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    Thread: Advice on CompSci in Japan
Post: Advice on CompSci in Japan

I'm a computer engineer and worked at a CS lab at Keio for a while. I can answer if you have some specific questions. There's one thing I don't quite understand though, if your background is in East A...
Ramchip JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 21 6,641 2011-06-27, 4:36 pm
    Thread: Great source for sentences.
Post: Great source for sentences.

Quote:Most of the sentences in the database come from the Tanaka Corpus. (Phauna beat me to it)
Ramchip Learning resources 9 1,837 2008-08-04, 8:11 pm
    Thread: I've made a brilliant observation!
Post: I've made a brilliant observation!

This reminds me somewhat of re-translation, which was discussed here a while ago. It's in a way a combination of learning words taken alone, but then attempting to use them and checking with the origi...
Ramchip General discussion 91 13,777 2008-08-03, 2:07 pm
    Thread: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed RTK1
Post: want to go "sentence mining" but not yet completed...

"Anyone who claims that the brain is a total mystery should be slapped upside the head with the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. All one thousand ninety-six pages of it." ;) Anyway, I thi...
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 57 12,962 2008-07-31, 9:44 pm
    Thread: A little help please???
Post: A little help please???

4 hours of continuous free time. A possibly lethal dose of sugar. Final destination.
Ramchip General discussion 9 1,594 2008-07-21, 7:54 pm
    Thread: Best way to learn On & Kun Yomi after RTK1.
Post: Best way to learn On & Kun Yomi after RTK1.

Tanuki was posted on this forum before, check out this thread. It doesn't have much explanation and no translation; only a few words in japanese for every sentence that rephrase the meaning, so you ha...
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 10 8,126 2008-07-21, 6:54 am
    Thread: Help Identifying a Kanji
Post: Help Identifying a Kanji

woelpad Wrote:And lots of cutey girl characters. Sounds tempting, eh? Not to mention that the author is reportedly a heavy drinker...
Ramchip The Japanese language 7 2,439 2008-06-17, 10:28 pm
    Thread: Bedding/quilt cover with kanji on it?
Post: Bedding/quilt cover with kanji on it?

paddy71 Wrote:Oddly enough, I have a 2042 kanji pillow case made Haha, when I saw the thread title I told myself: "That's a thread for paddy" :D
Ramchip Learning resources 8 5,030 2008-06-14, 2:35 pm
    Thread: On the tip of your tongue
Post: On the tip of your tongue

Thanks! I was a bit torn myself between letting go or trying to remember even if it takes a long time.
Ramchip General discussion 23 4,292 2008-06-11, 5:04 pm
    Thread: A better "Just so"
Post: A better "Just so"

I sometimes used a very fussy old man, perhaps an aging clockmaker, who always insisted that everything be done "just so", "just right". For example, for topic 題, he's checking your page of text with ...
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 5 1,304 2008-06-10, 7:37 am
    Thread: The..."What the hell, James...?!" Topic
Post: The..."What the hell, James...?!" Topic

I liked his very discrete treatment of 便: Quote:This kanji also means that unmentionable material that one disposes of when one goes to the "conveniences".
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 42 9,812 2008-06-08, 10:05 pm
    Thread: Who remembers the person that said he doesn't use heisigs method
Post: Who remembers the person that said he doesn't use ...

Absolutely. And I second what nac_est said about the speed: last summer I had the opportunity to do kanji full-time for a few lucky days, adding up to 150 one day, and my retention rate after a few re...
Ramchip General discussion 143 23,361 2008-06-03, 6:19 pm
    Thread: Signs of SRS overdose
Post: Signs of SRS overdose

Sevenhelmets Wrote:I only discovered SRS and Anki last week, and I've already told about 10 people about it, with at least half of them already checking out the sites and a couple of them have started...
Ramchip Off topic 26 6,330 2008-05-29, 10:44 pm
    Thread: Reverse Flash Cards
Post: Reverse Flash Cards

Anki could do that (google it or search the forums)
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 3 1,068 2008-05-28, 9:18 pm
    Thread: Anyone reach fluency?
Post: Anyone reach fluency?

