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    Thread: Anecdotes, storytelling, jokes etc
Post: Anecdotes, storytelling, jokes etc

My favorite podcast: 四畳半スクリーマー 四畳半スクリーマー・過去の放送 Homepage Beware: excessive amount of toilet humor (うんこ、ちんこ、オナニー等)!
nortalf The Japanese language 13 4,538 2011-04-04, 3:02 pm
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

Microsoft has its own variation of SHIFT-JIS called CP932 and in fact the encoding of these files (and their names in the archives) is the latter variety. This can mess with the encoding detection, at...
nortalf Learning resources 277 117,179 2011-02-13, 3:43 pm
    Thread: Software to grab audio from personal dvds
Post: Software to grab audio from personal dvds

Visit http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ if you don't have it already. Then: Code: mencoder dvd:// -alang ja -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -o <filename>.avi and then: Code: mplayer -dumpaudio <filename&g...
nortalf Learning resources 3 1,652 2011-02-05, 8:51 am
    Thread: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?"
Post: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?"

I have to imagine it because I never experienced :). Just like you (I assume) never experienced reading with strong kanji knowledge and zero grammar. We are coming from the opposite directions, and ho...
nortalf The Japanese language 35 18,085 2011-01-18, 4:59 pm
    Thread: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?"
Post: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?"

pm215 Wrote:Conversely, knowing 1900 kanji doesn't mean you have a 7500 word vocabulary. It does mean. If you know the 2000 RTK1 kanji, you can easily guess the meaning of tens of thousands of words, ...
nortalf The Japanese language 35 18,085 2011-01-18, 3:18 pm
    Thread: Are YOU as Smart as a Japanese Kid?
Post: Are YOU as Smart as a Japanese Kid?

I'm with Garfield. I hate 月(曜日).
nortalf General discussion 32 8,288 2011-01-18, 2:01 pm
    Thread: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?"
Post: My answer to "how many kanji do you need?"

Opinions より data! That guy named Pomax made a word frequency list based on more than a 1000 modern novels: http://pomax.nihongoresources.com/index....1222520260 . I just analyzed that list, and found...
nortalf The Japanese language 35 18,085 2011-01-18, 12:48 pm
    Thread: Do any of you guys hide subtitles)english ones? how?
Post: Do any of you guys hide subtitles)english ones? ho...

The mplayer can filter it out. Add the following to your config file (in linux: ~/.mplayer/config): Code: vf=delogo=x:y:w:h:t Description from the man: Code: delogo[=x:y:w:h:t]    &nb...
nortalf The Japanese language 10 2,016 2011-01-18, 6:32 am
    Thread: buonaparte's audio and text links
Post: buonaparte's audio and text links

Milne - Micimackó: http://mek.oszk.hu/00400/00449/ Bulgakov - A Mester és Margarita: http://mek.oszk.hu/02800/02825/
nortalf Learning resources 497 278,572 2010-12-21, 10:39 am
    Thread: Local radio site
Post: Local radio site

If you want music only, try this: mms://fr1.101.ru/c16_12_128?st=060520800...2320101103 I dream about a BBC4-quality talk radio...
nortalf Learning resources 7 1,970 2010-11-26, 6:01 am
    Thread: where to find manga in Japanese to view online?
Post: where to find manga in Japanese to view online?

Here is two totally innocent blog about manga: http://pippop-manga.blogspot.com/ http://jmanga-comic.blogspot.com/
nortalf Learning resources 8 18,384 2010-10-11, 4:09 am
    Thread: Rikaichan Monolingual?
Post: Rikaichan Monolingual?

Hi! Here is the Shinmeikai in StarDict format: http://www.multiupload.com/B9X47V8VUN and its source, a kind of HTML: http://www.multiupload.com/MEZ7MORROL Maybe helps, although the I kept the gaiji ...
nortalf General discussion 37 16,758 2010-08-23, 2:48 am
    Thread: Monolingual popup dictionary?
Post: Monolingual popup dictionary?

I used that file too, but it has character encoding errors, that caused problems in some cases for me and for jino123 above. I converted it with the correct encoding and added some formatting and colo...
nortalf Learning resources 46 20,324 2010-05-28, 5:45 am
    Thread: Monolingual popup dictionary?
Post: Monolingual popup dictionary?

The Meikyo J-J dictionary is free to try with Babylon: http://babylon.com/dictionary/meikyo/japanese/. Unfortunately I don't have Windows, so I converted it to Stardict format. But only to try it, of...
nortalf Learning resources 46 20,324 2010-05-28, 4:14 am
    Thread: Bedding/quilt cover with kanji on it?
Post: Bedding/quilt cover with kanji on it?

3007 kanji (RTK1+RTK3) in a Shift-JIS txt file. http://polecat.fw.hu/kanji.zip
nortalf Learning resources 8 5,029 2008-06-14, 11:31 am
    Thread: Java API has both english an japanese!
Post: Java API has both english an japanese!

C言語 http://homepage3.nifty.com/mmgames/c_guide/ I read (? OK, browse) this often only for the sake of Japanese. It's relatively easy because I know the topic well.
nortalf Learning resources 5 2,253 2008-06-06, 2:23 pm
    Thread: シ and ツ, ン and ソ
Post: シ and ツ, ン and ソ

Raichu, it's easy: マ is like an A slanted right a little, ム is like a U slanted right a little.
nortalf General discussion 17 2,758 2008-05-24, 2:50 pm
    Thread: pimsleur text
Post: pimsleur text

http://kirbysnihongo.wordpress.com/absol...apanese-i/ Although I agree with QuackingShoe...
nortalf Learning resources 10 9,385 2008-05-12, 3:27 am
    Thread: Does anybody draw actual pictures?
Post: Does anybody draw actual pictures?

Heisig's method based on "imaginative memory" and it seems you all associate it with "images" (as pictures) only. But I think it means far more. When I think to a story I see pictures, hear sounds, fe...
nortalf Remembering the Kanji 39 12,202 2008-04-14, 4:57 am