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    Thread: Tiger and Dragon decks
Post: Tiger and Dragon decks

I've never tried subs2SRS (as I'm still plodding through the Core 6000 series and want to stay focused) but I tried downloading one of your decks and was really impressed. Thanks for sharing and good ...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 38 10,718 2010-10-28, 7:44 am
    Thread: Unreal Anki
Post: Unreal Anki

"Hooollllly Shiiit!" My favourite one from Quake 3 - Said in capture the flag when you killed someone within a few feet of the flag to stop them scoring a point. I nearly fell from my chair when I fi...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 37 11,080 2010-10-16, 3:17 pm
    Thread: Mark all hard first time?
Post: Mark all hard first time?

For new or reasonably new cards I tend to look at the number of days before next review and ask myself how long I think I can remember the answer. I then grade on that basis. This tends to naturally p...
Floatingweed5 Remembering the Kanji 13 3,108 2010-04-03, 8:37 pm
    Thread: Breaking Into Video Game Translation
Post: Breaking Into Video Game Translation

This article might be of interest to some people in the forum... http://kotaku.com/5493934/how-to-break-i...n-business
Floatingweed5 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 24 8,286 2010-03-16, 10:18 am
    Thread: Any good info, learning material about architecture in japanese...?
Post: Any good info, learning material about architectur...

I previously enjoyed following Pingmag. http://pingmag.jp/J/ It's closed now, but all the articles are still up in Japanese and English. I also subscribe to Japan Architect, although it's VERY expe...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 8 4,995 2010-03-02, 5:33 pm
    Thread: Steve Wonder and Language Learning
Post: Steve Wonder and Language Learning

mc2mc Wrote:do me a favor - get a wife, some kids, a full-time job, and then try to balance that with language study. If you can do that, I'll be all ears for your advice. wow... just wow...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 44 5,870 2010-02-06, 10:00 pm
    Thread: When will it ever stop???
Post: When will it ever stop???

Quick extract from wikipedia (see full link below)... A 1995 study estimated the vocabulary size of college-educated speakers at about 17,000 word families, and that of first-year college students (h...
Floatingweed5 General discussion 46 10,988 2010-02-01, 3:19 pm
    Thread: Coming to a junction in learning, where to next?
Post: Coming to a junction in learning, where to next?

Worth mentioning the first Harry Potter book too. The Japanese and English ebooks, and the japanese unabridged audio book are available online in the usual places for copy/ pasting into flashcards. M...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 11 2,125 2010-01-08, 8:49 am
    Thread: Loving My R4
Post: Loving My R4

Good place to start... http://www.mrbass.org/nintendoDS/ Not been updated for a while, though.
Floatingweed5 General discussion 63 10,353 2009-12-28, 7:14 am
    Thread: Hardsubbing japanese subs
Post: Hardsubbing japanese subs

These are great products but require a mac. http://www.bitfield.se/isubtitle/index.html http://www.bitfield.se/submerge/index.html Someone else will have to help on the PC side...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 6 2,876 2009-07-09, 9:40 am
    Thread: The meaning of が particle.
Post: The meaning of が particle.

@Brittswimmer1y6 I can't say which one is more natural (would have to ask a native speaker - and she's currently sleeping) but my book-learned understanding is that は finds it's way into such sentenc...
Floatingweed5 The Japanese language 89 17,857 2009-06-09, 8:16 pm
    Thread: The meaning of が particle.
Post: The meaning of が particle.

@kyotokanji The sentence "kyotokanjiは好きです" is possible in the right context. As is "kyotokanjiは出来ます" or even just "出来ます" or "好きです" with no particle. A student will meet sentences like this early in h...
Floatingweed5 The Japanese language 89 17,857 2009-06-09, 7:30 pm
    Thread: The meaning of が particle.
Post: The meaning of が particle.

Codexus Wrote:Lol, the original poster is going to be so confused with those explanations. You're right. And you've given the best advice. Even I'm confused, and I'm reasonably comfortable with the to...
Floatingweed5 The Japanese language 89 17,857 2009-06-09, 4:19 pm
    Thread: The meaning of が particle.
Post: The meaning of が particle.

mentat_kgs Wrote:The problem here is that you are trying to understand a set of rules that don't exist. "Grammar study" vs "No grammar study" is well discussed elsewhere on the forum, so I don't want ...
Floatingweed5 The Japanese language 89 17,857 2009-06-09, 3:24 pm
    Thread: The meaning of が particle.
Post: The meaning of が particle.

