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    Thread: Interesting Japanese words you come across
Post: Interesting Japanese words you come across

文字化け - もじばけ Is a very useful word. You know when your characters turn into gibberish font on the computer? It's 文字化け nest0r Wrote:http://www.popsci.com/science/article/20...six-months While it sounds...
raseru The Japanese language 45 14,423 2010-05-18, 6:57 pm
    Thread: Interesting Japanese words you come across
Post: Interesting Japanese words you come across

Speaking of 逆ギレ, there's 逆ナン, which is ナンパ when girls do it. Jarvik7 Wrote:If only the pill wasn't so taboo here... This, seriously. My condom broke once, so my gf had to go pay 70 bucks to get 1 stu...
raseru The Japanese language 45 14,423 2010-05-18, 6:33 pm
    Thread: Interesting Japanese words you come across
Post: Interesting Japanese words you come across

魑魅魍魎 - ちみもうりょう evil spirits of rivers and mountains I've seen this used in berserk a few times why words like these exist I'll never know
raseru The Japanese language 45 14,423 2010-05-17, 10:25 pm
    Thread: Interesting Japanese words you come across
Post: Interesting Japanese words you come across

Ever come across a funny or interesting Japanese word that you've seen used? Words that you may never see again but still find interesting nonetheless? I'll try and post these interesting words as I ...
raseru The Japanese language 45 14,423 2010-05-17, 5:03 pm
    Thread: japanese subtitles for films
Post: japanese subtitles for films

http://kitsunekko.net/subtitles/japanese/
raseru Learning resources 74 57,922 2010-03-01, 4:48 am
    Thread: Subs2srs deck downloads
Post: Subs2srs deck downloads

We ought to spread this program. Make it for more languages. Like if you can find a different language to learn it from, upload that too. I'd love to see this program do better. Might help with more d...
raseru Group study 183 78,530 2010-02-27, 3:59 pm
    Thread: video to text
Post: video to text

don't get your hopes up. Computers always fail at recognizing speech. What you saw was probably already edited text. I'm not even sure if we'll see this technology within 20 years working properly..
raseru Learning resources 7 1,282 2010-02-26, 5:57 am
    Thread: A new kind of sentence deck?
Post: A new kind of sentence deck?

The problem with vocab in the front and sentence on the back is how do you remember the word when it pops up? Do you remember the sentence? Do you still translate it in your mind? It just doesn't seem...
raseru General discussion 12 1,888 2010-02-25, 5:17 am
    Thread: Japanese Reading Materials
Post: Japanese Reading Materials

I recommend everyone to read ホームレス中年学生 I think all middle schoolers read it for school It isn't really hard, but the person who wrote it is from kansai so you will encounter a dialect but it isn't t...
raseru Learning resources 75 19,155 2010-02-24, 5:12 am
    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

We ought to spread this program. Make it for more languages. Like if you can find a different language to learn it from, upload that too. I'd love to see this program do better. Might help with more d...
raseru Learning resources 1,039 387,668 2010-02-24, 5:00 am
    Thread: 四字熟語 Deck Uploaded
Post: 四字熟語 Deck Uploaded

heh yeah I don't know why but idioms in Japanese must be in dictionary form for rikai-chan. Normal words don't have this problem
raseru Learning resources 10 2,263 2010-02-20, 12:01 am
    Thread: 四字熟語 Deck Uploaded
Post: 四字熟語 Deck Uploaded

Yeah, 油を売る is pretty popular usually you can figure out they're idioms when the sentence doesn't make much sense. In that case, you can type it in dictionary form and rikai-chan has a decent chance t...
raseru Learning resources 10 2,263 2010-02-19, 10:31 pm
    Thread: 四字熟語 Deck Uploaded
Post: 四字熟語 Deck Uploaded

I uploaded both of them to anki, search 'japanese idioms'
raseru Learning resources 10 2,263 2010-02-19, 8:21 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Awesome job, works great. Now I don't have to copy the stupid text anymore to remember, lol.
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-19, 12:50 am
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

ah cool, better than I thought
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-18, 5:30 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

You can get good at cramming, you just got to figure out how to cram efficiently and it may depend on each person. I have no idea what an Iverson list is. If it deals with randomizing the order like ...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-18, 5:15 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

As in my anki list? Or the rikai page? For anki, I just grab sentences straight from the book, paste them in with definitions of the words I don't know. For the rikai page, that is more for everythin...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-18, 4:42 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Well, for me, I usually copy a sentence then paste it in the bookmark's description under properties. When I start again, I just ctrl+f and go straight to it. Firefox remembers where you are as long a...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-18, 5:34 am
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

the file you opened was a file I made so I can put words in there and use rikai-chan (firefox add-on) to read it or save for later the file included isn't really rikai-chan
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-16, 12:00 am
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

... I.. Don't think I'll ever run out of txt books to read. Ever. o.o
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-15, 6:23 am
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Holy crap that is a lot of stories, where ever did you find all of these? -- is what I would say if I was some kind of a pirate
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-15, 4:33 am
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

I wonder if that OCR program is even all that accurate though. Like even if it's correct 95% of the time, 5% of the time you'll just be super confused. I think some of the txt files were possibly mark...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 11:08 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

nest0r Wrote:wccrawford Wrote:nest0r Wrote:Now someone needs to take 100 .txt files of light novels, run an analysis on the vocabulary, and sort the 95-98% most common vocabulary items and their kanji...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 9:07 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

yeah that'd probably be good. Just saying if like 15 of the volumes are from one guy it might be a little off, haha
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 9:04 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

《 doesn't seem to work in ctrl + h in that software nest0r Wrote:Now someone needs to take 100 .txt files of light novels, run an analysis on the vocabulary, and sort the 95-98% most common vocabular...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 9:01 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Haha, just thought of a way and it works, but it's pretty ghetto. (if there's a better way, feel free to say it) open the .html file in txt press ctrl + h Find : 《 replace : <!-- Find : 》 replace...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 8:32 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Nice You guys wouldn't happen to know a way to get rid of the rubi/furigana? It screws up rikai-chan. If only there was a way to replace (like ctrl+h) the inside as well, like "《~》"
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 8:25 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Weird, both work for me. Good thing the txt was still there then I guess The code <pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"> is what allows you to view it in a browser without it being wacky. Before I f...
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 5:59 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

haha, what a shame :P
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-14, 12:56 am
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Transparent_Aluminium Wrote:Can you find actual novels on Winny/Share? Stuff like Murakami (春樹村上) or Yoshimoto Banana ? I do have 1 of them in there, but murakami was kind of tough to find
raseru Learning resources 138 47,075 2010-02-13, 4:34 pm