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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 57 of 137 07 May 2013 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just been hit (again) with a mild irritation. I'm trying to type the kanji for とうとう
(finally) which is 到頭. However, I don't seem to be able to manage to see it anywhere in the list of possible completions. I'm using Linux Mint, but I've just looked on Windows XP and it's not there either. This is from one of the memrise courses (N3 or N4, I forget which) but I've double checked against tangorin.com and the kanji, kana and meaning are fine. Is this just one that the Japanese language support gets wrong or is there some trick I'm missing? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5190 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 58 of 137 07 May 2013 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not sure. It was #9 on my list using Windows IME.
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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5988 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 59 of 137 07 May 2013 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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You should be able to add custom words to your IME, although I'm not sure how this works in the version you're using. It doesn't show up in my version of Windows IME either.
However, I don't think I've ever encountered it written in kanji in the wild, at least I haven't noticed it, plus the entry on jisho says it's usually written in kana alone. So I would try not to get too irritated by this one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5054 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 60 of 137 08 May 2013 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
In case your preference towards Chinese characters over kana is breathtakingly prevalent, you shall study some Chinese, as it would provide you with near omnipresent Chinese characters. That way you could use the Chinese script over 99% of the time without being perceived as a smarty. Edited by Takato on 08 May 2013 at 5:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 61 of 137 08 May 2013 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
It's going to be a long time before I'm good enough for anyone to believe I'm showing off rather than simply making a mistake :-) tangorin.com also says that this one is usually kana, but I missed it. When it crops up again I'll mark the kanji as "ignore" on memrise and I'll never have to worry about it again. Thanks all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 62 of 137 23 May 2013 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Two weeks into my listening practice with my tutor and I think I need to put in much
more listening work before the N4 test in July. I'm scoring maybe 50% on the work she's giving me but in exam conditions that's likely toi drop and the pass mark is somewhere in the 30% region. I've found the JLPT 3 papers from 1991 - ~2007 and they include not onl;y the audio but also the audio transcript. So I'm going to start with 1991 and listen + read repeatedly until I can hear all of it. Then I'll repeat that for 1992 onwaqrds and hopefully by the time I reach 2007 I'll be scoring a tad higher than 50%. Apart from listening-whilst-reading and perhaps shadowing (which I'll also try), are there any other techniques I should look at for improving my listening comprehension? (I'll also be going through the written papers, tracking my scores as I go, just so I don't miss any other glaring issues, but right no 聴解 stands out like a sore thumb ...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 63 of 137 31 May 2013 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll track my past paper results in this log.
I've went through the Listening test in detail without trying it "blind", so I have no result for that. I tried the written parts of the 1991 JLPT 3 paper: 文字 - 78%, 読解 - 64%. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5988 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 64 of 137 03 June 2013 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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What is the specific problem you are having with listening? Is it an issue of exam technique?
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