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    Thread: avatar in japan & cinematic xenolinguistics
Post: avatar in japan & cinematic xenolinguistics

When a foreign language, even an artificial language, is present, it really depends on how sound tracks created during post production. With this film, the Na'vi is a seperate track from the original...
ew8049 General discussion 13 5,497 2010-01-07, 6:57 pm
    Thread: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all example sentences
Post: 2001.Kanji.Odyssey Anki deck with audio for all ex...

Please close this thread. What was started as an attempt to benefit the community has turned into an intellectual property rights conflict with most parties stating their views and attacking each ot...
ew8049 Learning resources 215 71,716 2009-06-30, 7:11 am
    Thread: Sentence mining A dictionary of basic Japanese grammar.
Post: Sentence mining A dictionary of basic Japanese gra...

Ready to join in. I've both B&I books. Ready to join in.
ew8049 Group study 65 21,692 2009-05-08, 10:48 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Statistics are definetly skewed. I moved to Anki about 5 months ago, but get back to these fourms as a reward for a completed review run. So "active" is not really "active". Posting is also not som...
ew8049 Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,637 2009-03-27, 2:06 am
    Thread: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up?
Post: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up?

Less forums, more study. I kick myself often for reading here, *BEFORE* I can post in the "Congradulate me - I'm done with RTK1" - now get on it!
ew8049 Remembering the Kanji 37 9,066 2008-11-09, 4:38 am
    Thread: How long have you been studying Japanese?
Post: How long have you been studying Japanese?

Matthias Wrote:Next year it will be 20 years for me Got me by a year. I started in 1990 and completed a J minor in University. The focus was very much conversation for the first two years. Years th...
ew8049 General discussion 27 10,690 2008-10-18, 11:39 pm
    Thread: book for studying keigo
Post: book for studying keigo

I own this one: http://www.amazon.com/Keigo-Modern-Japan...213&sr=8-1 While more of a linguistic analysis, there are many sample sentences. Provides a good foundation of origins and today's usa...
ew8049 Learning resources 4 2,205 2008-10-09, 6:02 pm
    Thread: Viewing this site via iPhone?
Post: Viewing this site via iPhone?

Same positive experience. Review in Vertical view... buttons tough. Moving about europe & us on work - connect via gprs. Works fine. Haven't tried it in Asia though.. presume HK would be fine.
ew8049 Learning resources 5 1,007 2008-09-07, 1:15 am
    Thread: talking about kanji
Post: talking about kanji

danieldesu - 三九!
ew8049 General discussion 6 1,300 2008-09-02, 12:51 am
    Thread: How to "secretly" study at work?!
Post: How to "secretly" study at work?!

Ditto... hack to jfonts on nokia would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
ew8049 General discussion 23 4,137 2008-08-31, 5:14 pm
    Thread: Taking the test in December -- is it possible?
Post: Taking the test in December -- is it possible?

There's the JETRO BJT - Business Japanese Proficiency Test http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/bjt/ and also the J.Test http://j-test.jp/xp/modules/tinyd10/cont....php?id=11 which is more for a measure of Dai...
ew8049 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 14 5,068 2008-08-25, 3:42 am
    Thread: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)
Post: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)

DAKE - done SHIKA - done NOMI - done
ew8049 Learning resources 94 21,104 2008-08-23, 12:11 pm
    Thread: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)
Post: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)

I'll take the next three in there: DAKE SHIKA NOMI
ew8049 Learning resources 94 21,104 2008-08-23, 8:51 am
    Thread: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)
Post: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)

By the way.. You do get the benefit of you first review when you're actually typing them up.
ew8049 Learning resources 94 21,104 2008-08-21, 11:10 am
    Thread: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)
Post: All About Particles (Kodansha Book)

I own this one and willing to input. What is the current allocation?
ew8049 Learning resources 94 21,104 2008-08-21, 11:07 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

More of a functional question - those that have been using Anki for Heisig - do you keep your decks seperate - or together // i.e. - Heisig, Vocal, Sentences ? Thank you for your input.
ew8049 Learning resources 309 61,817 2008-08-13, 6:44 pm
    Thread: Buying iphone in Japan? (for studying)
Post: Buying iphone in Japan? (for studying)

iphone anki update: http://inzania.com/2008/07/anki-for-ipho...syncd.html
ew8049 General discussion 54 17,214 2008-07-25, 11:58 pm
    Thread: font size?
Post: font size?

Wish I could do that with web pages. Often, its tough to see through the kanji without zooming in beyond a comfortable size for the english letters.
ew8049 General discussion 2 907 2008-07-20, 6:39 am
    Thread: OFF-line // no electricity Review alternative
Post: OFF-line // no electricity Review alternative

Found a webapp which generates review PDF files that can be printed and taken "to go". Good for when only paper is a go. http://rtk.semuel.co.il/test_pages.html
ew8049 Learning resources 2 863 2008-07-14, 3:11 pm
    Thread: SuperMemo for Palm OS
Post: SuperMemo for Palm OS

CJKOS is exactly what I used to get j-font support. I have the demo version 4.621. Make sure that you "Enable CJKOS" in the prefs, and choose Shift-JIS as the character set. The "Smart Detect Char ...
ew8049 General discussion 8 2,484 2008-06-21, 5:16 am
    Thread: Mr T is on right now!
Post: Mr T is on right now!

Has "I pity da fool....." ever cought on as a translated phrase in Japanese?
ew8049 General discussion 7 1,227 2008-06-20, 4:02 pm
    Thread: SuperMemo for Palm OS
Post: SuperMemo for Palm OS

I've used the supermemoPALM database file provided by Todd Rudick on a T|X for sometime (actually bought the palm just for that reason). Interface is much worse than the pocketPC version, and virtual...
ew8049 General discussion 8 2,484 2008-06-20, 3:55 pm
    Thread: mac primitive display issues
Post: mac primitive display issues

This looks like a Safari font thing. Try opening in Firefox - or some word processor and it should be fine. -d
ew8049 General discussion 2 768 2008-06-16, 3:09 pm