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    Thread: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration
Post: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab...

I would love to use this, but my laptop does not have a middle mouse button - it's Panasonic and scrolls with a funny round touchpad. Any chance of a re-mapping option? I could carry an external mouse...
Delina Learning resources 298 107,295 2011-01-16, 12:53 pm
    Thread: Manga with everyday situations, and normal japanese?
Post: Manga with everyday situations, and normal japanes...

High school manga: I've been enjoying "Sketchbook" by Totan Kobako, which was recommended here in a different thread. It's a collection of four-panel comics about high school students in art club, o...
Delina General discussion 14 4,636 2010-12-18, 3:48 pm
    Thread: Christmas Donations for Fabrice
Post: Christmas Donations for Fabrice

Just put in € 25 to push us over the edge... yay for big round numbers! Thanks again Fabrice, and thanks Truando for keeping this going!
Delina Off topic 393 86,381 2010-12-13, 1:18 am
    Thread: What about Japanese ebooks?
Post: What about Japanese ebooks?

Somewhere on this forum is a totally innocent thread about nihongo books. http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5048
Delina General discussion 18 15,847 2010-09-24, 12:26 am
    Thread: Kanji handwriting recognition software recommendation?
Post: Kanji handwriting recognition software recommendat...

The built-in (assuming you installed Japanese language support) Windows IME offers a handwriting input option. Google's free Japanese IME has one too, I think, but it's grayed out on my computer for ...
Delina General discussion 5 9,203 2010-09-20, 4:39 pm
    Thread: Japanese Rock Suggestions
Post: Japanese Rock Suggestions

I'd like to suggest Mongol 800. I found out about them through a drama (Operation Love). My favorite album is Eight Hundreds - more of a classic rock feel than their others, which seem more ska or pun...
Delina General discussion 14 2,621 2010-09-19, 9:04 pm
    Thread: Interference from real words?
Post: Interference from real words?

I've been having this problem, too, so I've been working on Japanese RTK. http://wrightak.googlepages.com/afterrtk1
Delina Remembering the Kanji 9 2,308 2010-09-13, 6:14 pm
    Thread: Finished RTK1; next step...? And a demoralizing first attempt.
Post: Finished RTK1; next step...? And a demoralizing fi...

If you're truly a beginner to Japanese, I second Womacks23's recommendation - find a textbook, or even Tae Kim, to get some grammar fundamentals down. Even simple sentences will make no sense if you d...
Delina Remembering the Kanji 35 10,498 2010-07-28, 11:08 pm
    Thread: Looking for all-kana readers
Post: Looking for all-kana readers

You might try some kid's manga - Chi's Sweet Home is almost entirely kana, and Yotsubato! is mostly hiragana (the character Yotsuba herself speaks entirely in hiragana). They're probably more bang for...
Delina General discussion 42 10,238 2010-07-15, 8:47 pm
    Thread: Nelson Mandela Day
Post: Nelson Mandela Day

Mandela sounds like "mandala", as in Heisig's primitive, and Mushi-chan is giving example stories for "ridicule" and "loose", kanji that use said primitive. So whether it's funny or witty remains ope...
Delina Remembering the Kanji 19 5,928 2010-07-15, 8:36 pm
    Thread: Japanese Vacation - No Japan
Post: Japanese Vacation - No Japan

Could you do a homestay with a Japanese family in the States? Or even a Japanese college student? You could check community colleges, universities, even Japanese grocery stores and churches (if they h...
Delina General discussion 13 1,804 2010-07-14, 7:15 pm
    Thread: Early Introduction of Japanese Keywords
Post: Early Introduction of Japanese Keywords

Wrightak has a collaborative Japanese keyword spreadsheet and Anki deck, and a wonderful web site describing why you might want to use such a thing: http://sites.google.com/site/wrightak2/ Most card...
Delina Remembering the Kanji 14 6,333 2010-07-11, 9:00 pm
    Thread: The news in manga form
Post: The news in manga form

漫画の新聞 http://newsmanga.com/ As described in Wired, they employ something like 100 artists and update 10-15 times a day. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/st_manganews
Delina Learning resources 6 1,394 2010-06-11, 4:10 pm
    Thread: -ず verb ending
Post: -ず verb ending

theBryan Wrote:liosama Wrote:Afaik it's only used in written, you won't see it much outside of written Japanese. Well that's what I learnt so far anyway. i think it is used in speech too, just not as ...
Delina The Japanese language 13 5,435 2010-04-28, 6:46 pm
    Thread: Japanese Article Text to Anki Deck
Post: Japanese Article Text to Anki Deck