The best (i.e most readable) article I ever read on the subject was in the book "Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You" by Jay Rubin. It's worth picking up the book, but in the m...
Floatingweed5 The Japanese language 89 17,857 2009-06-09, 2:21 pm
    Thread: Offline iKnow?
Post: Offline iKnow?

If you are going to develop software for commercial reasons, keep in mind that iKnow and Anki are both extremely strong products (Anki for SRS, iKnow for content) and that they are free to use (funded...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 4 2,731 2009-05-09, 5:56 am
    Thread: Stop after finishing?
Post: Stop after finishing?

With Nukemarine. I'm 1.5 years finished and the reviews are 10-20 per day. It takes minutes to finish and I have no trouble recognizing, recalling or writing kanji when I'm language studying. Stick wi...
Floatingweed5 Remembering the Kanji 55 8,371 2009-04-24, 2:25 am
    Thread: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese
Post: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese

Jarvik7 Wrote:Floatingweed5 Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that people learn from machine generated speech? Worked for Stephen Hawking... He USES machine speech because he can no lon...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 210 55,881 2009-03-11, 2:34 pm
    Thread: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese
Post: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese

Jarvik7 Wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that people learn from machine generated speech? Worked for Stephen Hawking...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 210 55,881 2009-03-11, 2:23 pm
    Thread: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese
Post: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese

Floatingweed5 Wrote:(In theory) if you created a blank audio file (say 10 seconds), copied and pasted your japanese sentence into the artist tag and your english translation into the song title tag, t...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 210 55,881 2009-03-11, 12:29 pm
    Thread: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese
Post: iPhone Apps for Studying Japanese

I wonder if there is any language learning potential in the new voiceover feature in the ipod shuffle. (Essentially it speaks the name of the artist and song title to you in any of 14 different langua...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 210 55,881 2009-03-11, 11:23 am
    Thread: NHK World now on Sky TV (UK)
Post: NHK World now on Sky TV (UK)

I read somewhere that the multilingual function isn't available on sky. It's pretty frustrating.
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 3 3,060 2009-01-19, 4:46 pm
    Thread: NHK World now on Sky TV (UK)
Post: NHK World now on Sky TV (UK)

Apologies if this is old news. Couldn't see anything with a quick search. I was channel-hopping at the weekend and I noticed that NHK World is now broadcasting on Sky channel 516 (UK). It's broadcast...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 3 3,060 2009-01-19, 4:22 pm
    Thread: iKnow
Post: iKnow

This has been reported and acknowledged in the support section - however it's a holiday weekend in Japan this weekend and I expect that it may take another few days before the site admins can locate a...
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 599 116,993 2008-11-24, 3:22 am
    Thread: using heisig on anki
Post: using heisig on anki

I'll assume then that you are having difficulty generating the kanji individually because you don't know the readings. If this is the case then download JEDict, go to the kanji tab and search using eX...
Floatingweed5 General discussion 8 4,467 2008-09-19, 2:16 am
    Thread: using heisig on anki
Post: using heisig on anki

For kanji input (generally) on a mac reference the following... http://redcocoon.org/cab/mysoft.html
Floatingweed5 General discussion 8 4,467 2008-09-18, 11:37 am
    Thread: Book - Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar
Post: Book - Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar

Hey Nukemarine, can you check your google mail account. I sent my section to you yesterday, but you don't appear to be getting my mails.
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 225 71,017 2008-07-16, 12:44 pm
    Thread: Japanesepod101
Post: Japanesepod101

17th December (or thereabouts) is the birthday of JPod 101 and they have given good discounts (i.e. 50%) on subscriptions on that day in the past. Worth marking in the diary if you're interested.
Floatingweed5 Learning resources 17 6,891 2008-07-07, 10:06 am
    Thread: iPod Touch or iPhone and RevTK
Post: iPod Touch or iPhone and RevTK

ajishiosean Wrote:I do suggest you check it out again. Just purchased a copy. It's quite an exciting time for mac users generally. The iPhone 2 software, the .mac push technology and the SDK make for...
Floatingweed5 General discussion 17 3,455 2008-06-12, 6:32 am
    Thread: iPod Touch or iPhone and RevTK
Post: iPod Touch or iPhone and RevTK

I tried Mental Case a while ago, not long after it was first released, so my impressions may be a bit out of date. It seemed to me that Mental Case was designed in a light-weight manner compared to ot...
Floatingweed5 General discussion 17 3,455 2008-06-11, 8:28 pm