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by laurieg 8y ago
The basic process is: 1. Read an article. 2. Encounter a word or phrase you don't know. 3. Keep reading! 4. If the meaning of the word or phrase "clicks" for you, put it into Anki. If not, look it up in a dictionary. For wo
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I think that's a very fair assessment of how I use Anki. I think if you spend all your time using Anki and no time interacting with the actual language you're learning you won't get very far. Basically every sentence I put i
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I've used Anki over the past 8 years or so very successfully. I strongly recommend it to anyone learning a language. Here are some tips to get the most out of it: * Only put things you know into Anki. An individual Anki card should f
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Regular single occupancy apartments (Either studios or 1K). I think some estate agents are a lot more smooth about it than others. They'll only show you pre-vetted "foreigner ok" apartments. My experience is that if you go
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Not Tokyo but another major city in Japan (Fukuoka): Rent and bills for a 1 bedroom 1 kitchen room apartment: 500 USD Fiber connection: 40 USD Food: 200-300 USD Transport: 100 USD or less ( I walk to work). Office space(1-3 person) subsidis
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Housing discrimination is a very real issue even today. Large swathes of properties have a "No foreigners" policy. One of the most shocking experiences I had in Japan was when I went with my friend to go house hunting and had to
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Another way to frame this would be she has chosen to "live in limbo". She could naturalise and it would not have been a problem. Japan makes the zainichi concession because it's got no other option. Force the people affected
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Any advice on finding a position like this? 13M JPY is a large salary for Japan.
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> There is a quiet denial about how luxurious modern living is. Absolutely! I genuinely marvel every time I go into a supermarket. I can buy a huge variety of delicious foods from all the corners of the globe. 200 years ago a king coul
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If you can type without much thought, then I wouldn't worry about increasing your typing speed. Touch typing is nice because you spend less time thinking about the physical action of typing. 50wpm and 100wpm make little difference.
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If you are able to detect them, serve them garbage data instead of blocking them. Mix in some false entries etc. If you completely block them they will work hard to work around the block, but if you give them some bad data randomly it will
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I could be grasping at straws but words like "onanism" and "soft" instead of software are quite characteristic of Japanese native speakers of English. The rest of the English is a little too good though...
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Ask HN: What software should I use to write a textbook?
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I had a look around at David Blaine poking various things into himself. I think I was probably wrong. It looks like poking a needle into a bicep is a somewhat common trick[1]. I assume he just takes the pain. Still, I would tell everyone
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Likely because it's a magic trick and he didn't really poke it through his arm?
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Much more of it is a trick than David Blaine says so. I think Penn Jillette put it quite well: "Do you really believe a magician who last week was doing car tricks but this week is doing 'real' magic?"(paraphrased). Rem
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I think you are taking the article a touch too literally. It's not telling you to give consultants made up tasks to find out how they reply, it's telling your to listen to consultants responses when you give them difficult but no
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A standup comedy routine is not made in the edit. Shooting multiple nights and editing them together allows them to get the best camera angles and shots (not always easy when the comedian moves around freely) as well as takes some of the p
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My hobby is finding translation mistakes in movie subtitles. I'm a native English speaker and I also speak Japanese. Essentially every show on Netflix seems to have some lines which are translating 100% incorrectly. They're not
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Don't quit your job to start a startup. At least, not at this stage. Practice coding in your spare time and work your way up to a programming job.
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As someone considering starting a family, I have literally no idea what parenting is anymore. When I was younger I was pretty much left to my own devices, sent off to play with my brother and then packed off to school when old enough. My
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Tracking (or setting, or grouping) essentially means that the higher level groups are freed from the more distracting characters in the lower groups. Great for them, but terrible for you if you end up in one of those lowers sets and end up
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My advice to my 25-year-old self: Focus on your career NOW. It might seem fun to be footloose and fancy free but the stress of being in poor finances in the future will cut you down. Get a good job. Move for it. Anywhere. Don't wo
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Perhaps you just feel more in tune listening to people with whom you have greater shared experience? I often listen to radio comedy and think "This would be incredibly dull if you didn't follow all the cultural references".
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In my experience the prediction on computers and smartphones is very good for everyday use when inputting Japanese. You do have to make choices of what kanji to use but often you're aware of the homophone confusion as you write (think
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My family got our first computer when I was about 8. I didn't learn to touch type till I was sixteen, but by then I had a really good sense of where all the the keys were. I distinctly remember hunting for letters. (but then again I
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This is definitely a big factor. When you look at a Japanese computer keyboard [1] you might see lots of Japanese characters on the keys. Almost nobody actually uses these to type. Instead, if you want a か(ka) character then you type k,a
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Doing the same experiment again and again until you get the answer you want.
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In Japan simply putting a picture of your face online is viewed as suspicious. Many people post no face pictures on social networking whatsoever. My experience on dating apps is that about 50% of women would not post a picture where they
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Here's a slightly silly way to keep your brain switched on while reading: Set an alarm to go off every few minutes. When the alarm goes off shut the book and summarise what you read in the past few minutes. Writing it down helps keep

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