You know how DOES love Godzilla? Koichi! :D
http://www.tofugu.com/2008/04/04/godzillas-new-life-5-american-buildings-too-tall/

And by “free” I take it you mean “legally, and at a reasonable price from a licenced purveyor of cinematic produce.”.

(This place is bugged, just play along!)

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• This reply was modified 13 years, 6 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

I was actually just about to type: “Meh, I’ll bite.”. Went to sign up and apparently they’ve “temporarily exceeded [their] capacity”.

On another note, when you talk about “circles”, my mind goes straight to the “Circles of Hell” XD

100th post B-)

I guess I better post a link too…

["Heart" - MEG]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFNdWtmIZsI
Oooh, dem thigh-high socks :E

(Have I already posted that one before?)

• This reply was modified 13 years, 6 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

But then you didn’t use RTK and thus didn’t see how good they are for learning how to write haha Everyone prefers different methods though.

For stuff like the かします = “cash”, I guess I do do that, but I don’t do it “actively” (if you know what I mean). Things like that just sort of pop in to my head, and most of the time they don’t actually make sense. I’m trying to think of an example, but most are so fleeting and nonsensical that they’re I wouldn’t create a list of them and they probably wouldn’t help anyone else – no one else had the thought process/random inspiration that lead to them. My explanation isn’t that clear, but what you gonna do?

運ぶ（はこぶ）[to carry] – はこ is the word for “box”, and “carry” just sorta fits (one of the more logical ones I guess)

履く（はく）[to wear shoes] – for a brief moment I messed up and thought はく meant “box”, which has nothing to do with anything, but it made me remember anyway XD

逃げる（にげる）[to escape, to run away] – にげる sounds like… a certain N-word, which leads me to think of slaves runnning away (it seems I remember the more logical ones a bit better)

比べる（くらべる）[to compare] – sounds a bit like “club”, which has nothing to do with anything

散歩します（さんぽします）[to take a walk] – the way Koichi says it in the audio for the Anki deck I thought was funny :P (I used strange audio (from smart.fm) to remember 丁寧（ていねい）[polite] too haha)

Do you see my point?

Other words, I just remember because I saw them somewhere and they just… stuck, I guess, for whatever reason. I guess I remember where I saw them, the surroundings or how I wrote them at the time, and that helped.

One more example: years ago, when I was a lot younger, I played this Dragon Ball Z fighting game (Budokai) and the announcer said what I heard to be “Hajimarimass!”, which for some reason I still remember after all this time. When I found out it was something like “begin” I was like :D and it stuck.

Is it not just as possible to create a Facebook group for Textfugu users? Might be a lot easier since everyone has Facebook and no one has Google+ (slight exaggeration :P).

Mnemonics for what? Do you have any examples or are you just planning to leech off us? :P

Heisig’s RTK is based around mnemonics for learning how to write kanji, so you could start by looking there :)

Aha, that makes a lot of sense now :P Thank you very much, both Sheepy and missingno15 :)

But like I keep saying, you’re not “just a beginner ヽ(´ー｀)ノ”

(I think I’m the only one here who actually cares about that XD I think we must have different definitions of “beginner” or you’re being way too humble haha)

EDIT: After reading the article on subordinate clauses, I feel like such an idiot :S I’ve already read it before! XD I must have been tired when I read it or maybe just forgetful :P That isn’t to say your explanations are any less helpful or appreciated :)

• This reply was modified 13 years, 6 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].
• This reply was modified 13 years, 6 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

Yeah, I looked them all up using Riakikun, it’s just that since I didn’t know some of the grammar, I wasn’t really sure EXACTLY what he means. Just wondering if the “gist” I got from it was close enough haha.

(The 日の丸弁当 was actually featured on the show, and I mentioned it in my lang-8 post )

Should there not be something in between 「～を使った」and「日の丸弁当もあれば～」? A particle maybe? I just doesn’t make sense to a beginner like me XD

Yeah, I took いろいろ to mean “various colours/colourful”.

I know this stuff should really be in the “Japanese I don’t understand thread”, but I guess it kinda follows on from my previous posts.

EDIT: A poster on my lang-8 showed me this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiH3grGDexI – ridiculously awesome lunches :D

• This reply was modified 13 years, 6 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].