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  • Al 05/21/2023 at 7:10 am on Why you should be Watching 出川哲朗の充電させてもらえませんかHi adam, I watch the series lately and I like it. I also love the song theme but do you know what the song is? Al Yogyakarta - Indonesia
  • Shane 05/14/2023 at 1:46 am on Finding The Best Method To Learn Japanese: Choose Your FighterOMG, it's been long since the last time I played Tekken. lol
  • Noxsora 05/07/2023 at 7:35 pm on When Everyone Says your Study Method is WrongYeah. I studied with the genki text book and lingo deer for about a year to refresh my 2 years of beginer japanese class in preperation for the n5. After I passed I tried to get back into it 6 months later. And I couldn't...
  • Noxsora 04/30/2023 at 9:26 pm on Jalup MasterI'm so excited! "However, it should work fine for anyone who is currently somewhere in the Jalup deck series (ex. Advanced)" I'm gonna set my anki to 5 cards each of Master and Expert. I have trouble adjustinging to immersion. I am very greatful for...
  • Ellie 04/25/2023 at 9:42 am on 7 Ways the JLPT is Drastically Changing this YearI somehow ended up here from Google and this made me not want to apply to JLPT for like a month until I came back and read it was an April fool's joke ToT
  • Nihon Scope 04/19/2023 at 7:43 am on Does Studying Hard Really Guarantee you Fluency?Good points! I found that putting yourself in a position where you have to speak/hear Japanese really power levels the mind with Japanese. Living in the Japanese country side and then being stranded here by a lunatic boss certainly puts a fire under you. I...
  • orbweaver 04/15/2023 at 4:29 pm on The Difficulty Level Guide Of Everything JapaneseI'm not sure, but here are two other anime difficult lists I use: * https://learnjapaneseanime.com/anime-recommendations/ * https://jpdb.io/anime-difficulty-list This one is machine-learning generated, so it's not always very reliable (it thinks S1 of SAO is a 7/10 difficulty)
  • Noxsora 04/05/2023 at 7:12 pm on Give J-J And Immersion A Little More Time1. I took JJ really slowly. I already took genki 1 in college. I did 2 jalup intermediate cards a day for the first year and a half while I did kanji damage and Jalup beginer. I was (and kinda am) a hard core second...
  • JOANNE 03/27/2023 at 7:25 pm on Study vs. Immersion – Which is More Important Daily?I think immersion is much more important than just studying. So I usually think in a Japanese language way while I am speaking Japanese. And I like to practice speaking and listening rather than writing and reading. Because I can be much more immersed in...
  • Dennis V 03/22/2023 at 2:04 pm on The Ultimate Resource For Mastering Japanese GrammarDoes anyone know if this J-J version is written from the perspective of Japanese as taught in Japanese schools? Or do they still try to explain to a Japanese language learner using foreigner grammar perspectives like you would find in your typical learner textbooks? I'm...
  • Alissa 03/14/2023 at 8:57 pm on You Have a Bad Memory – Now What?I feel like you should also add in the factors of genetics when it comes with bad memory. Because of my father and his genetics, I have trouble goings from short term to long term memory and that causes me to struggle in lots of...
  • SG 03/08/2023 at 10:45 am on Creating New Kanji TodaySo I'm not the only one who got this idea. I wanna go further and invent my own radicals, too.
  • Noxsora 02/19/2023 at 8:02 pm on Should I Use Kana or Romaji Input on my Phone?A big reason I use the kana flick is so I don't type on the wrong keyboard. I had romaji on my iPad in 2016. I used it to type emojis, cause at that time the Japanese predicitive text included kao and emojis but the...
  • Noxsora 02/19/2023 at 7:05 pm on Getting English Translations Out of your HeadI noticed the process for kanji goes like this feathers on top + white on bottom=learn 習=learn 習=練習の習 The trick for moving from step 2 to step 3 is to have more JJ than RTK. There are kanji from RTK that I don't see in...
  • Noxsora 02/16/2023 at 9:20 pm on Does Remembering The Kanji Actually Teach You Japanese?For me, learning kanji first felt so good. I could go to a chinese resturant and read 牛、肉 and 菜. (tamago was really late in kanji damage). My goal was to read manga someday. I picked up D Grey Man. read siliently the english keyword...
  • Noxsora 02/16/2023 at 8:26 pm on Should you Say Farewell to your Kanji Deck?Yeah, I'm progressing through the phases of this now. Pass and fade out: In kanji damage there are some cards for things that arent kanji in and of themselves. like the 䒑 in 前 has its own card. These I pass no matter what. I...
  • Noxsora 02/16/2023 at 7:26 pm on Study vs. Immersion – Which is More Important Daily?I'm level 28 and terrible at immersing. Anki has a the charts, and streaks and is so convient. XP navi helps by getting me some charts for immersion I try to get 1000 immersion XP per month (approx 1 chapter or episode/日). I've never hit...
