Bringing this topic back up for an update.
I now have a pen pal who can understand English quite well, and it's really fun! I only have a couple of questions:
1- It seems like she can't read the pieces of Japanese that I write in the emails. I know it's an "encoding" problem, but I haven't figured out which encoding I should use for her to be able to read. Shift-JIS, EUC-JP, uncode? Anyone know?
2- Since she's trying to learn Italian and I want to help her, I'd like to suggest to her trying with an SRS software of some kind. I've looked a little for a thorough explanation of spaced repetition in Japanese, but haven't been able to find anything, not even on wikipedia. Sure, I could explain it myself in English, but I'm afraid that if the explanation is not perfectly clear she may not see the usefulness of the system and may not bother trying.
So, could anyone suggest a place to look for such a guide in Japanese?
Thank you
I now have a pen pal who can understand English quite well, and it's really fun! I only have a couple of questions:
1- It seems like she can't read the pieces of Japanese that I write in the emails. I know it's an "encoding" problem, but I haven't figured out which encoding I should use for her to be able to read. Shift-JIS, EUC-JP, uncode? Anyone know?
2- Since she's trying to learn Italian and I want to help her, I'd like to suggest to her trying with an SRS software of some kind. I've looked a little for a thorough explanation of spaced repetition in Japanese, but haven't been able to find anything, not even on wikipedia. Sure, I could explain it myself in English, but I'm afraid that if the explanation is not perfectly clear she may not see the usefulness of the system and may not bother trying.
So, could anyone suggest a place to look for such a guide in Japanese?
Thank you