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    Thread: Digital art program menu wordlist
Post: Digital art program menu wordlist

Wait, never mind, I found the language configuration file for SAI and converted it to text.
hereticalrants Learning resources 4 824 2011-08-07, 9:30 pm
    Thread: Digital art program menu wordlist
Post: Digital art program menu wordlist

I don't really feel like reading user manuals for things that I already know how to do, so I think I'll just run the user manual through a word sorter and add the results to my anki vocab deck (which ...
hereticalrants Learning resources 4 824 2011-08-07, 12:23 am
    Thread: Digital art program menu wordlist
Post: Digital art program menu wordlist

Something that would be incredibly useful to me would be a list of words used in the Japanese versions of programs like Photoshop, Paint tool SAI, etc. A lot of these words are lacking in my vocabul...
hereticalrants Learning resources 4 824 2011-08-06, 3:29 pm
    Thread: Are there any dystopian novels in Japanese?
Post: Are there any dystopian novels in Japanese?

Tzadeck Wrote:hereticalrants Wrote:Shangri-La http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La Edit: Haha. At first I didn't understand this post. But now I realize that there's a Japanese novel called Shang...
hereticalrants General discussion 20 7,076 2011-07-15, 1:29 am
    Thread: Are there any dystopian novels in Japanese?
Post: Are there any dystopian novels in Japanese?

Shangri-La http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La
hereticalrants General discussion 20 7,076 2011-07-14, 11:35 pm
    Thread: Studying two languages simultaneously.
Post: Studying two languages simultaneously.

Learning too languages at once? :O If you do that, you could end up like Asher Coady! [Image: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/1...3lkiop.jpg] ASHER COADY! You don't want that! :rolleyes:
hereticalrants Off topic 16 5,236 2011-07-10, 9:32 pm
    Thread: Pimsleur
Post: Pimsleur

nadiatims Wrote:I think some of y'all are missing the point a little. Pimsleur is designed for complete beginners, eg. a business man who suddenly gets transferred and has a week or two to learn some ...
hereticalrants Remembering the Kanji 20 8,623 2011-06-13, 9:04 pm
    Thread: Pimsleur
Post: Pimsleur

I tried Pimsleur and I thought that it was complete rubbish. I remember it being excruciatingly slow and boring, but I might just have been miffed that the word 公園 kept coming up early on and I could...
hereticalrants Remembering the Kanji 20 8,623 2011-06-09, 12:22 am
    Thread: Hard case - Listening impossible
Post: Hard case - Listening impossible

Tori-kun Wrote:Well, concerning music, I hate basically all the jpop, so no chance. Yeah, I said that, too, but I found a bunch of stuff that I liked anyway: Rock: RADWIMS,The Pillows, Bump of Chick...
hereticalrants The Japanese language 49 14,765 2011-03-31, 8:47 am
    Thread: Kanji for Nitrate
Post: Kanji for Nitrate

drquantum Wrote:The funny thing is the computer on which the site properly displays the kanji is Windows, while the one that didn't was a Linux machine.... :) That's not strange in the slightest. Wind...
hereticalrants Remembering the Kanji 9 3,324 2011-03-26, 2:38 pm
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

IceCream Wrote:loooooool!!! that ^^, and the sun article posted earlier are the best laughs i've had all week. (i've gotta start reading the sun, i never realised it was so funny!!!) ...which link a...
hereticalrants Off topic 690 113,287 2011-03-18, 10:57 pm
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Don't copy your handwriting from computer fonts. Use a good handwritten font for your reviews until you know how to write most of the primitives.
hereticalrants Remembering the Kanji 22 5,524 2011-03-13, 9:28 pm
    Thread: Only learning to read chinese?
Post: Only learning to read chinese?

I don't see how learning to listen would hinder you in any way whatsoever when learning to read.
hereticalrants Chinese and Hanzi 9 2,288 2011-02-25, 4:20 pm
    Thread: Post your *ambitious* goal here!
Post: Post your *ambitious* goal here!

My ambitious goal? 著者になる!
hereticalrants General discussion 96 18,424 2011-02-19, 5:33 pm
    Thread: Why Do Natives Have Such Strange Ideas on Difficulty?
Post: Why Do Natives Have Such Strange Ideas on Difficul...

kainzero Wrote:But... Because... And .... Because.... And ... Gah. My head a'sploded.
hereticalrants General discussion 57 11,123 2011-02-18, 1:20 am
    Thread: Particles: Do you think they are words?
Post: Particles: Do you think they are words?

