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Thread: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? Post: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? Inny Jan Wrote:drdunlap Wrote:@magamo- I think Inny Jan meant "butchered" as in the "correct way as done by Japanese natives." Yes, that's what I meant. What's butchered is what you hear in your head ... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 36 | 7,504 | 2013-05-18, 12:58 am | ||
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Thread: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? Post: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? Inny Jan Wrote:Obviously amtrack failed to provide an example but I will give it a go. Here you have two tracks: Track 1 and Track 2. There is a word that is clearly enunciated on Track 2 but “butch... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 36 | 7,504 | 2013-05-17, 10:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? Post: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? I think these two vowels [i] and [ɪ] are allophones of a single phoneme /i/ in Japanese. As nadiatims says, if you plot sounds in the vowel chart by analyzing F1 and F2 formants, first い in おいしい is a... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 36 | 7,504 | 2013-05-03, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Growl Wrote:Is it いいだと思う or いいと思う, it seems is the first one, but isn't いい an い形容詞? What am I missing? If you're talking about something along the line of "Looks fine to me," it's いいと思う. Growl Wrote:... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-14, 6:33 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thora Wrote:It can be useful to imagine missing bits (to figure out meaning or structure), but I'm not sure I understand why this sentence wouldn't just be covered by classroom grammar as one normal s... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-13, 10:07 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Growl Wrote:From dinner: Guy says to the manager: 支配人にお電話です Manager: どちらさまから？ Guy: テレビ局の方だと｡ What is the part that is omitted that would come after the だと? It's "The person on the other side of the ... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-13, 4:38 am | ||
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Thread: How to get a job in astronomy / cosmology / astrophysics Post: How to get a job in astronomy / cosmology / astrop... Like Hyperborea said, astronomy is a field where amateurs can contribute in a meaningful way. So it may be a good idea to look for this path. But if you choose a carrier path as a researcher in a uni... |
magamo | Off topic | 21 | 4,442 | 2013-03-13, 3:37 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Growl Wrote:A woman is deciding what bento to buy to his guy. Another guy comes in and says: いいじゃない、そんなに隠さなくったって I was expecting そんなに隠さなくてもいい. What is that った in there? EDIT: Yeah, she's like she th... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-13, 1:23 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread socrat Wrote:How about this one ? 心配せんといてんかー Seems similar to the other ones but why the か？ Sounds like a typical phrase some people from Osaka or somewhere nearby would say when they get annoyed.... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-11, 10:59 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread There's nothing special about させる here. It's called 使役動詞, and it is a notorious concept that is painfully obvious to the Japanese but very difficult to explain to learners whose native language doesn'... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-11, 9:55 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread corry Wrote:ごめんなさい軽い気持ちで入部するなんて書いたから期待させるだけさせて何て謝ったらいいか What is させて doing there. It's part of an idiomatic structure. The precise description of the structure is: 用言終止形 + だけ (which is 副助詞) + the sam... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-11, 5:41 am | ||
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Thread: I think I may have a problem Post: I think I may have a problem Javizy Wrote:It makes you sound very インテレクチュアル, クール, ナイス, オーイェー because they're accepted in general by ピープル in ソサイエティ with a long ヒストリー of ユース, and so won't スタンドアウト, even though they're フォリナー's ワード. T... |
magamo | Off topic | 60 | 7,945 | 2013-03-10, 12:25 am | ||
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Thread: How helpful do you feel an immersion environment is? Post: How helpful do you feel an immersion environment i... If it's sapping your motivation that much, whatever benefit your learning method has, it doesn't seem like it's going to work out extremely well in the long run. But if you don't want to drastically c... |
magamo | General discussion | 33 | 7,542 | 2013-03-09, 11:28 pm | ||
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Thread: I think I may have a problem Post: I think I may have a problem Stian Wrote:Magamo, you can't really compare weebspeak with the Latin and French (not to mention Norse and Germanic) influence in English. I wasn't serious at all lol That said, I like when people th... |
magamo | Off topic | 60 | 7,945 | 2013-03-09, 9:51 pm | ||
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Thread: I think I may have a problem Post: I think I may have a problem Quote:Yep. I don't mind when it's used to refer to something in Japanese, but when people just use Japanese parts of a sentence to complement their English sentence it irritates me quite a bit. Either... |