Fantastic! I've been entering cards with stuff copied and pasted from Rikaichan one at a time, and this will definitely speed up my card generation. Since I'm between JLPT3 and JLPT2 in vocabulary, I...
Delina Learning resources 38 9,507 2010-04-15, 7:14 pm
    Thread: Japanese Readers
Post: Japanese Readers

ta12121 Wrote:Much faster then manually entering them from a book. This is why you need this: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5011 The above thread changed my life. Thanks raseru! Abydos...
Delina The Japanese language 19 6,004 2010-04-01, 10:49 pm
    Thread: I need a programm that helps with japanese pronunciation
Post: I need a programm that helps with japanese pronunc...

bizarrojosh Wrote:it's not freeware, but if you don't mind spending some cash to get the text book "Japanese: the spoken language" it is well worth it. The entire book is based on, you guessed it, the...
Delina General discussion 17 2,320 2010-03-29, 1:34 am
    Thread: A good test of fluency?
Post: A good test of fluency?

On-the-spot, real-time translation is tough. Some people believe that only people raised natively bilingual can do it - but hey, some people think that about kanji too. ;) My Japanese teacher is a pro...
Delina General discussion 8 2,660 2010-03-14, 1:03 am
    Thread: Looking for Japanese readers
Post: Looking for Japanese readers

ちょっとひとこと is a collection of articles that readers of a newspaper sent in over the years. It is out of print but you might be able to find it in a library or Book-Off. The ISBN is 4257050292 (ISBN-13: ...
Delina Learning resources 12 5,482 2010-03-14, 12:07 am
    Thread: all Thai all the time
Post: all Thai all the time

Thailand is the only country I ever traveled to where I didn't try to at least learn how to say 'please' and 'thank-you'. From my limited experience, it is highly tonal and pitch-sensitive (high, low,...
Delina General discussion 72 13,111 2010-03-13, 9:31 pm
    Thread: The first night in Osaka..
Post: The first night in Osaka..

The WikiTravel on Kansai Airport seems to imply that sleeping is normal, and that the information kiosks will even give you a free blanket. Aww. :) Unfortunately I'm not the kind of person who can sle...
Delina Off topic 29 7,119 2010-03-12, 8:28 pm
    Thread: The first night in Osaka..
Post: The first night in Osaka..

Two off-the-wall suggestions: 1. Manga-kissa (manga cafe) - I don't think sleeping is encouraged but if you need a place to be for a night, you can stay up all night drinking coffee and reading manga...
Delina Off topic 29 7,119 2010-03-12, 6:38 pm
    Thread: Looking for list of restaurant vocabulary especially yakiniku
Post: Looking for list of restaurant vocabulary especial...

I took this book on my trip to Japan last spring: http://www.bento.com/what.html (reviews, table of contents and sample chapters) http://www.amazon.com/Whats-What-Japanes...4770020864 It was a great...
Delina General discussion 9 4,654 2010-03-10, 1:46 am
    Thread: Is Chinese required to memorize the kanji(s)?
Post: Is Chinese required to memorize the kanji(s)?

It's like a sandwich, but it costs twice as much.
Delina The Japanese language 10 1,730 2010-03-08, 3:09 pm
    Thread: Need help to better understand の.
Post: Need help to better understand の.

In this case it is nominalizing the verb 食べる - making it into something like "the act of eating". You can't directly make the verb 食べる the subject of the sentence - 食べるは is ungrammatical. So you first...
Delina The Japanese language 4 923 2010-02-24, 9:36 pm
    Thread: Problem concerning RtK/KO2001
Post: Problem concerning RtK/KO2001

You might want to consider JRTK - replacing your English keywords with Japanese. You can search the forum for "Japanese keywords" or "JRTK". Wrightak has a web page about his version here: http://wri...
Delina Remembering the Kanji 6 2,461 2010-02-11, 3:00 pm
    Thread: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?
Post: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?

I would suggest onigiri as a great place to start. Easier and less intimidating than some of the stuff that goes in a bento, in my opinion. Easy to pack for lunch, too. The only trick is to make sure ...
Delina Off topic 53 13,318 2010-02-09, 5:11 pm
    Thread: what to do to improve speaking/listening in certain topics?
Post: what to do to improve speaking/listening in certai...

Sorry I didn't understand the question the first time. I would caution to be careful of learning from learners - their Japanese may be better than yours, but they may have bad habits that you don't kn...
Delina General discussion 14 2,638 2010-01-21, 9:55 pm
    Thread: what to do to improve speaking/listening in certain topics?
Post: what to do to improve speaking/listening in certai...

What Tobberoth said. However, it's actually pretty easy to find people to talk to. I used mylanguageexchange.com - you don't have to pay if you're willing to wait for someone to contact you (I had sev...
Delina General discussion 14 2,638 2010-01-21, 8:52 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Last night, I had a dream in which I spoke Japanese. I don't remember much about it, except that I was telling someone that my boyfriend had caught a cold. It didn't seem unusual at all at the time, b...
Delina General discussion 1,389 294,125 2010-01-15, 2:32 pm