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Thread: Can u mirror a kanji without changing its meaning? Post: Can u mirror a kanji without changing its meaning? Yep, this is my favorite thread so far this year. |
Saiga | The Japanese language | 11 | 1,269 | 2015-05-22, 7:14 pm | ||
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Thread: WWII Kanji Translation Offering Post: WWII Kanji Translation Offering Looks like it's for a Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun tripod. Model 4. Made in Feb 1944 by some naval manufacturing firm. |
Saiga | Group study | 16 | 3,283 | 2015-02-13, 12:31 am | ||
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Thread: "Steam" Games in Japanese Post: "Steam" Games in Japanese The VN Narcissu is now on Steam. It comes with Japanese and the English translations. You can switch between them in the game saves. Which means you can play the game in Japanese and switch over the y... |
Saiga | Off topic | 84 | 48,827 | 2014-06-30, 8:32 am | ||
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Thread: Learning HTML5, CSS3, and other stuff. Post: Learning HTML5, CSS3, and other stuff. Thanks everyone for all the helpful replies. :) @ Stansfield123, I think I will focus on the first two categories you mentioned. From the job listings I've been looking at I just need to have a rudim... |
Saiga | Off topic | 7 | 2,154 | 2014-03-11, 7:15 am | ||
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Thread: Learning HTML5, CSS3, and other stuff. Post: Learning HTML5, CSS3, and other stuff. It seems like many of the people on this forum are quite knowledgeable about tech related stuff. I was wondering if any of you would like to share some insights into learning some things that are, at ... |
Saiga | Off topic | 7 | 2,154 | 2014-03-10, 6:22 pm | ||
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Thread: How many total flash cards have you looked at? Post: How many total flash cards have you looked at? Days studied: 100% (642 of 642) Total: 330430 Average for days studied: 514.7 review/day Total: 1344 hours Average for days studied: 125.7 minutes/day Average answer time: 14.7 (4 cards/minute) This... |
Saiga | General discussion | 30 | 4,461 | 2014-02-07, 11:28 am | ||
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Thread: Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: 東京 Post: Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: 東京 The funny thing is that they were probably studying the aerodynamic properties of hypothetical hypersonic airfoil designs...... or maybe just goofing off :P |
Saiga | General discussion | 73 | 17,918 | 2013-11-09, 8:06 pm | ||
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Thread: For those working in Japan... Post: For those working in Japan... dizmox Wrote:Honestly how many westerners do you meet who say "I want to work for 日本生命" or "It's my dream to join 村田製作所"? I would absolutely love to work for 豊和工業株式会社 or ミネベア株式会社 in the future. :D |
Saiga | Off topic | 32 | 6,807 | 2013-09-28, 11:58 am | ||
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Thread: How can one learn Japanese through drama? Post: How can one learn Japanese through drama? I am also using a Mac. What I do is run subs2srs via a bootcamp partition, then I sync with Anki on the Windows side. After all that, I can do my reviews on my usual Mac side. It’s not that hard to se... |
Saiga | Learning resources | 19 | 6,354 | 2013-08-05, 2:30 pm | ||
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Thread: SRSing with a metronome: 100 cards in 6.6 minutes Post: SRSing with a metronome: 100 cards in 6.6 minutes I really like seeing ideas to speed up reviews like this. Though whenever I try to speed through my reviews I always get a large portion of them wrong. How do you score a vocab card that within that 2... |
Saiga | General discussion | 15 | 5,348 | 2013-05-26, 6:32 pm | ||
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Thread: What age are you? Post: What age are you? @Animosophy In my experience Core6k has given me a good foundation vocabulary, but that said, within the first two weeks of completing Core I had come across over 1000 words that were new to me. Still... |
Saiga | Off topic | 357 | 73,694 | 2013-05-26, 1:45 pm | ||
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Thread: What age are you? Post: What age are you? 20 in June. I finished RTK 3000 about a year and a half ago, I think. I gave up my reviews after about 3 months though. Since then I've done Core6k and Tae Kim. Currently I am going through misc words... |
Saiga | Off topic | 357 | 73,694 | 2013-05-25, 10:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Please help me translate this literally into English Post: Please help me translate this literally into Engli... Interesting. I first read 「お袋」in おれいも and it was written pretty recently I think. But of course real life ≠ anime/manga. It kinda sounds like you're calling your mother an old bag. So I actually laugh... |
Saiga | The Japanese language | 53 | 6,466 | 2013-05-06, 1:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Please help me translate this literally into English Post: Please help me translate this literally into Engli... yudantaiteki Wrote:1. The correct transcription is 僕はおまえのこと、好きなんだから。 I thought the original sentence sounded a bit strange, but I didn't pick up on that. Thanks. I was under the impression that 「きみ」w... |
