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Thread: JLPT 2006 Post: JLPT 2006 Congratulations to everyone who passed! Overseas people still have to wait a bit longer... もう我慢できない! Well, I'm confident I've passed the 3級 test. First time taking the JLPT too.. my vocabulary is alre... |
Piitaa | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 60 | 20,584 | 2007-02-10, 8:09 am | ||
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Thread: Index of online Japanese resources. Post: Index of online Japanese resources. RoboTact Wrote:synewave Wrote:Also the American guy (Peter?) kept telling us "We're having so much fun" - "This is so much fun" but I just wasn't feeling it. I too feel quite weird about it, it seems ... |
Piitaa | Learning resources | 16 | 5,126 | 2007-01-08, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: Index of online Japanese resources. Post: Index of online Japanese resources. I regularly use JapanesePod101, and it's certainly worthwhile. The audio blogs themselves are free, and that's all I need. The beginner lessons are a good introduction to the spoken language even for ... |
Piitaa | Learning resources | 16 | 5,126 | 2007-01-07, 8:07 am | ||
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Thread: State of mind primitive Post: State of mind primitive State of mind... I used a wise guru who could change into any state of mind at will. :) |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 4,116 | 2006-12-10, 6:03 am | ||
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Thread: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? Post: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? Since I am in the same situation, having only studied by myself, let me give my answer: Too little! Well, apart from audio blogs, tv series or anime of course, that's also spoken Japanese, but not con... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 37 | 10,082 | 2006-12-03, 1:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice for someone doing it backwards Post: Advice for someone doing it backwards You can start with RTK1 just fine, but remember it's more a long term approach. I.e. you need to complete it entirely before it starts paying off. If you're looking to start using Japanese in the shor... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 9 | 3,258 | 2006-12-02, 5:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji Post: Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji Well, don't know about websites with easy Kanji, but you could try looking for children's stories online. Although those can still have some deceptively tricky language, at least they'll have easier k... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 6 | 2,798 | 2006-12-02, 5:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? Post: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? leosmith Wrote:I asked Piitaa, because I think he's using one foreign language to learn another, and I'm curious about his experiences. Indeed English is a second language for me, speaking Dutch nativ... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 37 | 10,082 | 2006-12-01, 7:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? Post: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? Yep, I realize what the downsides of doing it this way are. However, at the moment my focus is to read as much as possible and build reading speed. The J-E reviews help more with that than reviewing t... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 37 | 10,082 | 2006-12-01, 6:07 am | ||
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Thread: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? Post: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J? Unlike most people here it seems, I prefer reviewing Japanese to English, and that's how I've set up my flashcards in Mnemosyne. The way I work is to read Japanese: websites, books, mangas, games, or ... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 37 | 10,082 | 2006-11-30, 9:11 am | ||
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Thread: reading help Post: reading help As a related question, what is the difference between になる and となる? |
Piitaa | General discussion | 16 | 7,650 | 2006-08-30, 5:24 am | ||
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Thread: 手紙を書きたい (help with grammar) Post: 手紙を書きたい (help with grammar) I agree with it being too formal actually, I just wanted to point out its correct usage. Sorry for not being clear on that. :) |
Piitaa | General discussion | 16 | 7,318 | 2006-08-19, 6:18 am | ||
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Thread: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help needed Post: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help n... If you are using EDICT, words that are marked with (P) are among the more commonly used 20,000 Japanese words. So, that's one indication you can use when choosing a keyword. So for example for offerin... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 42 | 12,708 | 2006-08-19, 6:14 am | ||
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Thread: 手紙を書きたい (help with grammar) Post: 手紙を書きたい (help with grammar) Hello, a few small things to add. ファブリス Wrote:Regarding 高大の寺 I agree. I tried to say "that's one big/impressive temple!", I saw a sentence somewhere with the の particle that seemed to be used like ... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 16 | 7,318 | 2006-08-19, 6:00 am | ||
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Thread: question about using IME Input for japanese Post: question about using IME Input for japanese What I've found out that control + caps lock switches to hiragana mode, alt + capslock is katakana mode, and shift + capslock is romaji (english text) mode. I don't use the latter much when I'm typing... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 4 | 2,379 | 2006-08-13, 4:09 am | ||
