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    Thread: The Discouragement Thread
Post: The Discouragement Thread

Hrm.. Maybe I've heard a comment here and there that japanese sounds difficult, but here in Med school, we're all workaholic masochists that somehow find great joy being stuck in a bus cramped like a ...
sailornyanko Off topic 311 69,125 2008-08-19, 7:34 pm
    Thread: knowing too much in Japanese class...
Post: knowing too much in Japanese class...

Haha, don't mess with Argentinan teachers, they can have baaaaad tempers (personal experience). In Mexico you're enforced to take english in private schools and since english is my mother language, I...
sailornyanko Off topic 19 4,070 2008-08-19, 7:20 pm
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

Just turned 24 a month ago Found this site 12 months ago but because of my university studies (and because learning japanese is more of a hobby than a class assignment), I'm only at around frame 120 ...
sailornyanko Off topic 357 73,695 2008-08-19, 7:10 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2007 Results
Post: JLPT 2007 Results

They told me the Mexico results will be in until early March, so I'll just have to keep on waiting. Still not sure if I'll try 3-kyu this year though.
sailornyanko JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 53 19,987 2008-02-10, 10:57 pm
    Thread: Difficulty of Japanese writing system vs. Hebrew?
Post: Difficulty of Japanese writing system vs. Hebrew?

I always felt Hebrew was unlearnabe, glad to know it isn't. Guess since the only people in Mexico that bother to learn it are orthodox Jews, there is little space open for non Jews to get exposed to t...
sailornyanko General discussion 13 5,038 2007-12-24, 5:25 pm
    Thread: how do i get around 'no japanese' on my work pc?
Post: how do i get around 'no japanese' on my work pc?

thegeezer3 Wrote:a virtual os...sounds interestnig. Heard of them but never seen one. Not sure how the IT dept. would react if they found out i was diong that.... it may look like im trying my hardest...
sailornyanko Learning resources 40 7,848 2007-12-21, 3:03 am
    Thread: Young learners?
Post: Young learners?

If possible, get videogames for young kids in Japanese. Never tried Pok?mon in Japanese, but you know the game is easy, no porn content hidden in there and the Japanese won't be utterly hard (especia...
sailornyanko General discussion 20 3,462 2007-12-03, 3:39 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2007
Post: JLPT 2007

I did 4-kyu yesterday in Mexico City. There was more people than I thought. In my level alone we were over 600 people! Most of the people there were teenagers using the exam as a boost to enter a univ...
sailornyanko JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 72 23,033 2007-12-03, 11:58 am
    Thread: Why is Japanese so hard?
Post: Why is Japanese so hard?

kyotokanji Wrote:Looks like we'll have to agree to differ here. So many people in the world are illiterate but can speak their own language. The written form and the spoken form is thus seperated for ...
sailornyanko General discussion 19 3,944 2007-09-28, 5:22 pm
    Thread: JLPT vs study years
Post: JLPT vs study years

I took some *very* basic Japanese classes in 2001 taking advantage my mom was still working for the university where the course was held (which gave her a nice discount) and learned very basic Grammar...
sailornyanko JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 6 4,908 2007-09-20, 5:06 pm
    Thread: The Katakana are kicking my ***
Post: The Katakana are kicking my ***

I learned how to distinguish シ,ツ, ソ and ン by getting my butt kicked playing Slime adventure. Learning made fun hahaha.
sailornyanko The Japanese language 17 6,316 2007-09-02, 6:23 pm
    Thread: JLPT Kanji Prep
Post: JLPT Kanji Prep

Doesn't 2-kyu test kanji compounds? If that's so, RTK vol. 1 probably won't be enough since you're still just learning the meaning of the jyoyou kanji as solo kanjis and not combining them. Course, I...
sailornyanko JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 6 2,982 2007-08-23, 7:25 pm
    Thread: Kanji Gold program
Post: Kanji Gold program

I have the program and it's pretty good. However, I have one little problem with it that maybe someone can help me with. The help file says that with the JWPCE word editor program you can make custom...
sailornyanko Learning resources 3 2,834 2007-08-19, 4:39 pm
    Thread: JLPT 4 Grammar
Post: JLPT 4 Grammar

I'm seriously consdering to take the JLPT 4 ths year in Mexico City and I'm doing quite well in the kanji department. In just a month and a half I've practically relearned the hiragana that I left hal...
sailornyanko JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 3 3,679 2007-08-14, 10:05 am
    Thread: Why do people think the Kana are hard?
Post: Why do people think the Kana are hard?

I personally have a hard time with kana. But that's because about 3 years ago when I took some basic Japanese classes we just didn't have that much time (3 months with just 2 classes a week to learn ...
sailornyanko The Japanese language 92 28,253 2007-07-09, 11:29 pm
    Thread: Kanji letters for Windows 98
Post: Kanji letters for Windows 98

Yaaaayyyyy!!!! I can see Kanji!!!! Thank you! Thank you!!! I'd share some good tepache with you but I drank it all already. :P
sailornyanko General discussion 3 1,132 2007-07-09, 10:32 pm
    Thread: Kanji letters for Windows 98
Post: Kanji letters for Windows 98

I'm sorry if this might be a REALLY dumb topic but I use Windows 98 in my house (yes, I'm very primitive!) so sadly I can't learn kanji because everything is printed out as question marks. It's kinda...
sailornyanko General discussion 3 1,132 2007-07-09, 3:32 pm