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    Thread: Uploading "Nukemarine's Suggested Guide to Beginners in Japanese" to Memrise
Post: RE: Uploading material to Memrise

Nukemarine: this is AWESOME! Making Memrise courses will introduce this way of learning to a whole new set of people, without the grossness of Anki! If there's any automation that could help, let us k...
aldebrn Learning resources 18 1,864 2016-05-11, 9:46 am
    Thread: Japanese NLP Libraries
Post: RE: Japanese NLP Libraries

I'm planning on putting Kuromoji + Jetty webserver powering a REST endpoint on a VPS on Digital Ocean ($5/mo). With Let's Encrypt giving away TLS certs for free, you could secure it so just your A...
aldebrn Learning resources 14 1,350 2016-03-01, 1:38 pm
    Thread: Advanced goals
Post: RE: Advanced goals

(2016-02-17, 10:32 pm)jordan3311 Wrote: I one of my goals is to work in Japan as well as a programmer. What do you think about getting a remote job (our profession is a perfect fit for remote work),...
aldebrn General discussion 15 1,384 2016-02-18, 2:39 pm
    Thread: Advanced goals
Post: RE: Advanced goals

(2016-02-18, 2:07 am)sholum Wrote: (2016-02-18, 1:35 am)zx573 Wrote: Read some Japanese programming blogs too. For me as well as the OP, do you have any recommendations? I follow a few Japanese pr...
aldebrn General discussion 15 1,384 2016-02-18, 2:23 pm
    Thread: .....
Post: RE: Japanese teenagers and reading newspapers...

In Tamiou, this was the source of countless (to me) hilarious and (to me) thought-provoking moments where the 馬鹿息子, idiot son, asks for clarification of a word he doesn't know, with one, two, sometime...
aldebrn The Japanese language 7 1,356 2016-01-28, 12:13 am
    Thread: FeBe Audiobooks
Post: RE: FeBe Audiobooks

On the topic of audiobook stores, what's the story with Kikubon? I wanted to buy this Arslan audiobook [1], but couldn't figure out whether Kikubon was like Audible in that you pay a monthly fee for a...
aldebrn Learning resources 34 3,533 2016-01-13, 2:46 pm
    Thread: Balancing Japanese with other hobbies, and a "small" rant.
Post: RE: Balancing Japanese with other hobbies, and a "...

Nobody has mentioned what I think is the most important component of your ability to do anything: diet and exercise. Instead of trying to tell you why you should train yourself to eat better and work ...
aldebrn Off topic 24 2,050 2015-11-25, 9:05 am
    Thread: How to remove the Chinese lines from Bilingual subs?
Post: RE: How to remove the Chinese lines from Bilingual...

(2015-11-22, 10:59 pm)eslang Wrote: After fiddling with the string expressions, it is possible to remove the Chinese lines in-between the bilingual subtitles by using Regex Match all characters betw...
aldebrn Off topic 13 1,271 2015-11-24, 8:43 pm
    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

(2015-11-24, 11:01 am)ファブリス Wrote: Thanks. Hmm, honestly if its a small unicode block that mainly duplicates the board's image based emoticons, I'll have to prioritize a bunch of other things i'd li...
aldebrn General discussion 122 15,668 2015-11-24, 11:15 am
    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

(2015-11-24, 8:41 am)ファブリス Wrote: How would I see or test these emojis? Are those characters part of Japanese fonts? Oh, sorry for not being clear. On my Mac, I can get them via Edit -> Emoji &am...
aldebrn General discussion 122 15,668 2015-11-24, 9:01 am
    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

my emoji doesn't work: ?????? <- I see these in preview but when I post they show up as question marks. Edit: I see this has been complained about above already. Sorry to repost. The only other fo...
aldebrn General discussion 122 15,668 2015-11-24, 8:10 am
    Thread: How to remove the Chinese lines from Bilingual subs?
Post: RE: How to remove the Chinese lines from Bilingual...

Oi, where are you finding these bilingual Cn–Jp subs? They look fun ?
aldebrn Off topic 13 1,271 2015-11-24, 8:08 am
    Thread: How to remove the Chinese lines from Bilingual subs?
Post: RE: How to remove the Chinese lines from Bilingual...

Try: Find What: ^.*\\N Replace With: \\N This will replace your example text with: Quote:\N{\fnMS Gothic}{\fs12}{\b0}{\c&HFFFFFF&}{\3c&H2F2F2F&}{\4c&H000000&}はいはい… \N{\fnMS ...
aldebrn Off topic 13 1,271 2015-11-17, 12:20 pm
    Thread: How do you consider about Japanese?
Post: RE: How do you consider about Japanese?

