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By: Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:07:24 +0000

[…] AJATTeers, both in Japanese and other languages, you’re going to notice a strong aural trend. James (news), Jamie (peeing, German). Errybody. Of course they were visually engaged, too, as was I, but the […]

By: イギリス人

イギリス人 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:27:52 +0000

Yo khatz, basically i’ve started to watch news broadcasts on Fuji News Network and copying each sentence into the SRS (Anki), I look up each word of the sentence on Denshi Jisho and write the English sentence for the answer on the SRS, and then write out the kanji’s so I have the perfect stroke order and once in the SRS, I listen to the broadcast many times over. Is this the 正しい　way to do it ?

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:31:56 +0000

Hey Khaz, when you said when you listened to the news and didn’t understand a word, or even a phrase, that you “looked it up”. What do you use? I don’t think a monolingual dictionary would help me understand a word, since I know no Kanji…bilingual ok? You say that they havea negative impact though, so I don’t want to look at direct translations, but how am I supposed to know?

By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Intermediate Goals, Mini-Dreams

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:44:49 +0000

[…] 1-3 months, focus your energy on mastering a specific area of your target language, like TV news, or a certain anime, or other topic — whatever interests […]

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:42:15 +0000

what do you think about listening to music/news at same time for the listening aspect.

so the volume would be 50/50 or 70/20 towrads the news, etc.

i think it makes it less boring. anyone know any news podcast where htey talk really fast or something in a less boring way, well it is news but i don’t konw.

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:33:30 +0000

分からぬー。
ってか、然う言う事に成ると逆に俺がquendに頼ってるぞ（笑）。見付けたら教えて！

あっ。そうだ！花魁つったら、映画/漫画「さくらん」って奴が有るけど。
あと、多少誇張されているが、「仁義なき戦い」のようなヤクザ映画には安芸弁（広島弁）が頻出するそうです。

京　＝　京都の事？

凄い漢字使ってるね、僕達。まあ、でも、其の方がイイじゃん？漢字の利用制限なんてコッチの知ったこっちゃねーや。

By: quendidil

quendidil — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:16:10 +0000

>フィクションによく出て来るお爺さんか方言かという印象が強い。
そうかもね。

ところでサァ、花魁言葉か京言葉或いは標準語以外の方言を学ぶ資料が有るかどうか知っているの？

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:33:13 +0000

>Isn’t おる the 謙譲語 of いる？
It is.

>This is really perplexing?!
よく知らないけど・・・
問題は、多分「丁寧語」(-ます)を使ってないからだ・・・と思う
謙譲語を使っても丁寧語まで使わないと、恐らく敬語として成立しない。

あと、上記のように「おる」を使うと、どちらかというとフィクションによく出て来るお爺さんか、方言かという印象が強い。

詳しくは御ググり下さいませ。

By: quendidil

quendidil — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:52:50 +0000

Ah, my formality levels really suck!
After writing “感謝しておる”, I was told
“高飛車な物言いだと感じます。申し訳ありませんが、失礼します。”
This is really perplexing?! Isn’t おる the 謙譲語 of いる？

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:41:54 +0000

ハハ（笑）。
態とやってるなら話は違うけど・・・:)

By: quendidil

quendidil — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:31:01 +0000

( 笑）
だが、拙者が本当に英語の日常会話でそんな言い方を致したことが御座る。然し、変人で御座るからかもさ…

As for Chinese, we can blame the Republicans and the Communists for most of the destruction of the remnants of 敬語 left in the language. でござるけれど、結局多分慈禧太后の所為じゃろう、中国の現代化を反対したりしたからね。

出来るだけ、書ける日本語しか書かぬ。もし合ってない表現があったら、誠に申し訳御座らん。

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:47:16 +0000

@quend
>so i figure 「である」 should be alright?
そうとは限らないよ。
やっぱり、日本人が其れを「おかしい」と指摘したら、多分おかしい。
要は「文体」なんだ。普通のカジュアルな英文メールでも、急に論文っぽい口調（文体）に変わると、やっぱ相手に違和感を感じさせかねない。
なんか、”Seriously, though, dawg, it is the uncategorical conclusion of this research that this course of action…”って感じ。

