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Thread: sentence question again Post: sentence question again mentat_kgs Wrote:I don't feel the need to translate the difference to English, nor think you should worry about. Perhaps cloudstrife543 would accept an explanation in Japanese if you insist. |
mystes | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,290 | 2009-05-01, 10:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Book Previews Post: Book Previews pm215 Wrote:For this specific case, http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=2510 includes a post by me with a couple of first-paragraphs from Murakami and others, and there are a few more at the bo... |
mystes | General discussion | 8 | 1,897 | 2009-02-28, 1:14 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2008 Results Post: JLPT 2008 Results The U.S. JLPT results are up. I passed the 1-kyuu. |
mystes | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 64 | 18,401 | 2009-02-24, 5:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Keigo Post: Keigo Jarvik7 Wrote:What do you mean "connective"? It never serves a conjunctive purpose, but if you mean continuative, 連用形＋て＋居る is humble when used to refer to your own actions, and derisory when used to d... |
mystes | General discussion | 38 | 10,802 | 2009-02-12, 8:47 am | ||
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Thread: Keigo Post: Keigo bucko Wrote:2) He has attempted to make おります more polite by making it passive. The problem here, though, is おります is used to humble oneself, not to give respect to another person. This is totally not a... |
mystes | General discussion | 38 | 10,802 | 2009-02-11, 9:57 pm | ||
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Thread: OpenCourseWare Post: OpenCourseWare The best thing on the Toudai OCW site is the podcasts which have good mpeg4 video. Unfortunately these are totally disorganized and aren't integrated with the rest of the site. Edit: also, in this ca... |
mystes | Learning resources | 11 | 3,374 | 2009-02-01, 4:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Interesting/Cool Jukugo Post: Interesting/Cool Jukugo Shtephen Wrote:焼肉定食=yakiniku meal It's also a joke of sorts, and I doubt rikaichan told you that. |
mystes | General discussion | 35 | 8,691 | 2009-01-25, 9:03 am | ||
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Thread: Puzzling Jukugos Post: Puzzling Jukugos In the entry for 皆既, Koujien says "（「既」は尽きるの意）". |
mystes | General discussion | 3 | 712 | 2009-01-06, 9:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Handwriting -- TV series starts tomorrow (Japan) Post: Handwriting -- TV series starts tomorrow (Japan) annabel398 Wrote:Learn to Write Chinese Characters is an English-language reference that has helped my handwriting. I just took a look at this book and it doesn't really seem to provide more informati... |
mystes | The Japanese language | 27 | 5,321 | 2009-01-06, 4:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese who answer in English: the other side Post: Japanese who answer in English: the other side This happened to me once in a store and I wasn't particularly bothered by it. I just kept speaking in Japanese and the clerk kept speaking in English. If I can insist on speaking in Japanese, it's onl... |
mystes | Off topic | 41 | 5,408 | 2009-01-06, 1:01 pm | ||
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Thread: What are your 2009 goals? Post: What are your 2009 goals? nest0r Wrote:My new 2009 goal is to learn 300,000 words in Japanese. Maybe you should just learn 299,179 words and then cure cancer? |
mystes | Off topic | 82 | 12,988 | 2009-01-05, 7:52 pm | ||
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Thread: 年越し派遣村 Post: 年越し派遣村 Interesting. It sounds closer to the contract employee (is that the right term?) system that some software companies such as Microsoft use but with additional obfuscation, rather than actual temp labo... |
mystes | General discussion | 6 | 3,039 | 2009-01-05, 1:54 pm | ||
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Thread: 年越し派遣村 Post: 年越し派遣村 Isn't it the same as temp work in the US? |
mystes | General discussion | 6 | 3,039 | 2009-01-05, 1:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Handwriting -- TV series starts tomorrow (Japan) Post: Handwriting -- TV series starts tomorrow (Japan) Edit: argh never mind |
mystes | The Japanese language | 27 | 5,321 | 2009-01-05, 2:39 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT Kanji Website Post: JLPT Kanji Website Tobberoth Wrote:You aren't tested on kanji in isolation so as long as you know all the words deemed necessary for JLPT2 AND you know which kanji those words are made up from, you should be all clear. ... |
mystes | Learning resources | 7 | 1,116 | 2009-01-04, 6:15 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT Kanji Website Post: JLPT Kanji Website nest0r Wrote:Does the JLPT test kanji in isolation somehow, or when they say 'know 2000 kanji' do they just mean integrated into the language? If it's the former, that might make my 'no studying' expe... |
