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    Thread: Subtitles for Akira?
Post: Subtitles for Akira?

Awesome, thanks! If anyone is on a mac, and wondering how to look at .sup files, I found BDSup2Sub works. Unfortunately, the subtitles are stored as images, so you can't just cut and paste into your...
danieldesu Learning resources 2 592 2015-10-11, 2:51 am
    Thread: Subtitles for Akira?
Post: Subtitles for Akira?

Does anyone have the Japanese subtitle file for Akira that they could share? I've searched all the subtitle sites online, and while there are about 100 different languages available, none of them are...
danieldesu Learning resources 2 592 2015-10-10, 9:13 pm
    Thread: I could have talked to a few Japanese guys today.
Post: I could have talked to a few Japanese guys today.

It's not my personality to randomly talk to people like that, but I've known others who have, and it never offends people to do so. Keep in mind though, which people/living objects, use いる and いない in...
danieldesu Off topic 37 7,138 2014-05-11, 12:54 am
    Thread: NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site
Post: NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site

Awesome, thanks! It's new to me at least
danieldesu Learning resources 18 17,788 2012-06-11, 6:43 pm
    Thread: Let's Talk Cameras
Post: Let's Talk Cameras

They make cameras now.that are virtually indestructible that you can also take underwater. If I was going to get a point and shoot that is what I would get so you can really get some interesting shots...
danieldesu Off topic 35 7,578 2011-12-12, 5:57 pm
    Thread: Japanese Lessons
Post: Japanese Lessons

I used to take lessons from a place called Japanese online institute, I just checked and it still seems to be around at http://www.japonin.com The prices are not bad and you get a live lesson through...
danieldesu The Japanese language 8 1,803 2011-12-12, 5:49 pm
    Thread: cbJisho - E-J Dictionary Based on Word Frequency
Post: cbJisho - E-J Dictionary Based on Word Frequency

I haven't tried your tool yet, but I was thinking about things that might be useful in a tool like this. My thought was for each word, you could analyze the words surrounding it to determine if those...
danieldesu Learning resources 56 28,259 2011-12-06, 4:11 pm
    Thread: Relative popularity of traditional vs. simplified characters?
Post: Relative popularity of traditional vs. simplified ...

yudantaiteki Wrote:For some characters, sure, but 发, 习, 听, and quite a few others don't follow any rules. And I know some native Chinese speakers from Taiwan who have quite a bit of trouble with text...
danieldesu Chinese and Hanzi 30 5,452 2011-02-02, 6:46 pm
    Thread: What's the best thing to do with $250,000?
Post: What's the best thing to do with $250,000?

I've got a similar question. What's the best thing to do with $150,000 of debt? Can I give it to charity?
danieldesu Off topic 69 19,525 2010-06-17, 12:35 pm
    Thread: improving pronunciation ... in English!
Post: improving pronunciation ... in English!

Jarvik7 Wrote:conversation with natives (LOTS of it) is the best if you can do it This seems like it would work, but surprisingly for the majority of people it really does not. I'm not sure the reaso...
danieldesu Off topic 27 5,518 2010-05-09, 11:03 am
    Thread: Introduce Yourself?
Post: Introduce Yourself?

No, -I- am nest0r!
danieldesu Off topic 18 3,032 2010-03-21, 11:09 am
    Thread: all Thai all the time
Post: all Thai all the time

Nemotoad Wrote:But iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. :-) Iocaine... I bet my life on it.
danieldesu General discussion 72 13,117 2010-03-21, 1:16 am
    Thread: all Thai all the time
Post: all Thai all the time

I was learning Thai before I switched to, and stuck with Japanese. While I now know Japanese WAAAAYYYYY better, if I had seen the AJATT website when I was studying Thai, I think I could have learned ...
danieldesu General discussion 72 13,117 2010-03-14, 2:27 am
    Thread: Learning Vocabulary with Stories
Post: Learning Vocabulary with Stories

I think the method is good for the hard to remember words, but otherwise, you are spending too much time thinking of a story instead of actually learning the connotation of the word, where the word is...
danieldesu General discussion 12 7,098 2010-03-13, 3:28 am
    Thread: 縮む and its other forms...
Post: 縮む and its other forms...

