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Thread: Japanese Rock Suggestions Post: Japanese Rock Suggestions I enjoyed gyuujuice's recommendation for Weaver too. In fact, I've enjoyed listening to all the suggestions here. @perrin4869 How about B'z. They're a Japanese rock band who've been on the go since a... |
gavmck | General discussion | 14 | 2,623 | 2010-09-21, 3:33 am | ||
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Thread: Interference from real words? Post: Interference from real words? When I finished RTK 6 months ago I was averaging 90% in reviews. As cards matured I expected my scores to rise but they've actually been dropping. I now average a little over 80%. Over time, the stori... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,310 | 2010-09-14, 7:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Distinguishing シand ツ Post: Distinguishing シand ツ zachandhobbes Wrote:I mean, I've been studying in high school and middle school classes for 4 or 5 years now so you'd think I'd at least have my hiragana and katakana down (Despite the low quality of ... |
gavmck | The Japanese language | 21 | 9,804 | 2010-08-17, 9:17 am | ||
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Thread: How to talk, when to talk. Post: How to talk, when to talk. TheMage Wrote:How to talk: Apparently I have a "外人" accent, that is the first turn off. I'm scared to talk because I feel like it will just make my accent bad. But how do I improve it without talking?... |
gavmck | The Japanese language | 17 | 5,281 | 2010-08-10, 11:28 am | ||
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Thread: Learning without a dictionary (split from RTK3 thread) Post: Learning without a dictionary (split from RTK3 thr... IceCream Wrote:@Jimmy Seal... just found this post... do you still learn like this? did you change at any time? What's your perspective on non-dictionary learning after 3 years? The other day I read a... |
gavmck | General discussion | 54 | 14,216 | 2010-08-10, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: I just finished RtK3 (not the readings) thread, please congratulate me Post: I just finished RtK3 (not the readings) thread, pl... Green_Airplane Wrote:And I must say, it feels great. Granted, it will take a few months of continuous reviewing to really nail all the new Kanji into my memory. But even now my reviews have about 95% ... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 1,465 | 2010-08-08, 9:32 am | ||
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Thread: Interesting phenomena [vague relation to Japanese inside] Post: Interesting phenomena [vague relation to Japanese ... A friend of mine who has this photic sneeze reflex told me it would be a problem if you wanted to be a fighter pilot. The wiki article explains that it's caused by a connection between certain nerves.... |
gavmck | Off topic | 19 | 3,295 | 2010-08-05, 6:31 am | ||
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Thread: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows? Post: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows? Ghoro Wrote:First I’m wondering what are some good JDramas for guys? Just like dramas in the US, they seem to be mostly aiming for girls, so is there any good ones guys may like? Last is there any fu... |
gavmck | General discussion | 40 | 17,394 | 2010-07-23, 9:16 am | ||
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Thread: Do you believe Japan is a high tech country? Post: Do you believe Japan is a high tech country? Womacks23 Wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10543126.stm Two quotes from above article: "The second much larger, and often subsidised economy, comprises overstaffed family-run firms that ar... |
gavmck | Off topic | 47 | 16,368 | 2010-07-21, 12:17 pm | ||
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Thread: stuff ive learnt from japan Post: stuff ive learnt from japan pm215 Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:'painful' is vague. What you need is something like the Schmidt Sting Pain Index... That sting pain scale is very amusing and is almost like descriptions by some whiskey conn... |
gavmck | General discussion | 134 | 25,131 | 2010-07-20, 6:45 am | ||
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Thread: What to do after Japanese for Busy People 3? Post: What to do after Japanese for Busy People 3? Xero Xenith Wrote:[I've Googled this and got no real response - between people slagging off the JFBP series as a whole and promoting Minna and Genki, I'm at a loss!] I'm close to finishing JFBP3 (up ... |
gavmck | Learning resources | 12 | 9,092 | 2010-07-17, 10:01 pm | ||
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Thread: stuff ive learnt from japan Post: stuff ive learnt from japan Apart from crickets and grasshoppers, in the UK it's so much quieter insect-wise. But here in Japan I love the rhythmic sounds of the cicadas in the trees and the frogs calling at night in the rice fi... |
gavmck | General discussion | 134 | 25,131 | 2010-07-17, 9:25 pm | ||
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Thread: stuff ive learnt from japan Post: stuff ive learnt from japan IceCream Wrote:but yeah, i came over for an internship at the primate research institute at kyoto university... and got accepted!!! おめでとう！ I was going to add one of my photos of a Japanese macaque fo... |
gavmck | General discussion | 134 | 25,131 | 2010-07-17, 7:04 am | ||
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Thread: Mnemosyne vs. Anki Post: Mnemosyne vs. Anki MnemosyneFan Wrote:I'm also curious as to what users think of the ability to somewhat control when a card next appears in Anki. I get the feeling that I may end up "skewing" my cards and not be getti... |
gavmck | Learning resources | 24 | 14,220 | 2010-07-15, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: Are you fishermen missing laughing among the trees? Post: Are you fishermen missing laughing among the trees... Those random sentences are great. I wonder if some of those English expressions you find on Japanese t-shirts, food products etc. are composed by the same sentence generator. They are often grammatica... |
