanji be kanji you haven't done RTK for? I just did the first 555, using RTKLite KO2001, and as I was browsing the cards,... |
smartazjb0y | The Japanese language | 712 | 401,405 | 2010-07-04, 10:36 am | ||
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Thread: Do you /have/ to SRS grammar? Is it recommended? Post: Do you /have/ to SRS grammar? Is it recommended? In my opinion, you don't "have" to do anything, especially if you find it boring. You can easily just read Tae Kim's Grammar Guide and study it in any way you like. Or you can get a grammar book, or a... |
smartazjb0y | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,528 | 2010-07-03, 9:47 am | ||
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Thread: A little help, wondering where to start Post: A little help, wondering where to start I did RtKana first. It is a good way to remember the kana, but it's better in that it introduces you, kind of, to the method used in RtK. If you have the kana, go ahead and use it. Most people recom... |
smartazjb0y | Learning resources | 11 | 5,070 | 2010-07-02, 9:39 pm | ||
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Thread: PS3 JRPGs? Post: PS3 JRPGs? I recommend Nier. It's fairly short, has 4 endings, and that took me about 32 hours. But, the dialogue is hilarious and dark. Now, in America there's 1 version, for the PS3 and 360, but Japan has 2 ... |
smartazjb0y | General discussion | 26 | 7,171 | 2010-06-30, 12:21 pm | ||
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Thread: 10-month progress-(Constructive Criticism Welcome) Post: 10-month progress-(Constructive Criticism Welcome) ta12121 Wrote:Actually, I meant to say "leprechaun", but the word leprechaun came up. I literally reread that sentence like 5 times to see what the difference was between "leprechaun" and leprechaun. ... |
smartazjb0y | The Japanese language | 175 | 34,983 | 2010-06-30, 12:15 pm | ||
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Thread: What is/was your area of study? Post: What is/was your area of study? I have a PhD in Senior year of high school. |
smartazjb0y | Off topic | 98 | 16,845 | 2010-06-29, 6:18 pm | ||
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Thread: new to learning japanese Post: new to learning japanese http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid100518 That's the post that Nukemarine has made, detailing what he thinks is a good plan to follow. I'm currently doing it right now, but since I'm stil... |
smartazjb0y | The Japanese language | 3 | 945 | 2010-06-28, 10:26 am | ||
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Thread: Question regarding digital novels / visual novels. Post: Question regarding digital novels / visual novels. Fate Stay Night has a good, long story. I clocked in 48 hours. It does have a few sex scenes, but they're very minimal, and feature no premature girls. You can easily skip them, since 1) there's a ski... |
smartazjb0y | General discussion | 9 | 2,840 | 2010-06-27, 8:18 pm | ||