漢字なら我々中国語やHeisigの知識を持っている人たちの勝ちだが、スタイルの場合は絶対日本人に譲った方が妥当かと。何せその辺の専門家だから。

By: quendidil

quendidil — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:21:28 +0000

@khatz:
www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E7%89%A9%E7%90%86%E5%AD%A6-1-%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3/dp/4000077112/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208186155&sr=8-4
www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E7%89%A9%E7%90%86%E5%AD%A6-2-%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3/dp/4000077120/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208186155&sr=8-7
Search for ファインマン物理学 on amazon. The real lectures are the ones with ”ファインマン” as 著者 I believe.

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:10:40 +0000

@quend
>Feynman’s lectures in Japanese
They have those? Where did you find them?

By: Forrest

Forrest — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:07:03 +0000

wheee I learned a word without trying! だいとうりょう　= 大統領 = President

from where else? the news. I gave in and got the TV Japan channel… ($25/month ouch!)

By: quendidil

quendidil — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:19:57 +0000

Feynman’s lectures in Japanese are BLOODY overpriced. Around 3450円 for EACH lecture.

By: bubble

bubble — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:21:11 +0000

Personally, I feel like I make the most progress when I watch a show I either have never or have not recently seen, as long as it interests me (I can’t be sure though). A fictional show, that is, because those tend to have more visual context and I find them more enjoyable than most other types of show, especially when I can’t completely understand. I basically watch whatever I can find that interests me, often covering subtitles or finding Chinese subtitles, because I can’t read them, not even sound them out the way I could any latin-alphabet subs, so I don’t have to cover them.
As for specific shows, I watched/am watching:
ごくせん
有閑倶楽部（ゆうかんクラブ）- one of the ones I watched with Chinese subs, easy to find because the title is the same except the second character is simplified. Amusing but shallow show about way-too-rich high school students.
ガリレオ About a police detective and a physics professor (“henjin Galileo”) who investigate supposedly supernatural crimes.
モップガール (Mop Girl) about a young woman, rather clumsy, who goes back to the day of a death to prevent it
女系家族（にょけいかぞく）An intense drama, full of infighting, backstabbing, intrigue, about an inheritance. Everyone in this show has issues. The speech is rather hard and formal – I didn’t understand much.
ホタルノヒカリ Cute romantic comedy with characters I can actually root for. I find the speech comparatively easy to understand. Look for it on Chinese sites under the name 螢之光 (the first character will be simplified, but it comes up ok).
エンジン (Engine) – Kinda cute show about a professional racecar driver who goes back to live with his dad (who runs a foster home) after his team fires him for fighting with the other driver.

I also watch anime and tokusatsu, but if I watch them too much I start to use annoying interjections and get all high-pitched (I’m female, but there’s a limit). Sometimes I watch commercials, music videos, or interviews with musicians or actors I like, and if I’m not watching something I usually have on music.

By: AndamanIslander

AndamanIslander — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:03:21 +0000

Hey so, would you post the URLs for your favorite news podcasts?

Thanks!

By: quendidil

quendidil — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:20:03 +0000

I’ve recently started written correspondence with some Japanese friends, my main errors are mostly using 「である」 for 「です」 and sometimes writing stuff like 「知ってるんですか」 instead of 「知ってますか」. AFAIK, they are perfectly grammatical correct, but according to my friends they are not interchangeable and sound strange? It’s written (typed to be exact) anyway, so i figure 「である」 should be alright?

By: captal

captal — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:26:48 +0000

Thanks for posting your experience bubble. Over the past few weeks I’ve been watching/listening to a Japanese Drama- Tiger & Dragon – over and over without subs and I don’t feel like I’m making a lot of progress… I’ll keep at it though. Do you have any advice for other shows to watch?

Should I be listening to other things in Japanese besides music and Tiger & Dragon- I really want to improve my understanding more than anything, because that is my biggest weakness right now. Listening to Japanese music over and over doesn’t seem to be helping much either- I get the tune stuck in my head but I usually can’t remember the words unless I’ve spent time translating them from kanji to hiragana.