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    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

I ended up rooting my device and installing DroidSansJapanese.ttf in /system/fonts (using the link provided by brandon7s - thanks!), which makes all apps show the correct fonts.
Ricardo Learning resources 157 85,625 2011-07-28, 12:36 pm
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

According to Using custom fonts with AnkiDroid:Quote:The name of the font file must match the name of the font used in your card layouts. My deck (RTK, downloaded from Anki) is using "Arial" for Engli...
Ricardo Learning resources 157 85,625 2011-07-28, 8:38 am
    Thread: Android apps
Post: Android apps

I'm also having problems. I added some fonts to /AnkiDroid/fonts (DroidSansJapanese.ttf, msgothic.ttc and msmincho.ttc) and they are listed when I select menu>Preferences > Other > Default fo...
Ricardo Learning resources 157 85,625 2011-07-27, 10:06 pm
    Thread: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego, Qt and Linux
Post: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego,...

Pauline Wrote:How do you search for a word or kanji that you don't know how to read? It would be nice to use my N900 as an electric dictionary, but it's the words I can't read that I want to look up. ...
Ricardo Learning resources 13 7,959 2011-07-09, 5:12 pm
    Thread: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego, Qt and Linux
Post: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego,...

Thanks for the update... but since Nokia is abandoning Symbian, Maemo & MeeGo, and even their newest handsets (the N9 and N950), even <i>before<i> being launched, I'm replacing my N900...
Ricardo Learning resources 13 7,959 2011-07-06, 6:34 pm
    Thread: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego, Qt and Linux
Post: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego,...

True, I can access the Ovi page now! :) Thanks for letting me know! I'd love to give it a try, but since it doesn't have an evaluation version (at least I could not find one), it seems I need to buy...
Ricardo Learning resources 13 7,959 2011-01-24, 5:43 pm
    Thread: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego, Qt and Linux
Post: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego,...

I'd love to test it, but the software is not available in the Ovi store for me (since I live in Brazil). :(
Ricardo Learning resources 13 7,959 2011-01-02, 4:59 pm
    Thread: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego, Qt and Linux
Post: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego,...

Good question! But I won't be able to help you there, I never used any of those programs. My suggestion is to write in the forums / mailing lists about both softwares, then you'll have a good chance t...
Ricardo Learning resources 13 7,959 2010-12-29, 3:36 pm
    Thread: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego, Qt and Linux
Post: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego,...

Sorry, Tori-kun... even though I also have an N8, I barely use it for anything but taking pictures. Have you tried the Ovi Store or Google? But after a quick search I found the Mnemojojo, a J2ME clie...
Ricardo Learning resources 13 7,959 2010-12-29, 3:12 pm
    Thread: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego, Qt and Linux
Post: Software to study Japanese on Maemo (N900), Meego,...

Hi, everyone! Long time no see... :) It has also been a long time since I studied Japanese, too, but I want to start studying again next year. Since the N900 has been my faithful companion for more ...
Ricardo Learning resources 13 7,959 2010-12-29, 11:18 am
    Thread: Essential Resources
Post: Essential Resources

Hello, world! Long time no see... :) I'm here for a shameless plug: I've written my very first Palm software, called "Palm TaCo". It allows you to search the Tanaka Corpus phrases on your Palm devic...
Ricardo Learning resources 100 133,315 2008-02-20, 10:10 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

danieldesu Wrote:one of the big problems I see people have is finding sentences. It seems like the last missing resource is a 'social networking' style site where people can share sentences. I have so...
Ricardo General discussion 1,517 595,013 2007-07-25, 2:58 pm
    Thread: Kumon
Post: Kumon

shaydwyrm Wrote:Do you know if they have a trial period or something? None that I'm aware of, but you can try to ask them for some sample material to try at home. shaydwyrm Wrote:Also, Ricardo, I assu...
Ricardo General discussion 7 4,093 2007-07-20, 7:52 am
    Thread: Kumon
Post: Kumon

Megaqwerty Wrote:Ricardo has had experience with Kumon, but it was prior to completing RTK I. Indeed! I just finished RTK1 and decided to try another thing before going back to Kumon... I downloaded ...
Ricardo General discussion 7 4,093 2007-07-19, 6:57 pm
    Thread: Why?
Post: Why?

yorkii Wrote:i think i have lost my direction recently. I know enough to get along with staff members, laugh along at jokes as I watch tv, read the odd book (be it a book aimed at school kids), have d...
Ricardo Off topic 29 6,706 2007-07-17, 9:44 am
    Thread: Stroke count for 髭 ("beard", 2047)
Post: Stroke count for 髭 ("beard", 2047)

RTK III and WWWJDIC says 髭 ("beard", frame 2047) have 16 strokes, but RevTK shows as 17 strokes...
Ricardo The Japanese language 2 2,292 2007-07-16, 12:29 pm
    Thread: Done with RTK1 - what next? Any suggestions?
Post: Done with RTK1 - what next? Any suggestions?

jamaica Wrote:I guess it depends on your immediate goal. Absolutely true! I should have stated this clear before. Right now I have no intentions of doing any JPLT, just learn vocabulary. In this case,...
Ricardo General discussion 15 3,454 2007-07-13, 12:26 pm
    Thread: Done with RTK1 - what next? Any suggestions?
Post: Done with RTK1 - what next? Any suggestions?

