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    Thread: Where could I stream these 80's or 90's Animes?
Post: Where could I stream these 80's or 90's Animes?

There are a ton of different raw anime on this site if you're interested :) http://tvanimedouga.blog93.fc2.com You're welcome :D
Forthem Learning resources 8 2,255 2015-01-19, 3:40 am
    Thread: Raw manga difficult to find
Post: Raw manga difficult to find

If you don't mind just reading the manga in your browser and don't necessarily feel like you have to have it downloaded, then there are a ton of raws here: http://www.iibq.com/class/51/
Forthem Learning resources 11 7,809 2015-01-13, 5:30 am
    Thread: J-CAT
Post: J-CAT

Thanks for unearthing this thread again! Signed up and the pw came in less than 3 hours so that was a plus :). I passed N1 in 2011 but according to these scores it doesn't look like I've actually impr...
Forthem JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 37,170 2014-07-03, 11:51 pm
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

Congrats erlog!!! If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have had nearly enough motivation to try for kanken myself! I'm sure you've inspired a ton of other people to push themselves and actually get objecti...
Forthem General discussion 397 123,332 2014-06-23, 5:10 pm
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

Congrats erlog!! You're amazing ^^! I'd love to know how you stripped the info from your rom into anki too! Kinda actually makes me want to go download the rom now instead of using my actual game lol....
Forthem General discussion 397 123,332 2014-06-16, 4:34 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

I passed the 2級 test last month at my school, and while I'd definitely agree that it's pretty brutal for non-native speakers of Japanese, I think it's a great measure to see exactly how far you actual...
Forthem General discussion 397 123,332 2013-11-16, 3:24 am
    Thread: Ultimate Reading Thread!
Post: Ultimate Reading Thread!

This site has a lot of good manga recommendations: http://www.iibq.com/class/51/
Forthem Learning resources 51 16,374 2013-11-01, 4:16 am
    Thread: 電子辞書 Electronic Japanese Dictionaries
Post: 電子辞書 Electronic Japanese Dictionaries

I use a SHARP Brain 電子辞書 and couldn't ask for more. Full color encyclopedias, about a kajillion different dictionaries ranging from Japanese idioms and business terminology to bugs and history (not to...
Forthem Learning resources 9 3,531 2013-10-15, 4:18 am
    Thread: body swap movies
Post: body swap movies

The anime 'K' (sometimes called 'K Project) somewhat uses that as a plot device. It's a pretty good anime in general though I think, so I can definitely recommend it :D
Forthem Off topic 7 5,106 2013-08-13, 11:31 pm
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

I don't know how helpful it is, but you can see a bunch of past tests for the different levels at the official kanken site: http://www.kanken.or.jp/kanken/outline/d...ample.html It's updated every o...
Forthem General discussion 397 123,332 2013-07-17, 5:39 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

四字熟語・意味のもあるんだ... What's that section like? I've found my worst sections to be the 誤字訂正 and the 対義語/類義語 ones by far ^^; And congrats on getting such a high score though! 後もう少しだ ♪ 頑張れ ♪
Forthem General discussion 397 123,332 2013-07-16, 7:07 am
    Thread: Innocent book reviews and reccomendations
Post: Innocent book reviews and reccomendations

If you're looking for a little bit of a challenge, I just wanted to say that I definitely recommend the 十二国記 series by 小野不由美 (and they are incidentally included in the innocent book selection~!) The ...
Forthem Learning resources 26 9,304 2013-07-08, 5:46 am
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

Turned 26 last February. Have yet to finish RTK yet (started in 2008 and got to frame 1600 in 1 month then quit, started again in 2010 and got to frame 600 in 2 weeks and basically quit again althoug...
Forthem Off topic 357 73,694 2013-05-26, 7:24 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

Are we still continuing into May too :D?
Forthem Group study 62 22,275 2013-04-30, 8:07 pm
    Thread: Genki vs. Minna no Nihongo
Post: Genki vs. Minna no Nihongo

When I was in college I used 'Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese' and the intermediate book in the series as well. I found the grammar explanations really great and thorough and the cultu...
Forthem Learning resources 34 21,240 2013-04-08, 1:20 am
    Thread: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Japan?
Post: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Jap...

