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Thread: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? Post: Does the ⟨ɪ⟩ sound exist in Japanese? I don't know whether the IPA ı exist in japanese but I sometimes think there is a turkish ı / IPA ɯ. wakaranai- the i here is definitely the japanese one. wakaranainda- the i here sounds more like ɯ... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 36 | 7,505 | 2013-05-15, 3:53 am | ||
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Thread: prepping as much as possible for the jump to native material Post: prepping as much as possible for the jump to nativ... @Zgarbas I can read stuff like these on paper without using a dictionary (not that I understand everything, far from it, I just learned to gloss over stuff I don't know and guess from context now rel... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 67 | 12,914 | 2013-04-01, 9:32 am | ||
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Thread: prepping as much as possible for the jump to native material Post: prepping as much as possible for the jump to nativ... @dizmox Well, it ranges from 1 hour a day to 12 hours a day, but it was usually something around 2 to 3 hours a day. Edit: And to put things into perspective, at the very early periods of my study, t... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 67 | 12,914 | 2013-04-01, 8:09 am | ||
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Thread: prepping as much as possible for the jump to native material Post: prepping as much as possible for the jump to nativ... @dizmox That guy on 4chan was, most likely, me. Unfortunately I don't have the deck anymore, but I have another statistics* to show that I, indeed, read through about so many books. However, it must b... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 67 | 12,914 | 2013-04-01, 5:50 am | ||
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Thread: 読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading Post: 読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/177950 It's disconcerting to see so many abandoned profiles, though. |
qwarten | Learning resources | 53 | 17,622 | 2013-03-30, 7:45 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Somebody else should do this and probably would do it better but it should, imo, read like: "You're not gonne come?" It's an act. Don't be fooled/tricked. Otonashi wouldn't say something that cute. "... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-12-28, 8:08 am | ||
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Thread: Making my sentences sound more Japanese Post: Making my sentences sound more Japanese Arupan Wrote:Claiming that no non-Japanese can master the language is like claiming that its users are omnipotent. Nobody claimed that in this thread. If the choice is between learning the widely use... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 46 | 7,588 | 2012-09-15, 5:15 am | ||
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Thread: I'm Asian and my deck is bigger than yours Post: I'm Asian and my deck is bigger than yours Largely made of vocabulary from marimite series. [Image: http://s8.postimage.org/4coswngg5/Screenshot.png] |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 55 | 11,654 | 2012-09-13, 5:15 am | ||
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Thread: I'm Asian and my deck is bigger than yours Post: I'm Asian and my deck is bigger than yours I have a deck with 8482 cards. It grows to ~11000 when I'm stimulated (reading stuff that contains vocabulary from my deleted core2k deck, and other vocabulary I know but don't SRS). |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 55 | 11,654 | 2012-09-11, 4:57 am | ||
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Thread: Why is Japanese pitch accent almost never taught? Post: Why is Japanese pitch accent almost never taught? We don't have pitch accents in Turkish and I'm quite bad at music. So, trying to learn pitch accent, deliberately, might be too bothersome for me. One thing I wonder is, while it probably is glaringly... |
qwarten | General discussion | 133 | 26,574 | 2012-08-30, 11:55 am | ||
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Thread: What did you learn today? Post: What did you learn today? I learnt the name of that famous traffic light song "通りゃんせ " while reading マリア様がみてる 28 フレーム オブ マインド. I also found about warabe uta. It was a surprise that there was one called teru teru bouzu though I... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 43 | 10,006 | 2012-08-14, 3:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Post: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Fadeway Wrote:Nadiatims, you reminded me of another pet peeve of mine: People asking me to translate random stuff for them, or to tell them how to say y in a given language, especially when they don't... |
qwarten | General discussion | 30 | 6,398 | 2012-08-11, 7:44 am | ||
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Thread: From Japanese to <your other languages> vs. English Post: From Japanese to <your other languages> vs. Englis... もう/一口/も/入りません。 Literal: Artık/bir lokma/daha/alamam. Natural: (Artık) Bir lokma daha yiyemem. 私は/ ７時/に /學校/に/ 行った。 Ben/(saat) 7/'de/okul/a/gittim. Natural: Ben (saat) 7'de okula gittim. 毎日/テレビを/見ます。... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 16 | 4,437 | 2012-08-06, 3:47 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread turvy Wrote:Thanks for the insight @yudantaiteki, but just tell me how to parse this. I got: その山に that mountain 登る climbing だけ … ?? の十分な体力がある。there is enough strength > He has enough strength to ... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-08-03, 3:44 am | ||
