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Thread: (some) Aozora Bunko books sorted by (esimated) eainess Post: (some) Aozora Bunko books sorted by (esimated) eai... Thanks for the feedback, ariariari! I've had other feedback that the kanji list is a little confusing, it is something I'd like to spend some effort on fixing, but I still need to find the time to do ... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 4 | 1,405 | 2015-05-20, 10:14 pm | ||
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Thread: (some) Aozora Bunko books sorted by (esimated) eainess Post: (some) Aozora Bunko books sorted by (esimated) eai... tl;dr: see some free 日本語 books sorted by estimated easiness at http://www.readyourgrade.com A lot of people were struggling to access books on Read Your Level due to Amazon.jp's geo-blocking. It turn... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 4 | 1,405 | 2015-05-20, 7:31 am | ||
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Thread: Grade your own text with Read Your Level's algorithm Post: Grade your own text with Read Your Level's algorit... All great points Roketzu. I originally ordered the kanji by "painfulness", but it doesn't make as much sense now that the rating algorithm is focussed more on words. I'll add it to the list of things... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 4 | 1,021 | 2015-04-26, 8:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Grade your own text with Read Your Level's algorithm Post: Grade your own text with Read Your Level's algorit... Yes, at the moment it is only scanning the first 5000 characters. For the book list, I've limited it to 5000 characters as I don't have the full text for most of the books listed - but it may well mak... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 4 | 1,021 | 2015-04-26, 11:30 am | ||
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Thread: Grade your own text with Read Your Level's algorithm Post: Grade your own text with Read Your Level's algorit... A lot of people wanted to know more about the algorithm used by Read Your Level, so I've put online a page which let's you calculate a score and build a summary page for any Japanese text you can get ... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 4 | 1,021 | 2015-04-26, 8:03 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Thanks Aikynaro, I've put them on the list for next week. In the meantime, I've just made a rather major update: - The difficulty rating is now based on word frequencies, not just kanji frequencies!... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-04-06, 7:40 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty For color scheme, I used this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Diku..._Kanji.svg Also, the graph was already using d3 and had the popovers there but commented out. I've got them working, so you s... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-26, 10:16 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty aldebrn, this is amazing. Thanks! I'm still thinking about how to use the words in the score, but for the moment I've rerun my algorithm using your kanji frequency report instead of building one from... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-26, 8:38 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Yep, I'd seen it but hadn't had a good read through it until just now. It is fascinating that they're going based on single characters instead of word boundaries - makes me feel a little less bad abou... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-24, 10:34 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Ok! I'm not sure about using it through a REST API, seems like it would be better to try and get it working locally. I won't be able to get it working immediately, because an easiness ranking based on... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-24, 1:44 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Aldebrn, to be honest I'd never heard of MeCab before, or Ve, or j.DePP. I'm kinda new to this whole area. Reading the docs is going to take some effort for me, so can I ask what in particular you thi... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-24, 12:07 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty That is a good point, juniperpansy. I'll purchase a few book with samples this week and run both the whole books and sample throughs to see what happens. I agree with everyone that just basing this o... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-23, 8:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty @anotherjohn, I had a look for 家事のニホヘト, but couldn't find an ebook so couldn't add it, sorry :( @aldebrn, I added 魔女の宅急便 - it came out as "hard", but a quick glance at the Kanji breakdown makes me t... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-23, 3:27 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Thanks for pointing that out anotherjohn! I've just fixed it. |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-22, 11:26 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I'll add as many books as I can tomorrow - I've been flat out improving the site today. I didn't expect to get this amazing response! I've updated the site today... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-22, 10:54 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Thanks again Aikynaro! I added two of the books to the list: ミナミノミナミノ 時をかける少女 But I couldn't add these two due to short samples: 霧のむこうのふしぎな町 きまぐれロボット Also, thanks for the link to the thread about ... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-21, 5:40 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Hi Aikynaro, Thanks for the suggestions! 2 of those links have kindle books, you can see them by pressing "Kindle版". I've added the one with more than 6000 characters! Here it is: http://readyourlev... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-20, 8:39 am | ||
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Thread: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty Post: Top Japanese kindle books sorted by difficulty It seems a lot of people here are struggling to find material at their level. Finding books which difficult enough to learn from but easy enough to not make you want to quit altogether is ... difficul... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 31 | 4,862 | 2015-03-20, 6:25 am | ||
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Thread: Working Holiday Jobs Post: Working Holiday Jobs Hi everyone, Me and some Japanese friends are looking into setting up a service to help people find temporary jobs in Japan, which don't require a huge amount of Japanese, but help you meet Japanese ... |
zaydana | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 1 | 926 | 2014-08-01, 9:08 am | ||
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Thread: What is the ideal SRS software? Post: What is the ideal SRS software? I'd love to hear about the Mandarin version as well. I'm actually thinking of developing something like it for Japanese, which is why I'd kinda like to find out what people are after. No point making... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 15 | 3,894 | 2012-09-21, 12:23 pm | ||
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Thread: What is the ideal SRS software? Post: What is the ideal SRS software? Zarxrax Wrote:Sounds like he wants either a teacher or a textbook. There is more to learning a language than just rote memorization in an SRS. And the path to fluency is so long, there is no one resou... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 15 | 3,894 | 2012-09-21, 1:40 am | ||
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Thread: What is the ideal SRS software? Post: What is the ideal SRS software? I'm assuming most people in here already use SRS software and have things they wish were different and things they really like about it. So I'm wondering, if you could have your ideal SRS software, ho... |
zaydana | Learning resources | 15 | 3,894 | 2012-09-20, 3:45 am | ||