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Thread: Dates + arithmetic practice Post: Dates + arithmetic practice One system that generates those dates is a voice mail system. Not sure if you have access to a Japanese phone, but it may be a possibility. Another possibility is commercials for events. If you want... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 23 | 4,655 | 2009-05-12, 5:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking in Japanese Post: Thinking in Japanese I'd say, if you're doing it right, thinking in Japanese is a by-product of having acquired Japanese. You don't really need to emphasize it or practice it. I'm not sure what the purpose would be to fo... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 16 | 6,122 | 2009-04-29, 2:35 am | ||
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Thread: Are any of you kanji learners parents, too? Post: Are any of you kanji learners parents, too? QuackingShoe- I think you're misunderstanding. I don't think I said that textbooks should ever be one's only source for studying a language. Textbooks have been useful to me both times I've gone to ma... |
mattyjaddy | Off topic | 22 | 2,918 | 2009-04-25, 6:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Having difficulty with Group 1 and 2 verb conjunctions Post: Having difficulty with Group 1 and 2 verb conjunct... I'm with QuackingShoe and mentat_kgs. Do what they say. Just read a lot. Like QuackingShoe said, it's good to read about these verbs so you know what to look for when reading/listening, but trying to... |
mattyjaddy | The Japanese language | 15 | 7,454 | 2009-04-24, 5:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Are any of you kanji learners parents, too? Post: Are any of you kanji learners parents, too? Yes. It's different. Adults brains are physically different from children's from my understanding of the knowledge and research about brains. Basically, what it equates to is that adult brains are mor... |
mattyjaddy | Off topic | 22 | 2,918 | 2009-04-23, 4:29 am | ||
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Thread: Remembering the Hangul? Post: Remembering the Hangul? Brute force isn't so bad with such a small set. For some reason I decided to learn Hangul as well. It took me just a morning to get the Hangul down enough so that I could slowly sound out words. From ... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 26 | 15,121 | 2009-04-21, 5:23 am | ||
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Thread: Are any of you kanji learners parents, too? Post: Are any of you kanji learners parents, too? Children don't need to "learn" languages. Not like adults do. As long as they are exposed to enough of the language they will pick it up. This can work until about the age of 13. Of course, the older ... |
mattyjaddy | Off topic | 22 | 2,918 | 2009-04-20, 5:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Onyomi studies AFTER Kunyomi? Post: Onyomi studies AFTER Kunyomi? As always, you should do what works for you and what you believe will work for you. If you work hard enough and have a reasonably workable plan, then you will likely have success. People are just givi... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 20 | 6,319 | 2009-04-16, 9:20 am | ||
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Thread: Onyomi studies AFTER Kunyomi? Post: Onyomi studies AFTER Kunyomi? I agree with Jarvik and Wally. In a year and a half, I was able to go from roughly 0 Japanese to passing the JLPT 2 basically from reading and listening alone. I did some textbooky stuff but just enou... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 20 | 6,319 | 2009-04-16, 3:01 am | ||
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Thread: Significance of remembering stroke count Post: Significance of remembering stroke count I find knowing and using the correct stroke order helps in several ways. If you use an electronic dictionary or DS game with writing pad, using the correct stroke order can make looking up kanji and c... |
mattyjaddy | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 2,782 | 2009-04-10, 2:51 am | ||
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Thread: How to not waste my time with a language Partner? Post: How to not waste my time with a language Partner? Koyota, I'd first just like to say, if you are understanding more than your able to say, then you are normal. Your ability to understand will always outpace your ability to produce. Just keep working... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 23 | 3,584 | 2009-04-07, 6:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Sentences Post: Learning Sentences At first reading, I had a similar reaction to Tobberoth's post. But I realized, as is evident in your post, it may just be a matter of semantics. Perhaps fully internalized doesn't just mean "grammati... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 77 | 10,546 | 2009-03-26, 6:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Sentences Post: Learning Sentences Hinode - Do what model works for you or follow others' suggestions here. I'd like to comment one part of your post though. The whole point of sentences is to not consciously study grammar (or at least... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 77 | 10,546 | 2009-03-26, 2:49 am | ||
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Thread: Hand-writing Post: Hand-writing Seth - Try the suggestions they gave. I've got a bimoji DS training cartridge. (that I don't use every day like I'm supposed to.) Though you say, you don't want to be a master calligrapher, signing up... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 10 | 1,929 | 2009-03-25, 9:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Long vowel sound Post: Long vowel sound I had trouble with that too. Like Tobberoth said, you get used to it after a while of listening to Japanese. The other part is when you have a large enough vocabulary and extensive enough grammatica... |