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Thread: I think about qutting SRS Post: I think about qutting SRS thurd I want to ask a few questions if you don't mind. 1) How many of those 9300 vocab cards you learned through pre-made decks? 2) How many books (or manga) you have read so far? 3) How many books (... |
qwarten | Learning resources | 35 | 8,951 | 2012-08-01, 8:08 am | ||
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Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books s0apgun Wrote:Can anyone recommend me some easy manga at around the Core2k level. I downloaded the first volume of Great Teacher Onizuka and was struggling to get through it. Haven't checked out anyth... |
qwarten | Learning resources | 277 | 117,283 | 2012-07-21, 4:39 pm | ||
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Thread: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough? Post: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough? You have a clear goal in mind. What you do works just fine for achieving that goal. So continue doing it. We are all literate in our native language/s and most of us want to be literate in our target... |
qwarten | General discussion | 35 | 10,499 | 2012-06-07, 5:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Intern as a technical translator. Getting cold feet! Post: Intern as a technical translator. Getting cold fee... I have never done professional translations but I have worked for my father. I interpreted (ENG > TR) excerpts from electrical component manuals and design documents. The best thing you can do is t... |
qwarten | Off topic | 9 | 1,550 | 2012-06-07, 5:35 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread vix86 Wrote:I'm a little confused on this phrase. そんな馴染みの様子に、俺は「ん？」と些細な違和感をおぼえたのだが、直ぐに頭の隅にやってしまった。 Actually, now that I typed it out I think I get it. Does it mean "I quickly put it out of mind"? Mo... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-06-05, 6:02 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Seamoby Wrote:待ちに待っていた電話だった. ~ It was the long-awaited phone call. 待ちに待つ ~ to wait for a long time (or so says the dictionary) Thank you. I didn't think of searching it in plain form. |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-05-19, 4:07 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 待ちに待っていた電話だった. Does it have any special meaning or is it just "it was the call I have been waiting for"? Why not simply 待っていた電話だった? Context: A leaves B on short notice in a hairy situation, telling ... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-05-18, 11:28 am | ||
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Thread: What is your learning style? Post: What is your learning style? 1) extension +-o-------+ intension 2) production +--------o+ recognition 3) idioms +------o--+ 4) pronunciation +------o--+ 1) I read about how the language works generally first ... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,174 | 2012-05-13, 4:50 am | ||
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Thread: Who has more reviews? Post: Who has more reviews? 12.05.2012 Total number of cards: 5079 (376 unseen) 42595 reps/222 days Total review time: 2.23 days Should have started a new deck after that purge 170 days ago. Edit: This is a vocabulary deck by... |
qwarten | General discussion | 15 | 2,612 | 2012-05-12, 3:30 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Take my posts with a grain of salt, I'm not a native speaker of either languages and my japanese is not good. 軌道 in my opinion makes more sense in this context. Since in the first part it talks about... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-05-10, 4:07 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread pm215 Wrote:(Incidentally I was amused to be able to correctly guess that this was MariMite even though I haven't read the volume this bit's from :-) A fellow MariMiter (?) :D. The volume in question ... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-05-08, 3:30 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I have two questions. Text: 「代わってあげたいけれど、あいにく私たちには祐麒君みたいにそっくりな弟がいないものねぇ」 いたらいたで、何かしら理由をつけて絶対に代わってくれやしないはずだ。由乃さんの可愛《かわい》い顔が、今は悪魔にも見える。 1) いたらいたで. Does it mean "even if it were the case" or something... |
qwarten | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,289 | 2012-05-07, 1:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Innocent book reviews and reccomendations Post: Innocent book reviews and reccomendations 伊坂幸太郎の「死神の精度」 The book is quite impressive and not that difficult to read with yomichan. Individual stories are not overly long and as mentioned before they are not as uneven as Kino no Tabi qualitywi... |
qwarten | Learning resources | 26 | 9,304 | 2012-03-31, 5:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology In relation to the frequency "awareness", I'd like to know how possible or useful this might be. Suppose that I started using morph man later in my studies, and say I have read about 10 light novels. ... |
qwarten | Learning resources | 443 | 136,524 | 2012-03-24, 6:50 am | ||
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Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology overture2112 Wrote:Can you clarify exactly what it was (so others with the issue can solve it if they see this thread)? Was it mecab-jumandic? I cannot be exactly sure about this but as far as I can r... |
qwarten | Learning resources | 443 | 136,524 | 2012-03-14, 5:14 am | ||
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Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology Edit: It appears it was a problem with the Japanese support plugin. Or I should say a misinstallation of the mecab. After I installed it following the instructions from http://ankisrs.net/docs/Japane... |
qwarten | Learning resources | 443 | 136,524 | 2012-03-13, 1:37 pm | ||
