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    Thread: "Cultural Interviews with Japanese Executives" site relocated
Post: "Cultural Interviews with Japanese Executives" sit...

Never heard of this but this seems like a great resource. Aside from linking from their site to the video on YouTube, which is essential, I hope they add some sort of way to browse the interviews by l...
rikishi Learning resources 1 607 2015-02-20, 3:29 am
    Thread: Dictionary of basic/intermediate/advanced Japanese Grammar
Post: Dictionary of basic/intermediate/advanced Japanese...

I have the Beginning and Intermediate books and I remember the exact same frustration when I was studying for the old 2-kyuu. I did find that sometimes it was because of my own error, though -- one th...
rikishi Learning resources 3 937 2015-02-04, 9:42 pm
    Thread: Professional Audio Books for Novels?
Post: Professional Audio Books for Novels?

Thank you for bringing this up! I've been an Audible subscriber for almost two years now and recently started to think I should really listen to some Japanese audiobooks, so FeBe! seems perfect. I not...
rikishi Learning resources 6 2,028 2015-01-05, 3:57 am
    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

Podcasts were indispensable to me back when I took the old JLPT 2, but they are even more transient than blogs so it's hard to find good ones that are consistent. At any rate, just came across this "m...
rikishi Learning resources 200 212,063 2015-01-05, 3:29 am
    Thread: Anyone using Shadowing?
Post: Anyone using Shadowing?

Here's the publisher's page for them. I have used the Intermediate-to-Advanced book (the blue one), it's quite good, and to my ears it's some of the most natural and "real-life" Japanese I've heard in...
rikishi General discussion 12 3,719 2014-12-25, 7:39 pm
    Thread: Anybody here use memrise?
Post: Anybody here use memrise?

I started using it a few months ago, mainly during down time (ahem) at work. Stopped after a while, but that was mainly due to flagging interest in improving my 日本語 and not because of the site. Recent...
rikishi Learning resources 11 4,644 2014-12-24, 10:51 pm
    Thread: Does watching TV get much easier?
Post: Does watching TV get much easier?

oh, is there a 5 second rewind? sometimes 10 seconds is too long!
rikishi General discussion 26 5,649 2012-09-24, 3:39 am
    Thread: Does watching TV get much easier?
Post: Does watching TV get much easier?

Lots of great feedback above. I'll just add a few thoughts as someone who only recently started to seriously watch Japanese TV and had similar dispiriting feelings. (And I say that as someone who has ...
rikishi General discussion 26 5,649 2012-09-24, 1:20 am
    Thread: J league Highlights like match of the day?
Post: J league Highlights like match of the day?

There are definitely programs like this shown here in Japan. (Actually, I have to confess I've never seen Match of the Day but I can imagine what it is -- must be similar to the weekly Sky highlight s...
rikishi Learning resources 3 718 2012-09-24, 12:45 am
    Thread: Good non-JDIC E-J app?
Post: Good non-JDIC E-J app?

is there an EPWING viewer for iOS? as for the original question, I have used since I bought my first iPhone (3 years ago) the Wisdom application, and frankly I see no reason to try anything else (esp...
rikishi Learning resources 6 1,314 2012-09-03, 12:13 am
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

Katsuo Wrote:A more serious problem (for me, at least); I've just upgraded to iOS4 and it seems to have messed up incremental kana search on all apps (Daijirin, Wisdom, WaEiWa etc). Yes, this is a BIG...
rikishi Learning resources 128 54,885 2010-07-28, 8:56 pm
    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

Wow! 5 years ago when studying for JLPT I thought of making a website of all the podcasts that helped by pass 2-kyuu, but I've long since lost that mp3 player and those subscriptions. I'm happy to see...
rikishi Learning resources 200 212,063 2010-07-28, 8:52 pm