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Thread: My own kana charts Post: RE: My own kana charts They're not kana that "should" be there. People can read the obsolete kana ゐ/ヰ and ゑ/ヱ and they're still used very occasionally today in company names, e.g. ヱビス, but they aren't modern kana. The oth... |
James736 | Off topic | 12 | 1,316 | 2015-12-13, 9:44 am | ||
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Thread: Filled with RTK rage. Post: RE: Filled with RTK rage. You say you don't like grammar, you don't like learning vocabulary, you're frustrated with the process of learning kanji, and not only that but you also have no real interest in Japanese material, not... |
James736 | Remembering the Kanji | 27 | 3,276 | 2015-12-04, 11:09 am | ||
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Thread: I need help drawing kanji Post: RE: I need help drawing kanji It's called writing, not drawing; you mean vertically, not "top to bottom style"; and no, that isn't correct. |
James736 | The Japanese language | 2 | 479 | 2015-11-30, 9:27 am | ||
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Thread: Genki. How long does it take to finish a chapter Post: RE: Genki. How long does it take to finish a chapt... (2015-11-30, 3:35 am)Dudeist Wrote: I've read of some people who knock off a chapter a day, I assume they are putting in full time hours though. I know of universities that offer intensive courses ... |
James736 | Learning resources | 14 | 1,558 | 2015-11-30, 9:24 am | ||
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Thread: Genki. How long does it take to finish a chapter Post: RE: Genki. How long does it take to finish a chapt... About 20 hours, following the typical university course's structure of 4 hours of class time, plus homework, plus self-study time, at one chapter every 2 weeks. |
James736 | Learning resources | 14 | 1,558 | 2015-11-29, 8:42 pm | ||
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Thread: [translation] writing beautiful body, mind, and soul Post: RE: [translation] writing beautiful body, mind, an... If you're getting a tattoo in a language you don't speak, get a native speaker to write it for you. If you're getting a tattoo in Chinese or Japanese, next take it to a calligrapher and pay them to w... |
James736 | General discussion | 3 | 504 | 2015-11-28, 11:56 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: RE: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Um, Digix? You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. |
James736 | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,123 | 2015-11-24, 6:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Test Anxiety Post: RE: Test Anxiety If it's a long test, vs. a quiz, take the first few minutes to read through the whole thing without answering any questions. It'll calm you down. |
James736 | Off topic | 7 | 768 | 2015-11-18, 8:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Post: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Even if you live smack in the middle of Tokyo nobody's forcing you to exist in an expat bubble. That's a choice people make. |
James736 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 25 | 2,953 | 2015-10-30, 8:16 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Stansfield123 Wrote:The best solution would be to name both Japanese and English as official languages, and teach English properly in public school, by giving it the same weight as Japanese, math and ... |
James736 | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,123 | 2015-10-30, 8:14 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Post: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. But teaching English in Japan is its own special category. As others have mentioned, in primary and secondary schools the teachers are always Japanese citizens; the ALTs are supposedly there to provi... |
James736 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 25 | 2,953 | 2015-10-29, 8:24 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Post: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Zgarbas Wrote:I don't understand why English teaching has become a conbini-level job, when it is such an important factor in the formation of a student's life... Junior high school English class is ab... |
James736 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 25 | 2,953 | 2015-10-29, 12:06 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. Post: Teaching English in Japan/JET. Standards. For JET, a BA in any field and the ability to convince the interviewers you're a normal, relatively presentable person and you won't (a) cause any problems, (b) do something stupid or embarrassing, or... |
James736 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 25 | 2,953 | 2015-10-28, 7:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Wow, there's a lot of nonsense being posted here. I mean, I guess when you have a bunch of people who aren't linguists or particularly well-informed or knowledgeable discussing a very complex topic i... |
James736 | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,123 | 2015-10-28, 9:00 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) There's no good reason to move to the Roman alphabet as there are already 2 phonetic syllabaries, but reading Japanese text all in kana is excruciating. In fact, even Japanese braille references kanj... |
James736 | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,123 | 2015-10-27, 4:56 pm | ||
