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    Thread: Easy method for creating Epubs, AZW3 with Furigana
Post: Easy method for creating Epubs, AZW3 with Furigana

I have not found a way to do it with local HTML files... I know... Bummer... Glad this has helped some folks! Sorry that I didn't originally note that I had only side-loaded these. The comment abo...
dabrowskiowski Learning resources 18 6,545 2015-01-27, 7:22 am
    Thread: Easy method for creating Epubs, AZW3 with Furigana
Post: Easy method for creating Epubs, AZW3 with Furigana

Greetings, I recently got a kindle and I wanted to find a way to read Japanese texts with furigana beyond reading them in a PDFs on the kindle because PDFs function differently than other ebooks. Kin...
dabrowskiowski Learning resources 18 6,545 2015-01-22, 9:33 am
    Thread: Japanese radio that lets you scrobble to Last.fm?
Post: Japanese radio that lets you scrobble to Last.fm?

There is a NHK radio application for android. There are three possible stations you can listen too. They range from talk to various genres of music. The stations often have playlists listed. Don't eve...
dabrowskiowski Learning resources 8 2,675 2013-10-27, 5:23 am
    Thread: Paul Nation, Learning vocabulary in another language
Post: Paul Nation, Learning vocabulary in another langua...

No problem. I had the chance to meet Paul recently, a very nice fellow with that funny Zealandy intonation! It is no doubt a good read! Whenever I see the posts in which people begin flaming each ot...
dabrowskiowski General discussion 34 10,750 2013-10-27, 3:11 am
    Thread: I wonder, how are they actually learning Kanji in a different order?
Post: I wonder, how are they actually learning Kanji in ...

-Perhaps check out what Robert Dekeyser has to say about breaking down the cognitive load when learning a new language. -Paul Nation's four strands: *meaning focused input *meaning focused output *fo...
dabrowskiowski Remembering the Kanji 89 12,529 2013-10-25, 6:19 am
    Thread: Paul Nation, Learning vocabulary in another language
Post: Paul Nation, Learning vocabulary in another langua...

Four strands! Paul Nation is a boss.
dabrowskiowski General discussion 34 10,750 2013-10-17, 5:26 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

You guys are flirting with the psychology of linguistics! Check out some of what Zoltan Dornyei has to say about this stuff... if you want. http://www.zoltandornyei.co.uk/ Cheers. A
dabrowskiowski General discussion 856 195,566 2013-10-12, 5:46 am
    Thread: Windows 8 vs Android tablets for studying?
Post: Windows 8 vs Android tablets for studying?

For all of those rocking androids, check this out! https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...v3_2_store It is in beta but it is a hand writing keyboard that scrolls along as you write. There are ma...
dabrowskiowski Learning resources 10 5,601 2013-10-05, 8:15 pm
    Thread: What makes Japanese difficult or easy?
Post: What makes Japanese difficult or easy?

I do my best to use the words, but like you said I sometimes just feel rude or awkward using them. It has always bothered me also when I come across a verb or noun I don't know in conversation and a...
dabrowskiowski The Japanese language 51 9,410 2013-09-28, 8:17 pm
    Thread: Studying Error Correction
Post: Studying Error Correction

You could start exploring different genres of writing: -Narrative -Descriptive -Expository (Process, cause effect, research) These would require different discourse markers and structure. You would b...
dabrowskiowski The Japanese language 1 577 2013-09-23, 10:00 am
    Thread: Skills for the future ahead!
Post: Skills for the future ahead!

There is a shrinking population in Japan, which equates to a larger population of older people in Japan while graduating classes shrink every year. The result of this is that there are fewer young peo...
dabrowskiowski Off topic 10 2,366 2013-09-23, 5:04 am
    Thread: What makes Japanese difficult or easy?
Post: What makes Japanese difficult or easy?

A really funky part of living in Japan is using the Katakana borrowed words. On the surface, these items are great because they are really just cognates borrowed, they are easily learned, and easily r...
dabrowskiowski The Japanese language 51 9,410 2013-09-23, 4:50 am
    Thread: Does it help to write down your stories?
Post: Does it help to write down your stories?

Greetings, Before I learned of this awesome site, I began my Kanji study from RTK with word cards. I continue with this method because I think that having to write out each story helps me to recall i...
dabrowskiowski Remembering the Kanji 13 3,933 2013-09-20, 8:58 pm
    Thread: Is there a pattern to how often Kanji expire?
Post: Is there a pattern to how often Kanji expire?

Greetings, I have been using my own physical word card SRS system for a few weeks before finding Reviewing the Kanji, which I think is just radical. Anyhow, I am wondering how often the Kanji expire....
dabrowskiowski Off topic 2 841 2013-09-15, 7:35 pm