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    Thread: Google Wave Invites
Post: Google Wave Invites

Got about 15, giving out
Garland Off topic 168 22,123 2009-12-21, 6:20 am
    Thread: Google Wave Invites
Post: Google Wave Invites

Would you be as kind as to send one to filko@centrum.cz as well? Thanks a lot
Garland Off topic 168 22,123 2009-11-16, 2:39 pm
    Thread: Do you know what your dominant ear is?
Post: Do you know what your dominant ear is?

Today, when flirting with Chiebukuro, I stumbled upon a question called "利き耳ってありますか?" , to which, to my big astonishment, somebody answered "あります" . I looked the topic up on google, and found this a...
Garland Off topic 15 6,340 2009-07-12, 5:06 pm
    Thread: A minor help for major sentence mining
Post: A minor help for major sentence mining

Sebastian Wrote:Garland Wrote:If however, you know of something faster or easier then by all means says so, I'd be happy to learn about it. As long as vocabulary lists are involved, you can make use o...
Garland Learning resources 45 6,548 2009-07-12, 7:14 am
    Thread: A minor help for major sentence mining
Post: A minor help for major sentence mining

yonosa Wrote:. But hey if I have the power to do something like that I assume the reason is so that I can do it if I want. If the powers at hand don't want us to be able to do that(I heard that they d...
Garland Learning resources 45 6,548 2009-07-11, 6:30 pm
    Thread: A minor help for major sentence mining
Post: A minor help for major sentence mining

Musashi, I think you should add some scientific research to your posts. If you don't, then this thread will go on forever
Garland Learning resources 45 6,548 2009-07-11, 1:18 pm
    Thread: A minor help for major sentence mining
Post: A minor help for major sentence mining

I believe that racists are best ignored. Sure, it's a bad idea to ignore them when they're pointing a pistol at your pineal glands (or whatever glands the Japanese don't have), but they have no pistol...
Garland Learning resources 45 6,548 2009-07-11, 11:39 am
    Thread: A minor help for major sentence mining
Post: A minor help for major sentence mining

Hello, I have found what I think is a little, yet relatively nice help in adding sentences, and I thought thought some of you might find it useful, (if not, then writing about your own, better way of ...
Garland Learning resources 45 6,548 2009-07-11, 8:04 am
    Thread: "Post your sentence" game
Post: "Post your sentence" game

私は通りで<b>老人</b>があお向けに倒れるのを見た わたしはとおりで<b>ろうじん</b>があおむけに{たおれ|たふれ}るのをみた Stařec
Garland Off topic 41 8,061 2009-02-20, 1:31 pm
    Thread: All of a sudden massive amounts of expired cards
Post: All of a sudden massive amounts of expired cards

I reckon making your own topic, something like "What everybody want's to talk about, but nobody cares about", or simillar. I also reckon you don't forget that you are still a human, not a language-l...
Garland Remembering the Kanji 7 1,360 2008-11-21, 6:50 pm
    Thread: Take a half hour out of your life and learn this (counters)
Post: Take a half hour out of your life and learn this (...

Quote:Waste of time in English. If I'm surfing, I want to be wasting time in Japanese. I also block this site most of the day, also. Great, I also suggest you wear an eye-patch and plugs in your ears ...
Garland General discussion 27 4,629 2008-10-31, 8:09 pm
    Thread: List of Free Audiobooks
Post: List of Free Audiobooks

Ok, in that case, I will trust you, choose Wagahai wa neko de aru and hope I won't start talking like an old-fashioned cat :) P.S. :) Girl talk in literature is much more comprehensible than mens',...
Garland Learning resources 117 218,117 2008-10-27, 5:48 pm
    Thread: List of Free Audiobooks
Post: List of Free Audiobooks

The texts provided certainly seem great, and their numbers astonishing, but since they were mostly (if not always) written in 19th- beggining of 20th century I got a little afraid. Do you think it is...
Garland Learning resources 117 218,117 2008-10-27, 4:29 pm
    Thread: Feels like I'm never going to finish.
Post: Feels like I'm never going to finish.

