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    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

After talking to a few people it appears as though I have mistaken you for another forum poster, my bad I should have confirmed before posting, I've removed the offending paragraph.
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-06, 2:23 am
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

Thora Wrote:Sunflowersamurai Wrote:I didn't delete anything in here. I corrected a typo and changed "meant to" to "intended". You are reading too much into my posts (I even apologized several times). ...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-06, 1:34 am
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

Thora Wrote:@sunflower - What's up? ta12121 said he's not really into debates, yet you continued with "strawman fallacy", bolded quotes and criticism. Them's fightin' words. If you're in the mood to ...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-05, 11:31 pm
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

Thora Wrote:@ta12121: Just wanted to mention I'd been noticing how much your writing had improved. :) I got the impression you weren't writing them so quickly anymore and were reading over what you'd ...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-05, 9:43 pm
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

ta12121 Wrote:No problem I hear yea. I am actually a native speaker, since English is my first language but I'm not native "native" (What, that doesn't sound right. I came to Canada when I was really ...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-05, 7:27 pm
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

ta12121 Wrote:There was time period in japan where there was only hiragana texts. No kanji, no katakana, just hiragana. Jarvik7 Wrote:There was never a period of hiragana only text. Hiragana evolved f...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-05, 7:24 pm
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

ta12121 Wrote:Sunflowersamurai Wrote:ta12121 Wrote: Thank you for the history lesson, but as you pointed out these are not modern texts why would you take a whole manga and remove the kanji? or a mode...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-05, 6:49 pm
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

ta12121 Wrote:Sunflowersamurai Wrote:Weird I just saw this thread. I got to say I have no idea what you guys are talking about, I read about 200 or so kids books after finishing RTK and doing Tae Kim ...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-05, 4:53 pm
    Thread: Why are children books so hard to read?
Post: Why are children books so hard to read?

Weird I just saw this thread. I got to say I have no idea what you guys are talking about, I read about 200 or so kids books after finishing RTK and doing Tae Kim and a bit of Genki. I wanted somethin...
Sunflowersamurai General discussion 78 17,106 2011-10-05, 4:07 pm
    Thread: How did people learn Japanese ~50 years ago?
Post: How did people learn Japanese ~50 years ago?

I remember seeing a video about an American author/film critic?(don't recall exactly) that lived in Japan right after the war and he learned Japanese from some old ladies who told him he'd never lear...
Sunflowersamurai The Japanese language 51 24,270 2011-09-21, 5:36 am
    Thread: Tokyo train station Anki deck and Names of Japanese people in movies
Post: Tokyo train station Anki deck and Names of Japanes...

I did it with actor's names, as I watched dramas I would add the cast. Name + foto. built up a deck of 1000+, of course there are a lot of uncommon names and uncommon kanji used that won't appear in a...
Sunflowersamurai Learning resources 11 3,982 2011-09-19, 5:57 pm
    Thread: Reading RAW Manga on the iPhone
Post: Reading RAW Manga on the iPhone

chamcham Wrote:I don't understand. Onemanga has tons of raw Japanese manga. Do you mean Manga Helpers? Last I checked One Manga doesn't host raws.
Sunflowersamurai Learning resources 17 17,044 2010-05-14, 11:24 pm
    Thread: Dating a student. Need to break up. How?
Post: Dating a student. Need to break up. How?

never shit where you eat. Just be honest with her and tell her you are not ready for kids or marriage. She'll probably dump you if she's desperate to have kids get married. I've met women like this, ...
Sunflowersamurai Off topic 91 12,414 2010-04-03, 9:09 pm
    Thread: 1800 overdue RTK1 cards – start all over again or ignore RTK1 for now?
Post: 1800 overdue RTK1 cards – start all over again or ...

I was in the same boat myself a few months back I had about 1600 due cards. This was after doing RTk for a few months. I just said to hell with it and switched to Japanese keywords and never looked ba...
Sunflowersamurai The Japanese language 14 2,447 2009-12-21, 4:31 pm