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Thread: Ultimate Japanese Sentence Database :) - The end to sentence mining Post: Ultimate Japanese Sentence Database :) - The end t... If you want the latest version of those sentences, you should head over to http://www.tatoeba.org |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 8 | 5,671 | 2010-08-10, 12:16 pm | ||
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Thread: American History Post: American History If you think that having a massive bureaucracy that controls the economy will lead to an utopia, read Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr: http://amzn.com/0809039435 According to him, Japan is already a coun... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Off topic | 90 | 16,344 | 2010-08-04, 9:44 am | ||
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Thread: Stories of amazed Japanese people Post: Stories of amazed Japanese people yudantaiteki Wrote:It means "idiomatic kanji" -- I'm not sure exactly how the usage arose, but note that 壁 is on the Jouyou List and 璧 is not. There are some substitutions that were made after the pu... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Remembering the Kanji | 57 | 14,406 | 2010-07-08, 10:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese translation contest Post: Japanese translation contest http://www.kurodahan.com/mt/e/khpprize/ It's a small text so anybody can give it a try. I think that some of the more advanced learners might be interested in trying. |
Transparent_Aluminium | General discussion | 17 | 6,586 | 2010-07-03, 10:55 am | ||
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Thread: Need a Good Source for Translated Example Sentences Post: Need a Good Source for Translated Example Sentence... If you want to access the Tanaka corpus, at least go to http://www.Tatoeba.org where you'll find the best/ most up to date version. It's constantly getting updated and not that bad really. Alternati... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 20 | 13,482 | 2010-07-01, 7:02 am | ||
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Thread: Tatoeba project Post: Tatoeba project Hi, I'm posting this quite out of the blue, but there's this website I found a while ago (even made a thread about it http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=2123&page=1) called Tatoeba (http:/... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Off topic | 3 | 1,159 | 2010-06-25, 10:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The Brain Series by Charlie Rose Post: The Brain Series by Charlie Rose http://www.charlierose.com/view/collection/10702 There seems to be a lot of people interested in neurology, consciousness, etc. on this forum, so I thought this might be interesting to some. The show... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Off topic | 0 | 420 | 2010-04-11, 1:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese textbooks from 東京大学 Post: Japanese textbooks from 東京大学 Thx for the review. Didn't spot the N1 grammar but this is a bit strange: でも、十代の異文化との表面的な接触はカルチャーショックが大きく、逆にやや国粋的になって帰国しました。 She became nationalistic? |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 2 | 2,275 | 2010-04-09, 5:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Ubuntu Japanese edition. Post: Ubuntu Japanese edition. Just try it out. It's very easy to switch back if you don't like it. Go to administration >Language Support and add support for Japanese. You can switch from there or using the login manager. |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 7 | 2,966 | 2010-03-20, 9:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese textbooks from 東京大学 Post: Japanese textbooks from 東京大学 I just saw these books at the library. Not sure how new they are but I've never heard about them before (amazon lists a 2005 release date): 中・上級日本語教科書 日本への招待 テキスト http://dwarfurl.com/895b6e and 上級... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 2 | 2,275 | 2010-03-20, 8:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Coverage Percent Post: Kanji Coverage Percent It would be nice to have this integrated into the Anki Kanji stats plugin. And thank you Spines11. |
Transparent_Aluminium | General discussion | 23 | 7,278 | 2010-02-27, 1:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Who loves gimmicky learning methods? Post: Who loves gimmicky learning methods? The forum looks like a large version of the "What's this word/phrase?" thread. People ask questions and seem to receive speedy answers. It appears pretty active but a few individuals seem to be using ... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Off topic | 204 | 29,651 | 2010-02-17, 8:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Who loves gimmicky learning methods? Post: Who loves gimmicky learning methods? While browsing the sci.lang.japan faq I noticed that it includes a rating of Internet forums about Japanese. This forum is also rated. http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/forums.html It gets three stars and ... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Off topic | 204 | 29,651 | 2010-02-17, 1:54 pm | ||
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Thread: How to find all kanji components that have Unicode? Post: How to find all kanji components that have Unicode... Another (more exhaustive?) list of radicals with unicodes. They also have an English unicode name. I wonder if this is official. http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/radical-names.html |
Transparent_Aluminium | General discussion | 7 | 4,235 | 2010-02-17, 1:41 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Quick question. What does 泣かしむる mean here? 鬼神を泣かしむる. Is it an archaic form of 泣かさせる? Thanks. |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,164 | 2010-02-16, 9:21 pm | ||
