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    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

~1.5 years later! that includes long stretches of inactivity and basically starting over from around card 500 twice. i've gone through steady periods of adding ten or twenty cards a day, and marathon...
wasurenaide Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,599 2008-12-29, 1:57 am
    Thread: I study Nihongo because...
Post: I study Nihongo because...

"you know how people always study french because they think it sounds beautiful? that's why i study japanese" that's my simple answer. of course i leave out the fact that i probably first heard it on...
wasurenaide Off topic 358 111,105 2008-12-11, 3:57 am
    Thread: Take a half hour out of your life and learn this (counters)
Post: Take a half hour out of your life and learn this (...

wrightak Wrote:Quick bit of trivia for you, which most Japanese people don't know. For counting animals you have two choices ~ひき (e.g. にわとりが二匹いる) and ~とう (e.g. 牛が二頭いる) The question is which to use ...
wasurenaide General discussion 27 4,631 2008-12-09, 1:48 am
    Thread: JLPT 2008 Sign-Up Thread
Post: JLPT 2008 Sign-Up Thread

Jarvik7 Wrote:wasurenaide Wrote:taking level 1 tomorrow on zero studying and a likely hangover. i expect to fail spectacularly. wish me luck! You're doing it wrong. The hangover is supposed to be the ...
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 153 34,115 2008-12-09, 1:43 am
    Thread: What about a 10,000 audio dialogue's method?
Post: What about a 10,000 audio dialogue's method?

Cacawate Wrote:mr_hans_moleman Wrote:it's similar to what I do, but I just watch dramas instead and look at the scripts online. this way, the language are link to emotions Where do you get these scrip...
wasurenaide General discussion 45 6,518 2008-12-09, 1:36 am
    Thread: What about a 10,000 audio dialogue's method?
Post: What about a 10,000 audio dialogue's method?

The way is to just buy a decent quality recording microphone for my computer and simply let it record straight from my DVD player's speaker output. All think I'd have to do is buy a decent speaker an...
wasurenaide General discussion 45 6,518 2008-12-09, 1:35 am
    Thread: JLPT 2008 Sign-Up Thread
Post: JLPT 2008 Sign-Up Thread

taking level 1 tomorrow on zero studying and a likely hangover. i expect to fail spectacularly. wish me luck!
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 153 34,115 2008-12-06, 6:07 pm
    Thread: Music
Post: Music

most of the good music i know about from japan is instrumental (or in a made up language, see "ruins") but here's a few with vocals that i like: the timers - 80's blues rock band (their name is a sla...
wasurenaide General discussion 100 24,341 2008-10-09, 12:52 am
    Thread: Long-term study at a Japanese language school: Questions
Post: Long-term study at a Japanese language school: Que...

I went to yamasa for 9 months and passed jlpt2 (though just barely) that same year. i wholeheartedly recommend the school (though try to spend as much time as possble with non-english speakers, diffic...
wasurenaide General discussion 18 5,048 2008-09-06, 8:02 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2008 Sign-Up Thread
Post: JLPT 2008 Sign-Up Thread

I barely passed 2級 last year, so I signed up for 1級. I don't expect to pass as I wont have any time to study for it, but what the hell.
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 153 34,115 2008-09-04, 2:16 pm
    Thread: japanese software for iPhone
Post: japanese software for iPhone

now that the SDK out is anyone working on any japanese learning software for the iphone?
wasurenaide Learning resources 2 2,298 2008-03-16, 2:08 am
    Thread: JLPT 2007 Results
Post: JLPT 2007 Results

just got my results today and .... 合格!!!ギリギリけどね breakdown: kanji/vocab: 79/100 listening:48/100 (stupid far away not loud enough boombox) grammar/reading: 119/200 (stupid, uh, me i guess) total 246...
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 53 19,983 2008-02-21, 3:57 am
    Thread: words that are amusing when read in heisigese
Post: words that are amusing when read in heisigese

i'll start: 細胞-dainty placenta
wasurenaide Remembering the Kanji 2 1,141 2008-02-02, 5:00 am
    Thread: New motivation to study Japanese?
Post: New motivation to study Japanese?

