Search Results

Post Author Forum Replies Views Posted [asc]
    Thread: Advice for N2 Equivalent Self Learner
Post: Advice for N2 Equivalent Self Learner

I'm not sure where the whole 'Only N1 and N2 are worth doing/are recognised' thing comes from. Of course, lots of jobs in Japan ask for N1 or N2, but unless you're only taking the JLPT to get a job, i...
jankensan General discussion 57 12,008 2014-09-30, 6:36 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

[Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k] "Neverending stoooorryyyyyy!"
jankensan General discussion 856 195,402 2013-09-25, 2:15 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

Yeah Zgarbas, where is my post?! Did I get censored or did the internet eat it?!
jankensan General discussion 856 195,402 2013-09-21, 2:25 am
    Thread: Advice on how to Retain my Kana Knowledge
Post: Advice on how to Retain my Kana Knowledge

Actually, I think people do have unrealistic expectations of RTK. The proof of this is that they recommend people 'Do RTK' BEFORE they learn kana. If you're going to build a building, you don't start ...
jankensan The Japanese language 41 7,021 2013-07-15, 10:29 am
    Thread: Advice on how to Retain my Kana Knowledge
Post: Advice on how to Retain my Kana Knowledge

P.S. Just a pet hate of mine, but saying that RTK is 'learning kanji' is a bit of a joke. You're not learning the kanji, you're becoming familiar with their radicals and attaching them to completely r...
jankensan The Japanese language 41 7,021 2013-07-14, 11:01 am
    Thread: Advice on how to Retain my Kana Knowledge
Post: Advice on how to Retain my Kana Knowledge

I know this website was basically set up to go with RTK but I really don't get why everyone is so obsessed with 'finishing RTK'. I 'finished' RTK about 2 years ago and it did absolutely nothing for me...
jankensan The Japanese language 41 7,021 2013-07-14, 10:56 am
    Thread: Are paid classes good?
Post: Are paid classes good?

Lardycake I think you should do a bit of research on how language learning used to be before the internet and mass media. Your perception seems skewed. I'm a researcher and recently worked on a guy wh...
jankensan General discussion 66 13,791 2013-06-20, 1:07 am
    Thread: December JLPT N2 - study plan
Post: December JLPT N2 - study plan

The reading part shocked me first time around. So much to read and so little time.
jankensan JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 17 9,135 2013-06-17, 12:29 pm
    Thread: Kansai-ben Podcasts
Post: Kansai-ben Podcasts

It's not specifically meant to be about dialect but its packed with it https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/maki...d473634113 they're quite annoying though...
jankensan Learning resources 11 2,375 2013-06-17, 12:26 pm
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

I've never seen those before! The wiki page for it says that although they share a character in the title, the contents are not related. Apparently there is a drama too... http://videonavi.blog66.fc2...
jankensan Learning resources 51 77,917 2013-06-13, 1:28 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

Black Jack A sexy, morally ambiguous surgeon who travels the world and toys with human existence, what is there not to love? He's like a non-murderous version of Hannibal, a pathological saver of lif...
jankensan Learning resources 51 77,917 2013-06-12, 4:36 pm
    Thread: Job+study schedule
Post: Job+study schedule

I also find this very hard to balance study with work. Before I went back to uni part time I was working full time + overtime and had an entrance exam to study for, a total nightmare. Now I still have...
jankensan General discussion 6 2,068 2012-07-30, 2:00 am
    Thread: "You're studying Japanese?! You must love anime!/be an otaku!/etc.!"
Post: "You're studying Japanese?! You must love anime!/b...

It's really very simple. Either you like learning Japanese or you don't. Who cares what other people think? Effective troll though. Nonsense begets nonsense.
jankensan General discussion 85 26,662 2012-05-20, 4:23 am
    Thread: Are some people just good at learning a new language?
Post: Are some people just good at learning a new langua...

