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    Thread: Core deck without the BS
Post: Core deck without the BS

lauri_ranta Wrote:... I recently made a list of hiragana-only words to review. (It's in rōmaji because I used it as input in a type training application.) There is also a version of EDICT with word f...
kazeatari Learning resources 65 11,797 2013-02-08, 12:31 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2012 Results!
Post: JLPT 2012 Results!

>> his basic advice is right on target. If you keep touching Japanese and let your curiosity be your guide, you will improve quickly. That's why I don't like AJATT (i.e. the site). I don't need...
kazeatari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 96 25,528 2013-02-01, 12:36 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2012 Results!
Post: JLPT 2012 Results!

Oh! you're right^^;; it was N2, I'm prepping for N1 and i'll take the test on july in Japan...I can't wait ^____^
kazeatari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 96 25,528 2013-01-31, 1:15 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2012 Results!
Post: JLPT 2012 Results!

Vocabulary/Grammar: 57/60 Reading: 34/60 Listening:60/60 Total: 151/180 The time they give for readings isn't enough, imho. Otherwise, how do you explain my results, almost perfect in everything e...
kazeatari JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 96 25,528 2013-01-31, 9:07 am
    Thread: Grammar help, please.
Post: Grammar help, please.

Try to "feel" what the sentence wants to tell you. Mottomo obviously sore ga wakatte iru I knew that... ato suubyougo ni a few seconds later... The idea is there, right? I'm not a fan of this kind o...
kazeatari The Japanese language 4 916 2013-01-30, 9:18 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2013 Preparations
Post: JLPT 2013 Preparations

>> I would really like to use Anki to solve this problem. Whenever I would encounter 目標・目的 in a text for example, my brain would just think "yep, it's the word for 'goal/target/aim'" and nothing...
kazeatari The Japanese language 47 12,455 2013-01-29, 11:40 am
    Thread: Core deck without the BS
Post: Core deck without the BS

@ Lauri Ranta: 願書 application form 鰻 eel お辞儀 bow 細長い long and thin, long and narrow 時給 hourly wage At least these words are fairly common in my experience (N2, studying for N1) and I've heard them m...
kazeatari Learning resources 65 11,797 2013-01-29, 10:29 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Maybe it's a dumb suggestion, but did you check properly the path? 'cause if you open the folder where catalog's file is in and press ok, then the path will be: C:\\ .........\folderwithcatalogfile\fo...
kazeatari Learning resources 859 243,740 2012-09-17, 9:06 am
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An...

Thx cb4960! ^__^ I hope I'll be able to use that solution (for now I have a few words in the same excel's cell -as examples for a certain kanji- so, first of all I need to learn how to put them in the...
kazeatari Learning resources 182 70,569 2012-09-17, 7:04 am
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An...

@cb4960: Can't Word List Duplicate Remover do what I was talking about? If one runs it on a kanji list, when the program finds two identical words, it marks them as homographs... If one runs it on a r...
kazeatari Learning resources 182 70,569 2012-09-16, 3:47 am
    Thread: A solution for onyomi and writing kanji from memory
Post: A solution for onyomi and writing kanji from memor...

Your explanation isn't that clear... I had to download the zip file to understand what you were talking about. I suggest you to put an image on top of first post, 'cause I'm afraid that if you don't g...
kazeatari Remembering the Kanji 4 2,337 2012-08-30, 1:31 pm
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An...

Thank you for the Kenkyuusha chuujiten ^___^ While I was reading v1.4 new features... Quote:In manual disambiguation mode, automatically choose an entry in current dictionary based on the reading and...
kazeatari Learning resources 182 70,569 2012-08-13, 6:28 pm
    Thread: Be about to do something: verb~you to suru VS verb + tokoro
Post: Be about to do something: verb~you to suru VS verb...

Tori-kun Wrote:You might want to keep in mind ~ようとするところ is common 'set phrase'. Like nadiatims wrote, I guess the first part of the sentence could be 家を出ようとしたところ、~, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure ...
kazeatari The Japanese language 12 5,471 2012-08-06, 6:19 pm
    Thread: From Japanese to <your other languages> vs. English
Post: From Japanese to <your other languages> vs. Englis...

Italian is kind of tricky in these situations. It doesn't have a strict word order like English and doen't need to put there the subject everytime so it can be very flexyble and you can "mimic" a japa...
kazeatari The Japanese language 16 4,436 2012-08-06, 6:04 pm
    Thread: Kanken level 2 kanji and computer fonts
Post: Kanken level 2 kanji and computer fonts

Yeah, actually when I first found out there was a problem with tagaini jisho, I ended up telling Jim Breen about this issue with kanjidic2 (where 頬 appears to be a jouyou kanji, while it isn't) and he...
kazeatari The Japanese language 18 7,841 2012-08-06, 5:28 pm
    Thread: Kanken level 2 kanji and computer fonts
Post: Kanken level 2 kanji and computer fonts

toshiromiballza Wrote:What's the reason for "(de-)simplifying" 稽 into http://i46.tinypic.com/124eagm.png (?) with 上 instead of 匕? Surely that's not right? Edit: seems they use the 上 form in Korea, but...
kazeatari The Japanese language 18 7,841 2012-08-05, 1:12 pm
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An...

