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Thread: How easy is it to adapt to everyday speech and local dialects? Post: How easy is it to adapt to everyday speech and loc... Thanks for the great info everyone! I will definitely check out the Kansai-ben grammar, had no idea there were so many differences in terms of grammar (just thought they spoke rather funny!). @Zgarb... |
ColdCore | General discussion | 23 | 4,692 | 2014-08-09, 5:39 pm | ||
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Thread: How easy is it to adapt to everyday speech and local dialects? Post: How easy is it to adapt to everyday speech and loc... Every day I try listening to some kind of spoken voice (video, games, radio, ...). So far I'm doing okay and moving forward. I already managed to complete several games and series without any subs, an... |
ColdCore | General discussion | 23 | 4,692 | 2014-08-07, 10:30 am | ||
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Thread: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab Post: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab @albion: Thanks for the tips! I'll have a look and see what I can find! @Stansfield123: I know; I probably haven't been too clear about this but it's really the deck that I'm starting to find too dul... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 30 | 8,653 | 2014-04-06, 4:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab Post: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab Thanks for the script and recommendations! Anything fancy you have to do to find these scripts or just google them? |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 30 | 8,653 | 2014-04-06, 10:01 am | ||
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Thread: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration Post: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab... Hi FooSoft, thank you for continuing support and development for this. I am just starting out but would like to see an option to highlight the word inside the sentence. Right now, the {sentence} varia... |
ColdCore | Learning resources | 298 | 107,461 | 2014-04-06, 6:10 am | ||
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Thread: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab Post: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab @Linval: Game scripts sounds like an excellent option for me! I'm usually playing on PC but also got a PSP and PS3 handy. Any recommendations for those platforms? (I'm running out of eroge to play lol... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 30 | 8,653 | 2014-04-06, 4:04 am | ||
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Thread: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab Post: Looking for more "native" way to learn vocab So I've already completed RTK and Core6K, though honestly I have stopped reviewing Core because I find it too boring and too English. I'm looking for something more native, while still making progress... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 30 | 8,653 | 2014-04-05, 4:25 pm | ||
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Thread: iiKanji: learning the readings of the kanji Post: iiKanji: learning the readings of the kanji Hi, first of all, great idea and good work so far! I do have several suggestions, feel free to take them as you please: - Replace home screen with a choice between 'Learn' (iiKanji area) and 'Add' wo... |
ColdCore | Learning resources | 105 | 18,062 | 2013-10-16, 4:12 am | ||
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Thread: Possibilities for IT internship Post: Possibilities for IT internship I am currently in my 2nd year of IT studies and am required to participate in an internship in my next and last year. My university provides several connections to international partners but my real d... |
ColdCore | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 1 | 1,474 | 2013-10-14, 2:22 am | ||
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Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy Count me in, but just to clarify: which date do you mean in the spreadsheet? The date of the article or the day of reading? As I see some people have already done 18/12 while only 17/12 is online (or ... |
ColdCore | Learning resources | 68 | 14,927 | 2012-12-18, 1:55 am | ||
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Thread: How good is the choice of kanji in RTK3? Post: How good is the choice of kanji in RTK3? In my opinion, RTK2 and 3 are not worth your time. RTK2 consists of mainly structural analysis and overview of the characters, which I found to be boring. You may disagree and like this analysis, if ... |
ColdCore | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 5,068 | 2012-12-18, 1:47 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Post: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Err, guys, can we please stay on-topic? I have reduced all your arguments (though I enjoyed reading them!) to this: Prior to listening to something, try to understand the context first. Try listening... |
ColdCore | General discussion | 74 | 11,575 | 2012-12-17, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Post: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Thank you all for your nice advice so far! I believe we're derailing a little here, though... May I summarize your discussion by saying audio is a helpful tool, both passive and active. The latter be... |
ColdCore | General discussion | 74 | 11,575 | 2012-12-17, 6:10 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Post: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Hi everyone, I'm making a video series on learning Japanese by means of self-study and I'd like to include an episode with some motivational talk for beginners. What would you say to a person who ju... |
ColdCore | General discussion | 74 | 11,575 | 2012-12-16, 12:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Introducing philosophy Post: Introducing philosophy I'll second Tori-kun that you might want to get started with a general introduction to philosophy itself. You can have a look at his book and see whether you like it, as it's free after all. I person... |
ColdCore | Off topic | 32 | 5,690 | 2012-12-16, 12:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Retention rate going down, even with daily revision Post: Retention rate going down, even with daily revisio... Thanks for your input, I can definitely relate to that: I also notice the image is really blurry sometimes. For some kanji, this works, such as 墓 (231) grave. My story with that one is just an image ... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,535 | 2012-09-28, 5:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Retention rate going down, even with daily revision Post: Retention rate going down, even with daily revisio... Thanks for the support everyone, I feel better knowing more of you have faced the same. I'll continue my reviews and try harder to correct/improve the stories. As for the little yellow bar: I meant t... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,535 | 2012-09-28, 5:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Retention rate going down, even with daily revision Post: Retention rate going down, even with daily revisio... Hi, A few weeks ago, I finished RTK1. I did 20/day and always had a pretty decent retention rate of around 85%. Now that I'm done with RTK1, I've decided to postpone RTK3 until I finish Tae Kim and ... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,535 | 2012-09-28, 4:27 pm | ||
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Thread: I study Nihongo because... Post: I study Nihongo because... You all have very interesting and even stimulating reasons; I myself have had many similar ones but at the end, they all co-exist somehow. After getting into anime at a very young age, I watched some... |
ColdCore | Off topic | 358 | 110,951 | 2012-07-21, 3:08 am | ||
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Thread: How do I use the corePlus deck correctly? Post: How do I use the corePlus deck correctly? Thanks for your help! I will look into Genki as I've seen it recommended many times but now feel more sure it fits my needs. I'm just wondering: how exactly do you input sentences from Genki into An... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,544 | 2012-07-21, 2:25 am | ||
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Thread: How do I use the corePlus deck correctly? Post: How do I use the corePlus deck correctly? Thanks for the recommendation, I have already considered Genki but I'm still unsure as to what it will offer me. Does it teach you grammar? Or is it more like an exercise list used with a grammar guid... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,544 | 2012-07-20, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: How do I use the corePlus deck correctly? Post: How do I use the corePlus deck correctly? Hi, Currently I know both kana and around 1200 kanji (by doing RTK with Anki). However, I feel like spending 1hr a day on the kanji is too little and I'd like to do more with my time. I can easily g... |
ColdCore | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,544 | 2012-07-20, 4:38 am | ||