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    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

I miss the old yellow color, to be honest. Somehow I still think of this forum as yellow even though it's not.
yukamina General discussion 122 15,670 2016-06-18, 9:43 am
    Thread: Too much free time !!!
Post: RE: Too much free time !!!

(2016-06-16, 8:02 am)Gutsz Wrote: (2016-06-16, 7:53 am)cracky Wrote: (2016-06-16, 7:37 am)Gutsz Wrote: Oh and I deleted those 3 decks (core2k, grammar and yotsubato) today due to the reviews bei...
yukamina General discussion 24 1,360 2016-06-16, 10:28 am
    Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading
Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading

I just tried out VNR and just wanted to add that if you disable furigana, the popup dictionary function goes away. So you have to keep the furigana on, but you can disable text-to-speech, grammar note...
yukamina The Japanese language 114 7,547 2016-06-11, 9:40 am
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

I'm not doing great so far ^_^;; This week I haven't felt much like reading, I want to do other things like play games and watch anime (I counted my j subs at least). I'm reading less now than I was l...
yukamina Group study 361 69,017 2016-06-10, 9:14 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

Years ago a lot more people were down on RTK, but over time more people used it and got good results from it. So opinions on it have mellowed out over time I think. It's not for everyone, but if peopl...
yukamina Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-05, 9:41 am
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

Wow, some people can really read a ton in a short span of time :O Lots of competition this round.
yukamina Group study 361 69,017 2016-06-03, 9:42 pm
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

It's noon here, but I can't start any reading until after work ^^; I'm contemplating rereading some things (consolidating some vocab from recent reading), but if it only counts for half, maybe it woul...
yukamina Group study 361 69,017 2016-06-01, 1:16 pm
    Thread: coming back to Japanese after a break
Post: RE: coming back to Japanese after a break

I came back to studying Japanese after a several year hiatus, and I've been reading a lot and studying vocab with Memrise and Anki. For a while I had to study words I'm sure I used to know but just ha...
yukamina General discussion 3 557 2016-05-25, 11:42 am
    Thread: help buying manga
Post: RE: help buying manga

I shop at http://honto.jp/ The prices are lower than sites like YesAsia, but shipping for me was like $17 for 8 books last time. If you get fast EMS shipping it costs even more. They have e-books ...
yukamina General discussion 10 1,000 2016-05-21, 11:41 am
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

I just registered. I don't have a specific goal, I just plan to read as much as I can.
yukamina Group study 361 69,017 2016-05-20, 12:00 pm
    Thread: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit card
Post: RE: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit car...

I don't know where you're trying to buy from, but what about using a proxy service like Noppin or From Japan? There are others too which you can research. I've used From Japan to order from Yahoo Japa...
yukamina Off topic 6 602 2016-05-18, 1:25 pm
    Thread: free audiobook on youtube
Post: RE: free audiobook on youtube

Thanks for the links ^^ Here's another channel you might like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Q2m3Z...SyA/videos
yukamina Learning resources 6 580 2016-05-18, 10:44 am
    Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels
Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels

If you're just getting into reading novels, I'd recommend children's books with furigana. If you reading something targeted at grades 4-6, you'll get a novel that is both easier to read (fewer fancy w...
yukamina General discussion 24 1,883 2016-05-14, 10:49 am
    Thread: Uploading "Nukemarine's Suggested Guide to Beginners in Japanese" to Memrise
Post: RE: Uploading material to Memrise

(2016-05-12, 7:59 pm)sholum Wrote: It has been a long time since I tried Memrise (a few years), so I don't know if they added anything new; from what I can tell, it's just a regular SRS; I think the...
yukamina Learning resources 18 1,864 2016-05-12, 8:51 pm
    Thread: A small (success?) story
Post: RE: A small (success?) story

Congrats! That's some fast progress!
yukamina General discussion 19 5,560 2016-05-08, 12:57 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

(2016-04-22, 8:48 am)Kuroro Wrote: How do I read the word 世捨人? せしゃにん? Here's the sentence where I found it: 人類種に残されてる領土で田舎って…そりゃもう世捨人じゃねぇのか That aside, what does it mean when I find a line of dots ...
yukamina The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,799 2016-04-22, 10:13 am
    Thread: Aozora Bunko recommendations for advanced learners
Post: RE: Aozora Bunko recommendations for advanced lear...

