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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese I dunno, it doesn't really matter to be honest. Sooner or later someone will either make it clear that they can or can't understand (people are generally good about letting you know if you wrote somet... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2015-01-18, 2:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese I would be interested if you made a page like one of mine on the site linked in the opening post, and took some of the same Japanese sentences I have, and wrote the German and did similar colour-codin... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2015-01-18, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese Well, I'm glad it's interesting, but if I were more diligent I would have copied down a bunch of the helpful things as I found them... instead I get too absorbed in writing/fixing the lessons so then ... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2015-01-18, 8:38 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese Okay, I updated the original post again. I started making Esperanto-Japanese grammar lessons only a few weeks ago, but I can't really put into words all the stuff I've realized that Esperanto makes a... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2015-01-17, 12:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese Okay, I updated the original post a little. Now there are two links to some pages I made that show the word order/usage in Esperanto compared to the Japanese much more clearly. They're simply colour-... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2015-01-04, 2:36 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese Well this thread went up like a sun but down like a pancake, eh?? If you think all languages are totally equal, it's okay. I personally don't see them as equals. I think all languages are equal in te... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-12, 10:55 am | ||
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Thread: How to get the most out of Japanese classes? Post: How to get the most out of Japanese classes? I actually have one more tip but it sounds really mean so I didn't say it earlier. Most likely it's also not a problem for you since the class is so short and you have your wife and all. I would advi... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 7 | 2,357 | 2014-12-12, 9:34 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese ...Well, I've given up trying to research more on the "does Latin help with Japanese" idea because simply no one is talking about it. Though I found this funny opinion: "Saying that Latin will help y... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-12, 9:18 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese The comments weren't my opinions, they were by people I asked. Sorry if someone finds them wrong or insulting, but I don't think it's a problem since for me it's just "someone else's summarized view (... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-12, 8:45 am | ||
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Thread: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor? Post: Tips for an aspiring personal language tutor? It's always best to teach the vocabulary that's most useful first. You know what's the most depressing thing? To finish a semester (or two) of a Japanese class and realize you can't understand a singl... |
captainporridge | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 5 | 2,915 | 2014-12-12, 5:02 am | ||
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Thread: How to get the most out of Japanese classes? Post: How to get the most out of Japanese classes? Hmm, from my time at language school (not in Japan, for other languages) the way to get the most out of it seems to be: — Study all the material before class whenever possible, as in, get through the... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 7 | 2,357 | 2014-12-12, 4:51 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese john555 Wrote:I guess my question is, isn't there something better than Esperanto to help with Japanese? I personally find my knowledge of Latin and Greek VERY helpful in learning Japanese because ... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-11, 2:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese john555 Wrote:I guess in the end it depends on how much time a person has available. Across its various studies it's been found that a person who learns Esperanto is generally 15-50% better or faster ... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-11, 11:45 am | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Started talking to a Japanese native for the first time the other day, and we can actually have basic conversations (I can only write on a level like "I'm going to the store now, I'll be back in 30 mi... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,670 | 2014-12-11, 7:25 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese john555 Wrote:Isn't using Esperanto to help learn Japanese kind of like using romaji to help learn Japanese? Yeah. It's also like using RTK for learning kanji, like I mentioned. Did I write my earlier... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-11, 6:16 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese I figured I might as well start trying to look around to see what from Japan is translated. Here is a list from Wikipedia: Ranpo Edogawa (江戸川乱歩): "Unu Bileto", "Ora Masko" Saburo Koga (甲賀 三郎): "Dezer... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-11, 4:54 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese Okay Buonaparte, if you don't even know what you mean by it then I guess I shouldn't wonder either lol! |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-11, 4:35 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese Now by chance I found something interesting on that Japanese person's twitter I linked to before. 木'漏れ'日 = tra'foli'lumo = "through-leaf-light", the light that filters through the trees. Suddenly I ... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-11, 4:16 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese anotherjohn Wrote:...as I found the 'Esperanto helps you learn these extremely simple aspects of Japanese' argument rather unconvincing. Well the point was "what can I think of that it helps with" and... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-11, 4:07 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese (Sorry, buonaparte, I don't know what the d in d-Esperanto is...? is it supposed to be like d-ro and mean "doctor" or? does it stand for "dumb" or what? lol) A word of warning. Only the old dictionar... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-10, 3:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese aldebrn Wrote:Thanks for posting this op, it's really fascinating.... 2000 root words would be a snap to learn with the power of SRS technology over a few months, plus the agglutination rules, accordi... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-10, 12:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese john555 Wrote:I looked at Esperanto years ago. In fact, I have that old book Teach Yourself Esperanto on my bookshelf. I always thought it was too much like Spanish and Italian to appeal much to peo... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-10, 11:54 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese ReneSac Wrote:Of course, esperanto evolves with it's use.... I think this is a little misleading. In Esperanto, both the old ways and the new ways are still correct and proper. So it's still just as c... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-10, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese buonaparte Wrote:I've always been curious: Who decides what is correct in d-Esperanto? Anything goes? There's things the original creator said when asked about grammar and so on, which have been colle... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-10, 10:22 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese How widespread is Esperanto in Japan? Is there a club in every city? We can guess a little. On the new "Pasporta Servo" (homestay website for Esperanto speakers where normally you can stay for free a... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-10, 4:33 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese A while ago there was a thread asking if Esperanto helps to learn Japanese. Predictably it got out of control, but I saw it today and thought I could write a bit about this. I'm going to show a few mo... |
captainporridge | General discussion | 52 | 12,061 | 2014-12-09, 5:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Pennames Post: Japanese Pennames On the websites I go to, most people slap together kanji or names that have some kind of meaning, ex. "foul stench". If they are using kanji for their name at all, I mean. When I started playing an on... |
captainporridge | The Japanese language | 7 | 1,819 | 2013-12-30, 9:10 am | ||
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Thread: How fast to finish textbooks? Post: How fast to finish textbooks? As for textbooks, it's very important to try both old and new ones. Old ones teach in a different manner and order, sometimes entirely, and while the language may be outdated or obsolete, that "differ... |
captainporridge | Learning resources | 10 | 4,626 | 2013-12-30, 8:46 am | ||
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Thread: How fast to finish textbooks? Post: How fast to finish textbooks? sparky14 Wrote:I think 1 chapter a day is reasonable, even if you decide to actually read all the material in each chapter. Wait, what do you mean? How can you "do a chapter" without actually reading ... |
captainporridge | Learning resources | 10 | 4,626 | 2013-12-29, 8:58 pm | ||
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Thread: How fast to finish textbooks? Post: How fast to finish textbooks? Hi, I was just wondering how fast you think both an average and a fast leaner could complete some textbooks in. (This is just me wondering, it has nothing to do with how I'm studying.) You can talk a... |
captainporridge | Learning resources | 10 | 4,626 | 2013-12-29, 3:13 pm | ||
