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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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Thread: HOW TO SPEAK? Post: HOW TO SPEAK? sage ;) |
Ramchip | General discussion | 11 | 2,082 | 2008-01-29, 10:49 am | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
