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    Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog
Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog

I would be interested. I'm supposing one would learn a lot just by putting something like that together before even doing this L-R thing.
Fuamnach General discussion 358 75,094 2010-07-17, 7:37 pm
    Thread: Top 5 Interests
Post: Top 5 Interests

Okay, I ain't gonna lie... 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Manga :D I could say I like the language and the culture, but I like lots of languages and cultures. There are other interests and benefits I gain from learni...
Fuamnach General discussion 49 9,150 2010-06-25, 4:24 pm
    Thread: What's the best thing to do with $250,000?
Post: What's the best thing to do with $250,000?

1. Take out $10k and treat yourself 2. Put the rest in a savings account and don't touch it until you've 3. studied business/finance/investing/stocks/housing development 4. use knowledge to increa...
Fuamnach Off topic 69 19,530 2010-06-16, 5:40 pm
    Thread: Where does you nickname come from?
Post: Where does you nickname come from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuamnach ^-- read this article one time when randomly browsing and was the first name that sprung to mind when I signed up. Nothing special :)
Fuamnach Off topic 66 10,383 2010-05-23, 12:05 pm
    Thread: The UK Election and aftermath
Post: The UK Election and aftermath

LOL was watching "the wedding" on channel 4 (and the bbc coverage AND itv, gah, too much news) loved the part were they were like to Cameron "when asked what you think is the funniest joke you said "N...
Fuamnach Off topic 19 3,318 2010-05-12, 2:55 pm
    Thread: The UK Election and aftermath
Post: The UK Election and aftermath

IceCream Wrote:In terms of who the lib dems should have backed, it's a kind of a sticky situation for them either way. yknow, i have voted for them in the past, but no way was i going to when Nick Cle...
Fuamnach Off topic 19 3,318 2010-05-11, 4:57 pm
    Thread: The UK Election and aftermath
Post: The UK Election and aftermath

Well everything's changing so fast. I just went out for a couple of hours, saw this post and decided I need to check on the status of things, only to discover that David Cameron is the new Prime Minis...
Fuamnach Off topic 19 3,318 2010-05-11, 4:29 pm
    Thread: All I ask is...
Post: All I ask is...

same here ^^ so desensitized am I to the sarcasm and rhetorical speech of daily life, the OP sounded perfectly humble and polite ;)
Fuamnach Chinese and Hanzi 27 6,014 2010-05-05, 10:31 am
    Thread: sleep is death
Post: sleep is death

1. what a morbid title. I like it. 2. Interesting concept. I guess you'd have to be quite high level though, if the person types something in Japanese and you don't know what they're commanding, kind...
Fuamnach Learning resources 11 3,051 2010-04-28, 2:07 pm
    Thread: Economics and Physics major
Post: Economics and Physics major

Raschaverak Wrote:Fuamnach Wrote:As far as I know, it's less to do with E=mc2 (unless you're talking about particles) and more to do with the time dilation equation; Δt' = Δt/(SQRT(1 - v2/c2)) (for sp...
Fuamnach General discussion 25 7,366 2010-04-27, 12:51 pm
    Thread: Economics and Physics major
Post: Economics and Physics major

Lol, I think it's coz the people I refer to graduated 2007/2008, before the whole credit crisis thing, so I assume it was easier to get a job then (though still really competitive, it's like they want...
Fuamnach General discussion 25 7,366 2010-04-27, 12:18 pm
    Thread: Economics and Physics major
Post: Economics and Physics major

Raschaverak Wrote:donjorge22 Wrote:I'm finishing off a physics degree Cool! I've always wanted to ask a physicist about this: could you explain to me, how does the space-time structure change under t...
Fuamnach General discussion 25 7,366 2010-04-27, 11:31 am
    Thread: Economics and Physics major
Post: Economics and Physics major

georgative Wrote:As someone who is finishing his major in physics, here is my rant =P I highly don't recommend it. As someone already mentioned, it's sorta prestigious and you can probably make a lot...
Fuamnach General discussion 25 7,366 2010-04-27, 11:00 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

@ta12121: Thanks for your advice :) I can see from your response to Asriel the difference between you and me. It's consistency. I have a bad tendency to not add or srs for days on end when there is re...
Fuamnach General discussion 1,389 294,702 2010-04-22, 12:16 pm
    Thread: @cangy: Qs about your kore chart
Post: @cangy: Qs about your kore chart

LOL, I know that feeling :) Another thing, I think the long constant stretches you refer to in the "fancynuke" (which, btw, I have no idea what this actually is :/) mean that at around 400 sentences (...
Fuamnach Learning resources 10 2,465 2010-04-17, 5:31 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

@ta12121: woah, that's amazing :) I swear I read somewhere else you saying that you started sentences only 7 months ago or something (at least I think it was you...). How many sentences are you doing ...
Fuamnach General discussion 1,389 294,702 2010-04-17, 5:05 pm
    Thread: @cangy: Qs about your kore chart
Post: @cangy: Qs about your kore chart

the number of unique kanji is constant. on the graph it looks like for every 1000 sentences there are approx 280 new kanji and this doesn't change, so at 2000 sentences there will be 560 kanji and so ...
Fuamnach Learning resources 10 2,465 2010-04-17, 4:58 pm
    Thread: Best way to practice Kanji without an SRS?
Post: Best way to practice Kanji without an SRS?

