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    Thread: SRS on the go? What are the options?
Post: SRS on the go? What are the options?

ToasterMage Wrote:instructions for preordering on http://openpandora.org/ Yes, I can see a lot of links and propaganda, but nothing that says buy now...
bandwidthjunkie Learning resources 57 13,584 2009-08-10, 10:41 pm
    Thread: SRS on the go? What are the options?
Post: SRS on the go? What are the options?

Jarvik7 Wrote:You couldn't be more wrong. 2G ipods are just as easy as 1G ipods to jailbreak. 3.0 and 3.01 firmware are also just as easily jailbroken. Redsn0w makes it completely automatic.. If you ...
bandwidthjunkie Learning resources 57 13,584 2009-08-10, 10:39 pm
    Thread: SRS on the go? What are the options?
Post: SRS on the go? What are the options?

@ToasterMage <-- You sure about that? Where can I buy one?
bandwidthjunkie Learning resources 57 13,584 2009-08-10, 9:05 pm
    Thread: SRS on the go? What are the options?
Post: SRS on the go? What are the options?

I would like to have a really good mobile solution too. I bought an ipod touch for just this reason, and to be fair the ipod touch is much better than the original ipod. iAnki is ok on the ipod touch,...
bandwidthjunkie Learning resources 57 13,584 2009-08-10, 7:43 pm
    Thread: Counting the words you know?
Post: Counting the words you know?

Tobberoth Wrote:Let's not forget all the words you know which aren't in your SRS. How could possibly have learned anything that isn't in your SRS ;) lol
bandwidthjunkie Learning resources 16 5,318 2009-08-10, 2:32 pm
    Thread: Counting the words you know?
Post: Counting the words you know?

I've thought about this; if you were learning a language that (discounting contractions like I've, there're etc..) used exactly one character to separate words (ie " "), such as English, or any other ...
bandwidthjunkie Learning resources 16 5,318 2009-08-10, 10:48 am
    Thread: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)
Post: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)

@Nukemarine <-- It sounds like your nuts and bolts Japanese is pretty good. Do you think maybe that you have got to the stage that you would benefit more from actively conversing in Japanese than c...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 140 51,124 2009-08-06, 9:18 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

igordesu Wrote:Just out of curiosity, did anybody else notice something weird about Khatzumoto's name? Maybe this shows more of my incredibly stupidity than I should be showing in public, but...maybe ...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-08-04, 6:24 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

thistime Wrote:bandwidthjunkie Wrote:And what about the American "There's two of them?" I suppose that this contraction is so widely used it is now official grammar, in fact I don't think that among s...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-08-04, 11:15 am
    Thread: Pre-mined sentences in word order for AJATT folks (and others)
Post: Pre-mined sentences in word order for AJATT folks ...

I can't see what the problem is with pre-made sentences if you completely understand why the translation is what it is (that may be with the help of a dictionary); so you know what all the words mean ...
bandwidthjunkie The Japanese language 18 6,180 2009-08-03, 4:19 pm
    Thread: Self study or School?
Post: Self study or School?

thermal Wrote:1. Teacher enters classroom, chats with class for 1 minute. 2. The weeks vocab is reviewed through (kanji showed and we read, pitch is typically over pronounced by the teacher). 3. A new...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 40 6,580 2009-08-03, 1:38 pm
    Thread: Output Training Wheels
Post: Output Training Wheels

mezbup Wrote:Im not doing audio cards yet cos I dont have the matierials. More like the bandwidth. I notice when I read it back after I check if I'm correct things start to get a lot smoother and more...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 6 870 2009-08-03, 12:55 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

And what about the American "There's two of them?" (Replace "two" with any plural.) I suppose that this contraction is so widely used it is now official grammar, in fact I don't think that among speak...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-08-03, 12:44 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

theasianpleaser Wrote:coverup Wrote:Tobby, ぐらい is technically not correct for points in time, but seems to be one of those "native mistakes" that I hear from my friends a lot. You too? ゴローーーーー I ag...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-08-03, 8:42 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

thermal Wrote:I used to have this problem. I set up my computer to wake from sleep about 2 hours after I go to bed and start playing Japanese stuff. It would wake me, but sometimes I could go to sleep...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-08-03, 8:38 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

I'm very much in agreement with Tobberoth and phauna and others on AJATT. Firstly it is massively impractical and secondly it seems to be so obsessive in its approach. The result of this IMO is that i...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-08-03, 8:18 am
    Thread: Japanese company makes female Harvard grads serve tea
Post: Japanese company makes female Harvard grads serve ...

