All the Japanese characters are garbled when I read it.  You should add a
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
to your pages to improve the compatibility.

This. Is. AMAZING.

This is why I love the Japanese learning community <3.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Nice job. How did you put it together? Manually marking it all up would be usually be a 至難の業.

This is perhaps the most convenient grammar website I've ever seen.  Thank you all who compiled the sentences and littlecrow for your efforts.

It's over. Tae Kim is finished.

Thank you for this.

Are these dictionaries still in print?  Reproducing basically the entire text online seems a bit shady.

yudantaiteki wrote:

Are these dictionaries still in print?  Reproducing basically the entire text online seems a bit shady.

Massive portions of the texts are missing, including all of the keys, indexes, appendixes, and other major parts. The website is just a stripped down version with only sentence-long explanations (the actual texts have detailed explanations with charts, sometimes spanning over a page) and example sentences. Of course, the legality of the site may be questionable (specifically, whether it falls under fair use or not), but it's definitely not an exact copy of the book.

It looks like a fair use argument can be made, but I'm not going to take up that mission. Here is the relevant fair use info (source):

Student Press Law Center wrote:

Courts look at four factors to determine if the use of a copyrighted work is a fair use:

1. The purpose and character of the use. Non-commercial uses for purposes like news reporting, teaching, criticism or commentary are more likely to be fair.

2. The nature of the copyrighted work. Uses of works containing mostly factual material like maps or biographies are more likely to be fair than uses of highly creative and original works like novels and cartoons.

3. How much of the original work is used. No more of the work than what is necessary may be used fairly. The test is both quantitative (how many words of a 200,000 word book are reproduced?) and qualitative (using the "core" or "heart" of a work -- no matter how small -- is less likely to be a fair use).

4. The effect of the use on the commercial value of the copyrighted work. This is the most important factor. If consumers are likely to buy the use as a substitute for the original, it probably will not qualify as a fair use.

LongtimeLurker wrote:

Oddly for me the host doesn't resolve (using what I think is Google's DNS 8.8.8.8), so I had to put this into my hosts file: 67.220.217.235 jiten.clanteam.com

Don't know what this means- sorry! Is it something I've done accidentally?

Not sure if this will help
website domain name and host is done by zymic dot com. It is a free website.

Could this mean I might not be able to change the host resolve process? Sorry if that's a silly question. Not really sure how that stuff works.

There's a tiny mistake in one of the first sentenced in 'Basic':

あの人ひとは学生だ。
That person is a teacher.

theflash17 wrote:

LongtimeLurker wrote:

littlecrow wrote:

Don't know what this means- sorry! Is it something I've done accidentally?

Not sure if this will help
website domain name and host is done by zymic dot com. It is a free website.

Could this mean I might not be able to change the host resolve process? Sorry if that's a silly question. Not really sure how that stuff works.

I don't really know what it means, either. Anyway as long as the site works for everyone else, maybe the problem was just on my side. Just wanted to post this in case anybody else has the same problem.

It doesn't work for me either and I also use the Google DNS. How did you figure out the IP address to use in the host file?

I googled and there are websites where you can type in the hostname and it will resolve it for you.

nickoakden wrote:

I haven't posted in ages, and am doing so now just to thank you. So simple, so incredibly useful. I'll go through every entry.

While you're at it, you might want to check the sentences against the source material. There are numerous typos and errors that I saw during a short scan of one of the pages. I'm not sure if they're inherited from the spreadsheets or were introduced during the webpage creation process.

Other than that, the pages look nice! Just don't throw away your dictionaries yet...