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    Thread: Too much free time !!!
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(2016-06-16, 10:34 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Although given how hard it'd to read it, I'll probably start reading 穢翼のユースティア as soon as I'm done with the route I want to play in 星織ユメミライ. That's what I sta...
Vempele General discussion 24 1,353 2016-06-17, 4:30 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Kenkyuusha concurs: its definition for いころす is "kill sb with an arrow."
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-06-16, 4:12 pm
    Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading
Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading

(2016-06-10, 8:11 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: On the other hand, it seems like VNR doesn't require you to read the visual novel in windowed mode, which is a great thing. There's devOSD for a transparent ove...
Vempele The Japanese language 114 7,454 2016-06-11, 4:13 am
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
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(2015-10-27, 1:09 pm)gdaxeman Wrote: Is there a way to extract all the sentences and translations from the EPWING dictionaries? (Plus the headwords they came from, for reference.) Reason: I thought ...
Vempele Learning resources 182 70,439 2016-05-31, 5:53 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

That, and door-to-door sales. Daijirin says 外国との交際や交渉.
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-05-23, 9:34 pm
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

Wikipedia says the old 1 was about 10000 (and the list was only 8009). I don't think "words in Anki" is a good metric, I only had 2500 when I passed the N1...
Vempele JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,296 2016-05-23, 6:46 pm
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

There is no public list anymore (as of JLPT N*) and a certain percentage of the words was always allowed to come from outside of the list anyway.
Vempele JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,296 2016-05-21, 8:54 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Multiple good answers by native speakers: http://lang-8.com/506726/journals/271515...1285472702
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-05-17, 8:19 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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I've been thinking of it as an archaic equivalent of (some uses of) -ても. Kokugo dictionaries are good at this, Daijirin: 活用語の已然形に接続する。 (1)逆接の確定条件を表す。実際に起こった事柄を条件としてあげ,その条件のもとでは,反対の結果が現れることを表す。が。けれども。...
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-05-16, 3:59 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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2 is correct, and based on 1 your problem is the 無理. 無理をする is something you can do but which would be difficult (even without the ことはない, you could still buy the bag but you'd have to eat ramen for the...
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-05-15, 12:00 pm
    Thread: Uploading "Nukemarine's Suggested Guide to Beginners in Japanese" to Memrise
Post: RE: Uploading material to Memrise

There's an Anki addon for importing from Memrise. I used Memrise for about a month when I was starting out. For me, Anki was superior in every way except for the default settings for learning cards (...
Vempele Learning resources 18 1,804 2016-05-12, 6:41 pm
    Thread: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope
Post: RE: 2016 JLPT N2/N1 Thread: A New Hope

(2016-05-12, 10:53 am)sholum Wrote: Bad news: I suck at fourth grade level idioms... I did barely better than average on that one. Thanks for lowering the average, I guess :) (I got 75, average is 7...
Vempele JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 60 4,296 2016-05-12, 12:31 pm
    Thread: 2015 JLPT N2-N1 Thread
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It might be time to start a 2016 thread. Or rename this one to 2015-2016.
Vempele JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 313 56,424 2016-05-12, 8:34 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: RE: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / ...

rated:1:1 prop:lapses>=1 finds the cards you failed (rated 1: the second 1) today (the first 1; in the last 1 days) that you've failed at least once (that is, lapses>=1 excludes the cards you've...
Vempele Learning resources 448 97,960 2016-05-09, 8:43 am
    Thread: Looking for the official jlpt sample tests
Post: RE: Looking for the official jlpt sample tests

The full-length ones are called workbooks for some reason, not sample tests. http://www.jlpt.jp/e/samples/sample12.html
Vempele General discussion 4 552 2016-05-09, 3:02 am
    Thread: Please help me find a thread (or a similar resource)
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This? I also found a much older thread about writing to someone whose name you don't know: here
Vempele The Japanese language 3 451 2016-05-08, 10:15 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
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(2016-05-02, 4:19 pm)rainmaninjapan Wrote: (many of which you won't need for the foreseeable future... like 爪楊枝). Heh, I have 爪楊枝 in my personal deck. The reading is non-obvious in multiple ways an...
Vempele Learning resources 204 74,616 2016-05-02, 5:03 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
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No, it doesn't do that. You can verify this by searching for the card with is:learn afterwards (you won't find it).
Vempele Learning resources 448 97,960 2016-04-28, 4:15 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: RE: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / ...

You can't do that, but you can edit the interval: select the card in the browser, (Info->check the previous interval and multiply by ease), Edit->Reschedule.
Vempele Learning resources 448 97,960 2016-04-28, 3:51 pm
    Thread: Aozora Bunko recommendations for advanced learners
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Or you could install Git and do git clone https://github.com/aozorabunko/aozorabunko.git And to update: git pull origin master
Vempele Learning resources 22 2,283 2016-04-19, 12:50 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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I find the non-simple version simpler: 外国人旅行者向けの新たなサービスは、情報サービス会社の「ぐるなび」や「東京急行電鉄」や「東京メトロ」など、21の企業や自治体が、まず、東京と関東地方の一部で13日から始めました。
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-04-14, 6:57 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

That is, if you take two weekdays off. Say it's from Tuesday to Sunday: you'd have to take Monday off to make it nine days and either the preceding Friday or the following Monday for ten.
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-04-10, 4:03 am
    Thread: What does this sentence mean in english?
Post: RE: What does this sentence mean in english?

That's for explaining the word/phrase. Translation Requests is for when you just need something translated.
Vempele General discussion 6 722 2016-04-08, 8:51 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

No, I was just wrong about that part (but right about な). Edited. I mean, sure it was a typo. Multiple typos. Anything else would mean I was wrong. And that's impossible. :)
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-04-03, 10:34 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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Edit: It's 来なよ (masu stem + な: light command (positive)). 手に入れる is the transitive dual to 手に入る. Here the thing being obtained is the object rather than the subject (which is the person being spoken ...
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-04-02, 6:15 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

It marks the where. In math, "この区間で..." would be "on this interval..."
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-03-28, 7:35 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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で - it's the particle: a 149 km section of railway between the two places opens on the 26th. 4 hours 2 minutes (not 4.2 hours) is the fastest time on that line, it doesn't say that it's the fastest co...
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-03-28, 6:57 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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終了 is "an end; a finish; a completion" - even as a verb, it's very often intransitive. "Wait for the voice to finish playing " (before advancing text in Auto mode, most likely).
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-03-27, 6:01 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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JMDICT それが 2: well yes, actually, now that you mention it; well, in fact (idiomatic expression) (in response to a question) Kenkyuusha: (there's no definition, just these examples) 「お母様の具合はどう」「それがあま...
Vempele The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,666 2016-03-24, 12:47 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
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Quote:Ah right; yeah there was nothing in the manual's searching paragraph. It's there, in subsection "Tags, decks, cards and notes".
Vempele Learning resources 448 97,960 2016-03-22, 9:50 am