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Re: Wash Your Hands Japan, or This Guy Will Dance Again

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Re: Use Mixi.jp to improve your Japanese (and make some friends, too!)

Abhi — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:42:42 -0000

Hi
Cheers mate
Considering you are still a student , you have a strong hold on authoring .
I am currently new to Japan and still struggling to find friend here .
My email address is dudeshane01@gmail.com .
Thanks in advance
Abhi

Re: Mixi.jp now hates foreigners. Now requiring a mobile email address to join.

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Re: Use Mixi.jp to improve your Japanese (and make some friends, too!)

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Re: Mixi.jp now hates foreigners. Now requiring a mobile email address to join.

riechan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:19:31 -0000

I'm from Belgium too ^^
(just letting you know!)

Re: Alternatives to Rosetta Stone Japanese (i.e. Should I buy Rosetta Stone?)

Lisa — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:23:04 -0000

Great catalyst for discussion.

I'm sure no one else will read down this far in the comments, but I want to put my two cents in:

One important thing to remember is that everybody's brain works differently. Another thing is that we all get bored doing the same thing over and over. It's good to find a few different ways that you like to learn and then layer them, switching things up.

A few years ago my husband and I were planning a trip to Japan, so we bit the bullet and bought RS. We'd heard good things about it. It helped to familiarize us with the language and the writing systems and got us started. And I really retained everything I learned with it. I thought it was great, but using it exclusively, I got bored.

I've just finished 3 semesters of Japanese at University, and have been using Anki for 6 months. I'm going to add RS back in, and hopefully join a conversation club. I think I've figured out a good combo for myself.

A year ago my husband was sold on the AJATT, and was using RTK and Anki, but in reality it can be pretty hard to keep up your momentum with that.

It's like exercise, you've got to come at it from a few different angles at once.

Re: Japanese Fluorescent Light Fights Light Up My Gag Reflex

Deibisu — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:17:31 -0000

o_o
not the brightest lights in the room now are we

Re: Mixi.jp now hates foreigners. Now requiring a mobile email address to join.

Kay — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:50:44 -0000

May I have an invitation? (kayhaskins [at] gmail)

I have a keitai and, of course, an e-mail address. (I don't have nearly as many awesome hats as you do, though.)

Re: Use Mixi.jp to improve your Japanese (and make some friends, too!)

ryenne — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:56:53 -0000

ryenne80@gmail.com
please invite me..

Re: Use Mixi.jp to improve your Japanese (and make some friends, too!)

Anastasia — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:30:38 -0000

Would you please send me an invitation? I will be getting a Japanese cell phone in two weeks. My email is yanrau@gmail.com
Thank you!

Re: 2Chanerized Characters Part 4: American Children Shows

Colin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:22:10 -0000

If you have a toddler who will celebrate his birthday soon, you should consider an Elmo themed birthday party.

Everybody loves Elmo-he is cute and cuddly, and talks like a toddler! That is why he is the perfect character for your child's birthday theme. If you are interest in some ideas for having an Elmo themed birthday party, here are some useful tips.

Re: Post-Nova Bust: How is G-Education for teaching English in Japan?

Ace — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:31:50 -0000

a hostess at a foreign host bar? Basically a gateway to the sex industry in Japan? I'd do some more research on that one.

Re: Mixi.jp now hates foreigners. Now requiring a mobile email address to join.

kanjo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:51:14 -0000

the obvious work around is to get a friend to lend you their address but the obvious block is that they already joined with their address.
have I a solution?
you bet ;)
(you don't have to read this paragraph) It doesn't *require* a keitai to join, having a keitai is optional, but you need a "secure" email address to join. These include most paid emails as well as keitai addresses. One day I thought, "well, if I can't use hotmail, or gmail, what other address could I try?" and my thoughts wondered to my college email address when it hit me, *THEIR* college email addresses. I have lots of close Japanese friends who are college students, so why not try ask one of them to invite themselves and let me change the email to mine. It worked :)
I don't know about all colleges, but it worked with a kansai gaidai (関西が国語大学) address
good luck

you can add 掛林　安生 on mixi if you like

Re: Mixi.jp now hates foreigners. Now requiring a mobile email address to join.