縮む 縮まる 縮める 縮らす 縮れる 縮かむ What are the differences, which ones are used often? Also, if someone could hit on the basic differences so that I can apply the knowledge to other similar verbs (for example,...
danieldesu The Japanese language 0 848 2010-03-12, 12:10 am
    Thread: Having problems making decks/using Anki
Post: Having problems making decks/using Anki

Is the window expanded to an appropriate size? Just my thought when you said the green plus sign is not there is that maybe it got cut off because the Anki window is too small. Edit: Nah, that's pro...
danieldesu Learning resources 14 7,230 2010-03-10, 6:20 pm
    Thread: Down and out, Where do I go from here?
Post: Down and out, Where do I go from here?

I agree about tackling the social anxiety disorder. If nothing else (i.e. even if your Japanese doesn't improve), you will feel better about yourself and be a happier person. I can say this because ...
danieldesu The Japanese language 47 8,189 2010-03-10, 6:13 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Ciermel Wrote:I was browsing through random jp blogs when I noticed something I had never come across before. This guy is using 号 instead of 日 for counting days and 一、二、三 and so forth in place of 月,火、...
danieldesu The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,159 2010-03-08, 3:08 am
    Thread: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted?
Post: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted?

Yeah, I had created it all in the past two days or so. Recreating the cards only took a couple hours, so it wasn't a HUGE loss, but could potentially be devastating. Glad I figured this out early on...
danieldesu Learning resources 12 14,811 2010-02-28, 1:04 am
    Thread: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted?
Post: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted?

I've been working on a deck online on the Anki online interface, then decided I would save a copy to my computer (big mistake). So, thinking that Anki would syncronize a new deck on my computer WITH ...
danieldesu Learning resources 12 14,811 2010-02-27, 4:05 pm
    Thread: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo
Post: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo

Katsumoto basically said he knew two types of Japanese before coming to Japan, super polite (aka keigo), and ultra informal manga/drama style speech, and that it only took about 2 weeks to pick up mor...
danieldesu The Japanese language 40 16,442 2010-02-25, 12:08 am
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

Fillanzea Wrote:yukamina Wrote:So does everyone know that they have the same mother? That's kinda hard to hide. Not knowing who the father is would only make it a problem of whether they are half or ...
danieldesu Learning resources 277 117,276 2010-02-21, 11:37 am
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

Fillanzea Wrote:Nanakamado hates boys, except for her childhood best friend Yukikaze. Everyone says that they look alike. Everyone suspects that Nanakamado's promiscuous mother slept with Yukikaze's f...
danieldesu Learning resources 277 117,276 2010-02-20, 9:36 pm
    Thread: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?
Post: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?

Sushi can be pretty easy to make, if you can make rice, I think you just put a couple teaspoons of sushi vinegar on it, let it cool, then you can slice some avacados and buy premade crab-sticks. The ...
danieldesu Off topic 53 13,320 2010-02-10, 10:33 pm
    Thread: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese
Post: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese

It is also worth it to do a little bit of one-on-one time which they could not get from self-studying. You could teach some simple words using gestures, etc (no English), and slowly working your way ...
danieldesu General discussion 98 13,962 2010-01-06, 11:34 pm
    Thread: Katakana Fail
Post: Katakana Fail

Sorry for the sidetrack, but what is "JSL"?
danieldesu The Japanese language 133 26,166 2009-11-30, 1:22 pm
    Thread: I Need Help With Skype and Japanese/Chinese Characters
Post: I Need Help With Skype and Japanese/Chinese Charac...

Codecs are plugins that allow proper decompression (and maybe compression) of audio and video streams. I don't think this has anything to do with codecs. My only guess is that maybe you got a versio...
danieldesu Off topic 6 11,347 2009-11-26, 4:36 pm
    Thread: Foreign Subtitles Improve Speech Perception
Post: Foreign Subtitles Improve Speech Perception

A piece of gold foil shaped into a large, super-thin sheet is pretty dense.
danieldesu Off topic 26 4,451 2009-11-13, 12:30 am
    Thread: Lang-8, Best Place to Practice Japanese Writing
Post: Lang-8, Best Place to Practice Japanese Writing

I'm interested in what people do with the corrections as well. I could see that after spending a lot of time writing something, the sentences you made will be bouncing around in your head for a while...
danieldesu General discussion 55 12,780 2009-11-08, 11:39 pm
    Thread: Quick question about a native sentence
Post: Quick question about a native sentence

EDIT: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, just saw your reply magamo, now I understand. Thank you! It turned out I was tripped up by the どんな, which I guess I have mostly seen as どんな____でも form,...
danieldesu The Japanese language 5 1,792 2009-11-02, 11:07 pm