Thanks for the reply, uberstuber! I've seen it before... it's basically the same as I stated on the 5th paragraph: "reading books/magazines/mangas" ... "then adding the vocabulary / compound readings...
Ricardo General discussion 15 3,454 2007-07-13, 11:46 am
    Thread: Done with RTK1 - what next? Any suggestions?
Post: Done with RTK1 - what next? Any suggestions?

Hi! I just finished RTK 1, and I'm planning my next steps in this long road called Japanese learning. I think I should emphasize more reading/vocabulary now, as I already have some grammar (and kanji...
Ricardo General discussion 15 3,454 2007-07-13, 9:43 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Congratulations, everyone! Thora, I'm glad to know I could help a little bit. :) And now, it's my time to say thank you all! :D Today I finished RTK 1! Fabrice, you are the man! Thank you for ever...
Ricardo Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,332 2007-07-12, 8:01 pm
    Thread: Interesting unicode characters...
Post: Interesting unicode characters...

You can find some information about this on Unihan.org: Unihan Index for U+3200 through U+32FF (with images) Unihan Index for U+3200 through U+32FF (utf-8) Unihan Index for U+3300 through U+33FF (wi...
Ricardo The Japanese language 25 12,073 2007-07-10, 7:56 am
    Thread: Are there any psychological ways to help memorization?
Post: Are there any psychological ways to help memorizat...

Rakushun Wrote:Ive heard that studying for something right before you sleep is the best time, because that's when the most, uh...long-term brain storing memorization occurs. What a coincidence... yest...
Ricardo Remembering the Kanji 29 7,894 2007-07-10, 7:22 am
    Thread: Kanji letters for Windows 98
Post: Kanji letters for Windows 98

Hi there! Google, as always, is your friend. :-) Check this out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/...stall.mspx You want the Japanese with Language Pack!
Ricardo General discussion 3 1,130 2007-07-09, 3:46 pm
    Thread: What do you wish you'd known when you were starting out?
Post: What do you wish you'd known when you were startin...

I'm not done yet with RTK I (but I'm close, at 1978). If I would start over again, I'd like to change a couple of things: Use kanji readings in the stories: of course, not all readings, maybe just t...
Ricardo Remembering the Kanji 15 5,558 2007-07-09, 7:28 am
    Thread: Life After Pimsleur
Post: Life After Pimsleur

How about JapanesePod101? It's very very nice... right Sakura? (and break it down...)
Ricardo General discussion 8 5,094 2007-07-05, 10:45 am
    Thread: Without even asking: fonts showing variations in radicals
Post: Without even asking: fonts showing variations in r...

ファブリス Wrote:Could you give some details on your OS and native OS language ? Ricardo Wrote:also check your system's Language/Regional Settings. Did you do it? Did you check how your Windows Language/Re...
Ricardo Off topic 10 3,591 2007-07-02, 8:50 am
    Thread: Without even asking: fonts showing variations in radicals
Post: Without even asking: fonts showing variations in r...

Hmm... interesting issue. Perhaps your browser or OS is using Chinese instead of Japanese to show the character? For instance, check this Wiktionary page: it shows the "same" character for "briefcase...
Ricardo Off topic 10 3,591 2007-07-01, 7:42 pm
    Thread: trans.hiragana.jp/ruby/
Post: trans.hiragana.jp/ruby/

Really interesting! Thanks for sharing! Here's a tip about how you can add a "button" in your Firefox "toolbar", so you just have to click it to translate the current page: - Open your "Bookmarks Ma...
Ricardo Learning resources 4 5,368 2007-06-28, 9:59 am
    Thread: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!
Post: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!

woelpad Wrote:The fix is simple enough, but I don't have the latest version of the Line breaks script. It's on Ricardo's site, which seems to be temporarily unavailable. Ricardo, when you read this, s...
Ricardo General discussion 12 4,966 2007-06-09, 10:41 am
    Thread: hmm totally not japanese related
Post: hmm totally not japanese related

One of the good things of software engineering: you can do the same thing in a lot of different ways. :-) But that can also become a problem when you want to start: you have to choose one way. "Langu...
Ricardo Remembering the Kanji 15 2,678 2007-05-21, 8:08 am