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    champagnepapi's Avatar

    Adventures in Pop Music

    Here's the ~improved~ version of rolling in the deep
    [link], enjoy ^_^
    Posted January 20th, 2012 at 1:02 PM by champagnepapi champagnepapi is offline
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    Adventures in Pop Music

    I agree whole-heartedly. LMFAO is the joke of the industry and I will never understand why so many people seem to like them and how they're so successful. It makes me weep just thinking about how unfortunate of a musical taste the majority of people have. :(
    Posted January 20th, 2012 at 11:47 AM by
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 5½

    Memorize ALL the Kanji!!!

    ...Memorize ALL the Kanji?
    Posted January 19th, 2012 at 5:48 PM by jpp8 jpp8 is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 5

    I'm glad this is helpful. Next one I'm gonna put together will be a bunch of kanji with definitions etc.
    Posted January 19th, 2012 at 9:38 AM by Esper Esper is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 5

    As always, pretty great lesson. :] You're quite the sensei.
    Posted January 18th, 2012 at 8:55 PM by Hiidoran Hiidoran is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 5

    I stumbled across this by chance as it randomly appeared on PC's front page, but this kanji lesson actually looks pretty useful. :D I'm surprised that I was able to apparently recognize some of the numbers (thanks to several of the Captains from [I]Bleach[/I], and something about Yumichika Ayasegawa preferring one of the number kanji over another) and elements (thanks to the Rangers' helmets of [I]Power Rangers Samurai[/I], and [B][I]especially[/I][/B] thanks to the countless instances that I've had Blaziken use Fire Blast in [I]Pokemon Sapphire/Emerald[/I] XD) just by a quick glance at the whole image. "Mountain" is a new one, though. Thanks for the kanji lesson, though; I'll be sure to look into it in detail later (and probably catch up on your past lessons as well, LOL). ;D
    Posted January 18th, 2012 at 5:03 PM by fenyx4 fenyx4 is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 4

    Very good! Looking forward to part five!
    Posted January 9th, 2012 at 6:34 AM by Truality Truality is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 3

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Amachi View Comment
    私はかわいいですか :3
    超かわいいですよ、アマちゃん。

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    Originally Posted by Lightning View Comment
    The best explanation I've ever seen for small-tsu is that it makes the words like "bookcase". When you say bookcase, there's a slight pause between book and case... and small-tsu does exactly the same thing! :) The pause might be a little shorter in Japanese but it's still the easiest way to understand it without spoken examples, imo.
    That's... a really good explanation. Thanks. :)
    Posted January 4th, 2012 at 8:20 AM by Esper Esper is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 3

    The best explanation I've ever seen for small-tsu is that it makes the words like "bookcase". When you say bookcase, there's a slight pause between book and case... and small-tsu does exactly the same thing! :) The pause might be a little shorter in Japanese but it's still the easiest way to understand it without spoken examples, imo.
    Posted January 4th, 2012 at 8:13 AM by Cherrim Cherrim is online now
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 3

    私はかわいいですか :3
    Posted January 4th, 2012 at 5:04 AM by doesn't matter doesn't matter is offline
    Updated January 4th, 2012 at 5:12 AM by doesn't matter
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 3

    Great job, Scarf! Means a lot.
    Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 11:37 PM by Truality Truality is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 2

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    Originally Posted by Alternative View Comment
    The only thing I know about the two is that Katakana is used to make Kanji, but Hiragana isn't or something. :) but this will be a huge help for me trying to decipher things like pixiv and other japanese assorted things.

    Also I put random things together trying to make Kanji and make Cantilever. :D
    Hiragana and katakana are both derived from kanji (Chinese characters) so kanji came first, but you're right in that katakana looks more like kanji. That's because when they were making katakana they just took kanji and stripped them down to something simpler (as opposed to hiragana which derived from how kanji is written in caligraphy/cursive).

    I'll do a kanji lesson eventually.

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    A way to remember the difference is that hiragana, the more curvy of the two, is used most of the time for its simplicity, and katakana, the line-ier one, is used almost exclusively for foreign words.
    Quite. Hiragana is by far more common (outside of, say, advertising where you might see more katakana used stylistically).
    Posted December 20th, 2011 at 10:34 AM by Esper Esper is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 2

    A way to remember the difference is that hiragana, the more curvy of the two, is used most of the time for its simplicity, and katakana, the line-ier one, is used almost exclusively for foreign words.
    Posted December 20th, 2011 at 7:01 AM by jpp8 jpp8 is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 2

    The only thing I know about the two is that Katakana is used to make Kanji, but Hiragana isn't or something. :) but this will be a huge help for me trying to decipher things like pixiv and other japanese assorted things.

    Also I put random things together trying to make Kanji and make Cantilever. :D
    Posted December 20th, 2011 at 4:41 AM by Alternative Alternative is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 2

    FFFFFFFF-

    I WILL MASTER YOU ONE DAY, ソン.

    Unofficial Bonus:
    Shinpuru (simple):
    a. ツンプル
    b. シンプル
    c. シソプル
    d. ツソプル

    Spoiler:
    b
    Posted December 19th, 2011 at 1:11 PM by jpp8 jpp8 is offline
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    Japanese Lessons: Part 2

    I'm going to be a master Nihongojins!
    Posted December 19th, 2011 at 12:59 PM by Kura Kura is offline
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    Japanese Lessons

    That's so awesome, and appreciated. Thank you!
    Posted December 16th, 2011 at 10:27 AM by Truality Truality is offline
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    Japanese Lessons

    @ Roswell: Therein lies the challenge.

    @ jpp8: What lies beyond can be decided by you! No, seriously, suggestions would be great.
    Posted December 16th, 2011 at 8:05 AM by Esper Esper is offline
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    Japanese Lessons

    Whee! Can't wait to get see what lies beyond かな this time.
    Posted December 15th, 2011 at 9:42 PM by jpp8 jpp8 is offline
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    Japanese Lessons

    Pretty cute idea.

    Love the formatting of your hiragana chart. So colorful. :]
    Posted December 15th, 2011 at 6:13 PM by Hiidoran Hiidoran is offline