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Thread: Mindfulness - how is it written in Japanese? Post: Mindfulness - how is it written in Japanese? Well that video does show 念, as we guessed. 今 (the top part) doesn't mean awareness in modern Japanese though. Maybe it did historically? |
Amset | The Japanese language | 11 | 3,528 | 2012-04-17, 9:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Mindfulness - how is it written in Japanese? Post: Mindfulness - how is it written in Japanese? 念 as in 念を入れる has to do with mindfulness, and there's 心/heart in there so that's close... I can't think of something exactly like what you described. |
Amset | The Japanese language | 11 | 3,528 | 2012-04-16, 9:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it really worth....? Post: Is it really worth....? vileru Wrote:"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." -... |
Amset | Off topic | 55 | 6,984 | 2011-11-22, 12:11 am | ||
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Thread: Is it really worth....? Post: Is it really worth....? Raschaverak Wrote:Living? Life? Just wondering :) Reminds me of a poem by Dorothy Parker (via Stephen Fry) Quote:Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp; Guns are... |
Amset | Off topic | 55 | 6,984 | 2011-11-18, 10:06 pm | ||
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Thread: a few words on efficiency... Post: a few words on efficiency... dtcamero Wrote:sleep immersion To latch on to a tangent here, let me just say sleep immersion is completely bunk: there is no evidence that it works and a lot of positive evidence that it doesn't. |
Amset | Off topic | 25 | 8,363 | 2011-08-19, 7:24 pm | ||
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Thread: AJATT Silverspoon- Thought's opinions? Post: AJATT Silverspoon- Thought's opinions? dtcamero Wrote:there we go, now you see when jarvik makes his snarky comment at least he has the decency to give me a chuckle... (i'm looking at you here nestor) As the offense police, I have to say y... |
Amset | Learning resources | 145 | 39,803 | 2011-08-05, 1:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) aphasiac Wrote:Anyway I disagree with your opinion - I don't see the link between being able to plan, and being able to learn a language: The connection is that learning a language doesn't take a spec... |
Amset | Off topic | 567 | 98,531 | 2011-08-05, 12:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) aphasiac Wrote:Can you post a link to a fully fleshed out detailed plan, that ends with fluency? (bare in mind these guys don't want to do the planning part - so posting links to vague methods or foru... |
Amset | Off topic | 567 | 98,531 | 2011-08-04, 11:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) nohika Wrote:I have to say, some of the "praise of AJATT Silverspoon" on his site hasn't, er, exactly been so praiseful. He is making a joke, to show that he knows how over-the-top his fluency claims ... |
Amset | Off topic | 567 | 98,531 | 2011-08-03, 1:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) sesshomaru Wrote:The phony hysteria here is what makes is 'anti marketing' so effective and at times quite funny. I don't think many of the people who bothered to read this thread hadn't already heard... |
Amset | Off topic | 567 | 98,531 | 2011-08-01, 4:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) fakewookie Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:Well, for one, people on this forum could stop treating him like he knows what he's talking about. Or, almost any veteran here could make a blog much better than his me... |
Amset | Off topic | 567 | 98,531 | 2011-08-01, 12:51 am | ||
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Thread: Song Lyrics 歌詞 Post: Song Lyrics 歌詞 I think the only reason you can't is that they purposely disable it. You can sometimes view page source and copy/paste the lyrics from there, and there are probably firefox addons etc. that would allo... |
Amset | General discussion | 11 | 4,898 | 2011-07-11, 12:57 am | ||
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Thread: Philosophy questions (the self, causation) Post: Philosophy questions (the self, causation) Hume talked about the problem of induction which is related, in that you can't tell whether one thing happens after another because the first caused the second or if they just coincidentally have been... |
Amset | Off topic | 22 | 5,900 | 2011-07-08, 12:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Shing02 歌詞 help Post: Shing02 歌詞 help Sebastian Wrote:Amset Wrote:Ooohh I see, thank you. So he's saying "Whatever people say, I have a super nutritious brain, and even if I fail that's where success comes from". Rather: Quote:Whatever p... |
Amset | Group study | 7 | 3,761 | 2011-06-26, 4:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Shing02 歌詞 help Post: Shing02 歌詞 help Ooohh I see, thank you. So he's saying "Whatever people say, I have a super nutritious brain, and even if I fail that's where success comes from". |
Amset | Group study | 7 | 3,761 | 2011-06-25, 9:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Shing02 歌詞 help Post: Shing02 歌詞 help Hey, I was listening to Shing02's song 人生ゲノム recently (great song), but one of the parts confused me. It goes like this: 誰が何と言おうが言うまいが 僕の頭の中のシュウマイの中身は 緑黄色野菜並みの栄養で一杯、のようで 失敗は成功の素ならばそれを繰り返している僕は何も悪くないのか... |
Amset | Group study | 7 | 3,761 | 2011-06-25, 8:53 pm | ||
