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    Thread: Your favourite story by someone else
Post: Your favourite story by someone else

Story for cut Wrote:After having such a terrible shave with one dagger, you decide to go for the gillete approach and use seven daggers for cutting edge precision. Just like gillete its a bunch of ove...
Sibyl Remembering the Kanji 61 24,725 2006-11-18, 6:45 am
    Thread: きらきらアフロ (YouTube)
Post: きらきらアフロ (YouTube)

And here is Nintendo's own site for it, if you want to read more (and read it in Japanese!)
Sibyl The Japanese language 7 5,382 2006-10-24, 2:59 pm
    Thread: きらきらアフロ (YouTube)
Post: きらきらアフロ (YouTube)

Looks like it might be this, if you're interested -this is a quick post as I need to make supper but thought I'd let y'all know!
Sibyl The Japanese language 7 5,382 2006-10-24, 2:05 pm
    Thread: Kana or Romaji
Post: Kana or Romaji

wrightak Wrote:this is just a random thought, but do you think that English speakers develop a different mental relationship with the alphabet than French people do because there are no easy rules for...
Sibyl The Japanese language 69 17,366 2006-10-07, 4:58 pm
    Thread: 好好學習,天天向上: All Things Chinese
Post: 好好學習,天天向上: All Things Chinese

I'm sure most people here are aware of this - but Hanzis Matter is always fun, worth having a look at if you've not seen it yet. Mind you, it is dedicated to badly drawn Chinese characters, so maybe n...
Sibyl The Japanese language 42 20,464 2006-10-06, 6:36 pm
    Thread: Kana or Romaji
Post: Kana or Romaji

laxxy Wrote:It's interesting that you have this problem. Is Japanese your 2nd language (as opposed to 3rd/4th/...)? Does 訓令式 (susi, matimasu, Mt. Huzi, etc etc) annoy you more than Hepburn? I think th...
Sibyl The Japanese language 69 17,366 2006-10-06, 6:18 pm
    Thread: Your favourite story by someone else
Post: Your favourite story by someone else

One of my favourite stories from this site is from taijuando, for the kanji for 'special': Quote:The Buddhist temple cow is pretty special ....he's rockin' out in front of the temple...this cow's nam...
Sibyl Remembering the Kanji 61 24,725 2006-10-05, 5:03 pm
    Thread: Kana or Romaji
Post: Kana or Romaji

wrightak Wrote:I think that it really says a lot about Heisig's method that people who haven't mastered kana can start learning to write kanji. The question is, are these people on the forum or not? U...
Sibyl The Japanese language 69 17,366 2006-10-05, 4:28 pm
    Thread: Starting again...
Post: Starting again...

JimmySeal Wrote:Are you saying that you learned 600 kanji and haven't learned the kana? The only reason I ask is that there was a discussion on that very topic going on here about a week ago. That's ...
Sibyl Remembering the Kanji 10 2,329 2006-10-05, 4:14 pm
    Thread: Starting again...
Post: Starting again...

So. I started learning the Kanji at the start of this year. I got about 600 in, and then started on a course at work which ate up most of my study time. I still know the obvious ones I see on restaura...
Sibyl Remembering the Kanji 10 2,329 2006-10-03, 4:56 pm