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Thread: Tips on how to improve translation into English? Post: Tips on how to improve translation into English? How do translators manage to avoid source-language terms in their translations from other languages than Japanese? French and German have two different words for "you", a polite and plain form. I've ... |
Christoph_D | The Japanese language | 23 | 3,766 | 2013-07-05, 7:10 am | ||
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Thread: Buying an Mp3 Player (Recommendations) Post: Buying an Mp3 Player (Recommendations) Sansa Fuze is far from plain, it can show video. And the sony player you linked to does not understand ogg vorbis files, so I would never buy it. Check out Sansa Clip. Cheap, long battery life, no pr... |
Christoph_D | General discussion | 26 | 3,802 | 2012-02-12, 6:23 am | ||
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Thread: Manga Translation Post: Manga Translation Aetheus Wrote:Admittedly, not a whole lot would be lost by dropping honorifics entirely. Still, something WOULD be lost. So why does Japanese have this special role that people like to see translation... |
Christoph_D | General discussion | 58 | 10,851 | 2012-01-13, 2:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you feel Japanese is faster than other languages you speak? Post: Do you feel Japanese is faster than other language... Daichi Wrote:I can't really speak for comprehension speeds, but I think the article is right in many ways. You can squeeze a lot more Japanese language in very little space, I think this goes for writ... |
Christoph_D | General discussion | 13 | 6,199 | 2011-09-24, 8:18 am | ||
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Thread: Learn Japanese through visual novels Post: Learn Japanese through visual novels Cosign Wrote:Saya no Uta and Steins;Gate are much easier novels (S;G is pretty beginner friendly I hear). The examples provided were the hardest VNs I have encountered. Have you read Saya no Uta? Thi... |
Christoph_D | Learning resources | 19 | 11,881 | 2011-09-03, 6:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Learn Japanese through visual novels Post: Learn Japanese through visual novels From the website: Quote:You won’t be able to read everything. You won’t be able to read Rui wa Tomo or Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa nai for example. Does anyone know how these compare to say Saya no Uta or ... |
Christoph_D | Learning resources | 19 | 11,881 | 2011-09-03, 2:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) midnightsun Wrote:I know two people who have used the AJATT method and passed the old JLPT level 2 first time and then level 1, again, first time. It can done. Took just over 2 years, longer than 18 m... |
Christoph_D | Off topic | 567 | 98,531 | 2011-08-08, 4:25 am | ||
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Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon) aphasiac Wrote:Now if silverspoon people actually make good progress, and claim fluency at the end of the program, I hope the haters on here are man enough to do the same and give him some credit. The... |
Christoph_D | Off topic | 567 | 98,531 | 2011-08-03, 11:49 am | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese at a University Post: Studying Japanese at a University aphasiac Wrote:In Europe if you study Japanese at university, you will leave with no other skills except being able to speak Japanese. The modern Japanese language is only a part of what you learn in ... |
Christoph_D | General discussion | 74 | 13,282 | 2011-07-19, 4:45 am | ||
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Thread: 6 months to become a J-E Translator. Some thoughts... Post: 6 months to become a J-E Translator. Some thoughts... Guoguodi Wrote:If I wanted a high quality translation job done, and I had some non-trivial content that needed translating, then I wouldn't accept someone who didn't have at least native-level compreh... |
Christoph_D | The Japanese language | 98 | 16,542 | 2011-05-26, 4:25 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Math but in Japanaese Post: Learning Math but in Japanaese I liked this one: http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4797341378 It's less about how to do basic arithmetic but more about what makes math interesting. |
Christoph_D | Learning resources | 41 | 9,215 | 2011-02-23, 5:37 am | ||
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Thread: How to do reps fast Post: How to do reps fast jettyke Wrote:For example you can set it so that it rings a bell every 10 seconds, and if you don't anwser the card in those 10 seconds, you push hard. I would push "failed" then. For me "hard" means ... |
Christoph_D | The Japanese language | 101 | 28,869 | 2011-01-23, 6:52 am | ||
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Thread: Where can I buy Harry Potter in Japanese online? Post: Where can I buy Harry Potter in Japanese online? $36.99 on yesasia: http://www.yesasia.com/global/harry-pott.../info.html ￥1,995 on bk1: http://www.bk1.jp/keywordSearchResult/?k...=9&x=0&y=0 (shipping is reasonable) |
Christoph_D | Learning resources | 11 | 5,873 | 2010-11-13, 5:21 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese IME on Linux Post: Japanese IME on Linux resolve Wrote:As for what Linux IMEs are missing, they are all pretty crap compared to the commercial offerings. Prediction is much worse and the dictionaries are lacking. http://code.google.com/p/moz... |
Christoph_D | General discussion | 12 | 5,916 | 2010-09-29, 5:40 am | ||
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Thread: Visual Novels by Language Difficulty Post: Visual Novels by Language Difficulty From Key, there's also Planetarian ~Chiisana Hoshi no Yume~. It's a lot shorter than Clannad, by which I mean you might be able to finish it even if your reading speed is on the slower side. On the ot... |
Christoph_D | Learning resources | 44 | 56,071 | 2010-09-19, 6:01 am | ||
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Thread: Stroke Order Post: Stroke Order Get the kanji stroke order font: http://sites.google.com/site/nihilistorguk/ That way you can include the stroke order on every anki card. |
Christoph_D | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 2,370 | 2010-07-03, 4:12 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT vocab lists (for Anki)? Post: JLPT vocab lists (for Anki)? vileru Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:I used it when I was studying for JLPT2 and then 1, but only because I was too lazy to make cards manually copy&pasting from a real dictionary. Was the JLPT 2 list $... |
Christoph_D | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 34 | 28,084 | 2010-06-16, 2:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Light Novels vs Manga reading difficulty? Post: Light Novels vs Manga reading difficulty? Just to mention another light novel: I'd say キノの旅 light novels are way easier to read than haruhi. They have fewer obscure words and generally shorter sentences. |
Christoph_D | General discussion | 76 | 33,512 | 2010-05-28, 3:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Community IRC Channel. Post: Community IRC Channel. Hi. We now have a new bot in the irc channel, its source code is on http://github.com/Christoph-D/Japanese-Tools . It can do RTK lookups (heisig number - keyword - kanji in all directions), jmdict loo... |
Christoph_D | Group study | 74 | 40,233 | 2010-04-05, 12:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Monbukagakusho Scholarship Post: Monbukagakusho Scholarship This research scholarship is for people aiming for a PhD, right? What'd happen if you don't finish your PhD in the time frame set by the scholarship? Last time I looked it up I found the research scho... |
Christoph_D | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 71 | 34,073 | 2010-03-16, 1:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Macbooks are AWESOME for reading manga/light novels Post: Macbooks are AWESOME for reading manga/light novel... Just for the record: Linux had this multitouch feature for years. Scrolling with two fingers on the trackpad, middle-click with two fingers, right-click with three fingers, all this "just works" on a ... |
Christoph_D | General discussion | 34 | 8,110 | 2009-08-29, 4:15 am | ||
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Thread: Best SRS ???? Post: Best SRS ???? Another great thing about Anki is that in its current version it properly displays Furigana: http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/JapaneseSupport |
Christoph_D | Learning resources | 33 | 10,466 | 2009-06-25, 10:20 am | ||