@Ryuujin27: Glad I was able to help :D I too know how it feels to look at a deck and want to throw the comp out the window. I hope things work out for you ;)
Fuamnach General discussion 24 5,692 2010-04-15, 12:25 pm
    Thread: Japanese Article Text to Anki Deck
Post: Japanese Article Text to Anki Deck

ThomasB Wrote:Anyway, if you think this is a good idea I can improve the tool a little bit. I.e., make it easier to use, include some more features, etc. If it's not useful, well, it doesn't matter ;)...
Fuamnach Learning resources 38 9,513 2010-04-15, 12:20 pm
    Thread: Best way to practice Kanji without an SRS?
Post: Best way to practice Kanji without an SRS?

Theoretical solution - I haven't tried this, but... if you're feeling creative...you could take a number of kanji and every couple of days, or every week or so, and aim to write words containing them ...
Fuamnach General discussion 24 5,692 2010-04-15, 4:38 am
    Thread: Audio --> Kanji Production only deck
Post: Audio --> Kanji Production only deck

hereticalrants Wrote:I tried this. Raw memorization just made me angry at Japanese, so I got rid of it. So...what are you doing now; you returned to sentences? wildweathel Wrote:Two words of advice ...
Fuamnach The Japanese language 7 2,744 2010-04-12, 1:22 pm
    Thread: Sentence Technique
Post: Sentence Technique

I've just written about more or less the exact same problem ;) just letting you know there's someone in the same boat. Was thinking about going vocab only to try and rectify this as I noticed I rememb...
Fuamnach Learning resources 5 965 2010-04-11, 2:59 pm
    Thread: Audio --> Kanji Production only deck
Post: Audio --> Kanji Production only deck

So I finished RTK November last year, but didn’t start sentences properly till I returned to the UK at the end of Jan (I was in Africa and internet access was RUBBISH :D) but I did read some of Tae Ki...
Fuamnach The Japanese language 7 2,744 2010-04-11, 2:47 pm
    Thread: Audio --> Kanji Production only deck
Post: Audio --> Kanji Production only deck

Hi guys :) I've been doing Core 2000 (as a sentence deck in Anki) and completed Step 1 – 4, and I'm thinking about abandoning the AJATT's sentence method forever (dun, dun dun!). I would still do some...
Fuamnach The Japanese language 7 2,744 2010-04-11, 2:46 pm
    Thread: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan
Post: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan

@ Babyrat: thanks for the detailed reply :) I'm encouraged to look into wwoof again. @ bodhisamaya: At all! Well, I suppose it could be worse :o
Fuamnach Off topic 33 12,219 2010-03-12, 9:42 am
    Thread: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan
Post: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan

Babyrat Wrote:Fuamnach Wrote:bodhisamaya Wrote:A very small fraction of the donations raised actually went to help homeless people. The rest went to support the three (noisy) children of former stude...
Fuamnach Off topic 33 12,219 2010-03-11, 7:11 pm
    Thread: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan
Post: Volunteering & Home Stay in Japan

bodhisamaya Wrote:A very small fraction of the donations raised actually went to help homeless people. The rest went to support the three (noisy) children of former students who lived with him. I pa...
Fuamnach Off topic 33 12,219 2010-03-11, 5:01 pm
    Thread: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo
Post: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo

danieldesu Wrote:Katsumoto basically said he knew two types of Japanese before coming to Japan, super polite (aka keigo), and ultra informal manga/drama style speech, and that it only took about 2 wee...
Fuamnach The Japanese language 40 16,445 2010-02-25, 12:43 am
    Thread: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo
Post: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo

yudantaiteki Wrote:Fuamnach Wrote:I reckon if you get the job first the keigo will take care of itself :) Highly unlikely. Native Japanese people don't pick up keigo naturally; it's orders of magnitu...
Fuamnach The Japanese language 40 16,445 2010-02-24, 11:08 pm
    Thread: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo
Post: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo

I reckon if you get the job first the keigo will take care of itself :) being in that environment your speech should eventually alter coz people imitate others :P This is what happened to a friend of ...
Fuamnach The Japanese language 40 16,445 2010-02-24, 9:32 pm