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

(2016-03-10, 9:04 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: カップにお湯を入れて3分待てば食べられるカップラーメンは、値段の安さ、簡単さ、種類の多さなどで、特に若者に人気が高く、一人暮らしをしている日本の学生の中には、カップラーメンに毎日のようにお世話になっている人もいると聞きます。 Best guess: Among Japanese college/university s...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,830 2016-03-10, 10:28 pm
    Thread: How Do I Start Investing?
Post: RE: How Do I Start Investing?

(2016-01-16, 1:58 am)Dudeist Wrote: Random walk down wall street is a pretty good book. I second the motion. This advice is to invest in mutual funds with the greatest diversification and lowest fee...
jcdietz03 Off topic 42 4,969 2016-01-21, 11:42 am
    Thread: Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule) and japanese
Post: Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule) and japanese

Out of all the unique words in the corpus, half (approx.) occur only one time. In my novel text of 40,000 words, there were 4,000 different words. 2,000 of them occurred only one time in the text. I g...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 12 2,118 2015-10-21, 7:25 am
    Thread: Is there such a learning tool as this?
Post: Is there such a learning tool as this?

If you have a plaintext of your book, one of cb4960's tools will do what you need... I think. I don't think you can get ready-made books like that. Some mangas have full furigana, but that's not "clas...
jcdietz03 Learning resources 31 3,675 2015-10-13, 11:31 am
    Thread: Beyond Anki: What Are Some Language Learning Tools?
Post: Beyond Anki: What Are Some Language Learning Tools...

Schoolteachers want kids to read "at grade level" whatever that means. Maybe there's something to that. Anyway, pick something that's your level: http://japaneselevelup.com/difficulty-le...-japanese/...
jcdietz03 Learning resources 39 5,683 2015-10-13, 11:19 am
    Thread: A specific usage of だけ
Post: A specific usage of だけ

It seems to say, "something that is at the limit of its range." No idea on any of the examples though. Reading through here: http://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%A0%E3%81%...3sentences I found 出来るだけ which...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 5 1,088 2015-09-15, 4:27 pm
    Thread: Why you can read but can't listen.
Post: Why you can read but can't listen.

Vempele Wrote:TheVinster Wrote:Well how do I become a better listener with little-to-no effort on my part? Do you have a solution? That'd be great thanks. Find something fun that involves listening an...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 54 7,330 2015-09-06, 7:10 pm
    Thread: Manga with good/interesting Japanese?
Post: Manga with good/interesting Japanese?

gstieglitz Wrote:Have any manga (or other "light" media) surprised you with their quality of writing? What I need right now is low quality writing. If it's too fancy, I won't be able to understand it....
jcdietz03 General discussion 8 1,993 2015-08-28, 11:05 am
    Thread: Reading, furigana, and learning vocab
Post: Reading, furigana, and learning vocab

I was just wondering what kind of material you like. There's lots of stuff out there without furigana, almost no matter what you are in to. Voiced VNs and videogames will use the audio together with ...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 31 3,837 2015-08-19, 8:53 pm
    Thread: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration
Post: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab...

I was using this to start reading a light novel last night and it was really great. Thanks for making this. The hotkeys didn't work for me; I use the current version of Anki and Windows 8.
jcdietz03 Learning resources 298 107,409 2015-08-14, 8:29 am
    Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese
Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese

初耳です。 Quote:You can get Aozora Bunko formatted contemporary works on torrent sites. That's of little help. I need more specific instructions like: Search Youtube for 実況プレイ to find let's plays. You pro...
jcdietz03 General discussion 53 6,954 2015-08-13, 11:44 am
    Thread: Potential or Passive Practice
Post: Potential or Passive Practice

I would like to drill this point. As you know, V1 (ichidan) verbs conjugate to られる for both their potential and passive forms. For example, 食べられる is either "can eat" (potential) or "be eaten" (passive...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 1 609 2015-08-12, 9:46 am
    Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese
Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese

Your mom probably cannot do it. Your mom probably cannot make a post on this forum. This is not a "your mom" joke. I know my mom couldn't do these things. It's harder than easy. I think it is an inte...
jcdietz03 General discussion 53 6,954 2015-08-12, 9:35 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

The word is お店のくせ / お店の癖 Three examples. A young man is speaking? Anyway, he's the shopper for his family, and your character is speaking with him at the market. もうお買い物はカンペキだと思ったのになぁ…… また一からお店のくせを覚える...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,830 2015-08-04, 1:08 pm
    Thread: Mangabu - a self made study plan using manga - would you use it?
Post: Mangabu - a self made study plan using manga - wou...

