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Thread: First impressions. Give me some advice please! Post: First impressions. Give me some advice please! Hi. My advice is not to worry so much. I did RtK years ago, and I'm glad I did. I, too, worried that I would forget the subtle hooks and other little things... but I didn't. To tell you the truth... ... |
crayonmaster | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 4,358 | 2014-03-12, 9:12 am | ||
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Thread: HabitRPG Japanese study guild? Post: HabitRPG Japanese study guild? Wow I can't believe this site has been around and I haven't been taking advantage of it! Thanks for the share. As for a Japanese guild/challenge... I finished Rtk long ago, but could probably use a k... |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 14 | 5,093 | 2014-03-03, 4:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Your hardest card(s) Post: Your hardest card(s) My lowest cards (1.53) are 祝日 and 絞る. I just noticed that they're some of my oldest cards as well. I wonder why I struggle with them... Not surprisingly, my highest card at 2.99 is へそ. |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 20 | 3,330 | 2012-01-15, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread I just have a quick question about the JLPT scoring for the vocab section. A lot of the questions are 3-7 part questions. If we get 1 part wrong, is the whole question wrong, or are they scored indivi... |
crayonmaster | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,583 | 2010-11-15, 5:57 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread rich_f Wrote:Woot. Admission voucher (US) showed up, along with a long list of "don't"s. Fun. Same here. I'm tacking it to my wall as a reminder to study >_< |
crayonmaster | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,583 | 2010-11-13, 6:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Unreal Anki Post: Unreal Anki I seem to be having the same problem as Sebastian. |
crayonmaster | Learning resources | 37 | 11,082 | 2010-10-16, 7:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Quick Grammar/Vocabulary Question Post: Quick Grammar/Vocabulary Question 誰もジャンプしていません 誰も can mean anyone. It means no one when the verb is negative. So maybe, the literal translation might be: Anyone jumping doesn't exit. |
crayonmaster | The Japanese language | 18 | 6,587 | 2010-09-29, 9:42 am | ||
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Thread: Amazon Kindle v2 Post: Amazon Kindle v2 I'm considering buying Kindle 3, since it supports Japanese fonts. What's the selection like for japanese ebooks? And are they as outrageously priced as the hard copy books? |
crayonmaster | Off topic | 24 | 10,027 | 2010-09-27, 4:43 am | ||
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Thread: Only Women Teach Japanese Post: Only Women Teach Japanese Is it just Japanese teachers in America? Because in my middle school and high school, all of the foreign language teachers were female. |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 61 | 14,155 | 2010-09-21, 7:28 am | ||
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Thread: Japan Foundation, LA Database Attacked Post: Japan Foundation, LA Database Attacked :( Just got the email. Pretty bummed I have to cancel another credit card. |
crayonmaster | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 10 | 5,810 | 2010-09-19, 9:07 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread EratiK Wrote:Shut up and do it. :o Possibly the most intelligent bit of advice I've ever received... I'm off to master Japanese *without* motivation! |
crayonmaster | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,135 | 2010-09-14, 9:14 am | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread I lost motivation to study for a week or two... finally refueled my motivation and opened up Anki ready to hit the cards. Vocabulary deck: 1600 due cards Others decks: a total of 750 due cards. ... ... |
crayonmaster | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,135 | 2010-09-14, 8:40 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese without Kanjii(reading/writing) Post: Learning Japanese without Kanjii(reading/writing) Though you made it clear you want to avoid kanji, you made no mention of hiragana/katakana. I would recommend starting there. It doesn't take long and has huge benefits. Learning the kana enables you ... |
crayonmaster | The Japanese language | 25 | 11,064 | 2010-08-13, 4:27 pm | ||
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Thread: How many new cards do you add each day? Post: How many new cards do you add each day? If you're studying about one kanji per day, your not gonna finish for another 5 years... |
crayonmaster | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 5,011 | 2010-07-27, 11:53 am | ||
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Thread: Sasuga bookstore closed? Post: Sasuga bookstore closed? I saw that too! :( I bought my first novel from that store... |
crayonmaster | The Japanese language | 10 | 5,538 | 2010-07-21, 1:07 pm | ||
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Thread: is Jim Breen's website a good place to find sentences ? Post: is Jim Breen's website a good place to find senten... I know what you mean... when your just starting out, having a translation along with accurate sentences will let you study and SRS with more confidence. Just make sure you break away from translations... |
