TJKeranen on 3/10/2007 at 05:22
Languages you learn are useful to you, if you put yourself into a position where they become useful. Refusing to learn and condemning those who are willing to do so, because you can't draw a straight line from these efforts to the profit without the "???" in between, is seriously making me cringe.
In my opinion the knowledge you gain is all the profit you should require. I speak four languages and can read two more. Some of those skills I use very rarely, but still I'm very happy that I made the efforts to learn them. I had *fun* learning them. I also put a lot of time in the past to become very good in a lot of video games. That can be seen as a huge waste of time, if anything can, but I'm not kicking myself for that, either.
Koki on 3/10/2007 at 06:10
You said it yourself that for you learning languages is *fun*. This makes you a freak. For most people it's hard work, so your arguments hardly apply.
Aja on 3/10/2007 at 06:51
Reading books is a real bitch, too!
Tonamel on 3/10/2007 at 07:21
I fail to see how hard work and fun are mutually exclusive.
zombe on 3/10/2007 at 09:09
Quote Posted by demagogue
Yeah, but then you'll never know when you've just been insulted in the foreign language everyone around you seems to be speaking.
Not realy ... :p
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I want what zombe has. Is it freeware?
AxTng1 on 12/10/2007 at 16:47
You're watching porn and the only word you understand is "Yatta!"
demagogue on 12/10/2007 at 19:11
Quote Posted by hopper
I want what zombe has. Is it freeware?
You mean the Kanji dictionary?
The freeware one I use is part of jwpce, a Japanese word processor & dictionary. And you can get it (
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html) here.
The one zombe has looks like a browser plugin ... that'd be pretty cool.
Spaztick on 12/10/2007 at 20:04
I might add there's another handy dictionary called WWJDIC that I use to look up words. Be warned that it does its job too well sometimes so you have to be really specific on what word you want:
(
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html)
Vasquez on 11/11/2007 at 14:21
What is "no" in Japanese? I've been reading this mini-course of Japanese phrases (basic tourist stuff, we're planning a trip to Japan) that doesn't teach any grammar or individual words, only simple sentences. After awhile it's easy to conclude certain forms and words, but I still haven't figured out what "no" could be :weird:
