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Thread: Your frustrations with the japanese language Post: Your frustrations with the japanese language My tendency of remembering the syllables the wrong way around is a royal pain with language like Japanese. For example: わかる (分かる) vs かわる (変わる) and じじょう (事情) vs じょうじ (常時). If I read the words I have no... |
Loviatar | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,983 | 2014-09-24, 7:29 am | ||
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Thread: Roumaji: Curse on mankind, or best thing since Funashi? Discuss. Post: Roumaji: Curse on mankind, or best thing since Fun... I strongly dislike rômaji myself because I can't read Japanese in it. The same sentence in kanji + kana on the other hand is usually way more comprehensive, way faster. It seems my brain has just deci... |
Loviatar | The Japanese language | 64 | 9,588 | 2014-09-11, 11:00 am | ||
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Thread: Any advice to your past self learning Japanese? Post: Any advice to your past self learning Japanese? I'd make the revelation to myself that reading Japanese will be much easier than listening when it comes to me personally and how my brain works. Therefore my past self should emphasize listening heav... |
Loviatar | The Japanese language | 23 | 4,113 | 2014-09-04, 8:28 am | ||
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Thread: What's inside your Anki deck? Post: What's inside your Anki deck? Lets see...mine are: 1. Akumu-Chan subs2srs; 2640 cards (1452 unseen) 2. Grammar Mash-Up; 3482 cards (653 unseen) 3. Sentence/MCD deck; currently 1390 cards, but this is the one I add the new random... |
Loviatar | Learning resources | 9 | 2,438 | 2014-06-18, 10:36 am | ||
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Thread: If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself Post: If you could go back in time, what would you tell ... - Be kinder to yourself. Its okay if some ability of yours is vastly worse than another. - When getting to know a Japanese person, solve the polite/casual-language issue as quickly as possible. Its le... |
Loviatar | General discussion | 53 | 11,163 | 2014-06-01, 2:21 am | ||
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Thread: What Japanese songs do you listen to? Post: What Japanese songs do you listen to? Northern_Lord Wrote:Doesn't anyone here like metal or rock? I listen to Mucc. [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwdwk7V8g4] And I listen to songs from anime that I've taken a liking to. *rais... |
Loviatar | General discussion | 92 | 18,868 | 2014-04-27, 3:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? Post: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? Aikynaro Wrote:It annoying and offensive when your bold assumption based on shallow information such as race is wrong. I think there's plenty of evidence that this is true in this thread. It makes pe... |
Loviatar | General discussion | 125 | 23,374 | 2014-03-13, 12:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? Post: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? This is a very interesting topic for me. I haven't been to Japan yet, but I am planning an exchange year, maybe even longer stay if life gives the opportunity for that. I guess I want to test myself i... |
Loviatar | General discussion | 125 | 23,374 | 2014-03-12, 12:48 pm | ||
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Thread: HabitRPG Japanese study guild? Post: HabitRPG Japanese study guild? I've been using HabitRPG's beta for a while now. I don't have a guild or even now how that would work but I'm listening :) |
Loviatar | General discussion | 14 | 5,094 | 2014-02-28, 2:39 pm | ||
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Thread: What makes language study efficient? Post: What makes language study efficient? Not quitting? |
Loviatar | General discussion | 7 | 2,431 | 2014-02-18, 10:31 am | ||
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Thread: Reasons why English is just as hard to learn as Japanese Post: Reasons why English is just as hard to learn as Ja... Stansfield123 Wrote:Loviatar Wrote:Seriously, I still have no effin' clue how to pronounce words like "queue". It's Q. Just Q. Like this: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9H31z7OqM] It's not t... |
Loviatar | Off topic | 67 | 13,206 | 2014-01-27, 8:13 am | ||
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Thread: Reasons why English is just as hard to learn as Japanese Post: Reasons why English is just as hard to learn as Ja... Well, if this is the place to vent out, here goes; I never realized how annoying language English is until I started to learn Japanese! XD I mean no offense to native speakers here obviously. But th... |
Loviatar | Off topic | 67 | 13,206 | 2014-01-26, 2:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Pronunciation issues (chi, ji, zi-sounds) Post: Pronunciation issues (chi, ji, zi-sounds) In my pronouncing, there is a clear difference between "geez" and "cheese", so that is not the problem for me. But jumping from one of these kind of sounds to another is the problem (like in the ７時 ca... |
Loviatar | The Japanese language | 22 | 6,410 | 2014-01-04, 2:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Pronunciation issues (chi, ji, zi-sounds) Post: Pronunciation issues (chi, ji, zi-sounds) This interests me as well, I seem to share your problem for the same reasons. I can tell a difference between these sounds in other people's speech, but trying to say the likes of ７時 myself always com... |
Loviatar | The Japanese language | 22 | 6,410 | 2014-01-04, 1:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you speak/learn any other languages? Post: Do you speak/learn any other languages? My native language is Finnish and we all have to study English and Swedish at school so I know both. The difference between the levels is stellar though; I consider myself to be pretty much fluent in ... |
Loviatar | Off topic | 32 | 6,734 | 2013-10-02, 1:40 pm | ||