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    Thread: Your name in Japanese Game
Post: Your name in Japanese Game

A friend of mine wrote my name as 麻紅師 「マークス」 Marcus before. There's gotta be a better option.
pazustep Off topic 43 12,692 2008-10-06, 9:28 am
    Thread: Forum suggestion: 日本語の会話
Post: Forum suggestion: 日本語の会話

Or maybe Tae Kim's Forums.
pazustep General discussion 28 6,206 2008-09-21, 12:42 pm
    Thread: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese
Post: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese

revenantkioku Wrote:Are there any non crappy dictionaries? Holy lord. I installed WeDict and some extra dictionaries, but am I seriously going to search in romaji? Or using the kanji for ここ? No. This ...
pazustep Learning resources 210 55,881 2008-09-11, 12:22 pm
    Thread: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME
Post: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME

iSoron Wrote:While on the subject of alternatives, does anyone else use SKK? SKK is great, and can be much faster to type than MSIME if you're used to it. The only problem is the lack of a decent Wind...
pazustep General discussion 47 26,555 2008-09-09, 7:39 am
    Thread: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME
Post: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME

phauna Wrote:Everyone uses it for an apostrophe. The key to the left of the 1 key is Backquote/Tilde. This is not an apostrophe. The key used for an apostrophe is the Quote/Double Quote key, the secon...
pazustep General discussion 47 26,555 2008-09-08, 8:37 am
    Thread: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME
Post: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME

Tobberoth Wrote:Then I realized... you misspelled the DLLs in your post. So I change it again, reboot the computer and.. WOOT. It works perfectly :D Thanks so much, finally no more clicking all over ...
pazustep General discussion 47 26,555 2008-09-08, 7:58 am
    Thread: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME
Post: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME

Tobberoth Wrote:It seems you can pick Japanese and then you can pick IME Standard Input, IME Natural input and simply Japanese. If I pick Japanese, I do get the swedish layout, but then that's simply ...
pazustep General discussion 47 26,555 2008-09-07, 6:05 pm
    Thread: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME
Post: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME

@Tobberoth: mentat_kgs might be right. I have no idea about how the Swedish layout looks like, but in theory you can follow my registry hack above, using KBDSW.DLL instead of KBDDV.DLL. The only prob...
pazustep General discussion 47 26,555 2008-09-07, 3:49 pm
    Thread: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME
Post: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME

mentat_kgs Wrote:By the way, is there how to use an alternate layout with microsoft IME? I use dvorak keyboard and it is very anoying to switch back to qwerty just for the IME. And I was thinking I wa...
pazustep General discussion 47 26,555 2008-09-07, 10:46 am
    Thread: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME
Post: Two questions regarding the Windows Japanese IME

nicjsb Wrote:1. It always starts off in direct input, so I always have to switch it to Hiragana before I can start typing stuff. Is there a keyboard shortcut that will switch between those various typ...
pazustep General discussion 47 26,555 2008-09-07, 10:01 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Tobberoth Wrote:So while it's a great accomplishment to finish RtK1, many people might have been hyped up to think that once they are done, they can read Japanese, which is extremely far from the trut...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,638 2008-09-01, 12:16 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Oh yay. Finished RTK1 about two weeks ago. For the first few days after that I was making 70~80% on my reviews, about the same as when I was actively adding new kanji. Now my reviews are sitting in th...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,638 2008-09-01, 9:11 am
    Thread: Graded Readers?
Post: Graded Readers?

Not really a graded reader, but Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text by Giles Murray is simply brilliant. It contains four parts of 夢十夜 by 夏目漱石 plus three short s...
pazustep Learning resources 18 11,714 2008-08-28, 10:22 am
    Thread: JWPce equivalent on Mac OS ?
Post: JWPce equivalent on Mac OS ?

Since 10.5 (Leopard) OS X has an integrated Japanese dictionary. You can lookup words you're typing on most programs (i.e., works on all Cocoa programs). It even works with spotlight -- just activate ...
pazustep Learning resources 8 8,607 2008-08-28, 9:59 am
    Thread: confused on Volume II Pure groups
Post: confused on Volume II Pure groups

It means exactly that. All kanji with the 工 primitive will be read as コウ. 功 巧 江 扛 攻 杠 杠 肛 矼 紅 虹 缸 貢 訌 控 腔 項 椌 槓 熕 箜 all have コウ as their (main) 音読み. 工 as a standalone kanji, however, has other readi...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 3 1,336 2008-08-27, 10:41 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Hurrah, just finished! [Image: http://content.screencast.com/users/pazu...nished.png] Now the long tail of reviews...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,638 2008-08-20, 10:34 pm
    Thread: How soon after studying do you add the kanji?
Post: How soon after studying do you add the kanji?