crayonmaster | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,448 | 2010-07-20, 8:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here I went up a level! Instead of 上手ですね, Japanese people are now describing my Japanese as とても上手! or wait... would that actually mean I went down a level?... :/ |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,648 | 2010-07-16, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: Remembering the answer right at the last moment Post: Remembering the answer right at the last moment lol This has happened to me a few times... I usually stare at the screen for a full minute trying to figure out if I cheated or not. I usually just fail it... Maybe we've trained our brains to sudde... |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 5 | 1,155 | 2010-07-14, 6:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki + Japanese = 6 pack abbs Post: Anki + Japanese = 6 pack abbs smartazjb0y Wrote:I have twig arms and I really need to start exercising, and I would love to do this, but no iPhone =/ You don't need an iPhone to do pushups ;) |
crayonmaster | Learning resources | 17 | 5,177 | 2010-07-11, 7:42 am | ||
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Thread: How long is manga in print for? Post: How long is manga in print for? On a quick related note.... What are some good sites for buying Japanese manga/novels (hopefully cheap US shipping)? I know there was a thread about this before... |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 12 | 2,480 | 2010-07-11, 7:39 am | ||
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Thread: how about a video practice thread Post: how about a video practice thread I made a video [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IgrV6DNVeI] I learned that poor speaking ability + nothing to talk about = very short video. Maybe I'll try again another day. |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 34 | 9,837 | 2010-07-10, 9:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Interesting new method Post: Interesting new method Hmm... I've been doing something like that... When I complete a list, I import it into anki. My flashcards all have the audio on the question side with the japanese on the answer. This deck is sepera... |
crayonmaster | Learning resources | 4 | 1,219 | 2010-07-06, 10:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Need a Good Source for Translated Example Sentences Post: Need a Good Source for Translated Example Sentence... Did anyone mention goo yet? http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/ I searched for ながれる with the 和英 bullet selected, and got a bunch of example sentences with translations: http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/je2/5... |
crayonmaster | Learning resources | 20 | 13,485 | 2010-07-02, 10:26 am | ||
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Thread: Feedback: iPad and Learning Japanese Post: Feedback: iPad and Learning Japanese about how much do those japanese ibooks cost anyway? |
crayonmaster | Learning resources | 12 | 5,772 | 2010-06-28, 5:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Stupidly Confused T.T about kana Post: Stupidly Confused T.T about kana domanis Wrote:皆さんはお元気。 みなさんはおげんき。 If I don't know the readings for those kanji then I wouldn't be able to read the sentence in Japanese, I would be essentially reading it kanji by kanji in English. ... |
crayonmaster | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 4,523 | 2010-06-24, 2:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Writing and SRS Post: Writing and SRS When I was studying, I started off writing them down each time. You are at frame 650, so you're still kind of in the early stages. Trust me, by the time your at 1500, you won't want to keep writing ... |
crayonmaster | Remembering the Kanji | 17 | 2,637 | 2010-06-15, 7:58 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread iih-noec Wrote:Could someone help me with these sentences from a novel? 「私は貫くような腹部の痛みに身を捩った。」 "I was tortured by through going abdominal pain." Is this correct? More like, "I was tortured by a pierci... |
crayonmaster | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,542 | 2010-06-13, 6:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here gyuujuice Wrote:Does listening to back-ground Japanese actually help me? (As opposed to actively listening to Japanese.) =_= I think so. If you listen to some soothing audiobook, you are going to comp... |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,648 | 2010-06-04, 6:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here thurd Wrote:crayonmaster Wrote:In one month I went from being able to hear and understand only isolated words and phrases (aka, can't understand jack), to being able to understand entire conversations... |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,648 | 2010-06-04, 4:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here In one month I went from being able to hear and understand only isolated words and phrases (aka, can't understand jack), to being able to understand entire conversations (everyday topics, not technica... |
crayonmaster | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,648 | 2010-06-04, 11:57 am | ||
