It seems like having it in the notes should be fine, right?  After all, in the end you should be able to tell if a phrase is feminine or masculine just by reading it.

Also, I've done chapter 13 and I'm most of the way through 14.  Again, I don't own the book, I just ganked it from my local library, but I'd be more than happy to share what I've done if I could get access to the spreadsheet.

Well, of course you wouldn't know from the start.  What I'm saying is, if you put the gender on the back of the card, then you can make it part of the active recall process.  If it's on the front, you might pick it up eventually, but there's no incentive to learn it since it's always right in your face along with the question.  I see it as being practically the same thing as putting furigana on kanji -> pronunciation cards.

Idea: have a seperate field for gender, then people can set it to display on either side they want. Thoughts?

I personally dont think it should be shown on the front side though.

timcampbell wrote:

の as a question word is more frequent in female speech, but it's not exclusive. Men sometimes use it in casual speech, since ですか sounds too polite and か can be too harsh. Follow the examples of other men on this one, to get a feel for it. There's no set rule.

While you're correct, the male equivalent of a の question marker is to just have no question marker. ですか and か are not the only options.

Okay going through the comments chapter 7 still seems to be up, so I'll get started on that.

I don't have enough sentences to type in lately, so I'd like in.  What's a good chapter to do?

Cool, count me in for 9 then.

Hi there,

I have both volumes of Making Out in Japanese, and would love to contribute a chapter.

I am part of the AJATT group already (called 'ashman63') but I doubt I have access to this current project.

Whoever is in charge, please assign me a chapter, and i'll get into it :-)

Thanks

Ashman63

I've put up Chapter 7, when I get back from Uni tonight I'll do Chapter 10.
Edit: Chapter 10 is up.

Last edited by shakkun (2008 August 14, 8:12 am)

第六課、できました！

This is going faster than I thought. As mentioned earlier my copy of the book is underway from the US to Europe but all chapters seem to be distributed already. I could take on a chapter of one of you with a 'double' load. Perhaps one of the later chapters would be best (as I don't have a clear indication when it will arrive, so this would not hinder those ready to put it in a SRS already). Or perhaps I should do some checking/verification work?

The chapters are really short, so that's why they're getting done so fast I guess. I'm still glad for the group effort though because my little finger on my left hand is broken. I never realised how much i use it for typing before! I've been checking as I go but double checking is always really good I think. Because the sentences are so short a small error is more likely to completely change the meaning.

Shakkun, I hope the broken finger was not caused by typing in too many Japanese sentences?

As for the booklet, it was just delivered by the mailman! Amazon really surprised me with a shipping time of only one week between US and Europe. So, that means I am ready to type or to do verification work, whatever is handy at the moment.

Zarxrax: could you give access to the spreadsheet?