magamo | Off topic | 60 | 7,945 | 2013-03-09, 5:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Output neglected Post: Output neglected @Inny Jan Maybe my previous post wasn't clear enough. But what I'm saying is that the kind of learning process you described in the latter half of the first paragraph of your post is the one that is ... |
magamo | Learning resources | 55 | 8,171 | 2013-03-08, 7:46 am | ||
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Thread: Output neglected Post: Output neglected mmhorii Wrote:@kodorakun: The Japanese Sensei App has a review mode called "Sentence Tester." Here's an example: The public transport around here is good. 便、ここ、が、交通、よい、の、は The user needs to select t... |
magamo | Learning resources | 55 | 8,171 | 2013-03-08, 5:08 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Zarxrax Wrote:A few sentences from "にゃんこ The Movie 2" I haven't seen it, but: Zarxrax Wrote:1. え？お風呂が好きな猫かって？ そりゃあまあそうなんですけど It's the 2nd sentence here that I don't quite get. It means "Yeah, that's ... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-06, 9:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Grammar/sentence confusion! Post: Grammar/sentence confusion! You can't say anything in your native language without having or assuming a context. Even if you see a sentence taken out of a random book without knowing where it's from, you still automatically assu... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 4 | 999 | 2013-03-06, 8:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Grammar/sentence confusion! Post: Grammar/sentence confusion! tchls1 Wrote:Alright, I'll make this quick It's a very bad idea to make your question short when asking for a translation. It's literally impossible to give you the correct answer, if exits at all, if... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 4 | 999 | 2013-03-06, 6:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Output neglected Post: Output neglected Tzadeck Wrote:First of all, argument from analogy is considered legitimate in logic No. Logicians may analyze analogical reasoning, but it's not a valid kind of reasoning that can be used to prove any... |
magamo | Learning resources | 55 | 8,171 | 2013-03-06, 11:50 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Growl Wrote:Dialects are AWESOMEね To me, every version of language, including "standard" and "proper" variant, is a dialect. And human language is awesome. In this sense, I agree with you. If your def... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-06, 7:21 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Growl Wrote:What's this dialect? (It's dialect right?) 心配せんといてね don't worry about me Sounds like a variant of a dialect spoken somewhere in mid-western Japan. If it were the typical Kansai (or Osaka... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,073 | 2013-03-06, 5:37 am | ||
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Thread: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Japan? Post: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Jap... I've used Rakuten, Jalan, and Rurubu a couple times each. They were more or less the same, but the last time I used them was years ago. So things might have changed a lot since then. In any case, if t... |
magamo | General discussion | 8 | 1,280 | 2013-03-06, 3:49 am | ||
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Thread: [Youtube/NicoNico] Good-looking white/half-white females and Japan. Post: [Youtube/NicoNico] Good-looking white/half-white f... I don't know what OP's thinking, but if he didn't mean to creep others out or look like a full-blown misogynist, he might want to reread his own posts... |
magamo | General discussion | 57 | 10,357 | 2013-02-21, 5:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... Richard Hamming says the opposite: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw] He's talking about the best of the best kind of math/hard science researcher like those receive the Nobel Prize, ... |
magamo | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-07, 7:12 am | ||
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Thread: Advanced grammar Post: Advanced grammar So, basically you're saying you're having trouble "memorizing" connotations, nuances and the like, am I right? If I understand correctly, the problem you're having is this: If you don't fully understa... |
magamo | The Japanese language | 17 | 2,442 | 2012-12-21, 5:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Hang drum session at Kyoto Uni :) Post: Hang drum session at Kyoto Uni :) That's a cool instrument. It's nice playing too. How much control do I have over the duration of each note? Does it have some kind of mechanism to mute/sustain individual notes? Or am I supposed to co... |
magamo | Off topic | 8 | 1,700 | 2012-11-16, 11:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Make money online now! (Not really, but...) Post: Make money online now! (Not really, but...) Stian Wrote:Is the pronunciation native? It sounds kinda off to me... No. The script is not natural either; it's obviously a translation and definitely not the kind of Japanese a native speaker would ... |
magamo | Learning resources | 4 | 1,231 | 2012-11-10, 2:02 pm | ||
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Thread: What do you guys think of this qualification? Post: What do you guys think of this qualification? Isn't it aimed at people who already have several years' work experience in the financial industry? |
magamo | Off topic | 23 | 5,526 | 2012-11-10, 12:17 am | ||
