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Thread: Multiple kanji for the same kun'yomi/meaning Post: Multiple kanji for the same kun'yomi/meaning Aijin Wrote:I remember reading a poem where the poet used 朧 in place of おぼろ I love the example! Thanks! |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 15 | 4,810 | 2010-06-10, 6:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Which word is the hardest to pronounce Post: Which word is the hardest to pronounce For me, so far: 交響曲[こうきょうきょく]. Haha. |
philiphoward123 | The Japanese language | 61 | 19,360 | 2010-05-18, 9:22 pm | ||
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Thread: All I ask is... Post: All I ask is... nest0r Quote:The closure of philosophy at Middlesex will send a terrible message Not to many, I would imagine, though that doesn't minimise its importance - RevTK is hardly a majority view in the worl... |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 27 | 6,013 | 2010-05-06, 3:43 am | ||
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Thread: All I ask is... Post: All I ask is... For my next trick...how about a vicious discussion about the international conspiracy to marginalise Esperanto? :P (for those of you who remember that thread) |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 27 | 6,013 | 2010-05-05, 3:29 pm | ||
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Thread: All I ask is... Post: All I ask is... Hey blaha, yes I just realised it was something of an ironic tone! But as I am English that might be difficult to avoid:) I know this is basically the only country that has irony~~:P As it was such a... |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 27 | 6,013 | 2010-05-05, 5:55 am | ||
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Thread: All I ask is... Post: All I ask is... To the other helpful souls, thanks very much for the information! I will look into Unihan and Wakan, it looks interesting. bflatnine, your zhongwen project sounds interesting, I have been following... |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 27 | 6,013 | 2010-05-05, 5:15 am | ||
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Thread: All I ask is... Post: All I ask is... kazelee Wrote:You might want to mind the tone of your posts when making requests. Just a suggestion. I'm sorry if it has offended you. To be honest, I have no idea what tone you are reading it with.... |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 27 | 6,013 | 2010-05-05, 5:11 am | ||
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Thread: Trouble speaking...in english!! Post: Trouble speaking...in english!! Asriel Wrote:I thought it was cute when you said it like that, It was cute~~:) Nobody likes a pedant though. And I wouldn't like to be the pedant that nobody likes. Maybe that's how comes I can't tal... |
philiphoward123 | The Japanese language | 32 | 5,196 | 2010-05-04, 6:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Trouble speaking...in english!! Post: Trouble speaking...in english!! I'm supposedly immersed in English but I know so many foreign people that I now speak simplified English. Why use words they don't know? I have noticed people (like me at one time) using non-first-l... |
philiphoward123 | The Japanese language | 32 | 5,196 | 2010-05-04, 6:25 pm | ||
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Thread: All I ask is... Post: All I ask is... What I would really like is...a Kanji/Hanzi resource that gives the readings for each character in *Japanese, *Mandarin, *Cantonese, and frankly as ***many other Chinese dialects/languages as possible... |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 27 | 6,013 | 2010-05-04, 6:20 pm | ||
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Thread: How would you recommend starting Chinese? Post: How would you recommend starting Chinese? For the musical equivalent of tones, I would suggest something in the region of a sixth between low and high. From what I can hear anyway. Somehow it makes sense that it would be in a comfortable spe... |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 55 | 19,359 | 2010-05-03, 4:22 pm | ||
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Thread: EDICT file Post: EDICT file You did it! Thank you! |
philiphoward123 | Learning resources | 2 | 983 | 2010-04-22, 6:15 am | ||
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Thread: EDICT file Post: EDICT file Hello, can you help me with this please? I would like to make a text file from the EDICT file. (I am on Mac OSX). I can download the zip file from the Monash page, but not open it correctly (not UTF8 ... |
philiphoward123 | Learning resources | 2 | 983 | 2010-04-22, 5:39 am | ||
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Thread: Intonation/pitch (もう (already) vs. もう (one more), etc.) Post: Intonation/pitch (もう (already) vs. もう (one more), ... yudantaiteki Wrote:1. You're not hearing it correctly 2. The dictionary's listed pitch accent is a conservative, prescriptive one that doesn't match actual usage 3. The pitch is different because it's... |
philiphoward123 | The Japanese language | 19 | 5,556 | 2010-04-21, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Intonation/pitch (もう (already) vs. もう (one more), etc.) Post: Intonation/pitch (もう (already) vs. もう (one more), ... Jarvik7 Wrote:Jarvik7 wrote: There are 7 pitches patterns in total according to daijirin. 0 low-high (no pitch) 1 high-low (initial high pitch) 2 low-high-low 3 low-high-high-low ... |
