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    Thread: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)
Post: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)

i dont know about you...but AJATT works almost TOO good for me. I live in japan and after a year of doing this ajatt i have noticed not only a ridiculous time to improvement gain in my japanese but a...
saizen General discussion 140 51,117 2009-08-13, 4:08 pm
    Thread: Love in Japan...
Post: Love in Japan...

captal Wrote:Random-hookups in Tokyo are like shooting fish in a barrel if you want them. Though I didn't do a very good job when I stayed for two months as I was sticking to nice girls that I met. My...
saizen General discussion 578 67,332 2009-07-15, 5:38 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

-finished ko2001 book 1 -got 2000+sentences -Improved Immersion environment in a huge way moving from 東京to宮城県(miyagi-ken...verrry country side) this sunday. It was a request I made a long time a...
saizen General discussion 1,389 294,524 2009-06-23, 7:00 pm
    Thread: Japanese Punk Rock
Post: Japanese Punk Rock

i believe Kamiki Aya is punk rock....and damn is she good.
saizen General discussion 17 3,273 2009-06-21, 7:33 pm
    Thread: List of free GOOD audio
Post: List of free GOOD audio

Thora Wrote:I'm not quite sure what you're looking for, Thermal. Based on your examples, you might like TBS Life radio which I described here. The member bios make me think the conversation could be ...
saizen Learning resources 30 15,086 2009-06-15, 12:34 am
    Thread: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.
Post: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.

ooo wow...this is turning into something interesting. I still have work to do on KO but once that finishes I will make good use of this stuff. If it isnt crappy..i will pass it on.
saizen General discussion 110 39,267 2009-06-14, 11:50 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.
Post: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.

WeTsTICK Wrote:I have purchased Bio Hazard 2 and Final Fantasy 7 from the Japanese PSN today :D I love both of this games and using them to learn seems a great way to go. For biohazard 2 most the game...
saizen General discussion 110 39,267 2009-06-14, 7:04 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.
Post: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.

Shadow_A Wrote:This site has scripts for FFII to FFX-2. They seem to be complete. http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/ffstory/ff/index.html Wow the gold mine! thanks for the links guys! Thanks for the fi...
saizen General discussion 110 39,267 2009-06-13, 6:49 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.
Post: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.

Jarvik7 Wrote:Wonder if they ever remade FF7 for ds.. I'm guessing no. No, and if (and probably when) they remake ff7 it will most likely be a complete remake on the strongest system available at the ...
saizen General discussion 110 39,267 2009-06-12, 3:00 am
    Thread: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.
Post: Learning Japanese with Japanese videogames.

Hate to bring an old thread from the dead but I have a request/question: The first page of this thread had a link to FF7 entire script..but that link is dead. Would anyone be able to point me in the...
saizen General discussion 110 39,267 2009-06-11, 7:58 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level
Post: KO2001 and JLPT level

bodhisamaya Wrote:Nukemarine Wrote:Jeez, just look at the flak Khatzumoto gets about his writing style and simple grammar used in conversation. I'm looking forward to the day when my Japanese is good ...
saizen JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 94 17,477 2009-06-02, 6:46 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level
Post: KO2001 and JLPT level

thermal Wrote:It's not so much that it is detrimental, although it can be. I am just saying that it is largely a waste of time. It's like Stephen Krashen says, there is learning a language and learnin...
saizen JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 94 17,477 2009-06-01, 2:27 am
    Thread: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate m...

Nukemarine Wrote:Just a reminder to all that you should also write CosCom directly and tell them of your success with their books. I wouldn't be suprised if they are closely monitoring this site lol.....
saizen General discussion 120 33,799 2009-05-24, 7:39 pm
    Thread: 若い世代の言葉の中性化
Post: 若い世代の言葉の中性化

yukamina Wrote:saizen Wrote:Because I hear even the adults speak more femine in the tokyo area than prefectures outside of tokyo Hm, do you mean male adults? yup the guys
saizen General discussion 19 3,067 2009-05-18, 7:12 pm
    Thread: Gitaigo by Gomi Tarou
Post: Gitaigo by Gomi Tarou

wow ...see that is what i love about this site..the book recommendations are just golden. I clicked on the link...looked inside to the book to see what it is all about and dang...next thing you know ...
saizen Group study 28 8,992 2009-05-18, 2:19 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Shun the Nonbelievers Hey guys if you follow the AJATT Method read some of the replies to 勝元's or in this thread, 勝海殿's advice. I found this link a couple days back on the AJATT site on his tweeter ...
saizen General discussion 1,517 595,132 2009-05-18, 1:43 am
    Thread: If you had to convince someone Japan is the best place in the world
Post: If you had to convince someone Japan is the best p...

jorgebucaran Wrote:So more cuties than uglies or viceversa? If it was viceversa that comment would be in the "If you had to convince someone Japan is the worst place in the world" thread LOL. Yeah mo...
saizen Off topic 341 43,707 2009-05-18, 12:57 am
    Thread: If you had to convince someone Japan is the best place in the world
Post: If you had to convince someone Japan is the best p...