In my opinion, and perhaps slightly off topic, other people's Japanese always seems way better than your own even if they are only ever so slightly 'ahead of you' in their learning. For me, Japanese i...
jankensan General discussion 29 5,565 2012-04-03, 12:34 pm
    Thread: Sentence mining help please
Post: Sentence mining help please

Sorry, rich_f and I posted at the same time - I didn't mean to nag on jisho.org being a bit unreliable!
jankensan The Japanese language 17 5,634 2012-04-03, 12:26 pm
    Thread: Sentence mining help please
Post: Sentence mining help please

Sounds like you have the right idea! The main thing is to stay interested - don't kill it off with boring sentences. If a sentence becomes a leech, delete! I don't use the AJATT method myself, but one...
jankensan The Japanese language 17 5,634 2012-04-03, 12:25 pm
    Thread: Sentence mining help please
Post: Sentence mining help please

全体的 means 'on the whole', or 'across the board'. I'd say that was basic vocab, so don't see why this sentence shouldn't be part of your deck other than the fact it's increadibly dull. How many times ...
jankensan The Japanese language 17 5,634 2012-04-03, 1:32 am
    Thread: forgetting grammar till later
Post: forgetting grammar till later

I was curious about this myself, so I asked a few Japanese friends if studying Japanese grammar really made any difference to their communications with foreigners speaking Japanese. (Back story: I had...
jankensan The Japanese language 17 3,136 2012-03-20, 2:18 am
    Thread: Learn to Say what you WANT to Say
Post: Learn to Say what you WANT to Say

I have a speaking exam coming up and I am worried about similar kinds of things, I have a little method that may help. I randomly pick a topic I think might come up, for example 'Do you think cannabi...
jankensan The Japanese language 11 2,780 2012-03-15, 2:52 am
    Thread: 2011 JLPT study thread
Post: 2011 JLPT study thread

http://www.jlpt.jp/e/about/pdf/scaledscore_e.pdf Here are the details...Seems complicated to me!
jankensan JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 506 139,865 2012-02-29, 2:39 am
    Thread: 2011 JLPT study thread
Post: 2011 JLPT study thread

and yet, only 39% of candidates pass. must be a bit trickier than monkey's choice eh?
jankensan JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 506 139,865 2012-02-25, 5:38 am
    Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?
Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?

Ah OK, so now it's our inability to understand your flippant and underdeveloped argument that's the reason why you are failing to make yourself understood. I get it now... Tip of the day ---- Think ...
jankensan General discussion 221 36,133 2012-02-02, 12:27 pm
    Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?
Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?

LivingNexus I don't mean to flame you, but in this thread you blame the american education system for your failure at college, then in another thread you blame not having money for finding it hard to ...
jankensan General discussion 221 36,133 2012-02-02, 2:49 am
    Thread: I can't get a control on my envirement
Post: I can't get a control on my envirement

Hi Doctorhabib, nobody lives in a 'perfect' immersion environment. People have jobs, university/ school classes, children, parents and so on. I don't mean to be harsh, but could it be that you are usi...
jankensan General discussion 13 2,218 2012-02-02, 2:41 am
    Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?
Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?

There are some great points on this thread. I understand that some language faculties are restrained by university regulations, and sometimes even the pressure to pass students so that they don't lose...
jankensan General discussion 221 36,133 2012-01-24, 3:38 am
    Thread: Manga Translation
Post: Manga Translation

I think there would be more 'action' in this forum if people posted nice friendly replies that engaged with other users without being total bullies about it. What could have been a nice thread where p...
jankensan General discussion 58 10,847 2012-01-16, 2:31 am
    Thread: Has anyone NOT used RTK?
Post: Has anyone NOT used RTK?

TwoMoreCharacters - what's the point in spending 3 months not learning any actual Japanese though? I suppose the round about point I am making, which seems to agree with others here, is that to 'do RT...
jankensan The Japanese language 107 23,167 2011-08-22, 3:00 pm
    Thread: Has anyone NOT used RTK?
Post: Has anyone NOT used RTK?

I think I fall firmly in the middle of the 'to use RTK or not to use RTK' debate. I started out very enthusiastically working my way through, faithfully memorising and using Anki to help with this. I...
jankensan The Japanese language 107 23,167 2011-08-22, 12:27 pm
    Thread: Should I take an undergrad study in Japan?
Post: Should I take an undergrad study in Japan?

Come on everyone - give the guy/ girl a chance! Remember what it was like to dream?! HatchiSama, don't be discouraged. Follow your dream. If you have to work hard, then so be it. Honestly, it sounds...
jankensan JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 36 9,260 2011-08-18, 5:05 am
    Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)
Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)

I don't understand the idea of paying someone to nag me. Nagging really annoys me. I also hate automated mail, and am constantly 'removing' myself from lists I never signed up for in the first place. ...
jankensan Off topic 567 98,493 2011-08-12, 6:10 am