Quote:...Have you ever dreamt of making a library full of Japanese books but you don't have the money to get your collection? Well, now you can! Your dream will become true in 1-2 hours for free! Here's a collection of Japanese books in text format that I got online.

This collection is comprised of: approximately around 60% are fiction novels, 30% light novels, ~8% reference books and the rest are categories not mentioned (like story dialogues from games like Higurashi, Tsuyokiss, etc). I splitted the whole compilation into segments, for the ease of viewing (plus, I don't want to have all the 5000+ files in a single folder). All files are indexed for quick searching. The files are arranged in Japanese character order, with the name of the author written first followed by the title of the book.

Most of the text files are neat and clean, unlike the txt files that I get from some forums (I won't mention names here) which has a lot of character misorders usually caused by furigana during the OCR reading process. The furigana were somehow placed in the beginning or between sentences causing gibberish context. This gives you a hard time understanding the contents especially if you arereading the document via a translation software (ie, ATLAS).

Anyways, I just want to share this collection to all the bookworms out there like me. I hope you all appreciate this. This may last you a good 15-20 years to finish, hahaha. Happyreading!

Quote:Rediscovering LR

And at last I can use my newly attained freedom to dive into all my LR materials. -Discovering the stories of Kenji Miyazawa and O. Henry (among many others). LR could as well be an abbreviation of "Literature Reading" or "Love to Read": Good native actors, a good translation and the thrill of a great story => language learning euphoria!
A new favourite is Miyazawa's story "The Acorns and the Wildcat", together with the fantastic dramatization at fantajikan: Pure happiness:
http://fantajikan.tea-nifty.com/blog/2007/07/post_76ca.html

blahah Wrote:

buonaparte Wrote:

Javizy Wrote:NHK and TBS have video to accompany some of their stories too.

A question:
Has anyone ever mangaged to actually download the vids? I mean to your computer?

These are very easy to download for later viewing (FNN, TBS, NNN):
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/

You need to use an RTMP dumper to download the FLV stream to a file.

get one here: http://goo.gl/jkj1

then to get the RTMP address for the video, go to the story you want to watch, press 'PLAY' on the video image, and when the little video box expands you need to right-click just outside the flash video but inside the video box. View source, and the address is in there, like this:

Quote:value="fms=rtmp://flv.nhk.or.jp/ondemand/flv/news/&amp;movie=K10056809911_1012070038_1012070041" name="flashvars"></object></td>

edit: that only applies to NHK, I haven't figured out the TBS videos yet (but NHK only took 10 minutes)
edit2: for TBS videos, just click the 'WMP' link (either one) underneath the video. If you open the file in VLC, you can save the stream. Or, you can open the file in a text editor and copy/paste the html link to the actual video (asf) which you find inside into your browser and download the file.

buonaparte Wrote:A question:
I have all the sound files from
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
They're named as follows:
之繞 【しんにょう; しんにゅう】 (n) kanji "advance" radical; shin'nyou; shin'nyuu.mp3
There are more than one hundred thousand mp3 files.

Is it allowed to upload them here?
And does anyone need them at all?

buonaparte Wrote:A question:
I have all the sound files from
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
They're named as follows:
之繞 【しんにょう; しんにゅう】 (n) kanji "advance" radical; shin'nyou; shin'nyuu.mp3
There are more than one hundred thousand mp3 files.

Is it allowed to upload them here?
And does anyone need them at all?

Teskal Wrote:

buonaparte Wrote:A question:
I have all the sound files from
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
They're named as follows:
之繞 【しんにょう; しんにゅう】 (n) kanji "advance" radical; shin'nyou; shin'nyuu.mp3
There are more than one hundred thousand mp3 files.

Is it allowed to upload them here?
And does anyone need them at all?

such files are very interesting and a training how to do such magic. :-)

personally I have no problems to get the links, ok I didn't try it with this page, but after you told about jpod101, I tested it there and I think it is really possible to get the links, but always only one file after file manually and I must rename every name of the file manually.

buonaparte Wrote:High school maths lessons - 30 so far, new ones are added.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/kokokoza/tv/suugaku1/index1.html
The vids come with 粗筋 あらすじ outline, summary:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/kokokoza/tv/suugaku1/archive/resume001.html

If you'd like to download the vids for later viewing, ........

nest0r Wrote:Request cancelled! It's all Taken Care Of™. Though someone should still post something eventually just in case.

cb4960 Wrote:

nest0r Wrote:Request cancelled! It's all Taken Care Of™. Though someone should still post something eventually just in case.

In the interest of reducing load on the jpod101 servers:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HF68DKR2

128,275 files in total.

Format:
kana - kanji.mp3

Example:
しんがい - 侵害.mp3

cb4960 Wrote:For Anki Users:
"[sound:%(text:Reading)s - %(text:Expression)s.mp3]" can be placed into the answers field. This will only work with the Custom Media Player 2 plugin.

KanjiDevourer Wrote:

cb4960 Wrote:For Anki Users:
"[sound:%(text:Reading)s - %(text:Expression)s.mp3]" can be placed into the answers field. This will only work with the Custom Media Player 2 plugin.

That is incredibly useful - please consider re-upping or sharing! The files are from jdic, though, or are we talking about single-word audio files from jpod101 now?

cb4960 Wrote:Okay, I just edited my first post with MediaFire links.

buonaparte Wrote:Has anyone downloaded and checked cb4960's JDIC_Audio_All_09April2010.zip file?

The names of the files look like this:
ŃüéŃüáŃéäŃüŐŃéŹŃüŁŃüő - ňżĺŃéäšľÄŃüő.mp3
Why is that so?