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    Thread: Any recommendations for recent JDrama romantic comedies?
Post: Any recommendations for recent JDrama romantic com...

Here is a site that lets you select by genre. You can use the search parameter panel on the right.
mmhorii Off topic 5 1,478 2015-08-15, 11:04 am
    Thread: Mango Premiere: Bleeding Edge or Old Hat?
Post: Mango Premiere: Bleeding Edge or Old Hat?

I tried out the movie "Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge" (definitely an unorthodox film choice for a language learning system). Each line of dialogue is broken down into parts and explained. The dialogue ...
mmhorii Learning resources 5 1,283 2014-01-18, 11:02 am
    Thread: Mango Premiere: Bleeding Edge or Old Hat?
Post: Mango Premiere: Bleeding Edge or Old Hat?

Any library with a subscription to Mango Languages also gets Mango Premiere. The administrator just needs to accepts the Terms & Conditions, according to the website. I don't know how many non-U....
mmhorii Learning resources 5 1,283 2014-01-17, 11:02 pm
    Thread: Mango Premiere: Bleeding Edge or Old Hat?
Post: Mango Premiere: Bleeding Edge or Old Hat?

You may have already heard of Mango Languages. The company recently added a new product to their language learning suite, called Mango Premiere. It's billed as the "first and only language and culture...
mmhorii Learning resources 5 1,283 2014-01-17, 6:06 pm
    Thread: What grammar is this?
Post: What grammar is this?

If I say "yo, get your s*** together," that would probably be a rude thing to say.
mmhorii The Japanese language 15 2,369 2014-01-17, 11:41 am
    Thread: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website
Post: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website

nickoakden Wrote:I haven't posted in ages, and am doing so now just to thank you. So simple, so incredibly useful. I'll go through every entry. While you're at it, you might want to check the sentence...
mmhorii Learning resources 32 8,825 2013-12-15, 1:35 pm
    Thread: Manzai!
Post: Manzai!

Thanks for sharing--it was fun to watch. How much time did you guys spend practicing the routine?
mmhorii Off topic 7 1,912 2013-09-14, 10:41 am
    Thread: Onyomi goals
Post: Onyomi goals

For perfect groups, whenever the given phonetic component is present, the reading can be predicted with absolute certainty. For pure groups, whenever the phonetic component is present, one possible ...
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 84 28,676 2013-09-05, 10:47 pm
    Thread: Onyomi goals
Post: Onyomi goals

ドカーーーーン!!!!! You just blew my mind. I love it.
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 84 28,676 2013-09-05, 9:12 pm
    Thread: Onyomi goals
Post: Onyomi goals

This is awesome; looking forward to seeing more!
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 84 28,676 2013-08-26, 8:53 pm
    Thread: Onyomi goals
Post: Onyomi goals

Ok, now I see what you're trying to do--I didn't understand at first. If you can post your improved results and/or script when you finish, that would be excellent.
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 84 28,676 2013-08-25, 5:59 pm
    Thread: Onyomi goals
Post: Onyomi goals

@Vempele: Glad you like the link. I just wanted to mention that near the end of the author's post, there are download links for several tsv files, including one called components_phonetic.kanjivg.t...
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 84 28,676 2013-08-25, 5:22 pm
    Thread: Onyomi goals
Post: Onyomi goals

Here's a quantitative analysis of the power of phonetic components in kanji. http://namakajiri.net/nikki/testing-the-...ese-kanji/ As the author notes, it gets even better when expanding beyond the ...
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 84 28,676 2013-08-22, 8:59 pm
    Thread: Improving long-term memory
Post: Improving long-term memory

Do grad school students remember everything they were taught in college all the time? http://www.mydogear.com/articles/51e2098...40a8080bc8
mmhorii Off topic 17 4,975 2013-08-10, 10:17 am
    Thread: How to approach Japanese people
Post: How to approach Japanese people

When I was in Maui, a car rental agent said to me "Mahalo de gozaimasu." Laughter ensued. Humor's a good way to break the ice, too.
mmhorii General discussion 7 2,263 2013-06-23, 12:20 pm
    Thread: Some newbie questions about how my japanese study is going
Post: Some newbie questions about how my japanese study ...

This is a gentle introduction to the Japanese language for people who like anime and manga. It may be an entertaining supplement to your other language learning resources. http://www.anime-manga.jp/
mmhorii The Japanese language 39 7,953 2013-05-01, 7:52 am
    Thread: Are Japanese subtitles a handicap?
Post: Are Japanese subtitles a handicap?

