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Thread: You know your writing system is complicated when ... Post: RE: You know your writing system is complicated wh... Yes, they wanted しんがり. The game format gives you the first kana of each reading (it's the same as the last kana of the previous word), so you can discard との based on that. |
pm215 | General discussion | 9 | 438 | 6 hours ago | ||
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Thread: N2 sou matome grammar question Post: RE: N2 sou matome grammar question On 1 vs 2, try the comment in English from matsumomushi in this lang8 post or the answers to this italki question. |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 3 | 253 | 2016-06-16, 2:45 pm | ||
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Thread: N2 sou matome grammar question Post: RE: N2 sou matome grammar question Between 3 and 4 is basically a formality thing. The -zu negative is a formal written thing (a leftover from classical japanese) where 'zu ni' means 'naide' and 'zu' means 'nai', and various grammar pa... |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 3 | 253 | 2016-06-16, 2:40 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread (2016-06-14, 6:40 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: トリビアの泉を教えて下さってありがとうございました I actually think Trivia no Izumi's pretty good material for Japanese learners: * there's a fair amount of repetition of the key... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-15, 3:35 am | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Don't forget 焼肉定食... 老若男女 made Trivia no Izumi's list of the top 10 hardest phrases for newscasters to pronounce... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-14, 5:56 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread "some", "a few" and "several" sound about right to me -- they're not particularly far apart in meaning in English. Which one you'd pick in an English translation of any given Japanese sentence probabl... |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,623 | 2016-06-14, 5:16 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-06-13, 4:25 pm)Kuroro Wrote: Can somebody explain to me how the different readings of 経緯 work? This chiebukuro question has some plausible looking answers from native speakers. |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,623 | 2016-06-13, 4:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig? Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn... I don't think it's a useless skill (quite the opposite), it's more that using RTK just for that seems like overkill, if you're not actually learning to write the characters from memory. |
pm215 | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 3,884 | 2016-06-13, 2:01 am | ||
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Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE Post: RE: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE (2016-06-12, 11:12 am)ariariari Wrote: This section lumps together all these grammar points: 〜くらいだ・〜ぐらいだ・〜くらい。。。・〜ぐらい。。。・〜ほどだ・〜ほど。。。 They say: "To the extent that ~, in which ~ is an example (emphas... |
pm215 | General discussion | 96 | 30,018 | 2016-06-12, 2:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?! Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ... (2016-06-12, 12:05 am)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: One of the massively important things that Heisig does for you is give you the ability to recognize kanji as individual entities. Is that something many ... |
pm215 | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 1,310 | 2016-06-12, 4:59 am | ||
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Thread: jmdict vs edict2 Post: RE: jmdict vs edict2 OK, I see that having the split senses would be nice. What I meant by "wouldn't expect any difference" is that the sqlite db schema probably assumes edict-style 1-definition etc, so you lose the same ... |
pm215 | General discussion | 15 | 632 | 2016-06-11, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: jmdict vs edict2 Post: RE: jmdict vs edict2 (2016-06-11, 4:08 am)Roketzu Wrote: I have built a very large vocabulary deck in Anki, 99% of which has the English definition taken from EDICT (not sure if it's 1 or 2), and I'm wondering if there ... |
pm215 | General discussion | 15 | 632 | 2016-06-11, 8:44 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I'm just starting an SF novel (_Harmony_), and some of the characters have names like ミァハ and トァン with nonstandard small-kana combinations. What pronunciations are these indicating ? |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,623 | 2016-06-10, 2:59 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I was wondering if this was a variant on これでもかと言うほど which seems to be enough of a fixed phrase to get dictionary entries ("as if that wasn't enough"), but the 'take that!' meaning looks like a better ... |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,623 | 2016-06-09, 12:15 am | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels 新世界より is a really great book, probably the book I've read in Japanese that I enjoyed the most, and definitely one of the highlights from when I was picking books by looking through the lists of winner... |
pm215 | General discussion | 24 | 1,879 | 2016-06-07, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Kanji readings are like the pirates' code -- more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules :-) |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-04, 5:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?! Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ... You can always temporarily change Anki's setting for how many new cards it offers you, so you can work on any built up backlog of "to review" cards without adding to your pile with more "new" ones. |
pm215 | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 1,310 | 2016-06-03, 3:48 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread (2016-06-02, 4:40 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: But 10k for N1 being too much? Given how much trouble people seem to have with the test, I don't know about that to be honest. I can't speak for other people, b... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-02, 6:25 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (heh, overlapped with SomeCallMeChris while I was writing the reply...) (2016-06-02, 2:05 am)FlameseeK Wrote: 1 - 自動販売機はどこの国でも発達しているわけではなく、１００万台以上ある国は世界でもアメリカと日本、そしてドイツだけだ。 (a) 自動販売機はどこの国でも発達しているわけで... |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,623 | 2016-06-02, 6:03 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread My point was that word counts like that are probably overestimates (they suggest 10,000 for N1 which is definitely way more than you need) -- you can pass without knowing every word that appears in th... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-02, 4:26 pm | ||
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Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels Yeah, I don't feel like there was wild difficulty variation in the Murakami I've read (more complex than Yoshimoto Banana but still manageable). I suggest picking one of the short ones :-) (Currently... |
pm215 | General discussion | 24 | 1,879 | 2016-06-02, 3:57 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread FWIW I am finding a lot of core10k words I didn't already know (easily 4K of them), but I was already at a solid jlpt n1 pass level on mock tests before I started going through it. So I'd say core10k ... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-02, 3:50 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Agreed. Some of this shades into 'preferred learning approaches' too -- I like to build up a kind of 'scaffolding' by working on an intellectual understanding of things like grammar, verb endings, etc... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-01, 10:12 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread (2016-06-01, 11:55 am)ariariari Wrote: Yeah, so I slept on this and decided to try and branch out with my reading. The questions were really technical (at least for me)! Like, should it be 間 or 間に ... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,453 | 2016-06-01, 2:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan As a marketing trick I guess it gets them much more widely known than if they were just another sober recruiting website so in some ways it's pretty clever... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 51 | 6,307 | 2016-06-01, 5:46 am | ||
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Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan Ha, it's those people? I actually signed up to the 'code girl collection' game thingy just for the haha-wtf factor a little while back.. |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 51 | 6,307 | 2016-05-31, 5:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan (2016-05-31, 12:19 am)vix86 Wrote: I can't recall if I mentioned this in a prior post but I recommended it to zx and he/she had a really good experience with it. www.paiza.jp Wrong URL? That link gi... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 51 | 6,307 | 2016-05-31, 3:26 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread The two clauses are implicitly an 'or', not an 'and', I think: parents send their children to cram schools, or try to get them into the primary or middle schools with an 'escalator' link into good uni... |
pm215 | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,623 | 2016-05-25, 5:14 am | ||
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Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope Personally I'm a bit dubious about how well the "official definitions" of the JLPT levels line up with the actual tests -- certainly if you can do the listed things you'll have no problem with the te... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 60 | 4,286 | 2016-05-24, 3:45 am | ||
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Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope On the other hand I definitely don't know all the words in Core10K, but I'm still getting 85%-ish scores on N1 mock tests. The total vocab pool might be 18K but passing doesn't require that you recogn... |
pm215 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 60 | 4,286 | 2016-05-23, 5:54 pm | ||
