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Thread: Has anyone else used the book Teach Yourself Japanese? Post: Has anyone else used the book Teach Yourself Japan... john555 Wrote:Comment: the authors state in the introduction "The purpose of this book being the teaching of spoken Japanese, we have restricted ourselves to romanized spelling. The writing of Japan... |
Ephel | Learning resources | 9 | 2,315 | 2014-03-24, 11:03 am | ||
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Thread: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? Post: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? vileru Wrote:5. Speaking of 思いやり, I think it's related to why Japanese people first use English when communicating with foreigners. They don't think they're profiling or discriminating. In their heads... |
Ephel | General discussion | 125 | 23,369 | 2014-03-12, 8:12 am | ||
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Thread: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? Post: Are you more cynical after having lived in Japan? afterglowefx Wrote:I guess if you're socially withdrawn and felt kindness and (Western) courtesy to be an imposition at home this sort of dehumanizing system might appeal to you. I think this was comp... |
Ephel | General discussion | 125 | 23,369 | 2014-03-09, 5:41 am | ||
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Thread: Sentence Mining Help ????? Post: Sentence Mining Help ????? Most textbooks won't have a lot of kanji, not in the first volume or so... This is because they're not aimed at people who uses RTK! But if you've already done some Vocab, and/or if you have some time... |
Ephel | The Japanese language | 27 | 6,793 | 2014-03-09, 5:16 am | ||
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Thread: "Making/keeping money" keywords Post: "Making/keeping money" keywords Thanks for all your help! Vempele, thank you expecially for 稼ぐ: it seems something I could really weave into a good story. I'll also try your "resources" (I'm afraid 贈る could get mixed with other thin... |
Ephel | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,126 | 2014-03-08, 10:53 am | ||
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Thread: "Making/keeping money" keywords Post: "Making/keeping money" keywords I changed levy in "Pizzo" (the money that mafia asks from stores to "protect" them) to remember it was a warrior taking it and it worked. But for some of these keywords it's not so easy. Also from the... |
Ephel | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,126 | 2014-03-08, 7:33 am | ||
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Thread: "Making/keeping money" keywords Post: "Making/keeping money" keywords Maybe part of the problem is because English is an L2 to me... But aren't there really too many words about money? I understand money is something that stick into your head, but I'm now failing most o... |
Ephel | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,126 | 2014-03-08, 4:06 am | ||
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Thread: Heisig appropriate for slow learners? Post: Heisig appropriate for slow learners? I was a "slow learner" for all my first year studying Japanese (both then and now I'm going to a course). I've had a copy of RTK1 since before starting the course, but I started following it seriously... |
Ephel | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 5,766 | 2014-02-24, 4:37 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Vocab Without Kanji Post: Learning Vocab Without Kanji Fillanzea Wrote:Until quite recently, most speakers of Chinese or Japanese have been illiterate. And blind people in China and Japan don't seem to have a deficit when it comes to spoken language. For... |
Ephel | The Japanese language | 29 | 4,978 | 2014-02-19, 9:47 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Vocab Without Kanji Post: Learning Vocab Without Kanji I don't agree... We're not children, we learn things differently. Written input is extremely valuable, because it lets the learner see the complete sentence and spend on each word exactly the time he/... |
Ephel | The Japanese language | 29 | 4,978 | 2014-02-19, 3:58 am | ||
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Thread: What takes longer: kanji pronunciation or kanji meaning+writing? Post: What takes longer: kanji pronunciation or kanji me... I'm at frame 830+ in RTK and I've started doing Core2k some time ago. I should add that I'm now in the second year of a japanese course, so I already know a lot of the words I find in Core2k, which ma... |
Ephel | The Japanese language | 9 | 1,896 | 2014-02-19, 3:36 am | ||
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Thread: Yamasa or NILS language school? Post: Yamasa or NILS language school? I'm sorry for necroing the thread, but I thought it was better than starting a new one. I'm planning to study at Yamasa this summer, in what should be their most intensive program: http://www.yamasa.... |
Ephel | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 3 | 3,748 | 2014-02-18, 1:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Pen and paper while doing RTK.Is it really effective??? Post: Pen and paper while doing RTK.Is it really effecti... As a not native english speaker, I found that writing keywords is good only when you have problems with their meaning (and most of the time, I don't write them down even in this case... I do it only i... |
Ephel | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 3,587 | 2014-02-17, 7:33 pm | ||
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Thread: How long does it take to learn a language. Post: How long does it take to learn a language. Since the fact that there are different levels of language proficiency as already been discussed, I would add that it also depends a lot on the time investment that the single study can afford (and on... |
Ephel | General discussion | 36 | 6,952 | 2014-02-16, 10:46 am | ||
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Thread: How long does it take to learn a language. Post: How long does it take to learn a language. tiantian Wrote:mc962 Wrote:Finally, I would like to be able to use my 2nd language to learn a 3rd language if possible, thus hopefully strengthening both. I'd love to try this. I'm doing this. I'm usi... |
