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    Thread: free audiobook on youtube
Post: RE: free audiobook on youtube

I' using these audiobooks to improve my listening ability and I feel some improvements. But I wonder how are they in order of difficulty? For example the first 6 mins of this: https://m.youtube.com/...
cophnia61 Learning resources 6 578 10 hours ago
    Thread: My rant for the day....
Post: RE: My rant for the day....

(2016-06-17, 1:08 am)RawrPk Wrote: No. Good ol' U.S.A. ah, I see... so this sort of things are common everywhere. even here in Italy, it happens a lot :/ I hope you'll find somehing better soon!
cophnia61 Off topic 22 1,677 2016-06-17, 1:29 am
    Thread: My rant for the day....
Post: RE: My rant for the day....

is this in Japan?
cophnia61 Off topic 22 1,677 2016-06-17, 1:05 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...

(2016-06-08, 11:44 am)mattimus Wrote: The primary reason behind the huge amounts of drama in language acquisition communities in general is that they are hugely populated by shut-ins, outcasts, emot...
cophnia61 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-08, 2:41 pm
    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...

(2016-06-06, 10:39 am)anotherjohn Wrote: So Heisig arrived in Japan in Sep 1978 without knowing a word of Japanese. Heisig doesn't name any of the books he referenced while devising RTK. Was it a k...
cophnia61 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-06, 11:18 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...

to think about it, he even wrote a book about hanzi with the same method, and I don't think he speaks chinese. I find rtk2 even more useful than rtk1 :p about him not speaking japanese, even if this...
cophnia61 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-06, 3:11 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...

(2016-06-05, 4:14 pm)CureDolly Wrote: Some people seem to have strong opinions about the way they do things. Sometimes it seems like "Everyone else is an idiot. Blue IS the best color". Personally ...
cophnia61 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-05, 5:03 pm
    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...

I remember I read this article of the same fellow (isn't he a user here?) when I started studying japanese. I remember it was a lot demotivational to read it at that time. Then I read the JALUP artic...
cophnia61 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-05, 11:19 am
    Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels
Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels

(2016-06-02, 6:22 am)justusperthes Wrote: Not long ago there were no Murakami Haruki ebooks at all on the Japanese amazon, but they started adding some recently and it seems like every time I check ...
cophnia61 General discussion 24 1,882 2016-06-02, 9:32 am
    Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels
Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels

I wonder the same thing about Murakami. Why are his novels available as kindle books in english but not in his mother tongue?
cophnia61 General discussion 24 1,882 2016-06-02, 3:51 am
    Thread: Why you can read but can't listen.
Post: RE: Why you can read but can't listen.

do you keep reviewing the sub2srs deck indefinitely? or just until you feel confortable with an episode? I asm because it sounds like a lot of work to review it once you reach a certain amount of mate...
cophnia61 The Japanese language 54 7,330 2016-05-27, 2:58 am
    Thread: Making Learning Japanese Fun
Post: RE: Making Learning Japanese Fun

I think it depends much on our priorities and objectives. If for example your main goal is to converse with japanese people, then you don't necessarely need as many words as those you need in order to...
cophnia61 General discussion 43 2,822 2016-05-24, 3:06 pm
    Thread: From Pakistan
Post: RE: From Pakistan

Hi Muzammil! Welcome! :)
cophnia61 Off topic 1 358 2016-05-20, 8:28 am
    Thread: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little lost
Post: RE: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little los...

(2016-05-18, 3:21 pm)RawrPk Wrote: You can also use ballonguy's tool (aka Kage Shibari) along with making a sub2srs style anki deck. But this would only work if the text has time stamps like with a ...
cophnia61 General discussion 31 3,212 2016-05-18, 3:38 pm
    Thread: Shadowing resources
Post: RE: Shadowing resources

(2016-05-18, 3:22 pm)thedoc Wrote: Hey man, sorry to hear about the unsupportive environment. If you don't want to receive this or any other book at home, there are many book scanning services in J...
cophnia61 General discussion 13 1,328 2016-05-18, 3:34 pm
    Thread: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little lost
Post: RE: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little los...

