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    Thread: modifying keywords
Post: modifying keywords

1. I write the reading, especially where I already know the word 皆 all みんな 2. Here is a really good trick. I disambiguate right in the keyword by adding "not x": 敗 failure (not 'defeat') 餓 starve (no...
shinsen Remembering the Kanji 13 3,913 2015-01-08, 12:05 pm
    Thread: Kanji Koohii Built-in Stroke Order Diagram (Greasemonkey script)
Post: Kanji Koohii Built-in Stroke Order Diagram (Grease...

Here is an updated script that works with both the Review and the Study sections. This way you only need 1 script: https://gist.github.com/shussekaido/3541...7983f0360d
shinsen Remembering the Kanji 15 6,436 2014-11-01, 10:31 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2014
Post: JLPT July 2014

lanval Wrote:Took the N2 today (1.time) - after 6 months of study in japan and passing their N2 tests with relative ease, I thought I'd be fine. Did you start from zero? I'm pretty sure 6 months to N2...
shinsen JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 55 14,405 2014-07-07, 3:14 am
    Thread: Is it recommended to do RTK1 after you're fluent?
Post: Is it recommended to do RTK1 after you're fluent?

kameden Wrote:I can read decently and can recognize over 2500 kanji, however I can write very few. Out of curiosity, how did that happen - prolific reading? How long did it take you? As for RTK, I th...
shinsen Remembering the Kanji 28 5,011 2014-07-06, 2:49 pm
    Thread: Need help with AGTH for video
Post: Need help with AGTH for video

Yeah, KMPlayer is fantastic. It's also great when you need to adjust subtitle timing on the fly. But, the original developer left a while ago and went on to make Daum Potplayer, so the new KMPlayer ki...
shinsen Learning resources 8 1,098 2014-06-28, 7:21 pm
    Thread: Need help with AGTH for video
Post: Need help with AGTH for video

Are you using AGTH v2008.11.10 or a different version?
shinsen Learning resources 8 1,098 2014-06-28, 5:45 pm
    Thread: Need help with AGTH for video
Post: Need help with AGTH for video

Assuming VLC displays the subtitles fine but AGTH doesn't catch them, I'd say try a different player. For example, Potplayer.
shinsen Learning resources 8 1,098 2014-06-28, 3:44 pm
    Thread: All you need is kill (aka Edge of Tomorrow)
Post: All you need is kill (aka Edge of Tomorrow)

nest0r Wrote:http://ja-dark.tumblr.com/post/852243120...n-teaching *innocent whistle* I wonder if you could help a brother find similar enlightening articles with a url that is tiny enough to be usef...
shinsen Learning resources 12 6,738 2014-06-28, 1:42 pm
    Thread: Need help with AGTH for video
Post: Need help with AGTH for video

You can make a .bat file with something like this: Code: @echo off start C:\agth\agth.exe /C "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" Remember that in AGTH you will need to select "TextOutW".
shinsen Learning resources 8 1,098 2014-06-28, 1:12 pm
    Thread: a python / programming forum like this one?
Post: a python / programming forum like this one?

caivano Wrote:I'm not sure about my ultimate goal but a long term goal would be to make a website with upload, download and review functionality. I started with Python as I did the Udacity CS101 cours...
shinsen Off topic 15 2,942 2014-06-27, 10:15 am
    Thread: a python / programming forum like this one?
Post: a python / programming forum like this one?

caivano Wrote:Now I am getting okay with python am wondering what to do next with stuff like git, django, mysql etc. Depends on your ultimate goals. If it's web development, it also depends on what sp...
shinsen Off topic 15 2,942 2014-06-27, 5:45 am
    Thread: Japanese live-action TV for snobs/discerning people?
Post: Japanese live-action TV for snobs/discerning peopl...

At first, the original question was somewhat confusing to me because snobs consider themselves above the crowd, yet the shows listed are at the top of the popularity list. It's kind of like saying you...
shinsen General discussion 53 13,823 2014-06-25, 8:11 pm
    Thread: a python / programming forum like this one?
Post: a python / programming forum like this one?

There really doesn't seem to be much in the way of programming communities a la koohii. Something like Python doesn't take nearly as much effort as Japanese, so you just buckle down for a couple weeks...
shinsen Off topic 15 2,942 2014-06-25, 6:21 pm
    Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k)
Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k...

hyvel Wrote:I'd say your data is mildly encouraging as the blue line slowly decreases. So maybe there is something vaguely resembling an end after all! Yep, that's why I've been doing it. It helps me ...
shinsen The Japanese language 79 14,733 2014-06-18, 7:07 am
    Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k)
Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k...

