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    Thread: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website
Post: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website

yudantaiteki Wrote:Are these dictionaries still in print? Reproducing basically the entire text online seems a bit shady. I second this sentiment. The listing seems pretty comprehensive, and goes be...
Seamoby Learning resources 32 8,824 2013-12-28, 4:06 am
    Thread: J-Lit -- Books from Japan
Post: J-Lit -- Books from Japan

Looks nice, thanks for sharing.
Seamoby Off topic 1 726 2012-12-09, 5:03 am
    Thread: "Breaking into Japanese Literature" deck
Post: "Breaking into Japanese Literature" deck

tashippy Wrote:Personally, I think everything you will need is in the book already. I agree. Not every study method has to involve Anki. Before there was Anki there was...reading.
Seamoby Learning resources 4 1,728 2012-10-27, 2:15 am
    Thread: NHK News Easy
Post: NHK News Easy

Corodon Wrote:Excellent resource, thanks for sharing. Sadly, my reading skills are still not up to even the Easy level. Is this something I could reasonably expect to be able to read once I'm done w...
Seamoby General discussion 32 20,359 2012-10-25, 12:18 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

delta Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:Why are you putting it into English in your head at all? Seems like a crutch to me. Well, what other choice do I have? How do I do it without it? I personally think it's fin...
Seamoby The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,823 2012-10-01, 11:43 pm
    Thread: JLPT and the Japan Times DOJB
Post: JLPT and the Japan Times DOJB

delta Wrote:kainzero Wrote:There are too many to list and compare without doing considerable legwork. Well, I'll spare you the legwork. Where do you get this information? I'll do the work myself and p...
Seamoby Learning resources 14 2,408 2012-09-29, 1:59 am
    Thread: I made a lil mistake
Post: I made a lil mistake

warakawa Wrote:Don't use RTK, it's flawed because it does not take into account pronunciation. 80% of Kanji are Phono-semantic compounds. I really feel sorry for those who did RTK, because you made u...
Seamoby Remembering the Kanji 44 8,633 2012-08-29, 4:55 am
    Thread: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan.
Post: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan.

yudantaiteki Wrote:YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH Do tell.
Seamoby JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 24,811 2012-08-12, 5:51 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Aru can be used to indicate possession of people, but they have to be close to the speaker. You can't use it with your mechanic or gardener for example.
Seamoby The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,823 2012-08-10, 6:38 am
    Thread: "A Life in Japan" Documentary
Post: "A Life in Japan" Documentary

IceCream Wrote:I also recommend John Pilger's Japan Behind the Mask. [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTnDJumzuBE] Despite being made in 1987, it's still one of the more thoughtfully done Engl...
Seamoby General discussion 40 10,505 2012-08-09, 6:13 pm
    Thread: Core series vs JLPT vocab?
Post: Core series vs JLPT vocab?

I recommend the reading deck.
Seamoby Learning resources 5 1,626 2012-08-08, 4:35 am
    Thread: I quit
Post: I quit

Aaaand the debate continues. o_O http://lang-8.com/342407/journals/155480...ntle-Heart
Seamoby Off topic 58 11,508 2012-07-28, 10:40 pm
    Thread: Kobo/Rakuten finally releasing e-reader in japan
Post: Kobo/Rakuten finally releasing e-reader in japan

"Is this really going to be someone you’d trust to sell you anything?" Apparently Nate the Great doesn't know much about Rakuten. :)
Seamoby Off topic 27 7,632 2012-07-28, 12:38 am
    Thread: I quit
Post: I quit

Ouch.
Seamoby Off topic 58 11,508 2012-07-27, 7:03 pm
    Thread: Ellipses and politeness
Post: Ellipses and politeness

I've also seen Japanese websites written in the formal form. That aside, Lang-8 is a language learning site. They know you are trying to learn Japanese. There is no good reason to discourage people...
Seamoby The Japanese language 21 3,781 2012-07-23, 9:55 am
    Thread: Machine translation and language learning
Post: Machine translation and language learning

You can have the fastest computers in the world, but if the coders suck you don't get anywhere. Right now the coding for the Google J-E translation seems so sucky, I bet koohii forum members can do a...
Seamoby Off topic 34 6,578 2012-07-22, 7:17 am
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

More than 5000 files, OMG! That ate up almost my entire Dropbox space lol. :)
Seamoby Learning resources 277 117,070 2012-07-20, 9:51 am
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

IceCream Wrote:@seamoby: there's a button on the top right saying "add to my dropbox". Does it download the whole folder if you click it? (you'll need dropbox, but dropbox is awesome anyway, so...). L...
Seamoby Learning resources 277 117,070 2012-07-20, 3:28 am
    Thread: Sentence order and context?
Post: Sentence order and context?

