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Thread: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Post: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? I use this one: http://www.conversationexchange.com In you profile you choose if you interested in Skype conversations, mailing or meeting in person. |
sprutnik | General discussion | 21 | 7,377 | 2010-06-16, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: World Cup 2010 Post: World Cup 2010 Wanna watch World Cup in Tokyo?: http://forum.koohii.com/post.php?action=post&tid=6038 |
sprutnik | Off topic | 63 | 10,645 | 2010-06-15, 10:59 am | ||
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Thread: Go Australia! Post: Go Australia! Hi guys (and gals?), Danish guy living in Tokyo writing. I was wondering if someone was interested in hooking up in Tokyo to watch some World Cup matches? Most of my friends are Japanese and they coul... |
sprutnik | Off topic | 26 | 3,421 | 2010-06-15, 10:57 am | ||
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Thread: Where does you nickname come from? Post: Where does you nickname come from? In the early days of the web I needed a nick name for my email address. I asked my friend and he suggested "sprutnik", since my primary interests at the time were astronomy (sputnik) and drinking (spr... |
sprutnik | Off topic | 66 | 10,383 | 2010-05-22, 5:48 am | ||
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Thread: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Post: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? jarvik7 I guess its not too different from people in the West trying to learn Japanese without ever really learning it. Including me for the moment being! Unfortunately the standardized tests in Japan... |
sprutnik | General discussion | 21 | 7,377 | 2010-04-16, 8:52 am | ||
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Thread: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Post: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? #Jarvik7 That is what puzzles me. Why would Japanese people pay money and invest time in learning English without being serious about mastering it or at least learn it the best they can? I understand ... |
sprutnik | General discussion | 21 | 7,377 | 2010-04-16, 8:03 am | ||
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Thread: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Post: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Jarvik7 That is also my fear. And I understand what you all are saying about "just make friends and talk Japanese". I would prefer that too and it's what I strive for. The problem is it requires some... |
sprutnik | General discussion | 21 | 7,377 | 2010-04-16, 7:54 am | ||
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Thread: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Post: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? #Javizy My Japanese speaking/listening skills are not good enough for "chatting" and if their English is on the same level I wouldn't mind at all if they brought and textbook. It just shows, as you sa... |
sprutnik | General discussion | 21 | 7,377 | 2010-04-16, 7:36 am | ||
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Thread: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Post: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? I live in Japan and through a website I have come in contact with some Japanese people, who would like to assist in practicing my Japanese listening/speaking skills, in return of me teaching them some... |
sprutnik | General discussion | 21 | 7,377 | 2010-04-16, 6:49 am | ||
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Thread: Looking for online grammar exercises with evaluation feature Post: Looking for online grammar exercises with evaluati... #pm215, thanks for the link. I found one more: For JLPT: http://jlpt.u-biq.org/ Grammar/vocabulary etc. http://test.u-biq.org/ It has a nice evaluation feature that tells, what you need to improve ... |
sprutnik | Learning resources | 14 | 3,766 | 2010-04-12, 9:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Looking for online grammar exercises with evaluation feature Post: Looking for online grammar exercises with evaluati... Just keep'em coming:) Here's one more: http://www.ngoilaibennhau.net/jatest/index_4.php I haven't actually used it, by it looks like an okay resource for JLPT exercises. |
sprutnik | Learning resources | 14 | 3,766 | 2010-02-03, 7:38 am | ||
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Thread: Looking for online grammar exercises with evaluation feature Post: Looking for online grammar exercises with evaluati... When studying I love exercises that give me immediate response to my answers. It's a huge motivational factor to press a button and receive some kind of evaluation on how I'm doing, so I was wondering... |
sprutnik | Learning resources | 14 | 3,766 | 2010-01-27, 3:45 pm | ||
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Thread: How to reset without deleting my cards Post: How to reset without deleting my cards WeTsTICK Wrote:My advise would be to just review the lot, you will honestly be surprised with how much you remember. There is no point starting again or failing cards that you probably still remember.... |
sprutnik | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,173 | 2009-10-25, 9:21 am | ||
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Thread: How to reset without deleting my cards Post: How to reset without deleting my cards I have 800 cards I would like to move to the first stack. That's a lot of clicking to do that manually:( But if that's the only solution, I guess it would be easier than deleting the cards and their s... |
sprutnik | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,173 | 2009-10-25, 9:01 am | ||
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Thread: How to reset without deleting my cards Post: How to reset without deleting my cards Hi, I'm one of those people who stalled their reviews and never got up to speed again. Now I have 1200 cards I need to review. Because it is so long time since I reviewed my cards, I would like to sta... |
