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    Thread: JLPT listening practice: numbers
Post: JLPT listening practice: numbers

Same problem here. Even if I'm listening to the news and I *know* today's date is coming, it's still ni-sen-juu-blahblahblahblahwhat? I can't help you in any way, but I do support your quest!
nickoakden JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 4 1,529 2014-10-02, 3:14 pm
    Thread: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference allowed?
Post: JLPT: copying answers down for future reference al...

That's a risky business! The UK JLPT people sent me an email three days ago entitled "About misconducts at JLPT". It said if I so much as sneeze, they're allowed to break both of my legs. You're not ...
nickoakden JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 9 2,515 2014-07-05, 6:01 am
    Thread: JLPT July 2014
Post: JLPT July 2014

I'll be sitting the N2 in London, and it will be my first JLPT. I haven't really done any exam-specific Japanese study before, so I'm going to use these few months to go through past exam papers, and ...
nickoakden JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 55 14,394 2014-04-06, 6:58 am
    Thread: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website
Post: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website

mmhorii Wrote: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 chec...
nickoakden Learning resources 32 8,824 2013-12-19, 9:19 am
    Thread: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website
Post: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar Website

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.
nickoakden Learning resources 32 8,824 2013-12-15, 10:48 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1899/nitr.jpg Here it is. I've added the sentence field myself. NijiRanger's technique would work just fine for furiganising the example sentences (thanks!), but it...
nickoakden Learning resources 448 97,966 2013-07-23, 2:20 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

I'm using the Japanese Support add-on, which works great for generating furigana in the "Reading" field, when I enter kanji into the "Expression" field. I want to edit the "Japanese (reading)" note t...
nickoakden Learning resources 448 97,966 2013-07-21, 6:40 am
    Thread: What makes this funny?
Post: What makes this funny?

This one's my favourite: Three elephants, In a bathtub. No soap radio.
nickoakden General discussion 9 2,612 2010-05-25, 1:56 pm
    Thread: Which word is the hardest to pronounce
Post: Which word is the hardest to pronounce

I have trouble with any word that has a "N" sound followed by a syllable beginning with "R"/"L". For example, 連絡. It's hard to explain why..... When I say an N my tongue is already on the roof of my m...
nickoakden The Japanese language 61 19,351 2010-05-25, 1:34 pm
    Thread: BBC Language Courses
Post: BBC Language Courses

I don't mind them being called alphabets. Even if it's not technically true I'm sure it's more easily understandable than "syllabaries"(sp?), or whatever the correct term is.
nickoakden Learning resources 5 1,232 2010-04-26, 10:37 am
    Thread: Sword World 2.0-Japanese Gamebook on DS!
Post: Sword World 2.0-Japanese Gamebook on DS!

aphasiac Wrote:would you keep your thumb on the page, so you can cheat and go back to change your choices? ;) Remember when it asked you to "roll a dice"? I had a die in my imagination and it seemed...
nickoakden General discussion 19 3,092 2009-09-04, 12:30 pm
    Thread: The weirdest clock you'll ever see
Post: The weirdest clock you'll ever see

I thought "well, I'll just watch it 'til the hour, to see the special dance." So I did. Then it all CHANGED COLOUR. There's no turning back now.
nickoakden Off topic 59 10,593 2009-02-22, 3:02 am
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

Uh huh. I was hoping to use the order/words from KO, with iKnow's sentences and audio, inside Anki. Seemed like the appropriate place.
nickoakden Group study 304 90,246 2009-02-17, 1:49 pm
    Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)
Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request)

This might be a noob question, but can you download the audio from iKnow, so I can put all these useful sentences into Anki?
nickoakden Group study 304 90,246 2009-02-17, 2:04 am
    Thread: Access to the KO2001 Google Document?
Post: Access to the KO2001 Google Document?

Me three, I bought 'em both. Although, I'm not really going through them until I've finished Tae Kim. No rush!
nickoakden Learning resources 4 1,019 2009-02-08, 2:47 pm
    Thread: Firefox add-on Kanji-lish.
Post: Firefox add-on Kanji-lish.

