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    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japa...

vebaev Wrote:Dear Nayr, I have found the your deck great :) just a cosmetic proposal when you make the audio, I heard a strange clicking an some button maybe the microphone, and the clicking drives me...
jreaves Learning resources 204 74,903 2015-03-06, 1:41 pm
    Thread: JGlossator - Interactive Tool for Creating Glosses from Japanese Text
Post: JGlossator - Interactive Tool for Creating Glosses...

Thanks. It appears that Epwing2Anki takes a word list as input. I'm looking for a program that will generate the word list itself, i.e., parse out each word from sentences/paragraphs. Maybe MeCab is m...
jreaves Learning resources 59 24,715 2015-02-06, 12:56 am
    Thread: JGlossator - Interactive Tool for Creating Glosses from Japanese Text
Post: JGlossator - Interactive Tool for Creating Glosses...

Hi cb4960, I'm trying to make a simple vocab deck based on Nayr's Core 5000 deck. I want to take all of the words in the deck (the keywords as well as other incidental vocab) and create a set of flas...
jreaves Learning resources 59 24,715 2015-02-05, 3:53 pm
    Thread: An Argument for Vocabulary Drilling.
Post: An Argument for Vocabulary Drilling.

I'm going through KO now. My top priority is learning to read the sentences, but I have a separate deck for vocab too. I use full Anki client for sentences and Ankimini for vocab. This makes it possib...
jreaves The Japanese language 40 5,923 2009-07-11, 9:15 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate m...

blackmacros Wrote:I just finished KO2001 book 1! I feel AWESOME! These past few days I've hit a new stride and have been able to cope with adding - and reviewing - way more stuff due to a change in m...
jreaves General discussion 120 33,789 2009-07-05, 7:39 am
    Thread: Should I make 2 cards of a fact, or 1?
Post: Should I make 2 cards of a fact, or 1?

Historically I've always done recognition, but with KO I've been doing production (kana + audio -> kanji). At the very least, I repeat the sentence a few times and state the Heisig keywords for the...
jreaves General discussion 15 1,867 2009-06-08, 7:05 am
    Thread: Script to replace Kanji with Heisig Keywords
Post: Script to replace Kanji with Heisig Keywords

Here's the script. You'll need Python installed on your system. Paste the script into a text file, edit the path for the Heisig data file, make the script executable, and give it a run. I believe I go...
jreaves Learning resources 4 2,076 2009-06-02, 10:47 pm
    Thread: Script to replace Kanji with Heisig Keywords
Post: Script to replace Kanji with Heisig Keywords

I add the Heisig keywords to most of my flashcards. I have a Python script that can be run from the command line, as well as a web version. You can try out the web version here: http://www.reavesmd.c...
jreaves Learning resources 4 2,076 2009-06-02, 8:49 pm
    Thread: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS
Post: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS

I've been looking at the Nintendo DS as well as the more traditional electronic dictionaries lately. It would be nice to have something portable to use when I'm reading a book and don't want to drag a...
jreaves Learning resources 231 128,069 2008-08-30, 9:47 am
    Thread: Learning Resources: Boyfriends, Girlfriends, and your study.
Post: Learning Resources: Boyfriends, Girlfriends, and ...

My wife is 二世. She grew up in here in the US but mostly spoke Japanese with her parents. Her speaking ability is essentially native-level. Having a wife who speaks Japanese has provided me with motiv...
jreaves Learning resources 29 4,807 2008-08-12, 11:17 am
    Thread: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate m...

Congratulations! It's good to hear that even without doing volume 2 yet, you're already seeing major benefits in your ability to read. I just started the book last night and will be trying to do 2 pag...
jreaves General discussion 120 33,789 2008-08-12, 10:51 am
    Thread: Graded Readers?
Post: Graded Readers?

On another thread, a couple of people commented favorably on graded readers, specifically: http://www.thejapanshop.com/home.php?cat=344 I've completed RTK1 and have SRS'd Tae Kim's site and most of ...
jreaves Learning resources 18 11,709 2008-08-03, 4:51 pm
    Thread: Japanese text-to-speech
Post: Japanese text-to-speech

MeNoSavvy Wrote:1. I was hoping to use the TTS to make audio files so I could study on the go. Can the TTS programs on the market take a file that has say 1000 rows and 2 columns (1 Japanese sentence,...
jreaves Learning resources 26 15,116 2008-06-13, 10:56 am
    Thread: Japanese text-to-speech
Post: Japanese text-to-speech

