Forum: General Chat
2011-12-17, 21:14
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,218
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Forum: General Chat
2011-12-17, 18:53
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,218
No matter what foreign language class you take,...
No matter what foreign language class you take, there will be moments where the teacher says something, and the reaction from the students will be an almost unanimous "What?!" During those moments, a...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-10-02, 16:12
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Replies: 3,944
Views: 639,546
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Forum: General Chat
2011-10-01, 22:26
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Replies: 3,944
Views: 639,546
Unfortunately, there are many different...
Unfortunately, there are many different approaches to translation, the broadest two divisions between strict/literal translation and liberal translation. Quite frankly, given the same text, two...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-25, 05:15
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-25, 03:37
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-23, 04:25
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Replies: 530
Views: 136,380
I once listened to an hour long podcast that...
I once listened to an hour long podcast that taught basic Irish Gaelic. Don't remember a thing, unfortunately. Maybe some word that sounds remotely like "slongafall" as it might be read in English....
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-23, 04:02
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Replies: 3,944
Views: 639,546
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-15, 22:11
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,006
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-15, 22:04
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
From my experience, it's highly likely you'll...
From my experience, it's highly likely you'll meet Japanese people who'll poke fun at the stereotype that most people who are interested in Japan nowadays are otaku. This also means that admitting to...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-15, 04:21
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,006
Graduate School and/or Working in Japan
Hi everyone. Did a quick search throughout the forums and didn't find a thread devoted specifically to this topic, so hopefully there isn't some huge thread I'm unaware of discussing this.
A bit...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-09-01, 08:55
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Replies: 7,770
Views: 1,502,352
The word kimono (着物) in Japanese means "thing...
The word kimono (着物) in Japanese means "thing that is worn," and can be translated in a larger sense simply as clothing (prior to the introduction of Western clothes). Thus, a yukata (浴衣) is a subset...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-08-26, 02:12
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,404
Most of what I can recommend has already been...
Most of what I can recommend has already been covered by other people in this thread. However, I do have one huge recommendation:
Don't shy away from talking to your teachers and attending office...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-08-16, 06:45
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
I studied at a Japanese university for a...
I studied at a Japanese university for a semester. It was the exact same as university in the US, where teachers and students don't really choose their classroom but instead everything is planned by...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-08-15, 01:07
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,130
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Forum: Sports & Entertainment
2011-08-14, 06:59
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,163
I actually participated in this study, since us...
I actually participated in this study, since us psychology undergrads at UC San Diego are required to participate in psychology experiments for a lot of our classes. If I remember correctly it was...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-08-14, 06:57
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Replies: 68
Views: 6,827
This topic actually reminds me of so called...
This topic actually reminds me of so called "reverse racism", where Whites (to be more politically correct in American terms, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or WASPs) talk about how minority rights...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-08-14, 06:40
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,130
Okay, first of all, every single one of you...
Okay, first of all, every single one of you saying how Korean is an easy language because it has a regular alphabet doesn't know the difference between orthography and the spoken language. They have...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-08-11, 08:52
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
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Forum: General Chat
2011-08-09, 06:58
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Replies: 1,361
Views: 327,198
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Forum: General Chat
2011-07-31, 08:52
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
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Forum: General Chat
2011-07-26, 21:44
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Replies: 530
Views: 136,380
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Forum: General Chat
2011-07-26, 03:10
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Replies: 530
Views: 136,380
More than half of the world's 6,000+ languages...
More than half of the world's 6,000+ languages are expected to die out by the end of the 21st century, with some linguists speculating that two languages disappear every month. Language extinction...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-07-24, 07:13
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
Last time I checked working in Japan meant...
Last time I checked working in Japan meant letting your life get controlled by the company. It's slowly starting to change, but the corporations are still strong. It's not just the AV industry I'd...
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Forum: General Chat
2011-07-24, 05:15
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Replies: 3,799
Views: 852,662
Er, it's just that I've never met a non-otaku...
Er, it's just that I've never met a non-otaku Japanese guy who really cares about something like that. The only guys I know that complain about this stuff are my friends from the otaku circle I was...
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