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Thread: The right way to read 怒る Post: The right way to read 怒る The 大辞泉 dictionary has a little note about exactly this question: [用法] おこる・いかる――「父親は息子のうそにおこって（いかって）殴りつけた」のように、日常的な怒りが行為や表情となって外に現れる場合には、ほぼ共通して使える。◇抽象的ないかりの場合は「政界汚職にいかる」のように用い、「おこる」はふつう使わない。また、「いかる」は文... |
Amset | The Japanese language | 6 | 3,304 | 2011-06-16, 3:45 pm | ||
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Thread: what would your ultimate learning software be? Post: what would your ultimate learning software be? jcdietz03 Wrote:1) Make Anki more adaptive. A) What's wrong with the current state You get an unfamiliar word wrong with "show failed cards in 10 minutes" set However, you can't get it right after man... |
Amset | Learning resources | 10 | 2,780 | 2011-06-11, 6:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language Post: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Lik... iSoron Wrote:Read this one → Naive Set Theory, by Paul R. Halmos. I'll look for it, thanks! |
Amset | Off topic | 28 | 7,915 | 2011-05-23, 4:48 am | ||
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Thread: English Grammar Questions Post: English Grammar Questions Perhaps "many" as a noun can only describe particular things ex. "many of the students" but not *"many of students", and "many" as a adjective only general things ex. "many people" but not *"many stud... |
Amset | Off topic | 22 | 4,306 | 2011-05-23, 4:38 am | ||
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Thread: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language Post: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Lik... I've always wanted to learn set theory, logic, that sort of thing. Right now I'm reading a book called "The Logic of Knowledge Bases" which is interesting, but a lot of the vocabulary is indeed hard a... |
Amset | Off topic | 28 | 7,915 | 2011-05-22, 7:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language Post: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Lik... So, what should do you differently to also be able use your knowledge to actively solve problems? |
Amset | Off topic | 28 | 7,915 | 2011-05-22, 2:12 pm | ||
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Thread: What Japanese song(s) have you been listening to lately? Post: What Japanese song(s) have you been listening to l... I've been listening to Meiso a lot. It's hip hop, kinda jazzy. Here's a song I like: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHIVD-4ILY] Meiso - 盤上の駒 I haven't listened to Spitz before but I thought ... |
Amset | Off topic | 26 | 6,169 | 2011-05-18, 9:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Problems with words with semilar sounds/meaning Post: Problems with words with semilar sounds/meaning 1. あく is to be open ex. a seat. すく is to be empty ex. a stomach. 2. よい maybe sounds a bit old fashioned? but they are the same word. 3. そうして and そして are the same word some times (meaning "and then"), ... |
Amset | The Japanese language | 4 | 2,531 | 2011-04-08, 12:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Speaking Foreign Languages May Help Protect Your Memory Post: Speaking Foreign Languages May Help Protect Your M... This type of study where they ask "what do people who live a long time have in common? Drinking wine? Eating blueberries?" is not the most solidly scientific. I think it's likely that people who hav... |
Amset | Off topic | 8 | 2,315 | 2011-02-26, 12:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Sleep selectively stores useful memories Post: Sleep selectively stores useful memories They can induce sleep by basically shocking the front part of the hypothalamus, but I think they've only done that in rats, because you have to stick the electrode very deep into the brain. In humans,... |
Amset | Off topic | 4 | 1,424 | 2011-02-02, 9:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Sleep selectively stores useful memories Post: Sleep selectively stores useful memories Quote:Original paper's not online yet; till then I'll have to wonder how they eliminated consideration of the waking time between informing them and taking the test. I'm doing a thesis on sleep and me... |
Amset | Off topic | 4 | 1,424 | 2011-02-02, 11:37 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Podcasts with Transcripts: Wherist art thou? Post: Japanese Podcasts with Transcripts: Wherist art th... There's Podcastle. The quality of these transcripts varies. |
Amset | The Japanese language | 12 | 8,578 | 2011-01-27, 12:19 am | ||
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Thread: New York Times Article: Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Post: New York Times Article: Test-Taking Cements Knowle... Yeah, I wouldn't call just writing down everything you remember from the article a "test" (when I think of tests I think of things other people formulated to test me). When I study I don't just read, ... |
Amset | Off topic | 5 | 2,099 | 2011-01-21, 4:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Confused: Getting the hang of 空く[あく], 開く[あく], 開く[ひらく], 空く[すく] Post: Confused: Getting the hang of 空く[あく], 開く[あく], 開く[ひ... あく can only be used as an intransitive verb: 扉があく（○） 扉をあく（×） As a side note, if you want to use あく as a transitive verb, you can change it to あける: 扉があける（×） 扉をあける（○） ひらく can be used either intransit... |
Amset | The Japanese language | 12 | 4,640 | 2011-01-21, 3:59 pm | ||
