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    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

Sorry if this has already been asked (just so many pages to trawl through!). More or less *all* of my Anime has the subs built in to the files. Is there anyway to use these (read extract?) in subs2sr...
b0ng0 Learning resources 1,039 387,695 2010-04-21, 3:44 pm
    Thread: Non-Typical Anime
Post: Non-Typical Anime

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (ひぐらしのなく頃に, When the Cicadas Cry) - I don't really want to say much about it... suffice to say it's disturbing and dark, but also bright and funny.
b0ng0 General discussion 104 23,884 2010-04-21, 6:30 am
    Thread: Merits of doing a textbook...
Post: Merits of doing a textbook...

I used Genki I + II when I first started out, and found they had really good examples of grammer and a good pace.
b0ng0 General discussion 35 6,892 2010-04-20, 7:29 am
    Thread: Apple Tablet Day!
Post: Apple Tablet Day!

I would be more interested in the HP tablet as Windows 7 has some nice features in that department and it's likely to be much more reasonably priced (or at least higher spec for the cash you're paying...
b0ng0 Off topic 37 6,279 2010-01-27, 11:15 am
    Thread: Apple Tablet Day!
Post: Apple Tablet Day!

I don't think it will change anything. There have been tablet PCs for a long time now, so if anyone really needed one they could have bought one. As for Japanese studies, it could be useful for viewi...
b0ng0 Off topic 37 6,279 2010-01-27, 7:34 am
    Thread: Potential Question
Post: Potential Question

I was just looking at this sentence: "カメラの電池が切れたので、新しい電池に交換した" "Because the camera batteries ran out, I replaced them with new ones." However, the 切れた is the potential form of 切る. Just thinking abou...
b0ng0 The Japanese language 3 2,056 2010-01-05, 2:10 pm
    Thread: Switching back to Mandarin.
Post: Switching back to Mandarin.

As zer0range says, don't worry about the tones. Of course you should work on getting them right at the beginning - take your time pronouncing, try to copy a native pronounciation of it. Once you've sa...
b0ng0 Chinese and Hanzi 30 6,402 2010-01-02, 4:12 pm
    Thread: Trying To Get A Start In Japan...
Post: Trying To Get A Start In Japan...

"I went to the park and sat in a bench" This just sounds kind of weird. To sit "in" a chair sounds more natural, but to sit "in" a bench is just not something I can imagine someone saying.
b0ng0 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 73 25,528 2009-12-23, 7:04 am
    Thread: Cool Japanese girl's name
Post: Cool Japanese girl's name

Tobberoth Wrote:I generally like names starting with S. さおり さえこ しおり さえこ is nice, but becomes bad in an English context. "Haha, psycho." EDIT: さちこ sounds like a male name to me, mainly because I hav...
b0ng0 Off topic 68 15,435 2009-12-22, 3:57 am
    Thread: Cool Japanese girl's name
Post: Cool Japanese girl's name

I've always liked 佐知子(さちこ).
b0ng0 Off topic 68 15,435 2009-12-21, 7:20 am
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

+1 to what Tobberoth says. Kotoba has recently had a rather large upgrade which including example sentences for almost every word and it's free! Why pay more? I haven't used Ankimini as I don't have...
b0ng0 Learning resources 128 54,987 2009-12-19, 8:50 am
    Thread: Loving the change to Japanese OS
Post: Loving the change to Japanese OS

The best thing about it is you can really impress your friends with your utter Japanese fluency when they see you using a fully Japanese OS (little do they know, you used it so much before in English ...
b0ng0 General discussion 21 6,226 2009-11-26, 10:46 am
    Thread: 商品、製品、品物 - Goods!
Post: 商品、製品、品物 - Goods!

I have a query about theses 3 words: 商品、製品 and 品物. Are they mainly 3 different ways of saying the same thing (i.e. interchangable in a sentence), or do they have distinct meanings. For example could...
b0ng0 The Japanese language 1 2,458 2009-11-26, 8:16 am
    Thread: Loving the change to Japanese OS
Post: Loving the change to Japanese OS

I used to have Japanese on my laptop (Vista) and also changed the language of programs like Firefox, etc... however I soon found it not to be such a good learning tool as a lot of things are in kataka...
b0ng0 General discussion 21 6,226 2009-11-26, 7:41 am
    Thread: Kanji Tattoos
Post: Kanji Tattoos

Hanzi Smatter has a good list of tattoos you could recommend your friend. Otherwise I would go for "魔法的な猫".
b0ng0 Off topic 50 19,388 2009-11-20, 7:53 am
    Thread: Japanese South Park DVDs
Post: Japanese South Park DVDs

You guys... I'm seriously.. Cartman ftw.
b0ng0 Off topic 8 2,720 2009-11-07, 1:32 pm
    Thread: 13 secrets for speaking fluent japanese deck?
Post: 13 secrets for speaking fluent japanese deck?

