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    Thread: How to make the best use of my commute
Post: How to make the best use of my commute

sethg Wrote:Nukemarine Wrote:5. Movies/TV shows - Imagine watching ANY Japanese show at your finger tip. Combine with a subtitle app to increase the learning pleasure. How do you do this? Almost ever...
avparker General discussion 37 8,205 2010-05-19, 10:47 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

Tobberoth Wrote:Groot Wrote:I'm planning to buy the app. When you say it syncs with Anki Online, does that mean I can get it to sync with my desktop Anki? I don't think I've joined Anki Online yet, ...
avparker Learning resources 401 86,882 2010-05-18, 8:55 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

Tobberoth - I recall Resolve making a statement that some parts are in portable Javascript. I assume that is running in a web view embedded in an Objective-C app.
avparker Learning resources 401 86,882 2010-05-18, 7:35 pm
    Thread: Guy talking in japanese on youtube
Post: Guy talking in japanese on youtube

Re the first video - the guy certainly has a bit of an accent, but wow, that is very impressive indeed. His sentence "flow" seemed pretty natural to me, but I'm only intermediate level, and better to ...
avparker General discussion 33 6,551 2010-05-18, 4:27 am
    Thread: Help - Mac - VLC - Japanese Subs - Frustrated!!!
Post: Help - Mac - VLC - Japanese Subs - Frustrated!!!

Jarvik7 Wrote:VLC IS a heap of crap and isn't really actively developed for OSX anymore (the nightly build tree breaks for weeks at a time with no one caring). Get MPlayer OSX Extended or at least Pe...
avparker Learning resources 33 16,562 2010-05-06, 8:18 am
    Thread: Paper - Myths about vocabulary acquisition
Post: Paper - Myths about vocabulary acquisition

I saw this on the anki mail list (http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs/b...d018eb1a7#). http://www.babylonia-ti.ch/BABY207/PDF/mondria.pdf Jan-Arjen Mondria Wrote:Summary: myths, facts, and didact...
avparker General discussion 9 3,987 2010-05-05, 11:09 pm
    Thread: Help - Mac - VLC - Japanese Subs - Frustrated!!!
Post: Help - Mac - VLC - Japanese Subs - Frustrated!!!

ToasterMage Wrote:vlc is a terrible media player why do people still use it. Funny, VLC is the first thing I installed on my new mac. I've never had any problems with it, and it plays pretty much ever...
avparker Learning resources 33 16,562 2010-05-05, 10:58 pm
    Thread: Japan Has Realized: Reading + Listening = Learning!
Post: Japan Has Realized: Reading + Listening = Learning...

Kewickviper Wrote:The not looking up words in the dictionary seems a little silly to me. It's going to take you a heck of a long time to learn words, especially if you know none to start with. I think...
avparker General discussion 9 1,765 2010-05-05, 8:30 pm
    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

superliman Wrote:Thanks for the link!, I downloaded it and installed X11. I followed your instructions and ran the X11.app found in Utilities before running the mono subs2srs.exe command, however I st...
avparker Learning resources 1,039 387,673 2010-04-15, 8:08 pm
    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

superliman Wrote:I then found avparker's follow up clarification on some steps and said I needed to have X11.app installed. As far as I can tell, it appears I do not. However, I have no idea how to ge...
avparker Learning resources 1,039 387,673 2010-04-15, 1:59 am
    Thread: Dismayed after Skype Chat
Post: Dismayed after Skype Chat

thegeelonghellswan Wrote:Hmm all of the above. I think everyone is right and that time is needed. I was able to use some basic structures, but while I can recognise a lot of structures I am not yet ab...
avparker General discussion 54 11,365 2010-03-14, 9:22 pm
    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

All hail cb4960!!! I finally got around to installing subs2srs on my macbook, and it works great. I followed blackmacros instructions ( http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid91178 ). To c...
avparker Learning resources 1,039 387,673 2010-03-08, 1:22 am
    Thread: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo
Post: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo

yudantaiteki Wrote:Fuamnach Wrote:I reckon if you get the job first the keigo will take care of itself :) Highly unlikely. Native Japanese people don't pick up keigo naturally; I've heard this too - ...
avparker The Japanese language 40 16,440 2010-02-24, 11:25 pm
    Thread: E-Reader?
Post: E-Reader?

chamcham Wrote:Unlike all other readers, the Skiff reader has a 1600x1200 resolution (HUGE display) and is flexible paper thin e-paper. Looks impressive (so impressive I have to doubt it's real!). J...
avparker Learning resources 18 5,182 2010-02-16, 10:20 pm
    Thread: Keyboard shortcut for "Open Link/URL"
Post: Keyboard shortcut for "Open Link/URL"

You should really ask this in the Anki Mailing List (you're more likely to get help that way).
avparker General discussion 2 582 2010-02-15, 3:11 am
    Thread: Models (Anki): merging/deleting
Post: Models (Anki): merging/deleting

