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    Thread: 2012 JLPT Study Thread
Post: 2012 JLPT Study Thread

I'm in! :) I aim for N1 in July. I failed N2 by 5 points some years ago. I studied on a very slow pace since then. At the moment, I'm doing RTK again, learning vocabulary with Learning with Texts, wa...
saru_yo JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 297 78,481 2011-12-06, 8:15 am
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

tatercat Wrote:ETA: Hit 1650 a half hour ago. 75% done! As suspected, my friends all going home for Thanksgiving meant that I had a lot of free time; I can almost certainly be done by this time tomorr...
saru_yo Remembering the Kanji 526 167,103 2011-11-23, 11:34 am
    Thread: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration
Post: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab...

One thing: thank you so much!!! And a little bug: The font color in the definitions window is white, the background yellow. It can't be read easily. :) I'm on Ubuntu 10.04, Anki 1.2.7, Python 2.7
saru_yo Learning resources 298 107,566 2011-03-18, 5:37 am
    Thread: how to get rid of mistakes?
Post: how to get rid of mistakes?

woah, awesome, seems like a lot of people here are on lang-8 as well : D It's definitely much fun to correct other peoples entries. And you get to know a lot about different cultures... as well as st...
saru_yo General discussion 21 2,922 2009-06-17, 12:20 pm
    Thread: Is learning Chinese (Mandarin) worth it?
Post: Is learning Chinese (Mandarin) worth it?

thermal Wrote:saru_yo, Taiwanese is not Mandarin, but maybe the dramas are in Mandarin. I studied Japanese with Taiwanese people recently and they were from different parts of Taiwan with different di...
saru_yo Chinese and Hanzi 94 25,788 2009-06-17, 9:32 am
    Thread: Is learning Chinese (Mandarin) worth it?
Post: Is learning Chinese (Mandarin) worth it?

mmh, same for me with Japan being more interesting. But there is indeed something that motivates to study mandarin and which also gets you more interest in cultural things: Taiwanese dramas! : D Seri...
saru_yo Chinese and Hanzi 94 25,788 2009-06-17, 9:06 am
    Thread: how to get rid of mistakes?
Post: how to get rid of mistakes?

thank you very much everyone, that was a big help : D So... doing this with the attitude of a child, not thinking much of mistakes, but getting more and more input and having people correct you would...
saru_yo General discussion 21 2,922 2009-06-17, 9:02 am
    Thread: how to get rid of mistakes?
Post: how to get rid of mistakes?

What do you do in order to get rid of your mistakes? When someone corrected me ( eg. on Lang-8 ) I've always just looked at the mistakes, and tried to pay attention when and how people use these thi...
saru_yo General discussion 21 2,922 2009-06-17, 5:59 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Thank you very much, Smackle and magamo! : D
saru_yo The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,164 2009-06-12, 4:46 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

nice thing such a thread exists : ) I just stumbled across this one: 半径が3.1だから・・・ Does maybe anyone know how to pronounce 3.1 in Japanese?
saru_yo The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,164 2009-06-12, 4:26 am
    Thread: Subs2srs deck downloads
Post: Subs2srs deck downloads

Tobberoth Wrote:Does anyone have Nobuta wo Produce Japanese subs? If so, I'd love to get ahold of them. yep, they're available here: http://project-modelino.com/japanese-movies.htm Tried and did the ...
saru_yo Group study 183 78,493 2009-06-10, 7:23 pm
    Thread: "Military time"
Post: "Military time"

mmh, I've seen both used a lot of times. But honestly, I don't even know how to pronounce things like 18:00 since I've never hear it being used in speech until now. But, another thing I found remarka...
saru_yo General discussion 30 8,461 2009-06-10, 2:57 pm
    Thread: Subs2srs deck downloads
Post: Subs2srs deck downloads

ahibba Wrote:Anyone interested in Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi (the deer man) drama? yes please, I love that drama : D Thank you so much everyone! I'll see whether I can find something to contribute as well...
saru_yo Group study 183 78,493 2009-06-10, 6:11 am
    Thread: How To Learn Compounds
Post: How To Learn Compounds

Mhh, I had kind of the same problem, recently I began changing my cards to look like this : Front: Sentence with new word written in hiragana eg.: あなたのいとはよく分かりました。 Answer: Sentence with full kanji: ...
saru_yo The Japanese language 15 4,072 2009-06-07, 9:44 am
    Thread: Anyone else in my boat?
Post: Anyone else in my boat?

About the Iversen method... interesting and definitely worth trying, thanks for posting! ( I wish I'd known about this in high school ... ) Though I'd guess that this might be rather suited for lear...
saru_yo General discussion 58 10,590 2009-06-06, 5:39 pm
    Thread: Survey - Where are you at?
Post: Survey - Where are you at?

I'd guess I'm kind of a special case since I haven't finished RTK yet, but have kind of been immersed in Japanese since some years, and have started collecting sentences directly after I've discovered...
saru_yo General discussion 104 20,793 2009-06-03, 11:14 am
    Thread: Google Wave
Post: Google Wave

Sounds amazing, thanks for the link! I'd love to play with it already, haha.
saru_yo Off topic 11 2,085 2009-05-29, 12:55 pm
    Thread: Good Chinese Resources?
Post: Good Chinese Resources?

taiwanese dramas! :D Besides that, lots of popular japanese/english stuff is available in chinese as well, try eg. yesasia. @mafried I'd be interested in something like that as well... http://en.wi...
saru_yo Chinese and Hanzi 9 5,019 2009-05-28, 2:25 pm
    Thread: Using SRS program for other uses than language learning.
Post: Using SRS program for other uses than language lea...

yukamina Wrote:saru_yo Wrote:I'm currently testing out how to use Anki for studying art, painting to be exact. Not art history or something but actually painting, human anatomy, color/light relations ...
saru_yo Off topic 27 8,290 2009-04-02, 5:38 pm
    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

Wow, now that is a useful program! Thank you very much!
saru_yo Learning resources 1,039 387,172 2009-02-02, 2:59 pm
    Thread: Toki_wo_Kakeru_Shoujo_Anki.rar
Post: Toki_wo_Kakeru_Shoujo_Anki.rar

wow, thanks for sharing, I love that movie! :D
saru_yo Learning resources 56 12,798 2009-01-25, 12:23 pm
    Thread: Using SRS program for other uses than language learning.
Post: Using SRS program for other uses than language lea...

I use it for like.... everything that I want to remember. :D Used it for my school final exams, though I was a bit late in realizing that this works as well, so I had to cram in stuff from 3 years in...
saru_yo Off topic 27 8,290 2009-01-25, 12:07 pm
    Thread: 'Reviewing the Kanji' Twitter users
Post: 'Reviewing the Kanji' Twitter users

wow, this is sure great for motivation! :D decided to create an account as well, and just added everyone here~ -> http://twitter.com/happy_stars
saru_yo Off topic 97 52,840 2009-01-10, 10:00 am