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| librarian Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5068 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 73 of 407 09 February 2011 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks! 242 is interesting as that particular 'word' is not often used in English....
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 74 of 407 10 February 2011 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have you started on any novels or non-fictional works in Japanese but not about Japanese?
I believe these kinds of materials are essential to get a feel for a language and to continue moving up the C-levels. If they feel too difficult still, parallel texts could help. I'm sure you could find someting that catches your interest at http://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/~mutiyama/align/data/titles-pages .htm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 75 of 407 10 February 2011 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Hi Judith! I suppose you are refering to the fact that 日本人の知らない日本語 sounds like a book about Japanese -- it's really a manga about the difficulty a teacher encounters while teaching Japanese to foreigners. To be honest, I don't really like it that much, but it's still interesting. In any case, yes, I also read other novels. But I will DEFINITELY check out the link you posted. Thank you very much! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 76 of 407 16 February 2011 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | ||
Just wanted to let you know that I've been reading Around the World in 80 Days. Thanks! I copied the file over to Word, and added Furigana. I also now removed a total of over 2,200 words from the 15,000-word list. I'm being rather conservative and I'm keeping quite a few passively known words that I still need to work on. That implies that my active vocabulary is somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 words, yielding an average of about 1,000 words a year, or 3 per day. Edited by Arekkusu on 16 February 2011 at 8:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 77 of 407 23 February 2011 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still well on my way to covering all kanji this year. I'm using the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary (won in last year's speech contest) where the kanji are introduced in order of frequency.
I also bought a new electronic dictionary which -- finally! -- includes NHK's pitch dictionary. This is no doubt going to be the one I use the most. The screen on the newer Casio models is gorgeous, by the way. Read a few pages of the dual-columned version of Around the World in 80 Days. Watched a few dramas. Back to meeting my language partner weekly. Time after time, by far the most useful part of my learning. Met a friend's 3 Japanese friends yesterday. For the first time ever, eerily, not a single one of them said "上手ですね" or some variation thereof. My friend must have mentioned something to them because I didn't speak particularly well. Kind of weird... yet, I used to complain about that phrase. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 79 of 407 17 March 2011 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Merci. Je t'en souhaite tout autant! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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