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Thread: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language Post: Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Lik... So what does it mean to read math 'as a foreign language'? Is this different from just learning math? |
Jaunty | Off topic | 28 | 7,916 | 2011-05-22, 9:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Crop Circles - Quest for Truth (full movie) Post: Crop Circles - Quest for Truth (full movie) Check out this website by some (somewhat) famous circlemakers: www.circlemakers.org Here's a short podcast going over the history of crop circles: SGU 5x5 #78 |
Jaunty | Off topic | 32 | 7,331 | 2011-04-03, 1:55 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese ps3 games on American discs Post: Japanese ps3 games on American discs Vanquish also lets you set the entire game to Japanese. |
Jaunty | General discussion | 35 | 12,603 | 2010-12-27, 2:10 am | ||
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Thread: For fellow atheists, how do you regard Christmas? Post: For fellow atheists, how do you regard Christmas? Having been raised with it, I love Christmas probably just as much now as before I had really thought about religion seriously. I'm atheist in the sense of not having any belief in a god (raised Catho... |
Jaunty | Off topic | 39 | 5,831 | 2010-12-24, 11:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Why do Japanese not eat shrimp tail? Post: Why do Japanese not eat shrimp tail? I don't know anyone personally who regularly eats shrimp tails. Occasionally shrimp will be cooked in such a way (or maybe it's a certain kind of shrimp, I'm not sure) so that the tail gets pretty sof... |
Jaunty | Off topic | 22 | 11,692 | 2010-08-17, 3:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Buying and Selling Media Post: Buying and Selling Media There are a few BookOff stores in America - conveniently for you there's (at least) one in LA. I haven't been to that one yet, but they should have Japanese DVDs and music. You can also sell things th... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 2 | 676 | 2010-08-03, 12:58 am | ||
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Thread: Climate Change - Why the hubbub? Post: Climate Change - Why the hubbub? This guy on youtube make some excellent videos addressing the science of climate change, it's definitely worth your time to check out: http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610 |
Jaunty | Off topic | 42 | 6,279 | 2010-05-07, 1:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Economics and Physics major Post: Economics and Physics major Hey, I'm about halfway through a physics PhD program (specializing in theoretical astrophysics) so I can say a few words about this, meaning I'll say a lot ;) First, I'm a bit confused about your sit... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 25 | 7,366 | 2010-04-27, 6:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Croatian Girl Goes into Coma, Wakes Up Fluent in German Post: Croatian Girl Goes into Coma, Wakes Up Fluent in G... There was another article today - this time from a migraine: Chinese accent after migraine Apparently this condition is documented as Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) in the literature. |
Jaunty | Off topic | 40 | 10,164 | 2010-04-20, 12:20 pm | ||
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Thread: 勉強BGM Post: 勉強BGM I haven't been listening to much music while studying recently - usually it's podcasts or shows now. When I do listen to music, it's often instrumental (eg. Joe Satriani, Ratatat, Orbital, etc.), Japa... |
Jaunty | Off topic | 5 | 1,246 | 2010-04-14, 2:32 am | ||
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Thread: learning several languages at the same time Post: learning several languages at the same time I remember reading about this place a long time ago (~6 years probably). This topic reminded me that I was thinking of starting a thread about it to see if anyone had heard of it: Transnational Colleg... |
Jaunty | Off topic | 11 | 6,239 | 2010-03-15, 1:52 am | ||
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Thread: all Thai all the time Post: all Thai all the time One of my good friends is in Thailand for Peace Corps right now. She already knows several languages so isn't having too hard a time with Thai yet (she's only been there for about a month and a half t... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 72 | 13,121 | 2010-03-14, 1:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Domain Names Post: Japanese Domain Names Yeah, last year Wired had an article about ICANN finally letting people use non-Latin character sets in domain names: Web Addresses Now Can Be All Greek to You, ICANN Rules |
Jaunty | General discussion | 2 | 761 | 2010-03-13, 6:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree Post: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree Yeah abdwef, I had a similar situation in undergrad (physics major) and was only able to fit in Japanese classes until junior year. Sadly, in the end I had to pretty much give up Japanese for a few ye... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 32 | 6,584 | 2010-02-20, 8:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in ALT Limbo Post: Life in ALT Limbo TheVinster Wrote:Everybody just loves shooting down my aspirations, but I'll just consider that a challenge. It's something that I want to do and the only way to achieve that goal is to reach it. See ... |
Jaunty | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 20,403 | 2010-02-02, 12:35 am | ||