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Thread: More stories for RTKIII? Post: More stories for RTKIII? Another option is to use JWPce, this is what I'm using myself. It's a basically a wordprocessor for Japanese text (doesn't even need IME), but it also comes with the EDICT dictionary built in and seve... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 4,468 | 2006-08-10, 8:19 pm | ||
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Thread: More stories for RTKIII? Post: More stories for RTKIII? Let me add my 2 cents. After I finished RTKI I took a little while to figure out what would be the next best step to further my Japanese language studies. I'm also learning it as a hobby, coming from ... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 4,468 | 2006-08-09, 6:19 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best time to start Heisig? Post: What's the best time to start Heisig? I agree with the above. I ran into the same issue, finding out sometimes that I had a wrong connotation for a certain keyword. Some people may say that this doesn't matter, as long as you have a 'hook... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 46 | 14,710 | 2006-08-04, 9:03 am | ||
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Thread: Favourite Kanji Post: Favourite Kanji 生. It pops up all the time and has a nice flow to it. :) |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 52 | 17,708 | 2006-07-31, 5:58 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... おめでとうございます！ Or, in Heisig-speak: 賀 ;) I "finished" about one week ago. That is, added the last Kanji flashcard of RTK1. I don't consider really being done until all the flashcards are in the last bo... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,599 | 2006-07-20, 6:22 am | ||
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Thread: Sunglasses primitives Post: Sunglasses primitives I don't know what the real meaning is, but for sunglasses with one lens popped out, I use the image of a monocle. This conjures up vivid enough images for me that it works rather well. :) Also, the '... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 4,694 | 2006-07-15, 5:06 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji experiment Post: Kanji experiment It took me around 13 min. I always used radical search since when I first wanted to look up kanji, that was the method that was easiest (didn't know how to count strokes, etc.) and it works pretty wel... |
Piitaa | The Japanese language | 5 | 2,807 | 2006-07-14, 2:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Reviewing Compounds Post: Reviewing Compounds Immacolata Wrote:If you stick to eng-jap review, you are stuck in travel parleur mode and stuck in a "How do I say I love you in japanese?" mode Hint: you can't) I also did this in the beginning, but... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 14 | 4,230 | 2006-07-12, 1:50 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK vol3 short list Post: RTK vol3 short list One that I already see a lot is 2712 誰 (だれ） - who? Even though it is usually written in kana, the Kanji shows up a lot too. |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 3,841 | 2006-07-12, 5:18 am | ||
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Thread: Is the keyword of frame 830 (漫, loose) correct? Post: Is the keyword of frame 830 (漫, loose) correct? While I agree that some keywords could have been chosen better, I haven't bothered to learn other meanings for the Kanji at this stage. The most important thing is indeed having a hook to uniquely ide... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 30 | 12,317 | 2006-07-12, 5:09 am | ||
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Thread: Reviewing Compounds Post: Reviewing Compounds I'm not sure I agree with the need to wipe english (or any other native language for that matter) completely when studying vocabulary. Using pictures seems a bit contrived and time consuming, while fi... |
Piitaa | General discussion | 14 | 4,230 | 2006-07-12, 5:04 am | ||
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Thread: Oboetemasuka? 覚えてますか？ grammar, help! Post: Oboetemasuka? 覚えてますか？ grammar, help! You could also say: もちろん覚えていますよ - of course I remember -もう一人の初心者. |
Piitaa | General discussion | 10 | 7,891 | 2006-07-06, 4:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Is the keyword of frame 830 (漫, loose) correct? Post: Is the keyword of frame 830 (漫, loose) correct? Hehe. Pun not intended though :P |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 30 | 12,317 | 2006-07-03, 3:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Is the keyword of frame 830 (漫, loose) correct? Post: Is the keyword of frame 830 (漫, loose) correct? I also use the JWPce as my dictionary / kanji lookup. It works well since you can also look up on, among others, the heisig index. I also noticed that the first meaning given for a Kanji is typically ... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 30 | 12,317 | 2006-07-03, 6:55 am | ||
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Thread: Responses when talking about the Heisig system?? Post: Responses when talking about the Heisig system?? Yes, the heisig system isn't that well known and also seems to cause controversy among Japanese teachers. The fact that it's totally different from traditional learning and doesn't lend itself to clas... |
Piitaa | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 11,741 | 2006-06-21, 5:37 am | ||