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Thread: Are there any fun Japanese game iPhone apps Post: Are there any fun Japanese game iPhone apps Hot Springs Story and Game Dev Story can be played in Japanese. EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, it's great to be back!!! Wooooo. I missed you all so much!;) |
Dragg | Learning resources | 17 | 14,519 | 2011-06-13, 9:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Why is Japanese so anal about seemingly insignificant things? Post: Why is Japanese so anal about seemingly insignific... @Kyotokanji As far as your response to Jorge and Masaman, they never said that you can't create great art in English. They also didn't mention novels or poetry which are the products of language and... |
Dragg | General discussion | 50 | 6,506 | 2009-05-28, 12:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? Post: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? Let me ask this: if the way we gauge self-censorship is by potential offense caused by stirring up bad memories, does that mean all controversial historical figures are off limits as well? Is mentio... |
Dragg | Off topic | 143 | 19,768 | 2009-05-05, 12:55 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method xaarg, I agree, if I was to write only in hiragana it wouldn't make much of a difference but that's not what I was talking about. Some "purist" would probably find a reason to complain about pure h... |
Dragg | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,125 | 2009-05-04, 10:09 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method Another advantage of romaji is that I can type faster with it. Kanji selection eats up a fair amount of time and changing the IME to Japanese input is a mild annoyance. Sometimes I like to put romaj... |
Dragg | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,125 | 2009-05-04, 7:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? Post: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji? The Bible has had an enormous impact on world, whether you believe for bad or good. At least a few of my own stories use biblical themes and I'm not even Christian. That just goes to show you how pe... |
Dragg | Off topic | 143 | 19,768 | 2009-05-04, 6:32 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method I'd say romaji is a legitimate shortcut for people who want to prioritize spoken Japanese and put written Japanese on the backburner for whatever reason. Although it took me only a few days to learn ... |
Dragg | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,125 | 2009-05-02, 7:22 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method I used romaji a lot before I learned kana, and in some ways, I think it actually helped me to focus more on the correct pronunciation and locking vocabulary in my mind rather than having to multi-task... |
Dragg | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,125 | 2009-05-02, 3:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Using song phrases for the 10,000 Post: Using song phrases for the 10,000 Again, it really depends on how you define rhyming. To me, rhyming has always meant perfect or near-perfect sound similarity aside from the initial consonant. This would be "ravage" rhyming with "sav... |
Dragg | Learning resources | 18 | 2,453 | 2009-01-19, 4:33 pm | ||
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Thread: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" Post: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" By the way, I don't agree with the article's assumption that feral children cases are good evidence of a critical period in language acquisition. I wouldn't be surprised if the abuse and neglect brou... |
Dragg | Off topic | 34 | 5,385 | 2009-01-19, 12:35 pm | ||
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Thread: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" Post: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" I'm sure that immersion helps, but I think you can become fluent in a traditional classroom setting as well. In my opinion, US foreign language education sucks in high school and below because of low... |
Dragg | Off topic | 34 | 5,385 | 2009-01-19, 12:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Using song phrases for the 10,000 Post: Using song phrases for the 10,000 iSoron Wrote:EnjukuBlack Wrote:No, rhyming isn't really a factor in Japanese. It's just too easy to rhyme in Japanese (everything's going to end in one of five sounds - a, i, u, e, or o) that it's nev... |
Dragg | Learning resources | 18 | 2,453 | 2009-01-18, 4:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Using song phrases for the 10,000 Post: Using song phrases for the 10,000 Also, there is a high level of vocabulary overlap in song lyrics (especially pop) so ten thousand song-based sentences dealing with themes like love is not even close to being worth that many normal-d... |
Dragg | Learning resources | 18 | 2,453 | 2009-01-18, 6:25 am | ||
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Thread: Why are there "report"s on all of these kanji? Post: Why are there "report"s on all of these kanji? etpan Wrote:stoked Wrote:I have noticed that as well. For example, whenever a story has "sexual content" it gets tons of reports...although often those stories are actually great mnemonics. Looks lik... |
Dragg | General discussion | 26 | 6,999 | 2009-01-17, 1:02 pm | ||
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Thread: "Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanese? Post: "Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanes... Thora Wrote:alyks Wrote:Well, what's better, trying to listen to twenty minutes a day of something you're not all that interested in but think you have to do to improve your Japanese, or listening to ... |
