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    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

Another month another challenge. I'm a bit surprised June had one of the worst results, guess everyone is getting tired and/or bored of the whole NHK thing and not even Tadoku is going to change that....
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-07-01, 2:27 am
    Thread: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!
Post: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!

RawToast Wrote:How tedious would it be to support epub/mobi formats? I extract them myself, but supporting these formats seems to be the next logical step for a reader. I've plans to add both of them ...
thurd Learning resources 17 4,225 2013-06-14, 2:31 am
    Thread: Xbox One
Post: Xbox One

rahsoul Wrote:That's simply not true, by any stretch of the imagination. 6 Billion profit in the last quarter, up 19 percent from last year. Their entertainment division makes up for 13% (as of Jun...
thurd Off topic 44 6,113 2013-06-09, 11:32 am
    Thread: Xbox One
Post: Xbox One

M$ as a company is self imploding right now, the only good thing they had going for them was their entertainment division (mobile is still a big unknown at this point) and they managed to screw th...
thurd Off topic 44 6,113 2013-06-09, 8:15 am
    Thread: December JLPT N2 - study plan
Post: December JLPT N2 - study plan

Zgarbas Wrote:But for the most part, yes, 3 hours/day should suffice :). Really, almost anything you'd do for 3 hours/day would show good results by December. I'm not sure 3h/day is enough when aimin...
thurd JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 17 9,135 2013-06-09, 7:46 am
    Thread: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!
Post: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!

I've just published an update with 2 new options that let you control the position of dictionary pop-up and dimming its background. It should be available on Google Play in a few hours.
thurd Learning resources 17 4,225 2013-06-02, 12:48 pm
    Thread: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!
Post: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!

Daichi Wrote:No ruby support? Ruby support like in Anki? I didn't think it was some sort of a standard to encode furigana in. Daichi Wrote:What about EPWING? EPWING is one of the first features I'd li...
thurd Learning resources 17 4,225 2013-06-01, 5:25 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

RawrPk Wrote:#5 spreadsheet has May dates. You should probably change it to June dates. Signed up & double motivated for 1M & 多読! ^^ Yeah, sorry about that. I'll correct it as soon as I stop p...
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-05-29, 12:11 pm
    Thread: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!
Post: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!

Zgarbas Wrote:The possibilities of combining this with a rooted nook sound highly tempting. (I really should get around to rooting that thing). Would that work? It should, as long as you have the AP...
thurd Learning resources 17 4,225 2013-05-29, 12:10 pm
    Thread: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!
Post: Dokusho - Read in Japanese today!

I've just uploaded another one of my Japanese related projects to Google Play. Dokusho is an app that helps users read Japanese texts by giving them a quick and useful pop-up dictionary. The app cont...
thurd Learning resources 17 4,225 2013-05-29, 9:19 am
    Thread: DotA2
Post: DotA2

600h and counting... if only I had put that into Japanese. I loathe myself.
thurd Off topic 8 2,540 2013-05-29, 2:54 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to remind you that the next edition of 1M Challenge will be running along side of Tadoku Challenge so we all get double motivation points ;) I've created #5 spreadsheet in t...
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-05-29, 1:59 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

Forthem Wrote:Are we still continuing into May too :D? Yes of course. I just created #4 sheet so you can track your progress for may there.
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-05-01, 12:53 pm
    Thread: SRS Reset/Quit?
Post: SRS Reset/Quit?

