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    Thread: Flying Witch!
Post: RE: Flying Witch!

I can recommend the manga, too. It's all very chill stuff.
rich_f Off topic 12 490 2016-06-18, 12:03 am
    Thread: Does any have 日本語能力試験 N1文法対策標準テキスト or similar?
Post: RE: Does any have 日本語能力試験 N1文法対策標準テキスト or similar?

Wayback Machine is always your friend: https://web.archive.org/web/201507300401...kaku1.html https://web.archive.org/web/201304260940...kaku2.html
rich_f Learning resources 3 799 2016-06-11, 8:36 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

It's a book. Use it, don't use it. It's cool. If you use it and don't like it, that's fine. A lot of people have used it and didn't like it. BUT a lot of people *have* used it and gotten a lot out of...
rich_f Remembering the Kanji 61 3,886 2016-06-05, 10:48 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

I LOLed at that last part. Dude was totally talking out of his butt at that point, because he was clearly too lazy to do any research on Heisig. "I'm too lazy to Google the guy, so I'm just going to m...
rich_f Remembering the Kanji 61 3,886 2016-06-05, 9:57 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

If you have Android, you want this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai....Kikisuuji It was made by one of the posters here, IIRC. Basically, it just reads random numbers out loud to you using T...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-06-05, 9:27 am
    Thread: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset
Post: RE: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset

(2016-06-03, 6:39 am)Raulsen Wrote: I guess the worst part of it all came from the fact that I'm advanced... -ish in some areas, but feel like I'm lagging behind in others.  Plus, I've been at this ...
rich_f General discussion 14 766 2016-06-03, 9:58 am
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: RE: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generatin...

I have a feature suggestion, or if someone knows how to do this, I'd love to know how: what I want is a way to set disambiguation so it would generate separate entries for each numbered definition E2A...
rich_f Learning resources 182 70,439 2016-06-03, 1:10 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

Yeah, I agree with gaiaslastlaugh on NHK News Easy. If it's too easy for you, and you're not getting any challenge out of it, move on to the grownup version. There is a big gap in vocab, but there's ...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-06-03, 1:03 am
    Thread: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset
Post: RE: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset

Improvising is like anything else: if you practice it regularly, you get good at it. Most of my weekly practice with my tutor is practicing talking about a random subject she brings up out of nowhere....
rich_f General discussion 14 766 2016-06-03, 12:56 am
    Thread: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset
Post: RE: Growing Pains, Listening & Mindset

What helped me was to stop comparing myself to other people. I know I'm not as good as a lot of people, but I know I'm still doing pretty good on my own. It's *really easy* to fall into the trap of "T...
rich_f General discussion 14 766 2016-06-02, 11:14 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

(2016-06-01, 12:59 am)gaiaslastlaugh Wrote: (2016-05-24, 11:01 am)rich_f Wrote: But what I have figured out from my own experience is that reading LNs or WNs doesn't help me with N1 very much. It ...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-06-01, 9:07 am
    Thread: Need help learning kanji
Post: RE: Need help learning kanji

The nice thing about doing RTK1 is that you're breaking up the tasks into something more manageable. That's all there is to it. No magic or anything. Instead of learning everything all at once, you br...
rich_f The Japanese language 12 797 2016-05-30, 10:54 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: RE: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / ...

D'oh. A kind person pointed this out to me: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid122413 EDIT: CB's program is throwing errors at me, but I think if I just use Anki's Check Media function un...
rich_f Learning resources 448 97,958 2016-05-27, 9:45 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: RE: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / ...

Hmm, that looks interesting, but I'm not sure how slow it's going to run on a 1.8GB directory of 120k sound files. :\ Might just be faster to dig out my linux box, unTAR it, and send it over to my Wi...
rich_f Learning resources 448 97,958 2016-05-27, 1:15 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: RE: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / ...