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Thread: JPN3 test - letter of complaints Post: JPN3 test - letter of complaints I still don't see why it's such a problem for you, but if it is then why don't you ask them at the testing site to please make announcements? |
James736 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 24 | 3,495 | 2015-10-14, 11:07 am | ||
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Thread: JPN3 test - letter of complaints Post: JPN3 test - letter of complaints I think you have more hope of persuading them to change the way they do things if you don't contact them at all. You seem to be a non-native English speaker, and your writing is--forgive me--not good... |
James736 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 24 | 3,495 | 2015-10-12, 8:39 am | ||
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Thread: Tokyo without ads: Japan's capital stripped bare Post: Tokyo without ads: Japan's capital stripped bare visualsense Wrote:Not a fan of ads and billboards, but the pics look more like "Tokyo without Typography". Dude just deleted EVERYTHING. Yes, as you say it wasn't just the ads that were removed, but a... |
James736 | Off topic | 7 | 927 | 2015-10-12, 8:28 am | ||
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Thread: Is there such a learning tool as this? Post: Is there such a learning tool as this? Reading novels entirely in kana would be torture. |
James736 | Learning resources | 31 | 3,686 | 2015-10-11, 3:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Nightclubs in Japan Post: Nightclubs in Japan cophnia61 Wrote:I think I look very feminine in a sense, but just like an emo or a gothic boy, not really like a girl. Because of that I was thinking more about the gay thing in a "private" environmen... |
James736 | Off topic | 22 | 1,944 | 2015-10-11, 3:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Nightclubs in Japan Post: Nightclubs in Japan cophnia61 Wrote:I'm not interested as a client lol I asked because even if I'm straight I have this tendency to attract other men lol So if I don't find other ways to live in Japan maybe I can do the ... |
James736 | Off topic | 22 | 1,944 | 2015-10-11, 1:41 pm | ||
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Thread: JPN3 test - letter of complaints Post: JPN3 test - letter of complaints What's so hard about checking your watch? |
James736 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 24 | 3,495 | 2015-10-11, 1:35 pm | ||
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Thread: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Post: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Dudeist Wrote:James736 Wrote:I don't think you mentioned that you were wanting to study for the JLPT. If so, you can find books specifically for that. Pretty sure I didn't. I figure if I am going to ... |
James736 | Learning resources | 13 | 1,877 | 2015-10-06, 6:41 pm | ||
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Thread: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Post: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Dudeist Wrote:James736 Wrote:Use A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar to help you understand the grammar you're studying in Genki (or whichever series you choose), i.e., as a supplement, not as a st... |
James736 | Learning resources | 13 | 1,877 | 2015-10-05, 8:32 pm | ||
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Thread: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Post: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Dudeist Wrote:Would you recommend using the D*JG along side the texts or after each text of suitable level or perhaps going through all the 4 levels of text [G1.2 Tobira, New Authentic...] first then ... |
James736 | Learning resources | 13 | 1,877 | 2015-10-05, 7:58 am | ||
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Thread: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Post: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Dudeist Wrote:So if I am understanding you, the audio resources from Genki, Tobira and the KM listening should be enough at least to get me to an easy native material stage or at least roughly as well... |
James736 | Learning resources | 13 | 1,877 | 2015-10-04, 1:12 pm | ||
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Thread: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? Post: On developing a personal study plan. Advice? The way to work through a textbook series is by starting at the beginning of the most basic volume in the set and progressing through it, using the audio that goes with each lesson. I don't see the p... |
James736 | Learning resources | 13 | 1,877 | 2015-10-04, 10:50 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Congratulations, all! |
James736 | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,643 | 2015-10-02, 7:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks... Learning a foreign language is not cultural appropriation. That's near the top of the list of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. |
James736 | Off topic | 168 | 10,729 | 2015-10-02, 10:09 am | ||
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Thread: Almost beginning with learning Post: Almost beginning with learning Kruzer132 Wrote:Hi people, In a week I'll become 14 years old, and by happenstance I have a Japanese lesson on that day. So I have been wondering how I will announce to my teacher that I became 14 ye... |
James736 | Remembering the Kanji | 63 | 9,406 | 2015-09-26, 7:59 am | ||
