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    Thread: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?
Post: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?

Okay, contact me by email... kspdotarcuateATgmaildotcom and I will send you the file. From what I know of the CSV format, you could probably achieve all the changes you need with careful use of globa...
Torrential Learning resources 13 2,051 2015-06-15, 1:17 am
    Thread: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?
Post: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?

What's the desired format for CSV? It might be easier for me to re-format it for you as I have access to it programmatically.
Torrential Learning resources 13 2,051 2015-06-14, 9:59 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?
Post: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?

Thinking about this a little more... It would also be possible to configure the list so that vocab entries were filtered according to kanji already seen. That is, compounds would not be presented unti...
Torrential Learning resources 13 2,051 2015-06-14, 9:20 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?
Post: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?

Sure... How important is the kanji order? With a little bit of work I could resort it to Heisig order, but if you don't care about the order I wouldn't bother (It would take some programming). The ke...
Torrential Learning resources 13 2,051 2015-06-14, 9:00 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?
Post: Spreadsheet with common vocab acc. to kanji? KiC?

I have a plain text file that you might find useful. It uses the top-ranking definitions from EDICT (the shorter, common-word version, supplemented where needed with the uncommon word version). There...
Torrential Learning resources 13 2,051 2015-06-14, 7:15 pm
    Thread: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware
Post: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware

I've downloaded the latest version of Anki, and tried out the deck at this link: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/4221416043 The images are not available at the provided link... Any pointers as to wh...
Torrential Learning resources 16 2,721 2012-12-22, 9:35 pm
    Thread: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware
Post: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware

BTW, I had a quick look at the brainrush site. For learning animals in Spanish, in one of their demo lessons, I found the format quite reasonable.
Torrential Learning resources 16 2,721 2012-12-22, 6:21 pm
    Thread: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware
Post: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware

Hi there, I'm familiar with Anki. As far as I know, it misses the mark for what I am proposing. For instance, it relies on users self-marking and then self-rating. Personally, I think all that meta-c...
Torrential Learning resources 16 2,721 2012-12-22, 6:06 pm
    Thread: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware
Post: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware

Thanks, That's just the sort of feedback I am after. To be honest, I am surprised they are even "technically correct", as I used Google Translate. What do you think of the suggested changes marked ...
Torrential Learning resources 16 2,721 2012-12-21, 8:16 pm
    Thread: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware
Post: Please help translate my Rosetta-style freeware

Hi everyone, I recently bought Rosetta Stone in Japanese for my son, and had a few issues with the company in terms of bugs and poor service, so I decided to write a freeware competitor. (See the Ros...
Torrential Learning resources 16 2,721 2012-12-21, 7:02 pm
    Thread: The Ultimate App
Post: The Ultimate App

Norman Wrote:I have noticed that different RTK users have a particular preference for a certain edition of the book. I personally prefer the latest 6th edition, but apparently there are quite a few st...
Torrential Learning resources 11 2,798 2012-04-02, 4:41 pm
    Thread: The Ultimate App
Post: The Ultimate App

This is under development... [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aROA4KqQSM4] Still in beta mode, so you can still ask for any feature you want. The interface might be more complex than you are c...
Torrential Learning resources 11 2,798 2012-04-02, 4:54 am
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

Thanks for that! I'm pleased you didn't consult the original at first - it's nice to know what a more literal take on the sentences looks like. I'd already been biased by starting with the original ...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-27, 4:43 am
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

I was wondering if someone would be so kind as to help me translate some sentences from HP... I have gone through the first chapter and matched up the Japanese and English so that numbered sentences i...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-25, 1:19 am
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

These were the kanji not found in RTK Vol 1, but used in HP: 詮誰嗅嬉々噂鞄頬頃叩湧甥那雤焚椅咳闇縞髷忚戚蹴喉釆膝鍮謎貼挨拶鷲匂閏掻爬這拳肋俺眩閃杖揃刉蝋粥鍵呟轢籠尻敶巴釘槌吊軋轟枞股琥珀吠嘴綴呪錆癇癪眉獰紐沙汰艘〇鍋錫箒痙攣脾樽尖秤叉舵鍾筍顎嘘务讐耽剥埃褪奢妖樫肘芯楓檀柊唖絨毯柵蛙鈎胡椒雛呆芻泤崖狡猾堵卿鎧蓋炸牢廻聡釜煎屌璧鉾愕喧嘩坦鷹...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-07, 6:31 pm
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

caivano Wrote:How about comparing the amount of unique kanji? Is that easy and accurate? Yes, that's pretty straight-forward. There are 1603 unique kanji in HP book 1. Starting with the RTK list of 20...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-07, 6:25 pm
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

oregum Wrote:Anyways, these should be helpful if you are determined to make a go at it: Wow, thanks for the links. They will be very helpful.
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-06, 5:46 pm
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

caivano Wrote:By the way how many unique words are in Harry Potter? It'd be interesting to compare it to other novels I was pondering that question myself, just today. I can get back to you with some ...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-06, 5:39 pm
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

Thanks to the various posters for pointing out some of the caveats. I'd still like to hear from people who would like to supplement their conventional study with vocab and grammar exercises derived ...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-05, 5:32 pm
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

Hi there, Yes, I am intending to read HP with virtually no experience. Part of my reasoning is that I want to learn a whole pile of vocab any way, so why not learn that pile and use the contextual cu...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-04, 4:32 pm
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

Hi Caivano. Yeah, I'm aware of the potential 'unnaturalness' of Japanese HP. My familiarity with the book and the availability of the audio more than makes up for that, in my own case. I've been list...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-02, 11:46 pm
    Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group
Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group

Hi people, I am starting a Harry Potter study group (ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石) , and I'd welcome fellow students. The group will be pitched at beginner level (I'm a rank newbie), but should be useful for interm...
Torrential Group study 50 25,161 2012-03-02, 7:44 pm
    Thread: SRS for high school students
Post: SRS for high school students

Let us know what you go with in the end, and how the students respond. If you have any super-keen students, please consider sending some my way as I am looking for people to beta-test my own kanji dr...
Torrential Learning resources 17 3,477 2011-08-14, 7:32 am
    Thread: RevTK Software Developer Showcase
Post: RevTK Software Developer Showcase

Kanji Sketch Pad - Link Uploaded Android version to Google Play... Draw with your finger and get immediate feedback. Optionally incorporate pictures of the primitives that appear when you draw or whe...
Torrential Learning resources 26 26,169 2011-03-28, 8:28 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Are many people actively working on the list? Following my posts above, I started to eliminate homonyms from my own copy of the list about 3 weeks ago, and it seemed quite doable. There were about 118...
Torrential Remembering the Kanji 410 148,989 2011-03-15, 6:03 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Hi there, Thanks for all the comments. I'll use the current list as a base, and then come up with my own hiragana as needed, avoiding rare words. I don't actually have RTK, but I do have Henshall's b...
Torrential Remembering the Kanji 410 148,989 2011-02-14, 8:30 am
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Hi people, I am new to Japanese, and don't really intend to learn it myself, but my son is learning it and I am adapting my own self-written flashcard program for him so that he can begin to learn th...
Torrential Remembering the Kanji 410 148,989 2011-02-13, 7:06 pm