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Thread: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application. Post: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application. johnrb Wrote:I'm planning to build a tool that creates all the images before hand so we don't have to rely on the iPhones ability to render the font. I'm a big fan of the YOz Pen-ji fonts for handwrit... |
aboros | General discussion | 76 | 29,475 | 2010-04-19, 5:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application. Post: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application. re: offline mode johnrb Wrote:how will things like stories, etc work? Will only some features work when you are online? Here's my suggestion for how offline works: The iPhone stores locally: 1) the ... |
aboros | General discussion | 76 | 29,475 | 2010-04-02, 6:49 am | ||
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Thread: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application. Post: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application. I also think that the best thing about an iPhone app would be an offline mode. The regular website works well on the iPhone as is - an app or webapp that would make it slightly less cumbersome would ... |
aboros | General discussion | 76 | 29,475 | 2010-04-01, 11:28 am | ||
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Thread: interesting graph and stats Post: interesting graph and stats Hi - I spent a few minutes messing around with the data. Check out the "motion chart" linked to this spreadsheet (click the tab called "Gadget1" at the bottom of the screen if you only see data). (W... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 3,989 | 2009-11-19, 1:01 pm | ||
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Thread: KO2001 - Then what? Post: KO2001 - Then what? I have this book at home: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns (Kodansha Dictionary) (Paperback) by Naoko Chino (Author) It's got some sample sentences, does the grammar and sentence str... |
aboros | The Japanese language | 9 | 3,099 | 2009-09-29, 9:06 am | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Mcjon01 Wrote:Huh. What do you know? It seems I've passed 1531 without even noticing. I think I'll hold off on celebrating until I'm done, though. I don't want to get distracted again. ;) Same for... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,196 | 2008-07-28, 1:37 pm | ||
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Thread: On 577 and running into trouble Post: On 577 and running into trouble Fully agree with tuuli and katsuo. Once you have that "pop into your head' image, work it into your story no matter how ridiculous the image - in fact the more ridiculous (and the more active) the be... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,581 | 2008-06-16, 2:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Thank you all Post: Thank you all ファブリス Wrote:Since I don't use PocketPC's or iPhone's I'm still a bit puzzled about what you guys are looking for in a "mobile" version. Are you looking for the equivalent of a pocketPC program which w... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 2,488 | 2008-06-16, 12:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? Post: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? I use Mr. T and my wife when either one or the other makes more sense. She gets a kick out of it when I tell her the stories that involve her - and she's plenty colorful enough to give me vivid image... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 66 | 19,527 | 2008-06-02, 1:36 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK + Pimsleur + Doramas Post: RTK + Pimsleur + Doramas Your approach sounds pretty similar to my process thus far. I've learned about 1500 kanji, and am currently around lesson 12 of Pimsleur II. It's taken me 20 months or so to get this far, but I'm pr... |
aboros | General discussion | 153 | 24,625 | 2008-05-12, 10:55 am | ||
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Thread: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?) Post: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?) I have been slowly working through Pimsleur and RTK / RevTK as basically my first introduction to Japanese (I knew a few phrases and <10 kanji before beginning, but that's it). I've been pretty ... |
aboros | General discussion | 24 | 4,225 | 2008-04-22, 3:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Stroke Order Rules Post: Stroke Order Rules For SOD with direction, there's also the Yamasa dictionary - which is unbearably slow, not to mention incomplete, but offers handwriting samples and animated SOD, neither of which I've found elsewhere... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 48 | 22,847 | 2007-10-29, 7:36 am | ||
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Thread: Mixing Mandarin with Japanese Post: Mixing Mandarin with Japanese I enjoyed this article, "Why Chinese is So Damn Hard." I may have gotten to it originally by a link on this site - can't remember. It concludes: "Someone once said that learning Chinese is "a five-ye... |
aboros | General discussion | 23 | 4,990 | 2007-09-20, 12:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Using the Japanese IME Post: Using the Japanese IME I highly recommend the following resource on typing Japanese in Mac. It includes a full chart on how to type anything. http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingJapanese.html. Jarvik7 Wrote:I don't t... |
