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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! I seem to have passed N2 with a so-so score (135/180). Which is a good thing, because I'm not sure I would ever have the time/motivation to try again :) I was particularly curious about the scaling ... |
kerecsen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,241 | 2015-02-01, 2:56 am | ||
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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Clockwise Wrote:chinesewebber Wrote:As always, the Chinese can be trusted to disregard all rules and bring us pertinent information: http://www.onlyjp.cn/jlpt/ This one requires registration for the ... |
kerecsen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,241 | 2014-12-11, 7:58 am | ||
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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! rmpalpha Wrote:This is what I could remember from the N2 test - ... Amazing memory, I remembered practically nothing from this section. Do you recall anything from the reading section? Edit: now we h... |
kerecsen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,241 | 2014-12-08, 5:08 pm | ||
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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! rich_f Wrote:I think I have an idea... I'm going to listen to my NHK News podcasts at 1.3x speed, and just learn to get used to it. Gogo Doggcatcher! Or you could just watch Legal High or Hanzawa Naok... |
kerecsen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,241 | 2014-12-08, 4:30 pm | ||
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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! I took N2, mostly for fun (a very twisted and mazochistic variety thereof), in Hungary. About 80 other people showed up, all but 3 of them in their mid 20s (I was one of the exceptions :)) There was a... |
kerecsen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,241 | 2014-12-08, 4:16 pm | ||
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Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon! gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:rmpalpha, go right ahead. It'll be good learning for everyone. On that note, was anyone else thrown by the second to last paragraph in the essay about niche interests in N2? I'm ... |
kerecsen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 193 | 37,241 | 2014-12-08, 3:16 pm | ||
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Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books Did anyone happen to come across some really detailed reviews of Murakami books, other than Hard Boiled Wonderland? I would be most interested in reading in relation to A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険) an... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 277 | 117,139 | 2014-08-15, 2:39 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese electronic dictionary for iOS Post: Japanese electronic dictionary for iOS He4rtl3ss Wrote:But just another quick question, can Imiwa do all things that the other Apps can also do? Like is there something pretty important, that miss in Imiwa? It's free, so just try it and se... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 3 | 859 | 2014-01-18, 8:27 am | ||
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Thread: JGlossator - Interactive Tool for Creating Glosses from Japanese Text Post: JGlossator - Interactive Tool for Creating Glosses... cb4960, thank you for another absolutely wonderful tool. Using it is like having a Japanese teacher sitting next to you all the time :) Did you consider making an app like LWT or FLTR? I love the con... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 59 | 24,748 | 2013-06-14, 3:42 am | ||
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Thread: epwing on a CD ---> Iphone Post: epwing on a CD ---> Iphone Depending on the reader you use on the iPhone, you can transfer either through ftp (slow but easy to understand) or through USB (fast but can be confusing). iFunBox is a lot more convenient than iTune... |
kerecsen | General discussion | 3 | 1,479 | 2012-10-17, 9:13 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations? Post: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations? The "Japanese" app is OK (it has sample sentences, by the way - the "usual" Tanaka corpus), but "Midori" is much better, and it comes with rudimentary (but acceptable) Japanese handwriting recognition... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 27 | 11,379 | 2011-10-23, 9:23 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations? Post: Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations? I have a Casio XD-A9800 which is fantastic, but I use my iPhone a lot more. Why? Here are a few reasons: - the iPhone has dictionary apps that can do de-conjugation and text segmentation/lookup for y... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 27 | 11,379 | 2011-10-23, 4:10 am | ||
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Thread: iOS5 new features Post: iOS5 new features Jarvik7 Wrote:I'm not a big fan of Android (from a usability perspective), but I really doubt that. Android is selling relatively well here in Japan and I assume that it can display Japanese so that p... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 17 | 4,663 | 2011-10-18, 4:44 am | ||
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Thread: iOS5 new features Post: iOS5 new features zachandhobbes Wrote:I'm trying to decide between the iPhone 4S and the samsung Nexus Prime (Android)... it's a really tough decision. For Japanese studies Android is not a great option. You won't even... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 17 | 4,663 | 2011-10-18, 4:21 am | ||
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Thread: iOS5 new features Post: iOS5 new features It was a pleasant surprise to find the Progressive J->E and Daijisen J->J dics in the new iOS. I also like the new input method, it's a lot less messy than the old one. Too bad they didn't thro... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 17 | 4,663 | 2011-10-14, 10:18 am | ||
