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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5462 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 753 of 1702 31 January 2013 at 11:35pm | IP Logged |
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Since no-one's answered your query about なんだかめまいと吐き気がします。, here it is.
めまい is a noun meaning "dizziness" and 吐き気 is a noun meaning "nausea". So the と is simply "and" connecting two nouns, and the sentence means "Ihave dizziness and nausea", or more naturally, "I feel kind of dizzy and like I want to throw up". Edited by TixhiiDon on 31 January 2013 at 11:35pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 754 of 1702 01 February 2013 at 6:20am | IP Logged |
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Thank you! And it makes so much sense now that you've explained it that I wonder why I didn't see that
already. And I'm glad that the sentence is good japanese so that I can continue to use that resource for free study material. Thanks again. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 755 of 1702 01 February 2013 at 7:51am | IP Logged |
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Updated my Note 2 to latest firmware for T-Mobile version. If you have rooted your phone like I did and are not so much worried about losing root access as you are about losing Japanese fonts for kanji that are actually correct... well you will lose those fonts if you update. I was really annoyed at that since I didn't remember at all how I rooted my phone or fixed the fonts and had to search with google all over again to do it. It took like half an hour to fix. I am not sure what the new firmware does. It's not the latest android version - it's the same android. Whatever. I'll be more careful about upgrading going forward.
*edit* still considering the iphone as the above is annoying. But I'm not sure I'll be able to handle the small screen size after using this huge 5.5 inch screen... Edited by kraemder on 01 February 2013 at 7:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 756 of 1702 01 February 2013 at 11:17pm | IP Logged |
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Well I guess the JLPT results are online if you were savvy enough to keep you info needed to login etc. I wasn't. I will next time. I'm waiting on the results in the mail.. probably 2 weeks away maybe? Really I'm nervous about the listening section. I did really well on the listening on the only practice test I took but during the test I found it a lot harder... and didn't really come up with a strategy to compensate until the test was almost over and it was too late.
Would be nice if my local library had lots of practice tests to take. I didn't have a lot of time to really study prior and wasn't so motivated to do so but when you have to order them from Japan.. well.. one was all I got. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 757 of 1702 02 February 2013 at 1:16am | IP Logged |
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Caught up on my vocab SRS.. well most of it. I went through about 500 reviews. I removed a couple of decks from iKnow and some slang since it's not needed for the class under any circumstances and I'm clearly behind at the moment on my reviews. I'll add them back in later as I catch up. I also made about 130 new vocab cards from handouts for the chapter that we're doing. Seems like a lot of vocab.
In contrast I've studied virtually no vocab for German and have only looked at the material a couple hours before class. I need to catch up and do the work for German - I'm not really behind just a little and I fly through it compared to Japanese but if it piles up it'll be a real pain. German class was good. The teacher explained a lot about the German school system and whatnot in class and it was interesting. She did this all in German. And this is 2nd semester German. As with any language class, well probably other classes too but especially language, we have people with a variety of backgrounds. In 101 you probably only get beginners but in 102 you start seeing people signing up who want to take the course and have studied German before. They don't give us a placement test - we just sign up. So the range of ability is pretty broad I think. Well the guy sitting behind me pretty much doesn't understand anything the teacher says and has to get his girlfriend to help him. I don't know how many are like that. A lot of the class seems to understand though. Anyway, we did a listening exercise from the book. I don't think it was scripted at all and that is a mistake for a 102 course. The listening material was just video of an interviewer asking students a few simple questions about school, how they pay for it, and what they intend to be etc. I found it hard to follow. The people being interviewed weren't making any attempt to speak clearly for non-native speakers or to grade their language. The questions were so simple and the responses short enough that I guess the book authors felt it was ok. I think it stank. Anyway. It was a fun class regardless. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 758 of 1702 02 February 2013 at 4:29pm | IP Logged |
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I nearly had the same problem logging on to get my N3 results last summer. Eventually I realised that the password has to be an 8 digit number, and I guessed that since it is not something that requires a high level of security I would have chosen something obvious like my birth date or my phone number. Fortunately I was right about that!
Does the college where you take your course have much Japanese material available in the library? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 759 of 1702 03 February 2013 at 2:38am | IP Logged |
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Do they have any at all? lol. I haven't even checked... I'll ask the librarian next time I'm there.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 760 of 1702 08 February 2013 at 6:52pm | IP Logged |
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Posting on my new iPhone. My flashcard app undeniably looks better on iOS than android and I was gonna
just get the new iPod touch. But I used the touch for 20 minutes at a cafe and liked it enough that I went and got an unlocked 64 gig iPhone. I have to get the unlocked version for my carrier. I'm liking it a lot so far. I do not miss the extra space on the note 2 very much to my surprise. It's got a lot more space. I really like one handing the srs app in bed with this phone while with the note you can't really one hand it if you're lying down and fighting gravity. And posting here on this forum, android would sometimes bug out after a paragraph and move the cursor to random spots. Well you could say swiftkey bugged out but it's the only input method I could tolerate. I like having midori again too. But I will miss this handy android app to quickly convert kanji rtk meanings making it so easy to paste into my flashcard app. I can take a couple more seconds to type in the meaning after checking midori though. I haven't checked all my apps out yet I'm mostly using the srs one and it is pretty nice. I need to get thinking about a speech topic. My friend from class who did the best out of anyone in our class (she won 2nd place in two contests) was one of the very few to write a speech that wasn't just an autobiographical anecdote. I think they didn't give her enough credit for that. The autobiographical stuff is far easier. Sure it's also interesting if you've had an intersting experience. But not much creativity. I'm thinking I'm not going to be creative and just try to get through it and make something easy though. Cop out. Oh well. I'm still behind on the srs cards. They're so hard to keep up on. I don't see how people can add 20 per day and not be behind all the time. Would be nice. Edited by kraemder on 08 February 2013 at 6:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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