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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1681 of 1702 02 October 2015 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think that I'd be burning the bridges completely but if I came back I'd lose some benefits I have for
being here so long and I would probably take a pay cut. Worth it and I still want to go. I have nothing tying me down to Tucson - no family or even a girlfriend. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1682 of 1702 04 October 2015 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Do you remember where you got hold of the KIC spreadsheet? I have both that (the new edition) and KZM-N2 grammar, so I'd like to get hold of the sample sentences and exercises in electronic form. Otherwise I may just have to resort to typing ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1683 of 1702 08 October 2015 at 6:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Well it's more or less official now. I gave my last day, I set the last day for my lease, and I bought plane tickets
and have made arrangements for a place to stay. Renting a room at a share house is very reasonable. I'll have cheaper rent than I do now and my plan to get my sabbatical will go into effect. I'm going to just study Japanese and do nothing else for up to six months. Woot! I'm applying for jet and so if I get that then I might just live cheaply as possible and study until it starts if I get it. If not then I'll just apply to whatever teaching position will take me. I'm deciding between self study of doing a classroom deal like I did with Genki Jacs. It can get lonely studying by yourself but in a shatehouse I don't think it will be as much of a problem. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6126 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 1684 of 1702 08 October 2015 at 7:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh wow, yeah, sounds like quite an adventure you have coming up.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1685 of 1702 08 October 2015 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow! There are no flies on you! Good luck with the change. I'm sure you'll have a fantastic time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1686 of 1702 09 October 2015 at 2:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Ah flies? I think you're right - I'll like the change. And if I don't I can come back to the US (with a lot more
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1687 of 1702 31 October 2015 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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How unusual for me - I haven't updated in a while. I am sort of getting ready for the move. Last weekend I had a
long weekend because I used some vacation time and I spent a -lot- of time scanning books into my computer. I was dismayed today when I found that all but a couple were missing. I'm not very hopeful about getting them back. I have a huge heavy paper cutter and a nice scanner that scans piles of papers pretty quickly so it's not like I'm using a flatbed scanner to painfully scan stuff super slowly. But it did take me most of the weekend I think I did 40 books I really don't know. Probably more. I scanned a lot of manga. I can only guess as to the cause of the failure - I think Epson Scan was putting PDF's into the documents folder for a different user on my computer that wasn't being used and my computer deleted said account.. it's very strange. I posted for help on the Apple community user forums and I may get a good guess as to what happened but i suspect I will never see the books. I went out to the recycling dumpster in the parking lot and it's empty so I can't do the old dumpster diving to rescan everything again. I still have a few copies of the materials I share with my tutors - so that means Kanji in Context revised and 新 完全マスター文法N２. And I still had Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Intermediate and Advanced in the apartment because I was thinking of rescanning them at higher resolution since I really like the books. /sigh. I had -just- bought 新完全マスター文法N３for review and now it's gone. There's surprisingly a lot of grammar in there that I can stand reviewing and even a few I hadn't studied. I hadn't realized there was N3 grammar I hadn't studied. Not the end of the world. Just a little depressing and I'm miffed at Apple for this happening. As for studying.. I never thought I would go back to Core6k/10k but I did. I made it a sentence deck and I'm testing myself for eating and more importantly, as a listening comprehension deck. The big reason I didn't like it before was the lack of N2/N1 grammar and while that's still true, it actually does a very good job of using non intuitive (for English speakers) collocations. Getting used to these collocations I think is key to bringing my Japanese to the next level. I like that the deck is full of native audio and I can make it a listening deck. While reading Japanese is really difficult due to the kanji involved, on the other hand, because kanji have meanings inherent in them and you can guess a meaning based on the kanji's use in other words or RTK, it kind of becomes a crutch so that you may not truly learn the sound of the word and only be able to understand it when it's presented with its kanji equivalent. The audio only part of the deck is great for getting around that i think and the audio quality is top notch. I could go with text to speech too I think and it would be ok too but nothing beats native