kazelee wrote:

ahibba wrote:

I know that it is a variation of "how in the name of Jesus", but why Pablo? and who is this Pablo?

Just a random name. =^_^=

Don't joke around about this, it's not a random name! ahibba, Pablo is an Esperantodorian prophet/deity, a very serious reference among certain sects of Esperantodorians across the globe. Of course, the syllabary has been transcribed and transposed in order for kazelee to avoid offending practitioners of this religion, but you'll notice, if you know the true name, that the stress and timing of the word and the number of phonemes remains the same, which adheres to canonized spoken rituals.

kazelee wrote:

nest0r wrote:

kazelee wrote:

Just a random name. =^_^=

Don't joke around about this, it's not a random name! ahibba, Pablo is an Esperantodorian prophet/deity, a very serious reference among certain sects of Esperantodorians across the globe. Of course, the syllabary has been transcribed and transposed in order for kazelee to avoid offending practitioners of this religion, but you'll notice, if you know the true name, that the stress and timing of the word and the number of phonemes remains the same, which adheres to canonized spoken rituals.

Pablo be with you!

LOL. This conversation gives me fond memories of my father who tries at every opportunity to convince gullible guests and family members that we have a great great great uncle Pablo who invented nachos. Once he has you hooked, he expands on the story and relates that Pablo travelled around the world having adventures and inventing other famous culinary masterpieces throughout the centuries (he invented the concept of melted cheese, pasta and pizza amongst other things...). You'd be surprised how many people fall for it, until he starts to include Pablo in famous events occurring in different centuries

Last edited by blackmacros (2009 July 01, 10:37 pm)

Mcjon01 wrote:

blackmacros wrote:

LOL. This conversation gives me fond memories of my father who tries at every opportunity to convince gullible guests and family members that we have a great great great uncle Pablo who invented nachos. Once he has you hooked, he expands on the story and relates that Pablo travelled around the world having adventures and inventing other famous culinary masterpieces throughout the centuries (he invented the concept of melted cheese, pasta and pizza amongst other things...). You'd be surprised how many people fall for it, until he starts to include Pablo in famous events occurring in different centuries

Your guests obviously aren't prone to random browsing of Wikipedia while hungry, else they'd already be familiar with the valiant tale of Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya.

Guests that mention this, or look it up, are delivered a withering and contemptuous sneer accompanied by the explanation that Pablo's exploits are all "hush hush" after he got on the wrong side of the "Chinese emperors" and was erased from our history books.

The tales of Pablo have, since then, been passed down from father to son throughout the generations; along with his famous Nacho recipe of course.

Last edited by blackmacros (2009 July 01, 11:01 pm)

I don't know what are you talking about!

Who is this Pablo?

Pablo Picasso? Pablo Escobar? Those are the only ones I know with the name of Pablo.

Musashi wrote:

I don't know where you're from but I bet you had English in high school

No, I didn't study English even in school, because when I was in school, I have never let my schooling interfere with my education!

When I was in school, I didn't like it because I thought that they wern't teaching us anything useful, so I wasn't going there everyday and prefer to stay at home reading my older sister textbooks! (not in English) Sometimes I was going to school two days a week and stay at home three days! In the 7th grade and the 12th grade (last year in the secondary school), I was learning at home the whole year, and go to school in the end of the year for final exams. That made troubles with my parents and teachers but fortunately, I got high marks

Musashi wrote:

There are lot's of way called studying,

Reading only is not enough to be called studying.

だから，超社交的だな～

snallygaster wrote:

TOEIC 800+ in 3 months?
People say it's impossible, but I bet it can be done.  After all, at a party I can remember up to 10 English people's names in an hour, and there are only 200 questions on the TOEIC test.  Who wants to challenge me?  I've never been to ESL school, so I'm starting from scratch.

LOL

duder wrote:

Its annoying when people submit their"  I learned X kanji or vocab in y time so i should get to Z by this point"

there is something called the law of diminishing marginal returns that needs to be taken into account.

If you are already trying as hard as you possibly can to learn something, as information piles up, you will necessarily become unable to maintain those initial high study/return rates.

I understand that there are freaks of nature out there (see crazy fools studying pie to a zillion points) - that is however the exception and not the rule

That's why we gotta find the p90x of language learning!

Chandlerhimself wrote:

The problem with that is, unlike most European languages, Japanese subtitles don't match up 1:1 with what is said in English. In some cases the Japanese and English is unrelated. I've talked to Japanese translators and they told me there is a certain number of Kanji allowed per line. If what someone says in English takes to many Kanji in Japanese they just change it. On the other hand if someone says something that is complicated in English, but very short in Japanese they add words that aren't there. The example they gave me was "hello". If it's said quickly they might translate it "おはよう", but if they say "Heeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooo" then they translate it "おはようごさいます。お久しぶり。お元気ですか。, even if none of those extra things were said. Not to rain on your parade, but there are a lot of potential flaws to this method for learning Japanese.

Let's not forget simple omission. I was just watching House. His quick sarcastic jokes seem to be omitted unless they are plot pertinent.

And I was so looking forward to absorbing the wit!  (T^T)

I think I prefer the not so lazy man's way of SRSing to sloppy captions. I gave it week, I learned some stuff, but I prefer to HEAR Japanese as I'm learn it. Not completely gonna give this up but I think I'll give it a rest for now.

Last edited by kazelee (2009 July 05, 7:06 pm)

After a couple of years of study I passed JLPT2 last year, with something like 62%, just in the limit. I haven't used Japanese much since then but reading this topic I think that I may still be able to pass JLPT1.

Looks like most will agree is possible. But how many hours/day it can take? How would you approach the study?

If anything you should take as many previous tests as you can. Memorizing Kanji and vocab is fine, but what is the most likely to raise your grade is becoming super famliar with the exam format. Also, are you going to practice reading?

Oh, her... I think she did a video where she complained about Japan not having any laws against discrimination and being a generally unlikeable hellhole. Fun stuff.

I have slightly changed my plan to add some days for reading (I've edited my previous post). I think this may be enough. I will try to read more Japanese in general but not sure if I will be able to get some time for that.
The worst part is getting the feeling of what is natural for grammar I have never seen before. I don't think it can be done in the 3 months I have left till the test.
I have a test from 2001, it looks like the reading section is much bigger than grammar. It may not be that important if I don't score particularly well on grammar?

Are you sure about this? That would make the test much more difficult. I haven't read anything about that

Short question regarding the new JLPT.
They emphasize the new 「 課題遂行のための言語コミュニケーション能力」 part, but how exactly does 言語知識 differ from 文字･語彙? I don't really get the difference from reading that PDF.