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    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: RE: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generatin...

It would also be nice if it would include the information that EDICT gives about kanji usage for kunyomi, aka when to use 診る vs 観る vs 見る etc.. For some reason its left out. If anyone else wanted a way...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 182 70,439 2016-06-05, 5:03 pm
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: RE: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generatin...

That would actually be pretty useful. A cheap way to do it now would be to download the epwing anki deck (I think someone made a deck with every entry, not sure how its formatted but if it is like 見つけ...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 182 70,439 2016-05-31, 5:19 am
    Thread: Uploading "Nukemarine's Suggested Guide to Beginners in Japanese" to Memrise
Post: RE: Uploading "Nukemarine's Suggested Guide to Beg...

It's a really bad idea to start using Memrise, unless you plan to ditch it soon. It gives you too many reviews, lacks customization, and penalizes typos and you can't adjust vague questions, so you'll...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 18 1,779 2016-05-20, 8:24 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I have a small bug. My bracket/slash keys work (the keys that change dictionary entries when there are multiple choices), but sometimes they don't work at all when I try to switch between an epwing di...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 859 243,345 2016-05-20, 3:08 pm
    Thread: Yomichan for Chrome (think Rikaichan + auto flashcards)!
Post: RE: Yomichan for Chrome (think Rikaichan + auto fl...

I concur, epwing shouldst be supported. I can give you some files if you want foosoft...
rainmaninjapan General discussion 45 2,627 2016-05-20, 9:10 am
    Thread: Too much free time !!!
Post: RE: Too much free time !!!

Just go do Nayr's core 5k deck which I just finished bugfixing. It has listening comprehension and sentence reading cards. You will learn kanji from vocabulary or whatever. If you're not going to stud...
rainmaninjapan General discussion 24 1,348 2016-05-20, 9:08 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

Those are the only fields where I made changes, aside from fixing one or two typos in the "words" field. The meaning field looks like it was Nayr's attempt at making a customized gloss so that sentenc...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-05-11, 4:08 pm
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

I thought about that. It's actually easy, because all of the sound files are unique. Here is the field order you need: Sound Expression Meaning Reading English Translation Word Frequency Order Gloss ...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-05-11, 5:01 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

Here's my updated version for now. https://mega.nz/#!dgZSwYzD!1ntDq0I_P-5s8...2jiQuBEL7U http://www.mediafire.com/download/gkbvj5...k_3.1.apkg I've went through the entire deck and fixed various erro...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-05-11, 2:10 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

That's not what is strange to me. I said that it is transitive, what I'm saying is that the way the sentence is structured, it looks to me like the ending should be intransitive/passive (I really don'...
rainmaninjapan The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,631 2016-05-04, 12:06 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

After this last sentence is fixed, I will be done making revisions to Nary's Core 5k anki deck and post an upload after I add sentence glosses. The problem sentence: 4010: 町の水道は豪雨で重大な支障をきたした。 (this ...
rainmaninjapan The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,631 2016-05-03, 11:22 pm
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

I'm not sure core 10k is a good idea, since so much of it is news oriented words. I did about 3000 of it, and it wanted me to learn words like 爪楊枝 (toothpick) and 人参 (carrot). Even if you learned all ...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-05-02, 4:19 pm
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

I'm pretty much done fixing the deck, there are just 10 cards with problems left (originally more than 100 which I was able to fix unambiguously, and the 1500 formatting errors). If anyone that knows ...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-05-01, 8:01 pm
    Thread: How to create your own ebook?
Post: RE: How to create your own ebook?

I'm not entirely sure but I think Scribd is good for this.
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 4 519 2016-04-24, 11:27 pm
    Thread: Automatic vocab for RTK
Post: RE: Automatic vocab for RTK

This is very useful! I converted from RevTK to Anki just for this. You should post it as a shared addon on Anki though, it was kind of a hassle to get it off github (I resorted to copy and pasting).
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 11 2,724 2016-04-24, 7:07 pm
    Thread: KanJi Hybrid Times
Post: RE: KanJi Hybrid Times