Ok, now that I've finally found some listening material which I enjoy, and considering they are relatively long stories, I wonder how to study them. I was thinking about splitting them into separate s...
cophnia61 General discussion 31 3,212 2016-05-18, 2:29 pm
    Thread: free audiobook on youtube
Post: RE: free audiobook on youtube

(2016-05-18, 10:44 am)yukamina Wrote: Thanks for the links ^^ Here's another channel you might like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Q2m3Z...SyA/videos Thank you yukamina! Those are grea resource...
cophnia61 Learning resources 6 578 2016-05-18, 10:58 am
    Thread: free audiobook on youtube
Post: RE: free audiobook on youtube

(2016-05-18, 8:39 am)risu_ Wrote: Japanese Classical Literature At Bedtime Thank you risu_!
cophnia61 Learning resources 6 578 2016-05-18, 10:12 am
    Thread: free audiobook on youtube
Post: free audiobook on youtube

I've found some good channels on youtube with free audiobook. I just searched for 朗読. I was unaware of these resources, I wonder why I've realized this only recently :dodgy: ルルナル 白犀 These are the ...
cophnia61 Learning resources 6 578 2016-05-18, 8:17 am
    Thread: Light Novels for the Amazon Kindle
Post: RE: Light Novels for the Amazon Kindle

Even without installing a dictionary, there are two japanese dictionaries by default, one j-e and one j-j. When you underline a word or sentence you can save it and then you can go to kindle.amazon.co...
cophnia61 General discussion 6 595 2016-05-15, 4:53 am
    Thread: For the music lovers
Post: For the music lovers

As an enthusiast of everything that concerns music production, recording, gears and so on, I often find myself watching these sort of videos on youtube. I've found an interesting channel, and there is...
cophnia61 Off topic 1 449 2016-05-07, 2:12 pm
    Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?
Post: RE: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?

Mine is Jesus
cophnia61 Remembering the Kanji 66 19,438 2016-05-06, 1:53 pm
    Thread: How to create your own ebook?
Post: How to create your own ebook?

I want to take some notes on my computer and I want to convert them so they keep the format (layout, spaces, new pages so that every chapter starts on a new page and so on) when I import them into my ...
cophnia61 Learning resources 4 531 2016-04-24, 10:54 am
    Thread: RTK keywords vs meanings
Post: RE: RTK keywords vs meanings

(2016-04-12, 10:52 am)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: The reason it 'all falls into place' is because you've become familiar with the characters already. It's much easier to attach additional information to ...
cophnia61 Remembering the Kanji 9 881 2016-04-12, 11:10 am
    Thread: Help with production
Post: RE: Help with production

Stanfield123 I think you're right both in the other thread and here. What you say made me think about the fact that maybe my struggling with production is that I haven't had enough exposure, especiall...
cophnia61 General discussion 9 965 2016-04-11, 1:56 pm
    Thread: Help with production
Post: RE: Help with production

About what Stansfield123 said here and here, what he said is all true and I think it applies to production too. I keep hearing things about exposure and the importance of reading and listening, and h...
cophnia61 General discussion 9 965 2016-04-11, 11:03 am
    Thread: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little lost
Post: RE: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little los...

Thank you all for those great suggestions :3 to Stansfield123: you're right about the sentence patterns, but more than the sentence patterns themselves (I'm finding j-subs really useful in learning t...
cophnia61 General discussion 31 3,212 2016-04-11, 10:37 am
    Thread: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little lost
Post: RE: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little los...

CureDolly Wrote:I think a key to watching "cold" is to relax. Sounds a bit simplistic but I really mean it. Watching without j-subs and worrying about how much you "should" know and how much you aren'...
cophnia61 General discussion 31 3,212 2016-04-09, 1:55 pm
    Thread: Options for learning intermediate and advanced Japanese grammar
Post: RE: Options for learning intermediate and advanced...

(2016-04-09, 8:34 am)risu_ Wrote: I do Anki for vocabulary and read 1-3 hours a day. Thank you for you reply! I asked because even if I find Anki very useful to review already learned words and to ...
cophnia61 Learning resources 15 1,651 2016-04-09, 8:56 am
    Thread: Options for learning intermediate and advanced Japanese grammar
Post: RE: Options for learning intermediate and advanced...

(2016-04-09, 3:18 am)risu_ Wrote: Sorry, but I really can't see SRS as a viable option for input at all. If it works for you, that's good, but I find SRSing sentences, from textbooks no less, extrem...
cophnia61 Learning resources 15 1,651 2016-04-09, 3:42 am