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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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Thread: Hexagon.cc
Post: Hexagon.cc

http://lobby.hexagon.cc/invitations/mLk4KUe59J
sprutnik General discussion 43 9,895 2009-09-02, 3:55 pm
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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