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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1529 of 1702 25 November 2014 at 6:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I got the Japanese pod 101 feed going and it downloaded all their episodes. Including the beginner ones. And
it's a bit of a mess. I think it's organized by date or some such thing and I can't the intermediate lessons very easily. i'll figure something out. I'm not a fan of iTunes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1530 of 1702 26 November 2014 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
I don't know whether the problem is that there is a limitation in iTunes wrt directory structure or whether JPOD just dumped everything in one big bucket. At least within a season the names are reasonably consistent. So I just clicked on a random PDF, decided what it was and used a simple script to rename everything that matched that pattern, so I ended up with LI_S5_008_review.mp3 and LI_S5_008_dialog.mp3 and so on. Those got dropped into their own directory and I clicked on something else. Took an hour or so overall. I do remember that the lesson PDFs come in two forms: one of which was the straight lesson and the other had embedded fonts (or something like that). The contents are generally the same, although the fonts look different and sometimes you can only copy- and-paste out of one or the other (as I found while sentence mining ...). In the end I decided that the inconvenience was a small price to pay for the rather large source of Japanese plus audio plus semi-professional translation. Right now I'm quite enjoying the Upper Intermediate stuff. I've never given the Advanced blogs anything more than a cursory look. I don't imagine I'll ever do much again with the Beginner (or Newbie) stuff, but the Upper Beginner lessons are still pleasant to listen too (especially now that I can mostly understand them :-)). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1531 of 1702 26 November 2014 at 3:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not so motivated to organize that I'm going to rename all the files but I can really see why you would.
What was driving me nuts was that I couldn't delete the podcasts no matter how many times I spotted right to left or used the edit button to delete and when I tried going onto iTunes it told me I had 80 gig of files but I could only see one stupid file and it wouldn't even let me delete that. Clearly something wasn't right. If you delete files on the podcasts app they just come right back but if you delete then from the usage setting in the setup options they stay deleted.. At least if you then delete them in the podcast app before they start downloading again. It can be frustrating. But I'm just manually selecting the shows to synch in iTunes and it's pretty good. It works. Man what a headache. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 1532 of 1702 26 November 2014 at 3:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I keep wondering if it's okay to go ahead and get membership to JapanesePod101.com in order to download all the stuff. I usually just grab their podcasts from the free feed (even though they trickle in slowly). Some of the lessons I really like, but some drive me nuts.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1533 of 1702 26 November 2014 at 11:45am | IP Logged | ||
OMG. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to turn you into an iTunes user ... I just meant fire it up to download everything and then move the downloads to where that festering pile of poo can't arbitrarily wipe stuff just because there's a "y" in the day! I do like my iPod and it has helped my language learning immensely, and it's true that the only way to put stuff on there is via iTunes, but if that meant I had to let iTunes manage stuff on it, I'd drop it in a heartbeat :-) No, all my JPOD download sits on my NAS and some of it is now also on my iPod. Luckily iTunes just runs on a sacrificial PC (which happens to belong to the company I work for :-)). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5974 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 1534 of 1702 26 November 2014 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
It's definitely okay and I would highly recommend it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chillr Newbie Australia Joined 4026 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French | Message 1535 of 1702 26 November 2014 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have recently got back into Jpod using their app on my iPad. The advantage is that you bypass iTunes. I
have downloaded all the Upper intermediate lessons and am working my way through them. You need to be using the app while you download but that is easy. I just start listening to a lesson and set off some downloads. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1536 of 1702 27 November 2014 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll take a look at this app you mentioned. I'm guessing you need an active subscription to properly use it.. oh well.
Just a quick update.. I'm going to try a different approach than I've been doing. When I've watched an anime, or read a script, or read articles, or attempted to read a book, I've pretty much saved all the vocabulary for studying later. I'm going to stop that and just save a portion of the vocabulary. Whatever I feel like saving but I'll make sure it's not overwhelming. I'm not really sure if I ended up doing this with German or not. I think I just made huge vocabulary lists of everything until my German got good enough that I could guess the meaning for most words without needing a dictionary and then I just stopped saving vocabulary to study completely. If I looked a word up, I didn't write it down or if I did I didn't really study it anyway. I think this approach makes the most sense if I want to actively read as much as I can. However, I don't want to stop studying vocabulary with flashcards since I think my vocabulary acquisition will suffer a lot - so I'll just limit the intake to keep it manageable. At this point I would rather study words I find myself than use the Core 6k or whatever. It's more fun and getting more words to study motivates me to go read or whatever. I could have been doing this a long time ago (probably after I finished the core 2k, or even core 1k) but the desire to just learn everything was too strong. Reading has obvious benefits - it gets me more used to kanji and seeing stuff in context. The only problem is that there are a lot of words I don't know so it makes me feel kind of dumb looking up so many words as I read but that just goes with the territory I think. For now I'll be using the flashcard program in Japanese for iOS. I also downloaded the kanjidamage deck again and I'm working through that solely for the kanji sounds, and I also have a kanji sound deck in Japanese for iOS from the vocabulary I am saving for studying. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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