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    Thread: Rikai + Android
Post: Rikai + Android

rrrrrray Wrote:I wrote something for Android specifically for reading Japanese TXT file with the ability to search EXACTLY like Rikaichan using a downloaded EDCIT. Originally I was writing the App so ...
istel Learning resources 43 32,596 2013-02-16, 4:08 am
    Thread: Rikai + Android
Post: Rikai + Android

Hi balloonguy, Would love to know if you'll still be updating this wonderful plug-in? Would love to be able to close the pop-up window when certain definition table gets too large and obscures the ph...
istel Learning resources 43 32,596 2013-02-03, 11:46 am
    Thread: Rikai + Android
Post: Rikai + Android

Hi Balloonguy, This thing works like a charm on my Galaxy Note 2 7105 with Jelly Bean 4.1.1. Esp. with the hovering feature of my S-pen, the experience is almost exactly like rikaichan on my PC :D M...
istel Learning resources 43 32,596 2013-01-01, 12:30 pm
    Thread: Chinese "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: Chinese "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Everyone's right on this. It literally means the chances of something happening is 80%. Something here refers to him relating the story in a Greek tragedy like manner. Normally used when you predict...
istel Chinese and Hanzi 8 1,999 2012-01-15, 12:30 pm
    Thread: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?
Post: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?

Jarvik7 Wrote:@Katsuo: I think what everyone wants to say is that getting something that sounds stupid in English inked in kanji doesn't make it cool, it just hides the stupidity behind a linguistic b...
istel The Japanese language 42 10,574 2012-01-04, 9:39 am
    Thread: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?
Post: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?

kolkim Wrote:SomeCallMeChris Wrote:The picture you showed doesn't make any sense in the first place. 軍狐 doesn't mean anything, it's the character for 'military' and the character for 'fox' jammed toge...
istel The Japanese language 42 10,574 2012-01-04, 9:20 am
    Thread: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?
Post: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:The picture you showed doesn't make any sense in the first place. 軍狐 doesn't mean anything, it's the character for 'military' and the character for 'fox' jammed together and that...
istel The Japanese language 42 10,574 2012-01-04, 9:04 am
    Thread: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?
Post: Are these the right Kanji symbols for a Tattoo?

Not sure if it's a good idea but I could provide some inputs where the Chinese nuances is somewhat different to what was written in English on TS's file. 皇帝 = Emperor, literally King among kings. 帝 i...
istel The Japanese language 42 10,574 2012-01-02, 10:56 am
    Thread: Douche or ...
Post: Douche or ...

Woah, guess I killed the discussion earlier :/ Missed out some of the good points brought out earlier... aphasiac Wrote:istel Wrote:Well... I do understand that it's just net trolling but it actually...
istel Off topic 26 3,588 2011-09-08, 3:37 am
    Thread: Douche or ...
Post: Douche or ...

nest0r Wrote:aphasiac Wrote:nest0r Wrote:Well apparently it's also spelled titbits, but I've never seen it spelled that way, so, my bad? But even if I were from someplace where that spelling is common...
istel Off topic 26 3,588 2011-09-05, 9:38 am
    Thread: Douche or ...
Post: Douche or ...

nest0r Wrote:I half expected the author of the blog to be writing in Singlish, which is awesome and not “Chinglish” (which sounds like one of those silly labels like “Engrish”), but it doesn't seem li...
istel Off topic 26 3,588 2011-09-04, 12:51 pm
    Thread: Douche or ...
Post: Douche or ...

Well... I do understand that it's just net trolling but it actually leads in to my next question on the general standard of ALT in Japan generally and if they are "qualified" to teach without having r...
istel Off topic 26 3,588 2011-09-04, 12:45 pm
    Thread: Douche or ...
Post: Douche or ...

Hey guys, Just want to get an opinion on something that I came across recently in one of the blogs that I've been following. The author of the blog is a Singaporean who is currently teaching English...
istel Off topic 26 3,588 2011-09-04, 12:06 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Just want to say that this add-on is awesome! Need to check if anyone has any idea on how to play the alternative pronunciation for a word like 象. Only managed to play the first definition which is ...
istel Learning resources 859 243,774 2010-08-10, 9:51 am
    Thread: Translation help
Post: Translation help

lol... I guess I should have started from some children song like Ponyo on the cliff... I'm learning this old song (i.e. Say Yes by Chage & Aska) in order to sing it during my karaoke sessions wit...
istel The Japanese language 4 1,183 2009-03-21, 5:09 am
    Thread: Translation help
Post: Translation help

Hi everyone, Need some help with these two sentences. There were some translations out there for these two sentences but they don't sound right to me for some reason... Here is how I interpret them....
istel The Japanese language 4 1,183 2009-03-20, 1:36 am
    Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder?
Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese...

NickT Wrote:>>As for English, I'll like to argue that acquiring new pronunciations >>is not as easy as just reading the papers. Oh, and for the record, I've never met a native English s...
istel General discussion 225 39,084 2009-03-11, 1:18 pm
    Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder?
Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese...

liosama Wrote:kfmfe04 Wrote:http://www.language-learning-advisor.com...other.html . This link pretty much kills the whole point of this (stupid) thread. Although he is wrong in some parts (i.e hanzi n...
istel General discussion 225 39,084 2009-03-10, 12:46 pm
    Thread: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese is harder?
Post: Do You thing learning Chinese or learning Japanese...

Hi all, I must say this is quite an interesting topic :D Since we're still on this... I was wondering, given a choice between two languages, where one has relatively fewer grammatical structures and...
istel General discussion 225 39,084 2009-03-06, 9:20 pm
    Thread: Question on one of the KO2001 sentences.
Post: Question on one of the KO2001 sentences.

Actually, my problem was like you have said that I compared the Japanese and English sentences separately. Looking at just the English statement alone. $1 is now 105 yen. It is 1 yen higher tha...
istel The Japanese language 13 2,381 2009-02-25, 10:23 am
    Thread: Question on one of the KO2001 sentences.
Post: Question on one of the KO2001 sentences.

nest0r Wrote:What Tobbs said. I recommend against letting the full sentence translation guide your sense of the words/structure, it should be the other way around, at most just use the translation to ...
istel The Japanese language 13 2,381 2009-02-25, 9:23 am
    Thread: Question on one of the KO2001 sentences.
Post: Question on one of the KO2001 sentences.

Hi All, Am new here, This is an amazing community and I'm glad to be a part of it. I'm currently trying to pick up Japanese through self-study like most of you here. I've just finished around 100 wo...
istel The Japanese language 13 2,381 2009-02-24, 2:38 pm