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    Thread: Rikaichan-like plug in for Dolphin Browser (Android)
Post: Rikaichan-like plug in for Dolphin Browser (Androi...

Rikai is a simple web browser for android that does basically what you want. It (still) works well for me. I can no longer seem to find it in google play, but found it here - http://www.androidzoo...
rachels General discussion 3 5,258 2012-07-08, 9:30 pm
    Thread: Anki Plugin: Maturing Cards & Failed Mature Cards
Post: Anki Plugin: Maturing Cards & Failed Mature Cards

Does the plugin give any information on how many cards go from being mature to new or young (by being failed) ? (Newly mature cards - cards that have become 'unmature' )/day might give a good guide ...
rachels Learning resources 6 3,121 2012-03-07, 1:19 am
    Thread: A question about AnkiDroid
Post: A question about AnkiDroid

I'm not at all against rooting the phone... but if you don't want to, you can download the Motoya fonts to many Android phones without rooting. On my Samsung Galaxy tablet, when you go to Settings, Di...
rachels Learning resources 7 3,371 2012-02-25, 5:23 pm
    Thread: Audio Lesson Studio
Post: Audio Lesson Studio

kiokuwarui Wrote:I used your new version. I also noticed that, despite setting "Pimsleur" as format, there is no repetition whatsoever, no SRS. I may be wrong, but couldn't you just put some repetitio...
rachels Learning resources 35 23,392 2012-02-25, 6:03 am
    Thread: New method for readings?
Post: New method for readings?

Everyone here seems to say that learning readings while you learn new vocabulary works well, so it must work, I guess. But for myself, I learnt a bit of Japanese and then tried to get up to speed on...
rachels Remembering the Kanji 3 2,525 2012-02-20, 6:17 pm
    Thread: Looking for sentence decks with audio, ideally post-core6k
Post: Looking for sentence decks with audio, ideally pos...

prettyfunbird Wrote:Hello, ....when I try to get the audio, I can't extract it for some reason. Also, it looked like a lot of the non-core words didn't have example sentences. I vaguely remember havin...
rachels Learning resources 7 2,434 2012-02-16, 6:48 pm
    Thread: Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook?
Post: Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook?

chamcham Wrote:I recommend "Japanese Speaking Patterns for Effective Communication". I also, think this a such a useful book. And I don't care if anyone complains about the romaji (It does have ful...
rachels Learning resources 14 9,083 2012-02-06, 6:20 pm
    Thread: Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook?
Post: Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook?

I tried 'An integrated approach to intermediate Japanese' and it was basically fine but I didn't stick with it beyond the first few chapters. How to explain? I guess I just found the content of the ...
rachels Learning resources 14 9,083 2012-02-06, 5:59 pm
    Thread: Guide: Android: Japanese Environment on the go
Post: Guide: Android: Japanese Environment on the go

Ghost commander is an excellent file browser. I think it also lets you browse and manipulate files over your wireless network, but I haven't yet set it up to do that. I am using a different (also go...
rachels General discussion 83 33,871 2012-01-18, 4:22 pm
    Thread: Guide: Android: Japanese Environment on the go
Post: Guide: Android: Japanese Environment on the go

Probably the same 2 Motoya fonts and one other Japanese font are also included in the app called fontomiser or galaxy fonts, so I was able to install them as phone system fonts WITHOUT 'rooting'. Howe...
rachels General discussion 83 33,871 2012-01-17, 7:53 am
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

Further to installing a proper Japanese system font on my phone - see above - there seems to me, to be a problem with the DroidSans Japanese font offered by the above mentioned program. The RTK charac...
rachels Learning resources 157 85,750 2011-12-15, 7:32 pm
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

einahpets Wrote:Another question: is there any way to get an android to display Japanese characters properly (in general, not just in ankidroid) without rooting the phone? Yes. Perhaps I should have ...
rachels Learning resources 157 85,750 2011-12-14, 3:05 am
    Thread: Any resources for vocab through listening?
Post: Any resources for vocab through listening?

The google TTS plugin can be downloaded from shared plugins. You install it on the computer, select some cards, select the field you want sound files for eg 'Meaning' and an empty destination field to...
rachels Learning resources 4 2,208 2011-12-13, 1:08 am
    Thread: Any resources for vocab through listening?
Post: Any resources for vocab through listening?

- When I am exercising and doing Anki (coreplus) vocabulary deck I don't look at the screen much. I use the sound of the Japanese word as the question. The answer side has English definition, Japanes...
rachels Learning resources 4 2,208 2011-12-12, 6:14 am
    Thread: duplicates in coreplus deck
Post: duplicates in coreplus deck

The first lot of facts in the coreplus deck were imported from the 'core spreadsheets', which had 6000 words, each with example sentences. Some of those words were duplicates in kanji and kana but not...
rachels Learning resources 2 1,477 2011-11-11, 4:35 pm
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

Does anyone know of any other apps that include their own support for proper Japanese fonts? The only ones I know are 1. vertical text viewer 2. ankidroid 3. EBpocket (epwing viewer), though I'm not ...
rachels Learning resources 157 85,750 2011-08-12, 10:23 pm
    Thread: Studying kanji meaning and On yomi at the same time, faster?
Post: Studying kanji meaning and On yomi at the same tim...

