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Thread: UK - Working Holiday Visa Post: UK - Working Holiday Visa I'd say that your "6. A written reason for applying for a Working Holiday Visa typed on A4 paper" is the same as our "purpose of visit". :) Good luck with your visa |
Purrlsta | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 5 | 2,210 | 2012-07-29, 1:14 am | ||
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Thread: UK - Working Holiday Visa Post: UK - Working Holiday Visa It doesn't really matter what you write. Although apparently if you state that you already have a job lined up you'll be rejected. So if you mention working make sure it's only "thinking about working... |
Purrlsta | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 5 | 2,210 | 2012-07-27, 1:06 am | ||
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Thread: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? Post: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? I just asked the Japanese people I'm living with if there are any words only girls use and they said no, apart from sentence endings (like adding わ. Although depending on what part of Japan they're fr... |
Purrlsta | Learning resources | 15 | 6,162 | 2012-06-21, 11:43 pm | ||
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Thread: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? Post: What is the pre-requisite for Core 6k? yudantaiteki Wrote:There's almost nothing in current Japanese that is truly "female speech". It's mostly a matter of pronunciation/intonation, and that females tend to use politer speech in cases whe... |
Purrlsta | Learning resources | 15 | 6,162 | 2012-06-21, 10:37 pm | ||
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Thread: I'm usually confused about usually Post: I'm usually confused about usually I'm also quite interested in the differences between 大抵 and 大体. I learnt 大抵 first and so used it frequently, but when talking to people in Japan, if I asked them a question that used 大抵 their answer w... |
Purrlsta | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,556 | 2012-06-18, 7:03 am | ||
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Thread: Some help translating a few setences (E->J)? Post: Some help translating a few setences (E->J)? JimmySeal Wrote:I'm familiar with "winded" being used to express exhaustion from physical exertion, as in: "He's been at it for 3 hours and he's not even winded." or "I was really winded after that 10... |
Purrlsta | Group study | 8 | 2,259 | 2012-06-13, 1:23 am | ||
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Thread: Some help translating a few setences (E->J)? Post: Some help translating a few setences (E->J)? Thanks everyone for your help. I'm reallllyyy hoping I won't have to use them again in the future though. ^.^ vix86 Wrote:JimmySeal Wrote:- I winded myself when I landed What does this mean? When I l... |
Purrlsta | Group study | 8 | 2,259 | 2012-06-12, 3:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Some help translating a few setences (E->J)? Post: Some help translating a few setences (E->J)? I fell off my horse today and realised that I'm quite unable to describe the pain/my symptoms to people, so I was wondering if someone would be able to help me with a few sentences for future use (hop... |
Purrlsta | Group study | 8 | 2,259 | 2012-06-12, 6:07 am | ||
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Thread: Help With Honorifics Post: Help With Honorifics kitakitsune Wrote:The pronouns people pick really depend a lot on their personality. Tough guys usually go with ore and more "educated" people go with boku. Oh that's interesting that more "educated" ... |
Purrlsta | The Japanese language | 11 | 3,675 | 2012-06-09, 9:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling Have you ever heard of the line "fake it till you make it"? Supposedly if you fake something long enough, you'll begin to feel it. For example if you place a smile on your face for long enough, the us... |
Purrlsta | Off topic | 222 | 48,823 | 2012-06-09, 5:24 am | ||
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Thread: It feels very uncomfortable making online japanese contacts. Post: It feels very uncomfortable making online japanese... kainzero Wrote:the problem i had with finding online friends is that it gets boring because all you can do is talk and not really create experiences. also a lot of the japanese people tend to repeat t... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 14 | 5,921 | 2012-06-08, 5:43 pm | ||
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Thread: It feels very uncomfortable making online japanese contacts. Post: It feels very uncomfortable making online japanese... Tori-kun Wrote:Doctorhabib Wrote:Especially when they are girls , it creates this unwanted man-woman tension. Not at all! My best friend is in her 30s or so, I think, and man, we have talked about in... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 14 | 5,921 | 2012-06-06, 7:30 am | ||
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Thread: Another thread about the Japanese economy Post: Another thread about the Japanese economy matto Wrote:Maybe if Japanese companies actually paid decent salaries for IT jobs, they wouldn't have so much trouble filling them. On average how much do IT people get paid in Japan? |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 27 | 5,221 | 2012-06-06, 6:43 am | ||
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Thread: It feels very uncomfortable making online japanese contacts. Post: It feels very uncomfortable making online japanese... I decided to try and make friends through a different channel rather then the classic lang-8 style of language exchange. I decided to play a game I had played a few times before, but this time to do i... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 14 | 5,921 | 2012-06-06, 4:55 am | ||
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Thread: Cementing grammar for output? Post: Cementing grammar for output? howtwosavealif3 Wrote:question how much/what kind of Japanese do you understand in the first place? Honestly I find this question very difficult to answer as quantifying how much I can understand is h... |
Purrlsta | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,433 | 2012-06-06, 4:27 am | ||
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Thread: Cementing grammar for output? Post: Cementing grammar for output? Haha yep I'm literally on a farm with no one around me except horses and the two owners :P There was one girl here before (unfortunately we just defaulted to English cause it was easier =\) but she's ... |
Purrlsta | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,433 | 2012-06-05, 5:53 am | ||
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Thread: Cementing grammar for output? Post: Cementing grammar for output? Thanks for your advice guys :) Nukemarine Wrote:Pimsleur makes the best of a bad situation. It's about 30 minutes to an hour a day of listening and replicating. Not ideal in the long run, but at leas... |
Purrlsta | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,433 | 2012-06-05, 4:09 am | ||
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Thread: Cementing grammar for output? Post: Cementing grammar for output? I've been looking around this site and I'm finding the talk about how to learn grammar rather confusing. So I was wondering if people could tell me exactly what they do to study new grammar points. C... |
Purrlsta | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,433 | 2012-06-04, 11:19 pm | ||
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Thread: How do you "study" RTK? Post: How do you "study" RTK? Jombo Wrote:I then press ctrl+e and write/copypaste the story on the front of the card (actually there's a conveniently made box that says "Story" on my deck), and bold the keyword and italicize the e... |
Purrlsta | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 4,989 | 2012-06-04, 3:18 am | ||
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Thread: How do people normally learn characters in a class? Post: How do people normally learn characters in a class... Jombo Wrote:We learned only Hiragana at the beginning of the the first semester of the first year, and we didn't touch Katakana until the beginning of the second semester. By the end of the first year... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 27 | 5,779 | 2012-06-04, 2:50 am | ||
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Thread: How do you "study" RTK? Post: How do you "study" RTK? simblyne Wrote:Do you just use a piece of computer paper or lined paper? If I have computer paper I get sloppy and my kanji are all over the place, but with lined paper it's hard to write the tiny str... |
Purrlsta | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 4,989 | 2012-06-02, 3:22 am | ||
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Thread: How do you "study" RTK? Post: How do you "study" RTK? I never put that much effort into creating a story, etc. I know you're supposed to, but I feel that it's not worthwhile to spend so much time learning to simply write the kanji. What I do is I go thr... |
Purrlsta | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 4,989 | 2012-06-01, 11:44 pm | ||
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Thread: How do people normally learn characters in a class? Post: How do people normally learn characters in a class... yudantaiteki Wrote:I see this idea again and again, that before RTK, everyone had no choice but to write kanji over and over again out of context in a notebook, but this is BS. I never used heisig bu... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 27 | 5,779 | 2012-05-31, 10:10 pm | ||
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Thread: How do people normally learn characters in a class? Post: How do people normally learn characters in a class... dizmox Wrote:I don't think RtK is that special though. Don't get me wrong, I just think that high paced rote memorisation (identifying characters as collections of radicals, of course) when combined w... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 27 | 5,779 | 2012-05-31, 8:15 am | ||
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Thread: How do people normally learn characters in a class? Post: How do people normally learn characters in a class... My university had a kanji test every fortnight which was based on the kanji we were supposed to learn for the chapter of genki we were doing. These quizzes were separate from grammar and reading quizz... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 27 | 5,779 | 2012-05-31, 7:31 am | ||
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Thread: How do people normally learn characters in a class? Post: How do people normally learn characters in a class... SammyB Wrote:In REALITY, all my non-Chinese classmates (which cuts out most of the class) always tried to cram them for before the weekly kanji test, and would then forget them the next day. The would... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 27 | 5,779 | 2012-05-31, 4:37 am | ||
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Thread: Language / Cultural Exchange in Japan Post: Language / Cultural Exchange in Japan I'm wwoofing in Japan at the moment, up in Hokkaido at a horse farm. The people I'm staying with are super nice and the work isn't hard. They only talk a little English so most of the communication is... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 4 | 1,536 | 2012-05-31, 4:27 am | ||
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Thread: Japan Times Column - "Microagressions" Post: Japan Times Column - "Microagressions" Shakunatz Wrote:Karate Kid Wrote:Miyagi: Now, ready? Daniel: Yeah, I guess so. Miyagi: [sighs] Daniel-san, must talk. Come on! :P Ok, ok ...they're speaking English, that's why it is that weird....but... |
Purrlsta | General discussion | 99 | 12,520 | 2012-05-24, 11:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Going blonde in Japan Post: Going blonde in Japan People will try and touch it? Oh dear =\ While I don't like people staring at me, you do get used to it, especially since the majority of staring people tend to be kids. I'm more worried about an inc... |
Purrlsta | Off topic | 5 | 1,868 | 2012-05-24, 5:36 am | ||
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Thread: Going blonde in Japan Post: Going blonde in Japan I was just wondering if anyone who has dyed their hair blonde noticed any difference in how Japanese people react to you? For example does the staring increase or more random people coming over to tal... |
Purrlsta | Off topic | 5 | 1,868 | 2012-05-24, 5:00 am | ||