That's like complaining about getting circumcised when converting to Islam.
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 14 1,826 2009-07-30, 6:24 pm
    Thread: Self study or School?
Post: Self study or School?

zoletype Wrote:Yeah public places are great for studying. I often use Starbucks or Mr. Donuts. In Japan it's perfectly acceptable for you to buy one drink and then stay in the shop for several hours. ...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 40 6,580 2009-07-29, 10:16 pm
    Thread: Kanji to English/keyword
Post: Kanji to English/keyword

QuackingShoe Wrote:理(which is a word itself)? 論理? 理論? 義理? 理不尽? 理想? 理由? 理知? 理科? Even 料理 basically makes sense to me, but the rest you can guess the meanings of at a glance. I'm not actually arguing yo...
bandwidthjunkie Remembering the Kanji 14 3,776 2009-07-29, 5:03 pm
    Thread: Kanji to English/keyword
Post: Kanji to English/keyword

Matty0187 Wrote:liosama Wrote:dude once you hit 1000+ in rtk, you'll be looking at most of them and reading them instantaneously. First you'll start shouting primitives in your head in about 2 seconds...
bandwidthjunkie Remembering the Kanji 14 3,776 2009-07-29, 4:12 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

This is truely great work! Thanks for this, it is a really great resource.
bandwidthjunkie Group study 304 90,290 2009-07-29, 11:36 am
    Thread: Anki vs. iKnow
Post: Anki vs. iKnow

I just came across the awesome iKnow KO-2001 project that has been completed today(?) by members of this site and decided to give it a go in Anki and iKnow. I have to say I really love the audio, beca...
bandwidthjunkie The Japanese language 16 7,198 2009-07-29, 11:11 am
    Thread: No one from revtk is like this right? (pleaseeee)
Post: No one from revtk is like this right? (pleaseeee)

nac_est Wrote:haha the storm trooper with the 団長 armband is great! It's true, anyone who wears a storm trooper costume whilst simultaneously using 4 apple computers is defintely a character. The costu...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 42 5,199 2009-07-29, 6:39 am
    Thread: Self study or School?
Post: Self study or School?

I think that classes have the potential to be very productive, but it is really important that you find the right class/school. I signed up for 6 months at a school in Japan that had really small clas...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 40 6,580 2009-07-29, 3:06 am
    Thread: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese IME in Windows XP
Post: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese ...

ghinzdra Wrote:don t want to undermine other people s work but if it s based on EDICT data then it s not brilliant..... edict is very useful , I use it on a daily basis , but it s far from perfect......
bandwidthjunkie The Japanese language 13 1,693 2009-07-28, 9:15 pm
    Thread: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese IME in Windows XP
Post: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese ...

TheTrueBlue Wrote:I'm not sure how much handwriting of 漢字 I, or anyone would ever have to do anymore... unless it's a JLPT requirement or something... It's true, I don't bother doing any writing pract...
bandwidthjunkie The Japanese language 13 1,693 2009-07-28, 6:47 pm
    Thread: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese IME in Windows XP
Post: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese ...

TheTrueBlue Wrote:どうもありがとうbandwidthjunkieさん Hmm it has a great amount of information about each 漢字, but does it have a drawing recognition pad like IME? Either way it's just a treasure trove of info...
bandwidthjunkie The Japanese language 13 1,693 2009-07-28, 6:16 pm
    Thread: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese IME in Windows XP
Post: Basic Question about appropriately using Japanese ...

Have you tried Wakan? http://wakan.manga.cz/ I find that to be very useful for looking up kanji.
bandwidthjunkie The Japanese language 13 1,693 2009-07-28, 4:03 pm
    Thread: game idea
Post: game idea

bombpersons Wrote:There are a few opensource OCRs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr/ http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ I'm not sure if they support Japanese however. Regardless of wether or n...
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 77 10,410 2009-07-28, 2:28 pm
    Thread: game idea
Post: game idea

Balaam Wrote:it's quite a bit of work That is probably the understatement of the day.
bandwidthjunkie General discussion 77 10,410 2009-07-28, 2:15 pm