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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...
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)
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...
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?