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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread dbh2ppa Wrote:but is it a mistake? A Google search for "闇暗" and "くらやみ" produces quite a few results that suggest it can be read that way, so I'm guessing in your case it's 闇暗 with くら in the place of 闇... |
Elphalpo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,585 | 2009-12-20, 2:00 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread A couple of questions about some structures I often run across while reading the news: 立ち入り検査に対しロイヤルホームセンターは、「検査には全面的に協力するが、いまは何もコメントできません」としています。 What exactly does 「としています」 mean here? Is it just a ... |
Elphalpo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,585 | 2009-12-15, 4:44 am | ||
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Thread: Stuff to buy for Christmas? Post: Stuff to buy for Christmas? Aijin: I'm not sure there's much interesting material they could read at that level without a lot of trouble. Maybe you could get them something like "Reading Japanese with a Smile," which is a collec... |
Elphalpo | Off topic | 25 | 4,986 | 2009-12-03, 12:32 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Tzadeck Wrote:Now, I'm confused about the first sentence. Of course, he's recommending against getting someone else to write the letter, but was does the なりかねない part at the end mean? I think this is ... |
Elphalpo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,585 | 2009-11-19, 6:24 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Zorlee Wrote:え…昨日、新宿の繁華街で六人ものを殺傷した通り魔は、 Well... 六人もの is the case for me. What does もの mean here? It can´t possibly mean person, since 人 is already written, so does it mean "thing/object" here, as in: ... |
Elphalpo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,585 | 2009-11-17, 5:40 am | ||
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Thread: となる vs. になる Post: となる vs. になる I was going to post here asking for help differentiating the two structures after finding no luck searching Google when I came across a helpful post on the topic on a different forum. And the author o... |
Elphalpo | The Japanese language | 1 | 660 | 2009-11-11, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese South Park DVDs Post: Japanese South Park DVDs Here's the link bodhisamaya's referring to: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/catego...51C5Rxy9pc |
Elphalpo | Off topic | 8 | 2,720 | 2009-11-06, 1:46 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread What does it mean when a sentence ends with と? I've come across this a lot in quotes from older politicians. Here's an example quote from a recent TBS news report: 「速やかな新内閣の内閣総理大臣の指名をやるべきであろうと。そこは野党と... |
Elphalpo | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,585 | 2009-09-01, 12:06 am | ||
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Thread: Funniest/coolest/favourite sounding Word Post: Funniest/coolest/favourite sounding Word I dunno if loan words are off limits here, but I'm kinda fond of ダブルパンチ and マスタープラン, just cause they sound funny. |
Elphalpo | The Japanese language | 39 | 10,675 | 2009-08-27, 5:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Translation PARTY! Post: Translation PARTY! The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ... ... ... We are concerned about the risk |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 42 | 8,362 | 2009-08-12, 12:39 am | ||
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Thread: game idea Post: game idea This is only tangentially related to the topic at hand, but this discussion got me thinking about it. Is it possible to write a program that periodically scans various Japanese blogs and compares them... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 77 | 10,409 | 2009-07-28, 9:23 pm | ||
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Thread: game idea Post: game idea I've thought about something like this, but I couldn't really think of a fun way to incorporate learning Japanese into a game. I think what you guys are suggesting would work well enough, though. Mayb... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 77 | 10,409 | 2009-07-28, 3:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here I didn't really use any special methods, I just inputted everything into Anki and then spent many hours a day of my abundant free time reviewing old cards and adding new ones. I didn't seem to actuall... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,662 | 2009-07-18, 10:17 am | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here My recent milestone achievement is having finally reached the point where I can understand enough Japanese to enjoy reading/listening to native Japanese media. I had intended to make my way a list of ... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,662 | 2009-07-18, 7:23 am | ||
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Thread: Roadmap to Japanese Post: Roadmap to Japanese Musashi Wrote:Hmm, Icecream, I've been seeing Kanji Odyssey2001 pop up quite some times in posts, I just did a quick check about it and I saw it's a kanji learning book with example compounds and what... |
Elphalpo | Learning resources | 12 | 3,304 | 2009-07-09, 6:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Re-examining your SRS workflow Post: Re-examining your SRS workflow blackmacros Wrote:I haven't actually delved too deep into other contexts yet. My plan was to finish *all* of the textbook type stuff as quickly as possible and then diving into the fun stuff. That's ... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 176 | 48,604 | 2009-07-07, 10:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Re-examining your SRS workflow Post: Re-examining your SRS workflow captal Wrote:If 100 new words a day is "stuck", I'm moving backwards. That's 3000 words a month! Hehe. Well, it might sound like a lot, but I'm a non-working college student who has the summer off, so... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 176 | 48,604 | 2009-07-05, 9:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Re-examining your SRS workflow Post: Re-examining your SRS workflow blackmacros Wrote:I've set it to 2 minutes because its more effective to "sprint" multiple times than to do a marathon. Yeah, I might try shortening the blocks even more, and I'll probably start using... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 176 | 48,604 | 2009-07-05, 9:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Re-examining your SRS workflow Post: Re-examining your SRS workflow cloudstrife543 Wrote:Care to elaborate on the what 'JLPT list' you are talking about? It's just a list of vocab from JPLT levels 1-4 I got by doing a Google search. I think it had around 8000 words to... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 176 | 48,604 | 2009-07-05, 8:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Re-examining your SRS workflow Post: Re-examining your SRS workflow I've been adding about 150 cards a day the past month and I've been doing basically what you're doing, only in somewhat larger blocks. Your post inspired me to try shortening the blocks even further (... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 176 | 48,604 | 2009-07-05, 7:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Are sentences or context really better than individual vocab? Post: Are sentences or context really better than indivi... erlog Wrote:The problem is that you're lying to yourself about how well you know the sentences. If you can't go through every word in the sentence and recall both its meaning and reading then you mark... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 23 | 5,971 | 2009-06-30, 6:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Requesting Community Input: What's your favorite primitive/story? Post: Requesting Community Input: What's your favorite p... I'm guessing you don't care that much, but I'll give it a shot just for kicks: Your friend thinks it will be *entertaining* to bind up your legs with a *crown* so you can't move them and then torture... |
Elphalpo | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 3,222 | 2009-06-19, 4:03 am | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level Post: KO2001 and JLPT level I went through both books of Kanji Odyssey, and my thinking is along the lines of Tobberoth's. I don't expect to develop the ability to produce natural-sounding Japanese from SRSing pre-canned sentenc... |
Elphalpo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 94 | 17,481 | 2009-06-02, 7:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Next step after Kana Post: Next step after Kana As a resource for basic grammar, I recommend Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication. It's cheap, it has very concise grammar explanations, and it's loaded with example sentences. It's ... |
Elphalpo | General discussion | 49 | 10,158 | 2009-03-20, 2:30 am | ||