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Thread: How many readings do you need to know? Post: How many readings do you need to know? Short answer: Forget all about readings, just learn words. |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 143 | 38,334 | 2010-02-13, 4:11 pm | ||
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Thread: How many readings do you need to know? Post: How many readings do you need to know? mezbup Wrote:Personally I'm aiming for a very high level of reading, I don't see the point in aiming low. Why the hell not be able to read 3000 kanji? I see it as a question of balance. There's nothin... |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 143 | 38,334 | 2010-02-13, 12:57 pm | ||
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Thread: My study method (Study pack included) Post: My study method (Study pack included) Can you find actual novels on Winny/Share? Stuff like Murakami (春樹村上) or Yoshimoto Banana ? |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 138 | 47,077 | 2010-02-13, 10:23 am | ||
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Thread: How many readings do you need to know? Post: How many readings do you need to know? @Fillanzea It does seem like this debate will never die. I'll repost this if you allow me: Fillanzea Wrote:I went googling around for data and hit upon this very interesting link: http://www.nier.g... |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 143 | 38,334 | 2010-02-13, 10:16 am | ||
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Thread: Rating you're japanese ability. Post: Rating you're japanese ability. @Yudan We've had this discussion before but I feel the breakthrough point is closer to 1500 kanji than to 1000. Or at least that's how it was in my experience. The first 1000 kanji are more like the ... |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 131 | 17,408 | 2010-02-10, 12:31 am | ||
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Thread: Rating you're japanese ability. Post: Rating you're japanese ability. I don't know where that 2042 figure comes from. 常用(1945) + New 常用 (191) = 2136. That's probably sufficient for understanding mostly everything. 1000 is definitely not enough to read a newspaper. As M... |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 131 | 17,408 | 2010-02-09, 10:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Do more decks help you get more done? Post: Do more decks help you get more done? 700 per day? That's just insane. Go on vacation for a week and you have 4900 cards up for review, two weeks and it's 10 000. Just how many cards do you have in that deck to get that many reviews? 30 0... |
Transparent_Aluminium | General discussion | 11 | 1,517 | 2010-02-08, 11:40 am | ||
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Thread: Users study methods Post: Users study methods This is Kanzen Master. http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Language-...=pd_cp_b_1 |
Transparent_Aluminium | The Japanese language | 178 | 128,260 | 2010-02-07, 4:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Steve Wonder and Language Learning Post: Steve Wonder and Language Learning mc2mc Wrote:So do me a favor - get a wife, some kids, a full-time job, and then try to balance that with language study. If you can do that, I'll be all ears for your advice. I'm sure you can argue wi... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 44 | 5,870 | 2010-02-06, 9:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Steve Wonder and Language Learning Post: Steve Wonder and Language Learning Well, Kanji in context has been typed by the kind souls inhabiting the other thread, so you can input it in an SRS. It's a great book IMO, better than just taking random sentences from edict. The sent... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 44 | 5,870 | 2010-02-06, 7:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Steve Wonder and Language Learning Post: Steve Wonder and Language Learning Kanji in Context might be right for you. http://bookclub.japantimes.co.jp/act/en/...do?id=0754 http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3317 For grammar, buy Kanzen Master or look at http://jgram... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 44 | 5,870 | 2010-02-06, 4:19 pm | ||
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Thread: SRSing vs. textbooks Post: SRSing vs. textbooks Jarvik7 Wrote:Currently I'm using textbooks, albeit ones made for native speakers (国語教科書). Interesting, which ones are you using? It seems kind of hard to find info about 国語教科書. Found some by Sanseido... |
Transparent_Aluminium | Learning resources | 25 | 4,414 | 2010-02-02, 11:08 pm | ||
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Thread: When will it ever stop??? Post: When will it ever stop??? Yonosa Wrote:can name all basic, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals. I can name all basic astronomy terms 太陽、水星、金星、地球、小惑星帯、火星、木星、土星、天皇制、海王星、冥王星、流星、彗星、衛星. Where in the sky is the 天皇制 exactly? |
Transparent_Aluminium | General discussion | 46 | 10,988 | 2010-02-02, 4:42 pm | ||
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Thread: When will it ever stop??? Post: When will it ever stop??? Found another document: http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/japanese/survey/b...pdf/06.pdf It's about how they selected words for the new JLPT but they reference research on vocab size. There's not that much more... |
Transparent_Aluminium | General discussion | 46 | 10,988 | 2010-02-01, 4:29 pm | ||
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Thread: When will it ever stop??? Post: When will it ever stop??? That's for English though. Here's what Japanese wikipedia says: 6 years old 5000～6000 words 13 yo 30 000 words 20 yo 45 000~50 000 small dictionary 60 000~100 000 Edit: Looks like Fillanzea was fast... |
Transparent_Aluminium | General discussion | 46 | 10,988 | 2010-02-01, 3:34 pm | ||
