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    Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game?
Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee...

(2016-05-29, 2:40 pm)RawrPk Wrote: HelenF means that you should play a game you played before in English that you know well. Like an older Dragon Quest game you played recently and know the game mec...
HelenF General discussion 39 1,667 2016-05-29, 2:50 pm
    Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game?
Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee...

I've not played them, but a quick search suggests I-III are close to all-kana, which doesn't take advantage of the effort that went into RTK. If those are the games you've played a lot, it might still...
HelenF General discussion 39 1,667 2016-05-29, 2:32 pm
    Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game?
Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee...

How much time have you spent playing Dragon Quest games in a language that you know well? (I imagine if you're this enthusiastic about them, it's probably a fair amount.) Replaying a game in Japanese ...
HelenF General discussion 39 1,667 2016-05-29, 2:03 pm
    Thread: What are your learning steps for vocabulary/ Core decks?
Post: RE: What are your learning steps for vocabulary/ C...

Once the intervals are passing over to the next day, the per-day scheduling probably works better. I would delete the last two, and set the graduating interval to 1 day.
HelenF General discussion 6 717 2016-05-17, 6:48 am
    Thread: Uploading "Nukemarine's Suggested Guide to Beginners in Japanese" to Memrise
Post: RE: Uploading material to Memrise

Is it possible for users to export courses and learning progress in an open format? I had a quick look in the help but not seeing anything so far. Out of all the software I use, Anki is among the few...
HelenF Learning resources 18 1,863 2016-05-12, 6:32 pm
    Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence
Post: RE: Fairly easy material with free licence

Ah, I see, the text of the TPP was agreed in February, but now each of the countries has to decide whether to join it for real. Getting the books is only part of the problem. I'm worried that if I ma...
HelenF General discussion 15 1,229 2016-05-07, 9:25 am
    Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence
Post: RE: Fairly easy material with free licence

I reckon hukumusume does have copyright on their version of the text. There are people around who record audiobooks for the public domain, the main ones I've seen being Japanese Classical Literature ...
HelenF General discussion 15 1,229 2016-05-05, 6:41 am
    Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence
Post: RE: Fairly easy material with free licence

The plot of a 100+ year old story is clearly not in copyright, but the exact way it's written is. E.g. Librivox, being very careful, say you have to read from a confirmed public-domain version, not fr...
HelenF General discussion 15 1,229 2016-05-03, 1:25 pm
    Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence
Post: RE: Fairly easy material with free licence

Apparently Japan will have to extend copyright to life+70 because of the TPP. I would hope they don't pull things back out of the public domain that have already gone into it, but that has been done b...
HelenF General discussion 15 1,229 2016-05-03, 11:18 am
    Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence
Post: RE: Fairly easy material with free licence

(2016-05-03, 10:46 am)RawrPk Wrote: Japanese fairy tales/children stories http://hukumusume.com/douwa/index.html This stuff is "all rights reserved" as far as I can see. Am I missing something? Quo...
HelenF General discussion 15 1,229 2016-05-03, 11:15 am
    Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence
Post: RE: Fairly easy material with free licence

Thanks for the suggestion. It seems I can almost read that. His original works are public domain in Japan by life+50, in the UK by the rule of the shorter term, and I think in the US by published befo...
HelenF General discussion 15 1,229 2016-05-03, 10:29 am
    Thread: Fairly easy material with free licence
Post: Fairly easy material with free licence

Hi, to continue this "fairly easy" series of threads, I'm looking for material under CC-BY-SA or similar (not -NC or -ND) that is easier than Wikipedia. Maybe things meant for children. It might be ne...
HelenF General discussion 15 1,229 2016-05-02, 10:17 am
    Thread: Automatic vocab for RTK
Post: RE: Automatic vocab for RTK

I don't think my plugin has any relation to that. Sounds more similar to what MorphMan does, except it deals with morphemes and not individual kanji. Cangy had a Core6K spreadsheet with various sort ...
HelenF Learning resources 11 2,746 2016-04-28, 12:41 pm
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: RE: Mighty Morphin Morphology

(2016-04-27, 11:26 am)Helena4 Wrote: I loved my morphman-controlled decks on my old computer, but that computer broke and now the plugin link doesn't work. Can someone please explain to me how to in...
HelenF Learning resources 443 135,971 2016-04-28, 4:52 am
    Thread: Automatic vocab for RTK
Post: RE: Automatic vocab for RTK

Thanks for posting, I'm glad it was useful for someone! You're right, that could be awkward for non-git-users. Since my addon depends on MorphMan, I'd prefer not to post it as a shared addon. But I a...
HelenF Learning resources 11 2,746 2016-04-26, 8:55 am
    Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel
Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel

Thanks, I thought it sounded unnatural, but better check since I'm only lower intermediate :) It was this premium video. I didn't clip the bit with the actual separate syllables. Quote:Be careful of...
HelenF General discussion 14 1,220 2016-03-30, 12:26 pm
    Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel
Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel

It's much easier to say that way, so hopefully of some use to the OP. 千円 as "sen-yen" is what I'm used to hearing, and I was surprised when I heard the Jpod pronunciation version. Does anyone actuall...
HelenF General discussion 14 1,220 2016-03-30, 6:47 am
    Thread: Multiple vs Consolidated Anki Decks
Post: RE: Multiple vs Consolidated Anki Decks

Interleaving might make each card more effective, but costs the time spent thinking about what type each card is. The time loss is most serious for a simple vocab deck where each card takes a couple o...
HelenF General discussion 43 15,715 2016-03-29, 9:02 am
    Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel
Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel

For んえ, it sometimes sounds like people are pronouncing え as "ye", most commonly with 千円 and 万円. The japanesepod101 pronunciation video pronounces 千円 strictly and it sounded pretty weird... Also を in...
HelenF General discussion 14 1,220 2016-03-29, 8:26 am
    Thread: how long did you continue daily review after finishing rtk ?
Post: RE: how long did you continue daily review after f...

As an intermittent studier... I finished RTK a few years ago, then intended to keep going with reviews but had a massive backlog a lot of the time. (I mostly kept up with reviews on my vocab and sente...
HelenF General discussion 16 1,649 2016-03-17, 4:14 pm
    Thread: J-CAT
Post: RE: J-CAT

I first started learning Japanese in 2009, but have gone some long stretches of hardly studying since then, and it's hard to have any idea of how much time I've really put in. Listening 49 Vocabulary...
HelenF JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 37,082 2016-02-12, 4:39 pm
    Thread: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ?
Post: RE: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ?

Even on the speed-change video, I can only hear とったのかよ until right at the end, when it gets really fast, it sounds more like トウピューピュー ... Seems like there might be a similar thing going on with the ...
HelenF General discussion 27 2,644 2015-12-12, 7:27 pm
    Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...
Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...

I just came across this neat little game about the effects of slight biases in a population: http://ncase.me/polygons/
HelenF Off topic 168 10,706 2015-10-02, 8:04 pm
    Thread: Mecab in python?
Post: Mecab in python?

I have used it on Fedora with no trouble, but sounds like it's a lot harder on Windows. I just checked what the Anki Japanese Support plugin does - apparently it doesn't use the Mecab Python bindings...
HelenF Off topic 2 680 2015-09-29, 7:19 pm
    Thread: What's the state of Japanese Keyword RTK spreadsheets?
Post: What's the state of Japanese Keyword RTK spreadshe...

For adding a Japanese word that you already know alongside the English keyword, I think it works fine to do it early, even during the first pass of RTK. (Doing this makes the question easier, not hard...
HelenF Remembering the Kanji 5 1,073 2015-09-29, 7:14 pm
    Thread: 376 and it is getting hard
Post: 376 and it is getting hard

I'm remembering your other thread: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=13005 Are you aware of the shared stories on the site this forum is attached to? Sometimes a less popular story will work...
HelenF Remembering the Kanji 46 5,980 2015-09-27, 4:36 pm
    Thread: Nayr's Core VS Core2k
Post: Nayr's Core VS Core2k

In the sentences, Core2k uses very basic grammar so would probably be easier for a beginner trying to build up some initial vocab. Nayr's Core has more interesting/natural sentences.
HelenF The Japanese language 48 8,284 2015-09-17, 5:57 am
    Thread: Automatic vocab for RTK
Post: Automatic vocab for RTK

I had a go at editing your script. It uses core.py and jmdict_freqs.txt from my GitHub link. Note that my code is Python 2 while your original was Python 3. I figure you know enough to debug the scri...
HelenF Learning resources 11 2,746 2015-08-31, 7:08 am
    Thread: Automatic vocab for RTK
Post: Automatic vocab for RTK

Quote:I already have my japanese keywords chosen, but I would like to make anki display them with the ◯ and furigana like in those screenshots. Is that an automatic script/plugin? My plugin loads word...
HelenF Learning resources 11 2,746 2015-08-30, 3:38 pm
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

polyturn Wrote:Uh.... help, since the ankiweb download is down, how do I download it from github? I've no idea which files to choose from and how to configure them... "morphman.py" and the whole "morp...
HelenF Learning resources 443 135,971 2015-06-18, 9:06 am