I agree that Misaki is great 85% of the time. When she's "on", she's indistinguishable from a native speaker. (I've tested this with a native speaker.) The other 15% of the time, she either selects th...
jreaves Learning resources 26 15,116 2008-06-13, 10:44 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I finished RTK1 today. It took me about 6 months. I had several ill-conceived experiments with learning actual Japanese before completing RTK1 which delayed my progress some. Now it feels good to be m...
jreaves Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,369 2007-08-21, 7:00 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

resolve Wrote:jcreaves:as I said last time, the web code is not ready for public release yet. The syncing code is already included with the client, so it's trivial to implement your own syncing server...
jreaves Learning resources 999 230,242 2007-08-14, 12:43 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

resolve: I asked this a while back but I think my question wasn't clear. Would you be willing to open-source the code for the web-server portion of the application, i.e., the portion that runs on repo...
jreaves Learning resources 999 230,242 2007-08-13, 6:10 pm
    Thread: Beyond RTK1 using Twinkle?
Post: Beyond RTK1 using Twinkle?

I'll have to try the merge thing. I've been opening my backup copy of the pdb in TwinkEdit, importing new cards, and then reinstalling the resulting pdb to the Palm, overwriting the previous version. ...
jreaves Learning resources 3 1,242 2007-08-01, 9:21 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

I just downloaded Anki and started testing on my Mac. Haven't tried synching yet, but I really like what I see so far. The user interface is sweet! Resolve, would you consider open-sourcing the serve...
jreaves Learning resources 999 230,242 2007-08-01, 9:07 pm
    Thread: Beyond RTK1 using Twinkle?
Post: Beyond RTK1 using Twinkle?

I've been using the Palm program Twinkle for RTK1, and I've found that it works great. It has been stable, is portable, and does a nice job of spacing my repetitions. Now that I'm approaching the last...
jreaves Learning resources 3 1,242 2007-08-01, 7:04 pm
    Thread: recommendations on what tools to use
Post: recommendations on what tools to use

I use a Palm Pilot with Twinkle. I downloaded a text file with the Heisig keywords and kanji (thanks ziggr!) which I saved in Excel. I typed brief versions of Heisig's stories for the first 2 parts of...
jreaves Learning resources 7 2,635 2007-05-03, 4:56 pm
    Thread: Tae Kim's Japanese Grammar Guide
Post: Tae Kim's Japanese Grammar Guide

I'm trying to fiinish RTK1 before delving too deeply into actual Japanese, but at times I've grown impatient and have used Tae Kim's site as a source of example sentences to put into Twinkle for revie...
jreaves Learning resources 31 10,703 2007-04-29, 8:11 am
    Thread: On/Kun Reading....
Post: On/Kun Reading....

Thanks for the resource. Be careful with the sentence pairs, which mostly come from the "Tanaka corpus". Tanaka was a professor in Japan who had his students submit Japanese-English sentence pairs as ...
jreaves Remembering the Kanji 9 1,787 2007-03-28, 6:49 pm
    Thread: Mobile system with key interface to memorize Heisig kanjis
Post: Mobile system with key interface to memorize Heisi...

Twinkle doesn't require any special synching software, just the standard Backup and Install conduits. If you can't synch Twinkle to your PC, then you can't sych anything. Of course, as far as I know t...
jreaves Learning resources 14 3,075 2007-03-21, 6:29 pm
    Thread: Mobile system with key interface to memorize Heisig kanjis
Post: Mobile system with key interface to memorize Heisi...

I used to use Palm SuperMemo for studying another subject. However, Palm SuperMemo is not well-suited to displaying kanji and does not seem to be actively developed. Now I'm using Twinkle with good r...
jreaves Learning resources 14 3,075 2007-03-20, 6:39 pm
    Thread: JFE
Post: JFE

Sure, I'll be glad to share, though it's just the first 4 chapters. I'll send you an e-mail. Basically, I type the information into Excel, export as UTF-16 (this is the only unicode encoding that Exc...
jreaves Learning resources 72 34,432 2007-03-12, 8:49 pm
    Thread: JFE
Post: JFE

Leo, congratulations on finishing the book! I would very much appreciate a copy of your Excel spreadsheet, if you're still willing to make it available for download or by e-mail. I could also host the...
jreaves Learning resources 72 34,432 2007-03-12, 6:55 pm
    Thread: Where to Find volume 1
Post: Where to Find volume 1

After an exhaustive search, I was finally able to obtain a copy from Schoenhof's Foreign Books (http://www.schoenhofs.com) last week. You might want to call them before placing your order to make sure...
jreaves Learning resources 10 2,713 2007-02-25, 7:06 pm