There's a list of recommended manga here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=10869 along with degree of difficulty. Quote:It would be some effort but nothing extreme. Hmm, seems pretty extreme...
jcdietz03 Learning resources 19 3,147 2015-08-03, 6:37 am
    Thread: cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool
Post: cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool

I found a text of the book I want to read and I analyzed it using this tool. How can I use the output from this tool to further my studies? What I did was 1. Copypaste the word frequency report into...
jcdietz03 Learning resources 125 56,033 2015-07-29, 11:33 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

Recommended learning and re-learning steps for a single words deck? I have the word on the front, and the word+furigana and English definition on back. My current steps are 0.1, 2 [minutes] After an...
jcdietz03 Learning resources 448 98,238 2015-07-29, 11:20 am
    Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE
Post: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE

Zorlee Wrote:「絆づくりで人と街を豊かに彩る」 "Enriching the city and the lives of its people through new/good relationships" That's a good translation. "relationship" has a slightly good connotation already, so I w...
jcdietz03 General discussion 96 30,125 2015-06-26, 10:00 am
    Thread: Can someone give me a specific definition of i+1?
Post: Can someone give me a specific definition of i+1?

i+1 can only apply to a sentence. An "i+1 sentence" has exactly one thing you don't understand in it. That's what I gathered. This is a relative definition and not an absolute one. To improve your ab...
jcdietz03 General discussion 43 4,971 2015-06-26, 9:33 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

The word (is it a word?) is あったまくる Context: ディンズ is a person's name (but you can tell that from the context). I think the person saying this is his daughter. ディンズのやつ、連中に殴られて 昨日は病院に行っていたのよ。 ったく、あったまくる...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,830 2015-06-26, 7:09 am
    Thread: cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool
Post: cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool

cb4960's tools that need novel texts to work are not very useful to me because I don't have these novel texts or know where to get them. His tools that don't need novel texts to work, namely Rikaisam...
jcdietz03 Learning resources 125 56,033 2015-06-23, 2:39 pm
    Thread: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help
Post: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help

I'd rather have manual control. It's because of entries such as: この街,クロスベル この街 is probably Crossbell most of the time, but it's not going to be Crossbell all the time, I don't think. So I want to go w...
jcdietz03 Off topic 28 4,408 2015-06-14, 1:29 pm
    Thread: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help
Post: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help

ZnK Furigana Patch 1: https://www.mediafire.com/?0el2g2v5cp255fy I was able to play through the first hour of the game. There could still be bugs. I definitely haven't done everything there is to do i...
jcdietz03 Off topic 28 4,408 2015-06-14, 11:38 am
    Thread: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help
Post: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help

yudantaiteki Wrote:Any reason you're picking Zero? I should reply to you. I do not mean to ignore you, but I don't know what to write as a response. I think the main reason is I developed a tool that...
jcdietz03 Off topic 28 4,408 2015-06-13, 5:49 pm
    Thread: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help
Post: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help

I was wondering if you can help me by developing this tool more. I would like you to debug the orbal staff test case. In the test cases at the bottom, add: mecab.translation[u"魔導杖"] = u"オーバルス...
jcdietz03 Off topic 28 4,408 2015-06-13, 3:31 pm
    Thread: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help
Post: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help

I used the tool xfact2007 wrote. Anyway, the output format wasn't correct, but it wasn't anything a small change to line 110 couldn't fix. This is the result of the 1st test: http://imgur.com/N29ike1 ...
jcdietz03 Off topic 28 4,408 2015-06-13, 5:29 am
    Thread: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help
Post: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help

I should say I'm a terrible programmer. I wrote the tool that dumps the script and inserts it back because nobody else would do it, and it took me many hours to do. I did it in Python because I heard ...
jcdietz03 Off topic 28 4,408 2015-06-11, 3:50 pm
    Thread: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help
Post: Zero no Kiseki - Programming Help

OK- Need help with two things. First, I should tell you where me and my team are at with this: Progress Video [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmT5-0Oo9RE] We can basically do whatever, excep...
jcdietz03 Off topic 28 4,408 2015-06-11, 7:47 am
    Thread: Good videogames to "learn" japanese
Post: Good videogames to "learn" japanese

kasugano Wrote:If your interested you can start here = http://amaenboda.wordpress.com/2012/03/2...ing-atlas/ Good advice there. No problems getting things running on Win8, but ITH needs to "run as adm...
jcdietz03 Learning resources 27 10,846 2014-07-30, 12:30 pm
    Thread: Fluency to be able to read light novels
Post: Fluency to be able to read light novels

I am now reading Zero no Tsukaima Vol. 1 and nearly every word (I don't already know) is "among approx. 20,000 words deemed to be common in Japanese" (see the link). There are some words that are not;...
jcdietz03 The Japanese language 16 6,837 2014-07-23, 6:13 pm