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Thread: Need advice on where to start & resources Post: Need advice on where to start & resources Thank you so much for the indepth answer. I'm so glad I asked! The changes thing will be really useful for me and I doubt I was going to find out on my own anytime soon. I'm interested in doing what ... |
PensukeD | Chinese and Hanzi | 6 | 2,140 | 2011-07-25, 9:46 am | ||
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Thread: Need advice on where to start & resources Post: Need advice on where to start & resources I want to take a short break from Japanese and learn a little bit of Mandarin. I personally grew up speaking Cantonese at home but never learned how to write. But having completed Remembering the Kanj... |
PensukeD | Chinese and Hanzi | 6 | 2,140 | 2011-07-25, 4:53 am | ||
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Thread: 2001 Kanji Odyssey & iKnow Post: 2001 Kanji Odyssey & iKnow Wow I've had the same problems as you over the past few months. There's so much vocab to learn and when you look up more example sentences to understand them, there's ever MORE new vocab. I personal... |
PensukeD | Learning resources | 2 | 1,627 | 2011-07-14, 6:13 am | ||
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Thread: Mezbup'z First Trip To JAPAN!!! Post: Mezbup'z First Trip To JAPAN!!! fakewookie Wrote:I went to a Japanese restaurant in some mall here the other day and overheard "ありがとうございます" being said to some customers as they left, so I spoke to one of the waitresses in Japanese b... |
PensukeD | General discussion | 172 | 24,892 | 2011-07-08, 3:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Mezbup'z First Trip To JAPAN!!! Post: Mezbup'z First Trip To JAPAN!!! Tori-kun Wrote:fakewookie Wrote:Now that I'm in Hong Kong and paying the equivalent of about 500円 for all you can eat *and* drink, I've lost the ability to think that anything else is a good deal. :3 ... |
PensukeD | General discussion | 172 | 24,892 | 2011-07-08, 5:40 am | ||
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Thread: question about smart.fm's core 2000 series Post: question about smart.fm's core 2000 series Great to see people feel the same way I did a few months back. I personally gave up on learning from the Core in a linear fashion. I combined Core2k + 6k into one deck, suspended all new cards and wen... |
PensukeD | Learning resources | 17 | 8,721 | 2011-06-15, 1:16 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I Feel Motivated Right now" thread. Post: The "I Feel Motivated Right now" thread. It's summer for 2 weeks and I still have 3 months to kill. Finally started to take a serious tab at Japanese grammar. Just counted and have 12 windows open, not including tabs on browser. 3x anki dec... |
PensukeD | General discussion | 46 | 14,728 | 2011-06-05, 4:10 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread pudding cat Wrote:PensukeD Wrote:航空機 vs. 飛行機 Little bit unsure here. I'm guessing they're synonyms but have a difference in nuance? From the dictionary it seems 飛行機 is used more often when actually t... |
PensukeD | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2011-06-05, 11:29 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread 航空機 vs. 飛行機 Little bit unsure here. I'm guessing they're synonyms but have a difference in nuance? From the dictionary it seems 飛行機 is used more often when actually talking about the plane we take in... |
PensukeD | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2011-06-05, 11:14 am | ||
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Thread: "The brain can learn a new word in less than 15 minutes" Post: "The brain can learn a new word in less than 15 mi... vosmiura Wrote:If you just have a hard time getting a word in your head, try the Iversen method. The method I use takes an average of 20 seconds per word. Please do elaborate. I attempted to do that ... |
PensukeD | General discussion | 18 | 10,050 | 2011-05-30, 3:50 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:Yes. 火事 means a fire as in an accident, house fire, etc. Can you post the whole sentence? If it's using なる it might mean that a small fire turned into a 火事. 「このお寺は２年前火事になって、去年建て替... |
PensukeD | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2011-05-18, 6:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread FooSoft Wrote:The Kanji there can help you - 火事 is more like a "fire incident" not a "fire" itself. So 火事になる would mean "become a fire incident" Ah okay thank you. That sounds a bit weird when we dire... |
PensukeD | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2011-05-18, 5:36 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread In one of the KO2001 sentences; "。。火事になって、" - which was translated as "the temple caught fire". Does the expression 火事になる mean "to catch on fire"? I tried to confirmed it with my limited resources wi... |
PensukeD | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2011-05-18, 5:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? KMDES Wrote:The average English native probably only knows between 12k-20k anyway. eh? I don't want to doubt you but I quote: "The average speaker knows, as a low ball-estimate, about 60,000 words. ... |
PensukeD | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,296 | 2011-05-17, 7:38 am | ||
