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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