I think that for beginners it's inevitable that they translate their thoughts from their first language to Japanese. But I agree that with exposure, experience, practice, time, vocabulary, eventually...
Seamoby The Japanese language 5 1,052 2012-07-19, 2:32 am
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

Wow, Ice Cream, thank you for organizing the reviews this way! Fantastic! Is there a way to download the entire reviews folder instead of each review text file individually?
Seamoby Learning resources 277 117,070 2012-07-19, 2:18 am
    Thread: Kobo/Rakuten finally releasing e-reader in japan
Post: Kobo/Rakuten finally releasing e-reader in japan

PDF should die. I would like Adobe Digital Editions to go away too, except that those who love cabbages have already given us effective tools to circumvent the ADE DRM scheme which seems to have bec...
Seamoby Off topic 27 7,632 2012-07-19, 2:09 am
    Thread: Sentence order and context?
Post: Sentence order and context?

Think like a Japanese. o_O
Seamoby The Japanese language 5 1,052 2012-07-17, 8:48 pm
    Thread: Kobo / Rakuten Available for Pre-order
Post: Kobo / Rakuten Available for Pre-order

Oh, good, thank you. I didn't read the article, that'll teach me. :D Ahhhhh, finally, real vertical text using ePub!!! Now if we can only get our hands on this Kobo and those Japanese ebooks. Raku...
Seamoby General discussion 5 1,439 2012-07-03, 10:14 am
    Thread: Kobo / Rakuten Available for Pre-order
Post: Kobo / Rakuten Available for Pre-order

Thank you for this info. The Rakuten Kobo website looks like it was really meant for Martian aliens who have not heard of ebook readers and ebooks. :D I wonder if Rakuten's Kobo is using the ePub3 s...
Seamoby General discussion 5 1,439 2012-07-03, 3:46 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

callmedodge Wrote:I`m not going to claim proficiency at all so I believe you. I don`t think there was any particular reason beyond feeling that one of the という`s were unneccessary is all. I was just ...
Seamoby The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,823 2012-07-02, 6:14 am
    Thread: my "HELP I'M STUCK" thread
Post: my "HELP I'M STUCK" thread

How much reading outside of the textbook are you doing? Maybe it's time to wean yourself off JFE. Stop looking at the back of the book for the answers. The answers are within you. (Okay that was m...
Seamoby Learning resources 5 1,241 2012-06-27, 8:26 pm
    Thread: Mecab, Learning With Texts
Post: Mecab, Learning With Texts

The default encoding of the ipadic dictionary that mecab uses is euc-jp. If you're using this euc-jp version of ipadic, convert your input file's encoding to euc-jp before feeding it into mecab. The...
Seamoby Learning resources 21 9,955 2012-06-25, 2:30 am
    Thread: NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site
Post: NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site

Hah, buonaparte is way ahead of you. He posted this NHK Easy link in his audio and text links thread on May 22. http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=6840&page=12 That dude is great.
Seamoby Learning resources 18 17,780 2012-06-13, 3:13 am
    Thread: Japan Times Column - "Microagressions"
Post: Japan Times Column - "Microagressions"

I came across this article a while back. I don't live in Japan, but I thought it was BS. The credibility of the article was so low for me that I stopped reading in the middle.
Seamoby General discussion 99 12,510 2012-05-22, 10:25 pm
    Thread: making sentence cards less a chore?
Post: making sentence cards less a chore?

Some of you are misunderstanding what some of us are saying. I for one am not saying that reading native material means that one does not need to review new words that one has learned. As for review...
Seamoby The Japanese language 38 9,534 2012-05-21, 4:33 pm