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    Thread: What about Japanese ebooks?
Post: What about Japanese ebooks?

I would try aozora bunko http://www.aozora.gr.jp/ It's full of Japanese classics (novels etc.) for free. Obviously you won't find the most recent things. Good luck
clemente General discussion 18 15,855 2010-10-06, 9:02 am
    Thread: Bookscan (have Japanese books OCR'd cheap! Anyone used this?)
Post: Bookscan (have Japanese books OCR'd cheap! Anyone ...

Wow, it seems very interesting. Finally I can get all those 1yen books on Amazon.co.jp directly to my email box instead of having to wait for a friend to come back to Europe. I do believe it can be a ...
clemente Learning resources 39 15,477 2010-10-06, 5:49 am
    Thread: Japanese political jargon: how to learn it?
Post: Japanese political jargon: how to learn it?

Thank you for the nice links. I was also wondering if there was any book or dictionary similar to those used for technical Japanese.
clemente Learning resources 6 1,428 2010-08-28, 1:22 pm
    Thread: Japanese political jargon: how to learn it?
Post: Japanese political jargon: how to learn it?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could suggest books, web-pages, word-lists, etc. regarding the vocabulary used in politics/economics. I am trying to read the main daily newspapers regularly and incr...
clemente Learning resources 6 1,428 2010-08-28, 3:38 am
    Thread: how to make PDFs with kunten
Post: how to make PDFs with kunten

Hello, I know it is not really about a "learning" resource, but I was wondering if anyone has experience in producing nice looking PDFs with vertical writing, the various kunten (that help with the k...
clemente Learning resources 0 560 2010-08-23, 11:36 am
    Thread: looking for software to compare texts
Post: looking for software to compare texts

Thank you all for the kind replies. Unfortunately I am not yet able to write scripts, although I hope to soon have some time to learn. Do you know if anyone has ever done anything like this? As for th...
clemente The Japanese language 5 2,215 2010-04-18, 8:34 pm
    Thread: Kanji frequency analysis in Wikipedia
Post: Kanji frequency analysis in Wikipedia

Cool thread. I am posting here now hoping that some of you programming minded people could help me with this: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...7#pid90037 Check each text of an archive agains...
clemente The Japanese language 21 12,412 2010-04-17, 8:28 pm
    Thread: looking for software to compare texts
Post: looking for software to compare texts

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew how to compare various Japanese texts and see if there are matches in the sentences (and obviously see what the matches are). I have an archive of texts...
clemente The Japanese language 5 2,215 2010-04-17, 8:25 pm
    Thread: what software to extract words from a text file?
Post: what software to extract words from a text file?

Thank you all for the new suggestions on how to "skin" the text. I also tried wakan, but I could not easily figure out how to make the wordlist with my text (although I could with a smaller, only Japa...
clemente Learning resources 11 5,789 2010-03-20, 7:52 pm
    Thread: what software to extract words from a text file?
Post: what software to extract words from a text file?

Thanks for the replies. http://jgloss.sourceforge.net/ jgloss works the best but has some trouble if too much romaji is present at the same time, so you need to clean that first. By the way, is there ...
clemente Learning resources 11 5,789 2010-03-16, 7:23 pm
    Thread: what software to extract words from a text file?
Post: what software to extract words from a text file?

Hello, I was wondering if there was a software that could help me make glossaries by extracting the words from the texts I am using (newspaper articles, web-pages, ebooks etc). I remember JWPce could...
clemente Learning resources 11 5,789 2010-03-15, 7:02 am
    Thread: Looking for a "most common kango" list
Post: Looking for a "most common kango" list

やまとうたは ひとのこころをたねとして よろづのことのはとぞ なれりける.
clemente The Japanese language 21 6,904 2010-02-24, 6:26 am
    Thread: Looking for a "most common kango" list
Post: Looking for a "most common kango" list

The actual reason is that I have been studying Japanese for a long time and now I am starting to learn Korean as well. Since I have a list of very common Korean words (including hanjaeo, that is words...
clemente The Japanese language 21 6,904 2010-02-22, 3:21 am
    Thread: Looking for a "most common kango" list
Post: Looking for a "most common kango" list

Thanks for the replies. I am of course aware that there are many wago and that a general most common word list would include them, but that is not what I was looking for. I am specifically looking for...
clemente The Japanese language 21 6,904 2010-02-21, 10:26 pm
    Thread: Looking for a "most common kango" list
Post: Looking for a "most common kango" list

Hello, I tried to make a table out of the files, but the result wasn't so good, especially because there are many words that consider the kanji alone, with their kunyomi, that are not necessary for t...
clemente The Japanese language 21 6,904 2010-02-21, 9:46 pm
    Thread: Looking for a "most common kango" list
Post: Looking for a "most common kango" list

I am looking for the "most common kango" list, that is a list of words of Chinese origin, such as junbi, shitsumon, anshin, teian, keisatsu etc. Compound words (apart few exceptions) that can be writt...
clemente The Japanese language 21 6,904 2010-02-20, 6:29 pm
    Thread: Looking for a "most common kango" list
Post: Looking for a "most common kango" list

Hello everyone, I am looking for a list of the most common kango in Japanese. Something with around 2000 words or more. Cheers
clemente The Japanese language 21 6,904 2010-02-20, 5:24 am
    Thread: anki : how to sort out missing kanjis in a spreadsheet
Post: anki : how to sort out missing kanjis in a spreads...

Thanks for the answer. I finally managed to find the file from which to make the list. Cheers.
clemente Learning resources 26 6,419 2010-02-19, 7:24 am
    Thread: anki : how to sort out missing kanjis in a spreadsheet
Post: anki : how to sort out missing kanjis in a spreads...

Hi there, great spreadsheets! I was wondering how to make one, still from the kanjidic file, that includes not only the codes, the Japanese kun and on and the meaning, but also the Chinese and Korea...
clemente Learning resources 26 6,419 2010-02-17, 2:36 am