What are the 13 secrets? I MUST KNOW!
b0ng0 General discussion 12 2,153 2009-11-05, 7:36 am
    Thread: Smart FM: Sentences or Vocab? iKnow or Anki?
Post: Smart FM: Sentences or Vocab? iKnow or Anki?

+1 on KO20010, although be prepared to delete and/or laugh at some of the more weird sentences.
b0ng0 General discussion 6 2,324 2009-11-04, 7:25 am
    Thread: Smart FM: Sentences or Vocab? iKnow or Anki?
Post: Smart FM: Sentences or Vocab? iKnow or Anki?

I would use Anki personally, because it's updated regularly and you can use it offline (you can back up your decks online too, and review them from a webpage too). I'm assuming you've only done RTK1 ...
b0ng0 General discussion 6 2,324 2009-11-03, 7:46 am
    Thread: Where to buy manga...
Post: Where to buy manga...

http://www.bk1.jp/ Used them recently -VERY reasonable shipping charges and you get points which translate to money off.
b0ng0 General discussion 61 20,814 2009-10-24, 6:35 am
    Thread: Windows 7
Post: Windows 7

I have had vista on my laptop for 2 years and it's never crashed. I must be one of the few to have a good experience with it, because it runs really nicely (although I can imagine it's less than optim...
b0ng0 Off topic 53 12,051 2009-10-23, 12:29 pm
    Thread: SRS sucks!
Post: SRS sucks!

Well it's kind of similar to SRSing, just a little less regimental. I think over time it would work just as well, but your progress is going to be a lot slower as retention will be less. But it would...
b0ng0 Learning resources 111 18,162 2009-10-16, 10:32 am
    Thread: Questions regarding sentence mining (and a bit of a self-intro :)
Post: Questions regarding sentence mining (and a bit of ...

In relation to whether to have the reading and the English translation on the back, I would say unless you are 100% sure you understand the sentence without an English translation, then include it.
b0ng0 Learning resources 10 2,819 2009-10-12, 6:26 am
    Thread: Falling Behind
Post: Falling Behind

As frlmarty says, I was in a similar position. I started going through RtK really quickly, but as a result I was unable to make much of a dent in my "failed" pile - it ended up being just over 600 ca...
b0ng0 Remembering the Kanji 10 2,066 2009-10-09, 8:19 am
    Thread: 「外人嫌い」
Post: 「外人嫌い」

I think a lot of the time it's ignorance rather than an actual dislike. However, I do feel that in Japan the "politeness" is not true "friendliness", in that they will act friendly and be polite to ...
b0ng0 General discussion 44 5,602 2009-10-08, 7:06 am
    Thread: Convo night
Post: Convo night

When I went to Japan for the first time I ended up in a tiny bar in Kyoto with a bunch of locals. They were all very friendly and one of them even bought me a drink, and the mother and daughter who ra...
b0ng0 General discussion 11 1,377 2009-10-07, 6:21 am
    Thread: So what committments do you have other than your Japanese study?
Post: So what committments do you have other than your J...

A full time job, which basically limits my maximum Japanese time to a couple of hours a day, and that's if I give up everything else I enjoy such as sport and playing instruments. So probably sitting ...
b0ng0 General discussion 67 9,133 2009-10-06, 6:28 am
    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

I have a question (sorry if it's already been answered). Most of my files that have subs, have them encoded into the file (not as seperate sub files). Can I extract them somehow?
b0ng0 Learning resources 1,039 387,695 2009-10-06, 6:25 am
    Thread: (iPod/iPhone) App Store - How to buy J apps with no J credit card?
Post: (iPod/iPhone) App Store - How to buy J apps with n...

Are you sure you can't just use Ma$tercard or Vi$a? They are both pretty universal regardless of currency.
b0ng0 Learning resources 16 13,818 2009-10-01, 6:20 am
    Thread: What's your writng style? Quick and Dirty or Slow and Pretty?
Post: What's your writng style? Quick and Dirty or Slow...

mypapa12 Wrote:b0ng0 Wrote:When I'm reviewing I just want to do it asap I'm confused now, should I write the kanjis when I'm reviewing? I just write them in the air with my pen... That's fine if you'r...
b0ng0 General discussion 20 3,834 2009-10-01, 6:19 am