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    Thread: ~ことにします VS. ~ことにしました
Post: ~ことにします VS. ~ことにしました

zachandhobbes Wrote:Second seems more like the 'now' tense than the past, really The second one is the present tense one I was referring too. nest0r Wrote:http://books.google.com/books?id=ptACuS6...t...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 4 847 2011-03-15, 12:27 am
    Thread: ~ことにします VS. ~ことにしました
Post: ~ことにします VS. ~ことにしました

I'm near the end of the Genki textbooks, and this is confusing me a little. They have two example sentences for ことにする, one that ends in the present and one that ends in the past: 車を買うことにしました。 We hav...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 4 847 2011-03-14, 10:23 pm
    Thread: Placement of the Dot in 夕 vs 歹
Post: Placement of the Dot in 夕 vs 歹

That is sort of what I figured, thanks.
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 2 1,132 2011-02-05, 1:14 am
    Thread: Placement of the Dot in 夕 vs 歹
Post: Placement of the Dot in 夕 vs 歹

I'm learning stroke orders for radicals, and I came across something I find odd. The dots in the font version of 夕 and 歹 look the same, but the gifs from Wikitionary show them placed differently. Is...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 2 1,132 2011-02-05, 12:28 am
    Thread: Windows 7 language input
Post: Windows 7 language input

JimmySeal Wrote:Thanks for the update. Good to know the number is still exactly half the ∞ * 2 reasons not to use a Mac. Lol. To the OP, just for confirmations sake, I have Windows 7 Professional, a...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 11 3,475 2011-02-04, 10:10 pm
    Thread: How to do reps fast
Post: How to do reps fast

overture2112 Wrote:I've considered doing this but I don't seem to know enough readings, so learning new words can be a strugle the first few times I see a new reading (which is often). Mind if I ask ...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 101 28,878 2011-01-29, 10:36 pm
    Thread: How to do reps fast
Post: How to do reps fast

astendra Wrote:I'd like to argue for the kind of time limits mentioned by a poster above, only much shorter. If you're doing vocab, try to trim your answer time down to something like 3 seconds per ca...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 101 28,878 2011-01-29, 9:42 pm
    Thread: How to do reps fast
Post: How to do reps fast

May have been said, but time-limit, time-limit, time-limit (per card I mean). This not only speeds up your reviews but requires a stronger memory. I'd say 10 seconds for normal cards, but I always r...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 101 28,878 2011-01-29, 9:08 am
    Thread: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehension of Verb Suffixes
Post: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehensio...

tokyostyle Wrote:My solution to this was to treat the different conjugations as separate words. In production, especially speaking, it's inefficient to conjugate on the fly. It's easier just to skip...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 11 3,401 2011-01-14, 12:33 am
    Thread: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehension of Verb Suffixes
Post: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehensio...

Tori-kun Wrote:blazerqb11 Wrote:i.e. you hear てべ (knowing this is the stem for "to eat") and させる (knowing that this conjugation suffix has an inherent meaning of "to make/let"), and know that the word...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 11 3,401 2011-01-11, 3:53 am
    Thread: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehension of Verb Suffixes
Post: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehensio...

fakewookie Wrote:Why is learning verb conjugations any different to learning anything else? Well, I suppose you could learn every single conjugation of every verb(I suppose this is what eventually hap...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 11 3,401 2011-01-10, 5:41 am
    Thread: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehension of Verb Suffixes
Post: Systematic Approach to Improve Listen Comprehensio...

I been doing a lot of listening practice by watching Japanese TV and am improving at pretty good pace, but I notice that my comprehension of the nouns and adjectives is much better than my comprehensi...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 11 3,401 2011-01-10, 1:54 am
    Thread: Proper Furigana
Post: Proper Furigana

Yes, you are right. The reading is たしざん meaning "addition." Thanks for your insight about the furigana.
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 4 809 2011-01-03, 5:48 am
    Thread: Proper Furigana
Post: Proper Furigana

Thanks, that is what I was thinking. It is a bit confusing though, because the automatic reading generations in Anki include kana as well.
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 4 809 2011-01-02, 5:08 am
    Thread: Proper Furigana
Post: Proper Furigana

I'm curious if there is a proper way to format the furigana of words such as 足し算. Should the し be included in the furigana, or should the furigana of the each kanji be separate?
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 4 809 2011-01-02, 4:48 am
    Thread: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice
Post: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice

I started watching Telepathy Shoujo Ran, and it has been a great place to start (even though it's probably geared toward early teen girls, lol). The language is simple enough that I can understand a ...
blazerqb11 General discussion 22 9,198 2010-10-17, 2:40 am
    Thread: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice
Post: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice

quincy Wrote:http://kitsunekko.net/ http://transportstreams.org/captions/ (these ones will need some slight time adjustments) Thanks a lot!
blazerqb11 General discussion 22 9,198 2010-10-13, 6:15 pm
    Thread: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice
Post: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice

Daichi Wrote:the more recent it is, the easier it is to find Japanese caption subs for it. I find a lot of shounen stuff is more action then dialog. Are there any good sites for finding Japanese subti...
blazerqb11 General discussion 22 9,198 2010-10-13, 12:24 pm
    Thread: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice
Post: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice

Wow, thanks for all the replies. I understand what you guys mean about news, I was watching a lot of news when I was using streaming TV, and when they would talk about some area where I had a decent ...
blazerqb11 General discussion 22 9,198 2010-10-12, 9:35 pm
    Thread: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice
Post: Recommend a Japanese Show for Listening Practice

I've recently been stepping up my listening practice by watching streaming Japanese TV. It is helping, but also comes with a number of problems, among them that the streams keep going down, and the l...
blazerqb11 General discussion 22 9,198 2010-10-12, 6:36 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Can anyone tell me what デバッガ機能と逆アセンブル機能もあるといいですね。 means. I'm guessing that it means "I hope it has a debugger function and a reverse assembly function."
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,697 2010-09-13, 4:15 am
    Thread: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences
Post: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences

Anyone have any other online source for Japanese audio sentences?
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 9 4,318 2010-07-01, 4:18 pm
    Thread: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences
Post: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences

That is exactly what I don't get, if they lowered the price to a sane level, people would actually be able to afford them and they would make more money. The only motivation I can see for such a high...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 9 4,318 2010-06-22, 1:59 am
    Thread: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences
Post: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences

Hmm, Rhinospike looks like its got a great idea, but is there some way to search? I would love to see that site really get going, I would even be interested in contributing. Search is really a must ...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 9 4,318 2010-06-21, 12:39 pm
    Thread: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences
Post: Searchable Japanese Audio Sentences

I am currently going through the Genki textbooks, and in order to remember the grammar therein, I am attempting to represent each major point in each grammar section with at least one sentence (prefer...
blazerqb11 The Japanese language 9 4,318 2010-06-21, 8:09 am
    Thread: Smart.fm new update broke Anki's import plugin
Post: Smart.fm new update broke Anki's import plugin

If you replace "goals" in the URL with "lists", you can still use the plugin. Though it is often non responsive for a few minutes after your first start importing, it will work if you give it time. H...
blazerqb11 Learning resources 6 3,794 2009-11-04, 9:11 pm