Sort of tangential to Anki, but I'm trying to add a bunch of WWWJDIC audio files I found here: (all the way at the bottom of the page) http://jptxt.net/edict-and-kanjidic.html To a 15k work Anki deck...
rich_f Learning resources 448 97,958 2016-05-26, 4:04 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

D'oh! Thanks. Wasn't using the programming side of my brain. -_- As for the Pale Moon thing, it still doesn't work. I solved that by installing Firefox, but if CB wants to keep it compatible with Pal...
rich_f Learning resources 859 243,348 2016-05-24, 3:18 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I'm having a problem with the current versions of Rikaisama and Pale moon. The older version I was using (20.9) was working just fine with the older version of Pale Moon, but when both updated, I coul...
rich_f Learning resources 859 243,348 2016-05-24, 12:32 pm
    Thread: Making Learning Japanese Fun
Post: RE: Making Learning Japanese Fun

There was a short article on Kotaku about XV, and how the producer wants to avoid Final Fantasy 病-- in that he doesn't want the series to get stuck in a rut of "We have to do the game this way, or els...
rich_f General discussion 43 2,817 2016-05-24, 11:47 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

(2016-05-24, 1:43 am)sholum Wrote: I agree that the emphasis on 'variety' is important. I've been reading a lot of fantasy, so I don't have too much trouble figuring out what's going on in a new sto...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-05-24, 11:01 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

This is the official definition of what to expect on the N1: Quote:The ability to understand Japanese used in a variety of circumstances. [Image: http://jlpt.jp/e/about/img/levelsummary_read.gif] ・On...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-05-24, 12:01 am
    Thread: Making Learning Japanese Fun
Post: RE: Making Learning Japanese Fun

It depends. There are some people who can read LNs and play games with almost 0 knowledge of the language. I tried it with around N4 level knowledge, and it was brutally unfun for me. So I put them...
rich_f General discussion 43 2,817 2016-05-23, 1:38 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

(2016-05-23, 12:35 am)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: (2016-05-22, 10:11 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: When you guys finished going through most grammar points and vocab required for N3, could you listen to podcasts...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-05-23, 1:28 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

N2 is aimed at middle school graduates/first year high school, and N1 is aimed at high school graduates/first year college students. So the difference doesn't seem like much, but it's pretty big. To ...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-05-21, 10:20 am
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

It was this article: http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/article/wha...henomenon/ Which I'm pretty sure someone posted a link to on here somewhere a long time ago. I'm not sure if the research actually pann...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-05-20, 2:40 pm
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

(2016-05-19, 9:31 pm)Kuma_sensei Wrote: (2016-05-12, 6:40 pm)rich_f Wrote: I'm aiming to finish Core10k by early July. I don't have a problem with adding around 100 new cards a day, since a lot of...
rich_f JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,289 2016-05-20, 10:35 am
    Thread: Light Novels for the Amazon Kindle
Post: RE: Light Novels for the Amazon Kindle

Yeah, that's exactly what I've been doing, and I haven't had any problems either, but other people had done the same thing and had gotten emails demanding proof of residency (like a copy of a gas or e...
rich_f General discussion 6 593 2016-05-16, 12:39 am
    Thread: textbook help
Post: RE: textbook help

There's a podcast thread in here somewhere. I recommend the NHK Radio News as solid listening practice. It's hard at first, but it gets easier over time. Lots of news-y vocab. http://www.nhk.or.jp/ra...
rich_f General discussion 15 1,107 2016-05-16, 12:22 am
    Thread: Starting to learn again...
Post: RE: Starting to learn again...

That KanKen app is awesome, and slightly addictive. :D
rich_f The Japanese language 18 2,012 2016-05-15, 11:15 am
    Thread: Light Novels for the Amazon Kindle
Post: RE: Light Novels for the Amazon Kindle

Edict2Kindle looks interesting. If I had known about it, I might have used it when I got my Kindle a while back. The J-E dictionary on the Kindle is okay, but EDICT has better coverage for reading, fr...
rich_f General discussion 6 593 2016-05-15, 11:11 am
    Thread: textbook help
Post: RE: textbook help

The main differences between the old and new versions of Kanzen Master are the content (there was no N3 then) and the way the books are laid out. The old books were simpler, with each chapter listing ...
rich_f General discussion 15 1,107 2016-05-15, 10:54 am