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Thread: Science studies with SRS Post: Science studies with SRS I'm a physics grad student and have been toying with the idea of SRSing simple facts / derivations. It would definitely be possible to do for just facts and formulae (I wish I knew about SRS when I wa... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 18 | 2,987 | 2010-01-29, 1:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Approaches to pitch accent? Post: Approaches to pitch accent? yudantaiteki Wrote:Very few books intended for foreigners cover pitch accent. Japanese: The Spoken Language is the only book I know of that marks accent on the words and conversations, and has inform... |
Jaunty | The Japanese language | 215 | 42,871 | 2010-01-27, 9:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Apple Tablet Day! Post: Apple Tablet Day! I was also really unimpressed with this - it's just a giant iPod touch. My ideal device is still probably over a decade away, sadly... First of all, ePaper needs to improve. I like reading off of a K... |
Jaunty | Off topic | 37 | 6,281 | 2010-01-27, 3:04 pm | ||
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Thread: best offline dictionary? Post: best offline dictionary? thecite Wrote:Oh yeah, I use '大辞林’ on my iPhone. It's the best monolingual japanese dic I've seen for the iPhone so far. Agreed - I also use this. Nice interface and totally worth the price, but I wis... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 21 | 13,237 | 2010-01-26, 11:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Media in Kansaiben or other dialects Post: Media in Kansaiben or other dialects Javizy Wrote:This site's a good resource for actually learning it: http://llarc.mit.edu/kansai/ Yes, that's exactly the site I mentioned... ;) magamo Wrote:By the way, standard Japanese and the Tokyo... |
Jaunty | Learning resources | 19 | 6,606 | 2010-01-22, 2:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Streamed Japanese Television Post: Streamed Japanese Television TV Ants is by far the best I've tried. I can't even listen to keyhole - the audio's so poor. Anyway, once a channel buffers (usually 5-20 sec) it plays fine for hours. I have it on streaming several h... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 10 | 6,178 | 2010-01-21, 7:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Media in Kansaiben or other dialects Post: Media in Kansaiben or other dialects Hey everyone - I recently stumbled on this really useful site explaining 関西弁 http://web.mit.edu/kansai/ It had a list of some anime and movies that use 関西弁, but I didn't see any TV shows or dramas li... |
Jaunty | Learning resources | 19 | 6,606 | 2010-01-13, 4:15 am | ||
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Thread: Do I want to take 4th Semester Japanese? Post: Do I want to take 4th Semester Japanese? Yeah, I mostly agree with the other posters about the good points of taking a class. I actually just started 5th quarter Japanese (pretty much 4th semester) yesterday and was surprised at how poor the... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 10 | 1,410 | 2010-01-05, 11:23 am | ||
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Thread: Study Ball: It Forces You to Study! Post: Study Ball: It Forces You to Study! That doesn't look very motivating... |
Jaunty | Off topic | 16 | 2,230 | 2009-12-26, 2:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Does RTK differ depending on when you started it? Post: Does RTK differ depending on when you started it? Yeah, this is kinda similar to my situation (I studied Japanese for 2 yrs in college and then took a 4 yr break - oog). Doing RTK gave me a much better understanding of how all the words I knew were f... |
Jaunty | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 1,569 | 2009-12-07, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: What is/was your area of study? Post: What is/was your area of study? I'm getting a PhD in physics at the moment. But to save my street cred amongst all the computer "scientists" (haha, just kidding) I guess I'll mention I was close to majoring in CS in undergrad. |
Jaunty | Off topic | 98 | 16,846 | 2009-08-28, 1:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Funniest/coolest/favourite sounding Word Post: Funniest/coolest/favourite sounding Word 悪循環 and ザーザー降り are vocab words that really stuck out to me from class back in the day. I'll never forget them now, haha. |
Jaunty | The Japanese language | 39 | 10,674 | 2009-08-27, 1:47 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK without the mnemonics Post: RTK without the mnemonics Yeah, I'm a bit confused. The first several hundred kanji in RtK are really easy and it's quite possible to brute force them without mnemonics. Can you give us some more detail on how you're reviewing... |
Jaunty | Remembering the Kanji | 72 | 17,546 | 2009-08-18, 1:08 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... I finally did it! I actually bought RtK years ago (~5?) back when I was taking Japanese in college. I tried a few times but could never make it past about 200 since I didn't know about this fancy SRS ... |
Jaunty | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,739 | 2009-08-17, 3:43 am | ||
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Thread: Don't sit the JLPT Post: Don't sit the JLPT abdwef Wrote:brianobush Wrote:Tobberoth Wrote:"Who needs a computer science degree, I've owned a computer since I was a kid, I know my way around computers. A degree would do nothing for me." So corre... |
Jaunty | General discussion | 121 | 20,862 | 2009-08-14, 6:18 pm | ||
