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Thread: Sex ratio of this forum? Post: Sex ratio of this forum? 40:21 |
saritza | Off topic | 148 | 26,517 | 2012-09-13, 7:32 am | ||
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Thread: Life advice please? Possible job teaching Eigo to children Post: Life advice please? Possible job teaching Eigo to ... Thank you all for your thoughts and advice. It has been tremendously helpful. I feel like I definitely came to the right place. I realized a lot of things reading your responses. 1) I have never t... |
saritza | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 10 | 3,321 | 2012-09-09, 6:49 am | ||
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Thread: Nominalizing verbs with particle and using -masu stem Post: Nominalizing verbs with particle and using -masu s... Sorry, can you give an example where 読み would be used as a noun? You can say 読むのが好きです 読むことが好きです Which I assume is what you mean, but you can't say 読みが好きです, if that's what you meant? |
saritza | The Japanese language | 3 | 1,116 | 2012-09-08, 11:44 am | ||
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Thread: Why did Christianity succeed in Korea but failed in Japan? Post: Why did Christianity succeed in Korea but failed i... I did research on religion in Japan for my senior thesis. I've also known a lot of Korean Christians (and one Japanese Christian!) That said I still don't really have a good answer, but I'm sure there... |
saritza | Off topic | 123 | 30,647 | 2012-09-08, 11:39 am | ||
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Thread: Life advice please? Possible job teaching Eigo to children Post: Life advice please? Possible job teaching Eigo to ... Hi everyone. I don't post here much but I needed some advice and I thought people here might have some. If you're willing to read about my situation and tell me what you think, thank you in advance. ... |
saritza | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 10 | 3,321 | 2012-09-08, 7:34 am | ||
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Thread: 2011 JLPT study thread Post: 2011 JLPT study thread I thought you had to get 80% or more to pass N1, is it only 60%? |
saritza | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 506 | 139,953 | 2012-02-24, 8:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? dizmox Wrote:Aren't most undergraduate courses just degree conveyor belts for making money off students (especially in America)? Yes. Yes they are. *goes back to lurking* |
saritza | General discussion | 221 | 36,179 | 2012-01-25, 8:01 am | ||
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Thread: How does "underexplaining" come across in Japanese? Post: How does "underexplaining" come across in Japanese... gfb345 Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:gfb345 Wrote:Frogs have no belly button. original: カエルにはへそがないんだ。 mine: カエルにはへそがない。 The marathon started in the rain. original: マラソンは雨の中でスタートしたの。 mine: マラソンは雨の中でスタートした。 ... ... |
saritza | General discussion | 9 | 1,807 | 2010-09-02, 12:38 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread Post: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread I'm planning on taking the N1 in December too, in Japan because that's where I'll be. I passed the JLPT2 in December 2008 with a decent score, and I've been studying on and off since then, but I'm pre... |
saritza | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 70 | 33,017 | 2010-08-22, 9:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Planning Future at Temple University Japan? Any Advice? Post: Planning Future at Temple University Japan? Any Ad... I'm a student at Temple in Philly, and I haven't actually studied at TUJ but I visited while I was studying in Japan (at a language school) and I've talked to professors about it and stuff. My impres... |
saritza | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 8 | 8,955 | 2010-08-22, 9:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Furigana oddities... And a Kanji Question Post: Furigana oddities... And a Kanji Question arch9443 Wrote:On a side note about Kanji. I've recently started going through Pokemon heart gold in Japanese, and I'm noticing that without Kanji it is quite a bit more difficult for me to recognize... |
saritza | The Japanese language | 31 | 7,669 | 2010-06-30, 10:58 am | ||
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Thread: Vocalization of l & r sounds - hidden meanings? Post: Vocalization of l & r sounds - hidden meanings? Some singers do that on purpose to sound cool or original or something. I asked about this on lang-8 recently and that was the answer I got, lol. If you know the band Jyukai the singer also pronounces... |
saritza | The Japanese language | 10 | 3,482 | 2010-06-19, 7:46 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Pulse Wrote:Very simple question since I'm at a very basic level, unfortunately I learn best through asking and tearing apart things I don't get. :P This is from a (non-native speaker)'s Lang-8 entr... |
saritza | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,694 | 2010-06-14, 5:01 am | ||
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Thread: Which word is the hardest to pronounce Post: Which word is the hardest to pronounce 女性専用車両 And あたたかかった、I always forget how many かs and たs there are. |
saritza | The Japanese language | 61 | 19,367 | 2010-05-25, 4:29 am | ||
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Thread: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Post: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? snallygaster Wrote:Are you sure they were really police? I've heard of overzealous private citizens posing as police & doing this sort of thing. omg, no way! I feel like I just lost all my street... |
saritza | General discussion | 127 | 24,779 | 2010-05-25, 4:28 am | ||
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Thread: When is it a subordinate clause? Post: When is it a subordinate clause? I kind of liked the description of wa and ga in that book "making sense of Japanese", where it firmly stated that ga was a subject marker and compared wa to the English "as for", as in "as for me, giv... |
saritza | General discussion | 15 | 8,448 | 2009-01-14, 8:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese who answer in English: the other side Post: Japanese who answer in English: the other side I thought those links were really interesting (especially this: 三┌|∵|┘) I thought it was funny when Americans came up to me on the street and asked me for directions...and even funnier when a Swedish... |
saritza | Off topic | 41 | 5,414 | 2009-01-06, 5:40 pm | ||
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Thread: の ｖｓ な (Na vs No) Post: の ｖｓ な (Na vs No) What a great question, I would also like to hear if anyone has any insight about this. My first reaction was too look it up in my electronic dictionary, which indeed says that 理想の is correct, but als... |
saritza | General discussion | 9 | 1,786 | 2008-12-31, 3:47 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2008 Cream Puffed? Post: JLPT 2008 Cream Puffed? "Unless the person behind the konbini is speaking some rare and/or ancient dialect" That made me laugh so hard About JLPT1 grammar being useless, I just started working through kanzen master 1kyuu gr... |
saritza | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 21,491 | 2008-12-29, 12:41 am | ||
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Thread: What concepts does Japanese struggle to express? Post: What concepts does Japanese struggle to express? Since I brought up 恋しい, I'll admit I first heard it in a song ("soba ni iru ne" by whats her name), and I've seen/heard it in other contexts since but I've never heard a Japanese person actually say i... |
saritza | General discussion | 38 | 7,011 | 2008-12-23, 11:09 pm | ||
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Thread: What concepts does Japanese struggle to express? Post: What concepts does Japanese struggle to express? Aside from 寂しいsabishii, 懐かしいnatsukashii and 恋しいkoishii can also be used to describe missing something, I think...for hot, I'd say bijin but there's probably some slang that would approximate it better... |
saritza | General discussion | 38 | 7,011 | 2008-12-22, 11:35 pm | ||
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Thread: typing katakana words Post: typing katakana words Ohhh, that works, haha. Now I can type my name. Thank you! |
saritza | Off topic | 3 | 6,002 | 2008-12-05, 2:28 pm | ||
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Thread: typing katakana words Post: typing katakana words Um, this is kind of a dumb question, but I can't figure out how to easily type ティ, as in パーティー, or my name, サンディ. Every time I type it I have to type "te", scroll to katakana, hit enter, then type "i"... |
saritza | Off topic | 3 | 6,002 | 2008-12-05, 2:23 pm | ||