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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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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