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Thread: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new Chinese dictionary Post: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new ... Sorry for the delay. Thanks for the support and kind words, everyone! Quote:Other question: How many hanzi are you able to include per day? That remains to be seen. In theory we're planning on 15 or... |
bflatnine | Learning resources | 22 | 3,649 | 2015-06-19, 3:58 pm | ||
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Thread: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new Chinese dictionary Post: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new ... Sorry for the delay in replying! Things have been crazy. HerrPetersen, unfortunately Kickstarter takes cards only, sorry! aldebrn, I noticed some traffic from this page on our site. Just happened to... |
bflatnine | Learning resources | 22 | 3,649 | 2015-06-11, 8:11 am | ||
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Thread: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new Chinese dictionary Post: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new ... Wow, thanks! |
bflatnine | Learning resources | 22 | 3,649 | 2015-06-08, 9:34 pm | ||
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Thread: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new Chinese dictionary Post: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new ... HerrPetersen Wrote:After looking at the links there seems to be a lot more to it than the above, however I feel that a RTK-ish approach is not really possible, since a lot of components seem to repres... |
bflatnine | Learning resources | 22 | 3,649 | 2015-06-08, 9:17 pm | ||
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Thread: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new Chinese dictionary Post: One of our own is running a Kickstarter for a new ... Hey, thanks for the shout-out! We're planning to do a kanji edition next. I live in Tokyo now and am learning Japanese, so that project is particularly important to me. I'd be happy to answer any qu... |
bflatnine | Learning resources | 22 | 3,649 | 2015-06-08, 2:22 am | ||
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Thread: Translation and Interpretation - on their way out? Post: Translation and Interpretation - on their way out? Actually, I don't think most conference interpreters are natively bilingual. I read an article by a NATO interpreter a while back that said only something like 25% are. However, you do have to have go... |
bflatnine | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 23 | 5,173 | 2014-09-03, 8:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Translation and Interpretation - on their way out? Post: Translation and Interpretation - on their way out? I do freelance Chinese->English translation occasionally. I also took some classes in the translation/interpretation department at my university in Taiwan. I can tell you, the people who do well in... |
bflatnine | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 23 | 5,173 | 2014-09-02, 6:30 am | ||
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Thread: Plateau Post: Plateau A friend and accomplished interpreter/translator put it to me this way: "If you want to improve, you have to change your situation." Language depends heavily upon context. If you find yourself saying ... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 11 | 3,428 | 2014-07-23, 11:01 am | ||
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Thread: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? Post: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? I haven't published anything yet, just a first year MA student. :) My "low intermediate" in 2009 was actually more of an advanced beginner in retrospect. Not much difference, but hey. I think you're... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 26 | 8,455 | 2014-07-21, 1:40 am | ||
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Thread: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? Post: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? Woah, talk about a blast from the past. I'm still here though. :) When I wrote that post, I was planning to do a BA, then an MA, and eventually move on to the PhD. Well, I didn't get accepted for the... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 26 | 8,455 | 2014-07-18, 4:41 am | ||
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Thread: So how do you visualize in your mind the pronunciations of kanji? Post: So how do you visualize in your mind the pronuncia... Agreed, "visualize a sound" is the exact opposite of what you need to do. Learn the sound through extensive and intensive listening and mimicking of native speakers speaking naturally. The kanji and k... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 6 | 1,180 | 2014-07-13, 10:18 am | ||
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Thread: Handwriting and vocab question Post: Handwriting and vocab question I'm always surprised at how many people write off (pardon the pun) handwriting and say it isn't something you'll ever need to do anyway. I write by hand in English all the time. I write by hand in Chi... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 8 | 1,626 | 2014-06-03, 10:35 am | ||
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Thread: What is the point of 12,800 kanji? Post: What is the point of 12,800 kanji? I do research in pre-Qin dynasty palaeography. I'm in grad school in Taiwan right now, so my papers are all written in Chinese. I have fonts that cover over 77,000 characters (including Unicode CJK Ex... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 48 | 7,006 | 2014-05-05, 10:35 am | ||
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Thread: Rate of Pay for Freelance translation Post: Rate of Pay for Freelance translation That seems about right, at least for me. I know a translator who can do 4000 (Chinese characters) in a day, but he's been translating for 15 years and has better Chinese than any other non-native spea... |
