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    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Another way to force compatibility: Unzip the xpi file, open install.rdf using a text editor. In the compatibility section, edit the version number for Firefox, save, then rezip it all up. In Firefox,...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2011-08-22, 3:49 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

cb4960 Wrote:I prefer Firefox's less minimalistic interface, so no plans for Chrome support. Save to file functionality, at least, isn't possible in Chrome. With Opera, you can't even get a rikai-kun ...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2011-07-08, 2:01 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I've been browsing through this thread and there's so much great stuff being done. Awesome work. It's really frustrating that I wasn't aware of it. Also, loads of people are talking about me, my web p...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2011-06-20, 9:52 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

nest0r Wrote:Edit: Correction, it was quite a while after you commented and vanished (again ;p): http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid133291 Yeah, I used to enjoy spending time on these foru...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2011-06-20, 9:24 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Even though I am subscribed to this thread, for some reason I have been receiving no emails. FFS guys, somebody could have dropped a comment on my blogpost. I've been doing this in my spare time and...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2011-06-20, 9:21 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I visited this thread a long time ago but now that I'm back it seems like you're extension does a lot more than it did before. As far as I'm aware, it now does everything my extension does and more. ...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2011-06-20, 9:04 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Hmm. I think that any kind of TTS system is completely useless for language learners, but anyway... I can see it being useful for beginners, who don't have a clue. But my extension is designed for p...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2010-09-07, 10:06 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Following a comment on my blog post http://wrightak.blogspot.com/2010/08/mod...ichan.html I've come to this thread. The commenter would like to have the two modifications combined. It looks like i...
wrightak Learning resources 859 243,587 2010-09-07, 2:24 am
    Thread: wrightak's rikaichan mod
Post: wrightak's rikaichan mod

Hey, thanks for posting this here. Sebastian Wrote:Edit: It seems the problem in Wikipedia occurs when there are linked words within the sentence you want to extract. Yes, as I mentioned in the post,...
wrightak Learning resources 5 5,925 2010-09-06, 11:17 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

yudantaiteki Wrote:入る(いる) is not really used much in the modern language outside of some compounds like 入り口 and some set phrases. Even though 入る can theoretically be read as はいる or いる, it's almost al...
wrightak The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,812 2010-01-07, 6:37 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

GreenAirth Wrote:OK, I have a few concrete examples showing characters from that list in use: From ねじまき鳥クロニクル 第3部 by 村上春樹 - 中尉は抑揚のない機械的な声で、再び一斉射撃の態勢に入るように命令を下した。 And another from something my wife w...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2010-01-04, 8:06 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Sorry forgot to mention. After I've released the deck, the first thing I'll do before assembling the example sentences and notes, is provide some feedback on word frequency. If you're viewing the spre...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2010-01-03, 11:54 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

@DavidZ Thanks for the tips. Those examples hadn't come to mind before, even though I already knew all of them. (Apart from your friend's name of course!) I think that goes to show that unless it's q...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2010-01-03, 11:48 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

GreenAirth Wrote:I've recently had to read or use - 旋 (on business), 尉 (in Murakami's Bird Chronicles), 斤 (with my wife), 錯 (all over the place), 伐 (about 5 or 6 times a year in my local area). Thanks...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2010-01-03, 4:52 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Interesting. Never seen 丹念, added to the list - thanks! 伐採 had already been contributed by someone, but the dictionary entries on them were pretty skimpy and I decided to stick it in the "tricky" li...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-12-29, 3:35 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Just to give people an interesting update on how things are going. I mentioned before that I was planning on sending out a list of the more obscure kanji to friends and colleagues. I sent out a list t...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-12-29, 2:34 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Grinkers Wrote:Sorry for bugging you through an email. No worries at all. Sorry I didn't reply.
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-12-21, 3:24 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

久しぶり Sorry for being absent for so long. Lots of things on. The good news is though that I'm at the office all through this week (yes, including Christmas Day - aren't Japanese companies great?). Hi...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-12-20, 7:59 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Not sure about furigana in Anki, I've avoided using it so far. The new deck I will release will change the cards as follows: Q: わがはい(わが輩) A: 吾輩 So that will solve your problem, even if it doesn't u...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-10-26, 1:16 am
    Thread: Learn it and forget it
Post: Learn it and forget it

Mafried, what is your ability in Japanese like? Or did you say that you're no longer studying Japanese?
wrightak General discussion 67 14,559 2009-10-05, 11:57 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

I've been adding a few kanji from RTK 3 to my personal deck but none of them are in the spreadsheet. Unless they introduce some funky new primitives, I think that's the best way to do it - to add them...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-10-05, 7:54 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

to_nihon Wrote:Wrightak, I'm unclear of what to do with the spreadsheet, as it has quite a few more columns than your original Anki deck model you posted on your Google pages. Should I combine the Wor...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-10-05, 1:07 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

welldone101 Wrote:/drool, is it possible to get an early copy of the part you have done so far? I'd love to take a look at it and maybe drop English, sounds amazing. The raw data is freely available ...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-09-27, 11:46 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

slivir Wrote:wio_dude Wrote:No SINGLE Japanese word echos every 'nuance' of a kanji anyway, so the 'problem' with English keywords applies even to Japanese key words. The fact is that you WON'T know ...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-09-27, 11:39 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

kyeenak Wrote:Are you all just learning the new words as they come up? It seems nice for learning vocab, and bad for speed, which brings me up to the next question. Indeed, it's good for learning voca...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-09-27, 9:36 pm
    Thread: Long term retention rate
Post: Long term retention rate

71% doesn't sound too bad. 100%, 100% and 92% for the others is great. The thing about doing Heisig reviews is that you never encounter them outside your Heisig reviews and studies. Whereas when you ...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 8 2,165 2009-09-17, 12:44 am
    Thread: what if you have to stop SRS temporaly?
Post: what if you have to stop SRS temporaly?

It's better to plan ahead for trips if you can. If you're going away for five days, make sure that the cards you get per day multiplied by five won't overwhelm you when you get back. For example, I'm...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 10 1,872 2009-09-17, 12:38 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

kyeenak Wrote:I'm looking forward to it! Thank you very much for all the effort! I do have a question though, will your new deck contain all 2042 kanji? Thanks! I think there may be a few kanji not i...
wrightak Remembering the Kanji 410 148,982 2009-09-02, 8:16 pm
    Thread: Shadowing book: 1,000 sentences WITH native audio pronounciation!
Post: Shadowing book: 1,000 sentences WITH native audio...

Katsuo Wrote:Having read this yesterday, last night I was trying them out on a Japanese person. Translating Jokes *queue Mission Impossible theme tune* Wow. Good effort. Did you manage to get a laugh...
wrightak Learning resources 64 23,083 2009-08-25, 3:32 am
    Thread: Shadowing book: 1,000 sentences WITH native audio pronounciation!
Post: Shadowing book: 1,000 sentences WITH native audio...

Jarvik7 Wrote:-> Humphrey Wait, isn't this offtopic? Lol. For more off topic hilarity: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotl...216991.stm
wrightak Learning resources 64 23,083 2009-08-25, 2:39 am