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    Thread: Help! Learning the International Phonetic Alphabet
Post: Help! Learning the International Phonetic Alphabet

There's also http://accent.gmu.edu/ -- always the same text, read in english by speakers of various languages (and various dialects of english for the native speakers), and transcribed in IPA. The ma...
sonya Off topic 6 2,812 2011-09-09, 6:20 am
    Thread: Help! Learning the International Phonetic Alphabet
Post: Help! Learning the International Phonetic Alphabet

Back when I studied Linguistics, I really liked A Practical Introduction to Phonetics by J. C. Catford. It contains very detailed descriptions to actually produce the sounds, and goes a bit beyond the...
sonya Off topic 6 2,812 2011-09-09, 4:21 am
    Thread: Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux.
Post: Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux...

Do you see a dropdown menu "Fonts for: <language>" at the top of the advanced font preferences window, and did you select Japanese there? If yes and it still doesn't work, I have no idea, sorry....
sonya Learning resources 9 2,175 2011-08-17, 2:28 pm
    Thread: Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux.
Post: Where can I find some decent kanji fonts for linux...

childofthetao Wrote:Thanks for the help, but for some reason the fonts will not change in firefox :/ I select them in preferences but nothing happens... Have you unchecked "Allow pages to choose their...
sonya Learning resources 9 2,175 2011-08-17, 2:16 pm
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

I'm too lazy to make it to 100% retention, but I'm at 508 now as well. :-)
sonya Remembering the Kanji 526 167,185 2011-08-09, 4:35 am
    Thread: Japan in the Mix (music)
Post: Japan in the Mix (music)

Hi, I just found http://www.worldmusic.net/guide/japan-in-the-mix/ with a nice mix of youtube videos of various styles of music from Japan. Maybe this is interesting for someone here. The site sel...
sonya General discussion 0 347 2011-08-09, 4:28 am