1) 居酒屋(いざかや) There is just something about the atmosphere I love   1A)飲み放題(のみほうだい) All you can drink 1B) They like to drink 2) High concentration of extremely friendly people that are interested i...
saizen Off topic 341 43,707 2009-05-18, 12:10 am
    Thread: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate m...

Time to bring this thread back on course of what the title is: Woot I finally finished Vol. I a couple days ago and finally moved onto Vol. II. It took me about 7 months to finish it. I did Reproduc...
saizen General discussion 120 33,799 2009-05-15, 12:27 am
    Thread: 若い世代の言葉の中性化
Post: 若い世代の言葉の中性化

Hey that was a pretty interesting read, it think maybe just because I COULD read it for once. Thanks for that, I will try and read up on that site more. Does it say anything about where the 調査 was co...
saizen General discussion 19 3,067 2009-05-14, 7:22 pm
    Thread: What happens when you start to mine sentences?
Post: What happens when you start to mine sentences?

i got that harry potter book...still cant read it lol
saizen The Japanese language 76 13,316 2009-04-28, 12:15 am
    Thread: What's the plan after RevTK?
Post: What's the plan after RevTK?

jorgebucaran Wrote:After the Kanji, the trend seems to be mining sentences. What I am looking for is the same feeling of "I am getting somewhere" that I get with RevTK when doing sentences. So the que...
saizen The Japanese language 60 9,118 2009-04-24, 3:14 am
    Thread: Stop after finishing?
Post: Stop after finishing?

i dont understand how in the hell you can all work sooooooo hard to master all 2042 and then just stop reviewing? Really how hard is it to keep reviewing after doing something as crazy as learning 204...
saizen Remembering the Kanji 55 8,371 2009-04-23, 8:19 pm
    Thread: What's the plan after RevTK?
Post: What's the plan after RevTK?

ghinzdra Wrote:resort to smart core ? will I be the only one to finish the course in spite of all the collective effort ? I guess it has to do with the audio file still it's kind of sad.... Nope i am...
saizen The Japanese language 60 9,118 2009-04-23, 2:59 am
    Thread: The "What I just did to make my Environment more Japanese!" thread
Post: The "What I just did to make my Environment more J...

yeah the better your japanese gets the less passive it becomes ...just like you can catch what people say off in the background in your mother tounge w/o even a second thought. I really notice this w...
saizen General discussion 106 19,519 2009-04-22, 6:43 pm
    Thread: The "What I just did to make my Environment more Japanese!" thread
Post: The "What I just did to make my Environment more J...

Tobberoth Wrote:Codexus Wrote:mafried Wrote:Khatzumoto got his gig with Sony after about 7,500 sentences and 10,000 hours of immersion Except that Khatzumoto seems to be willing to count anything as h...
saizen General discussion 106 19,519 2009-04-21, 6:48 pm
    Thread: The "What I just did to make my Environment more Japanese!" thread
Post: The "What I just did to make my Environment more J...

masaman Wrote:I can't say much about learning Kanji as I don't even remember how I learned them, and to be honest, some of you write Kanji better than I do, but I do believe immersing in (pseudo) nati...
saizen General discussion 106 19,519 2009-04-20, 9:44 pm
    Thread: The "What I just did to make my Environment more Japanese!" thread
Post: The "What I just did to make my Environment more J...

Yeah it is a choice if you want to cut out the english. Cutting out the english makes you work that much harder to find alternatives in japanese, the whole point is to expose yourself as much as possi...
saizen General discussion 106 19,519 2009-04-20, 6:46 pm
    Thread: The "What I just did to make my Environment more Japanese!" thread
Post: The "What I just did to make my Environment more J...

Dood go here: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/torrents.php Half of the shows there aren't subbed and of the ones that are ..half are usually softsubbed so you can take it off. And if you like anime ...
saizen General discussion 106 19,519 2009-04-20, 3:16 am
    Thread: Moving from "I finished" to "I mastered the 2042"
Post: Moving from "I finished" to "I mastered the 2042"

stoked Wrote:Not done with RTK yet but I think this question is weird. How about just keep on reviewing and change nothing at all? Couldn't agree more, the system has practicaly been perfected...just...
saizen Remembering the Kanji 15 2,606 2009-04-06, 6:44 pm