speaker audio. Which reminds me. I recently started using the website https://rhinospike.com/. It's kind of fun and lets you request native speakers read and record audio for you for free. I've submitted a few chapters from 新完全マスター文法N２ and I've gotten some audio back. It's not as good as the Core deck audio but it's a real native speaker. I've only been using the site a few days but I'm guessing that for some reason there's just one guy in Japan who uses the site and does the Japanese audio.. wow. A Korean girl said so and so usually does the Japanese audio (I was exchanging emails with her after I read a poem she submitted) and sure enough he's read 3 of my requests for me so far and nobody else. I haven't listened to the latest response.. he dutifully read the example sentences of me and I'm thankful but his heart wasn't in it like the Core deck. I listened to him recording someone else's submission which was an excerpt from a book or movie and had characters and acting and he was clearly more engaged in that reading. I totally get that and especially if he's doing lots of audio for people I'm happy to have anything. Just if you're thinking of doing the same thing have an idea of what to expect. Also, you have to type out your request into the site... or copy and paste text. As mentioned above I have PDF scans of book images and I was hoping to just do a few screen shots to submit but that's not a possibility. Well... I guess I could post a dropbox link. Typing everything out is a hassle but more than that if you make typos then it's that much worse haha. He corrected my 1st submission's typos and I don't think I had any in the other submissions. (anyone who takes the time to actually do corrections AND read it gets hats off in my book, I was grateful). It's a bit time consuming but kind of fun doing the audio submissions. I spent money to get a good microphone and people are really happy and thank me for the high quality audio. I am debating bringing the mic with me to Japan it's kind of big and all of my devices have built in mics which are totally good enough just not quite as good. I was making a new grammar deck in Anki using 新完全マスター文法N２. Before it was a big hassle because I was typing everything into anki. I got the idea of just cutting and pasting screen shots (well not full screen shots the one where you select the portion of the screen) into Anki instead. Anki is wonderful for adding images to it directly like that. It makes creating the deck a bit faster and cuts way back on careless mistakes. The only mistake I made was when I was doing the practice exercises I copied the wrong answer from the answer key. I'm thinking of just skipping those and doing the deck from the grammar explanations only. When doing the reviews, the exercises are easier I think but they're a pain to make. I don't know. I recently installed Windows Bootcamp on my mac. I just bought a new mac for going to Japan. I had been using the 13'' macbook pro I got over the summer but when I went to Japan I saw nobody else had the 13'' version just the much more expensive 15'' version. And I got to thinking that's totally because when you're working that 15'' screen is a lot nicer. Anyway, I broke down and got the 15'' a couple weeks ago and now I'm going to sell the 13'' on eBay at a loss but I'm happy with the 15''. I would just get jealous every time I saw someone with a 15'' I think. The 15'' has the benefit of being a lot more powerful too although I haven't installed a game yet /shrug. More power is always welcome. So I installed windows and downloaded subs2srs. I haven't used this program in years but I am looking forward to giving it another whirl. I loved it but hated it because the level of Japanese was so hard for me at the time but the professional anime voice acting is just so awesome. A big drawback to mac is that they don't have a real mac version. I'm sure there's going to be other Windows programs I'll want to use too. I have a legitimate copy of Windows 7 but Apple stopped supporting Windows 7 in the Bootcamp for the laptops this year. You have to use Windows 8+. There's currently a free upgrade to Windows 10 for people with Windows 7 or 8, but, as I found out, you can't just install and upgrade Windows on a compatible system, get the new Windows 10 ISO, install it on your new 2015 mac, and use the Windows 7 key to register it. You can only register Windows 10 with your Windows 7 key using that -same- computer you did the upgrade on. I'm gonna try contacting Microsoft Support to see if they will make an exception for me - I've heard online that they sometimes do if you're convincing and they can remotely push through the registration if they so desire. Otherwise, currently Windows 10 is working fine unregistered on my Macbook Pro and it doesn't say anything about there being a time limit like 30 days as it did on Windows 7. But my guess is that after the 'free' upgrade period of 1 year for Windows 7/8 users, they will cut me off and I wouldn't want to get cut off haha. You can purchase a key on the Windows App store for 110 bucks or so. But I'm hoping they register the computer of for me when I ask nicely. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5185 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1688 of 1702 31 October 2015 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a link to one of the Rhinospike recordings (I'm very happy with this recording I think the speaker did a great
job.) 新完全マスター文法N２４課 1 person has voted this message useful |
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