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Thread: amazon jp payment warning Post: RE: amazon jp payment warning I haven't had this particular issue with amazon.co.jp, but I've had it when buying Kindle books from the US Amazon store. I just corrected the payment when I had a chance to do so (in one case it was ... |
Fillanzea | Off topic | 2 | 576 | 2016-03-22, 9:24 am | ||
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Thread: Core 6k vs Sentence mining. Post: RE: Core 6k vs Sentence mining. I think if your medium-term goal in Japanese is to enjoy pop culture stuff (light novels / anime / video games / music) then it really doesn't make that much sense to learn all the political and busin... |
Fillanzea | The Japanese language | 12 | 1,366 | 2016-02-20, 10:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Any good recommendations for (realistic) martial arts themed manga? Post: RE: Any good recommendations for (realistic) marti... What about Yawara!, from before Urasawa Naoki got really famous? |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 4 | 671 | 2016-02-18, 10:20 am | ||
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Thread: Classic Literature available as a Free Download. Post: RE: Classic Literature available as a Free Downlo... I used to read kuzushiji, just a little. I've got the book on all the different ways of writing different hiragana. I'd be interested in the circle, but I might not be much help! |
Fillanzea | General discussion | 7 | 1,107 | 2016-01-28, 8:56 am | ||
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Thread: How bad are tones. Thinking of switching. Post: RE: How bad are tones. Thinking of switching. Tones are not that bad. Get a lot of audio input (I've used Chinesepod, but I think there are a lot of good podcasts out there), and pay attention to trying to hear the tones and trying to reproduce ... |
Fillanzea | Chinese and Hanzi | 17 | 2,560 | 2016-01-04, 5:06 am | ||
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Thread: Android Kanji Drawing/SRS apk's Post: Android Kanji Drawing/SRS apk's Skritter is expensive but very good. (I think the Android version is still in beta -- I've only used the PC and iOS versions, and for studying Chinese rather than Japanese.) |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 2 | 1,055 | 2014-08-29, 7:32 am | ||
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Thread: Reading Levels Post: Reading Levels I'm not sure if there are any books written for native speakers that I'd be comfortable classing at a "beginner" level, outside maybe of board books for very young children that are basically just "Eg... |
Fillanzea | General discussion | 11 | 2,627 | 2014-08-29, 7:05 am | ||
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Thread: Book Club Post: Book Club If you can get an HTML or txt version, you can use free software called Calibre to convert it to Kindle format and then transfer it to your Kindle over USB. |
Fillanzea | Group study | 159 | 27,943 | 2014-08-28, 6:14 am | ||
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Thread: Book Club Post: Book Club I would really suggest a book less than 400 pages just because reading in Japanese is so tedious when you're a beginner, and even at a relatively advanced level it can be tedious to spend that much ti... |
Fillanzea | Group study | 159 | 27,943 | 2014-08-25, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Any way to block chinese search results on google? Post: Any way to block chinese search results on google? The quick & dirty way is to just put a は or が in your query. Not sure if there's something more technological. |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 4 | 1,112 | 2014-08-16, 7:31 am | ||
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Thread: I'm already stuck with Clannad Post: I'm already stuck with Clannad I have no idea how easy it would be to get Japanese subtitles, but shoujo relationship-drama anime are definitely pretty easy to understand! Marmalade Boy and Hana Yori Dango would be the first things... |
Fillanzea | The Japanese language | 23 | 4,190 | 2014-07-21, 1:24 pm | ||
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Thread: I'm already stuck with Clannad Post: I'm already stuck with Clannad My translation: "I hate this city. Because it's a place stained with memories I want to forget." It's past-tense because the city being stained with memories is a thing that already happened -- not ... |
Fillanzea | The Japanese language | 23 | 4,190 | 2014-07-20, 3:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Does reading textbooks do more harm than good? Post: Does reading textbooks do more harm than good? Which books? Textbooks really don't offer enough exposure to get you comfortable with the language. You might see an advanced grammar point, and three examples, but it takes longer than that to reall... |
Fillanzea | The Japanese language | 15 | 2,551 | 2014-07-07, 6:28 am | ||
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Thread: Is it recommended to do RTK1 after you're fluent? Post: Is it recommended to do RTK1 after you're fluent? If you have oral fluency and reading fluency and just need practice with writing, you really may not need a detailed, somewhat contrived mnemonic system to learn the writings of the kanji; it may be m... |
Fillanzea | Remembering the Kanji | 28 | 5,011 | 2014-07-05, 7:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder? Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese... Anon485 Wrote:With regards to sinograms, Chinese definitely requires more, but the current HSK standard requires about 2,500 characters for CEFR-C2 equivalent fluency, while the TOP and TOCFL standard... |