(2015-11-16, 12:07 am)Danchan Wrote: But also many to be very cruel, cold hearted and/or quite crazy. On the one hand you have a culture of paying attention to others and your surroundings which can...
aldebrn General discussion 14 3,627 2015-11-17, 11:11 am
    Thread: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an Anki deck?
Post: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an An...

yogert909 Wrote:Oh man I would have killed somebody for this when I was going through my experiments with pimsleur. Some kind of flash card makes pimsleur a lot more usable in my opinion. I've nearly...
aldebrn Learning resources 17 1,610 2015-10-20, 2:01 pm
    Thread: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an Anki deck?
Post: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an An...

graeme Wrote:What I'm trying to do is fine out which RTK numbers are in Pimsleur. Then I'll be able to see which ones I already know, and which I'd need to learn to learn the writing of the Pimsleur w...
aldebrn Learning resources 17 1,610 2015-10-20, 1:29 pm
    Thread: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an Anki deck?
Post: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an An...

Thanks for not being shy about bringing up Pimsleur on this forum. I find it interesting and surprising that you need just 400 kanji (excluding 々) to transcribe Pimsleur's course. Perhaps this can be ...
aldebrn Learning resources 17 1,610 2015-10-19, 9:19 am
    Thread: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an Anki deck?
Post: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an An...

graeme Wrote:All the data is in that Anki deck. But I'm not experienced enough with Anki to know if there's a faster way to check than by counting every card and seeing what Kanji are used. I used thi...
aldebrn Learning resources 17 1,610 2015-10-19, 9:08 am
    Thread: Similar forum to Kanji Koohii for Korean?
Post: Similar forum to Kanji Koohii for Korean?

stephenmac7 Wrote:The fact that the book on computer processing of CJKV is 912 pages is sad... you'd think that just using unicode would fix that. Haha, the book's author, Ken Lunde, is a major player...
aldebrn Learning resources 20 4,352 2015-10-14, 10:20 am
    Thread: Similar forum to Kanji Koohii for Korean?
Post: Similar forum to Kanji Koohii for Korean?

Wovaki Wrote:I am however baffled at how you can have 3 different writing systems working harmoniously in a single sentence. (Putting on software engineer hat.) There are four: kanji, hiragana, kataka...
aldebrn Learning resources 20 4,352 2015-10-07, 2:21 pm
    Thread: Can I not buy this Japanese album on iTunes from the US?
Post: Can I not buy this Japanese album on iTunes from t...

CureDolly, I'm not deserving of your notice, let alone your coherent and thorough explanation. Thank you! I see it!!!
aldebrn Off topic 3 760 2015-10-06, 10:59 pm
    Thread: Can I not buy this Japanese album on iTunes from the US?
Post: Can I not buy this Japanese album on iTunes from t...

Salu just posted about a new album by Kyn (from SD): https://instagram.com/p/8gCV8RRsi-/ saying it's on iTunes. I'm not able to find it on iTunes store and I'm in the US. I tried VPN through Japan, st...
aldebrn Off topic 3 760 2015-10-06, 10:25 am
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

Not a big problem but how come emoji (i.e., ??) got converted to question marks? E.g.: old: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid221057 new: http://foam.koohii.com/thread-11793-post...#pid2...
aldebrn General discussion 65 7,877 2015-10-05, 3:11 pm
    Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...
Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...

john555 Wrote:The problem, in the USA anyway, is that no matter how much white people bend over backwards to help blacks (racial preferences in university admissions etc.) they are STILL accused of be...
aldebrn Off topic 168 10,706 2015-10-02, 8:40 am
    Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...
Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...

Zgarbas Wrote:aldebrn Wrote:http://www.tofugu.com/2015/09/30/gay-samurai/ A lot of people have looked at this and thought it natural to condemn cultural appropriation. Keep in mind that homosexuality ...
aldebrn Off topic 168 10,706 2015-10-02, 8:21 am
    Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...
Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...

CureDolly Wrote:It seems to me that the real danger to cultures is the opposite. It is not when non-Christian cultures play with Christianity or Western cultures play with Shinto that any real harm is...
aldebrn Off topic 168 10,706 2015-10-01, 8:06 am
    Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...
Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...

Here's an attempt at explaining where your new friend might be coming from. Have any of you have seen this film "Topsy Turvy"? It's about Gilbert and Sullivan, the famous musical theater duo from the...
aldebrn Off topic 168 10,706 2015-09-29, 9:12 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet/regex questions
Post: Spreadsheet/regex questions

Thora Wrote:Neither of them worked in Notepad++. It would result in "XE9 [line break]X80 XA2" instead. ?? Horrific. Nodepad++ seems to not know Unicode. U+80A2 in Unicode is 肢.
aldebrn Learning resources 9 1,207 2015-09-24, 10:20 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet/regex questions
Post: Spreadsheet/regex questions

If it's not a super-huge file you want to do this in, you can just use your browser's Javascript Console (Tools -> Web Developer -> Web Console in Firefox, or in Chrome: Settings -> More Tool...
aldebrn Learning resources 9 1,207 2015-09-24, 10:15 pm
    Thread: MeCab
Post: MeCab

Out of curiosity, do the python bindings just shell out to mecab and parse the command's output, or do they link against the mecab library? From the amount of work described above, it seems like the l...
aldebrn Learning resources 15 2,251 2015-08-16, 10:27 pm