Jacob
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Post by Jacob on Dec 8, 2013 23:21:29 GMT
Do you know of any notebooks that I could maybe get that can be refilled with unique pages like these, that I could find at maybe office depot Jembru
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Post by Jembru on Dec 9, 2013 1:19:26 GMT
I'm not sure. I only know Filofax that actually has the refills you can buy. Other companies make their own brand organisers, but I just don't know easy it would be to find refills. At least Filofax have have a website you can go to if you run out of squared paper or whatever. They are kinda pricey, but I see you can get pretty cheap ones from amazon (at least co.uk has). If you don't need it to be A4, leather bound and with a built-in I-pad holder, you should be able to get one at a reasonable price without breaking the bank. The refills themselves are inexpensive and at least you always know you can get new diary pages, or replace tired old dividers and so on.
The notebook I was talking about is just something I picked up in a discount store one day. It has plastic dividers that pop out, but it is spiral bound so once the pages are used up, it's full and I'll need to get a new one. The divider with kanji on that I spoke about, I actually made myself but cutting out some card.
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Post by 魔 on Dec 18, 2013 19:46:59 GMT
Here's a site where you can download subtitles for movies/tv shows subtitleseekerI'm going to start watching my English movies with Japanese subs. You could also download the English subs and then compare it with the Japanese ones. This is from a nightmare on elm street. Verb conjugator - link
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Post by Bokusenou on Dec 18, 2013 22:04:34 GMT
Here's a site where you can download subtitles for movies/tv shows subtitleseekerI'm going to start watching my English movies with Japanese subs. Great resource! kitsunekko.net is great for this as well when it comes to anime subs.
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Post by 魔 on Jan 4, 2014 1:01:30 GMT
Here are a couple of sites I've been using recently. This a guy that teaches English, but has the Japanese expressions to go along with them. link
Aesops fables in Japanese. The Japanese girl does a good woof on the first recording. link
News in slow Japanese. It has slow/normal speed recordings and some vocabulary. link
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Post by Underlig on Jan 12, 2014 14:53:45 GMT
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Post by Jembru on Jan 14, 2014 3:16:40 GMT
Thanks for the recommendation. I've never used it myself, but I know Bokusenou rates it highly, and her Japanese is the biz, so it must be good!
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Post by MidoriAbby on Jan 14, 2014 22:25:59 GMT
魔Thank you thank you sooo much for the "news in slow Japanese" link, it is a LIFE saver. I was looking for a way to practice vocab, grammar, reading and listening comprehension all at once and this site has it all- you can listen to it slow and normal speed and it also has kanji and kana you can hover over to see the meaning of the phrases in the news. It makes vocabulary in Japanese news so much more accessable to me.
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Post by 魔 on Jan 16, 2014 22:10:12 GMT
MidoriAbbyどういたしまして I found it here - link
Maybe this site could be added on there? Here's some beginner Japanese lessons(with cheesy whistling) - linkI'd also recommend to avoid the sites that are like "here are 2 free lessons, pay for the rest". Also some of these monthly subscription sites might purposely teach you slowly/wrongly(so you're subscribed longer and filling their bank account). Instead look for sites that give most of the content for free and the premium only adds on to it. I like these two- renshuubusuuThey give you a lot for free, and you don't feel like you've ran into a wall telling you to get out your wallet.
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Post by MidoriAbby on Jan 26, 2014 23:46:09 GMT
魔Haha, I love looking back at beginner Japanese lessons sometimes just to get ideas for teaching Japanese to people I'm tutoring/for youtube, also just for the nostalgia. Ah, I have a busuu account, but I haven't checked out renshuu yet. Thanks! Yeah I hate those sites where you get all excited about the content, and then they're like "but you only get like 0.00001% of it for free". So discouraging...
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Post by 魔 on Jan 27, 2014 1:27:28 GMT
www.erin.ne.jp/en/ is the best site I've found so far. The videos have a little section underneath that shows subtitles that you can turn on or off(日本語、かな、ローマ字、英語). The pictures are interactive(scroll over objects to see the kanji and pronunciation). It's like an online text book. It's free, has a lot of variety, and I don't see it listed anywhere! None of these top 10/best Japanese site posts that I've seen has it listed. I'm going to go through it once in English, then change the language to Japanese and go over it again. For busuu, I changed the language to Japanese and use it like a rosetta stone immersion type thing.
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Post by Jembru on Jan 27, 2014 3:22:43 GMT
魔: I just wish they'd do a second series. The culture videos are great (did you see the one where they got gaijin to try to open conbini onigiri? ^^), and they introduce a good amount of vocabulary, but they only cover basic grammar. It's a bit of a shame.
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Post by MidoriAbby on Jan 27, 2014 13:41:06 GMT
魔 JembruI love love love that website/series! I've finished all of it unfortunately, but it's still really cool. I learned a ton of vocabulary/culture stuff for that. I also hope they do another slightly higher level continuation to the series.
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Post by chocopie on Jan 27, 2014 19:19:53 GMT
If you use anki, you can also use the yomi-chan plug in to load a text file into anki and then it's like rikai-chan within anki and you can make flashcards too. It can take a bit of time to set up but it's very useful, especially for novels. I put an image of it under a spoiler because it's a bit big.
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Post by Jembru on Jan 27, 2014 19:51:06 GMT
Wow, that looks awesome chocopie! If I weren't so intimidated by technology, I'd love to give that a try some time.
@midori: Yeah, I finished erin.ne.jp, in a couple of weeks. Just watching all the videos and playing the games though. I wasn't really studying from it as such. I found it too late as I'd already covered most of the grammar they teach, when I studied Japanese the first time around. I've chatted in Japanese with Demonhead and I'm pretty sure grammar-wise, it's below him. However, I agree it's awesome for vocabulary and Demonhead's comparison to a virtual text-book is spot-on. I usually recommend it to anyone who is just starting out and wants a decent free on-line resource. Oh but someone did point out that you need to know kana to read the grammar notes.
Maybe they are working on a pre-intermediate version as we speak? That would be cool.
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