Yeah, I'm using it now. I really like it. I try and spend a whole bunch of time on Japanese, but I'm not Mr. AJATT, so I still like reading my RSS feeds, and a couple of forums. Keeping this on all th...
nickoakden Learning resources 16 5,067 2009-02-03, 2:43 pm
    Thread: Firefox add-on Kanji-lish.
Post: Firefox add-on Kanji-lish.

.....is this as genius as it looks?
nickoakden Learning resources 16 5,067 2009-02-03, 4:44 am
    Thread: What language are you going to learn after Japanese?
Post: What language are you going to learn after Japanes...

A European language. I can't decide between French or German. I'm a heck of a long way away from "finishing" Japanese, so I won't be learning anything else anytime soon, but I'd be interested to see ...
nickoakden Off topic 51 9,075 2008-10-27, 1:58 pm
    Thread: How long have you been studying Japanese?
Post: How long have you been studying Japanese?

I learned for a year, pretty slowly. Evening class, light vocab and grammar, kana. After those twelve months, I read AJATT, found this site, and decided to step it up a notch or five. I'm now a coup...
nickoakden General discussion 27 10,684 2008-10-18, 7:56 am
    Thread: Technology TTS Text to speech
Post: Technology TTS Text to speech

You'd quickly become an expert at such sentences as "I'm hungry", and "Stop it, it hurts!"
nickoakden Learning resources 9 1,836 2008-10-14, 4:54 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

I've basically just started the sentences, less than a fortnight ago. At the moment I'm struggling quite a lot - my vocabulary needs a lot of work, so I'm failing a lot of cards. With audio, sometimes...
nickoakden General discussion 1,517 595,013 2008-10-14, 4:49 pm
    Thread: Technology TTS Text to speech
Post: Technology TTS Text to speech

I'm using it manually, so I'm confident that I know when Misaki's messing up. I don't want to lead myself down a wrong turn, but it's just so nice to have audio in Anki, mixing things up a bit with th...
nickoakden Learning resources 9 1,836 2008-10-14, 2:32 pm
    Thread: Sort By Number of Fails?
Post: Sort By Number of Fails?

You're nice to us.
nickoakden Remembering the Kanji 19 3,695 2008-10-11, 2:01 pm
    Thread: Racism in Tokyo
Post: Racism in Tokyo

**NOTE to the irony impaired. This is a comedy video. Both of the people are actors. And YES the reason he is staring at her is because she is wearing a pikachu outfit. That is the whole point. The pu...
nickoakden Off topic 82 11,951 2008-10-11, 8:25 am
    Thread: Time to study Japanese?
Post: Time to study Japanese?

CaLeDee Wrote:好きこそものの上手なれ (Become good at what you like doing) : Yes I stole it! But I like it ;) Did you get it from a bookmark that came with Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar? I have one of tho...
nickoakden General discussion 24 5,054 2008-10-10, 5:17 pm
    Thread: Music
Post: Music

God I love Melt-Banana. I am now paying infinitely more attention to your post an will investigate the Japanese Bjork! It's true about the lyrics though. Quite a lot of Japanese bands I love to bits ...
nickoakden General discussion 100 24,333 2008-10-09, 1:32 am
    Thread: Book - Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar
Post: Book - Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar

I swear, I owe you guys a beer or something.
nickoakden Learning resources 225 70,896 2008-10-08, 6:59 pm
    Thread: Book - Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar
Post: Book - Understanding Basic Japanese Grammar

Hmm, I'm starting to get a bit wary of adding too many 私は...ーます sentences. One thing I learned from my trip to Japan was that casual Japanese is essential. I understand why they teach the politer stuf...
nickoakden Learning resources 225 70,896 2008-10-08, 5:39 pm
    Thread: Learning environment and methods, whoa!
Post: Learning environment and methods, whoa!

Time bomb?! Study or die? I *like* it! Also: CaLeDee Wrote:nickoakden Wrote:Erubey Wrote:I don't really like Japanese music. That's like saying "I don't like music". They've got everything. Whats w...
nickoakden General discussion 40 8,406 2008-10-07, 3:51 am
    Thread: Learning environment and methods, whoa!
Post: Learning environment and methods, whoa!

Erubey Wrote:I don't really like Japanese music. That's like saying "I don't like music". They've got everything.
nickoakden General discussion 40 8,406 2008-10-06, 3:17 pm