Saiga | The Japanese language | 53 | 6,466 | 2013-05-05, 1:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Please help me translate this literally into English Post: Please help me translate this literally into Engli... In English it would be, "It's because I love you" or simply, "I love you." The 「だから」at the end implies that its an explanation. I'll use an example: Girl: "Why did you run over my boyfriend?!" Boy: "... |
Saiga | The Japanese language | 53 | 6,466 | 2013-05-05, 10:25 am | ||
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Thread: How's a japanese woman for you? Post: How's a japanese woman for you? undead_saif Wrote:Saiga Wrote:This topic reminded me of something: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-B52PV876I] Well, this is definitely unnecessary, people who don't have something good to say... |
Saiga | Off topic | 46 | 9,121 | 2013-05-02, 4:35 pm | ||
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Thread: How's a japanese woman for you? Post: How's a japanese woman for you? This topic reminded me of something: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-B52PV876I] |
Saiga | Off topic | 46 | 9,121 | 2013-05-02, 7:57 am | ||
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Thread: Complete Introduction to Japanese Grammatical Particles Post: Complete Introduction to Japanese Grammatical Part... Nice deck! I was using the "how to tell the difference between Japanese particles" deck, but this one seems much more thorough. Thanks! |
Saiga | Learning resources | 12 | 5,168 | 2013-04-20, 5:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Streaming Anime Site Post: Streaming Anime Site You sir deserve an internet cookie! I was looking for something like this just the other day... Netflix is ok, but most of the shows on the streaming service have only the english dub as a subtitle op... |
Saiga | Learning resources | 5 | 1,187 | 2013-04-10, 9:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Hitchhiking as an Asian descent Post: Hitchhiking as an Asian descent It's because all gaijin are nice and courteous :D |
Saiga | General discussion | 6 | 1,949 | 2013-04-10, 10:41 am | ||
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Thread: Creating a Japanese Name Post: Creating a Japanese Name Luckily for me my last name sounds cool: ペイン. Although kids might mistake me for a Naruro villain. And my first name comes out to a simple 平 phonetically. If/when I get married, I'll probably take my ... |
Saiga | The Japanese language | 47 | 15,321 | 2013-04-04, 8:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Doshisha Business School Global MBA Post: Doshisha Business School Global MBA I have heard of a few people working a professors with only a masters. I just wanted to see if any of you guys had any additional info on the subject. On the topic of career vs. temp job, IMO I think ... |
Saiga | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 29 | 10,379 | 2013-03-28, 8:34 am | ||
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Thread: Doshisha Business School Global MBA Post: Doshisha Business School Global MBA Not to derail the discussion, but I would like to know what the general consensus is on getting a masters in English in order to obtain a job as a professor at a Japanese college. Can you get a job as... |
Saiga | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 29 | 10,379 | 2013-03-26, 7:08 pm | ||
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Thread: vn2srs - Create flashcards based on Visual Novels Post: vn2srs - Create flashcards based on Visual Novels Ok I'll start. I think this is an excellent idea, I'd like to use Clannad and School Days to make some flashcards. Most of the dialog in Clannad is unvoiced IIRC, whereas School Days has some fully an... |
Saiga | Learning resources | 11 | 3,527 | 2013-03-01, 8:41 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar? Post: Grammar? Cant we all just get along? :P |
Saiga | The Japanese language | 77 | 11,223 | 2013-02-12, 8:57 pm | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. @Daichi I think you're correct about me not spreading my scores. I usually don't take into account how easy or hard the card is, i'll just hit space if I remember it. I hadn't thought about it that un... |
Saiga | General discussion | 249 | 67,234 | 2013-02-04, 7:40 pm | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Stian Wrote:Do you read any Japanese at all outside Anki? I notice that I forget words from the Genki textbooks that I haven't read anywhere else, that's why I'm asking. Not usually, I have lately bee... |
Saiga | General discussion | 249 | 67,234 | 2013-02-04, 10:45 am | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Isbilenper Wrote:Saiga Wrote:Hmm... I have only ever hit the space bar when I've gotten them right. Is the 2 key the hotkey for "hard"? Yes, 2 is the hotkey for "hard", which you may need to use more.... |
Saiga | General discussion | 249 | 67,234 | 2013-02-04, 10:19 am | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Betelgeuzah Wrote:Isbilenper Wrote:Saiga Wrote:... and mature cards 65% :( I think this is your problem. I believe it is far below what most of us have ----- I think you are supposed to aim for ~90% o... |
Saiga | General discussion | 249 | 67,234 | 2013-02-04, 9:46 am | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Wow. I guess I'm just a not that good... I'm doing the unsorted core and adding only 20 a day. But I still have about 380~ reviews per day. Where do you find your retention rate in Anki? Under the "an... |
Saiga | General discussion | 249 | 67,234 | 2013-02-04, 8:28 am | ||