Sarius24 Wrote:But he really doesnt stress the part about putting fun into learning. Actually he did say things like "read what you like, not what you should be reading, as long as it's fun". You have...
Ramchip General discussion 48 7,102 2008-05-19, 9:45 pm
    Thread: Kanji Poster and RtK font variants
Post: Kanji Poster and RtK font variants

javiergakusei Wrote:I will try to give you some examples of some kanji that are simply unrecognizable for those who use the Remembering the kanji book (it is also different from the kanji in the Minna...
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 49 16,910 2008-03-16, 6:53 pm
    Thread: Move schedule data from RevTK to Anki-cool new anki plugin!
Post: Move schedule data from RevTK to Anki-cool new an...

Xaarg, if the author specifically asks that you do not use his keyword list for another work I think it's really basic politeness not to do it. Whatever would hold up in court, whatever the software l...
Ramchip General discussion 59 16,740 2008-03-15, 2:18 pm
    Thread: 「知っている」 Vs. 「知る」
Post: 「知っている」 Vs. 「知る」

Funny coincidence, I also saved a sentence with ところ this morning because I wasn't sure of the meaning. 今日のところは、のんびりとしましょう。 So I take it it's to emphasize that today we should take it easy?
Ramchip General discussion 43 11,454 2008-02-29, 8:55 pm
    Thread: 漫 and 慢
Post: 漫 and 慢

Somehow, I find it very japanese-ish to use "self ridicule" for boasting...
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 4 1,652 2008-02-26, 11:20 pm
    Thread: Shadowing
Post: Shadowing

You might want to have a look at how-to-learn-any-language forums, especially the posts by Ardaschir/ProfArguelles. He's a polyglot who posted a lot of useful content over there. Edit: His first post...
Ramchip General discussion 24 6,938 2008-02-14, 9:03 am
    Thread: How many Japanese words do you know?
Post: How many Japanese words do you know?

I got 4800 on the first test, also more than what I really know. I think it assumes you're japanese and know the basic words, so it just tests for the rarer stuff (eg: parallax and Engel's coefficient...
Ramchip General discussion 5 2,017 2008-02-11, 8:23 am
    Thread: Japanese Films
Post: Japanese Films

I've seen Fear and Trembling. At times I thought it was a bit artsy (French films often give me this feeling...), but overall it was pretty funny, so I'll second Thora's post. It'd be more enjoyable f...
Ramchip Learning resources 36 12,651 2008-02-11, 8:15 am
    Thread: Online text adventure games in Japanese?
Post: Online text adventure games in Japanese?

Transtic Wrote:By the way, if someone has a Japanese OCR, I would be great if you tried using the OCR software with the logs of these games. Unfortunately, most of them don't let you copy the text. Se...
Ramchip General discussion 23 13,688 2008-02-10, 1:01 am
    Thread: Moving kanji several boxes
Post: Moving kanji several boxes

uberstuber Wrote:This is wrong If I'm not mistaken. Doesn't the easy button extend the length of the review by 1.5x? I remember reading the same thing, actually.
Ramchip General discussion 5 1,344 2008-02-10, 12:02 am
    Thread: HOW TO SPEAK?
Post: HOW TO SPEAK?

sage ;)
Ramchip General discussion 11 2,082 2008-01-29, 10:49 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Someone just posted this website for sentences on AJATT: http://wwwcyg.utc.fr/tatoeba/?home It's a multilingual corpus. Most japanese examples are from Tanaka, so the usual reserve applies, but I ca...
Ramchip General discussion 1,517 595,167 2008-01-22, 11:48 pm
    Thread: Difference Between Japanese and English
Post: Difference Between Japanese and English

I was expecting another winding thread about which language is the hardest, but that was a pleasant sunday morning surprise :)
Ramchip General discussion 6 1,961 2008-01-13, 9:13 am
    Thread: emperor and chief
Post: emperor and chief

kanjinetworks.com : 雄 (12) ユウ;お;おす SIS of 厷  SIS of 厷 combines a hand and a bending line representing an elbow. 雄 is 厷 (Type 1 Phonetic) (extension) + 隹 short, squat bird → male bird spreading its wi...
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 5 1,142 2007-12-11, 11:17 am
    Thread: Water (drops) primitive
Post: Water (drops) primitive

I'm not sure if that's what you were thinking about but it might simply be the ending hook. The strokes, at least when done with a brush, can end in different ways, which you can notice if you look at...
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 4 2,109 2007-12-11, 12:40 am
    Thread: Disambiguating "before" and "in front"
Post: Disambiguating "before" and "in front"

お前 is also a good word to show the distinction. It means 'the person in front', the one you're speaking with. 'The person before' wouldn't really make sense.
Ramchip Remembering the Kanji 12 3,794 2007-12-07, 7:52 pm