Fillanzea | General discussion | 225 | 39,093 | 2014-07-05, 6:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Aozora Bunko recommendations. Post: Aozora Bunko recommendations. Honestly, I don't think it's useful at your level to read anything on Aozora. I don't think you'll be able to find anything that isn't a horrible slog. Give Miyazawa Kenji's short stories a try, if ... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 8 | 2,449 | 2014-07-02, 6:19 am | ||
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Thread: Need help with a sentence in my Japanese reader... Post: Need help with a sentence in my Japanese reader... Literally it's something like "When he realized, an old copper coin had turned up in the rice Hirayama-san was eating." Which sounds weird in English. (And a bit illogical, because surely the copper c... |
Fillanzea | The Japanese language | 5 | 882 | 2014-07-01, 8:49 am | ||
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Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k) Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k... I do something similar to PotBellyPig (in Chinese), and if I tried to add as many new words to my SRS as I encounter every day, I would get crushed by a mountain of reviews. It's just not happening. ... |
Fillanzea | The Japanese language | 79 | 14,733 | 2014-07-01, 6:51 am | ||
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Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday When I was making those kinds of mistakes, the kinds of mistakes where you know every word in a sentence but can't get it to resolve into a sensible meaning, what solved it wasn't explicit grammar stu... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 81 | 10,439 | 2014-06-27, 9:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles Post: Anime with romaji subtitles I think it may be more reasonable to advocate a long period without kanji production (just recognition) than a long period of just speaking (or just kana or romaji). As someone who didn't do RTK, te... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 63 | 14,717 | 2014-06-23, 8:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Audio Immersion - Does it really work? Post: Audio Immersion - Does it really work? I have a guess. Not anything so advanced as a hypothesis, but a guess. If you believe Stephen Krashen, if you believe that comprehensible input is the only way we really learn a language, comprehensi... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 28 | 4,148 | 2014-06-22, 9:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it to fit my needs) Post: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it... Yes, Krashen says that any comprehensible, compelling input in sufficient qualities is going to have i+1. But that's comprehensible input. (And I've seen him in other videos making the case that subti... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 32 | 5,458 | 2014-06-21, 6:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it to fit my needs) Post: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it... It may be that massive amounts of largely incomprehensible input have some benefits; but it's *not* the same thing as comprehensible input as defined by the researcher who actually came up with the id... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 32 | 5,458 | 2014-06-21, 12:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it to fit my needs) Post: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it... Quote:A flooding of as much exposure to the language as possible is undoubtedly going to contain comprehensible input If you look up what Stephen Krashen has said -- he's the originator of the theory ... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 32 | 5,458 | 2014-06-21, 5:33 am | ||
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Thread: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it to fit my needs) Post: Where the AJATT method fails (and how I tweaked it... Genin = げにん ＝ 下人 Gen'in = げんいん ＝ 原因 |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 32 | 5,458 | 2014-06-20, 8:14 am | ||
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Thread: Cutting Back on SRS: Leech Removal vs Daily Rep Cap Post: Cutting Back on SRS: Leech Removal vs Daily Rep Ca... Get rid of those leeches! The fact that you are spending so much time reviewing them, and you keep forgetting them, means that there's something getting in the way of you learning them; sometimes it'... |
Fillanzea | Learning resources | 13 | 1,907 | 2014-06-11, 2:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k) Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k... Getting more used to grammar is an extremely valuable thing, so don't underestimate that. It's a huge factor in reading speed, and also how much you're able to compensate for words you don't know. Wh... |
Fillanzea | The Japanese language | 79 | 14,733 | 2014-05-29, 9:13 am | ||
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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Just wanted to briefly say that it's been backed up by research that Quote:If 98% coverage of a text is needed for unassisted comprehension, then a 8,000 to 9,000 word-family vocabulary is needed for... |
Fillanzea | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-15, 7:55 am | ||
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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Incidentally, most of the cards in my Chinese deck are cards with an interval of about one to two months. After the initial learning stage I have very few cards that I see more than once a week. I don... |
Fillanzea | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-14, 6:14 am | ||
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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Quote:And although I may be going somewhat far off-topic here, but isn't there something odd about the apparent (to me, at least...) absence of collections of Japanese source texts (with explanatory n... |
Fillanzea | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-14, 6:07 am | ||
