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"Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanese? - vgambit - 2009-02-04
scout Wrote:On December 31st or so, I created a free account at JapanesePod101.com. With this free account came a 7-day trial of a Premium (the most expensive) account. The same day, I went to the Learning Center, and went through each category, telling DownThemAll to grab every single .mp3 and .pdf link.vgambit Wrote:If you create a free account, you automatically get a one-week trial of their Premium service.Unless things have changed in the past year or two, there is an unadvertised limit to the number of PDFs you can download on the free trial. (I think it was 10.) Everything else acts the same as a real premium account.
It takes about a day to download all of the MP3s and PDFs from the site using a download manager.
I don't feel like counting every single pdf I have, but in my AudioBlogAndPDFs folder, there are 333 files: 218 PDFs, and 115 MP3s. If there was some kind of limit, I didn't reach it. I downloaded every single pdf posted on that site as of January 1st, 2009.
I did this using a free account. I did not pay for anything.
The only limitation to the Premium trial is that you don't get access to the Premium iTunes feed. If you did, then it would be *really* easy to download every lesson. Since the Learning Center does not have every season of every lesson, I had to manually sort stuff out and move page through page using DownThemAll over and over, but eventually, I got everything.
"Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanese? - Marta - 2009-02-05
@virtual_leaf
Try to check the date/time of every file. I suppose ipods use file date to choose the playing order instead of filename. If you have access to a linux PC there is a useful command "touch <filename>" to change the date to actual.
"Number 1" method for understanding spoken Japanese? - yukkuri_kame - 2009-02-05
Lately, here is how I have been listening: In one window I am playing whatever media - mostly news or dorama - and I keep iKnow open in another window. I have a private vocab list called 何でもかんでも (nandemo kandemo=whatever). I keep that open in listbuilder mode. When a word I don't know emerges from the jumble, I add it to the list for later review. In the process, I get a definition. iKnow listbuilder mode can be frustrating at times, but generally this technique is working for me.