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Thread: SAT-Subject Test-Japanese Post: SAT-Subject Test-Japanese Actually the link I posted was for the AP Japanese test, not the SAT subject test which is entirely different. Will your university give you credit for the SAT subject test? Or is it that you will be ... |
sheetz | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 9,491 | 2010-10-11, 2:24 pm | ||
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Thread: SAT-Subject Test-Japanese Post: SAT-Subject Test-Japanese According to this list it tests 410 kanji. http://www.cheng-tsui.com/downloads/supp...kanji_list I wonder which books students use because that's more kanji than what is found in the vast majority of... |
sheetz | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 9,491 | 2010-10-11, 1:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Iron Chef Post: Iron Chef http://filehouse.ironcheffans.info/index.php |
sheetz | Off topic | 4 | 846 | 2010-09-27, 10:19 pm | ||
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Thread: The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese Post: The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Ja... I think in general people are just much more impressed with you when you can speak with a very good accent and pronunciation. Some people may have already seen this Youtube video of a Korean polyglo... |
sheetz | General discussion | 31 | 6,227 | 2010-09-26, 7:00 pm | ||
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Thread: The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese Post: The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Ja... Their accents may not be great but I hesitate to say I could do better. Achieving a native sounding accent seems to be quite rare. I was watching some English speaking contests on Youtube and even top... |
sheetz | General discussion | 31 | 6,227 | 2010-09-26, 3:20 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching in High school Post: Teaching in High school Wow, what an ambitious plan! Since this is your project I'm assuming your students are doing this for fun and won't actually be receiving a real grade? If so I suggest focusing primarily on passive sk... |
sheetz | General discussion | 11 | 2,440 | 2010-09-24, 4:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Discussion on Textbooks Post: Discussion on Textbooks It's true that you can learn Japanese with pretty much any textbook, but I figure if you're going to the trouble of working your way through Heisig you may as well find a textbook that uses lots of ka... |
sheetz | The Japanese language | 46 | 14,885 | 2010-09-16, 7:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Discussion on Textbooks Post: Discussion on Textbooks Also consider self-study books like the Assimil Japanese course. Many textbooks are meant to be used in a classroom setting and may be less effective when used for self-study. I used Assimil as my pri... |
sheetz | The Japanese language | 46 | 14,885 | 2010-09-15, 6:07 pm | ||
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Thread: SAT advice (Particularly Vocabulary) Post: SAT advice (Particularly Vocabulary) They now have things called "SAT vocabulary novels," which are books written specifically to help readers learn SAT vocabulary. Makes you wonder when someone will write a "JLPT novel." http://www.spa... |
sheetz | Off topic | 10 | 3,370 | 2010-09-15, 1:09 am | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Finished my 3rd pass of HP2. After my final pass I think I'll move on to Botchan since there's a parallel text already made for it. |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-09-09, 3:06 am | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Checking in. Just finished first pass of HP2. |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-08-28, 2:04 am | ||
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Thread: Disney in Japanese Post: Disney in Japanese I'm not too tech savvy. What's the best way to download these videos to save for posterity? |
sheetz | Learning resources | 15 | 12,332 | 2010-08-25, 6:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Teaching RTK (both "Kanji" and "Kana" types) in Yokosuka Post: Teaching RTK (both "Kanji" and "Kana" types) in Yo... In a classroom setting I think it would be fun to bring in props to represent the various primitives and have students create mini-skits for each kanji. For example, student A could wear some gaudy ... |
sheetz | Off topic | 24 | 7,763 | 2010-08-25, 12:30 am | ||
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Thread: is it possible to learn without formally learning grammar? Post: is it possible to learn without formally learning ... Zon70 Wrote:for the most part, though we only used genki 1 through those 2 semesters, and there is still some parts of grammar i have not learned, i know the basics however i really dont want to get i... |
sheetz | The Japanese language | 32 | 8,429 | 2010-08-21, 6:35 pm | ||
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Thread: is it possible to learn without formally learning grammar? Post: is it possible to learn without formally learning ... I'm confused. The OP has taken 2 semesters of Japanese classes using Genki, receiving good grades in the process, and yet claims to have not formally studied grammar? Just because one doesn't use a bo... |