Seems a bit useless, because one kanji can map onto multiple concepts and in this implementation I'm assuming that it doesn't transfer, so 多い wouldn't be used for many and tons (bad example) for insta...
rainmaninjapan General discussion 6 870 2016-04-22, 6:41 pm
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

The 2.5 is already ordered by morphman, so it is ordered in the way that is easiest to go through with i+1 as much as possible. So card one has 1 new word, card two uses that word plus another new wor...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-04-22, 4:21 pm
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

Now that I've finished the deck I'll be posting a revised edition of it within a month. Some furigana were wrong (some flat out wrong), as were some okurigana (I'm not talking about alternative okurig...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-04-21, 9:02 am
    Thread: Listening / Grammar decks?
Post: Listening / Grammar decks?

This is a disgustingly obvious question to ask, but does anyone know of any good anki decks to develop listening comprehension? (Note: I've already read the two recent threads on this topic) I'm ruli...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 0 318 2016-04-21, 8:21 am
    Thread: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration
Post: RE: yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki v...

I'm not sure what you're asking, but I think what you want is able to be done with morphman.
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 298 107,087 2016-04-12, 7:31 am
    Thread: JapanesePod101 Vocabulary (spreadsheet)
Post: RE: JapanesePod101 Vocabulary (spreadsheet)

I made a deck of all the cards combined. The only data I skimmed off was the romaji column. If you want to do the whole thing in a go there'll be some 2000 duplicates to remove (some of their definiti...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 8 1,216 2016-03-25, 5:28 pm
    Thread: JapanesePod101 Vocabulary (spreadsheet)
Post: RE: Japanese Pod 101 Vocabulary

Thanks! I tried to make this months ago but there was a bug preventing me from exporting more than 2k words at a time.
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 8 1,216 2016-03-25, 8:14 am
    Thread: Multiple vs Consolidated Anki Decks
Post: RE: Multiple vs Consolidated Anki Decks

My current system is extremely disorganized and composed mostly of premade decks that I make slight changes to (usually adding kanji for words I know the kanji of (if they are semi-common), changing m...
rainmaninjapan General discussion 43 15,714 2016-03-24, 5:56 am
    Thread: Is there really such a thing as using "bad listening resources"?
Post: RE: Is there really such a thing as using "bad lis...

Do you want to be able to understand anime? Then anime is a good listening resource. (It's more efficient to listen to things with higher word densities though, since shows and movies have much less ...
rainmaninjapan The Japanese language 11 1,281 2016-03-11, 9:20 pm
    Thread: How would you replace the Kanji writing system?
Post: RE: How would you replace the Kanji writing system...

Not more kanji, bad idea. I would keep kanji though. Give unique hiragana/katakana for the しゅ、しょ type of sounds, because it is annoying to be subconsciously thinking of しゅと as being a longer word tha...
rainmaninjapan General discussion 25 2,572 2016-03-11, 2:21 am
    Thread: Feature request : Japanese keywords
Post: RE: Feature request : Japanese keywords

I think the best idea is to use japanese keywords that are kanji themselves (if they are actually in use (or if they denote a very commonly used word which is usually written in kana)). If there isn't...
rainmaninjapan Remembering the Kanji 4 1,077 2016-03-05, 6:36 am
    Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?
Post: RE: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?

Mine is also Mr. T. I do still use Hito for 侍 though.
rainmaninjapan Remembering the Kanji 66 19,429 2016-03-05, 6:32 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

Oh nice, Nayr has returned. It feels like the Second Coming. I've gone halfway through your deck (after going going halfway through core 6k) and it's great. Is your thing going to be a subscription ...
rainmaninjapan Learning resources 204 74,615 2016-03-02, 5:39 pm
    Thread: mistake in 8547 sentences deck?
Post: RE: mistake in 8547 sentences deck?

He's probably talking about the 4chan daily Japanese thread which has many useful resources.
rainmaninjapan The Japanese language 34 7,894 2016-03-02, 5:37 pm
    Thread: Motivation for learning Japanese
Post: RE: Motivation for learning Japanese

Aside from practical reasons, learning Japanese allows me to relabel the time I would have spent anyway watching videos or reading from "wasted time" to "learning Japanese".
rainmaninjapan General discussion 14 1,789 2016-02-29, 3:23 am