As an engineering student that sat the JLPT2 last year this seems like good news. I'm planning on looking for work there after graduation so the lower the visa restrictions the better.
wasurenaide General discussion 13 2,538 2008-02-02, 4:57 am
    Thread: 日本語で話そう
Post: 日本語で話そう

だいたい、日本語で書きたい時ミクシーの日記を書く。そうすると、日本に住んでる友達に僕は何をしているのを知らせる事が出来るから。そして、返事をもらったら、普通の会話ができる。このスレがいいけど、もっと効果的な方法は本当の日本語専用の掲示板に書くことと思う。 普通体か丁寧体かどちらがいいかについて、僕は何年間クラスで丁寧体で書かされたから、こんな時普通体の方がもっと楽しい。
wasurenaide General discussion 29 10,790 2008-02-02, 4:46 am
    Thread: Wikipedia in Japanese (ウィキペディア)
Post: Wikipedia in Japanese (ウィキペディア)

katakana words are sooo frustrating in conversation. it drives me nuts to have someone slow down and repeat what they're saying. then say it over and over again, only to find out that it's a mangled e...
wasurenaide General discussion 35 7,119 2008-01-11, 1:56 pm
    Thread: how do i get around 'no japanese' on my work pc?
Post: how do i get around 'no japanese' on my work pc?

i hate to sound like the mac snob but macs come stock with japanese and ime ready to go. i don't understand the reason why windows makes it something so locked down, it should be a simple feature read...
wasurenaide Learning resources 40 7,839 2007-12-19, 12:23 pm
    Thread: JLPT - From 2級 to 1級 in a year
Post: JLPT - From 2級 to 1級 in a year

i plan on doing it as well! to yorkii, i don't know if 1kyuu listening is heavily biased towards the newscaster styles but i'd mix in other stuff like podcasts and dorama to get a variety of speech st...
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 8 4,100 2007-12-07, 1:51 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2007
Post: JLPT 2007

minasan otsukaresama deshita 2kyuu here. despite passing the 2003-2006 tests at home with an avg %70, i don't think i did very well yesterday. if i do pass, it'll be by a slim margin. moji/goi was a ...
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 72 23,030 2007-12-03, 4:11 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

resolve Wrote:I'm not happy with Anki's performance on Mac computers, but I figure available and slow is better than not available at all. So do I, though I'm tempted now to go pick up a PC just for A...
wasurenaide Learning resources 999 230,437 2007-11-13, 7:57 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

i just tried anki on a windows machine for the first time and was quite surprised at how snappy it is. on my powerbook 12" (PPC)it is slow, almost to the point of being unusable. is this a problem wit...
wasurenaide Learning resources 999 230,437 2007-11-13, 7:26 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2007
Post: JLPT 2007

anybody else taking the jlpt in san francisco?
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 72 23,030 2007-11-04, 4:04 pm
    Thread: JLPT scoring formula
Post: JLPT scoring formula

here's the official scoring formula from the 2006 2級: 文字(pronounced moji, btw)/語彙 problems 1-40: 1 point each problems 41-65: 2 points each divide correct points by 90 and mult. by 100 聴解 problems ...
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 3 4,855 2007-11-04, 4:01 pm
    Thread: need sound files for unicom "kore de daijoubu" book!
Post: need sound files for unicom "kore de daijoubu" boo...

i just received the 2kyuu unicom choukai book, but it didn't come with a cd! it's actually the third printing from 2003? different design. anybody have the audio for this? it's basically worthless wit...
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 0 3,092 2007-11-02, 10:30 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

wynterp Wrote:wasurenaide Wrote:i've seen many mentions of the reading field being automatically populated with hiragana while entering into the expression field. this doesn't happen at all for me. am...
wasurenaide Learning resources 999 230,437 2007-10-02, 7:20 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

i've seen many mentions of the reading field being automatically populated with hiragana while entering into the expression field. this doesn't happen at all for me. am i missing something? using anki...
wasurenaide Learning resources 999 230,437 2007-10-02, 6:48 pm
    Thread: Bitme.org Invite (topic closed)
Post: Bitme.org Invite (topic closed)

add me to the list of bitme.org invite wanters.... よりしくお願いします
wasurenaide Learning resources 96 22,160 2007-10-01, 8:53 pm
    Thread: LastFm for getting into japanese music
Post: LastFm for getting into japanese music

awesome. i can't really deal with jpop, so i hope there will be some other solid recommendations. hell even some enka classics would be great. a lot of the music i listen to happens to be japanese bu...
wasurenaide General discussion 40 7,460 2007-09-19, 2:40 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2007
Post: JLPT 2007

next week i go back to the states after 9 months of intensive japanese (in japan of course). just realized i only have two more months to study... 頑張ります!
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 72 23,030 2007-09-19, 2:28 pm
    Thread: JLPT vs study years
Post: JLPT vs study years

two years studying in class 5 hours a week (one hour a day) + 9 months studying an avg, 25 hours a week in japan at yamasa times can be misleading. i think the first 3 months alone were more effectiv...
wasurenaide JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 6 4,908 2007-09-19, 2:03 pm