sheetz | The Japanese language | 32 | 8,429 | 2010-08-21, 3:48 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog I've been doing LR at least 1 hr/day. Sometimes as many as 3-4 hrs/day. My approach has been to go through each book 4 times: Listen L2/Read L1, Listen L2/Read L2, then repeat. So far I've noticed a... |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-08-18, 3:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese without Kanjii(reading/writing) Post: Learning Japanese without Kanjii(reading/writing) There are a few courses available for those not wishing to learn Japanese script, but none will take you beyond beginner/intermediate. Off the top of my head there are: All audio programs such as Mi... |
sheetz | The Japanese language | 25 | 11,050 | 2010-08-13, 5:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Post: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Well, if finding a conversation partner is more important than possibly annoying the occasional person then go ahead and dismiss what I have to say. |
sheetz | General discussion | 61 | 11,140 | 2010-08-02, 4:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Post: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Hey, go ahead and dismiss what I have to say. But if the OP is smart, he'll make 100% sure that the people he addresses in Japanese are actually Japanese. |
sheetz | General discussion | 61 | 11,140 | 2010-08-02, 4:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Post: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ quincy Wrote:sheetz Wrote:Isn't Ocircle of Korean descent? I'm Chinese-American and I'd probably be annoyed if I went to Hawaii and people assumed I was a Japanese tourist without even bothering to as... |
sheetz | General discussion | 61 | 11,140 | 2010-08-02, 3:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Post: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Isn't Ocircle of Korean descent? I'm Chinese-American and I'd probably be annoyed if I went to Hawaii and people assumed I was a Japanese tourist without even bothering to ask if I was Japanese. |
sheetz | General discussion | 61 | 11,140 | 2010-08-02, 2:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Sasuga bookstore closed? Post: Sasuga bookstore closed? Yes, it's sad to see them go. I've bought a number of things from them in the past. Now the best place for people in the US to buy Japanese books online is probably Kinokuniya. http://bookweb.kinokun... |
sheetz | The Japanese language | 10 | 5,536 | 2010-07-24, 11:37 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog I started LR-ing in Japanese a couple of days ago with the Little Prince. It's a nice book to use as a warmup before moving on to more challenging texts. I've listened to the audio before in the past,... |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-07-24, 12:20 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog What isn't translated into Japanese? LOL One blogger who might be asked to help record is the person who runs Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime. She says about herself: "I enjoy reading aloud,... |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-07-23, 12:10 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Personally I have no real expectations of what my language abilities will be after a couple hundred hours of L-R, but I do think it's an interesting experiment and I'll definitely share my results. I ... |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-07-22, 11:18 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Aijin Wrote:This method advocates a very large amount of hours over an extended period of time, and the results are described as being the same as if someone had been doing any other form of listening... |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-07-22, 10:07 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog I always found the L-R method's originator to be thoroughly entertaining and I thought it was pretty obvious that his/her occasional outrageous statements were meant to get under the skin of some of t... |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-07-22, 8:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice sought for Intermediate Japanese Post: Advice sought for Intermediate Japanese But is the OP actively using incorrect grammar at this point or is he/her concentrating on passive input? If one is only listening and reading and not actively communicating with anyone what does it ... |
sheetz | Learning resources | 38 | 10,219 | 2010-07-22, 6:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice sought for Intermediate Japanese Post: Advice sought for Intermediate Japanese I tend to agree that if you want to get really, really good at a foreign language it's better to study grammar. Even though people often say that we learned our native languages as children without te... |
sheetz | Learning resources | 38 | 10,219 | 2010-07-22, 5:37 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog According to the originator of the method one needs many, many hours of NEW material. So reading the same HP book 100 times isn't enough. For some other languages it has been said that the amount of a... |
sheetz | General discussion | 358 | 75,036 | 2010-07-21, 7:39 am | ||
