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    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

(2015-11-23, 3:13 am)eslang Wrote: Hmm... It seems that the new thread on CHINESE and HANZI category do not show up on "RECENT TOPICS" index page unlike the rest of the other categories. :huh: For ...
gdaxeman General discussion 122 15,667 2015-11-23, 3:33 am
    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

What about aligning the elements below to make them look more, say, organized (for lack of a better word)? I read in a design book once about how important alignment is, but I'm not a designer so that...
gdaxeman General discussion 122 15,667 2015-11-23, 3:20 am
    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

(2015-11-19, 2:35 am)Vempele Wrote: Thirded. I'm adblocking the list of categories (but not the actual ad) for the sole purpose of being able to mark all forums read without scrolling. And on mobile...
gdaxeman General discussion 122 15,667 2015-11-19, 3:02 am
    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

(2015-11-15, 8:06 pm)ファブリス Wrote: PS: looks like everyone  can pick a custom title in your profile page. I'm fine with that, since we don't have sigs... you can personalize your title if you want to...
gdaxeman General discussion 122 15,667 2015-11-15, 8:41 pm
    Thread: NEW FORUM: Recent Topics
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: Recent Topics

(2015-11-15, 6:24 pm)Bokusenou Wrote: Think it's already there though. Scroll down until you see "Tools" on the sidebar. You should see "Mark all forums read" Maybe this "Mark All Forums Read" shoul...
gdaxeman General discussion 12 1,155 2015-11-15, 8:26 pm
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

yogert909 Wrote:I've heard people say that they prefer to learn vocab via sentences, but I've never heard people not being able to remember words that were studied via single word cards. I think Gloss...
gdaxeman Learning resources 48 5,506 2015-11-11, 4:56 am
    Thread: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to say the compounds
Post: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to...

gdaxeman Wrote:without context, you can't really tell them apart john555 Wrote:What you're overlooking here though is that to native English speakers (in North America anyway) some meanings of these h...
gdaxeman Remembering the Kanji 30 5,373 2015-11-10, 1:34 pm
    Thread: Tablet/Ipad for studying Japanese
Post: Tablet/Ipad for studying Japanese

Senpai Wrote:You mentioned that the Surface 'pro' was out of your budget, are you aware that the surface 3 (not pro) exists and is much cheaper? That's right; the only thing is that is has to be Surfa...
gdaxeman Learning resources 7 1,673 2015-11-08, 6:09 pm
    Thread: Visual novels as study tool
Post: Visual novels as study tool

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:You don't have to add every single word you encounter, of course, but there's no better words to add to your vocabulary cards than the ones you actually encounter in the material...
gdaxeman The Japanese language 17 5,417 2015-11-08, 5:48 pm
    Thread: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to say the compounds
Post: Here's my basic difficulty with remembering how to...

vix86 Wrote:To most ESL learners though, these multiple uses of the same word, with the same pronunciation, and different meanings, is frustrating in pretty much the same way you are describing kango....
gdaxeman Remembering the Kanji 30 5,373 2015-11-08, 2:36 am
    Thread: Tablet/Ipad for studying Japanese
Post: Tablet/Ipad for studying Japanese

I think the best tablet within your budget would be the Surface 3 (US$ 499 without the keyboard); it runs the full version of Windows 10, unlike the previous Surface RT ones that couldn't run x86 ...
gdaxeman Learning resources 7 1,673 2015-11-07, 5:16 pm
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

ファブリス Wrote:All the light background and even the dark text colour is very slightly off white (cf. Design Tip: Never Use Black). As an aside, I find it very hard to read the text in that blog due to t...
gdaxeman General discussion 65 7,877 2015-11-05, 12:40 pm
    Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)
Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)

ryuudou Wrote:In addition it can be said that Japanese containing both meaning and reading in script is a point of superiority. Other languages are incapable of this richness. Also good article on th...
gdaxeman The Japanese language 121 12,082 2015-10-28, 2:12 am
    Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)
Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)

Zgarbas Wrote:You can argue that spoken Japanese doesn't use kanji, but I think it does; I visualise kanjis when I hear a word, and you'll notice that if you use an unusual/wrong word, the first thing...
gdaxeman The Japanese language 121 12,082 2015-10-27, 9:37 pm
    Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)
Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)

So it would be kana with spaces? It would only be like writing all in uppercase then. sholum Wrote:That can be said of most countries, actually. In the US, for example, general literacy is essentiall...
gdaxeman The Japanese language 121 12,082 2015-10-27, 3:03 pm
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An...

