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Thread: How to build a strong foundation? Genki? Tae Kim? Post: RE: How to build a strong foundation? Genki? Tae K... I started with the kana, improved my ability to distinguish kanji (RTK), started studying vocabulary (Core) and grammar (from Tae Kim's Guide). I think it's easiest to start with reading skills. I th... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 15 | 266 | 3 hours ago | ||
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Thread: You know your writing system is complicated when ... Post: RE: You know your writing system is complicated wh... So... Like half of the categories in Jeopardy? I generally suck at Jeopardy (following along, that is), because most of it is pointless trivia, yet every time a category about English words or stuff a... |
sholum | General discussion | 9 | 438 | 2016-06-19, 7:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Flying Witch! Post: RE: Flying Witch! I haven't started watching it yet, but I've been excited for this to come out (love the manga)! I've really been out of the anime loop, so I can't really recommend anything. |
sholum | Off topic | 12 | 493 | 2016-06-18, 7:55 pm | ||
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Thread: My rant for the day.... Post: RE: My rant for the day.... With pollen allergies, joint swelling is quite common with, isn't it? At least, that always happens to me during certain times of year (knees and hips; makes me feel old when I shouldn't). Though, hon... |
sholum | Off topic | 22 | 1,642 | 2016-06-18, 7:49 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Having trouble reading a single word in the following (from 読売新聞): 読売新聞 Wrote:男はアフガニスタン出身の両親を持つ米国人で、警察特殊部隊との銃撃戦の末、射殺された。 My question is, do I read 射殺された as いころされた or しゃさつされた? Both seem like valid rea... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,666 | 2016-06-16, 2:08 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread You'll probably run across the ones you'll need in books dedicated to the JLPT. They show up all the time in novels, though, so it's worth learning some of them; it's a little easier on me to just p... |
sholum | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,467 | 2016-06-14, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Now this is more like it! An afternoon of leisurely reading has me up 101 points! And I even excluded fluff lines (like the stats and skills of monsters; chapter titles; and the authors notes)! While... |
sholum | Group study | 361 | 68,914 | 2016-06-14, 2:32 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Finally counted my pages. Not too many (62), but I've already read another chapter of 蜘蛛ですが、なにか？ and will read more before I go to sleep so... A quick observation: I added the results for nine chapte... |
sholum | Group study | 361 | 68,914 | 2016-06-12, 10:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?! Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ... (2016-06-12, 12:05 am)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: Also of course, some people -do- have trouble recognizing kanji that they've learned with keyword->kanji practice. I've never really had that problem ... |
sholum | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 1,315 | 2016-06-12, 5:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?! Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ... (2016-06-11, 10:14 pm)Mars Prism Makeup Wrote: Random question but should I be recognition from the kanji, the keyword, or both? Because my deck asks both. It'll quiz on what the keyword is, showing... |
sholum | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 1,315 | 2016-06-11, 10:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading For the text problem, try a different option in the drop down menu of ITH. If none of those work, you might have to search for a hook code that works on that engine. Normally the former will work. I'd... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,454 | 2016-06-11, 10:54 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-06-10, 12:38 pm)RawrPk Wrote: So you can just copy/paste into a word processor and get the character count from there and then do the math. You might want to save the document too so that you ... |
sholum | Group study | 361 | 68,914 | 2016-06-11, 10:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading (2016-06-10, 1:08 am)tokyostyle Wrote: (2016-06-09, 5:13 pm)cracky Wrote: VNR uses ITH for the text hooking. It's mostly just a lot of other shit piled on top. VNR started with ITH but now has y... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,454 | 2016-06-10, 2:06 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Need to count my pages from web novels, so I'm not doing so hot right now. I don't even know how much I've read, I just know where I started... |
sholum | Group study | 361 | 68,914 | 2016-06-10, 1:56 am | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading (2016-06-09, 10:36 pm)Mars Prism Makeup Wrote: If I want to play vns that are on the ps1 and ps2 is it possible to use things like visual novel reader? Or is that strictly for PC titles? Exclusivel... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,454 | 2016-06-10, 12:22 am | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading (2016-06-09, 3:05 am)tokyostyle Wrote: (2016-06-09, 12:04 am)sholum Wrote: Well, as far as VNs go, pretty much as long as it's on PC, it can be hooked. The reason I stress ITH, is because it's far... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,454 | 2016-06-09, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading Ah, I missed that part... I knew you were further than starting Core (because of your posts on the JLPT threads), but I didn't pay attention to who the OP was from, just the more recent posts. Well, ... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,454 | 2016-06-09, 12:04 am | ||