Quote:I can probably add support for Kenkyusha shin eiwa-waei chujiten next weekend. It's harder to parse than the other dictionaries though because a lot of the example sentences are behind links so ...
kazeatari Learning resources 182 70,569 2012-07-23, 2:21 am
    Thread: an interesting discussion about pronouns...
Post: an interesting discussion about pronouns...

Quote:She also joked that professors use ぼく a lot because they still haven't left the university. However, I should add that opinions on first-person pronouns are highly subjective. Doukan da. I did m...
kazeatari The Japanese language 23 5,767 2012-07-22, 6:47 pm
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An...

First Rikaisama, than this! cb4960, you're unbelievable! This program is just amazing... I've just done an 8000 words deck with words from official jouyou kanji list. Well, I still need to make some ...
kazeatari Learning resources 182 70,569 2012-07-22, 6:08 pm
    Thread: 甘え concept in the japanese society
Post: 甘え concept in the japanese society

First of all... there's no "my" a --> ah ma --> mum e --> fair ru --> rue Second, please do not confuse "amae" (which you can actually find in a lot of love relationships) with the senpai...
kazeatari General discussion 8 4,331 2012-07-21, 8:06 pm
    Thread: an interesting discussion about pronouns...
Post: an interesting discussion about pronouns...

Boku is a polite pronoun. Like someone said isn't childish at all, but children do use it often 'cause they don't really know how to properly speak in every occasion. That's why saying "Nee, Boku!" is...
kazeatari The Japanese language 23 5,767 2012-07-21, 12:13 pm
    Thread: Kanji lists, Joyo, non-joyo etc. (Sticky topic)
Post: Kanji lists, Joyo, non-joyo etc. (Sticky topic)

It doesn't seem this has been posted, so here is the official jouyou kanji list, with example words selected by Monbushou and notes. Those with ⇔ are particularly important (imho), 'cause they point o...
kazeatari The Japanese language 45 95,860 2012-07-12, 3:03 am
    Thread: I am teaching a 1 hour japanese class.
Post: I am teaching a 1 hour japanese class.

You shouldn't use kana, but you should talk about them or they'll think japanese is all kanji and they'll be discouraged. I'd tell them about kanji as something imported from China and about kanji as ...
kazeatari General discussion 9 2,338 2012-06-28, 12:13 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I thought about that. You've told me that even if I import a sentence as example, at the end of a line the sentence end, even if rikaisama doesn't find a maru symbol. But is that true for a line ende...
kazeatari Learning resources 859 243,740 2012-06-28, 11:43 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

Thanks for your reply ^__^ I'm really sorry, the issue was rikaisama stopped importing cards... I was frantic and forgot the main point. I tried what you said and there was an mplayer.exe still open ...
kazeatari Learning resources 859 243,740 2012-06-27, 3:04 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I've tried to make that log as you said to the other user... and used it 4-5 times. This is what I got. Please help me I can't believe I had such a treasure in my hands and I've lost it just after few...
kazeatari Learning resources 859 243,740 2012-06-26, 5:32 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I have to point out a bug related to a previous one. Rikaisama was working completely fine even with the anki import feature. Then I accidentally tried to import an anki card highlighting a word. It s...
kazeatari Learning resources 859 243,740 2012-06-26, 4:41 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I've just found out about this program and... it's just AWESOME. Can I suggest to add somthing like the look up on sanseido for tangorin.com? I really like how things are displayed in a really clear ...
kazeatari Learning resources 859 243,740 2012-06-18, 9:11 am
    Thread: Lists of words used to learn kanji(s)
Post: Lists of words used to learn kanji(s)

Thank you for your reply, but that's not the point here. I've already studied 3000+ kanji, here I'm talking of lists of words (that I'd like to find and translate for my blog).
kazeatari The Japanese language 5 1,681 2012-05-19, 11:20 am
    Thread: Lists of words used to learn kanji(s)
Post: Lists of words used to learn kanji(s)

Tank you for your reply, guys ^__^ Actually these lists wouldn't be for me, 'cause I've studied something like 3000 kanji (jouyou, jinmeiyou, some hyougaiji) and now I just read and try to keep myself...
kazeatari The Japanese language 5 1,681 2012-05-19, 8:14 am