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Thread: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Post: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro tokyostyle Wrote:kerecsen Wrote:Now I want an app that can search the tanaka corpus and eijiro at the same time... It would be the ultimate grammar reference tool :) Every EPWING reader can do this. ... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 5 | 2,820 | 2011-09-19, 9:45 am | ||
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Thread: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Post: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Full-text search of Eijiro is even more useful than I thought... I came across the sentence: まるでお殿様になったかのような待遇を受けた. I've never encountered this -かのよう construct, and none of my dictionaries seemed to ... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 5 | 2,820 | 2011-09-19, 4:18 am | ||
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Thread: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Post: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Good news: the developer of HandyEijiro added a full-text search feature in the latest release, so I can finally wave goodbye to the EOW app and the website :) Freedom!!! The full-text search works e... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 5 | 2,820 | 2011-09-16, 12:16 pm | ||
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Thread: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Post: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Javizy Wrote:iEijirou would be an improvement on the alc website version, thanks to the bookmarks and history, Bookmarks and history are available in the free Eijiro web wrapper app... ( http://itunes... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 5 | 2,820 | 2011-07-19, 5:28 am | ||
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Thread: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Post: iEijiro vs HandyEijiro vs PTSEijiro Are there people out there who bought one of these? The free Eijiro wrapper app is very crashy, it's overflowing with ads and sometimes I want to use Eijiro without online access, so I was looking fo... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 5 | 2,820 | 2011-07-18, 9:44 am | ||
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Thread: Android OS Unicode font (Han unification) issues Post: Android OS Unicode font (Han unification) issues Look for "DroidSansJapanese.ttf", available from the Google git. You don't need to replace anything, just add it to the font directory. Some people seem to prefer MTLmr3m.ttf and MTLc3m.ttf instead, b... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 6 | 5,433 | 2011-07-04, 6:10 am | ||
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Thread: Read wikipedia, blew mind... Post: Read wikipedia, blew mind... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet Wikipedia Wrote:"By 2700 BCE the ancient Egyptians had developed a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent the individual consonants of their lang... |
kerecsen | The Japanese language | 4 | 1,385 | 2011-06-02, 12:32 pm | ||
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Thread: How good do you have to be at RTK1 before starting RTK2? Post: How good do you have to be at RTK1 before starting... I agree with all points made by overture (especially the SRS part -- not using one is truly unthinkable :))... You've already spent enough time learning some abstract thing that you will once be abl... |
kerecsen | The Japanese language | 10 | 1,527 | 2011-05-11, 4:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki reviews - vacation Post: Anki reviews - vacation Actually, there is nothing you need to do. Let the reviews pile up, and when you get back from your vacation just start doing a predetermined number of reviews each day until the due count subsides. ... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 19 | 11,513 | 2011-05-10, 11:05 am | ||
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Thread: Handwriting Kanji Dictionary Online. Post: Handwriting Kanji Dictionary Online. They even have Heisig keywords for the kanji :) The handwriting recognition is very robust, I've used the original nciku a lot for entering Chinese characters. |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 6 | 5,785 | 2011-05-04, 12:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Midori iOS app - opinions? Post: Midori iOS app - opinions? Cranks Wrote:Is this thread still relevant? Sorry, I was wondering if anyone who uses both Midori and Japanese could explain the difference between the two in terms of actually use. Being a Japanese u... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 26 | 16,411 | 2011-04-18, 1:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Midori iOS app - opinions? Post: Midori iOS app - opinions? mgbp7 Wrote:kerecsen Wrote:Kotoba: No handwriting recognition. Actually, I just discovered a few minutes ago that Kotoba! *does* have handwriting recognition (well, based on Chinese traditional charac... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 26 | 16,411 | 2011-04-18, 1:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Another anki solution - please! Post: Another anki solution - please! iPod is a slightly better choice because it has a built-in Japanese font with the correct Japanese character shapes. Most android phones/tablets/mp3 players only have a Chinese font, so some of the ch... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 9 | 4,117 | 2011-04-13, 4:19 pm | ||
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Thread: cb's JNovel Formatter Post: cb's JNovel Formatter Slightly off-topic, but this is a great introduction if you want to understand what's going on with all those UTF-8 checkboxes: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 121 | 54,141 | 2011-04-13, 3:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Another anki solution - please! Post: Another anki solution - please! Coding for Symbian was highly undesirable even at the height of its popularity (horrific toolchain, no two phones alike, incompatible OS changes every fortnight, etc.) , and now that it has become an ... |
kerecsen | Learning resources | 9 | 4,117 | 2011-04-12, 3:08 pm | ||
