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kanjiman8:
I’m currently working my way through every episode of Seinfeld. I’m on season 5 at episode 79. Just over 100 left to go.Nice, it’s a great show. Thought S1&2 were a bit crappy but it really picks up from 3, and my bad there’s 9 seasons, oops!
It’s quicker for me to download DVDs than putting the real disc in and going through all the dumb menus/copyright ads! I have all 8 seasons of Seinfeld but what’s the point in using the DVD when I can download an episode every 30 seconds? Seinfeld DVDs specifically makes you sit through at least 20 secs of copyright stuff.
…enjoying my free 60MB upgrade most definitely!
I always found VLC a bit sketchy when playing back DVDs from other regions, but what do I know, I don’t even own any computers with DVD drives anymore.
Most of the notes I have are about particles so I write them up like this: http://i.imgur.com/efLah.jpg
I just like bolding stuff. I don’t write down any vocab or kanji, I leave all that stuff to iKnow.
I know we take N1 at university in a few years, I might try 3 next year perhaps but more than likely I’ll just wait to do the first at university. You are right though, it would be a good way to gauge progress.
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Luke.
I finished Core2k now, starting 3k tomorrow. Aside from that just been reading bits of Tae Kim and looking at my book on particles, also started picking away at the reviews for my “completed courses” on iKnow. (mostly Core1k reviews)
Injured players should result in a free substitute, at least in the finals. Having to play 1 player down because of that is just stupid.
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I don’t really have any problems with the sounds because there’s not anything else in Japanese that sounds similar to them. Pronunciation wise I think it’s pretty trivial to worry about them, the only issue is if you pronounce it with a hard R like you would for “Rat” only then can I see a Japanese person MAYBE having difficulty understanding, but even then I reckon they’d understand you.
I remember initially being confused over whether or not it’s meant to be an ‘L’ or closer to an ‘R’ but then I just realised it’s up to the speaker, also music more often than not heavily leans towards ‘L’.
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づ sounds identical to ず or つ at times, this is my experience from doing Core on iKnow. I don’t think I’ve even encountered a word with ぢ in it yet so I’d say neither of these things are really worth thinking too much about. づ is also super rare so far, I think I’ve seen like 6 out of 2000 words on Core use it.
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@kanjiman
I’m not sure yet, I’m pretty set on either Oxford or Oxford Brookes though, the town of Oxford is brilliant!
What keeps me motivated is knowing that I still haven’t even started Japanese at uni, so that’s 4 years of Japanese on top of my almost one year of learning already. I think by the time I finish uni I’ll be at a pretty good level, especially as I’ll live in Japan for one year during, so I don’t really get annoyed if I feel that I’m failing to understand certain things in native material because I know I have so much time ahead to get better and better.
Plus eh you should feel good about where you at, since Japanese and Chinese require so much additional learning time because of the writing system. It’s not like French or German where the alphabet is practically identical, meaning you can jump right into vocab and grammar. With Japanese and I’m guessing Chinese, every word requires a little bit more reviewing because of kanji compounds.
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Don’t worry about it too much, the pronunciation differs a lot (well by a lot I mean it can sound like an L, like an R, or a mix) with Japanese people, as long as you aren’t going for a straight RE as in “Replay” it’s probably not worth fretting over.
I tried it but I don’t think it’s for me. I’m kind of past learning single kanji now.
Read the Kanji (.com) or iKnow is a better fit for where I’m at I guess, since there’s a lot of compounds.
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Well think of it this way, what’s a genius way to scam people out of money?
Scientology.
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We have a great Chinese restaurant, the buffet is amazing. Also seem to attract quite a lot of people from Asia these days!
and am I going crazy or do the new lessons in S7 seem quite thin on content compared to previous ones? Maybe they aren’t complicated enough to require multiple pages but even the simpler stuff in previous seasons had more content generally if I remember right.
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