[Image: http://i.imgur.com/wivKrYQ.png] For what it's worth, I've been tracking stats of my dictionary usage and here's some chart porn. The numbers themselves are not very important but the trend li...
shinsen The Japanese language 79 14,733 2014-06-17, 6:05 pm
    Thread: Kanji Koohii Built-in Stroke Order Diagram (Greasemonkey script)
Post: Kanji Koohii Built-in Stroke Order Diagram (Grease...

fuchur Wrote:There's already a grease-monkey script to include the stroke-order diagrams that are used in tangorin into the study-pages: http://userscripts.org/scripts/reviews/169652 Thanks! I checked...
shinsen Remembering the Kanji 15 6,436 2014-02-23, 7:19 am
    Thread: Learning Vocab Without Kanji
Post: Learning Vocab Without Kanji

That's an easy enough Google search: "literacy rate in 19th century Japan" -> "40 percent for men and 15 percent for women" "literacy rate in 19th century China" -> "30-40 percent for men and ...
shinsen The Japanese language 29 4,975 2014-02-23, 5:16 am
    Thread: Kanji Koohii Built-in Stroke Order Diagram (Greasemonkey script)
Post: Kanji Koohii Built-in Stroke Order Diagram (Grease...

If you do integrate the diagrams into the site I'd like to vote against animated images. They're frustrating because if you miss something you have to wait for the animation to loop. I think the style...
shinsen Remembering the Kanji 15 6,436 2014-02-22, 3:36 pm
    Thread: How do japanese people percieve/remember/operate Kanji?
Post: How do japanese people percieve/remember/operate K...

NightSky Wrote:I didn't think Japanese kids ever learnt any Kanji's with "meanings" separate from the words they are written in. Are those Kanji dictionaries used so much as part of the standard curri...
shinsen Remembering the Kanji 28 14,463 2014-02-22, 3:11 pm
    Thread: Reviewing Anki or RTK in virtual reality - Closer than you think
Post: Reviewing Anki or RTK in virtual reality - Closer ...

Information at the speed of... walking. It reminds me of people trying to make shopping sites into VR shopping malls because walking around in virtual reality to check out products on virtual shelves ...
shinsen Learning resources 9 2,084 2014-02-16, 2:27 pm
    Thread: De La Soul offering all their albums free today
Post: De La Soul offering all their albums free today

Nice. Good memories.
shinsen Off topic 2 1,005 2014-02-15, 2:02 pm
    Thread: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated?
Post: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated?

Javizy Wrote:Zatoichi was what I generally expect from Japanese films in general (poor acting, cheesiness/weak script, mediocre visuals etc). I used to torture myself with Japanese movies and anime ev...
shinsen Off topic 42 7,734 2013-05-29, 11:57 am
    Thread: NHK Radio
Post: NHK Radio

I usually listen to radiko.jp through a proxy. Note that you'll get different stations depending on where your proxy is (Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka, etc).
shinsen Learning resources 4 1,301 2013-05-28, 4:51 pm
    Thread: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated?
Post: Takeshi Kitano, et al. overrated?

My favorite is Most Extreme Elimination Challenge show which is an English dub of Takeshi's Castle show from the 1980's. I don't think they even bothered to check the Japanese script when they dubbed ...
shinsen Off topic 42 7,734 2013-05-28, 3:14 pm
    Thread: How do you learn vocab?
Post: How do you learn vocab?

The language itself is a natural SRS and the words are already sorted by frequency (surprise, surprise, the more common the word, the more you'll see it). I might have use for Anki at some point, whe...
shinsen The Japanese language 69 16,790 2013-05-25, 5:40 am
    Thread: Spoken articles in Japanese Wikipedia?
Post: Spoken articles in Japanese Wikipedia?

"Text to speech" is also an option. http://youtu.be/SsRrFKpg9L8?t=22s There are some plugins for Chrome - "Select and Speak" or Evernote's "Clearly".
shinsen Learning resources 4 1,428 2013-05-05, 6:01 pm
    Thread: dorama with diverse vocabulary...
Post: dorama with diverse vocabulary...

kodorakun Wrote:But this got me wondering if people had thought about these feature of specific dramas -- the style, the impact on language, the diversity and all that. What dramas do people think hav...
shinsen Learning resources 8 2,293 2013-05-05, 3:57 am
    Thread: Are Japanese subtitles a handicap?
Post: Are Japanese subtitles a handicap?

It may sound odd, but I try to only watch Japanese media that has Japanese subtitles because with raw audio I'd mostly be wasting my time. I might have made a post about this before - raw listening i...
shinsen The Japanese language 46 11,590 2013-05-02, 7:54 am
    Thread: Accessing interesting AND challenging reading material easier!
Post: Accessing interesting AND challenging reading mate...

astendra Wrote:Why start a web server when you can just do: file:///path/episode01.txt This will work, although in Chrome you'll first need to go into settings and the allow the Rikaikun plugin to acc...
shinsen Learning resources 13 4,635 2013-04-30, 9:42 am
    Thread: Accessing interesting AND challenging reading material easier!
Post: Accessing interesting AND challenging reading mate...

gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:I first convert it to .ASS (heheheheh) format using Subtitle Edit... I then import this as a CSV file into Excel or Google Docs, and then select just the column containing Japane...
shinsen Learning resources 13 4,635 2013-04-29, 6:16 pm