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Thread: What's Going on in Japanese News? Post: What's Going on in Japanese News? Hi erlog, Such a thread is a nice idea although I cannot promise to be always tuning in. Anyway, I am going to take your bait. " Protests at the 官邸 today over the assassination of Goto Kenji by Isis... |
raharney | General discussion | 57 | 8,474 | 2015-02-02, 12:34 am | ||
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Thread: Inappropriate stories Post: Inappropriate stories buonaparte Wrote:raharney Wrote:Do you have "The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov. parallel, various languages, more or less aligned. http://users.bestweb.net/%7Esiom/martian...arallel.7z By the way... |
raharney | Off topic | 121 | 18,932 | 2015-01-29, 5:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Inappropriate stories Post: Inappropriate stories buonaparte Wrote:liosama Wrote:you would love Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog =] Off topic. But... if someone wants a parallel Russian-English or Russian-Polish text of the book Михаил Булгаков Соба... |
raharney | Off topic | 121 | 18,932 | 2015-01-28, 9:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese vonPeterhof Wrote:raharney Wrote:[3] Are you familiar with the hypothesis that Esperanto is a "gateway language" for other languages, that is, elementary school children who study Esperanto learn othe... |
raharney | General discussion | 52 | 12,059 | 2014-12-10, 2:49 am | ||
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Thread: Esperanto helping with Japanese Post: Esperanto helping with Japanese @captainporridge Very interesting post. Well written. Well done. I have some questions if you have time to answer: [1] How widespread is Esperanto in Japan? Is there a club in every city? [2] How lo... |
raharney | General discussion | 52 | 12,059 | 2014-12-09, 9:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Reverse translation purists Post: Reverse translation purists There is a problem with conceiving translation as being about replacing one word with another word (one lexical unit with another lexical unit). This happens, of course, all the time in translation. B... |
raharney | General discussion | 18 | 4,186 | 2014-04-22, 11:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? poblequadrat Wrote:Well, I do agree that society is multiple after all. Have you read Foucault's text "The Mesh of Power"? It's on the subject of the multiplicity of power, but it's also Foucault at h... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 10:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? poblequadrat Wrote:raharney Wrote:poblequadrat Wrote:By the way, raharney: power structures involve actual power - which these days usually means something related to class relationships in some way. ... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 9:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? afterglowefx Wrote:raharney Wrote:afterglowefx Wrote:Deploying Foucault on the internet to criticize the 'credential-driven power structure of the language learning community' while simultaneously com... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 9:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? afterglowefx Wrote:Deploying Foucault on the internet to criticize the 'credential-driven power structure of the language learning community' while simultaneously coming off as a massive try-hard look... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 8:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? poblequadrat Wrote:By the way, raharney: power structures involve actual power - which these days usually means something related to class relationships in some way. Maybe to some ideological mechanis... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 8:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? TsugiAshi Wrote:I'm not talking about credentials, I'm talking about the concept of fluency itself for everyone who agrees that one can become fluent in 3 months. I know that fluency is a subjective d... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 5:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? TsugiAshi Wrote:fabriciocarraro Wrote:As I've mentioned before, as well as in HTLAL, the "haters" are always the same ;) I agree that the criticism is intense, but consider the following for a moment,... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 5:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? patriconia Wrote:A more apt comparison may be this. A man claims he can build a car as fast as a Lamborghini really cheaply by tweaking some spare parts. .... An even more apt comparison may be Presto... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-08, 6:44 am | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? dtcamero Wrote:raharney Wrote:afterglowefx Wrote:The kindergarteners all clap and cheer. The engineering community is understandably mortified. You still have to account for the fact that Benny upload... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-07, 8:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? TsugiAshi Wrote:raharney Wrote:afterglowefx Wrote:That's one way to put it. Another would be that people are merely calling bullshit when they see it. Peddlers of charms and snake-oil cures convince t... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-07, 7:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? afterglowefx Wrote:You're talking to somebody with a BA in philosophy, but for the sake of everybody who hasn't spent years of their life investing themselves into a vocabulary of almost no practical ... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-07, 7:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? afterglowefx Wrote:raharney Wrote:As is the anti-Benny vitriol from the "polyglot community" which is an explicit sociological demonstration of how a given discursive community engages in aggressive s... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-07, 7:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months? fabriciocarraro Wrote:qwertyytrewq Wrote:Yes, I am bumping the Benny thread. Some of you people said you were going to buy his book. Did you read it? I did! The first 60 or 65% of the book is clear... |
raharney | General discussion | 856 | 195,465 | 2014-04-07, 6:51 pm | ||
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Thread: What do you consider to be the specific brilliance of Heisig's method? Post: What do you consider to be the specific brilliance... The fact that you prioritize writing over recognition. The problem for a lot of Kanji learners is that they learn how to recognize hundreds of Kanji but their mind goes completely blank when they hav... |
raharney | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 3,042 | 2014-04-03, 7:43 am | ||
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Thread: Benny v2.0 Post: Benny v2.0 Benny wanders the world, learning languages, hanging out in the coolest of places. What kind of dull minded moron wouldn't want to be Benny v.whatever. |
raharney | General discussion | 83 | 18,606 | 2014-03-31, 7:06 pm | ||
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Thread: James Heisig (author of RTK) and essays on the Japanese language? Post: James Heisig (author of RTK) and essays on the Jap... JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:Look, maybe I've got some weird trust issues or something, but for some strange reason, I don't believe stuff without a good bit of evidence. All I'm saying is I met the guy, his... |
raharney | The Japanese language | 27 | 5,895 | 2014-03-27, 10:27 pm | ||
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Thread: James Heisig (author of RTK) and essays on the Japanese language? Post: James Heisig (author of RTK) and essays on the Jap... JapaneseRuleOf7 Wrote:The second impression I got was that he doesn't speak much Japanese, and probably doesn't speak it well. The conference was a mix of Japanese and English speakers, and the entire... |
raharney | The Japanese language | 27 | 5,895 | 2014-03-27, 7:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Someone please help here Post: Someone please help here Tzadeck Wrote:raharney Wrote:Wow, you're such a charmer. So how would you translate it then. Let's hear you. Cool story bro OK. And then what does she say in reply in the second frame? |
raharney | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,307 | 2014-01-20, 8:57 am | ||
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Thread: Someone please help here Post: Someone please help here tokyostyle Wrote:Everything there is basically first semester Japanese. What exactly are you having trouble understanding? I'm feeling pretty lazy, but I'll at least throw you the Google Translate b... |
raharney | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,307 | 2014-01-20, 7:55 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Post: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Tzadeck Wrote:raharney Wrote:Wow you're so rude. What insecurities did I accidentally poke. Actually, what happened was, you said this: raharney Wrote:I envy your ability to be so unpuzzled about life... |
raharney | The Japanese language | 136 | 29,618 | 2013-12-20, 10:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Post: Japanese kana have hebrew origin? Stansfield123 Wrote:raharney Wrote:You are missing the point. The whole history of science has been about flawed hypotheses that were replaced by less flawed ones. Our objective knowledge is only as g... |
raharney | The Japanese language | 136 | 29,618 | 2013-12-20, 10:07 pm | ||
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Thread: The Political Discussion Thread Post: The Political Discussion Thread tiantian Wrote:raharney Wrote:tiantian Wrote:Maybe a better comparison would be Adolf Hitler being buried and enshrined in some national cementery and Ms. Angela Merkel paying tribute to it every year... |
raharney | Off topic | 60 | 24,056 | 2013-12-20, 10:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Where is uisukii? Post: Where is uisukii? NightSky Wrote:I don't understand leaving posts, it smacks of egoitsm. If you don't want to visit a forum anymore then don't, apart from the admin noone here is really important enough that they need ... |
raharney | Off topic | 27 | 4,948 | 2013-12-20, 6:39 pm | ||
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Thread: The Political Discussion Thread Post: The Political Discussion Thread tiantian Wrote:raharney Wrote:But how is the Japanese PM visiting Yasukuni Shrine any different to the Queen of England visiting Westminster Cathedral on Poppy Day, the day when past British imperiali... |
raharney | Off topic | 60 | 24,056 | 2013-12-20, 6:16 pm | ||