Dave McLeod explains his method for learning languages, and how transcripts and subtitles play a vital role in his approach. http://lifehacker.com/5839401/the-most-e...uage-alone
mmhorii The Japanese language 46 11,590 2013-04-28, 1:04 pm
    Thread: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here.
Post: eeerrr... I hate people correcting stuffs here.

Our fearless moderators appear to be taking the day off... We might as well turn this thread into a thread about insulting each other in Japanese. Romaji, kana, and/or kanji: it doesn't matter. No ho...
mmhorii General discussion 46 11,092 2013-04-21, 7:49 pm
    Thread: buonaparte's audio and text links
Post: buonaparte's audio and text links

大変ご愁傷様でございました。ブオナパート先輩、本当にお疲れ様でしたよ!!!
mmhorii Learning resources 497 278,870 2013-04-07, 9:52 pm
    Thread: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch accent
Post: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch...

When the signal-to-noise ratio drops, it makes sense that the listener uses whatever remaining cues available, and fills in perceptual gaps using context. For example, we have the McGurk Effect where ...
mmhorii The Japanese language 9 1,470 2013-03-31, 10:56 pm
    Thread: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch accent
Post: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch...

@fakewookie Ever hear of the experiment that Pavlov performed on dogs to induce neurosis? He taught dogs to discriminate between a circle and a square shape. He then slowly made the shapes look more a...
mmhorii The Japanese language 9 1,470 2013-03-31, 8:51 pm
    Thread: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch accent
Post: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch...

@dizmox You have great ears! Given that the accuracy rate in the experiment was 65%, and given that 21 Japanese-speaking people (I'm assuming they were native speakers) were given the test, it seems l...
mmhorii The Japanese language 9 1,470 2013-03-31, 8:27 pm
    Thread: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch accent
Post: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch...

Who said anything about helping beginners? :) Yeah, it's possible that people can tell the difference between   kare wa tori ga ii (accent on ri) and   kare wa tori ga ii from harmonics of the ...
mmhorii The Japanese language 9 1,470 2013-03-31, 7:25 pm
    Thread: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch accent
Post: ひそひそ話: Perceptual cues for decoding Japanese pitch...

What perceptual cues do people use when decoding Japanese pitch accent? If the primary acoustic correlate is the fundamental frequency of speech, what happens when the fundamental frequency is replace...
mmhorii The Japanese language 9 1,470 2013-03-31, 5:27 pm
    Thread: Heisig's Error: RTK 2 and the Search for Meaning
Post: Heisig's Error: RTK 2 and the Search for Meaning

tashippy Wrote:i felt like i was standing between two mirrors when i read your post, op. if only we could keep abstracting and learning parts of a language in an endless preparation for native materia...
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 7 2,018 2013-03-19, 7:01 am
    Thread: Heisig's Error: RTK 2 and the Search for Meaning
Post: Heisig's Error: RTK 2 and the Search for Meaning

I am troll, hear me roar. I must have missed some key ingredient that incites people. Do I need to throw in some AJATT hate? Or is it love?
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 7 2,018 2013-03-19, 12:48 am
    Thread: Heisig's Error: RTK 2 and the Search for Meaning
Post: Heisig's Error: RTK 2 and the Search for Meaning

This post is a troll. Reader, be forewarned. I'm going to claim that Heisig made a big mistake in Remembering the Kanji 2. What did he do wrong? He included the English meanings for the kanji compoun...
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 7 2,018 2013-03-18, 11:22 pm
    Thread: How did you do RtK2, the book?
Post: How did you do RtK2, the book?

Since you didn't explain why you don't like the movie method and kanji chain approaches, I doubt that I can offer an approach that will appeal to you. Instead, I'll present a three-phase approach for ...
mmhorii Remembering the Kanji 9 4,495 2013-03-16, 6:33 pm
    Thread: Core 10000 anki deck?
Post: Core 10000 anki deck?

Hi Isshin, overture2112 is the one that ripped the content from the JSensei app, so if anyone is the creator, it's overture2112. The version from depositfiles is in Anki 1.x format, I believe. I al...
mmhorii Learning resources 38 23,615 2013-03-16, 11:26 am
    Thread: Core 10000 anki deck?
Post: Core 10000 anki deck?

Someone else uploaded a Core 10K deck to the Anki shared decks repository (someone's not playing by the rules :) ). It's called: core10K (core 2k6k +4k more) This is an Anki 2 deck. The same rules a...
mmhorii Learning resources 38 23,615 2013-03-16, 9:02 am