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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? Kuma01 Wrote:I think it's ridiculous to keep memorizing words after you've reached a certain level. Once you're able to read most things new vocabulary should come from immersion, not from obsessively... |
aberu | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-24, 10:41 pm | ||
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Thread: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?" Post: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?" It depends on what you want do with your knowledge of Japanese. I want to be able to read slashdot.jp (maybe including comments.. but probably not. I will be happy if I can just read the articles).. s... |
aberu | The Japanese language | 35 | 18,092 | 2011-03-25, 12:26 pm | ||
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Thread: General Thoughts Post: General Thoughts Cranks Wrote:aberu Wrote:(oh let's just throw out a number... ~11,000? sounds good!) I'm into the 3000-6000 area myself and I've found that's enough to understand the gist of almost anything (non-tech... |
aberu | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,069 | 2010-12-04, 11:08 pm | ||
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Thread: General Thoughts Post: General Thoughts Observation Topic: Listening to Anime Details: I started off trying to listen and understand single, short news blips in the morning. I would listen to 3 or 4 news articles on loop for a week, and S... |
aberu | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,069 | 2010-12-03, 12:06 am | ||
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Thread: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills) Post: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills) aphasiac Wrote:cjon256 Wrote:My take on AJATT is this: "It probably isn't going to work for most second language learners." Why do I think this? Because Khatzumoto is not a second language learner.... |
aberu | General discussion | 140 | 51,123 | 2010-10-31, 10:23 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary, how do you do it? Post: Vocabulary, how do you do it? i think it is really about getting enough exposure over time to take in a lot vocabulary (followed by/accompanied by reading them so you understand their usage). there are some words i know like 私 whi... |
aberu | The Japanese language | 7 | 2,205 | 2010-10-30, 1:38 am | ||
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Thread: Goodbye Sentences Post: Goodbye Sentences nest0r Wrote:Since vileru mentioned 'extensive reading', I'll mention 'condensed reading' again because I think it's cool, plus that site (http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej32/a1.html) seems t... |
aberu | General discussion | 123 | 46,565 | 2010-10-30, 12:42 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese newspaper websites Post: Japanese newspaper websites GreenAirth Wrote:kodorakun Wrote:What's the best/easiest way to rip the audio from the FNN broadcasts? I tried getting some streaming downloading software a while ago and failed pretty miserably. Ther... |
aberu | Learning resources | 13 | 5,078 | 2010-10-11, 7:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese newspaper websites Post: Japanese newspaper websites So I have taken to reading FNN in the past week and started looping the articles on my mp3 player whenever i am outside my house, while breaking them down into +1 easy chunks in Anki.. I feel my abili... |
aberu | Learning resources | 13 | 5,078 | 2010-10-10, 10:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Help with Anki vocab learning Post: Help with Anki vocab learning It sounds like a case of the man chasing two goals and gaining neither.. Focus on the kanji first and get them done, then move on and you can focus completely on sentence and vocab acquisition. As fo... |
aberu | The Japanese language | 8 | 2,380 | 2010-01-28, 11:42 pm | ||
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Thread: what to do to improve speaking/listening in certain topics? Post: what to do to improve speaking/listening in certai... If you want to upして your listening, try reading LEGIT Japanese sentences outloud while focusing on understanding the sentence. A good way to do this is by inflecting the words like you would be when r... |
aberu | General discussion | 14 | 2,643 | 2010-01-26, 8:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Analog tv is gone in Japan in 2011. End of Keyhole tv and the like? Post: Analog tv is gone in Japan in 2011. End of Keyhol... Codexus Wrote:balloonguy Wrote:I'm pretty sure they're using tuner cards to capture the signal and there are digital TV tuner cards. No, judging from the quality, Keyhole TV is really a low resolution... |
aberu | General discussion | 22 | 18,903 | 2010-01-23, 4:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia wonderflex Wrote:wonderflex Wrote:cescoz Wrote:what can I say...Well organized and beautiful! but the calc doesn't work...I receice this as answer:######...something with the formula... Just tried it ... |
aberu | General discussion | 78 | 75,006 | 2010-01-23, 4:27 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Wow.. finally.. really slowly grinded these last 300 out in this half month. 2.4 months after beginning, I am done on my second try at it :) I cannot believe that RtK1 was that... short. Now to review... |
aberu | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,686 | 2010-01-22, 11:36 pm | ||
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Thread: A lesson per day? Post: A lesson per day? spiffyXD Wrote:Okay, so I haven't actually started RtK. But judging from reading several topics, people seem to pace themselves by kanji per day. I thought, why not keep it simple and tidy by doing ... |
aberu | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 5,007 | 2010-01-11, 9:00 am | ||
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Thread: The zero primitive Post: The zero primitive hereticalrants Wrote:Hm. That really hasn't been an issue. Generally you add another element because you ALREADY HAVE THE IMAGE somewhere in your head, and it's an image that isn't hard to associate... |
aberu | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,530 | 2010-01-09, 11:31 am | ||
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Thread: Forget more to remember more? Post: Forget more to remember more? Timebox, limit yourself to 10 - 20 seconds per card remembering. Otherwise, fail it. |
aberu | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 4,850 | 2009-12-31, 7:00 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Pulse Wrote:1570ish here. I was going to take it at a faster pace to be done before now, but I found that it's such a downhill slide at this point that I'm not even worried. I'll be done before New Ye... |
aberu | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,208 | 2009-12-25, 11:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! This is the first time I have ever felt like being able to sit down to read a good science-fiction book in japanese is only a matter of time. Here we go, 1003 to go! :) What a rewarding feeling |
aberu | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,476 | 2009-12-14, 7:20 pm | ||