A thread with a title like this can only end up being a meaningless discussion on semantics.
hereticalrants Off topic 23 5,326 2011-02-18, 12:10 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

ViolentDeathProvider Wrote:Thank you for this. However, it is kind of confusing for a beginner like me. With the RTK deck- are we supposed to write in mnemonics? Or are we just supposed to remember th...
hereticalrants The Japanese language 712 401,225 2011-02-16, 12:44 am
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

nest0r Wrote:ArisuViewer. It has the same limitations as Smoopy though and seems identical, but doesn't seem to require applocale the way Smoopy does. Confirmed. Some non-Japanese system locals will r...
hereticalrants Learning resources 277 117,139 2011-02-12, 4:12 pm
    Thread: cb's JNovel Formatter
Post: cb's JNovel Formatter

cb4960 Wrote:- Added aozora ruby support. - Added aozora emphasis support . - Added aozora image support - Program will no longer separate pages in the middle of a sentence. - Margin now affects ...
hereticalrants Learning resources 121 54,141 2011-02-12, 3:27 pm
    Thread: cb's JNovel Formatter
Post: cb's JNovel Formatter

dusmar84 Wrote:Hey guys, sorry for being so dense but what exactly do you mean when you say "specially formatted HTML files." Would you mind elaborating a little more on the benefits of a JNovel F...
hereticalrants Learning resources 121 54,141 2011-02-10, 7:18 pm
    Thread: cb's JNovel Formatter
Post: cb's JNovel Formatter

I converted a few of the more difficult books I've been reading for greater ease of dictionary usage. BTW do you have any plans to add support for images? A lot of books use tags like this:[#(img/ima...
hereticalrants Learning resources 121 54,141 2011-02-09, 11:57 pm
    Thread: "scarecrow" and "straw man"
Post: "scarecrow" and "straw man"

artofbbq Wrote:Finally, I decided to change the common element from 謹 and 勤 to "Hangul" (korean characters). If the above one means kanji, I figured this one should mean something similar since they l...
hereticalrants Remembering the Kanji 8 4,634 2011-02-09, 3:32 am
    Thread: cb's JNovel Formatter
Post: cb's JNovel Formatter

I just use ArisuViewer. It takes .txt files containing ruby and images and parses them into book format in whatever way you want(text font, size, furigana size, text orientation, romaji orientation, e...
hereticalrants Learning resources 121 54,141 2011-02-09, 3:13 am
    Thread: "scarecrow" and "straw man"
Post: "scarecrow" and "straw man"

In short, When I see the left hand side of 穏 I think of a wheat field and when I see the left hand side of 隠 I think of some palisades. To clarify, it's [Image: http://www.bible-verses-to-inspire...
hereticalrants Remembering the Kanji 8 4,634 2011-02-09, 2:47 am
    Thread: "scarecrow" and "straw man"
Post: "scarecrow" and "straw man"

I did RTK using this site and I don't even have any idea what you're talking about with these wierd primitive names....scarecrow and straw man. heh. I don't think any of my stories even involve straw...
hereticalrants Remembering the Kanji 8 4,634 2011-02-09, 2:31 am
    Thread: Making an Audio Book from Anime.
Post: Making an Audio Book from Anime.

So you're keeping the full length audio, blank spaces and all? Even for shounen anime like fullmetal alchemist, which has long scenes where they are just grunting at each other? While you've got all ...
hereticalrants The Japanese language 10 6,594 2011-01-30, 1:17 pm
    Thread: The Revenge of Comic Sans
Post: The Revenge of Comic Sans

The fonts I use are all far messier than Comic Sans. Comic Sans doesn't even do that right.
hereticalrants Off topic 1 1,281 2011-01-23, 1:23 pm
    Thread: This ultimate four question kanji quiz
Post: This ultimate four question kanji quiz

I call this the "Java la Hut" falacy.
hereticalrants General discussion 14 3,726 2011-01-18, 10:44 pm
    Thread: Grammar clozed delete card format.
Post: Grammar clozed delete card format.

I wasn't saying ew just to the romaji! Actively studying conjugation tables also equals ew, so (conjugation tables) * (romaji) = (ew)^2 Conjugation tables are something that you look at every once i...
hereticalrants The Japanese language 6 2,608 2011-01-17, 6:46 pm
    Thread: Grammar clozed delete card format.
Post: Grammar clozed delete card format.

That card makes me react in one way and one way only: Ew. No offence. Romaji conjugation tables? Ew. Ew. Ew. I´ll shut up now.
hereticalrants The Japanese language 6 2,608 2011-01-17, 1:24 am