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Thread: What do you think of Anki's timeboxing? Post: What do you think of Anki's timeboxing? Congratulations, you have the number 666 in your name, and you have started the 666th topic :) |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 22 | 7,388 | 2009-01-11, 10:28 am | ||
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Thread: Coping with abstract/difficult words through other ressources Post: Coping with abstract/difficult words through other... Raichu Wrote:My goal is to learn the kanji, not to learn Heisig's keywords. They're just a means to an end. Personally, I view them as a bit of an end in and of themselves. RTK1 doesn't teach you the... |
Captain_Thunder | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 4,499 | 2008-12-28, 9:47 am | ||
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Thread: 'R' or 'L'? Post: 'R' or 'L'? Erubey Wrote:I never got this since I just use spanish R's. Seconded; I don't understand why this isn't the standard advice. After significant exposure to both, I haven't been able to discern any dif... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 44 | 5,896 | 2008-12-24, 5:11 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS Theory Post: SRS Theory nest0r Wrote:How would computer scientists feel if people continued to use slide rules for engineering calculations? They wouldn't care in the least, since they're not engineers. </pedantic> |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 13 | 8,088 | 2008-12-21, 5:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Pet Peeves with the Japanese Language Post: Pet Peeves with the Japanese Language Personally, I feel as though a lot of grammatical constructs are quite vague, and there are a lot of ways to express the same thing. Oftentimes when I ask a question about why a particular verb form ... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 117 | 15,051 | 2008-12-10, 9:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Many (younger) Japanese people have really bad kanji and keigo..? Post: Many (younger) Japanese people have really bad kan... nest0r Wrote:Japanese kids are too busy cutting each other up with exacto knives and putting each other into boxes while they use their evolved hands-with-6-thumbs to type out text messages to one ano... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 53 | 13,724 | 2008-12-08, 3:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Online J-TV Post: Online J-TV The audio on Keyhole TV is pretty good for me. You might want to try Googling for "tvtokyo mms stream" or whatever channel you want to watch. The streams are "under the table" so to speak, and go do... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 11 | 2,389 | 2008-12-05, 5:52 am | ||
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Thread: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Post: What do you consider "basic" grammar? kfmfe04 Wrote:Why is everyone working so hard to try to convince everyone that his system is the best? Why don't we leave it at: different people study better in different ways, and leave it at that? ... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 118 | 13,443 | 2008-11-27, 3:44 pm | ||
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Thread: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Post: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Tobberoth Wrote:Captain_Thunder Wrote:Would your Japanese skills be as strong as they are had you never visited Japan, Tobberoth? While I would love to say yes to strenghten my position in this argume... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 118 | 13,443 | 2008-11-26, 6:23 pm | ||
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Thread: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Post: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Tobberoth Wrote:Captain_Thunder Wrote:Which is, of course, the whole point of immersion. 行く being such a common verb, it's very likely that it would have come up in his 100 sentences. And if it didn... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 118 | 13,443 | 2008-11-26, 6:10 pm | ||
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Thread: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Post: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Tobberoth Wrote:Somewhere you had to actually learn that, you can't automatically know that 行く is different from every other verb. Either you saw 行く conjugated a whole lot, or you read/heard it somewh... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 118 | 13,443 | 2008-11-26, 5:44 pm | ||
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Thread: What do you consider "basic" grammar? Post: What do you consider "basic" grammar? I'd certainly define everything on Tae Kim as basic, and possibly the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar as well. |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 118 | 13,443 | 2008-11-26, 9:17 am | ||
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Thread: するんだ ?! Post: するんだ ?! Could you give us the context that you heard it in? んだ is just a more emphatic form of だ meaning "the fact is" or "it's the case that", and する is a common verb as well. To the best of my knowledge, ... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 12 | 1,902 | 2008-11-25, 4:39 pm | ||
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Thread: how to begin speaking japanese? Post: how to begin speaking japanese? QuackingShoe Wrote:Edit: Scrapped and rewritten so as not to be so damn confusing and meandering. Captain_Thunder: たい is essentially used like any other verb, but when the たい verb is transitive, you h... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 71 | 8,490 | 2008-11-14, 5:53 am | ||
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Thread: how to begin speaking japanese? Post: how to begin speaking japanese? wccrawford Wrote:You're standing in line at a counter and the guy in front of you points at the banana pudding and says "これが食べたい". You have -no- idea what any part of that means, but you see the cler... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 71 | 8,490 | 2008-11-13, 5:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Questions about AJATT sentences Post: Questions about AJATT sentences Codexus Wrote:2) The sentence method isn't about memorizing the sentences, it's about understanding them. Off course, in order to be able to understand you'll need to remember the vocabulary and gramm... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 24 | 7,441 | 2008-11-05, 4:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Questions about AJATT sentences Post: Questions about AJATT sentences I'm beginning an AJATT course of study, and had the following questions about memorizing sentences: 1.) I've already learned a few dozen kanji; is it OK to start working on sentences simultaneously,... |
Captain_Thunder | General discussion | 24 | 7,441 | 2008-11-05, 5:53 am | ||