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    Thread: Electronic Dictionary and Nintendo DS
Post: Electronic Dictionary and Nintendo DS

I have a DS with 楽引辞典 and couldn't live without it. I wasted heaps of time trying to get handwriting recognition going with my PDA's with various results. But no problem at all on the DS, it's fantast...
krusher Learning resources 13 4,807 2008-05-12, 6:55 pm
    Thread: JLPT 1級
Post: JLPT 1級

I have the 2 Kyuu version of that book and I think the answers are in the audio - after the question has been read it will say "Number 2 is correct" - Or do you mean there's no explanation of what's ...
krusher JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 26 13,477 2007-03-26, 3:39 pm
    Thread: JWPce (a free Japanese Word Processor)
Post: JWPce (a free Japanese Word Processor)

Pauline Wrote:ファブリス Wrote:Anyone found a way to do the conversion with just one key stroke? I have not found any key for that, but you can just continue writing. The previous conversion is automatical...
krusher Learning resources 8 5,807 2006-12-13, 4:01 pm
    Thread: Your Favorite Katakana word
Post: Your Favorite Katakana word

hehe, what context did you see that word in? Mine is probably バイキング - but there's plenty of good ones to choose from! I especially like the ones made from two words that are both shortened so neither ...
krusher General discussion 10 3,313 2006-11-29, 5:34 pm
    Thread: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J?
Post: Studying vocabulary? J-E or E-J?

Wrightak, your missing word system is really cool! Up until now, I've just been reading and jotting down the words I don't know, then at the end of the page or chapter I go away and learn the works (k...
krusher General discussion 37 10,079 2006-11-28, 5:04 pm
    Thread: Japanese tongue twisters
Post: Japanese tongue twisters

Raichu Wrote:This sentence only has one phoneme /o/ repeated seven times: [kana]ou wo ouou[/kana] Anyone care to guess what it means? Damn!! That's doing my head in! What is it? ;) Don't ask how I got...
krusher General discussion 11 6,192 2006-11-26, 2:13 am
    Thread: Help Identifying Kanji
Post: Help Identifying Kanji

If you've got a DVD with Japanese subtitles, you might want to look into getting a DVD ripping program and just ripping the subtitles off into a seperate file, I done this once and when I got up to so...
krusher General discussion 12 4,908 2006-10-23, 4:28 pm
    Thread: Electronic Dictionaries
Post: Electronic Dictionaries

Yeah, all that Nintendo software sounds awesome, I have had a little go on one program, but I'm not sure what the name was, I was on the train and some guy noticed my flashcards and came over and gave...
krusher Learning resources 30 13,805 2006-10-17, 1:26 pm
    Thread: Japanese Torrent Sites (music, anime, etc.)
Post: Japanese Torrent Sites (music, anime, etc.)

Hey man, I haven't seen that series, but I'll try to find it. Drama's are great practice, I usually watch a series right through once with the fansubs and then watch them all again with no subtitles,...
krusher Learning resources 27 131,504 2006-10-09, 4:23 pm
    Thread: Japanese Torrent Sites (music, anime, etc.)
Post: Japanese Torrent Sites (music, anime, etc.)

I'm not much into Anime, but I watch heaps and heaps of Japanese drama, and get most of it from http://d-addicts.com/ - there's a few that I really didn't like, but some are really good, most of them ...
krusher Learning resources 27 131,504 2006-10-09, 12:37 am
    Thread: Virtual Immersion
Post: Virtual Immersion

I know exactly what you mean about wanting your computers to just work ;) I will release the flashcard files seperatly aswell so anyone can grab them, I figured I'd make a master one, then smaller one...
krusher Learning resources 4 2,515 2006-09-24, 5:33 pm
    Thread: Virtual Immersion
Post: Virtual Immersion

Hey Guys. I know from other topics that there's a few Linux users here, and I wanted to gague interest in something I've been doing - I've been a Slackware and Debian user since '97 but recently insta...
krusher Learning resources 4 2,515 2006-09-21, 6:56 pm
    Thread: Mnemosyne HELP
Post: Mnemosyne HELP

Sorry man, I don't know anything about that software, but I use JFC and love it, people have a few problems with it, but it's very powerful and good overall, I'd be willing to format your file into JF...
krusher Learning resources 19 9,299 2006-09-21, 5:52 pm
    Thread: Commonly confused kanji
Post: Commonly confused kanji

Quote:Ethnocentrism will blind you from the wonders of the world around you, including your fair metropolis Tokyo. Or perhaps you have entrenched yourself in a foreign bunker there only to venture out...
krusher Remembering the Kanji 43 15,248 2006-09-18, 11:48 am
    Thread: What's your least favorite kanji to write?
Post: What's your least favorite kanji to write?

