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    Thread: Developing android japanese dictionary
Post: Developing android japanese dictionary

I'm thinking of putting source code on github for a dictionary I developed on Android. It's really simple but I can post link to source code when it's available if anyone is interested. It's this app...
dacker Learning resources 4 1,659 2013-05-18, 11:11 am
    Thread: Tsundere maid cafe
Post: Tsundere maid cafe

To japanese probably shocking/interesting. For me it looks the same as when I go to a local cafe. Although the waitress are not that cute, service is similar ;) Probably European thing ;)
dacker Off topic 12 4,534 2011-06-12, 11:53 am
    Thread: 荘 kanji SOD
Post: 荘 kanji SOD

Has anyone seen 荘 kanji written with the primitive earth instead of samurai. I found this SOD but I presume it's wrong, since everywhere else is written with samurai primitive. [Image: http://www.yam...
dacker Remembering the Kanji 3 1,467 2011-06-12, 10:39 am
    Thread: most beautiful anime animations?
Post: most beautiful anime animations?

I've watched different animes through time and some got stuck in my head. I'm posting list below. I wouldn't say that all of these are good animes (story wise or other) and some I thought were even ba...
dacker General discussion 49 21,152 2011-05-21, 4:28 pm
    Thread: How long do you guys spend on each kanji?
Post: How long do you guys spend on each kanji?

I was just wondering how you guys study. I understood from the coments that nobody tries to really remember story or impress it in the memory. But instead vaguely remember it and then get it through r...
dacker Remembering the Kanji 17 3,267 2011-05-12, 12:37 pm
    Thread: How long do you guys spend on each kanji?
Post: How long do you guys spend on each kanji?

For me it's more like 6-25 minutes per kanji. Problem is my native language is not english so I have to make up similar keywords (also I have to check that there is no meaning that is the same later o...
dacker Remembering the Kanji 17 3,267 2011-05-09, 1:42 pm
    Thread: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹
Post: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹

If anybody's interested I put different SOD diagrams for the two kanji's. I marked with red * those which are different from japanese order (Picture section). http://www.japslo.si/slovar/kanji_detail...
dacker The Japanese language 13 5,628 2011-05-07, 3:41 pm
    Thread: 辻 (279) I'm confused about no. of drops!
Post: 辻 (279) I'm confused about no. of drops!

I also came to this kanji. And I just want to point out that on study page this kanji has 2 drops. But the problem is number of strokes written underneath is [5]. Somebody could be confused by this al...
dacker Remembering the Kanji 6 2,001 2011-05-07, 1:54 pm
    Thread: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹
Post: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹

Thanks for the explanation.
dacker The Japanese language 13 5,628 2011-04-30, 7:33 am
    Thread: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹
Post: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹

So basically if you write the chinese stroke order on KanKen test it's not correct? I'll probably not be doing KanKen test, but do I need to know stroke order somewhere else also. JLPT doesn't have t...
dacker The Japanese language 13 5,628 2011-04-30, 5:20 am
    Thread: Japanese jokes
Post: Japanese jokes

What about this one, it's pretty basic: 彼がカレーとスキー好きです。 さむ
dacker General discussion 23 5,565 2011-04-29, 5:14 pm
    Thread: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹
Post: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹

I'm going through RtK and I've found different stroke orders for the two kanjis. So I'm wondering if anyone knows which one is the right one. And if the stroke order matters in this case (if both are ...
dacker The Japanese language 13 5,628 2011-04-29, 4:18 pm
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

Thank for the information. I read through the thread which you posted. After reading it at first I thought it's really useless to know if verb is "volitional" or not. Especially with all the arguments...
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-20, 2:13 am
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

In the long run I intend to do that. Anyway I'll go through the words when translating, so setting one more tag is not such a difficult task. Otherwise I agree that it would be wasting time just going...
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-19, 9:56 am
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

I'm Slovene, so language is Slovenian. Basically I took Jim Breen's dictionary and started building from there. When translating I'm using many sources (english and japanese).
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-19, 3:26 am
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

Well most of online dictionaries are japanese-english(or english-japanese). But there is no japanese dictionary for my language. So I'm slowly building it, traslating words/kanji etc. Basically I sta...
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-18, 6:24 pm
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

pm215: it seems you're right. I checked a little bit and it seems I got satisfied too fast. For example same goes for intransitive verb 泳ぐ(to swim). So it's back to the drawing board. yudantaiteki: ...
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-18, 4:43 pm
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

Ok maybe I exaggerated. I should have said "complete" list of common verbs. I have around 20 000 verbs in my database now (including nouns that can act as verb -suru). So if I can separate non-volitio...
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-18, 12:51 pm
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

I found out, from another forum where I posted the same question, an answer. Or at least half of it. Basically all intransitive verbs don't have potential, volitional and imperative forms. So I can e...
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-18, 12:08 pm
    Thread: Why is 稽 16 strokes?
Post: Why is 稽 16 strokes?

Yeah probably. I took the grass radical because it reminded me the most of that element of kanji. Unfurtunately I don't know the classification Heisig used. You can check out the SOD from 8th stroke ...
dacker The Japanese language 25 3,575 2011-04-07, 6:47 am
    Thread: Why is 稽 16 strokes?
Post: Why is 稽 16 strokes?

lernsky Wrote:Oh yeah, and what about 戴, it says 18, counting only 17... I thought I was long enough on this site... what am I doing wrong? Please tell me. :-) I thought I'd answer to this question b...
dacker The Japanese language 25 3,575 2011-04-06, 3:27 pm
    Thread: List of non-volitional verbs
Post: List of non-volitional verbs

I've been doing my own japanese dictionary and came across verb form generation. I've done same thing as it's done on Jim Breen's web page. But problem is that on that page all verb forms are generate...
dacker The Japanese language 14 5,133 2011-04-06, 3:18 pm