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    Thread: Transferring Money To Japan
Post: Transferring Money To Japan

Thanks so much for all the replies! So, it seems to me that the easiest way is postal money orders, and I guess I'll just go with that. Is there any reason to choose Citibank instead?
dawhite General discussion 21 9,582 2009-11-12, 2:21 am
    Thread: Transferring Money To Japan
Post: Transferring Money To Japan

Hey all, haven't been on here in a while but I have a quick question: I'm going to be in Japan for the next six months (!!) and I'm trying to figure out the cheapest way to transfer money to myself ov...
dawhite General discussion 21 9,582 2009-11-11, 4:00 pm
    Thread: Funniest Sentence In KO.
Post: Funniest Sentence In KO.

バスケットの日本対米国の試合を見た。日本は米国に120対20で負けた。 I watched a basketball game of Japan vs. USA. Japan lost by 120:20. Or perhaps this belongs in the "Saddest Sentence In KO" thread.
dawhite General discussion 148 35,171 2009-10-01, 1:57 am
    Thread: Stories VS Images
Post: Stories VS Images

Mathematicians gave us gems like the Pythagorean Theorem, Stokes' Theorem, and Galois Theory. Computer scientists gave us Windows. Not that I'm taking sides.
dawhite Remembering the Kanji 10 2,139 2009-09-28, 5:33 am
    Thread: Funniest Sentence In KO.
Post: Funniest Sentence In KO.

I just found a sentence that's intentionally funny (!) この山には金や銀がある。世界で最も"高い"山だ。 On this mountain, there is gold and silver. This is the most "expensive" mountain in the world. *rimshot*
dawhite General discussion 148 35,171 2009-09-28, 3:46 am
    Thread: Funniest Sentence In KO.
Post: Funniest Sentence In KO.

sup3rbon Wrote:Blank Wrote:I'm only about 160 Kanji into the book but yesterday I had to laugh at the unexpected morbidness of 「子供が線路で遊んでいて、電車にひかれた。」 Haven't gotten this far yet, but does that by any ...
dawhite General discussion 148 35,171 2009-09-28, 12:13 am
    Thread: Funniest Sentence In KO.
Post: Funniest Sentence In KO.

I don't know about funny, but seeing "The springtime of life is only once. However, youths are not aware of it." during your second hour of drills alone in front of your computer is certainly quite p...
dawhite General discussion 148 35,171 2009-09-24, 11:10 pm
    Thread: smart.fm corpus
Post: smart.fm corpus

So did anyone ever get Mecab working? Turns out that that whole thing I wanted originally would be incredibly useful after all...
dawhite Learning resources 66 12,383 2009-09-20, 1:26 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

I just learned why Anki is called that.
dawhite General discussion 1,389 294,668 2009-09-19, 4:46 pm
    Thread: Unlicensed Raw Light Novels
Post: Unlicensed Raw Light Novels

Thora Wrote:@dawhite - did you mean to address Ruiner? (fwiw I doubt anyone was offended) Nonono, I was responding to your post urging Ruiner to neither apologize nor explain by apologizing and explai...
dawhite Learning resources 60 26,155 2009-09-16, 6:36 pm
    Thread: Unlicensed Raw Light Novels
Post: Unlicensed Raw Light Novels

To Thora: it's sort of clear you were offended by the way my post took the comments. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize. By way of explanation, I only did it as a joke.
dawhite Learning resources 60 26,155 2009-09-15, 1:38 pm
    Thread: Unlicensed Raw Light Novels
Post: Unlicensed Raw Light Novels

I found a resource you might be interested in today, Ruiner: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26d1n3dMvds]
dawhite Learning resources 60 26,155 2009-09-15, 11:32 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

undead_saif Wrote:I can't wait to finish Tae Kim's and start Smart.fm, someday I'm gonna reach a native-like level in Japanese, wait and see :D ^_^ 巳。 I feel like I'm watching Naruto. Good luck, man ...
dawhite Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,755 2009-09-13, 9:02 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

