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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-06-09, 12:15 am)pm215 Wrote: I was wondering if this was a variant on これでもかと言うほど which seems to be enough of a fixed phrase to get dictionary entries ("as if that wasn't enough"), but the 'tak... |
Sizen | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,881 | 2016-06-09, 6:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Help with Kansai ben transcription Post: RE: Help with Kansai ben transcription That third last line is a bit troublesome. I don't know if there's referencing something or what, but I can't really figure it out. Anyway, here's what I heard. Matsumoto: 世の中ホント不思議なことが一杯ありますから Hamad... |
Sizen | General discussion | 3 | 572 | 2016-04-08, 4:13 pm | ||
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Thread: How to learn an easy language? Post: How to learn an easy language? Here are some quick tips, but I'll follow with more details about my experience of learning similar languages. To start: short bursts of grammar [5mins], daily audio lessons [10-30mins], college cours... |
Sizen | Off topic | 11 | 2,855 | 2014-02-24, 3:41 am | ||
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Thread: Where to get German-->Japanese ressources?eg.dictionary for Mac/iPhone Post: Where to get German-->Japanese ressources?eg.dicti... The only problem being that the recordings for assimil are always, if not almost always, entirely in the TL. The books, on the other hand, have grammar explanations and translations of the dialogues i... |
Sizen | Learning resources | 6 | 1,566 | 2013-08-22, 1:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Where to get German-->Japanese ressources?eg.dictionary for Mac/iPhone Post: Where to get German-->Japanese ressources?eg.dicti... http://assimil.de/sprachen/japanisch.php This is the only resource I can think of off the top of my head. I don't know anyone who's ever used it, but I've used their French->Chinese and English-&g... |
Sizen | Learning resources | 6 | 1,566 | 2013-08-21, 7:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Am I studying Kanji a bad way? Post: Am I studying Kanji a bad way? I rote memorized over 1800 kanji, but I didn't memorize through kun and on. I found textbooks that give examples of common compounds and just memorized the compounds along the way. I started with only... |
Sizen | The Japanese language | 9 | 2,573 | 2013-07-10, 10:23 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge B-but... I wanna read more! Reading through Date A Live (yeah... Personal choice, really), so I'm gonna keep going. :P Anyone read any really good books this round? I went through Another (Ayatuji Yu... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-07-02, 7:13 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Splatted Wrote:That being said though, last time I only dropped out of the top group because I ran out of stuff to read. :/ Yeah, finding enough material for a month is pretty difficult. And finding e... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-06-17, 10:08 pm | ||
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Thread: LONG READ: Role of recognition and production in learning vocabulary Post: LONG READ: Role of recognition and production in l... Warp2243 Wrote:Now that's clearly too low, considering the figures I gave in my previous post... I'd roughly put a high-schooler at around 25k-30k (possibly 40k) and a college student/educated adult b... |
Sizen | The Japanese language | 15 | 3,905 | 2013-06-14, 7:23 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge tashippy Wrote:But Sizen, I think you've posted in three different threads about how you either feel motivated, need motivation, or are worried that your motivation will pitter out like it did with vi... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-06-14, 1:28 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge So I'm having trouble staying motivated at this point in tadoku. The past few days I've barely read anything and I don't really understand why. Maybe it's just the last book I started, which doesn't s... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-06-14, 4:20 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Zgarbas Wrote:I do not really see the link between jlpt type reading and novel reading... Well to be fair, dizmox did says "books" and didn't specify novels. Anyway, I think (s)he meant that if someo... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-06-05, 1:25 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge @dizmox While reading a lot will help get you reading faster eventually, there are also a couple exercises you can do that can help you break a few bad reading habits. I took these from some speed rea... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-06-04, 1:02 pm | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge drdunlap Wrote:I also realized that if I'm going to participate in this competitively I'm going to need to hit up the book store... Tell me about it. At this rate I'm probably going to finish most of ... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-06-04, 3:08 am | ||
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Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge Post: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge I'm in! My third tadoku and my first real month long Tadoku (only finished about a book and a half last time). This will also probably be my last Tadoku for a while since I'm going to be doing an exch... |
Sizen | Group study | 361 | 69,317 | 2013-05-28, 1:36 pm | ||
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Thread: I need to take the JLPT N2 next year, need some advice Post: I need to take the JLPT N2 next year, need some ad... Seems possible to me. Since your end goal is to pass an exam, it would definitely be best to spend the majority of your time on materials focused on exam subjects (feel free to indulge in fun stuff as... |
Sizen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 10 | 5,782 | 2013-05-01, 4:38 pm | ||
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Thread: HELP! - Heisig visualization technique that doesn't put you to sleep Post: HELP! - Heisig visualization technique that doesn'... I haven't personally had this problem while studying, but I have something that could possibly help. It's perhaps a bit dangerous, but you could try studying while running/jogging on a treadmill. Just... |
Sizen | Chinese and Hanzi | 3 | 6,052 | 2013-02-03, 9:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Immersion Media Player Post: Immersion Media Player I don't know if it's because I'm running windows 8 or not (I had thought it was backwards compatible...?), but I haven't been able to make the player work properly. I tried adding many mp3s but only m... |
Sizen | Learning resources | 16 | 5,919 | 2013-01-28, 4:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Goals for 2013? Post: Goals for 2013? 1. Get even more comfortable talking in French. Hopefully get it somewhat close to my English by the end of the year. 2. Get back into Japanese! It's been 12 months since I last spoke it, so this year... |
Sizen | Off topic | 54 | 10,184 | 2012-12-31, 8:49 pm | ||
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Thread: nest0r - keep in touch Post: nest0r - keep in touch dtcamero Wrote:ya this is terrific. personally I don't agree with him though ;D I believe in a core objectively correct grammatical identity for at least the english language... Unfortunately this is ... |
Sizen | Off topic | 161 | 22,523 | 2011-09-23, 6:27 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Finished RtK exactly a month after I started, hurrah! I really feel like I bit off more than I could handle (spending the first 13 days studying for 7 hours straight each day '^^), but it feels good ... |
Sizen | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,624 | 2011-09-23, 5:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"... Post: Those who have "Remembered the Hanzi"... ta12121 Wrote:People say you could do RTH fast, within a few weeks or possible the best way I think would work is: (not sure if someone has done this before) just have the characters that weren't in R... |
Sizen | Chinese and Hanzi | 23 | 5,605 | 2011-09-21, 1:13 am | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Just finished frame 1550 today. Opposed to most of the people in this thread, I'm liking having primitives for only a few Kanji each. It feels like I have less chance to mix up the characters, and I d... |
Sizen | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,190 | 2011-09-14, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you use mnemonics to remember words? Post: Do you use mnemonics to remember words? I used to brute force it a lot, but that was back when I rote memorized 1000 characters (now I'm doing RtK and feel a lot better about things >.>). I had a few beginner Kanji books and an interm... |
Sizen | General discussion | 13 | 5,059 | 2011-09-12, 12:11 am | ||
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Thread: How long do you study a day? Post: How long do you study a day? I'm not saying that SRS is bad. It just seems that I haven't a need for it (at least not yet). I already understand the concepts of Kanji fairly well (I spent a year and a half rote memorizing the rea... |
Sizen | Remembering the Kanji | 38 | 14,050 | 2011-08-31, 1:10 am | ||
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Thread: How long do you study a day? Post: How long do you study a day? I've just started doing RtK myself, but I'm coming from a pretty good knowledge of kanji already. (I had about 1000 characters with most of the common readings down when I started). At this point I'm ... |
Sizen | Remembering the Kanji | 38 | 14,050 | 2011-08-29, 7:36 pm | ||