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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! fakewookie Wrote:N1 is the beginning of becoming proficient in Japanese. Everything up to that point is just an introduction. I completely agree with this, but what can us exam-addicted people do afte... |
cingo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,546 | 2013-02-03, 10:49 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! Gloriously failed N2. I managed to get a breathtaking 3/60 in the reading section, something rather difficult statistically considering I did give all answers. I have to explain I was expecting this... |
cingo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,546 | 2013-02-02, 2:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Post: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Thanks for all the nice answers :) Maybe I will go for another ex-word as suggested in the last answer. Do you guys have any suggestions for a website where I can find second hand ones at a good pric... |
cingo | Learning resources | 24 | 7,799 | 2012-11-12, 1:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Post: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Also, maybe I should have mentioned that I am not a big SRS fan. But on the other hand I did like all the functionalities on my ex-word, so I would be looking at something that has those at least. Sor... |
cingo | Learning resources | 24 | 7,799 | 2012-11-10, 2:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Post: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Many thanks for your answer :) Could you make some concrete suggestions? (I do not have a smartphone and would rather not buy anything that I have to pay a monthly bill for (but maybe I would not hav... |
cingo | Learning resources | 24 | 7,799 | 2012-11-10, 2:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Post: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? My faithful casio ex-word stopped working and casio will not repair it because it is a 2005 model (too old, that is). So I was thinking of getting a new one, but before I do I wanted to ask about the ... |
cingo | Learning resources | 24 | 7,799 | 2012-11-10, 1:37 pm | ||
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Thread: MEXT and changing programs / uni Post: MEXT and changing programs / uni I have been in a similar situation many years ago. After the first couple of weeks of understanding nothing at all at my host university (my language level turned out to be far lower than I had though... |
cingo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 6 | 2,712 | 2012-10-16, 7:31 am | ||
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Thread: 2012 JLPT Study Thread Post: 2012 JLPT Study Thread This link seems to lead to the results for non-Japan-based test takers: http://www.jlpt.jp/guideline/results_online.html |
cingo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 297 | 78,507 | 2012-08-28, 4:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Finding an apartment in Kyoto Post: Finding an apartment in Kyoto My pick for a hostel (just in case you need one, which you probably don't since I seem to recall you lived in Kyoto before): I stayed in Uno House http://unohouse.fte.jp/english/ and found it nice, ch... |
cingo | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 32 | 9,010 | 2012-08-05, 3:30 pm | ||
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Thread: please help me, I don´t really know how to work with RTK2 Post: please help me, I don´t really know how to work wi... I meant it is not necessary to memorize all those words, it is enough to be able to look at the words and read them (possibly knowing what they mean). (my method as described above involved learning a... |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,269 | 2012-07-18, 3:03 am | ||
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Thread: please help me, I don´t really know how to work with RTK2 Post: please help me, I don´t really know how to work wi... Interestingly, after writing my current method down I realized it is overkill. I do not need to write all those words from memory, after all I am only learning to read. I think I will modify it to rea... |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,269 | 2012-07-18, 1:26 am | ||
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Thread: please help me, I don´t really know how to work with RTK2 Post: please help me, I don´t really know how to work wi... Wow, yours is a very strong motivation! I have to say that as you pass the boring beginner level and get to the end of the demanding intermediate level things definitely get easier. I am very close to... |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,269 | 2012-07-17, 2:05 pm | ||
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Thread: please help me, I don´t really know how to work with RTK2 Post: please help me, I don´t really know how to work wi... This is a very good point that I forgot to mention. It is indeed the case that you manage rather quickly to go from kanji to keyword once you start working through RTK2. Thanks for pointing it out! |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,269 | 2012-07-17, 5:14 am | ||
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Thread: please help me, I don´t really know how to work with RTK2 Post: please help me, I don´t really know how to work wi... Oh and I just took JLPT N3, at the moment no one knows whether I passed it or not :) |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,269 | 2012-07-16, 4:53 pm | ||
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Thread: please help me, I don´t really know how to work with RTK2 Post: please help me, I don´t really know how to work wi... The short answer is a little more than one year of serious study. But it would have definitely taken less had I been a little more consistent in my studies. Years ago I took JLPT 4 and then 3, which w... |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,269 | 2012-07-16, 4:52 pm | ||