You should really ask this in the Anki Mailing List (you're more likely to get help that way).
avparker General discussion 1 1,346 2010-02-15, 3:05 am
    Thread: After RTK, what about the Reading the Kanji -site?
Post: After RTK, what about the Reading the Kanji -site?

joeellis Wrote:On a side note, as for those who feel that the system repeats too much, you can adjust this in the preferences as fluxcapacitor mentioned above. Thanks. Changing the settings has helped...
avparker Learning resources 23 4,283 2010-02-14, 9:26 pm
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

Apparently this is a product from a group at Carnegie Mellon University, and it's based on machine learning from large amounts of data (sounds a lot like google translate). So what it is doing is 1) ...
avparker Learning resources 128 54,984 2010-02-12, 11:35 pm
    Thread: After RTK, what about the Reading the Kanji -site?
Post: After RTK, what about the Reading the Kanji -site?

I had an account from when it was free, so I just gave it another go. I like the idea a lot (having to type the answer), and it's quite well implemented. The interface is quite good and it's very res...
avparker Learning resources 23 4,283 2010-02-12, 9:55 pm
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

Anyone else noticed "Jibbigo"? They claim "Jibbigo is a bi-directional, natural speech-to-speech translation app that lets you converse with a speaker of another language through spoken language.". J...
avparker Learning resources 128 54,984 2010-02-12, 2:44 am
    Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show
Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa...

cb4960 Wrote:2) Created a version 18.3 release for Linux/Mac users. However, due to unresolved issues, the preview feature has been disabled. cb4960 OMG, subs2srs works on Mac? That's awesome! Thank...
avparker Learning resources 1,039 387,673 2010-02-08, 2:07 am
    Thread: So I bought a ticket to Tokyo...
Post: So I bought a ticket to Tokyo...

I second the recommendation for Book Off. DVDs, music and games are expensive in Japan (the anime that was available in Australia was 1/2 to 1/4 of the price, even after being subbed in English). Eve...
avparker Off topic 12 1,748 2010-01-05, 7:01 pm
    Thread: avatar in japan & cinematic xenolinguistics
Post: avatar in japan & cinematic xenolinguistics

ocircle Wrote:Many films released in a foreign language in Japan (mostly English) are usually released with subtitles on the side. Dubbed versions are only preferred on DVDs (back in the VHS days, you...
avparker General discussion 13 5,497 2009-12-30, 8:21 am
    Thread: iAnki vs Anki Mini
Post: iAnki vs Anki Mini

tinonet Wrote:What about iAnki application for iphone? the one for $2.99? Anyone tried it? I am not sure if you can sync the decks from your desktop to this one. http://ianki.com/ That's not relat...
avparker Learning resources 127 45,914 2009-12-29, 8:26 pm
    Thread: Final Fantasy XIII
Post: Final Fantasy XIII

wccrawford Wrote:Jeez, I dunno. Looks the same to me, yeah... But that would mean that people were selling it at a loss, since that started at 9200+ yen. FWIW I saw it at a Bic Camera in Ikebukuro f...
avparker General discussion 186 31,572 2009-12-27, 8:23 pm
    Thread: JLPT Reading Comprehension strategies/advice?
Post: JLPT Reading Comprehension strategies/advice?

coverup Wrote:One site recommends to do the grammar section first and then the reading passages in reverse: http://nihongoperapera.com/jlpt/2kyuu.html I used exactly that strategy, and I'd recommend i...
avparker JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 13 8,301 2009-12-03, 2:40 am
    Thread: the news as manga
Post: the news as manga

news as manga - http://newsmanga.com/ IT news as manga - http://www.japan-manganews.jp/it/
avparker Learning resources 8 2,013 2009-12-03, 2:32 am
    Thread: To all those people who were going to pass JLPT1 in 3 months
Post: To all those people who were going to pass JLPT1 i...

IceCream Wrote:I started doing it because i felt like i was remembering the audio rather reading when i took sentences from context. But i ended up learning a whole ton of words, and having a much str...
avparker General discussion 11 2,577 2009-11-13, 9:17 pm
    Thread: To all those people who were going to pass JLPT1 in 3 months
Post: To all those people who were going to pass JLPT1 i...

IceCream Wrote:... i learned 6000 words since October. Icecream-san, that sounds like an awesome effort! Is it correct that you learnt these as words, rather than sentences? Would you mind writing ab...
avparker General discussion 11 2,577 2009-11-13, 7:00 pm
    Thread: dismissing sentence mining for a better japanese mining?
Post: dismissing sentence mining for a better japanese m...

scissor61 Wrote:I too tend to pass-over words I don't know, but i'll be reviewing an article that i should already know all the words so what i'll be testing is if i know or don't all the words in the...
avparker General discussion 47 8,690 2009-11-08, 10:03 pm