  • Noxsora 02/16/2023 at 6:45 pm on Jalup AdvancedI'm almost done with Jalup Advanced. It feels like my brain hasn't converted to JJ, even though the cards have. I'm level 28 in XP navi. I have done some immersion, but it is daunting. I am looking foward to having Jalup Immersion by my...
  • Noxsora 02/16/2023 at 5:35 pm on How Many New Anki Cards a Day?I'm Lvl 28 in XP navi. Reviews: 163/day When I did RTK (I used kanji damage) I did 20 new cards per day, and 30,000 reviews over 3 months. Adding: 20 JA JJ cards/day in the settings, actual average is 12 over the past 2...
  • Noxsora 02/12/2023 at 11:30 pm on How to Understand Japanese without Translating itImagine - once upon a time someone told you repair is "fix, but you can only use it for machinces" a shop is "a place people go to buy things" and take is "pick up something and leave". Take is when you pick up somthing...
  • Noxsora 02/12/2023 at 9:21 pm on Who Did What To Whom?Today I saw "実体のない可能性感じる".I thought "real bodies not possible like that" maybe the meaning is "bodies don't work that way" complaining about anime boob physics or a photoshopped picture. I look at the definition, real shape, not real body. If the meaning is someone compaining...
  • Tyler 02/06/2023 at 2:00 pm on You Failed the JLPT – Now What?If you enjoy learning Japanese don't quit. Test taking and endurance is a huge part of the JLPT and that has a weak correlation to true proficiency so there is a chance you are just getting in your own way mentally when taking the exam....
  • Shree 01/22/2023 at 10:45 pm on You Failed the JLPT – Now What?Hi, I am a high school student and I had 3 attempts in jlpt n5. And I failed in 2 attempts already. Just now I got my result for my 3rd attempt, and I failed in that too with a difference of 14 marks. I...
  • lindseu 12/04/2022 at 10:42 am on The Really Good Japanese Electronic Music GuideOn my. Polysics are out of this world. I saw them perform about 2010, really ace. The festival vibe changed from relaxed curious to wild! I love the videos too.
  • Robert Tighe 12/02/2022 at 7:41 am on The End of Jaluphttps://japaneselevelup.com/the-not-end-of-jalup/ This makes me happy and motivated to buy more jalup levels on Android. Thanks for sticking around...for now anyway.
  • Samantha Makishima 12/01/2022 at 11:48 am on My Long Summer at an Intensive Language Immersion SchoolThis was a really insightful article to read. I am planning on attending the Chinese School this coming summer and it was good to see an article that is actually critically of the experience so I know what to expect. For me personally, I am...
  • Ruban 11/10/2022 at 10:38 am on The End of JalupHi everyone, I stumbled upon wakarukana.com just now, which seems to be down, and reached this post while looking for an alternative. Does anyone know if the site was archived anywhere? Thanks
  • k1t3 10/26/2022 at 9:05 am on The Difficulty Level Guide Of Everything JapaneseIs there an updated version? Because that would be amazing :)
  • Jonathan 10/17/2022 at 9:49 pm on The End of JalupVery happy to see that even now the site is still up and Adam is even (gasp) working on a solution to the restore bug on iOS 16. I know the site and everything jalup is closing and Adam is moving on, but even seeing...
  • Chris Vasselli 10/14/2022 at 6:52 pm on The End of JalupHey all, sorry for the radio silence. I promise I'm still hard at work on the Jalup integration with Nihongo. I just posted a quick update on the Nihongo blog: https://blog.nihongo-app.com/quick-update-on-jalup-integration-2/
  • John 10/11/2022 at 3:57 pm on Why Programmers like Japanese & Japanese Learners like ProgrammingI disagree. While you do have to memorize a lot for Japanese, most of what you have to memorize are the various symbols that represent different things. I think the idea of encoding meaning in symbols are just how operators work. Actually, I think the...
  • SB 10/08/2022 at 12:49 pm on The End of JalupHas anyone archived the blog posts on the Internet Archive aka Wayback Machine? It would be a shame to lose this wonderful resource.
  • Simple Gaijin 09/10/2022 at 10:53 am on The End of JalupI've been a big fan of your work... even if the whole "level" thing was a bit sus. Best of luck to you, Adam.
  • Balkiria 09/09/2022 at 9:04 am on What’s The Best Age To Learn Japanese?Can I learn Japanese without kanji or any form of writing? I have a guest house and just want to be able to know some basic Japanese to get by...greet guests, give addresses and the like?
  • Balkiria 09/09/2022 at 8:50 am on What’s The Best Age To Learn Japanese?I am 53...really want to start...