mattyjaddy | The Japanese language | 12 | 2,625 | 2009-03-24, 8:15 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Sentences Post: Learning Sentences Asriel - Yes, the sentences will help get a feel for kanji. I really have no idea what's on and kun. At all. I couldn't tell you. I know that one is Chinese readings and one is Japanese readings, but ... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 77 | 10,546 | 2009-03-17, 9:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Sentences Post: Learning Sentences I would say, you have the general idea down. But I think there are a couple important parts that are missing in your overview. (This depends on if there are other "sentence methods" out there besides ... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 77 | 10,546 | 2009-03-15, 8:03 pm | ||
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Thread: What are you supposed to say in a Japanese store anyway? Post: What are you supposed to say in a Japanese store a... In general, you don't have to say much to the clerk when you are checking out. Answer their questions when needed and say thank you if you want to as you leave. You really shouldn't look to other fore... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 116 | 19,581 | 2009-03-12, 7:36 am | ||
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Thread: What to do?? Post: What to do?? You can just switch to traditional flash cards. If you've only been at it a month, perhaps you won't have too many. I did only flash cards for the first 700 before it got to be too overwhelming. If yo... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 14 | 2,369 | 2009-03-03, 5:50 pm | ||
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Thread: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" Post: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" Gomen igordesu. I put the caveat because I didn't want to be assuming. To be noted though, is that even professors with PhDs don't necessarily have official teaching credentials (though yours may have... |
mattyjaddy | Off topic | 34 | 5,385 | 2009-01-20, 7:17 am | ||
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Thread: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" Post: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education" Interesting article. I don't understand the title of the post though. If anything, US high school foreign language classes are based on logic. But that's the problem, language isn't a logical system.... |
mattyjaddy | Off topic | 34 | 5,385 | 2009-01-19, 10:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers? Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole... Enjuku - That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking that students experiment with various ways of interpreting the information teachers provide them with the guidance of the teacher. Subsequently, the tea... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 71 | 9,134 | 2009-01-14, 9:41 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers? Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole... igordesu - Your post happened to be the most recent post to mine and was relevant to it, but as mine wasn't addressed to you specifically, it shouldn't be read as such. This is a forum with many peopl... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 71 | 9,134 | 2009-01-14, 2:39 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers? Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole... Being a student doesn't make you an expert on pedagogy. You most likely do not know all the reasons for any given project chosen by a teacher. Something that is being ignored here is that (public sc... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 71 | 9,134 | 2009-01-13, 5:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Suggestopedia: Real or Voodoo? Post: Suggestopedia: Real or Voodoo? Yes, it is for real. I'm sure it has worked for some, just as any other method has been successful to some extent. (I don't know of any methods that were created and spread around that didn't work at ... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 6 | 3,768 | 2009-01-13, 7:49 am | ||
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Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers? Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole... MoogleFan- It's good to get a variety of suggestions. The people here might be Japanese and/or self-study experts and they can give you some good insight along those lines. But I suggest speaking wit... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 71 | 9,134 | 2009-01-11, 10:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning via Paper Dictionary vs Electronic Dictionary Post: Learning via Paper Dictionary vs Electronic Dictio... OP - Could it be that all the times you spent looking it up added up to it finally clicking when you looked it up in the paper dictionary? That said, I think you're on to something. I know when I use... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 8 | 6,745 | 2009-01-03, 11:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Do you use "cool" Japanese? Post: Do you use "cool" Japanese? I hear ぞ and ぜ in normal conversation around here in Kagawa. I've heard women use ぞ as well. I guess you might sound odd if you over use it or if you incorrectly apply it. For me I'm not concerned so... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 15 | 2,062 | 2008-12-26, 7:04 am | ||
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Thread: Heisig is rote memorization Post: Heisig is rote memorization No worries. We all have opinions and should feel free to express them. It's the only way we can get anywhere really. That is if we are open to changing our minds. Linguistics is a pretty vast field. ... |
mattyjaddy | General discussion | 42 | 10,196 | 2008-12-25, 11:52 am | ||
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Thread: christmas in japan Post: christmas in japan I just had a really nice eikaiwa tonight. I told them that if I was going to have eikaiwa on Christmas we were going to have a party. So we all brought food. Of course, I procrastinated, but managed t... |
mattyjaddy | Off topic | 24 | 3,444 | 2008-12-25, 11:42 am | ||
