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  • in reply to: How's it going everybody! (from MTL) #41623

    winterpromise31
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    Hi Ivan! Welcome! Four languages, huh? Wow! What are your others?

    Good luck with your studies!
    Cassandra

    in reply to: Hello from Seattle #41617

    winterpromise31
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    Hi Mike! Welcome from another Seattle member. :)

    How cool that you’ve taught in Thailand and now get to go to Japan. I’m so jealous. I hope to travel to Taiwan next summer but it will only be for a week. I’m hoping we can schedule a long layover in Tokyo to have time to dash out of the airport for some food. ;)

    Good luck with your studies!
    Cassandra

    in reply to: Greetings everyone! #41517

    winterpromise31
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    Hi Sid, welcome to the forums and to the Japanese language! Good luck with all of your studies. :)
    Cassandra

    in reply to: Switching to Mandarin #41451

    winterpromise31
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    I think RTK will help. Kiera and I were sitting down one day with some of my kanji sheets. She quizzed me on a number of them, asking me about the meanings in Japanese. Her response was a lot of “yup, same in Chinese. Yup, same in Chinese.”

    I don’t know if I want to do RTH, though… Since I’m learning the language to help a child transition into our home, I think I’m going to concentrate on spoken Mandarin. If necessary, I can write kanji to help her understand what I am talking about, but conversation would be more beneficial for both of us. If I was learning the language to be fluent, I would concentrate on written and spoken, but I think I’m going to concentrate on spoken Mandarin with some reading thrown in to help with Anki/vocabulary retention.

    in reply to: Switching to Mandarin #41424

    winterpromise31
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    Thanks for the good luck wishes!

    Yeah, I do want to stick around the forums a bit more than I have been. I enjoy seeing how people are progressing in their studies. I have no intention of giving up on Japanese as it is my favorite language but want to make things easier for our daughter when she arrives. I know she’s being taught English in school but, based on what my Chinese friend says, the English classes are a joke and our girl will probably only know a couple words.

    Cool graphs! I’m working on the tones already. I listened to one lesson that gave the vocabulary and said “this one is second tone. This one is third tone.” I quickly realized I needed to back up a step and learn those tones first! Otherwise my vocab will be really messed up.

    I’ve been around longer than Missing. ;)

    in reply to: Hello! 你好! chào Anh! こんいちわ! #40929

    winterpromise31
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    Welcome and good luck with your studies! I enjoy learning languages as well. :)

    Cassandra

    in reply to: Hi! #40921

    winterpromise31
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    Hi Sara! Welcome! What is your other language?

    Good luck with your studies!
    Cassandra

    in reply to: Ultimateadjectives Anki -i or -na error #40642

    winterpromise31
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    I had that problem as well. Here’s what I did to fix it -

    Click on Browse
    Find the adjectives deck
    Find an i-or-na card
    Click on Fields…
    Click on Type and select Rename
    Call it NewType
    Click Close
    Click the Cards… button
    For the back template – paste this:

    {{FrontSide}}
    <hr id=answer>
    <span>{{NewType}}</span>

    I’m not sure that’s the best way to fix it but it worked for me! Good luck!

    P.S. There is no search option for the forum. :(

    in reply to: Hello! #40641

    winterpromise31
    Moderator

    Hi Amy,

    Welcome! It sounds like you have great motivation to learn Japanese! Please feel free to post if you have any questions about study methods or grammar or if you just want to chat. I wish you all the best! :)

    Cassandra

    in reply to: こにちは from sunny Essex! #40610

    winterpromise31
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    Hi Jack – Your plan sounds awesome! Good luck with your studies!

    Cassandra

    in reply to: Hello Everyone! #40596

    winterpromise31
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    Sparky – welcome! How fun that you’ll get to experience Japan with your son this time! I hope you have a great trip!!

    Good luck with your studies!
    Cassandra

    in reply to: Hi, y'all #40544

    winterpromise31
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    Hi! Hiking around Japan sounds like fun. Good luck with your studies!

    Cassandra

    PS. I’m from WA. LOL

    in reply to: New Dude #40521

    winterpromise31
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    Keith, definitely no excuses! :)  Best of luck to you!

    Cassandra

    in reply to: All over the place in Season 6? #40500

    winterpromise31
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    Hi Nicholas – The earlier seasons have been revised way more than the newer ones so the new ones do have issues. I was bummed about the lack of practice as well.

    I would recommend either finishing TextFugu or finding another resource to study. Don’t wait around for updates as they are few and far between. :)  If you wait for updates, you’ll be wishing you hadn’t because you could have progressed in the time you wait.

    Good luck!
    Cassandra


    winterpromise31
    Moderator

    Hang in there! The Lang-8 entries get easier with time. :D

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