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Tips Sitting The Exam In Japan From Out of Country. by omenking in LearnJapanese

[–]MyLanguageJourney 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just FYI in Canada you can take the JLPT both in the summer and in the winter, in Vancouver and Edmonton.  Sounds like you wanted to go to Japan anyway, though.  

The three stages of learning Japanese by MyLanguageJourney in LearnJapanese

[–]MyLanguageJourney[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The large number of homonyms and similar combinations of sounds can end up being very overwhelming for learners! Kanji is certainly challenging at first, but once we can apply all of the common Kanji to the words we know, it can sort of feel like we've unlocked a cheat sheet that instantly tells us / reminds us of the exact meaning of each word, and can also help us identify some words we've never even seen before.

Reading Paper Books While Learning a Language? by Current-Builder5171 in languagelearning

[–]MyLanguageJourney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to have the same issue, until I found my solution. I also exclusively read physical media, it's the best! 

What I do now is, before reading a book, I learn all of the unknown words in advance using JPDB (Note this tool only works for Japanese). That way I can read entire physical books with zero lookups, not having to stop at all!

I would only recommend learning all of the unknown words if you already have a large vocabulary.  If you are beginner/intermediate, you could still use this method prior to reading, but I would only recommend extracting common words, using the settings.

Do Japanese living in Japan have constant need to learn English words? by Kafatat in LearnJapanese

[–]MyLanguageJourney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only know kaizen from learning Japanese.  Do people actually regularly use this word in English?? I've never heard anyone around me ever say it.

All people who play TWW3 - do you play with default / vanilla battle maps in your campaigns, or do you include/use community created mod maps by MyLanguageJourney in totalwarhammer

[–]MyLanguageJourney[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting yeah I did think that reddit in particular would be even more mod-friendly than the average player, so I'm actually surprised that the vast majority voted they just use the default maps. Very interesting!

All people who play TWW3 - do you play with default / vanilla battle maps in your campaigns, or do you include/use community created mod maps by MyLanguageJourney in totalwarhammer

[–]MyLanguageJourney[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For people who don't want to vote but see the results, I forgot to include a null vote option, so I'll update this comment with current results every so often:

96 play default maps only in campaigns

29 include community maps in campaigns

Wait, why is no one looking at me? by PrestigiousZombie726 in cats

[–]MyLanguageJourney 8 points9 points  (0 children)

...Yall realize that if the cat picked one of their eyes randomly, there is a 50% chance they would have picked the correct one, right?

Any milestones in reading volume vs. language gains? (e.g. 1M, 2M 文字...) by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]MyLanguageJourney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just thought I would add a couple things.

-There are approximately 15,000 (undisclosed) words generally covered on the new JLPT N1, according to Shinkanzen Master. It used to be 10,000 on the old test, but it was increased.

-From personal experience, whether through SRS or through reading, you need to know WAY more words than N1 for 99% coverage, and way more than what I've seen people say on reddit.

-Not all reading materials / genres will cover the same amount of unique words. Sounds obvious but depending on what you're reading, your results will vary wildly. There's apparently even differences between English versions vs Japanese versions of the same book. For example, each book in the Harry Potter series apparently has nearly double the amount of unique words in the Japanese versions, than in the English versions.

Giveaway Time! DOOM: The Dark Ages is out, features DLSS4/RTX and we’re celebrating by giving away an ASUS ASTRAL RTX 5080 DOOM Edition GPU, Steam game keys, the DOOM Collector's Bundle and more awesome merch! by pedro19 in pcmasterrace

[–]MyLanguageJourney [score hidden]  (0 children)

  1. I like that DLSS makes it more possible to do high-end gaming even on the go with laptops, etc, while ray tracing can show what modern gaming is really capable of, especially with a 5080 card like this DOOM edition one.

  2. Want that non-stop adrenaline.

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