I have real trouble with things with any kanji containing 'mama' (母) like 貫, 毎, etc - no matter how many times I've done it I just can't get it right. One of the kanji that stumped me when I first loo...
krusher Remembering the Kanji 39 10,684 2006-09-03, 10:09 pm
    Thread: 手紙を書きたい (help with grammar)
Post: 手紙を書きたい (help with grammar)

Quote:"I'm thinking of going to Japan, probably around January 2007." 12月か来年1月は日本へ行くつもり。 (?) つもり means intention, it is stronger than 予定 (plan) here's an example of つもり 来年、何をするつもりですか? What do you int...
krusher General discussion 16 7,316 2006-08-17, 7:13 pm
    Thread: Which palm should I buy?
Post: Which palm should I buy?

Yeah man, getting your phone to do Japanese with e-mail would be really, really awesome. I learnt soo much from just sending quick email all the time while I was there. I was playing with an 'Apache' ...
krusher Learning resources 15 5,078 2006-08-17, 6:10 pm
    Thread: Which palm should I buy?
Post: Which palm should I buy?

Well, they both have cool things you can do with them, I guess it comes down to comparing the features and picking what you want most. The Palm has Kanji Gym which is the offical RTK software, so that...
krusher Learning resources 15 5,078 2006-08-17, 6:04 am
    Thread: Which palm should I buy?
Post: Which palm should I buy?

Well, as far as Japanese learning goes, what do you want apart from a Flashcard system and a dictionary? There's major players for both Palm Pilots and Windows CE machines, and I'm soo devided that I ...
krusher Learning resources 15 5,078 2006-08-16, 8:33 pm
    Thread: Rikai Chan--HELP!
Post: Rikai Chan--HELP!

KANJI Wrote:I have yet to find info on King Kanji. Anyone know about it? I've used it a bit, it's commercial though so I just tried it out. Before I found out about this site and KanjiGym I tried it b...
krusher Learning resources 13 6,671 2006-08-15, 2:48 pm
    Thread: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
Post: PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS

CharleyGarrett Wrote:Actually, my interest was in setting up Supermemo to learn the Japanese names (and numbers) of the 214 traditional radicals. That's a really good idea - you'd be able to use any d...
krusher Remembering the Kanji 43 24,942 2006-08-14, 1:32 pm
    Thread: Digitalized RTK Materials
Post: Digitalized RTK Materials

I have a copy of KanjiGym on my palm pilot and I use it sometimes - it's pretty much got everything you need to review... and those SOD's shouldn't have mistakes, it's not part of the KanjiGym program...
krusher Remembering the Kanji 10 6,194 2006-08-12, 6:57 pm
    Thread: Vocabulary Software
Post: Vocabulary Software

This is a good flashcard site: http://kanjicafe.com/ It has heaps of really cool features - but I'll let you guys see for yourself. (Side note: the guy who made this site runs the online Japanese stor...
krusher Learning resources 57 17,039 2006-07-26, 10:39 pm
    Thread: Favourite Kanji
Post: Favourite Kanji

Matthew Wrote:Mine is "biang," as in the noodles popular in China's Shaanxi province. It contains 57 strokes (yes, 57). Unfortunately I cannot write the character here as it is not contained in any ...
krusher Remembering the Kanji 52 17,706 2006-07-26, 10:32 pm
    Thread: Electronic Dictionaries
Post: Electronic Dictionaries

Take a look at this Norgus: http://www.peterrivard.com/Pages/SuperDictionary.html I used to have a 8M Palm IIIv a couple of years ago, but I only ran Dokusya on that. The battery life was amazing, bu...
krusher Learning resources 30 13,805 2006-07-25, 9:13 pm
    Thread: Vocab mnemonics
Post: Vocab mnemonics

scottamus Wrote:Books: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412004195 That book looks really interesting - have you read it before?
krusher General discussion 5 4,138 2006-07-25, 3:42 pm
    Thread: Working in Japan.
Post: Working in Japan.

I was half-joking in the other forum, but it'd make for an interesting topic anyway. I don't think I can offer that much job-hunting advice, but I'll tell you what I know. I'm from New Zealand and I...
krusher Learning resources 19 4,017 2006-07-22, 12:51 am
    Thread: textbooks
Post: textbooks

bokuzukuri Wrote:BTW, after having completed Genki one should watch Japanese variety shows. A lot. The level is usually lower than your average J-Drama, and the only subtitles you'll find are the inte...
krusher Learning resources 119 45,119 2006-07-20, 6:28 pm
    Thread: Images and Words.
Post: Images and Words.

Hey Guys, since most of you guys are way ahead of me, I was wondering if you could give me a little feedback. At the start of part two, Heisig is talking about the importance of longer stories to fix ...
krusher Remembering the Kanji 1 1,847 2006-07-13, 4:40 pm
    Thread: Oboetemasuka? 覚えてますか? grammar, help!
Post: Oboetemasuka? 覚えてますか? grammar, help!

wrightak Wrote:覚えてますか? is a spoken form of 覚えていますか. Try saying the latter quickly and you'll soon see/hear why. I quite often read (verb)~てる or ~てます when I receive messages on my phone from friends. E...
krusher General discussion 10 7,888 2006-07-08, 5:25 pm