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    Thread: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?
Post: Making Japanese Food; Where to Start?

http://www.cookpad.com in Japanese (1 million+ recipes) and http://www.cookpad.it in English
trusmis Off topic 53 13,324 2011-10-19, 7:45 pm
    Thread: Kindle 4 & Japanese dictionary
Post: Kindle 4 & Japanese dictionary

I do have a Kindle. Last time I checked there was like 0 kindle books in the Amazon store but you can load it with PDF and text files, so whatever you have around I guess you will manage to convert it...
trusmis Learning resources 41 17,824 2011-10-02, 3:47 am
    Thread: Recipe sites
Post: Recipe sites

http://www.facebook.com/cookpadbeginner?sk=wall Only simple to make recipes are posted. Only Japanese language.
trusmis Off topic 9 1,201 2011-08-09, 7:25 pm
    Thread: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)
Post: Send me $1500! (AJATT Silverspoon)

@aphasiac : I think you are right on the summary of this thread There is something I would like to know. How many hours day would you need to use for Japanese on these 18moths?
trusmis Off topic 567 98,534 2011-08-06, 10:15 am
    Thread: Your personal guide to RTK (for fresh salamander)
Post: Your personal guide to RTK (for fresh salamander)

Sebastian Wrote:trusmis Wrote:But here respect rules apply, specially for people like Bodhisamaya who is a long time contributor. IMHO you should be thankful to him by default. I don't agree that peop...
trusmis Remembering the Kanji 45 7,445 2011-08-05, 11:50 pm
    Thread: Your personal guide to RTK (for fresh salamander)
Post: Your personal guide to RTK (for fresh salamander)

Ginmanm Wrote:bodhisamaya Wrote:I think we have a special needs user now. More likely he is just trying to mock the forum. That's not true at all,just giving the obvious to newcomers. If you have noth...
trusmis Remembering the Kanji 45 7,445 2011-08-05, 8:16 pm
    Thread: my company wants us to improve Japanese
Post: my company wants us to improve Japanese

we have discussed this idea: Every 6 month we will get a test, this test till give us a grade from 0 to 10. Then we will get 2000yen * level achieved every month. If in any of these 6 month revisi...
trusmis Off topic 24 5,939 2011-06-11, 5:54 am
    Thread: my company wants us to improve Japanese
Post: my company wants us to improve Japanese

I do think I prefer studying by myself than going the a school. I have a ton of material to go through, grammar books, a personal anki deck, etc. The problem is that they may pay or gives us free tim...
trusmis Off topic 24 5,939 2011-06-08, 9:29 pm
    Thread: my company wants us to improve Japanese
Post: my company wants us to improve Japanese

what direction? 怪しい :P I think one problem is that the foreigners here, we all have very different levels, from almost 0 to almost bilingual
trusmis Off topic 24 5,939 2011-06-08, 7:46 pm
    Thread: my company wants us to improve Japanese
Post: my company wants us to improve Japanese

That's right. I work for a company in Tokyo, we have several foreigners there and lots of Japanese. They want to eventually work in English (for instance slides are always in English) but they also w...
trusmis Off topic 24 5,939 2011-06-08, 6:44 pm
    Thread: Without phys. exercise?
Post: Without phys. exercise?

I am not that interested on building strength, I just want to do some aerobic exercise so lungs and heart work hard for let's say 30 minutes a day. Today I tried performing Sun saludation A, B and sev...
trusmis Off topic 152 22,503 2011-04-28, 12:11 am
    Thread: Without phys. exercise?
Post: Without phys. exercise?

This thread has motivated me to start doing some exercise. I have done Yoga before so I feel compelled to just start it again. It is a good exercise. But I think I will like something more aerobic, ...
trusmis Off topic 152 22,503 2011-04-27, 5:33 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

I agree the nuclear plant is non-issue The problem is the possible and very probable grade 7 earthquakes and if they will or will not affect destructively the massive populated kanto region. Here, I...
trusmis Off topic 690 113,323 2011-03-13, 10:38 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

The guy of the government is saying the radiation is like 3 X-rays scans And he is already saying that "in case of explosion ..."
trusmis Off topic 690 113,323 2011-03-13, 1:34 am
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

I'm in Japan (Tokyo and save), as I understood the news: - Hydrogen exploded, it broke the outside concrete walls, there is no more walls in fact. But they have checked and there is not increased radi...
trusmis Off topic 690 113,323 2011-03-12, 7:23 am
    Thread: Poorness and freedom in Japan
Post: Poorness and freedom in Japan

