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    Thread: Help with Kansai ben transcription
Post: Help with Kansai ben transcription

Hi all, I have a large favor to ask and I feel bad for asking. Please can you transcribe this video for me from 0:03 - 1:11: [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8gKpGUMlk] Hopefully some of y...
Babyrat General discussion 3 562 2016-04-06, 8:24 am
    Thread: Need Japanese people for survey
Post: Need Japanese people for survey

Hi, Haven't been here for a looonnnggg time but thought you guys might be able to help me out. I need a survey filled out by japanese people but I am having a hard time finding people to fill it out. ...
Babyrat Off topic 3 513 2016-04-03, 6:08 am
    Thread: tatoeba.org substitute
Post: tatoeba.org substitute

I have never used or heard of tatoeba, but I use tangorin for my example questions. Tangorin looks like it uses the same thing as tatoeba, if you look at the bottom and it has a link to tatoeba. che...
Babyrat Learning resources 7 1,428 2014-02-13, 7:25 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

ignore this comment :)
Babyrat The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,733 2014-02-07, 6:50 am
    Thread: Trying to find a good method for reading and getting into a groove.
Post: Trying to find a good method for reading and getti...

This is a copy and paste from another topic which may be useful to you: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=10826 I advice if you try this method to have days where you don't do it and take it...
Babyrat General discussion 9 2,554 2014-01-24, 7:43 am
    Thread: Volunteer work in Japan
Post: Volunteer work in Japan

Funnily enough I am also planning volunteer work in Japan at the moment for May - August time. I will be doing WWOOFING, I have done this before and will be doing it again, and can not recommend it en...
Babyrat General discussion 2 807 2014-01-08, 7:00 am
    Thread: Kansai-ben Podcasts
Post: Kansai-ben Podcasts

It is not a podcast and you probably know about them but how about ガキの使い For example: [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVrRsk0s6Dc]  Hamada's dialect gets much stronger in the batsu games too ...
Babyrat Learning resources 11 2,373 2013-06-17, 9:24 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

Updated. You really should have started this thread Hotpotato as you have created so much of the content! Thanks for the contribution and the detail you go into each one. Out of curiosity do you phys...
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-17, 9:06 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

Thanks for the contribution guys, I will update later today or tomorrow. vonPeterhof Wrote:Oh, and I might be missing something, but I'm pretty sure that "Yotsuba" and "Yotsubato" refer to the same m...
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-15, 10:35 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

Good idea! Wish I thought of that before going through the pain of adding to the list... Keroro Gunso Difficulty rating: ***/****+ if you want to understand all the culture references and puns ...
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-14, 9:45 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

I have updated my main post to include furigana, made it look messy but hey ho if it helps people find what they want easier,then I will have to swallow the pain of messy text.
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-14, 9:38 am
    Thread: Mangas with furiganas
Post: Mangas with furiganas

Hm, the thread I started called "the recommend manga thread" that quark linked, was supposed to stop these types of threads. I guess I should put whether or not a manga has furigana in my top post.
Babyrat Off topic 19 4,393 2013-06-14, 9:12 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

*edit * asked a stupid question which I answered myself, nothing to see here move along (and leave recommendations)
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-13, 9:51 am
    Thread: How to slow down audio files?
Post: How to slow down audio files?

quick google search comes up with this: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq...roprietary
Babyrat Learning resources 5 935 2013-06-12, 8:31 am
    Thread: How to slow down audio files?
Post: How to slow down audio files?

I know audacity is able to slow down audio files http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ *edit* pft
Babyrat Learning resources 5 935 2013-06-12, 8:22 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

The rating system is a hard thing to standardize due to everyone's various perspective, unfortunately I can not think of any better quick-glance system for rating manga. We could completely get rid of...
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-11, 8:49 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

Thank you to everyone who so far has contributed, and especially a big thanks to hotpotato for that huge post, which is also well layed out so I will try and use that as a template. Also I would like...
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-10, 5:21 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

Whoops I must of deleted the part where I explained the rating system, lets just go with what zgarbas said, 1 being easiest 5 being hardest. I realize the rating system is person specific, but its jus...
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-09, 10:05 am
    Thread: Recommend manga thread
Post: Recommend manga thread

I propose that we have one thread to go to where people describe the manga they have read and describe how difficult it is to read and any other tidbits they feel should be added. For example: Manga...
Babyrat Learning resources 51 77,812 2013-06-09, 5:20 am
    Thread: A Whole New Way of Using Anki
Post: A Whole New Way of Using Anki

I like this idea and will try it out with my own vocab. From the quick glance I gave this deck, the advantages I saw to this method seems to be not ignoring the word inside a sentence, which I often d...
Babyrat Learning resources 37 8,974 2013-06-05, 5:16 am
    Thread: Reading troubles
Post: Reading troubles

I have quite a systematic approach to studying manga, but does require you to own the physical copies (and not mind scribbling all over them). I have 3 stages to studying manga: Preliminary stage: ...
Babyrat Learning resources 7 2,292 2013-05-31, 5:53 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Well thats just plain annoying, I thought it was for emphasis... Thanks for the embarrassing correction :)
Babyrat The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,733 2013-05-24, 7:00 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I have been using online dictionary's for my sentences the last two days (trying something new), I have mainly been using denshi jisho and tangorin, both seem to use the same resources for example sen...
Babyrat The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,733 2013-05-24, 6:43 am
    Thread: Post a short translation
Post: Post a short translation

What may be useful to yourself and learners on this forum is to also make translator notes at the end of the translation. I am at a MUCH lower level than you but every now and then I translate some pa...
Babyrat Group study 3 3,698 2013-05-09, 6:28 am
    Thread: Lang-8
Post: Lang-8

I recently started to actually add journal entries to lang-8 but I have been with lang-8 for ages. To post that first journal entry does take some courage but as soon as you do and see all the friendl...
Babyrat Learning resources 26 7,758 2013-04-05, 11:18 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

That was a brilliant explanation Ash_S, I think I fully understand it now. Wish I could give you some form of internet points :)
Babyrat The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,733 2013-03-21, 10:33 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Ah now you mention it, the なくて makes more sense that way so he is saying: "But if you are generally using it with friends then don't use (ではなくて) 「みんなが恋しいよ」 「みんなに会えなくて寂しいよ」 is fine" 「みんなに会えなくて寂しいよ...
Babyrat The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,733 2013-03-21, 9:17 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I was asking a Japanese person on lang-8 about the usage of 「恋しい」 with friends, I said: "恋人に使用んじゃない?" and he replied with this: "「恋しい」は恋人に対してじゃなくても使えますよ^^ 例えば「日本のラーメンが恋しい」とか。 でも普通の友達に対してなら「みんなが恋しいよ」で...
Babyrat The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,733 2013-03-21, 9:04 am
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

Ah you were right about the note type, I forgot that I edited (and renamed) the template for subs2srs, so to fix I just added the note type to model_overrides = {}. Thanks for the help.
Babyrat Learning resources 443 135,843 2013-03-19, 11:43 am
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

Thanks for the great work overture2112, it has got me back into subs2srs! But I have ran into a problem. Morphman has been working until today, when I made a new subs2srs deck. Now it doesn't reorgan...
Babyrat Learning resources 443 135,843 2013-03-19, 10:55 am