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    Thread: iKnow! The New Japanese Core 1k-6k COPYRIGHT?
Post: iKnow! The New Japanese Core 1k-6k COPYRIGHT?

Not without permission. And if iKnow have used things from 2001KO, they may not have the right to give you permission. On their developer's forum (which no longer exists) one of their staff informall...
bladethecoder Learning resources 3 1,474 2012-02-05, 7:03 am
    Thread: So... 1015 expired.
Post: So... 1015 expired.

Anki lets you review in random order, order due, smallest interval first, or largest interval first. And as Splatted said, you can force a different order by unsuspending cards in batches. Anki takes...
bladethecoder Remembering the Kanji 14 4,544 2011-11-30, 5:48 pm
    Thread: buonaparte's audio and text links
Post: buonaparte's audio and text links

Thanks, that first one is really nice. I expect, when I get more familiar with it in French, the Japanese version will also become easier.
bladethecoder Learning resources 497 279,031 2011-11-30, 3:31 pm
    Thread: So... 1015 expired.
Post: So... 1015 expired.

chamcham Wrote:Log into RevTK. Remove all flashcards. Add 1015 flashcards. Review them VERY quickly (10 seconds max per card). ... IMO, resetting the cards and then speed reviewing them is the worst ...
bladethecoder Remembering the Kanji 14 4,544 2011-11-30, 12:54 pm
    Thread: buonaparte's audio and text links
Post: buonaparte's audio and text links

Thanks for posting the Petit Prince things! The o-musbee.jp audio links seem to be broken. Since you know so many links, can you recommend any French audio for it?
bladethecoder Learning resources 497 279,031 2011-11-30, 12:34 pm
    Thread: Kindle Keyboard for Listening-Reading
Post: Kindle Keyboard for Listening-Reading

It wasn't designed for this, and some of its behaviour is not ideal, but it's working a lot better than I expected. I'm finding it much nicer than using my computer, or even iPod + printout. The so...
bladethecoder Learning resources 0 869 2011-11-06, 4:30 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

I got my RTK due cards down to 0 for the first time in months. I'll try to stay on top of the reviews from now on. My retention rate is much better for cards reviewed at the scheduled time ;)
bladethecoder General discussion 1,389 294,414 2011-11-06, 1:25 pm
    Thread: Study workflow, sentences, efficiency, time.
Post: Study workflow, sentences, efficiency, time.

If you're doing the Core sentences, what order are you doing them? The original order puts several unknowns in one sentence. There are some alternative orders here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread....
bladethecoder General discussion 20 6,934 2011-09-13, 9:17 am
    Thread: Jehovah's Witnesses site: audio+transcript+translation
Post: Jehovah's Witnesses site: audio+transcript+transla...

jettyke Wrote:why this material? Is it better than others? For what I'm doing with it, "My Book of Bible Stories" is the best material as far as I know. Japanese audio + Japanese text + English text ...
bladethecoder Learning resources 21 8,057 2011-08-20, 5:36 pm
    Thread: Jehovah's Witnesses site: audio+transcript+translation
Post: Jehovah's Witnesses site: audio+transcript+transla...

I've been using this material heavily. When people start asking me in any depth about how I'm learning Japanese, it's rather difficult to avoid mentioning this without leaving a large hole in the stor...
bladethecoder Learning resources 21 8,057 2011-08-20, 3:56 pm
    Thread: Studying kanji meaning and On yomi at the same time, faster?
Post: Studying kanji meaning and On yomi at the same tim...

I have the on-yomi on the question side, and don't usually pay much attention to it; but sometimes I work it into my RTK story, after I've failed a card by writing a different kanji than the one wante...
bladethecoder Remembering the Kanji 16 9,662 2011-08-15, 8:34 am
    Thread: Anonymous
Post: Anonymous

Quote:Having been the victim of police corruption twice myself involving highway patrol, once in North Carolina and once in Louisiana, where I was threatened with false charges and imprisonment if I d...
bladethecoder Off topic 22 3,698 2011-08-13, 1:44 pm
    Thread: Programmers here at RevTK.
Post: Programmers here at RevTK.

You don't necessarily have to begin with a huge IDE. Projects with only one or a handful of files are easy enough to manage using a text editor and a simple build script. I think you might also get a ...
bladethecoder Off topic 48 7,399 2011-07-09, 10:28 am
    Thread: Project help needed
Post: Project help needed

The grammar book is sold commercially, and is also available on the web at no charge, but licensed as "You are not permitted to create derivative works, nor may you sell, or bundle with a sale for the...
bladethecoder General discussion 19 4,054 2011-07-03, 8:44 pm
    Thread: Best flashcard - Anki, Twinkle, Mnemosyne, etc
Post: Best flashcard - Anki, Twinkle, Mnemosyne, etc