sprutnik | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,173 | 2009-10-25, 7:49 am | ||
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Thread: Title of samurai movie Post: Title of samurai movie Hehe, it should of course have been katana. It must have been because I have studied Japanese all the weekend, so I'm excused:) |
sprutnik | Off topic | 2 | 602 | 2009-10-04, 2:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Title of samurai movie Post: Title of samurai movie For some strange reason I partially remember seeing a samurai film about 20 years, but I can't recall its name. The plot was about a handful of samurais who was protecting a child (?future emperor?) f... |
sprutnik | Off topic | 2 | 602 | 2009-10-04, 2:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Where should I study in Japan? Post: Where should I study in Japan? The distance from campus to Beppu-eki is approximately 12km, on a mountain road with twists and turns. I really, really don't hope you ever have done that in 5-10 minutes. |
sprutnik | General discussion | 53 | 9,589 | 2009-09-13, 8:22 am | ||
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Thread: Where should I study in Japan? Post: Where should I study in Japan? I've studied at Ritsumeikan in Beppu and I can certainly recommend it. It's very international minded, meaning that half the students are Japanese and the other half comes from all over the world. The... |
sprutnik | General discussion | 53 | 9,589 | 2009-09-13, 5:49 am | ||
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Thread: default language of thought Post: default language of thought My native language is Danish but at work I write entirely in English even though my thoughts are always in Danish. If I go abroad my thoughts changes from Danish to English within a few months. The fi... |
sprutnik | General discussion | 22 | 2,702 | 2009-09-09, 11:58 am | ||
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Thread: Hexagon.cc Post: Hexagon.cc http://lobby.hexagon.cc/invitations/mLk4KUe59J |
sprutnik | General discussion | 43 | 9,895 | 2009-09-02, 3:55 pm | ||
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Thread: What is/was your area of study? Post: What is/was your area of study? I have a Master's in Communication/Multimedia and currently work as a game designer. I love writing (in Danish) but I've never been very interested in learning foreign languages. Except Japanese for s... |
sprutnik | Off topic | 98 | 16,846 | 2009-09-02, 1:06 pm | ||
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Thread: How to interpret this te-form sentence Post: How to interpret this te-form sentence Thanks for the helpful answers. I can see it's actually quite simple, although it still requires a bit of work to wrap my brain around all the uses of the te form. |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,483 | 2009-08-22, 12:43 pm | ||
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Thread: How to interpret this te-form sentence Post: How to interpret this te-form sentence I'm using the Genki series for my Japanese studies and have come to this te-form sentence: たけしさんは英語の本を読んでいます。Takeshi is reading a book en English. The sentence is being used for describing an action i... |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,483 | 2009-08-22, 11:47 am | ||
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Thread: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? Post: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? Quote:I think even the greatest rule has tons of exceptions that render it useless in practice. Rules are only good for beginners and linguists, I guess. (Perhaps) A bit off-topic, but if someone shou... |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 34 | 6,803 | 2009-05-30, 6:37 pm | ||
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Thread: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? Post: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? #magamo That was a nice eleboration of masaman's post. So when you use 低い, height is the subject of the statement and you are describing the distance from top to bottom? And 短い is basically for everyt... |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 34 | 6,803 | 2009-05-30, 4:34 pm | ||
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Thread: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? Post: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? That makes sense. I have been thinking about some vertical vs horizontal distinction between the two, but length and height are some more robust and simpler terms to work with. A worldwide standard f... |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 34 | 6,803 | 2009-05-30, 4:12 pm | ||
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Thread: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? Post: What's the difference between 低い and 短い? To me 低い and 短い both seem to mean "short", but if that's the case I find it strange to have a kanji for each word. At Smart.fm they give to examples sentences: 彼は背が低い He’s short (Low, short) 彼は足が短い ... |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 34 | 6,803 | 2009-05-30, 3:09 pm | ||
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Thread: The meaning and use of のが Post: The meaning and use of のが Heh, I now remember, I read Tae Kim's explanation of the use of の as a nominalizer a long time ago. Just forgot about it until now, where I encounted the particle used such a way. |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,098 | 2009-04-22, 3:03 pm | ||
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Thread: The meaning and use of のが Post: The meaning and use of のが I see. Thanks for the clarifying explanations. It's actually surprisingly simple now. |
sprutnik | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,098 | 2009-04-22, 11:24 am | ||