This seems like an argument for going somewhere with a strong dialect. Am I interpreting it correctly? Also, any thoughts on Fukuoka dialect vs. Kansai?
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-13, 8:17 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

Huh... that's interesting. It's not that I'm dead set on having a standard Japanese accent, but I would like to be able to communicate with people all over the country. However, it seems from what eve...
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-13, 3:21 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

Wha... wait a second, you mean I got ripped off by the LA School 'O Brogue? Ah, I should have known... At any rate, here's another question: how important SHOULD it be to me to learn a standard Japan...
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-13, 2:13 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

Oh my. That's the first time I've heard a suggestion NOT to go to Fukuoka... and I was just getting settled on it, too. Back to the drawing board, I guess.
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-13, 1:23 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

Thanks so much for all the help, everyone. Based on this thread, and on some questions to people I know in real life (although I admit this is an unorthodox approach), I think I've narrowed it down t...
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-12, 9:13 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

He went to ISI: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3800 It DOES sound really good.
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-11, 10:48 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

Yeah, I have actually been giving smaller towns some thought, since I'm not much of a city person. But, if I feel like staying out late on weekends and I live half an hour away by train, is there real...
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-11, 2:06 am
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

Thanks for the plug for Osaka =). About exchange programs, though: I'm taking a year off from school, so unfortunately anything college-related is a non-starter. Alas. Also: any comments about Osaka...
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-10, 9:33 pm
    Thread: Where should I study in Japan?
Post: Where should I study in Japan?

Hi all, Like most of you on here, I'm trying to learn Japanese. Like the ten thousand other people that have posted with similar threads in the past few weeks, I'd like to go to Japan this year and l...
dawhite General discussion 53 9,589 2009-09-10, 9:22 pm
    Thread: smart.fm corpus
Post: smart.fm corpus

I still don't get quite what you guys are talking about but it sounds much more badass than what I was trying to make yesterday =P. Just a word of warning, though -- if you guys are trying to mine se...
dawhite Learning resources 66 12,383 2009-09-10, 2:48 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Tzadeck Wrote:I've been watching an anime with English subtitles, but I downloaded an episode that didn't have subs by mistake. I didn't notice for a little over 5 minutes. Yeah, those theme songs ca...
dawhite General discussion 1,389 294,668 2009-09-10, 4:51 am
    Thread: smart.fm corpus
Post: smart.fm corpus

Yup, the priority thing works. That was a good catch. See my post "Installing the MeCab Python Binding" for just how pissed off MeCab makes me =P. Also, my sample script is missing a colon in the fo...
dawhite Learning resources 66 12,383 2009-09-10, 1:48 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Yeah, on the last day I went to bed sometime after 8:00 AM. Of course, that's only three hours later than normal, and I was also watching out for some people to be breaking in (long story there) so i...
dawhite Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,755 2009-09-09, 11:58 pm
    Thread: Installing the MeCab Python Binding
Post: Installing the MeCab Python Binding

Actually, I just discovered how kickass iKnow is for this. Mecab can go die.
dawhite Learning resources 5 3,209 2009-09-09, 11:56 pm
    Thread: Installing the MeCab Python Binding
Post: Installing the MeCab Python Binding

Thanks so much for the response! Unfortunately, even after installing it, I keep getting the same error. This is possibly because mecab-config is nowhere to be found on my system. Could it be because...
dawhite Learning resources 5 3,209 2009-09-09, 11:24 pm
    Thread: Monthly budget for living in Tokyo?
Post: Monthly budget for living in Tokyo?

Awwwwwwwwww =(
dawhite Off topic 28 7,214 2009-09-09, 10:32 pm
    Thread: Installing the MeCab Python Binding
Post: Installing the MeCab Python Binding

Incidentally if any of you higher-level ninjas out there can translate this: http://hdknr.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!82...1995.entry that might help hugely.
dawhite Learning resources 5 3,209 2009-09-09, 10:26 pm