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Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading (2016-06-08, 4:30 pm)RawrPk Wrote: I don't think any rikai can work with visual novels but maybe Kanjitomo can? It is an OCR popup dictionary. If it doesn't work directly in the game, you can take a... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 114 | 7,454 | 2016-06-08, 9:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Making Learning Japanese Fun Post: RE: Making Learning Japanese Fun If it's games, I highly recommend some older fantasy titles like Final Fantasy (my favorites being IV and V; IV is a lot more story driven than V though). I definitely would not, 100%, start with some... |
sholum | General discussion | 43 | 2,819 | 2016-06-03, 11:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset Post: RE: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset I can't suggest a way to completely stop getting on edge, but I can tell you a couple of things that make me feel a bit better when I have to speak (especially if it's a presentation). 1.) (Primarily... |
sholum | General discussion | 14 | 768 | 2016-06-02, 9:39 pm | ||
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Thread: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread Post: RE: My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread I have over 10k words in Anki (can't say I *know* all of them), and I didn't have much less at the time of the N1 last December; I failed quite hard. I had plenty of vocabulary for that test, but I d... |
sholum | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 355 | 39,467 | 2016-06-02, 8:50 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-06-01, 1:07 am)HolyKotor Wrote: Hey guys, so I'm watching 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック and at one point Harlock says, "幻と分かっていても縋らずにいられない時がある、人なら誰でも". I've seriously been thinking about this for over half a... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,666 | 2016-06-01, 1:40 am | ||
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Thread: Why you can read but can't listen. Post: RE: Why you can read but can't listen. (2016-05-28, 4:53 am)FlameseeK Wrote: By the same token, writing can help your speaking. I can hardly speak any Japanese because I haven't been working on my production, but I know that writing woul... |
sholum | The Japanese language | 54 | 7,320 | 2016-05-28, 8:58 pm | ||
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Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope I agree that the emphasis on 'variety' is important. I've been reading a lot of fantasy, so I don't have too much trouble figuring out what's going on in a new story (and after I get used to the autho... |
sholum | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 60 | 4,296 | 2016-05-24, 1:43 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-05-21, 11:49 pm)RawrPk Wrote: I didn't know that many light novels and manga were originally web novels. I always thoughts web novel would become light novels and then manga while web manga ju... |
sholum | Group study | 361 | 68,914 | 2016-05-22, 2:11 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-05-21, 10:26 pm)RawrPk Wrote: I doubt I'll be able to meet that goal with my manga reading (5 manga pages = 1 official Tadoku page) but I did estimate that I would hit a little over 130+ ppp w... |
sholum | Group study | 361 | 68,914 | 2016-05-21, 11:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android Post: RE: Rikachan on Firefox for Android (2016-05-20, 7:10 pm)balloonguy Wrote: That was a bug, it is fixed in the latest version. Download from https://github.com/ispedals/Rikachan-Android/releases Thanks! I can't sit at my computer for ... |
sholum | Learning resources | 22 | 5,982 | 2016-05-20, 8:27 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge (2016-05-19, 11:52 pm)RawrPk Wrote: Tadoku round in 2 weeks. Just signed up. I'm feeling ambitious and set a steep goal of 1000 pages xD Will I meet it? Probably not but ***** it I'll try anyways. ... |
sholum | Group study | 361 | 68,914 | 2016-05-20, 11:17 am | ||
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Thread: Rikachan on Firefox for Android Post: RE: Rikachan on Firefox for Android I'm not sure if this is just me being an idiot or not, but I can't get the save function to work. I've tried using a file in both the system memory as well as the external card, like so: /storage/emu... |
sholum | Learning resources | 22 | 5,982 | 2016-05-19, 11:30 pm | ||
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Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope @Kuma_sensei On my second go through of core6k, I just suspended the cards that I new I wouldn't forget. You might even just delete them. That way, you're not wasting time reviewing 一番 and 私 when the... |
sholum | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 60 | 4,296 | 2016-05-19, 11:08 pm | ||
