playadom wrote:

nest0r wrote:

playadom wrote:

店員が突然癇癪を起こした。

When would you ever use this sentence? ;p

It's in there for 漢字 purposes, of course.

Yeah, it's a good sentence for repetition of kanji and grammar and stuff.  I mean, just knowing the word "店員" is enough to say the sentence serves a purpose.  And then there's the reinforcement of a common word, "突然".
Not necessarily a sentence to memorize and "use" later or something.  But who knows, there might come a situation...

Last edited by Nuriko (2009 February 20, 2:50 pm)

woodwojr wrote:

When describing events in one's home country to Japanese friends, of course

~J

One day we'll refer to all the pre-robot years like this, to describe the barbarism of the past, once we acclimate to new levels of disaffection and politeness.

I haven't started doing so yet, but I was speculating in another thread about colour-coding recognition sentences--for vocabulary, this would be highlighting certain words (perhaps with certain themes, such as green for financial or plant-related items... or green for green ;p), simply to draw my gaze towards them. Same with particles and grammar points and whatnot. I usually write down new words or words I'm iffy on, to add analytical and gestural support to the memory process.

I color-highlight important words in definitions red so I don't have to read the whole thing to quickly check my understanding, but that's it. It would be a good idea for long sentences, to focus the mind on that word, but a better solution is just short sentences.

背中が○○○する
虫などが蠢くさま。またそのような感じを受けるさま。
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背中がもぞもぞする

That's not really a sentence card though. The first sentence that came up was from sub2srs

(絵)
サラリーマンの父親に専業主婦の母親。
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(Audio)
サラリーマンのちちおやにせんぎょうしゅふのははおや。
【専業主婦】職に就かないで、家事に専念する主婦。

Tobberoth wrote:

Jarvik7 wrote:

Tobberoth wrote:

Isn't that supposed to be 交通が不便?

You missed the more obvious mistake of 思ういますか. Is this an example from a native Japanese source? It seems pretty odd.

What are you talking about, it's 思います just like it's supposed to be.

"どう思ういますか" is what J7's referring to, I believe.

Jarvik7 wrote:

You missed the more obvious mistake of 思ういますか. Is this an example from a native Japanese source? It seems pretty odd.

I think transcription error is the obvious suspect in this case.

~J

nest0r wrote:

I haven't started doing so yet, but I was speculating in another thread about colour-coding recognition sentences--for vocabulary, this would be highlighting certain words (perhaps with certain themes, such as green for financial or plant-related items... or green for green ;p), simply to draw my gaze towards them. Same with particles and grammar points and whatnot. I usually write down new words or words I'm iffy on, to add analytical and gestural support to the memory process.

I saw a beginner Chinese textbook that assigned a color to each tone. That made for some pretty psychedelic sentences.

良質な作画で描かれているものの、狙い澄ました路線や、楽屋ネタやら一定層にしかわからないネタ、楽しませる事よりも奇抜さを狙った構成等、話題を集めるべくして作られた作品といった印象が付いて回り、些か安直過ぎる作りではないかとも思える。

Back:
澄ました= 液体の、にごり・よごれなどの不純物を除いて透き通った状態にする ()
付(つ)いて回・る=
いつも離れずに付き従う。また、ある特定の事柄が、いつまでもそのものにつきまとう。
(I only defined the words I didn't know)
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Well to be quite honest I had troubleunderstanding this sentence the first few timesIr ead it/ when it showed up in the reviewsbut now I have no trouble understanding this sentence. 

It is from a Lucky Star review.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2009 August 11, 5:55 pm)

howtwosavealif3 wrote:

良質な作画で描かれているものの、狙い澄ました路線や、楽屋ネタやら一定層にしかわからないネタ、楽しませる事よりも奇抜さを狙った構成等、話題を集めるべくして作られた作品といった印象が付いて回り、些か安直過ぎる作りではないかとも思える。

Back:
澄ました= 液体の、にごり・よごれなどの不純物を除いて透き通った状態にする ()
付(つ)いて回・る=
いつも離れずに付き従う。また、ある特定の事柄が、いつまでもそのものにつきまとう。
(I only defined the words I didn't know)

Whoa, that is a long sentence...


Heres the first card that showed up today
Question:
本番はこれからだ！あんな爆発でびびるな！
(Screenshot from FF7)

Answer:
本番　＝　ほん・ばん
びびる

I didn't bother puting definitions, since I can remember it from context.