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    Thread: Music in Mandarin
Post: Music in Mandarin

Here's a useful update in case any one has run to the same problem I have. There is a lot of good music available, but it's in streaming format and that doesn't help you listen to it away from a comp...
Eastwood Chinese and Hanzi 2 996 2012-01-30, 3:53 pm
    Thread: Music in Mandarin
Post: Music in Mandarin

Never mind. Just saw the "Some links to good media" thread. http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=4480
Eastwood Chinese and Hanzi 2 996 2012-01-29, 5:51 pm
    Thread: Music in Mandarin
Post: Music in Mandarin

Hey guys, I searched through the pinned resources but didn't see much in the way of music. Music is one of the main ways that I got interested in Japanese. I'm looking to do the same for Mandarin, ...
Eastwood Chinese and Hanzi 2 996 2012-01-29, 5:36 pm
    Thread: RTK with siderunning kanji study?
Post: RTK with siderunning kanji study?

KMDES Wrote:My acquistion argument is how children learn languages and studies from books on the brain and memories. If you have millions of people learning a language fluently before they reach the a...
Eastwood Remembering the Kanji 20 4,325 2011-02-23, 7:51 pm
    Thread: RTK with siderunning kanji study?
Post: RTK with siderunning kanji study?

I agree with Eratik. Get right in there and start as soon as possible with RTK! 16 kanji should not take a week. That's definitely doable in 1 day. I would say keep your RTK study and your classro...
Eastwood Remembering the Kanji 20 4,325 2011-02-23, 9:24 am
    Thread: AJATT method explained in Japanese?
Post: AJATT method explained in Japanese?

Jarvik7 Wrote:Reading a manga/magazine/novel etc during working hours looks unprofessional and you shouldn't do it except maybe during lunch. It makes everyone else feel uncomfortable and it's especia...
Eastwood General discussion 43 8,712 2011-02-23, 7:21 am
    Thread: AJATT method explained in Japanese?
Post: AJATT method explained in Japanese?

kitakitsune Wrote:I don't really feel comfortable talking further about the language levels of someone I don't know. But I personally believe that explaining in Japanese a desire to study from materia...
Eastwood General discussion 43 8,712 2011-02-23, 1:59 am
    Thread: AJATT method explained in Japanese?
Post: AJATT method explained in Japanese?

kitakitsune Wrote:I believe the op is seriously wasting their time trying to read magazines and novels when they cannot speak even basic Japanese. Define basic Japanese. Do you agree that learning sh...
Eastwood General discussion 43 8,712 2011-02-23, 12:46 am
    Thread: AJATT method explained in Japanese?
Post: AJATT method explained in Japanese?

kitakitsune Wrote:Of course, but it's a gradual process. One does not simply go from Dr Seuss to the NY Times. I don't know the OPs level of Japanese, but if they cannot explain the AJATT method in Ja...
Eastwood General discussion 43 8,712 2011-02-23, 12:14 am
    Thread: AJATT method explained in Japanese?
Post: AJATT method explained in Japanese?

As a coincidence, I just finished translating the ajatt plan/graph (not the whole method, just the flow-charty thingy) into Japanese so that I could explain to my coworkers at my JHS how I'm studying....
Eastwood General discussion 43 8,712 2011-02-23, 12:08 am
    Thread: Can Japan's spirited youth save their aging nation?
Post: Can Japan's spirited youth save their aging nation...

thecite Wrote:Hmm, I've told some of my Japanese friends that I'm vegan and received 草食系男子 jokes in return. Yeah, I'd avoid making statements like that in Japan. Or, if you do and you're associated w...
Eastwood Off topic 7 2,853 2011-02-22, 7:53 pm
    Thread: Can Japan's spirited youth save their aging nation?
Post: Can Japan's spirited youth save their aging nation...

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/09/the-g...-of-japan/ The entire article is copied here: "The grass-eating boys of Japan The young men, called herbivores, don’t want sex by Katie Engelhart on Thursd...
Eastwood Off topic 7 2,853 2011-02-22, 7:51 am
    Thread: I might stop SRSing...
Post: I might stop SRSing...

Yeah, ditto what bodhisamaya said. Graduation happens frequently here! I used Genki 2 during a study abroad program a few years ago and I'd say that most of the vocab in there is pretty common/usefu...
Eastwood General discussion 75 12,592 2011-02-22, 6:25 am
    Thread: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanese?
Post: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanes...

nest0r Wrote:I mean, spacing effect or spaced repetition system aren't really concise, either. ;p Mmmm, true that. After I first encountered SRS, I didn't really get it either until the spaced part w...
Eastwood Group study 9 5,062 2011-02-21, 9:30 pm
    Thread: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanese?
Post: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanes...

nest0r Wrote:Edit: I've seen this used a handful of times at a few sites to accompany the acronym SRS: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_simplesrs7/ - 間隔を繰り返しシステム I think that's it, nest0r! :D W...
Eastwood Group study 9 5,062 2011-02-21, 9:22 pm
    Thread: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanese?
Post: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanes...

That's just it, though. I'm talking with people that aren't regularly involved in software and discussions about concepts involved in SRS. That's this crowd and the relevant Japanese crowd learning ...
Eastwood Group study 9 5,062 2011-02-21, 9:17 pm
    Thread: I might stop SRSing...
Post: I might stop SRSing...

Manske Wrote:Zarxrax Wrote: Perhaps I'm lazy and just using that as an excuse to get out of having to do boring reviews everyday. I'll sleep on it. Sleep on it, but remember: Learning should be fun! ...
Eastwood General discussion 75 12,592 2011-02-21, 9:11 pm
    Thread: I might stop SRSing...
Post: I might stop SRSing...

While new to this forum, I'm not new to SRSing. That 564 is pretty daunting. If you don't like it, don't want it, or don't think it's useful, then get rid of it. Use the delete function! Trim down...
Eastwood General discussion 75 12,592 2011-02-21, 9:04 pm
    Thread: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanese?
Post: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanes...

Hmmm, well, maybe my Japanese just isn't good enough, but I didn't see anything there that is a translation of 'spaced repetition system.' I saw some explanations and actually a link back to this for...
Eastwood Group study 9 5,062 2011-02-21, 8:48 pm
    Thread: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanese?
Post: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanes...

That's it. Pretty straightforward question. I'm trying to explain my method to my Japanese coworkers. For the repetition system, my coworkers and I decided on 反復練習 as the most natural translation ...
Eastwood General discussion 6 1,323 2011-02-21, 6:09 am
    Thread: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanese?
Post: How do you say Spaced Repetition System in Japanes...

That's it. Pretty straightforward question. I'm trying to explain my method to my Japanese coworkers. For the repetition system, my coworkers and I decided on 反復練習 as the most natural translation...
Eastwood Group study 9 5,062 2011-02-21, 5:53 am