mystes | Learning resources | 7 | 1,116 | 2009-01-04, 5:52 pm | ||
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Thread: How to watch Japanese TV/Drama Post: How to watch Japanese TV/Drama In the short term, to find comprehensible and enjoyable Japanese shows to watch, scripts are your best option. To actually solve the problem of not understanding stuff in the first place, I think the... |
mystes | Learning resources | 35 | 8,507 | 2008-12-30, 10:27 pm | ||
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Thread: problems with the character set Post: problems with the character set If you don't like this change you need to use something like this to switch to JIS90 style fonts. This change has nothing to do with the unicode han unification. |
mystes | The Japanese language | 12 | 2,308 | 2008-12-26, 6:28 pm | ||
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Thread: problems with the character set Post: problems with the character set Vista's Japanese fonts follow the updated JIS standard. This gets posted roughly once every month. |
mystes | The Japanese language | 12 | 2,308 | 2008-12-24, 3:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji travesty Post: Kanji travesty This is just the result of trying to enter "日本語" in Chinese with a simplified Chinese input method. It's also not necessarily obvious that this would be a problem; the "Han Unification" in Unicode mak... |
mystes | General discussion | 18 | 1,964 | 2008-11-21, 3:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Tobberoth Wrote:In the language school I went to in Japan, we learned hiragana and katakana in the first week, more or less, then we started learning 6 new kanji every day (with readings and compounds... |
mystes | General discussion | 221 | 36,152 | 2008-10-21, 2:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? PrettyKitty Wrote:How quickly do they progress through the writing at most universities? The one I went to was like this: semester 1: hiragana semester 2: katakana semester 3: 50 kanji semester 4: 5... |
mystes | General discussion | 221 | 36,152 | 2008-10-21, 2:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? QuackingShoe Wrote:Jumping in a little late, but that mostly highlights the fact that you should never listen to anything Japanese people tell you about their language (when it comes to generalities, ... |
mystes | General discussion | 221 | 36,152 | 2008-10-20, 4:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Jarvik7 Wrote:mystes Wrote:If the goal is to train people to become interpretors and translators, why would they spend the time to teach them classical Japanese? So that they can translate classical t... |
mystes | General discussion | 221 | 36,152 | 2008-10-19, 8:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Codexus Wrote:I have no problem believing that. I have heard the same things about the Japanese section at Geneva's university. They go really fast, I think they read the Tale of Genji in second year ... |
mystes | General discussion | 221 | 36,152 | 2008-10-19, 8:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Best mobile learning tool Post: Best mobile learning tool Herbo Wrote:EPWing dictionaries searchable by hand written kanji for when I dont know the reading. I don't know if you'll find this. However, if you have EPWING you can use KanjiDic with SKIP which is... |
mystes | Learning resources | 49 | 8,612 | 2008-10-15, 9:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Building JLPT 2 vocabulary with RTK or RTK Lite? Post: Building JLPT 2 vocabulary with RTK or RTK Lite? alyks Wrote:I think you have WAY too little faith in me. Don't come on here and tell me it can't be done. Nobody wants to hear that. Nobody wants to here you say it can't be done, because it can be do... |
mystes | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 61 | 21,004 | 2008-10-14, 1:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Building JLPT 2 vocabulary with RTK or RTK Lite? Post: Building JLPT 2 vocabulary with RTK or RTK Lite? Nukemarine Wrote:For the JLPT 1 criteria, umm, on average how well do native level people score on that test? I'm not talking academics here. I'm talking about the cab driver, the teacher, the store c... |
mystes | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 61 | 21,004 | 2008-10-13, 11:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Building JLPT 2 vocabulary with RTK or RTK Lite? Post: Building JLPT 2 vocabulary with RTK or RTK Lite? Tobberoth Wrote:I think you're underestimating JLPT2, have you ever seen one of the tests? It's hardly on a "not have any proficiency anyway" level, I can assure you that. There are people who study J... |
mystes | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 61 | 21,004 | 2008-10-13, 10:54 pm | ||
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Thread: When is a character a Kanji, or a Kana? Post: When is a character a Kanji, or a Kana? 口 vs. ロ can definitely be annoying. When I first saw 口コミ I was confused for a few minutes. |
mystes | The Japanese language | 26 | 5,872 | 2008-10-06, 1:55 pm | ||