Hm, you seemed to have joined on the 4th of September and are at 830 already? Maybe you started sooner, but with such a little time for reviews you can't really be surprised that you have so many fail...
Garland Remembering the Kanji 17 2,662 2008-09-15, 4:16 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

That sure must be hard. While I was adding new cards, I only had about 50 kanji per day (I worked in a slow pace, it took me 7 months to finish) and even that seemed terribly time-killing to me. Tha...
Garland Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,550 2008-09-14, 4:43 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Well, freedom is lightness and lightness makes us futile, so I never mind I guess About the reviews, how long does it take for them to drop to some, say, 10 a day? (A question to those using Anki wit...
Garland Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,550 2008-09-14, 4:01 pm
    Thread: Favourite Kanji
Post: Favourite Kanji

Zaibatsu was, if I'm not mistaken, also a name of some mischievous gang in GTA 2, so the evil feel may not be quite random :)
Garland Remembering the Kanji 52 17,708 2008-09-14, 2:49 pm
    Thread: Favourite Kanji
Post: Favourite Kanji

公, because it looks great next to 園, 園 because it looks great next to 公 . I also like 翁, 総 because it contains 公, which looks great next to 園. I also took particular lighting in 懸, not only because i...
Garland Remembering the Kanji 52 17,708 2008-09-14, 2:27 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Finally done, finally free! So free that I can now rush towards even worse challanges and enslave myself again! Thank you all for your stories, for the comments, for helping me in those dark times in ...
Garland Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,550 2008-09-14, 1:27 pm
    Thread: My anki deck is gone! help
Post: My anki deck is gone! help

:) The post made me feel like an idiot, which appearently isn't so far from reality I used plain txt files for my c++ examination program (written before I found out about Anki and SRS in general) b...
Garland General discussion 13 2,249 2008-08-06, 5:34 pm
    Thread: My anki deck is gone! help
Post: My anki deck is gone! help

Appareantly, I couldn't even change the file by direct editing, because the file uses a different coding, so manual typing won't work unless using some converter I do not know about *-*
Garland General discussion 13 2,249 2008-08-06, 5:18 pm
    Thread: My anki deck is gone! help
Post: My anki deck is gone! help

Phew :) Good thing you found it, because after it didn't work to me either, I was about to take some very drastic "measures" :)
Garland General discussion 13 2,249 2008-08-06, 4:55 pm
    Thread: My anki deck is gone! help
Post: My anki deck is gone! help

Ok, see those english words spread across the text? Those are your keywords, a prove that your deck should be alive. And if the keywords are, the rest should be too. Perhaps it is your own settings t...
Garland General discussion 13 2,249 2008-08-06, 3:39 pm
    Thread: My anki deck is gone! help
Post: My anki deck is gone! help

Are you sure the cards arenť suspended? Are you sure the cards aren't spaced? Haven't you simply opened a different anki file? Try opening the deck in notepad, if the decks cards are simply hidden, th...
Garland General discussion 13 2,249 2008-08-06, 3:17 pm
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

17, frame 1616 Retention rate over 90 %, but because, and only because I found this wonderful site, so thanks, Faburisu
Garland Off topic 357 73,663 2008-08-06, 5:55 am
    Thread: I've made a brilliant observation!
Post: I've made a brilliant observation!

@PM215: Thanks for the info, it sure was interesting. I would also like to use this opportunity to reply to myself and correct one point about the オレンジ色 : While browsing the japanese.about.com (where ...
Garland General discussion 91 13,771 2008-08-03, 11:42 am
    Thread: I've made a brilliant observation!
Post: I've made a brilliant observation!

Thanks and thanks, I am afraid that, even in my head, except has really sounded like "expect" to me, so it's a good thing to know, as it wasn't a mere typing error :) I agree with you, it is certain...
Garland General discussion 91 13,771 2008-08-03, 5:56 am
    Thread: I've made a brilliant observation!
Post: I've made a brilliant observation!

danieldesu Wrote:Many words can be learned without context, especially ones where the meaning is the same among many languages (i.e. [...] colors [...]). Oh, watch out here, colors actually are though...
Garland General discussion 91 13,771 2008-08-03, 5:34 am
    Thread: I've made a brilliant observation!
Post: I've made a brilliant observation!

@danieldesu: If you're at such a high level already, than learning new words seperately doesn't look like a bad idea- I am thinking of doing the same with english-, as, as you said, the context doesn'...
Garland General discussion 91 13,771 2008-08-02, 7:59 pm
    Thread: I've made a brilliant observation!
Post: I've made a brilliant observation!

Thank you very much for your appreciation, although I know I still have a long way to go as far as some advanced vocabulary is concerned. I am 17 and have been stagnating in english for about three ye...
Garland General discussion 91 13,771 2008-08-02, 7:18 pm