philiphoward123 | The Japanese language | 19 | 5,556 | 2010-04-18, 2:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Leaving the forums Post: Leaving the forums Maybe this is useless information (as usual from me :) )...I was trying to imagine being in your situation. I just thought it's easier to do a positive rather than not do a negative (if you see what I... |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 35 | 5,828 | 2009-11-02, 5:45 pm | ||
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Thread: What Does It Mean To Be Proficient In Japanese? Post: What Does It Mean To Be Proficient In Japanese? I just realised that to be proficient at *reading* Japanese I have to be able to read the end credits of something from TV/film to the same level as in English at the speed they appear...(really I sup... |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 43 | 9,267 | 2009-10-27, 1:20 pm | ||
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Thread: How extraverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Post: How extraverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? I use my name! (same on here) It's fun to be mystikk.oompaloompa@..., but I want to be responsible for my actions! |
philiphoward123 | Off topic | 13 | 3,370 | 2009-10-27, 1:08 pm | ||
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Thread: List of correct English meanings? Post: List of correct English meanings? what he says doesn't help and you don't like the way he says it>bad what he says helps but you don't like the way he says it>good |
philiphoward123 | Remembering the Kanji | 41 | 12,211 | 2009-10-26, 8:46 am | ||
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Thread: Personal Growth and Advancement Post: Personal Growth and Advancement There must be some reason why people try to improve, in face of the alternative which may seem easier (either staying the same or getting worse), though which must feel more painful eventually (opposi... |
philiphoward123 | Off topic | 15 | 2,255 | 2009-10-23, 1:43 pm | ||
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Thread: So what committments do you have other than your Japanese study? Post: So what committments do you have other than your J... jacf29, I'm impressed to see you keep going even with opposition. Well, everyone has opposition, internal as well as external, to anything worthwhile. We're supposed to just be like everybody else, ke... |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 67 | 9,136 | 2009-10-19, 2:45 pm | ||
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Thread: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List Post: The Kanji/Hanzi Master List I'd like to make an appointment for the mental hospital, please! Thanks very much for the hard work, I will find it very useful. Good work! What no oracle bone script? :) |
philiphoward123 | Chinese and Hanzi | 18 | 7,662 | 2009-10-18, 5:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Some may appreciate this. Post: Some may appreciate this. I understood not a word of this. That's more disturbing because...I believe some of it's in English? :) Anyway I guess that's a "Japan Win" in this clip. |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 4 | 1,042 | 2009-07-25, 10:30 am | ||
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Thread: Share you Japanese Recipes Post: Share you Japanese Recipes that's a very familiar voice.....do you think that doggie chef learned English from Ken Tanaka? |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 14 | 4,057 | 2009-07-21, 2:27 pm | ||
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Thread: What do multiple commas mean? Post: What do multiple commas mean? I was wondering about this too! |
philiphoward123 | The Japanese language | 28 | 8,990 | 2009-07-21, 2:48 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... I got there! I went a bit too fast today so will need to check some of the recent frames. Plus there is a hazy patch around 1500! Nevertheless... I did the first frame of RTK 3 just to get going (I'... |
philiphoward123 | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,680 | 2009-07-20, 2:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Our Noticeable Improvements! Post: Our Noticeable Improvements! Oh thanks a lot for that groovee_grl! I didn't know about that site - I had a look on Amazon.jp and the prices were fine except the postage charge would require several trillion-dollar bailouts so I c... |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 19 | 2,757 | 2009-07-17, 1:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Our Noticeable Improvements! Post: Our Noticeable Improvements! nicksan that's really helpful info about those shops! Gosh it's a very classy forum, this! It must be the only forum I've ever seen where I have found intelligent information (don't know how I'm qua... |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 19 | 2,757 | 2009-07-17, 12:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Our Noticeable Improvements! Post: Our Noticeable Improvements! Thanks a lot! Yes I just do the one keyword for each character. I think they are basically all good words (I mean that the Kanji actually means that) but of course sometimes there are a lot more mean... |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 19 | 2,757 | 2009-07-16, 6:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Our Noticeable Improvements! Post: Our Noticeable Improvements! Hello fellows! Hey, today was the first day I functioned in Japanese! I can't say much and I can't read much - but I got through and was still alive at the end of it! I went to buy my first Japane... |
philiphoward123 | General discussion | 19 | 2,757 | 2009-07-16, 5:36 pm | ||