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    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

(2016-05-01, 8:01 pm) pid=\233899' Wrote:Thanks for your hard work with this. I noticed that you corrected 1431 as stated above. However, this is simply  British/American English issue. A return tick...
kyotokanji Learning resources 204 75,113 2016-05-02, 6:09 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

(2016-04-22, 4:21 pm)rainmaninjapan Wrote: The 2.5 is already ordered by morphman, so it is ordered in the way that is easiest to go through with i+1 as much as possible. So card one has 1 new word,...
kyotokanji Learning resources 204 75,113 2016-04-23, 3:47 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

Hello,  So happy to be back around here again. After many years of not studying , I am delighted to return. Just thought I would say that the link to unlockjapanese appears to create security problem...
kyotokanji Learning resources 204 75,113 2016-04-22, 2:40 pm
    Thread: Documentaries about Japan
Post: Documentaries about Japan

Lots of documentaries to look for, this is a great thread. This is a good one about The Great Wave by Hokusai. [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWesQcVUo...re=related] I think it is in five pa...
kyotokanji General discussion 51 21,889 2011-01-14, 3:11 pm
    Thread: Japanese electronica and it's soundwaves of beauty
Post: Japanese electronica and it's soundwaves of beauty

This is a very pleasant track that I discovered on the "Pop Ambient" series from Kompakt Records. A grest series of ambient music compilations. The series is mostly German artists but these are Japane...
kyotokanji Off topic 55 19,297 2010-12-03, 6:17 am
    Thread: 80 students per month strategies
Post: 80 students per month strategies

Best of luck with your plans to teach privately. i went through a stage of about two years of only doing private lessons and i gave up in the end. I think the problem was half me and half the general...
kyotokanji Off topic 18 2,770 2010-08-24, 6:02 am
    Thread: Swearing in Japan
Post: Swearing in Japan

In Christian countries, sexuality has become demonised so that most of the swear words in English are related to sex. In Japan, there are no such notions of placing negative words conected to sexual o...
kyotokanji Off topic 17 13,675 2010-07-06, 5:36 pm
    Thread: Worst Grammar book ever?
Post: Worst Grammar book ever?

I bought this one a while back and find it pretty terrible too, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Compreh...176&sr=1-6 Although the one you have the link to beats it easily.
kyotokanji General discussion 17 7,862 2010-06-19, 12:42 pm
    Thread: Time to switch to chinese...
Post: Time to switch to chinese...

Why someone would drop learning a language because of an economic drop is beyond me.
kyotokanji Off topic 50 7,794 2010-06-11, 7:50 am
    Thread: Which word is the hardest to pronounce
Post: Which word is the hardest to pronounce

Raschaverak Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:東京特許許可局 (とうきょうとっきょきょかきょく) always gets me. Now that's a masterpiece :) I had a great invention the other day that neede a quick patent. the failure to find this place re...
kyotokanji The Japanese language 61 19,357 2010-05-25, 10:51 am
    Thread: Could I get a Visa to Japan if I was rich?
Post: Could I get a Visa to Japan if I was rich?

I think there is a mininum number of hours a day of classroom study to get a visa, i think that amount is four every day.
kyotokanji General discussion 20 7,881 2010-03-15, 1:04 pm
    Thread: Could I get a Visa to Japan if I was rich?
Post: Could I get a Visa to Japan if I was rich?

I have never heard of any such visa. if you use the money to set up a company etc, then there would be ways but not by just having the money in your bank. There are plenty of rich people in Japan alre...
kyotokanji General discussion 20 7,881 2010-03-15, 12:37 pm
    Thread: all Thai all the time
Post: all Thai all the time

I lived in Thailand for a year before coming to Japan, so I know a little about the place to make a comparison between the two. The two countries are so entirely different that it is often the case th...
kyotokanji General discussion 72 13,113 2010-03-15, 12:25 pm
    Thread: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan
Post: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan

I don't want to sound negative about such a scheme but you have to be very careful about the families that would do this kind of thing. I would say that it is vary rare that a non-English speaking fam...
kyotokanji Off topic 33 12,213 2010-03-03, 9:44 am
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

So, to the OP, how did the test go?
kyotokanji General discussion 395 64,336 2009-12-07, 8:34 am
    Thread: JLPT is over!
Post: JLPT is over!