I don't have a recommendation, but one thing you can do is search for recommendations in Japanese (like 青空文庫 おすすめ should bring up some stuff). I haven't really sunk into Aozora Bunko much myself yet; ...
yukamina Learning resources 22 2,288 2016-04-04, 11:55 pm
    Thread: Reading towards the N2
Post: RE: Reading towards the N2

Here's some non-fiction you can read that's not the news: https://chokochoko.wordpress.com/the-great-library/ -- the articles don't seem to be working right now This is a Japanese site with lots of ...
yukamina General discussion 16 1,617 2016-03-30, 10:54 am
    Thread: JapanesePod101 Vocabulary (spreadsheet)
Post: RE: JapanesePod101 Vocabulary (spreadsheet)

Ahh, I tried again and now there's 8325 cards (with the first field set as the tag column). That's good enough for me! Thank you :)
yukamina Learning resources 8 1,222 2016-03-25, 2:57 pm
    Thread: JapanesePod101 Vocabulary (spreadsheet)
Post: RE: Japanese Pod 101 Vocabulary

This looks very useful! But I'll admit, I'm not tech-savvy at all. I spent maybe 15 minutes trying to import this, after looking up instructions, and I ended up with a deck of 49 cards. Would anyone...
yukamina Learning resources 8 1,222 2016-03-25, 10:00 am
    Thread: Media to Listen (and read) in particular topics [Primarily Japanese but also Hanyu].
Post: RE: Media to Listen (and read) in particular topic...

I discovered this Japanese bookstore honto has some free books and manga: http://honto.jp/cp/ebook/recent/free.htm...b_albn_l21 Of course you can also purchase either ebooks or physical copies too. T...
yukamina Learning resources 3 622 2016-03-24, 5:59 pm
    Thread: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little discouraged...
Post: RE: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little d...

You're doing well, there's nothing to worry about! Like the others said, children's books aren't as easy as you'd think (especially coming from textbook Japanese). You know, I took an entire year of ...
yukamina General discussion 27 2,799 2016-03-14, 11:42 am
    Thread: JLPT Book Advice
Post: RE: JLPT Book Advice

I have some Sou Matome books for 2級 and I like them. They do have furigana, which I think is fine when you are studying. There's some translations in there too, for vocab and grammar sentence examples...
yukamina JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 14 1,447 2016-03-12, 8:06 pm
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

It's true that I fizzle out before the end of the month every time I do Tadoku... I signed up (username Anonamul)! I have some new books I'm excited to read too :3
yukamina Group study 361 69,017 2016-03-10, 3:00 pm
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

A mini round? Is there a reason it's not a full month?
yukamina Group study 361 69,017 2016-03-10, 10:52 am
    Thread: How to handle words with similar meanins and/or readings.
Post: RE: How to handle words with similar meanins and/o...

Thanks Vempele! I hadn't made the connection between the reading  かする    and 掠る, even though I knew the latter.  参考になりました I've been studying more vocab lately, and I've taken to looking up words on ...
yukamina General discussion 13 1,353 2016-03-01, 11:45 am
    Thread: How to handle words with similar meanins and/or readings.
Post: RE: How to handle words with similar meanins and/o...

Words that look the same but have more than one reading always get me. I don't know what to do about them, because it's so hard to figure out the difference. J-J dictionaries often list the alternate ...
yukamina General discussion 13 1,353 2016-02-29, 7:45 pm
    Thread: sdict - search 22 million sentences from the innocent corpus
Post: RE: sdict - search 22 million sentences from the i...

Great resource, thank you! I'm already finding some nice sentence examples for words I find difficult.
yukamina Learning resources 4 1,364 2016-02-28, 12:10 am
    Thread: Extensive reading and kanji compound readings
Post: RE: Extensive reading and kanji compound readings

My approach to reading paper novels (which I own, not borrowed) is to mark unknown words with a pencil, and also make a mark at the top of the line which has an unknown word. So when I'm reading and I...
yukamina General discussion 4 637 2016-02-13, 3:28 pm
    Thread: I need a list of "small" words
Post: RE: I need a list of "small" words

If you plan to use Japanese for a long time, it would really be better to study Japanese grammar instead of trying to translate grammar words one-to-one and ending up with very inaccurate translations...
yukamina The Japanese language 47 3,318 2016-02-08, 3:28 pm