If you can manage using only Japanese I definitely recommend https://www.jalan.net/ I always use them and there are usually a ton of deals on there too! (I've gotten hotels as low as 1000 yen a night...
Forthem General discussion 8 1,280 2013-03-06, 2:49 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

I'm glad to hear you give such high regard to the step books! I've been trying to study the one I have a bunch, but I was starting to get worried that maybe they only covered the things Japanese peopl...
Forthem General discussion 397 123,332 2013-02-28, 4:09 am
    Thread: The KanKen Chronicles
Post: The KanKen Chronicles

Congrats Erlog! You're really an inspiration :D! I've been trying my hand at the 3級 step book, and I really think I've been getting a lot better at reading/writing the included kanji since starting th...
Forthem General discussion 397 123,332 2013-02-27, 8:35 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Does this work on mac too?
Forthem Learning resources 859 244,133 2013-02-10, 9:20 pm
    Thread: Should I also worry about the stroke order and the writing quality?
Post: Should I also worry about the stroke order and the...

This site is also pretty good for seeing handwritten examples of the kanji: http://www.yamasa.cc/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/S...3?OpenForm It unfortunately only has look up capabilities for the jouyou kanji ...
Forthem Remembering the Kanji 10 3,056 2013-01-07, 9:14 pm
    Thread: Good PS3 Games to Import?
Post: Good PS3 Games to Import?

The 龍が如く (Yakuza) games are awesome! I definitely recommend them. All of the cut scenes are spoken with subtitles (which is a definite plus)! I played Yakuza 4 at a friend's awhile ago and I just got ...
Forthem Off topic 24 8,808 2013-01-06, 8:55 pm
    Thread: Amount of vocabulary
Post: Amount of vocabulary

I remember one of my linguistics professors in college telling us that if you knew 10,000 words in any language (preferably the most common words) you wouldn't have a problem with 95% of that language...
Forthem The Japanese language 85 18,799 2012-12-23, 7:24 pm
    Thread: Japanese Bands
Post: Japanese Bands

I like a lot of different things, but some of my recent favorites include: ロンリープラネット (Lonely Planet) - やくしまるえつこ (yakushimaru etsuko) Transfer - Livetune 夜の踊り子 (Yoru no Odoriko)/ 僕と花 (boku to hana) - ...
Forthem General discussion 23 9,883 2012-10-29, 12:23 am
    Thread: Novels in Text Form?
Post: Novels in Text Form?

There are definitely different kinds of software out there that can read text off of an image, but aside from that you can find a lot of older texts at: http://www.aozora.gr.jp/ It's like the Gutenbe...
Forthem General discussion 3 2,840 2012-10-15, 1:04 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I like to think of '食べている' , i.e. te-form of a verb + いる 's meaning as having one of two possible interpretations; either the progressive form use, 'He is eating', or the perfect tense use of 'He has...
Forthem The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,229 2012-08-17, 1:00 am
    Thread: Travelling to Japan in September
Post: Travelling to Japan in September

Manga cafes are definitely quite awesome and I'd recommend staying at one if you get a chance, but there aren't any within a 2-3 hour drive in any direction from where I live ;_;. (So there are still ...
Forthem General discussion 29 6,936 2012-08-16, 10:55 pm
    Thread: #2088 稽 "training" - Stroke count (16 Vs. 15)
Post: #2088 稽 "training" - Stroke count (16 Vs. 15)

This site shows 15 too: http://kakijun.main.jp/page/kei15200.html but towards the bottom it does mention the other kanji with the 上 in it instead.
Forthem Remembering the Kanji 11 3,353 2012-08-16, 6:53 pm
    Thread: Travelling to Japan in September
Post: Travelling to Japan in September

Good luck with your trip! If you plan on going into the inaka it might be a little harder to find hostels (at least that's how it is for me up here in Tohoku) and hotels/motels that can do English a...
Forthem General discussion 29 6,936 2012-08-16, 6:49 pm
    Thread: LOST in Japanese
Post: LOST in Japanese

One of the NHK BS channels has been airing the dubbed version of LOST for a few weeks here now and I've ended up catching a couple of the episodes by chance. I'd say it's definitely a pretty good qual...
Forthem General discussion 13 3,830 2012-08-15, 8:05 pm