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| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4798 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 633 of 1702 17 December 2012 at 2:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I know Kotoba app for iOS is free, it now goes by the name "imiwa?", which I don't really
like, but it's a great app. And it also integrated pronunciation recently, so you can click on the word and here it out loud, which is really cool. I don't think it has the draw feature, though. But it's free and really good. I also use Midori, which is my favorite, but it does cost money. 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 634 of 1702 17 December 2012 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I got my grade for the Japanese course. An A. I was expecting it but
it's always good to get confirmation because you never know. I'm not as confidant of the N4 results but it'll be a while before I get those. So plenty of time to worry XD. I'm hoping to better prepare for this coming semester than I did for the last one. I was pretty good about getting the vocabulary but otherwise I just read the grammar and had an ij understanding but didn't really absorb it. That's what if like to do different thus time but we'll see. I've said it before and I don't like studying grammar. I think about grammar constantly and all but to sit down and just drill new rules takes more discipline out if me than any other language thing I can do. So I'm hoping the srs cards I made work well to overcome that. I have most of chapter 4 done. They're setup as fill in the blank to test the grammar. I took the example sentences from the book and removed the part that they're teaching so that's my side one along with the yookoso English translation which is generally a very good one (as opposed to what you get with the free dictionaries online). I'll post here how it goes. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 635 of 1702 18 December 2012 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well done on your A grade!
I hate the delay for JLPT results. It feels like by the time you get the results, its not really relevant to where you are in your studies anyway. I'm pretty lousy at studying grammar too. At least in a language like Japanese, there's not too much to worry about beyond things like particles. Compared to languages where there are genders, cases, many irregular verbs etc, it's not so bad. See, I'm trying to be positive :) 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 636 of 1702 19 December 2012 at 5:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah the A feels good XD thanks. I suppose it won't feel so relevant when I get the grade because I'll have moved up to another level in theory. And I'm sure I will. I've already learned more vocabulary and I'm getting a hold of a few new grammar structures.
I've pretty much gone through the vocabulary for Yookoso chap 4 already. Enough that I went ahead and added Chap 5 to my SRS deck. Vocabulary seems to be my strong point at the moment. The theme for chap 4 is pretty much body parts and not surprisingly I had a huge head start on that already. How can you study Japanese for over a year and not know a lot of that vocab. You can't. I also have the first 500 from the 1000 to 2000 vocab in iKnow in my deck just added recently. Again, a lot of reviews there but also some is new. And I added this 'slang' deck a user created on iKnow. A ton of new vocab in the slang deck. I hardly knew any of it. And probably a lot I'll never use it's mostly for hard core adult film addicts I think. But I felt ignorant not knowing it so I'm studying it regularly. Regarding the grammar cards I made for Yookoso chap 4 - I've gone through them all and gotten a correct response 3 times in a row. So that's good. They'll be up for review soon and I'll need the review. But it's looking good. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 637 of 1702 19 December 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||
Yeah right :P How come my Japanese grammar dictionaries are 3 volumes with over 600 pages each and my Norwegian grammar book is only about 200 pages and covers everything you need to know? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 638 of 1702 19 December 2012 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Basically because what gets called grammar in Japanese is more like sentence patterns and expressions once you get passed the basic fundamentals. Plus I think those dictionaries are exceptionally detailed.
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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 639 of 1702 20 December 2012 at 3:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Just watching an anime となりの怪物くん (my little monster) and I heard the word 久しぶり and I heard the ひ at the beginning. Thank god. I didn't know there was a ひ at the beginning of that word for so long.. and then I did... and then I forgot lol. Guess I remembered.
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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 640 of 1702 21 December 2012 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Aww crap the top student by reputation in our class told me that
she's thinking of not doing the speech contest this year. That would be a big let down. I'll have to get on her case go make sure that doesn't happen. That said I need to start thinking about what I'm going to so. Or I'll be wanting to do the same thing lol. In terms of my studying I'm keeping up on my reviews pretty well. I haven't added all of the new words for next semester yet. Mostly professions but basic stuff you'd definitely want to know. I'm thinking of getting zelda in Japanese for Nintendo DS because I heard that it has furigana for all the kanji which is awesome. I don't know of any other games that do that. I'd rather get something more current for Android or ps3 or xbox bt I don't know of anything. I've kept up with the grammar srs cards that I made which is awesome. I need to make some for review for older grammar and add more and what not. It's so important. And i hate grammar so much. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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