I work on whole lessons, and add the kanji from the lesson right after I finish studying it. Then I'll go watch some dorama, movie... anything to clear my mind in the next hour or so. After that I com...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 16 2,657 2008-08-18, 12:46 pm
    Thread: Best use of learning time
Post: Best use of learning time

I second rich_f suggestion. Tae Kim's Japanese Guide to Japanese Grammar is one of the best resources for learning some grammar available for free. For more advanced learners, 庭三郎の現代日本語文法概説 is another...
pazustep General discussion 18 7,056 2008-08-14, 12:50 pm
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

1709... just a little more...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 908 186,078 2008-08-13, 9:59 am
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

kazelee Wrote:I just hit 一万. And oh am I loving it. I think you mean 一千 :)
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 908 186,078 2008-08-01, 4:12 pm
    Thread: Do any reported stories actually get removed?
Post: Do any reported stories actually get removed?

kazelee Wrote:No Heisig. No sex. None of it. How did this story merit a report? :shock: I've hit the report button mistakenly a number of times. There is no confirmation, no fade out, nothing ? just a...
pazustep General discussion 26 5,834 2008-07-31, 7:25 am
    Thread: Music
Post: Music

Rock legends, let's see? before the 80's you have groups like Pyg, Happy End, Champloose and Shinji Harada. From the 80's on rock music in Japan walks hand in hand with Visual Keiand groups like X-J...
pazustep General discussion 100 24,345 2008-07-30, 2:07 pm
    Thread: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times...
Post: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times...

I don't think this is a bad thing. Failure is a nice motivation tool, and I've even tweaked my learning process to exploit this. I study more kanji than recommended, thus failing more, and getting a s...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 8 1,561 2008-07-30, 10:51 am
    Thread: Cruising speed
Post: Cruising speed

Murten Wrote:Off topic: pazustep, where did you find your kanji-avatar anyway? checked the fishy kanjis in RTK3 with no luck. That's ぶり, the japanese amberjack (yellowtail). I found it looking for kan...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 14 2,536 2008-07-30, 10:44 am
    Thread: List your websites (and blogs)!
Post: List your websites (and blogs)!

I used to keep a blog at http://wired.pazu.com.br but it's been some time since I posted anything. Maybe I should resume? I'm also the programmer behind http://nerfnow.com (not the artist, I'm just t...
pazustep General discussion 25 5,881 2008-07-29, 10:11 pm
    Thread: Cruising speed
Post: Cruising speed

alyks Wrote:My methods differ very much from the average RTKer, but we won't go into that here. Why not?
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 14 2,536 2008-07-29, 10:08 pm
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

kazelee Wrote:I'm in a pickle. I've done 40 today, and I want more. I just can't seem to stop. I think I'm becoming a kanji addict. :( I'm in a similar predicament... This might be a healthy addiction...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 908 186,078 2008-07-29, 5:32 pm
    Thread: Cruising speed
Post: Cruising speed

mentat_kgs Wrote:I believe RTK is perfectly doable in a month at your speed, but it is only worthful if you do all your reviews. My feelings exactly. My reviews are usually in the 150~200 kanji ballpa...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 14 2,536 2008-07-29, 5:29 pm
    Thread: Cruising speed
Post: Cruising speed

How fast are you going through RTK1? Heisig recommends something around 20 to 25 characters per day, more if you're fully dedicated to learning kanji. Me? I'm doing "Speed RtK". I'm going through one...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 14 2,536 2008-07-29, 2:33 pm
    Thread: Do we even need Heisig's book anymore?
Post: Do we even need Heisig's book anymore?

stshores24 Wrote:I have both a digital copy of the 4th edition and a print copy of the 5th edition, and I'm glad for it. Where did you buy your digital copy? I've been looking for it, but I can't find...
pazustep Remembering the Kanji 48 11,683 2008-07-04, 12:18 pm