gavmck | Off topic | 7 | 1,554 | 2010-06-29, 3:34 am | ||
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Thread: Hiragana Keyboard...? Post: Hiragana Keyboard...? arch9443 Wrote:So who has experience with one of those fancy keyboards, and would it be worth it to start trying to use one now? I once bought a Japanese keyboard while on holiday in Japan and brought... |
gavmck | Off topic | 6 | 4,889 | 2010-06-09, 9:48 am | ||
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Thread: korea Post: korea Considering the Korean situation is, to me, an illustration of how actions from long ago can have profound consequences in the present. If Commodore Perry had not arrived in 1853 with his black ship... |
gavmck | Off topic | 46 | 10,397 | 2010-06-01, 11:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Learn word --> hear it everywhere Post: Learn word --> hear it everywhere aphasiac Wrote:wow this is an old thread, back from the dead.. amazingly I wrote ちょっと in kanji - does anyone really spell it like that? I've never seen ちょっと written in kanji. On looking it up, I saw ... |
gavmck | The Japanese language | 27 | 13,442 | 2010-05-01, 8:45 am | ||
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Thread: "texting" Post: "texting" With mobile phones, unlike SMS, email messages can be much longer and can be sent to another mobile phone or computer. I imagine the greater flexibility of email has been a boon to Japanese youth. I... |
gavmck | General discussion | 12 | 4,571 | 2010-05-01, 8:19 am | ||
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Thread: 7 months since finishing, and still 40 reviews per day Post: 7 months since finishing, and still 40 reviews per... Tobberoth Wrote:I finished in late December 2008 and I'm down to about 20 a day. According to the statistics, I should have been down to 10 ages ago, but when another review cycle ends, I tend to miss... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 4,107 | 2010-04-27, 9:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Starting to get discouraged...please help? Post: Starting to get discouraged...please help? Hi Meredithcat In my experience recently learned kanji are easily forgotten. Only when they progress into the higher boxes do they begin to settle into long term memory. For me that would be box 5 or... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 4,122 | 2010-04-25, 9:21 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread julz6453, I wonder how mature your cards were when you stopped reviewing for several months. Cards not in higher stacks are likely to be forgotten quite easily. I recall Nestor posting a link to resea... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,110 | 2010-04-13, 7:35 am | ||
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Thread: Britain releases Japanese insects to combat weed Post: Britain releases Japanese insects to combat weed It amazed me when I read how much it costs to control the Japanese knotweed in Britain - literally millions of pounds every year. The comparatively small outlay on the introduction of a biological con... |
gavmck | Off topic | 10 | 2,847 | 2010-04-11, 8:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Are language classes worth the money? Post: Are language classes worth the money? RisuMiso Wrote:Recently I have faced some criticism on my attempt to learn Japanese through self-study. My situation has some similarities to yours. I’m living in Japan with my Japanese wife. I did tr... |
gavmck | General discussion | 27 | 6,203 | 2010-03-08, 11:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Vipassana Post: Vipassana Thank you Fabrice for sharing your experience of Vipassana. It was something I had never heard of before. Now I've read a little about it, it sounds like a powerful tool. If more people become aware o... |
gavmck | Off topic | 23 | 6,572 | 2010-02-15, 8:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in ALT Limbo Post: Life in ALT Limbo vrtgo Wrote:Finding direct employment through the local Board of Education, which would be a much happier deal, has proven impossible. After nine months, my Japanese is improving, I'm becoming conver... |
gavmck | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 72 | 20,401 | 2010-01-16, 9:39 am | ||
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Thread: About ~200 kanji in, wondering if I'm going about this the right way.. Post: About ~200 kanji in, wondering if I'm going about ... BooTheGhost Wrote:Also, when do you do your first review? I've read a lot of different opinions on the forums and it seems most people do it right after they're first done, but a lot of people consid... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 2,293 | 2010-01-09, 4:10 am | ||
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Thread: Where can I buy RTK in Japan? Post: Where can I buy RTK in Japan? Maruzen in Okayama-shi stocks all 3 RTK books. I saw them last week. I've just checked and there is a Maruzen in Nagoya. There address and location can be found here: http://www.maruzen.co.jp/corp/s... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,676 | 2009-12-31, 8:45 am | ||
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Thread: what percentage do you usually remember on your 2nd review Post: what percentage do you usually remember on your 2n... Monkeys_Spiders Wrote:I often fail kanji due to keywords ambiguity, I click fail but it's not entirely true. I agree. I typically fail a small percentage due to keyword overlap. For example "condolenc... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 2,066 | 2009-12-10, 9:52 am | ||
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Thread: what percentage do you usually remember on your 2nd review Post: what percentage do you usually remember on your 2n... I think what jajaaan wrote on this is spot on. I average 10 minutes on each new kanji - time includes the initial review when entering the cards for the 1st time. I get similar review percentages to j... |
gavmck | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 2,066 | 2009-12-08, 12:26 am | ||