RobotsAnger Wrote:kyotokanji Wrote:Well done everyone with giving the test a go. How did JLPT 1 in three months person get on? That was just a "Whether it's possible" post. I think the closest person ...
kyotokanji General discussion 116 19,061 2009-12-06, 5:32 pm
    Thread: JLPT is over!
Post: JLPT is over!

Well done everyone with giving the test a go. How did JLPT 1 in three months person get on?
kyotokanji General discussion 116 19,061 2009-12-06, 2:35 pm
    Thread: The Weirdness of Japan
Post: The Weirdness of Japan

It is marvelous that Freudian psychology has proven ineffective in Japan.
kyotokanji General discussion 48 10,287 2009-12-06, 1:56 pm
    Thread: The Weirdness of Japan
Post: The Weirdness of Japan

I think it is quite universal though. Japanese media isn't exactly full of good quality portrayals of the UK. The only thing they show is the typical tea and cakes image or of extremely eccentric act...
kyotokanji General discussion 48 10,287 2009-12-05, 12:58 pm
    Thread: I have a memory like a seive.
Post: I have a memory like a seive.

Maybe you are trying to force yourself to remember too much. When you learn new kanji, do you sit back and relax? Maybe it's also better to use the stories in the book during the first part because th...
kyotokanji Remembering the Kanji 9 2,312 2009-11-27, 11:07 am
    Thread: A RevTK "Lite" Option
Post: A RevTK "Lite" Option

Just found an anki deck for RTK Lite, maybe that's easier to use. It's in the large list that you when you do to download>shared decks.
kyotokanji Remembering the Kanji 209 126,823 2009-11-22, 5:34 pm
    Thread: A RevTK "Lite" Option
Post: A RevTK "Lite" Option

Before you do anything, keep checking your profile page that you are set on the RTK Lite Option. Check it quickly before you review or add cards and it should be ok. I had the same problem and this h...
kyotokanji Remembering the Kanji 209 126,823 2009-11-22, 6:42 am
    Thread: What is Yodoyobashi area of Osaka like?
Post: What is Yodoyobashi area of Osaka like?

As Jarvik said, it is a buisness area and I would think that living there would be a bit dull. The only other advanatages are that you may be able to find a job near there and it's not so far from hig...
kyotokanji Off topic 4 1,482 2009-10-11, 11:28 am
    Thread: Share you Japanese Recipes
Post: Share you Japanese Recipes

Tobberoth Wrote:Musashi Wrote:Sorry, Japanese curry is one of the worst curries, I think it was copied from Indian curries in England (or the other way around). Indeed, but that was ages ago, Japanese...
kyotokanji General discussion 14 4,055 2009-07-17, 2:57 pm
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

Do you think that 70% can be understood with just 1000 words? Every language varies on how many words are needed to understand 70-80% of words used in daily conversation. I cetainly cannot understand ...
kyotokanji General discussion 395 64,336 2009-07-01, 6:18 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I've just reviewed the final kanji in RTK 1, very happy about that. This is my third attempt and it's a great feeling that i've done it. The first time I got up to 700, second time to 1400 and now i'v...
kyotokanji Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,595 2009-06-30, 1:19 pm
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

To Ahibba, I would love to know this methos of learning the readings quickly, or is it the method you explained earlier regarding fiiting in vicab you already know to match the kanji in question? i t...
kyotokanji General discussion 395 64,336 2009-06-30, 4:13 am
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

To ahibba, the problem about learning to read Japanese is learning the readings in the first place. Once you've learnt all the readings correctly, a lot of the work is already done. This is why the l-...
kyotokanji General discussion 395 64,336 2009-06-29, 2:20 pm
    Thread: Best YouTube subscriptions
Post: Best YouTube subscriptions

bodhisamaya Wrote:http://www.youtube.com/user/syaso Maybe I'm an oddball, but one of my favorte things about Japan is riding on the trains. On my days off from work, I would get on one bound for nowh...
kyotokanji General discussion 31 20,793 2009-06-29, 10:18 am
    Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months?
Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months?

A few posts ago, the L-R method was mentioned. I can imagine that this can be used very efectively for langauges that use a writing system that is easily learnt. By this I mean that an English speaker...
kyotokanji General discussion 395 64,336 2009-06-29, 10:12 am