I'm voting for Tokyo by Masaharu Fukuyama as a good song for pre-intermediate learners.

Video:

Lyrics:
http://www.jpopasia.com/lyrics/14634/mas...tokyo.html
(Romaji, Kanji, English)

To answer the question below: You can either post music you like (preferably with lyrics and You Tube video) or post a song you think is particularly good for Subs2srs (people, like me #wink# can then buy it off iTunes knowing it's recommended). Also, if lyrics are posted, people could just enjoy a quick read through and a listen and watch or use those lyrics in their subs2srs project.

(I guess I secretly hope someone else likes music as much as me and has been SRSing their favorite songs.)

[When did SRS become a verb for me, lol.)

I wouldn't recommend most of Rip Slymes songs (too fast to time easily even when slowed down) or Bump of Chicken (to much variation, little repetition, lots of metaphoric language, but an awesome band, nonetheless). I sort of like both though.

Maximum the Hormone was too slangy, unfortunately, so not so useful - I like Japanese metal.

I recommend Dragon Ash and Masaharu Fukuyama for Subs2Srs. Both have some nice slow, repetitious songs.

edited as a consequence of cranks' edit

くるり are my favourite J-band, but their lyrics are pretty complex alot of the time. The only song I can fully understand is 赤い電車:

http://www.mognet.net/lyrics.php?id=1292&type=kanji

Thing is, I'm not sure whether to SRS cos I don't know what's slang, and what's "correct" japanese..guess my level is not quite there yet..

sub2srs lets you make flash cards out of a video + subtitle.

How do you use subs2srs to make flash cards out of audio + subtitle? How do you get your video player (application that handles video + subtitle) to handle audio + subtitle (no video)? I suppose you could use a blank video (all frames are 100% black). Can someone tell me where I can download such a video? I'm not sure I even want to do this. Here is what I would do:

A) Don't pick songs that are too hard for you. I'm not sure how you know before you ever look at the lyrics that a song is too hard though.
1) Get lyrics
2) Wrightak Rikaichan any words you don't know (makes cards out of them) and study those vocab cards
3) optional: Listen / read through, rewinding if necessary
4) optional: Put on iPod / music player (just the audio)

If you like anime music / character songs: On Kitsunekko there are many LRC files (just click on Lyrics at the top). If you are a windows user, what's a good audio player with support for LRC? My preferred player (Zoom Player) does not support them. VLC media player does not and Winamp also doesn't.

jcdietz03 Wrote:How do you use subs2srs to make flash cards out of audio + subtitle?

Just click the "Audio..." button and select the audio file.

For more help:
http://subs2srs.sourceforge.net/#main_in...lip_source

when you say you use subs2srs for songs does that mean your card will play a short audio clip and have the lyrics matched up with it? Can subs2srs even do this with songs?

Or alternatively do you go through after the audio has been broken up into cards and add the lyrics manually?

I'm working on Pizzicato5 songs as I type this. 60s vibe, well articulated vocals, quirky lyrics... But, definitely not metal. It's funny that I hadn't thought of doing it before as I've had the cds for over 10 years now (long before I got the crazy idea to study Japanese). I know most of the lyrics are available online (in romaji) on a fan site, but I'm hoping to find a few in standard Japanese text. I recall the cd liners having the lyrics too. What keyword should I use to search for Japanese lyrics?

歌詞 = lyrics

kitakitsune Wrote:歌詞 = lyrics

Thank you. I'll give it a try.

Maybe I'll resurrect one of my old projects: timed lyric scrolling on iPhones using user-added lyrics. I got stuck when trying to figure out how to manipulate the sqlite database made by the lyric app. The idea was to input the lyrics myself (or grab them with minilyrics), time them and then throw them into the db of a cheap lyric app I installed on the phone.

Thanks again for the tip. Here's a link to their lyrics: http://www.uta-net.com/user/ichiran.html...&Cselect=1

Well, it looks like this site uses flash for all of their lyrics, but it is easily grabbed from your cache if you look for this file 'showkasi.php' , which is encoded in UTF-8.

I use TuneWiki for lyrics on the iphone. You could prob add them to that if they dont have them already...

TuneWiki looks interesting. I wonder if they let you add your own versions of the lyrics. A few of the ones I searched for were in romaji so adding a new set of lyrics for a song with kana and kanji might not qualify as "editing" the existing romaji lyrics.

dusmar84 Wrote:when you say you use subs2srs for songs does that mean your card will play a short audio clip and have the lyrics matched up with it? Can subs2srs even do this with songs?

Or alternatively do you go through after the audio has been broken up into cards and add the lyrics manually?

Basically, yes. I'm doing Bump of Chicken Karma ATM. You can use MyLyrics to time the lyric sheet and then create a .irc file, which you input into subs2srs and with you audio taken from your CD. You can then add in your English lyrics from the internet (you basically copy and paste the appropriate English sentence over a copy of your timed .irc file's Japanese sentence.) to subs2srs and your away.

Basically, if you look at popasia above, you'd have:

Front:
涙や弱さや素顔なんて　この街じゃ
誰にも見せちゃいけないって　思ってた
[audio]

------
Back:
[Reading]
Tears, weaknesses, my true face; in this town
I thought that I couldn't show those things to anyone.
[audio]

I would probably have the English hidden (just push "edit card" on your Iphone to see it.), so I didn't get too hooked on it.

Note that this is quite a long sentence. I would probably break it in half if you didn't lose meaning. Then again, I sorta understand everything, but one word, so probably not worth splitting (always keep meaning over length).

P.s., You can often get timed audio in Romanji, and, rarely, Kanji through MyLyrics search function without all the work. Hmmm... I wonder if I could just paste the Kanji version over top? Something for later...

Hmm I might be able to use sub2srs for transcription (typing what you hear from audio in a language, so this case japanese)

ta12121 Wrote:Hmm I might be able to use sub2srs for transcription (typing what you hear from audio in a language, so this case japanese)

Which reminds me (again), I want to include Transcriber support in subs2srs. Maybe this weekend.

cb4960 Wrote:

ta12121 Wrote:Hmm I might be able to use sub2srs for transcription (typing what you hear from audio in a language, so this case japanese)

Which reminds me (again), I want to include Transcriber support in subs2srs. Maybe this weekend.

Good idea! ;p

cb4960 Wrote:

ta12121 Wrote:Hmm I might be able to use sub2srs for transcription (typing what you hear from audio in a language, so this case japanese)

Which reminds me (again), I want to include Transcriber support in subs2srs. Maybe this weekend.

Cool