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    Thread: intensive reading
Post: intensive reading

There is a series of booklets and stories and audio CD's, specifically designed to encourage extensive reading at different levels of reading proficiency. I have purchased quite a few of the lower lev...
jbudding Learning resources 24 2,326 2015-11-05, 10:42 am
    Thread: For FLTR users, this program will conjugate verbs for you
Post: For FLTR users, this program will conjugate verbs ...

I like this program and it is fun to use to help produce lists of words and words in context that you don't know or want to learn better. However, as a text reader, I find it inconvenient that it has ...
jbudding Learning resources 28 7,707 2015-08-01, 9:41 am
    Thread: What is the point of 12,800 kanji?
Post: What is the point of 12,800 kanji?

qwertyytrewq Wrote:qwertyytrewq Wrote:Japan should get rid of not only Kanji but katakana and hiragana In case people didn't pick up on it, in my previous post I was being hyperbolic and satirizing an...
jbudding General discussion 48 7,006 2014-05-05, 10:56 am
    Thread: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)?
Post: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)?

The books actually come with a transparent red plastic sheet to screen the translations which are printed in red. This is an easy way to prevent seeing the translations you don't want to see. Before I...
jbudding Learning resources 10 2,819 2014-04-15, 1:06 pm
    Thread: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)?
Post: Book with vocabulary and texts (no english)?

日本語単語スピードマスター Quick mastery of vocabulary N4-N5 Basic 1800 w CD Kurashina Sayaka ISBN978-4-86392-010-1 Also available 3 more levels: standard, intermediate and advanced
jbudding Learning resources 10 2,819 2014-03-16, 11:35 am
    Thread: Bamboo Tablet for PC Kanji Practice
Post: Bamboo Tablet for PC Kanji Practice

I use the bamboo tablet, or even my mouse if away from my desk, and the Microsoft IME Pad and paste into http://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1B (Jim Breen's kanjidic website).
jbudding Learning resources 15 10,914 2013-04-18, 3:58 pm
    Thread: News sites-extracting audio?
Post: News sites-extracting audio?

Thanks again for the tips and I will try your recommendations. I have subscribed to both the Kanji online and the building up conversation pages. Both seem to me to be pretty good sites for a reasonab...
jbudding The Japanese language 21 7,844 2012-08-13, 12:46 am
    Thread: News sites-extracting audio?
Post: News sites-extracting audio?

Hello Buonaparte! Thanks so much for the hint! There is a lot of very good material on this site that we can now listen to offline. However, could you tell us how you found out that the html path .......
jbudding The Japanese language 21 7,844 2012-08-12, 9:45 am
    Thread: News sites-extracting audio?
Post: News sites-extracting audio?

Coscom used to have the path to their website mp3 audio in their page source code but now I can't find them anymore. It seems that the code is changed and some of the old paths are no longer valid eit...
jbudding The Japanese language 21 7,844 2012-08-12, 1:34 am
    Thread: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate m...

I am studying KO2001 and was about to start making an anki deck as part of an attempt to get a little more systematic about working through the list of Kanji, vocabulary and sentences. I think some of...
jbudding General discussion 120 33,789 2011-09-27, 11:54 pm
    Thread: My japanese isn't improving any suggestions would help.
Post: My japanese isn't improving any suggestions would ...

You might find this interesting: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/staff/Pub...trands.pdf . If nothing else it will give you a break from your SRS'ing. I think it is important to have fun and to vary you...
jbudding Off topic 42 10,507 2011-05-21, 12:58 am
    Thread: Interesting Toy - ComicRack
Post: Interesting Toy - ComicRack

I am using "comical" an open source program you can get here: http://comical.sourceforge.net/ which has a zoom feature, is easy to use and reads all my cbr comic files.
jbudding Learning resources 8 2,237 2011-05-06, 2:42 pm
    Thread: Bookscan (have Japanese books OCR'd cheap! Anyone used this?)
Post: Bookscan (have Japanese books OCR'd cheap! Anyone ...

I bought a plustek opticbook 3600 scanner to scan books. I have had it for a couple of years and aside from regular scanning tasks I do for my personal office, I have scanned several entire books (fro...
jbudding Learning resources 39 15,463 2011-04-19, 1:46 am
    Thread: Super Heisig anki deck
Post: Super Heisig anki deck

Thanks mpacheco for the download. Unfortunately, I had some problems too. On the question side no problem, I just have to manually enter my stories and they show on the mouse over. But on the answer s...
jbudding Learning resources 7 8,536 2011-03-30, 1:47 pm
    Thread: kanji stroke order font script for anki
Post: kanji stroke order font script for anki

I copied the script exactly into the card layout tab above the line for {{Kanji}}, changed the arial to ms mincho and then pasted the mouseover script over the {{Kanji}} and it works like a charm! I ...
jbudding Learning resources 15 9,715 2011-03-30, 12:55 pm
    Thread: Tae Kim oder Japanese in MangaLand
Post: Tae Kim oder Japanese in MangaLand

As far as I know, there is only the first exercise book in English too. You can also get in English, Kanji in Mangaland books 1 & 2. These books use a cartoon style of mnemonics. I have the books ...
jbudding Learning resources 8 3,042 2010-09-18, 11:48 am
    Thread: Very complete PC based dictionary?
Post: Very complete PC based dictionary?