AlexandreC Wrote:Use the time to improve your Japanese in the real world (not books) and build yourself a network of friends. Being poor is very different when you have no one to help than when you do...
trusmis Off topic 21 3,224 2011-02-25, 9:23 pm
    Thread: Poorness and freedom in Japan
Post: Poorness and freedom in Japan

Cranks Wrote:Sounds fun. 60,000 is pretty much nothing here. You'll burn that easily if you're not careful. Suggestions: Visit your local garden, park, temple, so on. Walking around is great exerc...
trusmis Off topic 21 3,224 2011-02-25, 9:19 pm
    Thread: Poorness and freedom in Japan
Post: Poorness and freedom in Japan

Flying to another country would be expensive. Only the flight ticket would be expensive. Damn, only going and returning from Narita would be like 3.000円 I also can't leave Japan for a long time. On 7t...
trusmis Off topic 21 3,224 2011-02-25, 9:31 am
    Thread: Poorness and freedom in Japan
Post: Poorness and freedom in Japan

thurd Wrote:Jarvik7 Wrote:I dropped 10man to move into my last cheapo crapo Leopalace apartment (with a guarantor, no reikin no shikikin no chuukai) and 40man to move into this one (no reikin, negotia...
trusmis Off topic 21 3,224 2011-02-25, 9:22 am
    Thread: Poorness and freedom in Japan
Post: Poorness and freedom in Japan

Hi, I am in Tokyo. I came here searching for a job and I found it. But I am a tourist and getting the working visa takes time. The company will wait (and won't let me work) till they can make a prope...
trusmis Off topic 21 3,224 2011-02-25, 2:56 am
    Thread: learning with Kindle
Post: learning with Kindle

DRM sucks but I understand books are small files, easy to copy and distribute. So some anti-copy measure has to be there or no publisher would jump on the e-book train. Anyway disallow to copy/paste...
trusmis Learning resources 10 6,913 2010-09-07, 12:21 pm
    Thread: learning with Kindle
Post: learning with Kindle

ファブリス Wrote:and you would be able to listen to the audio as well as read it at the same time. In theory, mind you as I don't have a Kindle. But perhaps there are already workable audiobooks on Amazon ...
trusmis Learning resources 10 6,913 2010-09-07, 12:13 pm
    Thread: learning with Kindle
Post: learning with Kindle

BTW I found the sticky! thread on the learning resources forum on audiobooks and they work perfectly, both audio (it reads .mp3s) and text (I am copying the transcripts to .txt files because then I ca...
trusmis Learning resources 10 6,913 2010-09-06, 2:37 am
    Thread: learning with Kindle
Post: learning with Kindle

If you tell me where to download one I try :P
trusmis Learning resources 10 6,913 2010-09-06, 2:33 am
    Thread: learning with Kindle
Post: learning with Kindle

I have just adquired a Kindle. It makes perfect sense for me. I have just uploaded a .txt with some vocabulary and it renders Japanese beautifully. It can also read PDF files, thought have not tried ...
trusmis Learning resources 10 6,913 2010-09-06, 1:39 am
    Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread
Post: 2010 JLPT study thread

BTW, the results of July's JLPT should be arriving around now. Anyone got the results?
trusmis JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 433 109,560 2010-09-05, 6:52 pm
    Thread: Turn Research Into Reality
Post: Turn Research Into Reality

voted on main site. Voted and shared on Facebook. It is 2nd now!
trusmis Off topic 7 1,496 2010-08-30, 10:35 pm
    Thread: The "Where's nest0r" thread
Post: The "Where's nest0r" thread

He has reincarnated into an Anki noob owning an Asus G73JH!!
trusmis Off topic 29 7,028 2010-08-30, 8:09 pm
    Thread: Best shared decks for Anki?
Post: Best shared decks for Anki?

Asriel Wrote:Why did you put JLPT2 higher priority than JLPT1 if you knew most of them already? The higher you go on JLPT, less frequent words you find. Or at least I guess it should be like that! So...
trusmis Learning resources 10 15,334 2010-08-30, 4:14 am
    Thread: Best shared decks for Anki?
Post: Best shared decks for Anki?

I think it is that one the one I have. I searched for JLPT4 and JLPT3 tagged cards and directly deleted them. Then I made JLPT2 the higher priority tag, JLPT1 second and start reviewing. I did know l...
trusmis Learning resources 10 15,334 2010-08-29, 11:41 pm