aboros | The Japanese language | 81 | 60,524 | 2007-09-14, 5:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Failed Cards? Post: Failed Cards? wasurenaide Wrote:is there a way to click "learned" for all of the cards in the failed box? i currently have 500 in my failed box, but i have a feeling a lot of those were failed do to rushing, or tes... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 2,035 | 2007-08-17, 5:28 pm | ||
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Thread: I Don't Know That Kanji! Post: I Don't Know That Kanji! hknamida Wrote:Does anyone know of any similar applications for OSX? JEDict has a similar handwriting recognition feature, although, at least from the screenshot, it doesn't look as elegant as the IME... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,934 | 2007-08-17, 12:23 pm | ||
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Thread: The Katakana are kicking my *** Post: The Katakana are kicking my *** Correct me if I'm wrong, but the second stroke of [kana]N[/kana] is written heading (N)orth, while the second stroke of [kana]SO[/kana] is written heading (SO)uth. |
aboros | The Japanese language | 17 | 6,316 | 2007-08-12, 5:50 pm | ||
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Thread: RevTK on Nintendo DS Post: RevTK on Nintendo DS I've been R'ing the K on Opera for Nintendo Wii. Haven't tried it for DS, but wouldn't be surprised if it works. |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 7,494 | 2007-02-13, 6:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice for someone doing it backwards Post: Advice for someone doing it backwards I finally got Pimsleur from the library, and thoroughly enjoyed this choice remark from the short chapter on learning to read Japanese: Quote:When you can recognize some 50 basic Japanese Kanji chara... |
aboros | General discussion | 9 | 3,258 | 2007-02-10, 8:08 am | ||
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Thread: The key ingredient for remembering in RTK Post: The key ingredient for remembering in RTK I came across an interesting Scientific American article that's only tangentially related to learning Kanji, but maybe some of y'all will find it interesting too? It's about how infants and toddlers l... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 2,123 | 2007-02-01, 8:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Infant primative Post: Infant primative laxxy Wrote:I think it is wrong to think of stories for the *primitives* in principle. They should be remembered using visual memory only. I'd never really thought about this before, but I agree based... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 3,117 | 2007-01-28, 11:36 am | ||
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Thread: What does your writing look like? Post: What does your writing look like? Colonel32, I wish my writing was as neat as yours. Maybe I'll get over my embarassment and post some soon. In the meantime, I don't think I've seen this resource mentioned in the Forums: The Yamasa o... |
aboros | The Japanese language | 36 | 24,248 | 2006-12-21, 10:09 am | ||
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Thread: Your favourite story by someone else Post: Your favourite story by someone else saranich Wrote:Remember the horny, brainy, tongue-wagging man who was formerly US president? This (曽 frame 501) worked perfectly for me, and was useful for 憎 (626) too - I'm a clinton fan, but lots of... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 24,721 | 2006-12-15, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: High Speed RTK Post: High Speed RTK A number of good comments so far. I'm using the Halpern frequency numbers from KANJIDIC because I couldn't find anything else in a format that was easy to use in Excel. I'm happy to use any other li... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 7,434 | 2006-12-11, 8:06 pm | ||
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Thread: High Speed RTK Post: High Speed RTK UPDATE: I spent the afternoon working on trying to refine the idea. Using KanjiDic and the Heisig-Data file from Zig, I cross-referenced the 2500 most frequently used kanji against the Heisig word lis... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 7,434 | 2006-12-10, 9:06 pm | ||
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Thread: High Speed RTK Post: High Speed RTK wrightak Wrote:You might ask why I'm bothered about all this if I've already done the RTK method anyway. I guess I'd just love to make it all as accessible as possible to future learners. I for one th... |
aboros | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 7,434 | 2006-12-06, 2:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice for someone doing it backwards Post: Advice for someone doing it backwards CharleyGarrett Wrote:If I know A reading of a kanji, then I can use the IME or JWPce to type in the kanji That's an excellent point - the only way for me to type kanji currently is to used eDict or so... |
aboros | General discussion | 9 | 3,258 | 2006-12-06, 2:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice for someone doing it backwards Post: Advice for someone doing it backwards wrightak Wrote:What sort of books were you reading that showed you kanji early without explaining what they meant? The textbook I was looking at introduced kanji early on in practice sentences and exa... |
aboros | General discussion | 9 | 3,258 | 2006-12-05, 10:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice for someone doing it backwards Post: Advice for someone doing it backwards After visiting Japan three times, including a month-long honeymoon, I decided to start on the long path to understanding the language. My wife learned Japanese in college, and so I started on her book... |
aboros | General discussion | 9 | 3,258 | 2006-12-02, 5:11 pm | ||