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Not completely dead. It comes in waves, a bit – we’re just at a quiet time. =)
Of course, it doesn’t really help that I keep forgetting to check when there’s no topic reply notifications. =P
Yeah, there’s no harm in having too much money. =P
Just make sure you budget properly at some point, with actual figures. You don’t want to get there and discover you can only afford to spend five yen a day. =)
Didn’t realise we could even access it in the first place.
Maybe it’s all wrapped up in scaffolding and whatnot.
Maybe a holdout from an older edition of the page? I couldn’t really say – I never paid much attention to the Anki decks. =P
You can always just grab the deck from the downloads page. Not really sure what it contains, though.
Friend and I spent $AUS 3333 each on a two-week trip, though that includes airfares, hotels, and a two-week JR Rail Pass. Not sure how that extends to your trip. Also, daily spending money averaged around 4500 yen per day.
Looks like you should be fine, unless you’re going to Okinawa or anywhere north of Sendai. Here’s the map from this year’s cherry blossom forecast:
http://www.jnto.go.jp/sakura/eng/index.php
Where are you planning on going? What are you doing? =)
According to Wiktionary, pronouncing 入る as いる is mostly restricted to expressions and idioms, though perhaps it’s dialectical as well? Dunno.
Incidentally, 入る as はいる can also be written as 這入る (i.e. 這 (は) + 入る (いる) ), though that looks to be either archaic or literary – either way, it seems to be quite rare, getting 32,000 results on Google when compared to 68,000,000 for 入る. =)
入る can also be read as いる. Just to make things more fun, you know?
JLPT = the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. It’s a standardised test of Japanese ability released by the Japanese government worldwide. There’s five levels, running from N5 (beginner) to N1 (super-duper advanced).
Enjoy Japan, though. When are you going? =)
You don’t need need a Suica card, but it makes buying tickets for public transport waaay simpler. You can use on other things too, like vending machines – anything with a reader, basically. If you’re not planning to stay in Tokyo, by the way, there’s other local equivalents – supposedly the Suica card works almost everywhere, but it didn’t work in Osaka when I tried it four years ago (though maybe they were still integrating things?)
http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/pass/suica.html
As for phone service, I’m no expert. I know you can rent phones at the airport and similar places, but it’s possible you may even get better value for money just buying one outright. (And maybe you can sell it on eBay afterwards, if you want.)
http://www.softbank-rental.jp/e/
Ummm… I honestly can’t think of anything else to suggest. Got any queries, maybe?
Actually, もっと can go pretty much anywhere in the sentence. Word order isn’t nearly as important in Japanese as it is in English.
I kind of agree that TextFugu teaches some things in a slightly funny order, but honestly you need to be fairly intermediate at Japanese before you can hold “a general Japanese conversation” (by which, I’m taking to mean more complicated than just “what are you hobbies” or “where’s the bathroom”), and TextFugu only really covers maybe basic to lower intermediate, so it’s not really TextFugu’s order of teaching things that’s the issue. To apply the JLPT standards, you’re not expected to be able to manage “everyday Japanese” until you reach N3, but TextFugu only reaches N5.
So, by all means practice saying what you’ve learnt, but you’ve gotta be realistic about how much you actually know. I’ve done the N3 test myself, but I suck at listening (and I’m not much better at speaking, because I forget everything when I open my mouth).
Hey, Gigatron. Long time no see. Er, I mean, お久しぶりですね. =)
Temples and onsen are perfectly regular activities in Japan. Or if not onsen, at least sento. Sightseeing is too, to a certain extent – by far the greater majority of tourists in Japan are day visitors from other parts of Japan.
Not too sure what advice I could give, though. Um… get a Suica card?
Oh, boy. Hmmm. Maybe 準備者? Not really sure…
Forever is a very long time. =P
