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Thread: Moving to Osaka in 5 days - Last thoughts... Post: Moving to Osaka in 5 days - Last thoughts... I live in Kobe, near to Osaka. If you need anything, get scared / lonely, or want to go drink some beer, drop me a line. My email is my username here at pair.com. |
mullr | General discussion | 12 | 2,703 | 2010-09-03, 7:18 am | ||
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Thread: Writing essays in Japanese : guidebooks? Post: Writing essays in Japanese : guidebooks? fwiw, you really don't need any skills per-se to do lang-8. It's really all about just writing SOMETHING, and improving from where you are. Even without knowledge of particular form it's still reall... |
mullr | Learning resources | 4 | 3,164 | 2010-07-23, 7:56 am | ||
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Thread: TwitConc, a twitter concordancer Post: TwitConc, a twitter concordancer Yeah, it's just the most recent n, where n is a number I forgot. |
mullr | Learning resources | 6 | 1,438 | 2010-07-22, 11:49 am | ||
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Thread: TwitConc, a twitter concordancer Post: TwitConc, a twitter concordancer I made a little program to make it easy to, given a word you want to learn, find example sentences for it on twitter. It barely works, but it's already useful. I really like the cards I've made from... |
mullr | Learning resources | 6 | 1,438 | 2010-07-22, 11:08 am | ||
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Thread: Good Manga Reader for iPad Post: Good Manga Reader for iPad I use iComic happily. That's pretty much the reason I got an iPad. For content, you want to google for "一般コミック" or "raw manga". There are lots of sites full of rapidshare/megauload links. Get your... |
mullr | Off topic | 15 | 12,921 | 2010-07-21, 10:06 am | ||
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Thread: is Jim Breen's website a good place to find sentences ? Post: is Jim Breen's website a good place to find senten... Opinions differ on all this stuff, but my view on it is: I make a flashcard when I want to learn something. When there's a word I want to learn or some chunk of grammar I want to learn. Sometimes I... |
mullr | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,448 | 2010-07-20, 7:46 pm | ||
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Thread: is Jim Breen's website a good place to find sentences ? Post: is Jim Breen's website a good place to find senten... I don't think it's very good, but there are so many other good places to find sentences that it doesn't matter much. The key thing is to not get hung up on having a translation. Once you do that, yo... |
mullr | The Japanese language | 10 | 2,448 | 2010-07-20, 7:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Daijiren for iPad - does it take advantage of the better resolution? Post: Daijiren for iPad - does it take advantage of the ... Yeah, 大辞林 runs in 2x. It's very fast though, and kanji input still works great. |
mullr | Learning resources | 5 | 1,467 | 2010-07-09, 7:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you /have/ to SRS grammar? Is it recommended? Post: Do you /have/ to SRS grammar? Is it recommended? It may be worth noting that many grammar structures are quite easy to search for, since they involve particular words. A quick round on yahoo.co.jp, ja.wikipedia.org, or (my favorite) chiebukuro.yaho... |
mullr | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,528 | 2010-07-03, 10:44 am | ||
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Thread: Do you /have/ to SRS grammar? Is it recommended? Post: Do you /have/ to SRS grammar? Is it recommended? My wife, who has a master's degree in english education, always tells me that people learn things differently. It took me awhile to figure out how I learn language, but I ended up being able to use S... |
mullr | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,528 | 2010-07-03, 10:41 am | ||
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Thread: The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2010 Post: The World’s Most Expensive Cities 2010 I live in Kobe and I call BS on some of these... Article Wrote:Lunch at a restaurant: $16 I eat lunch out every day, costs between $4 and $9. A $16 lunch can be found, but you'd have... |
mullr | Off topic | 115 | 33,084 | 2010-06-28, 8:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Mr. T: Be somebody, or be somebody's fool! Post: Mr. T: Be somebody, or be somebody's fool! In case you're running into all those stories about Mr. T and need some imagery to go with them. Or if you've just come back from the beer garden and need something to watch. http://video.google.c... |
mullr | Off topic | 1 | 626 | 2010-06-11, 1:25 am | ||
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Thread: History book Post: History book I'd like to learn something about Japanese history, in Japanese. Can anybody recommend a book? I'm upper-intermediate-ish, but my reading comprehension is pretty good. Are there any standard / real... |
mullr | General discussion | 5 | 1,239 | 2010-05-29, 10:38 am | ||
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Thread: "the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-lingual approach" Post: "the Alfonso Japanese language series, an audio-li... Candle flickering on the table, monocle dangling from his belt... Katakana's a bitch when your quill pen goes blotchy. |
mullr | General discussion | 7 | 4,352 | 2010-05-13, 7:09 am | ||