I had a similar problem trying to get pronunciations for words in Harry Potter so I bought the audio book from Kinokuniya in L.A.! :) It was expensive but it makes it real easy to figure out how a wor...
jbudding Learning resources 18 6,704 2010-05-14, 12:10 pm
    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

This is a great list, thanks! Is there any place we can get the text or transcript for Replica Blue?
jbudding Learning resources 200 211,948 2010-05-09, 9:57 am
    Thread: RTK1: One kanji, one picture discussion
Post: RTK1: One kanji, one picture discussion

I used the greasemonkey script to import the pictures and stories and it worked like a charm! However, can anyone help this technically impoverished soul with some instructions on how to add the pictu...
jbudding Remembering the Kanji 91 55,702 2009-11-17, 3:48 pm
    Thread: Kanji Odyssey 2001 - 1110 Sentence
Post: Kanji Odyssey 2001 - 1110 Sentence

Rooboy Wrote:Got a very nice apologetic reply back within 24 hours (sent on a Saturday) with a full refund for my purchase. Excellent customer service i must say. I was really impressed with Coscom's...
jbudding Learning resources 70 17,854 2009-06-11, 1:43 am
    Thread: Anti-kanji-learning article (in jpn & eng)
Post: Anti-kanji-learning article (in jpn & eng)

Whenever reading an opinion, I always consider the source and their particular "angle." Note that the article was published in the "hiragana" times. Pretty obvious that they would stand to benefit fro...
jbudding The Japanese language 44 8,783 2009-05-16, 3:35 pm
    Thread: What happens when you start to mine sentences?
Post: What happens when you start to mine sentences?

I had already bought the older version of the e-book and coscom has confirmed that they are now sending me the new version upgrade. Other coscom voice recordings (such as the those on the katakana dis...
jbudding The Japanese language 76 13,314 2009-04-30, 12:35 pm
    Thread: What happens when you start to mine sentences?
Post: What happens when you start to mine sentences?

I'm not sure what TTS is but if it's the computer generated talking, I agree, I find that hard to listen to. I have it on the "voice of japan" electronic dictionary and I think iKnow also uses this ty...
jbudding The Japanese language 76 13,314 2009-04-29, 1:21 am
    Thread: What happens when you start to mine sentences?
Post: What happens when you start to mine sentences?

I only had the hard copy of the book and the audio cd's and I found it difficult to type in the kanji characters without the furigana even though I could hear it, my ear is not that good to pick out t...
jbudding The Japanese language 76 13,314 2009-04-28, 6:33 pm
    Thread: Creative uses of SRS and memory techniques
Post: Creative uses of SRS and memory techniques

Sounds like America's finest got a new secret weapon! Remember though, loose lips sink ships. Good luck to you in the Navy zerOrange!
jbudding General discussion 17 2,482 2009-04-28, 11:30 am
    Thread: What happens when you start to mine sentences?
Post: What happens when you start to mine sentences?

I just found out from the coscom website that they have upgraded the e-audio book version of KO to include the audio for thexample sentences! I have applied for my upgrade. If you have the KO disc and...
jbudding The Japanese language 76 13,314 2009-04-28, 11:22 am
    Thread: Anyone know of link to an Anti-Heisig review?
Post: Anyone know of link to an Anti-Heisig review?

Did you see this link that Fabrice had posted? http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/inst/chines...ardson.htm It is a pretty detailed review of the method.
jbudding Remembering the Kanji 8 2,027 2009-04-28, 12:04 am
    Thread: What happens when you start to mine sentences?
Post: What happens when you start to mine sentences?

By the way, I processed the complete digitized versions of Harry Potter in Spanish and French through a simple concordance and found that the Spanish version has only just over 8,000 different words (...
jbudding The Japanese language 76 13,314 2009-04-27, 10:21 pm
    Thread: What happens when you start to mine sentences?
Post: What happens when you start to mine sentences?

I have just started on Harry Potter using the audiobook and the actual hard copy of the book. I have used Harry Potter to help with my Spanish, French, Dutch and now I hope to use this simple story wi...
jbudding The Japanese language 76 13,314 2009-04-27, 10:10 pm
    Thread: How to not waste my time with a language Partner?
Post: How to not waste my time with a language Partner?

I had a similar experience with a native speaker "tutor" I hired. I was paying $30 USD for 3 hours (I don't live in Japan), our sessions were also 90 minutes twice a week and I had a 45 minute dri...
jbudding General discussion 23 3,583 2009-04-06, 10:05 am