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    Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels
Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels

(2016-06-02, 9:32 am)cophnia61 Wrote: (2016-06-02, 6:22 am)justusperthes Wrote: Not long ago there were no Murakami Haruki ebooks at all on the Japanese amazon, but they started adding some recent...
justusperthes General discussion 24 1,927 2016-06-02, 3:11 pm
    Thread: (Light) Japanese Novels
Post: RE: (Light) Japanese Novels

Not long ago there were no Murakami Haruki ebooks at all on the Japanese amazon, but they started adding some recently and it seems like every time I check there is a new one up, so maybe it's just a ...
justusperthes General discussion 24 1,927 2016-06-02, 6:22 am
    Thread: Why you can read but can't listen.
Post: RE: Why you can read but can't listen.

(2016-05-26, 9:15 pm)Seikou Wrote: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blo...understand Has anyone been able to find the paper by Paul Sulzberger that Khatzumoto talks about in this article? The l...
justusperthes The Japanese language 54 7,417 2016-05-27, 5:00 am
    Thread: Starting to learn again...
Post: RE: Starting to learn again...

I didn't go through RTK when I first started learning Japanese. I learned to read joyo kanji from Coscom (Kanji Odyssey) and I mostly focused on becoming able to guess the readings of kanji so that I ...
justusperthes The Japanese language 18 2,086 2016-04-25, 8:42 am
    Thread: Rikaisama unsigned?
Post: RE: Rikaisama unsigned?

It worked for me. Before my Rikaisama would say something like "This addon could not be verified for use in Firefox. It has been deactivated" under addons, but now it lets me use it anyways but warns ...
justusperthes General discussion 32 3,375 2016-01-09, 7:24 pm
    Thread: Rikaisama unsigned?
Post: RE: Rikaisama unsigned?

You can use unsigned addons but you have to override the signing. It is under "What can I do if Firefox disables an installed, unsigned add-on?" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add...in-firefox
justusperthes General discussion 32 3,375 2016-01-09, 7:09 pm
    Thread: 2015 JLPT N2-N1 Thread
Post: 2015 JLPT N2-N1 Thread

So I was looking around the forum for ideas for N1 reading practice material and someone in another thread mentioned Asahi's 天声人語. I then did a google search and stumbled upon this app (for Apple devi...
justusperthes JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 313 56,688 2015-10-15, 4:16 pm
    Thread: Japan TV IPTV set top box?
Post: Japan TV IPTV set top box?

Flamerokz Wrote:Is TVAPP still working for anyone else? I've tried using it a few times over the past two weeks or so and it always says "connecting server failed, please check your network connection...
justusperthes Learning resources 53 16,907 2015-09-28, 7:08 am
    Thread: Where to get KO2001 books?
Post: Where to get KO2001 books?

I'm certain that I've seen physical books in a bookstore in Japan about 3 years ago. I bought the CDs on the internet about 4 years ago, though. The electronic version seems more convenient because ...
justusperthes Learning resources 3 680 2015-07-03, 12:35 pm
    Thread: Newbie Question[s]
Post: Newbie Question[s]

This post (and the discussion that follows) might help answer your second question: http://polydog.org/index.php?threads/mai...nguages.8/
justusperthes Learning resources 7 1,389 2015-06-27, 9:48 am
    Thread: Lazy sentence input method
Post: Lazy sentence input method

I use Rikaisama's Anki Real-Time Import function (http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5351). You just click a word and it creates a card with that word and the sentence it was in. I also someti...
justusperthes The Japanese language 6 1,103 2015-05-23, 11:42 am
    Thread: Experience with Tobira
Post: Experience with Tobira

We used it in my 2nd year Japanese class at university where we spend about 4 months going through it. I really liked it and it's probably my favorite out of the textbooks I have tried - mainly becaus...
justusperthes Learning resources 3 834 2015-05-09, 9:06 pm
    Thread: Kikisuuji - New android app for number listening practice
Post: Kikisuuji - New android app for number listening p...

Thanks! I got it working. For some reason the phone had been set to the "Samsung text-to-speech engine" which doesn't have Japanese. But switching to "Google text-to-speech engine" and selecting Japan...
justusperthes Learning resources 16 2,959 2015-04-28, 4:31 pm
    Thread: Kikisuuji - New android app for number listening practice
Post: Kikisuuji - New android app for number listening p...

Thank you for this app! I downloaded it about a month ago and thought it was pretty neat. I only got to try it out for a bit, but I do think there was an improvement in my comprehension (even though I...
justusperthes Learning resources 16 2,959 2015-04-28, 2:24 pm
    Thread: 2015 JLPT N2-N1 Thread
Post: 2015 JLPT N2-N1 Thread

harahachibu: If you are looking for university lectures then gacco.org is pretty cool. It's free and there are transcripts for everything. Plus, they have quizzes that test whether you understood the ...
justusperthes JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 313 56,688 2015-03-31, 12:15 pm
    Thread: Guess iKnow pulled their Creative Common license
Post: Guess iKnow pulled their Creative Common license

I had to sign the new T&C before I could sync my collection to AnkiWeb. In the new T&C there is this part which I understand to be about private decks too: Anki Terms and Conditions Wrote:Acc...
justusperthes General discussion 80 18,160 2015-03-02, 4:44 pm
    Thread: What's Going on in Japanese News?
Post: What's Going on in Japanese News?

Tzadeck Wrote:My take on it was that originally people blamed both of them for getting themselves into a bad situation. In university I remember reading about a situation a long time ago where a simi...
justusperthes General discussion 57 8,474 2015-02-02, 1:27 pm
    Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon!
Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon!

I passed N2 with a comfortable margin last year so I decided to try N1 this year. The good news is that I see that I have improved over the last year, and I have N1 to thank for that. It really kept...
justusperthes JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 193 37,257 2014-12-08, 7:44 am
    Thread: What's your process of adding cards to a sentence deck?
Post: What's your process of adding cards to a sentence ...

When I'm reading a physical book I usually mark words that I want to add to my deck with a pencil. After I'm done reading a chapter I'll go find example sentences online (usually on jisho.org or webli...
justusperthes The Japanese language 10 2,930 2014-11-21, 4:37 pm
    Thread: Cutting Back on SRS: Leech Removal vs Daily Rep Cap
Post: Cutting Back on SRS: Leech Removal vs Daily Rep Ca...

Sometimes it's just impossible to make a word stick through SRS'ing. If you get Anki to suspend those cards it's easy to deal with them later (so it's not like you're giving up on them permanently). B...
justusperthes Learning resources 13 1,909 2014-06-11, 3:03 pm