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    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Wow, that was a fast response! Thanks very much, I hadn't come across this form before, that's very helpful!
ergerg The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,989 2015-09-03, 4:45 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I'm reading through 斜陽 by 太宰治, and there's a sentence that's bugging me. I pretty much understand what the whole thing means (Jesus is sending out his disciples to expose the hypocrisies of the variou...
ergerg The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,989 2015-09-03, 4:09 pm
    Thread: did the recent firefox update 37.0.1 break rikaichan
Post: did the recent firefox update 37.0.1 break rikaich...

That fixed it, thanks very much Zarxrax!
ergerg Learning resources 9 1,345 2015-04-09, 7:08 pm
    Thread: did the recent firefox update 37.0.1 break rikaichan
Post: did the recent firefox update 37.0.1 break rikaich...

Thanks for your replies, I'm not sure if it was there before, but there is a rikaichan button on the top right, I'd never used the rikaichan button so maybe it was always there. I can enable rikaichan...
ergerg Learning resources 9 1,345 2015-04-09, 6:07 am
    Thread: did the recent firefox update 37.0.1 break rikaichan
Post: did the recent firefox update 37.0.1 break rikaich...

Subject basically says it. I noticed today that rikaichan wasn't loaded in firefox, at least it doesn't show up when you right click. Firefox updated fairly recently, which is the only thing that I th...
ergerg Learning resources 9 1,345 2015-04-08, 8:06 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Splatted Wrote:If we're not careful, rather than listening to music during breaks in our work we have a tendency to work during breaks from immersing ourselves in music, so we are quite knowledgeable ...
ergerg The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,989 2012-08-20, 12:06 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Here's a sentence from one of the innocent books (死神の精度) which I can't quite parse. It probably won't make much sense unless you've read the story, but roughly the story is from the point of view of a...
ergerg The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,989 2012-08-18, 10:40 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

なんたって is a shortened form of なんと言っても, something along the lines of "no matter what you say", emphasizes what follows
ergerg The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,989 2012-07-31, 8:07 pm
    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

This is a bit off topic, but does anyone know what the song is that they play at the end of the Hotcast podcast?
ergerg Learning resources 200 212,254 2012-02-10, 11:00 am
    Thread: Bob Martin Pet Products...
Post: Bob Martin Pet Products...

That's terrible Ice Cream, I'm very sorry for your loss.
ergerg Off topic 39 12,147 2011-09-06, 7:53 am
    Thread: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows?
Post: JDramas for guys and full running TV shows?

Is there any way to get Japanese subtitles for the shows where d-addicts doesn't have them? Or am I missing something there? For example, Moteki sounds great, but it seems to only have English subtitl...
ergerg General discussion 40 17,394 2010-10-18, 7:24 pm
    Thread: New 常用漢字 (jouyou kanji) added recently
Post: New 常用漢字 (jouyou kanji) added recently

It's true I've never seen it used in anger...
ergerg The Japanese language 35 13,481 2010-06-08, 12:03 pm
    Thread: New 常用漢字 (jouyou kanji) added recently
Post: New 常用漢字 (jouyou kanji) added recently

What!! Monme is one of my favorites, along with 我, I love the way you move around when you write them... Plus, I have the top rated story for monme! I can't believe they're booting it out of the panth...
ergerg The Japanese language 35 13,481 2010-06-08, 11:36 am
    Thread: Smart.fm's new update
Post: Smart.fm's new update

I don't know how to get this through the smart.fm interface itself, but the following example still works for finding sentences containing a given word: http://smart.fm/explore/sentences?keyword=慎重 ...
ergerg Learning resources 14 3,194 2009-11-23, 2:06 pm
    Thread: AJATTsentences forum : launch of a new forum KO2001 and others
Post: AJATTsentences forum : launch of a new forum KO200...

I'm exactly the same, I bought both editions of 2001 Kanji Odyssey a few months ago when the project started, and if it weren't for the project I almost certainly wouldn't have bought them.
ergerg Learning resources 59 25,609 2008-07-18, 5:27 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

I may be being stupid here, but how do you import entries from Mnemosyne? I was going to try that out, there's an Import menu item, but it seems to be grayed out....
ergerg Learning resources 999 230,445 2007-06-19, 8:54 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

The xml file looks fairly straightforward (and the source code for Mnemosyne is available) so I don't think this will be too hard, but I don't have time at the moment to look into it any real depth. ...
ergerg Learning resources 999 230,445 2007-06-06, 9:48 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

I'm interested in giving Anki a try, but my issue is that I've been using Mnemosyne for about 10 months and have almost 5,000 cards in it. They're showing up at a manageable rate of about 80 a day at ...
ergerg Learning resources 999 230,445 2007-06-06, 8:09 am
    Thread: "Incorrect" stroke counts
Post: "Incorrect" stroke counts

生返った! (which I'm probably using incorrectly here...) Thanks for your response, you're probably right that one shouldn't get too hung up on this sort of thing...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 10 3,540 2007-03-02, 11:17 am
    Thread: "Incorrect" stroke counts
Post: "Incorrect" stroke counts

This thread has been languishing, so I'll try to revive it... There is an inconsistency with the number of strokes in the primitive on the left side of "detach" (which I call "detachable penis", from...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 10 3,540 2007-03-01, 10:08 pm
    Thread: kanji recall rate statistics
Post: kanji recall rate statistics

The statistics are quite interesting, I've sort of been curious what fraction of cards most people get right. I've been keeping track of my statistics (number of cards reviewed, number missed, and nu...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 21 5,454 2006-11-07, 5:57 am
    Thread: Mnemosyne HELP
Post: Mnemosyne HELP

I use Mnemosyne, it turns out (this is on the doc page of the website, I think) that you can't import UTF-8 format files from a .txt file, you have to save it in their .xml format. What I did is add ...
ergerg Learning resources 19 9,327 2006-09-22, 12:41 pm
    Thread: Favourite Kanji
Post: Favourite Kanji

My favorite kanji is 我. I like the way it looks, sort of round, symmetrical in a way but not too symmetric. And I like the way the pen moves around when you draw it, constantly changing direction, eac...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 52 17,710 2006-07-26, 9:40 am
    Thread: Kanji experiment
Post: Kanji experiment

It took me about the same, 11 minutes. I also prefer SKIP, which is what I normally use, but for me on this test I was faster using the radical search. I do think that radicals would be slower in a ph...
ergerg The Japanese language 5 2,807 2006-07-14, 1:20 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 was thinking about water and flowers because I'd just messed up "full" 満 where for a change flowers didn't get the full top position. The other advantage of combining in this case would be it could ...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 15 5,560 2006-06-22, 10:35 am
    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...

Ah, I see... Yes, whether soot went left or on the bottom would be completely arbitrary. This probably only works if both positions happen often enough that you'll easily remember which goes where. Y...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 15 5,560 2006-06-21, 1:16 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...

Sorry, I'm not quite sure of your question. What I actually do is to view the primitive in a top position as "hot cereal", so 香 for example (did you know that if you leave Cream of Wheat out in the Su...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 15 5,560 2006-06-21, 8:05 am
    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...

By the time you get to the end of RTK1 (I haven't added them all to this website, but I finished my initial study through number 2042 yesterday, hooray!) you're probably pretty good at this game, but ...
ergerg Remembering the Kanji 15 5,560 2006-06-19, 11:27 am