Ephel | General discussion | 36 | 6,952 | 2014-02-16, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese history (and Anki) Post: Studying Japanese history (and Anki) Eratik, REH94, riogray, thank you :-) This seems a lot of interesting material to get started! |
Ephel | General discussion | 9 | 1,665 | 2014-02-15, 12:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese history (and Anki) Post: Studying Japanese history (and Anki) Givala Wrote:I found this website with a guy recommending what to read, http://sebastianmarshall.com/want-to-lea...th-sengoku I dunno, check it out. I ended up on that website (from google) before wri... |
Ephel | General discussion | 9 | 1,665 | 2014-02-15, 10:44 am | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese history (and Anki) Post: Studying Japanese history (and Anki) I was wondering about how could I approach studying Japanese history efficently. I'm good at remembering facts, but very bad at remembering when things happened. I realize now that if I had Anki in hi... |
Ephel | General discussion | 9 | 1,665 | 2014-02-15, 9:18 am | ||
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Thread: Starting Anki after starting RTK Post: Starting Anki after starting RTK I was in your same situation, I didn't had problems making my way through all the kanji I needed just adding 50-100 of them every day. If you really know them, you'll hit easy every time and really fa... |
Ephel | Learning resources | 4 | 1,143 | 2014-02-15, 5:36 am | ||
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Thread: Using Anki to memorize kana vocab and RTK for non-English speaker Post: Using Anki to memorize kana vocab and RTK for non-... Hi! I apologize if I'm wrong, but from your first question it seems like your mixing "keywords" and "meaning": the keywords given by Heisig are not the meaning of the kanji: kanji can have different m... |
Ephel | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,005 | 2014-02-10, 5:02 am | ||
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Thread: Study Marathon Post: Study Marathon Then treat every day as if it was a weekend: add kanji every day. You said you have "a few day". How many are them? If they're enough, you could try to pack more kanji learning at the beginning and sl... |
Ephel | Group study | 5 | 1,590 | 2014-02-06, 8:45 am | ||
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Thread: Study Marathon Post: Study Marathon How many RTK frames do you usually do in a day? You could try to double that by doing your routine once in the morning and once again in the afternoon. Or triple it (morning, after lunch, evening), bu... |
Ephel | Group study | 5 | 1,590 | 2014-02-06, 5:48 am | ||
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Thread: Transferring RTK kanji to vocab learning question ???? Post: Transferring RTK kanji to vocab learning question ... Uh, I forgot about RTK3. I'm still doing RTK1 (I've been studying Japanese for a while, but I've decided to do a big boost to my kanji knowledge just recently)... frame number should be somewhere abov... |
Ephel | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,180 | 2014-02-06, 5:39 am | ||
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Thread: Transferring RTK kanji to vocab learning question ???? Post: Transferring RTK kanji to vocab learning question ... Please don't forget doing also some grammar! Try at least to cover the basic (what particles are, how verbs and adjective works)... Maybe you're already doing this, but I wanted to be sure :-) About ... |
Ephel | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,180 | 2014-02-06, 5:30 am | ||
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Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts) Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou... Thank you! I was sure it had to be something stupid :-) |
Ephel | Learning resources | 448 | 98,783 | 2014-02-06, 5:13 am | ||
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Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts) Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou... I'm sorry, I promise I've looked for an answer before asking here (though I didn't read every single post of this thread, I used both google and the forum search engine). I'm doing 2k/6k, but I'm als... |
Ephel | Learning resources | 448 | 98,783 | 2014-02-06, 4:17 am | ||
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Thread: Leaning Japanese & anti-Japanese friends/family/peers Post: Leaning Japanese & anti-Japanese friends/family/pe... qwertyytrewq Wrote:Apparently the US dropped the bombs on Japan not because (or not mainly because) to beat Japan, but to send a message to the Russians ('we got bombs and we'll use them'). Actually, ... |
Ephel | Off topic | 32 | 6,957 | 2014-02-04, 6:29 am | ||
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Thread: Leaning Japanese & anti-Japanese friends/family/peers Post: Leaning Japanese & anti-Japanese friends/family/pe... qwertyytrewq Wrote:For a Chinese person to learn a foreign language like Japanese is pretty much the epitome of treason. It's the ultimate "betrayal" to your race and/or nation. Do you have an idea of... |
Ephel | Off topic | 32 | 6,957 | 2014-02-02, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Tips for Using Creative Imagination?? Post: Tips for Using Creative Imagination?? I cannot give you any good advice because most of the times I don't even need a fully fledged story, so I ended up making them only for characters that give me some real troubles... but I want to tell... |
Ephel | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,195 | 2014-01-30, 9:02 am | ||
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Thread: Are there any sites about how to write extended kana? Post: Are there any sites about how to write extended ka... Didn't use it to learn kana because I didn't know it back then, but the kana section of Kanjibox (http://kanjibox.net/), that you find setting your level at JLPT5 seems quite good for testing yourself... |
Ephel | Learning resources | 3 | 1,129 | 2014-01-29, 9:48 am | ||