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Thread: future degree and higher studies... unsure Post: future degree and higher studies... unsure You can also give ItunesU a try. Since you're still undecided, it probably won't hurt to just look at the different courses you're interested in to see what a typical lecture is like. I wish I did tha... |
PensukeD | Off topic | 69 | 9,000 | 2011-05-04, 3:24 pm | ||
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Thread: future degree and higher studies... unsure Post: future degree and higher studies... unsure overture2112 Wrote:...require more than $125,000 of equipment.. Holy crap, I'm glad I live in Europe now. |
PensukeD | Off topic | 69 | 9,000 | 2011-05-03, 11:43 am | ||
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Thread: All About Particles Anki deck (revision 2) Post: All About Particles Anki deck (revision 2) Tori-kun Wrote:Well, it looks like a few people found together and could make this somewhat perfect and complete. Now I just need to find out how to make this public edittable, hm........ Edit: Publi... |
PensukeD | Learning resources | 34 | 10,148 | 2011-05-01, 5:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese jokes Post: Japanese jokes astendra Wrote:PensukeD Wrote:Ah sorry, I got that much from rikai-chan but I don't actually know the meaning of the sentence as a whole :P 超 is a common prefix roughly corresponding to the English 's... |
PensukeD | General discussion | 23 | 5,564 | 2011-05-01, 4:59 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... matto Wrote:Yes! I am finished! Received the book from Amazon on Jan 15th and am now finished on the first day of May. Awesome stuff dude, and it's your first post so welcome as well :P. And holy cr... |
PensukeD | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,618 | 2011-05-01, 5:08 am | ||
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Thread: Manga Way vs other sources? Post: Manga Way vs other sources? rich_f Wrote:DO*JG doesn't have definitions for a LOT of the N2 stuff. Drove me nuts when going through KM2 the first time. I wound up using the どんな時どんな使う .... 相変わらずありがとうrich_fさん、でも名前は「どんな時どう使う」でしょう？ |
PensukeD | Learning resources | 15 | 3,850 | 2011-04-30, 1:17 pm | ||
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Thread: All About Particles Anki deck (revision 2) Post: All About Particles Anki deck (revision 2) I have exams at the moment so I can't help for the next month or so but I was just wondering is there a lot of mistakes and typos in the public AAP deck? I just want to be careful when I use it. |
PensukeD | Learning resources | 34 | 10,148 | 2011-04-30, 8:59 am | ||
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Thread: other forums/discussion boards recommendation? Post: other forums/discussion boards recommendation? I've been there before, it's okay, not great. The main purpose is for Japanese learning and koohii is just so much better to me. |
PensukeD | Off topic | 2 | 609 | 2011-04-30, 7:15 am | ||
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Thread: other forums/discussion boards recommendation? Post: other forums/discussion boards recommendation? Hi all, I was just wondering do you guys have any recommendation for other forums/discussion boards. For my Japanese language studying needs,Koohii is already more than enough but I think I would enjo... |
PensukeD | Off topic | 2 | 609 | 2011-04-30, 4:27 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese jokes Post: Japanese jokes pudding cat Wrote:PensukeD Wrote:kainzero Wrote:chochajin今日の朝食は超ショックだった！ 説明して下さい。 朝食＝ちょうしょく 超ショック＝ちょうしょっく Ah sorry, I got that much from rikai-chan but I don't actually know the meaning of the senten... |
PensukeD | General discussion | 23 | 5,564 | 2011-04-29, 4:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese jokes Post: Japanese jokes kainzero Wrote:nadiatims Wrote:one of my favourites is saying よーし while lifting a piece of paper off your desk. can i call you 紙様 LOL first Japanese pun I understood on my own! kainzero Wrote:chocha... |
PensukeD | General discussion | 23 | 5,564 | 2011-04-29, 2:01 pm | ||
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Thread: fun things in Japanese Post: fun things in Japanese Tbh the only fun thing that I do is learning Japanese. Well not counting hanging out with friends, but you don't have much if self-studying Japanese is your sole hobby xD. |
PensukeD | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,221 | 2011-04-28, 3:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese jokes Post: Japanese jokes Shadeless Wrote:PensukeD Wrote:This イス a chair. ->From JMW :P What's JMW? Here's a variation of that pun: Japanese grammar the Manga Way. |
PensukeD | General discussion | 23 | 5,564 | 2011-04-28, 3:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese jokes Post: Japanese jokes This イス a chair. ->From JMW :P |
PensukeD | General discussion | 23 | 5,564 | 2011-04-28, 6:39 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! zachandhobbes Wrote:jettyke Wrote:Congrats from me too! It must feel nice, but remember that it was easy. The real challenge is ahead. So start gathering extra motivation :D I beg to differ, RtK w... |
PensukeD | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,455 | 2011-04-28, 2:34 am | ||
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Thread: fun things in Japanese Post: fun things in Japanese I wish I can remember where I heard it, but I remember from looking at some psychological studies, the release of dopamine seems to improve learning hm... |
PensukeD | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,221 | 2011-04-28, 2:28 am | ||