I'm less advanced than you and quit SRSing when I was much worse then I am now. Thing is, I still don't regret my decision. There is hard proof my vocabulary recognition skills got worse (went from A ...
thurd Learning resources 9 2,584 2013-04-01, 3:05 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

Hello everyone!! Sorry about the delay, sheet for #3 is up and waiting for your submissions. As always I'll leave #2 unlocked for a few days so everyone who posts their progress late can do so. Offi...
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-04-01, 2:25 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

TheVinster Wrote:On the weekend I just read 6 normal NHK articles (sometimes one or two of those are from other sources). This of course depends on how comfortable you are with normal articles, and al...
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-03-21, 3:21 am
    Thread: best job for a foreigner in japan
Post: best job for a foreigner in japan

Easy, first you take the best job in the world: http://www.joemonster.org/download.php?d...&lid=12641 and then you do that but with Japanese models/celebrities/idols. Problem solved :D
thurd General discussion 12 2,953 2013-03-19, 1:20 am
    Thread: What can I expect? When did it click? Core 2k/6k
Post: What can I expect? When did it click? Core 2k/6k

anritsi Wrote:~3500 - NHK Easy news was getting too easy - could watch しろくまカフェ Stian Wrote:Didn't do core, but I'm currently at ~3300* self-input cards. I branched out of adding from textbooks af...
thurd The Japanese language 66 13,885 2013-03-08, 3:32 pm
    Thread: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Japan?
Post: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Jap...

I've used http://www.hostels.com/ and can't say a bad word about them.
thurd General discussion 8 1,278 2013-03-06, 1:26 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

Sebastian Wrote:May I make a couple of edits to the design of the spreadsheet? The spreadsheet as of now looks like this: ... But with each ranking in a different spreadsheet. Go ahead, but I think...
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-03-03, 4:08 pm
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

TheVinster Wrote:I was actually curious if, on weekends, we can use 3 NHK articles and then 3 other sources (non-NHK). Since weekends yield no new NHK Easy articles. I kind of like Asahi news better t...
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-03-02, 5:13 pm
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #2

Time for a new challenge!! This time we will be aligned with the month March and Tadoku (short version). As always everyone is welcome to participate, you can sign up using THIS spreadsheet, just go ...
thurd Group study 62 22,190 2013-02-27, 4:22 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1

It's been a very productive month for some of us, while others struggled to find their pace. The winner of the very first edition of 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News is: pm215 (42 days co...
thurd Learning resources 36 7,197 2013-02-20, 4:10 pm
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1

TheVinster Wrote:I want to join in on the next one. When will it start? winterpromise31 Wrote:I also would love to join in for this challenge next time it starts! First of all expect a summary for #1 ...
thurd Learning resources 36 7,197 2013-02-19, 5:00 pm
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1

Rael89 Wrote:So one more day left. How's everyone doing? I've missed a couple days so I haven't completely made my goal, but my consistency has improved quite a bit compared to the round we did last ...
thurd Learning resources 36 7,197 2013-02-17, 5:03 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2012 Results!
Post: JLPT 2012 Results!

I failed N2 again :D My score improved by a whopping 1 point over my result from 2 years back, which really sucks (don't mind failing, I do mind not improving)... In reality I did improve my scores ...
thurd JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 96 25,529 2013-01-31, 1:42 pm
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy & NHK News #1

hirata Wrote:Has anybody checked out the old Easy articles from the archive yet? It seems the TTS used to speak a lot faster. I kinda wish it was still like that today. Yes, they are much faster and a...
thurd Learning resources 36 7,197 2013-01-19, 2:42 pm
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy

I think most of our participants already updated their progress and its appropriate to officially end our competition. Congratulations to everyone!!! I hope you enjoyed the challenge and improved you...
thurd Learning resources 68 14,934 2013-01-18, 8:26 am
    Thread: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy
Post: 1M Challenge - NHK News Easy

DevvaR Wrote:Completed the last day just now. Just wanted to say, it was a great challenge and it's really helped establish a regular reading routine. I'm looking forward to the next challenge. :) Con...
thurd Learning resources 68 14,934 2013-01-16, 3:25 pm
    Thread: Living Expenses 11 months study abroad Tokyo
Post: Living Expenses 11 months study abroad Tokyo

I made a detailed summary of my trip costs when I came back from Japan and in almost every month (3 total) I spent around 1.6k$ for all expenses, living mostly in Tokyo. That doesn't include fligh...
thurd JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 6 3,384 2013-01-14, 5:03 pm