Dragg | General discussion | 127 | 27,795 | 2009-01-14, 10:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Just got my first "real" Manga and it is filled with Furigana. Normal? Post: Just got my first "real" Manga and it is filled wi... I've long wondered if all this furigana is really even necessary or if it's borne out of an irrational fear that the manga won't sell as well without it. For example, are most Japanese pre-teens trul... |
Dragg | Learning resources | 13 | 6,186 | 2009-01-13, 2:48 am | ||
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Thread: Coping with abstract/difficult words through other ressources Post: Coping with abstract/difficult words through other... lanval Wrote:By the way, are there more mistakes than the village and town confusion? Is there a list somewhere? I havent found one so far. Its starting to get confusing for me too. Even with words th... |
Dragg | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 4,497 | 2009-01-12, 6:50 pm | ||
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Thread: immersion tips Post: immersion tips kaoskastle Wrote:Yeah, stuff like what you mentioned. I like to, as I walk through my house / the town / wherever, look at things and try recalling the word (or even the kanji) for that thing in Japan... |
Dragg | General discussion | 29 | 7,038 | 2009-01-10, 11:26 am | ||
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Thread: Online Japanese School Post: Online Japanese School Interesting, and thanks for the info. Do the individual teachers make up the lesson content or are they teaching out of a book? Also, do the teachers generally try to engage students in dialogue or ... |
Dragg | Learning resources | 4 | 753 | 2009-01-08, 12:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Progress report ( AJATT method ) Post: Progress report ( AJATT method ) Over the last few days, I've come to realize that it is definitely possible to learn written vocabulary using too much passive context (as in sentences) to the point where a given word is unrecognizab... |
Dragg | General discussion | 31 | 6,214 | 2009-01-07, 6:35 pm | ||
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Thread: iKnow Post: iKnow I have to agree that Brain Speed helps out with rapid word recognition. Of course, you will usually learn to read faster just by reading more in general, but this seems to be a shortcut method to read... |
Dragg | Learning resources | 599 | 116,985 | 2009-01-06, 5:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate about religion thread Post: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate ab... KristinHolly Wrote:bodhisamaya Wrote:Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do... |
Dragg | Off topic | 465 | 58,538 | 2009-01-05, 1:21 pm | ||
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Thread: What is James W. Heisig doing .... Post: What is James W. Heisig doing .... Just out of curiousity, has ANYBODY here ever read any of Heisig's non-kanji books? If so, how were they? |
Dragg | Off topic | 59 | 24,107 | 2009-01-05, 3:13 am | ||
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Thread: 丸諳記 "Indiscriminate memorizing" ? Post: 丸諳記 "Indiscriminate memorizing" ? My Sanseido dictionary says it means "learn the (whole) lesson by heart; rote." The definition using "indiscriminate" doesn't seem very good, but I'm guessing they mean learning a full lesson without... |
Dragg | General discussion | 8 | 3,747 | 2009-01-04, 4:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Non-Typical Anime Post: Non-Typical Anime Mind Game is probably the best anime film I've ever seen. It's really wild at times both visually and plot-wise, but it isn't a hard puzzle to interpret, although there is plenty of depth and symboli... |
Dragg | General discussion | 104 | 23,882 | 2009-01-03, 12:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese->Chinese Post: Japanese->Chinese Here's a few questions that have nagging me for months which I therefore direct to anybody with experience in both Japanese and Mandarin. In terms of a rough percentage guess, does anybody know the ... |
Dragg | Off topic | 30 | 4,247 | 2009-01-03, 9:28 am | ||
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Thread: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on youtube Post: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on y... I don't know why, but it seems like so many people continue to use their full mouth to speak Japanese which accounts for a lot of horrible pronunciation mistakes. Correct Japanese seems to be spoken ... |
Dragg | General discussion | 120 | 27,245 | 2009-01-02, 2:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on youtube Post: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on y... @ Nestor Here's the thing: how is an absolute beginner supposed to figure out what "makes sense" to them? After trying countless methods over the last few years only to have some blow up in my face ... |
Dragg | General discussion | 120 | 27,245 | 2009-01-02, 1:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate about religion thread Post: Continuation of tangent discussion/civil debate ab... phauna Wrote:However, unlike Christian scriptures, people were writing down what Buddha said as he actually said it. The Pali cannon is therefore perhaps quite a good record of what Buddha said, in g... |
Dragg | Off topic | 465 | 58,538 | 2009-01-01, 10:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on youtube Post: Awesome girl that learned japanese from anime on y... In any case, it's definitely impressive. Whatever she did to learn definitely worked for her; I don't think anybody asked her if she used only anime yet but she obviously considered it the centerpiec... |
Dragg | General discussion | 120 | 27,245 | 2009-01-01, 9:23 pm | ||