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 about the possibility of using them to ...
gdaxeman Learning resources 182 70,559 2015-10-27, 1:09 pm
    Thread: Where are all the good Core anki decks?
Post: Where are all the good Core anki decks?

kraemder Wrote:I'd be interested too. Does the 15k supplement have example sentences? The supplement was already shared, see my other post. It has example sentences taken from the Tanuki-Ultima deck ...
gdaxeman Learning resources 15 3,841 2015-10-27, 1:00 pm
    Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)
Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)

patriconia Wrote:Considering that Japan has achieved high literacy rates while retaining kanji, are the arguments for its abolition simply superfluous and obsolete? But did they? One common position a...
gdaxeman The Japanese language 121 12,082 2015-10-27, 12:53 pm
    Thread: help with long reviews / should I finish the RTK earlier
Post: help with long reviews / should I finish the RTK e...

yogert909 Wrote:I've heard of software where it can deal with a stroke or two in the wrong order and I'm sure software just gets better over time. So it might not be much of an issue in the future. T...
gdaxeman Remembering the Kanji 17 1,511 2015-10-24, 1:56 pm
    Thread: Are You An Above Average Language Learner?
Post: Are You An Above Average Language Learner?

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:I managed to fail a first semester course in Spanish once, supposedly an 'easy' language. (Knowing more about language learning now I have my doubts that languages differ that mu...
gdaxeman The Japanese language 27 3,348 2015-10-24, 1:01 am
    Thread: Sentence Worries
Post: Sentence Worries

john555 Wrote:The other problem with whole sentences is that they give too much of a hint. If the sentence is "Pour the cake ____ into the pan and put the pan into the oven" it's kind of obvious that...
gdaxeman General discussion 16 1,887 2015-10-23, 9:26 am
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

The problem with the font size is that it depends on your screen size, how far you are from it, the size of the majority of the other websites you visit, your sight, and some other stuff. Since that v...
gdaxeman General discussion 65 7,877 2015-10-20, 11:33 am
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

ファブリス Wrote:I don't know what you mean by the content width because the post width here is 840px and it's like 841px on the preview forum. Are you talking about line spacing, font size? Something else...
gdaxeman General discussion 65 7,877 2015-10-20, 10:43 am
    Thread: Where are all the good Core anki decks?
Post: Where are all the good Core anki decks?

sokino Wrote:What are the problems with the deck? The main problem with the supplement (not with the Core 10k) are mostly related to the sentences; for example, there are cases like these: [Image: ht...
gdaxeman Learning resources 15 3,841 2015-10-18, 4:54 pm
    Thread: Where are all the good Core anki decks?
Post: Where are all the good Core anki decks?

slako Wrote:Anyone has core 15k supplement please? My vocab is currently 13k and I got tired of adding several words per page. I have the supplement but it's kind of messy and it has many problems, so...
gdaxeman Learning resources 15 3,841 2015-10-17, 10:51 pm
    Thread: Is there such a learning tool as this?
Post: Is there such a learning tool as this?

RandomQuotes Wrote:Not really, as you have to keep in mind that even using kanji, translations of books from English into Japanese take up multiple volumes (usually 2). Keeping in mind that words in ...
gdaxeman Learning resources 31 3,675 2015-10-17, 3:14 am
    Thread: Where are all the good Core anki decks?
Post: Where are all the good Core anki decks?

EuPcsl Wrote:It looks really good. Maybe you could upload it without media so it won't take so long to be uploaded because I'm really interested in yours. So here are both of them, with and without me...
gdaxeman Learning resources 15 3,841 2015-10-17, 2:19 am
    Thread: Is there such a learning tool as this?
Post: Is there such a learning tool as this?

vix86 Wrote:Also worth noting that these books will span multiple volumes because expanding out to kana would increase the character count drastically. Probably another reason why no Japanese publishe...
gdaxeman Learning resources 31 3,675 2015-10-16, 4:09 am
    Thread: Is there such a learning tool as this?
Post: Is there such a learning tool as this?

jcdietz03 Wrote:For some reason, native speakers don't have trouble with kana-only texts. Kana-only text is most prevalent in older videogames, which were limited by memory and processing power. The L...
gdaxeman Learning resources 31 3,675 2015-10-13, 1:32 pm
    Thread: Where are all the good Core anki decks?
Post: Where are all the good Core anki decks?

Alec_xvi Wrote:Found a link to a Core 6k (10 steps) deck on Reddit, and a Core 10k on the Anki website, but the formatting is just horrible with both. Essentially I am looking for the V18 deck that p...
gdaxeman Learning resources 15 3,841 2015-10-13, 1:14 pm