This is a attempt to make a thread where you can ask quick questions that might not justify making a new thread.　hope this works just to make it more convienent for people.

I will start:

what does かい actually mean? like 誰かい. Dictionary says that it marks a yes/no question. But i haven't actually seen this use.

It's just か as in question, the い is mostly for sound. It's often used by old men so it sounds a bit oldy. It is generally used with yes/no questions though, yes.

Japanese the Manga Way says かい can be a colloquial variant of か, usually softer and friendlier, but it can also be used to sound more forceful than か.

Thanks for the replys, i should of guessed the meaning as it had か in it. I want to see this thread become used as quick questions tho as it makes it much easier for me as I have so many questions but hate making new topics.

This thread has unofficially come to serve that purpose: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1877

Though of course there's plenty of other specific and new threads.

Ah whoops. Wouldn't it be best to change the name of the topic then? As i have looked for a topic like "quick questions" for a long time, as i always feel bad making a new topic for such simple questions. Im sure i can't be alone (i hope)

But then someone could start a new thread called 'Simple Question', or 'Simple Questions', then where would we be?? Chaos. Madness.

Another quick question for my now personal thread!

If you are doing the 10,000 sentence mining method how do you enter it into you SRS?

Do you do full Kanji on question side and hiragana + meaning on answer?

Or

Do you do Hiragana on question side and full kanji on answer side with meaning?

I personally found that the second method just didnt make it stick into my mind but i would love to hear other peoples views on this.

If there is another topic on this could you possibly link?

I do a three-sided card; one side is the base sentence in full kanji, one the sentence zero-kanji (reading), and one the definitions of any words I'm not clear on (this is often blank). I test sentence->reading+meaning and reading->sentence+meaning.

~J

I always test like this:

Sentence -> Reading + Words + Grammar notes

A failed reading or any misunderstanding is a failed card.

Each card has 4 fields, with Words being quick definitions of words I don't know so I don't have to look them up each time and grammar notes being, well, any notes on the sentence really. Naming it "grammar notes" is a little misleading I guess.

I think the second one (Reading -> Sentence) is used to...test your understanding ability without Kanji help (and maybe give your listening skills a boost) and dictation? I can see how this might be beneficial, but my god I wouldn't want to go through reading so many sentences only in hiragana.

It's basically a batch kanji-writing test. It's possible that at some point I may need to put in additional cues, but so far I've been able to, generally, know what's going on from the reading.

~J

Are you sure you heard 誰かい? かい as a question marker is usually used by old men, but it only marks yes/no questions. You can say 誰だい though.

Ok I have one~ Anyone know if there's a good website to watch Japan news other than FNN? Now I realize why I gave up on this site months ago. It's because the player is always stopping in the middle of a story and freezing firefox and whatnot. Aside from that, the setup of FNN is great and if there's something similar that doesn't have such freezing problems, please point me in the direction of it?

Nuriko Wrote:Ok I have one~ Anyone know if there's a good website to watch Japan news other than FNN? Now I realize why I gave up on this site months ago. It's because the player is always stopping in the middle of a story and freezing firefox and whatnot. Aside from that, the setup of FNN is great and if there's something similar that doesn't have such freezing problems, please point me in the direction of it?

Try Asahi News channel available at

http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

Nuriko Wrote:Ok I have one~ Anyone know if there's a good website to watch Japan news other than FNN? Now I realize why I gave up on this site months ago. It's because the player is always stopping in the middle of a story and freezing firefox and whatnot. Aside from that, the setup of FNN is great and if there's something similar that doesn't have such freezing problems, please point me in the direction of it?

TBS is good:

http://news.tbs.co.jp/

Yay! Thanks for the links!

You can also use a program like Orbit Downloader to download the videos to your hard disk.