When through RTK1, a lot of people seem to advocate just learning the readings that occur in words as you come across them, and are very happy with it. For myself, I find that this works beautifully ...
rachels Remembering the Kanji 16 9,662 2011-08-11, 3:50 am
    Thread: Incremental Reading
Post: Incremental Reading

Another post, in case someone out there wants to try the Supermemo option and feels later they weren't sufficiently warned.... Supermemo is needlessly complicated? Embarrassing as it is to admit, it...
rachels Off topic 18 8,368 2011-08-05, 5:52 am
    Thread: Incremental Reading
Post: Incremental Reading

There's this - Learn Incremental Reading [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ISXYTwmjuw] Also Importing wikipaedia articles into supermemo [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICEWu1dh2o] L...
rachels Off topic 18 8,368 2011-08-04, 4:29 am
    Thread: Incremental Reading
Post: Incremental Reading

If anyone is unclear about the concept of incremenetal reading- http://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_reading bucaran Wrote:What about doing it manually?...
rachels Off topic 18 8,368 2011-08-03, 2:37 am
    Thread: Incremental Reading
Post: Incremental Reading

I've been trying out incremental reading for a month or two, so I'm still getting used to it and working out how best to use it, but I'm fast becoming a fan. I really like the freedom to be less or...
rachels Off topic 18 8,368 2011-08-02, 6:09 am
    Thread: movie method. learning the primitives
Post: movie method. learning the primitives

semperanimus Wrote:....just do it. Good advice to give yourself, but semperanimus Wrote:....others already thought out the how for me. It doesn't hurt to put a bit of (independent) thought int...
rachels Remembering the Kanji 7 3,125 2011-07-22, 2:05 am
    Thread: corePLUS Anki Deck - How to activate the cards that only hav sentences
Post: corePLUS Anki Deck - How to activate the cards tha...

-sentence:_*
rachels The Japanese language 6 5,620 2011-06-30, 8:04 pm
    Thread: corePLUS Anki Deck - How to activate the cards that only hav sentences
Post: corePLUS Anki Deck - How to activate the cards tha...

The plug-in will re-order cards, so probably you need to create a new bunch of cards from your new model first, then use the plug-in to sort them. No need to re-sort the cards in the original model - ...
rachels The Japanese language 6 5,620 2011-06-29, 11:24 pm
    Thread: corePLUS Anki Deck - How to activate the cards that only hav sentences
Post: corePLUS Anki Deck - How to activate the cards tha...

To search for all the cards that have a non-empty 'sentence' field use the search sentence:_* or sentence:_* tag:JLPT1 for just the for JLPT1 words which have example senten...
rachels The Japanese language 6 5,620 2011-06-29, 8:02 am
    Thread: Kanji Chains
Post: Kanji Chains

KANJI SORTED BY ONYOMI https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=...l=en#gid=0 ONYOMI ORDERED BY NUMBER OF KANJI https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=...l=en#gid=0 It is possible, though not neces...
rachels Remembering the Kanji 3 2,538 2011-06-25, 4:42 pm
    Thread: Large vocab deck with tags for Genki, IJ, Tobira, JLPT plus homophones
Post: Large vocab deck with tags for Genki, IJ, Tobira, ...

It's a big deck and there are bound to be some mistakes. I couldn't possibly verify everything that I imported. For example, for some of the textbook words I imported, I tried to remove some of the p...
rachels Learning resources 23 10,908 2011-05-29, 4:46 am
    Thread: Audio Download - Anki plugin for downloading JDIC audio
Post: Audio Download - Anki plugin for downloading JDIC ...

@Thora @nestor It seems OK now. I didn't realise it was supposed to be a card tag - a bit different from 1.1, I guess. All good now, Thanks!
rachels Learning resources 57 29,318 2011-05-28, 9:17 pm
    Thread: Audio Download - Anki plugin for downloading JDIC audio
Post: Audio Download - Anki plugin for downloading JDIC ...

I added a field called Image - shouldn't that be irrelevant. There were no other field changes. In particular, I didn't touch Expression, Reading or Audio. The stuff I deleted was from the actual fo...
rachels Learning resources 57 29,318 2011-05-28, 8:59 pm
    Thread: Audio Download - Anki plugin for downloading JDIC audio
Post: Audio Download - Anki plugin for downloading JDIC ...

@nestor from the instructions - http://ankisrs.net/docs/AudioDownload.html "It also needs your "vocabulary" tagged cards to have fields "Expression", "Reading" (default fields for Japanese card model ...
rachels Learning resources 57 29,318 2011-05-28, 8:26 pm