I've not seriously used any of the others, but I get the impression that Anki has more functionality and is more flexible, at the expense of being harder to learn how to use when you're first starting...
bladethecoder Learning resources 12 6,631 2011-07-02, 6:47 pm
    Thread: No. 384: 走
Post: No. 384: 走

"10 + mend" is accurate for the shape and the stroke order. The top-voted story by a long way is "If you run 10 miles, you will need to mend your socks!" (I used that story, and the card is at 1.6 yea...
bladethecoder Remembering the Kanji 7 2,215 2011-06-28, 4:10 pm
    Thread: Copyright term increase
Post: Copyright term increase

Quote:The audio says 万が一 , ie "in the worst case". In any case, given the video is from 2007 it's hardly a reliable guide to what's politically likely now... Thanks for the info. And I hadn't noticed ...
bladethecoder General discussion 11 2,746 2011-06-28, 4:06 pm
    Thread: Copyright term increase
Post: Copyright term increase

Most countries have a rule like that, and it only means that people can't be punished for doing things that were legal at the time. If the law changes, people are expected to stop doing the thing that...
bladethecoder General discussion 11 2,746 2011-06-25, 4:30 pm
    Thread: Copyright term increase
Post: Copyright term increase

If copyright terms are to be increased, there are really three possible ways to go about it: 1) Increase the copyright term for new works. 2) The above, and also extend active copyrights. This is th...
bladethecoder General discussion 11 2,746 2011-06-25, 3:20 pm
    Thread: Copyright term increase
Post: Copyright term increase

I was reading that Japan may increase the copyright term from life+50 to life+70. And as usual with these things, existing copyrights would be extended. The video from Aozora Bunko seems to suggest t...
bladethecoder General discussion 11 2,746 2011-06-25, 11:27 am
    Thread: Having problems with kanji readings while SRSing sentences
Post: Having problems with kanji readings while SRSing s...

For remembering the readings, it makes a big difference what order you do the sentences. See the "kore" thread: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5091
bladethecoder The Japanese language 15 4,928 2011-03-20, 12:04 pm
    Thread: 吾輩は猫である
Post: 吾輩は猫である

The first chapter also stands by itself as a short story. For the first chapter, there is a different audiobook here: http://jclab.wordpress.com/2007/03/ It's too hard for me at the moment, but I li...
bladethecoder Learning resources 10 2,278 2011-03-09, 7:47 pm
    Thread: English listening for Japanese-speakers
Post: English listening for Japanese-speakers

I was doing "French + RTK" with almost no Japanese at all (so not AJATT, heh). I had done most of RTK, and drilled single kana as "romaji -> writing" only. Then I went on Smart.fm and repeatedly cl...
bladethecoder Off topic 11 2,362 2011-03-08, 6:54 pm
    Thread: English listening for Japanese-speakers
Post: English listening for Japanese-speakers

Sorry people, I'm not talking about myself ;) (It seems I was rather slow to realise what was happening here...)
bladethecoder Off topic 11 2,362 2011-03-08, 6:09 pm
    Thread: English listening for Japanese-speakers
Post: English listening for Japanese-speakers

It dawned on me that perhaps the "combined text/audio techniques" are broken by knowing some written English already. If the text is being subvocalised as "Katakana English", this may sabotage any att...
bladethecoder Off topic 11 2,362 2011-03-08, 4:54 pm
    Thread: English listening for Japanese-speakers
Post: English listening for Japanese-speakers

I suspect part of the problem is because Japanese has very regular timing and limited combinations of sounds, it is difficult to grasp anything outside of that. (For this particular aspect, going from...
bladethecoder Off topic 11 2,362 2011-03-08, 1:31 pm
    Thread: English listening for Japanese-speakers
Post: English listening for Japanese-speakers

Once you can hear some words sometimes, it's probably a matter of persistence; and I expect the familiar combined text/audio techniques (anything from Smart.fm sentences to subs2srs to audiobooks) wou...
bladethecoder Off topic 11 2,362 2011-03-08, 11:49 am
    Thread: Smart.fm closing down
Post: Smart.fm closing down

I wonder whether we'll still be allowed to distribute the Core stuff. The permission was informal, and posted on the now-deleted Developer's Forum. In the same thread, they also mentioned plans to re...
bladethecoder Learning resources 143 43,806 2011-02-08, 2:46 pm
    Thread: What's happened to Icecream?
Post: What's happened to Icecream?

Quote:After you post, it doesn't belong to you any more. It belongs to the community. In return, you get to read other people's posts and gain knowledge from them. Taking that back means you aren't...
bladethecoder General discussion 132 25,023 2011-02-08, 2:38 pm
    Thread: What's happened to Icecream?
Post: What's happened to Icecream?

IceCream had replied to both of my posts here, vigorously defending the ability to delete posts. She deleted the content of the second one 15 minutes after posting it. http://forum.koohii.com/showthre...
bladethecoder General discussion 132 25,023 2011-02-08, 2:06 pm