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| 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 401 of 1702 22 June 2012 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
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If you're going for an Android handset, the only thing I would say is take care over the fonts used for Japanese. I haven't found a handset in the UK yet which does not default to a font with Chinese characters for Japanese text. This means that characters such as 直 and 誤 do not normally display correctly. Apparently the only way to solve this issue completely is to root the phone, which personally I am not prepared to do. Some apps have workarounds which allow you to use custom fonts - most importantly Anki has this feature, and I have recently found an ebook reader called fbreader which also allows for custom fonts.
And I think you should totally psyche yourself up and Skype some people in Japan. Once you get used to the idea that you will make a fool of yourself, it really is good fun! 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 402 of 1702 23 June 2012 at 8:39am | IP Logged |
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So right now if I type in japanese I'm really typing with chinese characters?
Hmmm 走る。。男。。。珍しい。。。 Seems ok. I'm gonna google this I don't think I follow you. Or I can't tell the difference between japanese and chinese versions of the characters. (I'm using my HTC mytouch android phone atm) 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 403 of 1702 23 June 2012 at 8:47am | IP Logged |
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Ok the past two weeks haven't been great for japanese for me. I'm not reading my grammar lessons or
doing the spaced repetitions. I'm basically just listening to my harry potter vocabulary read to me with music while I drive or ride my bike or clean. I'm watching anime but using subs... Not focusing on the japanese as much as I'd like. Before I was watching anime as a break from studying so it was ok if it had subs. On a positive note I'm getting plenty of exercise heh. Riding my bike takes a lot of free timebthough. So to punish myself and to make my mind focus on the japanese and to motivate me, I'm going to watch everything without subs. At least until I feel like I'm studying properly. As for what I'm watching atm, I'm watching rurouni kenshin. I stoped watching and then got mixed up as to what dvd I was on and the stupid Netflix doesn't label them anyway.. was a hassle figuring it out. But I'm determined to finish heh. (And its a great series too) 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 404 of 1702 23 June 2012 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
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Hmmm gbod you're absolutely right about my phone not showing the kanji
right. The ones I typed look fine but yours aren't at all. I was just double checking them on my pc. Root the phone. I am such an android noob I don't know what that is. Like jailbreaking an ios device I'm guessing. I didn't know android users had to do that to their phones :-\ . Was one reason I wanted to ditch ios. 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 405 of 1702 24 June 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
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Today was a bit better. I'd gotten distracted from japanese by reading a couple novels in English. The
2nd one was a stephen king one... I'm sort getting g towards the end of it but it goes on and on and I shouldn't have picked a stephen king novel. Good though. But I'm putting it down to focus on Japanese again. You really have to dedicate a lit of time or you wont get anywhere. Still making myself watch anime without the subs. It gets a bit frustrating at times. I understand and then I don't and then I pretend to understand but I really don't. Ugh. But I think its more beneficial than having the subs... Even though with the subs I can parse the Japanese in my head and make educated guesses as to what stuff means. Just making my brain rely on the japanese exclusively I think will help stuff stick better when I do understand and it does motivate me to study harder. I'm loving my phone. Updating in bed is awesome heh. I hate typing on the ipad in bed so rarely did that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6077 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 406 of 1702 24 June 2012 at 12:50pm | IP Logged |
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I have one anime series. I watch azumanga daiō in English first (which is awful), then I watch it in Japanese about 5 times. I don't like the transcripts for this particular show because the language is changed to adapt to the jokes/timing of the panel, etc. Plus my brain automatically gravitates to that which it knows -- which is English -- and without realising it, I tune out the Japanese because English is running along the bottom like a Ticker Tape and it's like I'm hypnotised! (lol) Especially when I'm tired. Subtitles are very bad for me^^
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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 407 of 1702 24 June 2012 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not good about rewatching anime to practice my japanese... I want to have the suspense of not
knowing what happens next. 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 408 of 1702 24 June 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
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I'm changing up my routine a bit in how o spend time when not studying per se. I've been listening to
my flashcards decks on my ipod but I'm going to try just listening to native broadcasts. I don't expect to really understand it yet although I do pick out lots of words.. but I think it'll better train my brain to handle japanese. I just need to find a good source of free material. Right now I'm listening to ABC detective bureau news. It streams well from my ipod app. The other stations not so much. I'm sure there's tons more out there though I just to search. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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