Rebecca — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:32:43 -0000

"Lang-8" is a great SNS for practicing languages. It was made specifically for that purpose, and anyone from anywhere can join freely.

Is mixi still requiring the cell number? I can't believe this! I have been getting quite a few spam mails lately from people that want a "special friend", but ironically they are all Japanese. And Japanese people message me wanting to practice English. So this whole "Japanese cell phone" thing isn't going to accomplish anything. I hope they don't become like cyworld in Korean and make you put in your Japanese passport number or something.

Re: Alternatives to Rosetta Stone Japanese (i.e. Should I buy Rosetta Stone?)

slymsh — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:14:12 -0000

You can't pass the JLPT 4 with RS; not a chance. It is a good starting point, albeit, an expensive one. It is more like a complement to books and courses.

Re: Erotic Weather Channels…yes, that’s plural

gucci bag — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:12:21 -0000

I searched for the place and could not find it either.

Re: 100 ways to entertain a guest visiting from Japan

Kenny Spade — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:06:49 -0000

It's sitting down and eating pizza that's weird. Pizza is for delivery only. Show them a greasy pizza place, and they'll get a bonus laugh out of the even further out of date games they've got here.

Re: Use Mixi.jp to improve your Japanese (and make some friends, too!)

Shana — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:48:11 -0000

Hi I'm currently learning Japanese and am moving on to the advance level... I would require help in speaking the language. Communicating is tough without a partner, therefore, an invite to Mixi.jp would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Re: Jim Breen on the iPhone

George Tanaka — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:27:18 -0000

It's unfair to Jim Breen to say his Japanese-English dictionary, isn't good when looking up English words. He makes no claim that it's an English-Japanese dictionary. As a Japanese-English dictionary, it has many advantages over many of the commercial dictionaries. Anyone who lives in Japan can easily see this.

Re: Advanced Japanese I: Transitive? Intransitive? Confusing? Yes.

Styster — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:44:38 -0000

This was very helpful for studying, thank you so much!

Re: Japanese Fluorescent Light Fights Light Up My Gag Reflex

ccross — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:19:34 -0000

The powder in fluorescent lights is a particularly nasty anticoagulant. You can bleed from a wound that has been impressed with that powder for sometimes days. They take quite a while to heal but even a small cut will bleed profusely. But, as with fugu, sometimes the Japanese just want to test their limits.

Re: Erotic Weather Channels…yes, that’s plural

gucci bags — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:19:58 -0000

I bet she felt embarrassed when she saw the footage after wards.

Re: The Japanese McDonalds Menu (I’m actually lovin’ it!)

Louis Vuitton handbags — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:07:04 -0000

I had the MacPork once...and well...it's rather....flat. Even by Asian standards. Couldn't even say that it tasted like pork =_=">. O well, that's what you get for messing with a good old "beef" patty.

Re: The Secret to Learning Japanese! Amazing!

facebook-100000366365934 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:07:10 -0000

Whats up dude, well I'm super lazy and a little busy with having a job and going to college. I just wanted to say that I decided to learn only how to speak japanese and not read it. Well because like I said earlier, I'm super lazy, so I've been trying to learn japanese seriuosly for a month now and doing pretty well. I'm poor, so I've been watching all these youtube videos on learning japanese, going to language exchange sites, watching japanese movies, japanese shows, japanese music and skyping with japanese people from japan to make sure what I'm saying is right and makes sense. So it's been going good and even people from japan that sometimes I sound native and I was born in houston. Next year I plan to study there through a foreighn exchange program from school. So for people who want to just speak japanese, I would suggest doing what 'm doing and also trying to simply think in japanese instead of translating it in your head.

Re: 100 ways to entertain a guest visiting from Japan

vincentwaitzkin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:31:31 -0000

Great post! I am a college sophomore with a dual major in Physics and Mathematics @ University of California, Santa Barbara. By the way, i came across these excellent language flashcards. Its also a great initiative by the FunnelBrain team. Amazing!!!