bflatnine | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 8 | 4,759 | 2014-03-12, 11:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Rate of Pay for Freelance translation Post: Rate of Pay for Freelance translation How are "words" calculated in Japanese for translation purposes? It will be a while before my Japanese is good enough to start translating, but I'd like to know anyway. For Chinese-English it's genera... |
bflatnine | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 8 | 4,759 | 2014-03-10, 9:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Question about complete immersion. Post: Question about complete immersion. Quote:At the end of that he had an amazing accent but minimal speaking ability Do you speak Chinese? His accent was not amazing by any stretch. Tones all over the place, consonants and vowels pronounc... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 36 | 9,147 | 2014-02-20, 11:33 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. I'm not going to do your Googling for you, but here's a start. I never said the information was linked to in this thread, just that it's out there. It's also pretty easy to find. I don't really get t... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 36 | 6,949 | 2014-02-17, 11:40 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. Quote:But unless I am mistaken that estimate given above of 88 weeks, or 2200 class hours (http://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks...h_Speakers) was the FSI estimate for how long it takes to learn a ... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 36 | 6,949 | 2014-02-17, 8:46 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. dtcamero Wrote:makes me really curious to see those FSI people sit down in front of an episode of Dragon Zakura and see what they make of it. I don't see why you're doubting FSI's results because some... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 36 | 6,949 | 2014-02-17, 12:48 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. It also doesn't account for the fact that self-study at home and classroom instruction are not equivalent, and that the FSI is likely one of the most efficient language schools out there, so classroom... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 36 | 6,949 | 2014-02-16, 11:13 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. It doesn't make any sense to have a conversation like this without defining your terms. "Having learned" a language is very vague. It makes much more sense to talk about specific, well-defined levels ... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 36 | 6,949 | 2014-02-16, 7:35 am | ||
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Thread: Moving to Osaka? Post: Moving to Osaka? I just realized I never updated this. The job in Osaka didn't work out. No big deal. We're still in Taipei, but she actually got a job—an even better one—in Tokyo starting this fall, so I'll be movin... |
bflatnine | Off topic | 6 | 3,199 | 2014-02-14, 9:48 am | ||
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Thread: Improving general eloquence in a second language Post: Improving general eloquence in a second language I've found this article helpful in improving my Chinese, though my time is very limited these days due to grad school and I can't do as much as I'd like. "A few thoughts on 'b' languages" by Chris de... |
bflatnine | General discussion | 5 | 1,747 | 2013-12-10, 12:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Writing Kanji faster Post: Writing Kanji faster I agree with dizmox. Don't try to do anything other than 楷書 until you're very good and reasonably fast at it. Trying to learn other forms too early is asking for trouble. I'm in grad school in Taiwan,... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 12 | 3,605 | 2013-12-04, 12:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Is there a good way to dissect an unknown kanji? Post: Is there a good way to dissect an unknown kanji? It may help you to find out how the kanji actually work (Heisig is dead wrong, but that's not the point of his book). Kanji will generally have an original meaning and one or several extended meanings... |
bflatnine | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 5,224 | 2013-10-30, 7:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana coverting method? Post: Why can't Japanese improve their katakana covertin... I could just imagine a Japanese person learning Cantonese or Mandarin and having the exact same complaint. The Chinese way of doing it only sounds "closer" to the English to you because you're a nativ... |
bflatnine | Off topic | 49 | 10,324 | 2013-10-11, 9:11 am | ||
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Thread: Sentences vs Vocabulary Post: Sentences vs Vocabulary There's nothing that says you have to stick to the same way of studying at all times. I think in the 2 years I've been in Taiwan, I've probably changed approaches in some way or another at least 100 t... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 15 | 4,369 | 2013-06-20, 11:56 am | ||
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Thread: Sentences vs Vocabulary Post: Sentences vs Vocabulary If you find that sentences are taking too long to enter, you could buy one of those PenPower scanner pens. I have the WorldScanPen BT, and it works incredibly well, and it seems even more accurate for... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 15 | 4,369 | 2013-06-19, 10:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Getting to the good stuff Post: Getting to the good stuff I agree with yudantaiteki in post 13 above. This was exactly my experience with Chinese. I studied my ass off at a language center here in Taiwan for 15 months, and got to a very "high level," before ... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 71 | 11,170 | 2013-06-10, 1:17 pm | ||
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Thread: A beginner disoriented and without guidance Post: A beginner disoriented and without guidance Can't argue with getting started. But I can argue with the idea that good methods should wait until later. Unfortunately, when it comes to pronunciation and intonation (intonation essentially refers t... |
bflatnine | The Japanese language | 18 | 5,200 | 2013-06-04, 6:49 pm | ||