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Thread: please help me, I don´t really know how to work with RTK2 Post: please help me, I don´t really know how to work wi... I find RTK2 very useful and cleverly organized and I am slowly working through it. I started coming out of RTK1 with the obvious great enthusiasm that I got from learning all those cute stories and fr... |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 4,269 | 2012-07-16, 2:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese chansonniers Post: Japanese chansonniers Many many thanks for these links! A few of those are very similar to what I am looking for, the others also sound nice. And I did not know a single one of them. |
cingo | Off topic | 10 | 2,873 | 2012-07-13, 2:01 am | ||
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Thread: RTK for somebody who already know some Japanese Post: RTK for somebody who already know some Japanese I went up to 3級 before considering RTK at all. My life (as a Japanese learner) changed completely. I cannot recommend it enough. It took me one month several hours a day to complete RTK1, but the chan... |
cingo | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,011 | 2012-07-10, 3:51 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT4 in 3 months Post: JLPT4 in 3 months I made it in about the same time from scratch with Minna no Nihongo 1 and 2. There are 50 lessons. I think I did half a lesson a day for the first 25 and 1/3 lesson a day for the second 25 (I also use... |
cingo | The Japanese language | 1 | 1,440 | 2012-07-10, 3:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese chansonniers Post: Japanese chansonniers I have been looking for a while for Japanese chansonniers, but without any success so far, so I thought I might ask here. I am not thinking of someone like Edith Piaf (that would lead me to Misora Hib... |
cingo | Off topic | 10 | 2,873 | 2012-07-06, 5:23 am | ||
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Thread: Free / Non-Free Japanese Immersion Options Post: Free / Non-Free Japanese Immersion Options If I were you I would join an outdoor club. Japan has incredibly beautiful mountains and lots of almost magical landscapes. If you are hiking every weekend you will get to talk a lot and possibly also... |
cingo | Off topic | 13 | 3,433 | 2012-06-22, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese creative writing community? Post: Japanese creative writing community? Just in case someone else is interested, a kind lang8 user pointed me to this website: http://syosetu.com/ |
cingo | Off topic | 1 | 968 | 2012-06-19, 6:57 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese creative writing community? Post: Japanese creative writing community? Does anyone know of a free creative writing community for Japanese speakers? Not that I am anywhere near that level, but it is something I would like to do in the future, so I thought I might begin lu... |
cingo | Off topic | 1 | 968 | 2012-06-18, 3:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Very good (paper) dictionaries Post: Very good (paper) dictionaries Wow, I love this forum! I love the Dictionaries of B.I.A. Japanese Grammar, and this book looks even nicer. Many many thanks for pointing me to that thread! |
cingo | Learning resources | 7 | 2,266 | 2012-06-03, 3:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Very good (paper) dictionaries Post: Very good (paper) dictionaries Many thanks for your very nice answer :) I did not know about the college kenkyusha, but it sounds interesting indeed. I just find it strange that no high level Japanese-English dictionary for English... |
cingo | Learning resources | 7 | 2,266 | 2012-06-03, 12:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Very good (paper) dictionaries Post: Very good (paper) dictionaries I just received my copy of the New Nelson Kanji Dictionary and I was quite surprised not to find a single kana in the whole book (I knew it used romaji, but I had not imagined it would avoid kana alto... |
cingo | Learning resources | 7 | 2,266 | 2012-06-02, 2:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Romaji texts for total beginners Post: Romaji texts for total beginners Looking at the OP's history on this forum I suspect he knows very well that romaji is a waste of time. I apologize for being pushy with the standard romaji-is-evil crusade. |
cingo | The Japanese language | 25 | 13,638 | 2012-05-28, 7:13 am | ||
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Thread: Romaji texts for total beginners Post: Romaji texts for total beginners After giving you my nonconstructive comments it occurred to me that the first volume of the excellent Minna no Nihongo also exists in a romaji version http://www.3anet.co.jp/english/books/text_e_m_mai... |
cingo | The Japanese language | 25 | 13,638 | 2012-05-26, 3:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Romaji texts for total beginners Post: Romaji texts for total beginners Romaji is very bad for your health. And a forum for people who are keen to learn somewhere between 2000 and 3000 kanji is probably not the best place to ask. Besides it takes about three hours to lear... |
cingo | The Japanese language | 25 | 13,638 | 2012-05-26, 10:11 am | ||
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Thread: Patterns in Kanji reading? Post: Patterns in Kanji reading? Showing patterns is indeed what Heisig does in most chapters of RTK2. I am working on it after finishing RTK1 a while ago (I am still reviewing it daily though) and I find the approach extremely usefu... |
cingo | The Japanese language | 8 | 2,578 | 2012-05-06, 2:34 pm | ||
