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Thread: Video Games Post: Video Games I think you should play a game that you know very well. The best genre for learning a language is jrpg which usually have a lots of text in it. In this way also if you do not get the grammar structure... |
Max.89 | Learning resources | 21 | 3,357 | 2013-01-17, 7:00 am | ||
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Thread: Buy japanese kindle books from amazon Post: Buy japanese kindle books from amazon I am trying hard to buy some japanese kindle books for my android tablet (from outside japan). I have a japanese account and I set a japanese address (why they do not allow us to buy from outside jap... |
Max.89 | Learning resources | 5 | 3,793 | 2013-01-17, 4:44 am | ||
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Thread: Video Games Post: Video Games I suggest you the metal gear series, but not for actually playing it (if you mind only learning japanese through a videogame). It is far more convenient to watch some videos on youtube (because you ca... |
Max.89 | Learning resources | 21 | 3,357 | 2013-01-16, 11:49 am | ||
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Thread: Are the stories really worth it? Post: Are the stories really worth it? Look at these 2 kanji: 楢 (japanese oak) and 樽 (barrel) This is an example in which not having a story can get your brain confused. They are just too similar. But if you are doing reviews from kanji t... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 3,610 | 2013-01-16, 11:30 am | ||
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Thread: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS Post: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS I put fishes and plants because I do not know most of them in my native language. I am not referring to things like 鮫, 鯨, 蛸 that are very useful. I do not know for example this fish: 鯵. Searching wi... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 42 | 6,277 | 2013-01-11, 3:38 am | ||
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Thread: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS Post: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS In RtK 1 and even more in RtK 3 there some useless kanji. This is a fact. Ok, you can argue that some people would find them useful for their particular interests, but I think this is a border line c... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 42 | 6,277 | 2013-01-10, 4:59 am | ||
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Thread: Synonyms Post: Synonyms There is also the japanese wordnet project: http://nlpwww.nict.go.jp/wn-ja/ (you have to click on 検索). They are mapping the english version to the japanese language. |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,166 | 2013-01-05, 11:15 am | ||
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Thread: Studying with a little Heisig and some anime Post: Studying with a little Heisig and some anime I do not know if you need a list of the most common homonyms, but just in case you can take a look at one my old topics: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=10093 toshiromiballza posted this ... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 7 | 3,010 | 2013-01-04, 11:43 am | ||
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Thread: On Language Learning Post: On Language Learning Good point. I think that the most invasive english forced exposure is music and we all have been listening to it for years. |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 31 | 7,983 | 2013-01-01, 7:23 am | ||
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Thread: On Language Learning Post: On Language Learning I have been studying japanese for about 3.5 years and english for 7 years and I have reached the conclusion that there is no method apart from a lot of exposition and immersion in the target language.... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 31 | 7,983 | 2013-01-01, 7:16 am | ||
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Thread: Sound method (Vocabulary learning) Post: Sound method (Vocabulary learning) I already know most of the common words because I have been studying english for years. I put words like: accrue, aspersion, gritty, whimsical, pesky ecc... These are quite rare words that does not ap... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,787 | 2012-12-01, 1:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Sound method (Vocabulary learning) Post: Sound method (Vocabulary learning) I want to share a method that I am currently trying out to learn new english words that maybe can also be applied to the japanese language (why I say 'maybe' will be clear at the end of this post). T... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,787 | 2012-12-01, 4:12 am | ||
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Thread: EPWING monolingual japanese dictionary Post: EPWING monolingual japanese dictionary I would like to use a monolingual japanese dictionary in rikaichan (or rikaisama), but I can not find a free one. I have read that 明鏡 is quite good, but is it free? Where can I download it? I have alr... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 3 | 2,225 | 2012-11-13, 6:55 am | ||
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Thread: Study same pronunciation 熟語 together. Post: Study same pronunciation 熟語 together. Wow thank you very much! This seems really useful. It's probably better to split long sentences into two sentences. |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 14 | 2,962 | 2012-10-24, 9:29 am | ||
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Thread: Study same pronunciation 熟語 together. Post: Study same pronunciation 熟語 together. Thanks to everyone. I forgot to set some important premises: 1)I am not a beginner (I already read a lot of real japanese on forums, books, ecc...) 2)I know that how I used the kanji in the example... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 14 | 2,962 | 2012-10-24, 5:01 am | ||
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Thread: Study same pronunciation 熟語 together. Post: Study same pronunciation 熟語 together. I have been recently trying out this method for learning japanese words with the same pronounciation. Let's take the pronunciation: しゅうかん as an example. I would first query a dictionary to find all t... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 14 | 2,962 | 2012-10-23, 10:33 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese to japanese dictionary for browsers Post: Japanese to japanese dictionary for browsers Thank you. Could you please also suggest a good japanese to japanese epwing dictionary if you know? It seems what I was looking for anyway. |
Max.89 | General discussion | 5 | 1,747 | 2012-02-19, 8:43 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese to japanese dictionary for browsers Post: Japanese to japanese dictionary for browsers Thank you I'll check it out. |
Max.89 | General discussion | 5 | 1,747 | 2012-02-19, 7:52 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese to japanese dictionary for browsers Post: Japanese to japanese dictionary for browsers So far I have been using rikaikun chrome extension for translating japanese words on the net, but now I am considering to switch to a japanese to japanese dictionary because I think it would be more u... |
Max.89 | General discussion | 5 | 1,747 | 2012-02-19, 7:04 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa... Today I managed to finish rtk3 reaching 3032 kanji. I think that among the last 1000 kanji there are a lot of useless ones, but the effort is worth because some are very common and weren't in the firs... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 93 | 58,967 | 2012-01-28, 8:38 am | ||
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Thread: Stop learning Post: Stop learning I think you don't need to write the kanji down more than one time. I think you really learn a kanji when you find it in real context, but heisig is useful because when you will encounter the kanji you... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 3,159 | 2011-12-27, 3:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I doing it wrong? Post: Am I doing it wrong? You can also write the kanji on your palm with your fingertip if you don't want to waste paper or ink.I recently started to do this, but I used to write a lot before. |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,818 | 2011-12-27, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: How long do you study a day? Post: How long do you study a day? I spend about 3 hours per day, but when I can I try to 'study' a bit more. I use some kind of input method because my main concern is to read everyday some article written by native speakers and try t... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 38 | 14,052 | 2011-11-13, 12:54 pm | ||
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Thread: I am not so good at the Remembering part Post: I am not so good at the Remembering part Maybe it will sound obvious to you, but I noticed that when I am too tired my retention rate drops a lot. Sometimes I can't almost read the most basic kanji. If you think about it, Japanese is a langu... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 3,780 | 2011-11-13, 12:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Remembering the kanji variation. Post: Remembering the kanji variation. Thank you I didn't know about the kanjidamage site. The onyomi part is basically what I have described above apart from the fact that he links every onyomi to an english word instead of an image. I th... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 1,628 | 2011-11-13, 10:24 am | ||
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Thread: Remembering the kanji variation. Post: Remembering the kanji variation. I already finished 'Remembering the kanji' about one year ago, but as the time passed my will of reviewing the cards decreased. However I forced myself to not give up reviewing only to practice my wri... |
Max.89 | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 1,628 | 2011-11-13, 8:09 am | ||
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Thread: List of the most common japanese words? Post: List of the most common japanese words? This is a list of common english words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common...in_English Is there something similar for the japanese language? I'd like a list long about 100-200 elements contain... |
Max.89 | The Japanese language | 2 | 2,981 | 2010-05-20, 12:38 pm | ||