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Thread: ようだ、だろう Post: ようだ、だろう The way I learned it: だろう/でしょう indicates uncertainty about something. The canonical example is the 天気予報: 明日は雨でしょう。 ～ようだ/～ようです is very much like みたい, meaning that something seems that way. I'm not g... |
mullr | The Japanese language | 5 | 1,373 | 2010-05-01, 8:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Sudden loss of ability Post: Sudden loss of ability Sleep, diet, attitude. Those are what do it for me. SRS exposes in quantifiable ways things we may not notice otherwise. If I didn't sleep well one night, sometimes I just skip reviews the next day... |
mullr | The Japanese language | 2 | 839 | 2010-04-28, 9:40 am | ||
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Thread: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? Post: How to approach 1-1 language exchange? I've done this a fair amount. I structure I use is 90 minutes, half english and half japanese. During each half, the other language isn't allowed. That's what really makes these things useful. Oth... |
mullr | General discussion | 21 | 7,376 | 2010-04-16, 7:15 am | ||
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Thread: any website listing professionnal expo in japan ? Post: any website listing professionnal expo in japan ? I'm also very interested. Same thing has happened to me twice now... |
mullr | General discussion | 3 | 690 | 2010-04-12, 8:49 pm | ||
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Thread: What are some popular Japanese homepages? Post: What are some popular Japanese homepages? Effeminate? What is it, the pink? It's springtime, whole friggin' country's pink right now. Even starbucks: http://www.pronweb.tv/modules/newsdigest...?code=1710 |
mullr | General discussion | 7 | 2,027 | 2010-04-05, 6:57 am | ||
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Thread: Verb used just in te-form Post: Verb used just in te-form Odds are good it's 知る, but don't forget about 知らない! |
mullr | The Japanese language | 18 | 4,763 | 2010-04-01, 7:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Looking for list of restaurant vocabulary especially yakiniku Post: Looking for list of restaurant vocabulary especial... But yakiniku... it's a world all its own. Lots of strange vocab. Yakitori too. Perhaps just straight-up menus would be the best source: http://www.y-goen.com/menu/menu01.html http://www.y-goen.co... |
mullr | General discussion | 9 | 4,656 | 2010-03-10, 11:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Looking for list of restaurant vocabulary especially yakiniku Post: Looking for list of restaurant vocabulary especial... Any luck finding one? |
mullr | General discussion | 9 | 4,656 | 2010-03-09, 5:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Using Japanese to learn other things? Post: Using Japanese to learn other things? I tried to read "Javascript: the good parts" in Japanese, but it didn't go well. I was able to understand stuff, but the trouble was that I really needed to know what was in that book quickly. After... |
mullr | The Japanese language | 23 | 3,819 | 2010-03-09, 5:03 pm | ||
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Thread: げんき, college advice Post: げんき, college advice Whatever you do, just don't be "that guy". The one who has a head start on everybody in the class (which it seems you do) and wants to make sure everybody knows it. Hold your cards close to your che... |
mullr | General discussion | 35 | 4,510 | 2010-03-05, 9:58 pm | ||
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Thread: So I bought a ticket to Tokyo... Post: So I bought a ticket to Tokyo... If you can get your money's worth out of it, totally do the JR pass. Riding on the shinkansen feels like going to the future. It's really awesome. It makes you understand why there are so many trai... |
mullr | Off topic | 12 | 1,748 | 2010-01-05, 7:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Manga on iPhone Post: Manga on iPhone I use iComic very happily. |
mullr | Learning resources | 6 | 1,333 | 2010-01-02, 8:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Another "I'm Finished" thread Post: Another "I'm Finished" thread But I think that 俺様 is important enough to warrant it. :) Time point 1: I randomly picked up RTK1 at my local Border's sometime in late 2005. Made some paper flashcards that I did with my wife. I tr... |
mullr | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,114 | 2010-01-01, 11:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Recommend a book on Japanese history Post: Recommend a book on Japanese history That NHK series is a fantastic resource, wish I had seen that earlier. |
mullr | General discussion | 14 | 2,841 | 2009-11-14, 8:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Saying thanks in Japan; when is it appropriate? Post: Saying thanks in Japan; when is it appropriate? My mother taught me to always say thank you, so that's what I do. People don't look at me strangely when I do. I almost always say "hello" in a store setting, in the best accent I can summon. Thi... |
mullr | General discussion | 76 | 12,372 | 2009-10-23, 9:25 am | ||
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Thread: Speaking with locals Post: Speaking with locals Not exactly what you were asking, but still useful: when going into a restaurant or approaching the counter at a store, always say こんにちは (or whatever is appropriate). It doesn't just mean hello, it a... |
mullr | General discussion | 6 | 992 | 2009-10-08, 1:18 am | ||
