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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 985 of 1702 15 June 2013 at 11:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I still haven't added new flashcards to my deck so haven't used that dictionary. I'm gonna add a few today. I had a lot of new cards pending to be active over the week.. and I got distracted by some TV series. I'm hoping to take a break from the anime and just watch the new episodes that come out for the current series I'm watching. When I pick up an older series and get hooked I just watch it.. and do nothing else. These series often don't have an option to turn off subs either so I can't even try that. And I know I'm at a point where I need to read. But I like anime so much.
So that's my goal this week. A lot less anime and to make myself read. *edit* oh and when I decided to come on here and post I glanced at Google news and got grossed out by some fad in Japan spreading viruses or something.. eyeball licking. I feel nauseous right now. Edited by kraemder on 15 June 2013 at 11:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 986 of 1702 15 June 2013 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Switch to Japanese news. It's reading practice that won't gross you out.
As far as hard subs go, an old school solution is to fix a piece of paper to the bottom of the screen so you no longer see the subs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 987 of 1702 22 June 2013 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
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I was playing with an app on my iPhone, Voice Dream. It's a sweet text to speech app that you can use to read ebooks or other txt to you. It has a nice Japanese voice you can download and it's much cheaper than the Windows TTS equivalent which I also have. Anyway, I had Harry Potter going on it and I wondered what kind of dictionary support it had. Well none really. It has the default iOS one. Which used to be awesome Japanese to English goodness but with iOS 6 is Japanese/Japanese now. I typically understand the Japanese definitions hardly ever and only when they use ひらがな. I went online and googled to see if anyone else had any luck getting the old bilingual dictionary back. They have. But you have to jail break your device. And there's a great jailbreak out for iOS if you have version 6.1.2 or earlier.. but there's been a couple minor updates since then (really minor updates probably just to keep you from jailbreaking) and of course I always update to the latest version and hadn't thought about jailbreaking until now. From what I read there's some sort of tethered jailbreak if you updated but tethered includes some annoying steps you have to do every time you shut down your phone or something and I don't want to be bothered with anything like that. Per what the site says they're holding off doing a major jail break update until a substantial new iOS version comes out - probably iOS 7. So I am stuck waiting.
If you jailbreak your phone the how to on getting the old dictionary back looks pretty simple.. just moving some files around on your phone so the phone uses the old dictionary which is still there instead. As far as studying Japanese during the week I'm still trying to get it to work into my routine. I am getting more sleep now thanks to not having to wake up at 4:50 am thankfully but I get home late and somehow when it's dark out I just want to do fun stuff like watch anime O.o. Need more discipline. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 988 of 1702 22 June 2013 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Reading some Harry Potter before bed. I successfully removed DRM on some of my kindle ebooks and I'm
pretty psyched about that. I am a big fan of text to speech and this gives me a lot of options for that I haven't done tried a Japanese ebook yet though. It's late and I'm tired but it shouldn't be hard. The will make reading Japanese so much easier. I haven't tried reading Japanese on my kindle in about a year but I believe it was annoying like on a lot of interfaces in that you had to carefully hightlight the text to look up a word and it was slow. I look up a lot of words. I am really liking 読書 or dokusho in the android App Store even though it is a little crash prone. Just tap the first letter and it looks the word up. No waiting for it to highlight or anything aggravating like on apple products. I'll post here when I get it to work. There's a lot if content you can buy on amazon so it's exciting. Not that I'll blow through books very fast. *edit* I got it to remove drm on my Japanese ebook no problem. Of course, I have no idea what to buy. I think what I bought was a cheap novel in the mystery suspense section. It was a couple bucks. Edited by kraemder on 22 June 2013 at 1:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 989 of 1702 23 June 2013 at 12:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok I'm still pretty happy with the control I've gotten over my kindle library for studying how I want to.. but the Japanese selection of ebooks on the US store is very very bad. There's 9,269 books. omg. So bad. I spent about 15 minutes looking.. I downloaded a book (ok I knew it would be erotica but that's pretty much all they sell it seems..) using my Amazon Prime free lending credit and it's nothing but pictures. I am pretty sure that's true for a huge majority of the books but I'm hesitant to spend even 1-2 dollars a book to find out. There are some actual books.. and I did get a few.. I dunno. I might try google and see if a more advanced language learner made a website or a post in a forum on what's good in the Japanese language section on Amazon. Removing the DRM you can totally read the books though with Rikai-sama or whatever. So much potential.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 990 of 1702 23 June 2013 at 2:11am | IP Logged | ||
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So I still have the 7 Potter books. I'm getting a good flow going now. I doubt I'll blow through the book in a weekend since I look up a lot of words as I go and think about stuff but I'm not saving vocab and that's speeding it up. It's repeating anyway. 双子 for example.. I think I've totally learned that word just from the scene I read about Harry getting on the train. I think what would help me more than studying vocabulary with flashcards would be to work on my kanji.. and get RTK 1 refreshed completely and then RTK 3. Get them really solid so I don't have to stop and spend several seconds trying to remember. My RTK 1 deck I'm sporadically doing is up to about 540 cards.. not sure how many due. It's going slowly because I'm making myself do everything even though a lot.. is known. I think it's worth it to be thorough.
*edit* I am going to have to discipline myself to avoid the anime and work on reading. I'm pretty sure watching anime has hit a wall of sorts in terms of learning. Edited by kraemder on 23 June 2013 at 2:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 991 of 1702 23 June 2013 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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My professor suckered some of us into volunteering to dona presentation on onomatopoeia.
Half an hour at an anime convention in late July. It's got me paying a lot more attention to it as I read and well its everywhere. And dokusho does a rather lousy job of translating it for some reason. I dunno why. It seems it's not in its dictionary. I really have no idea what we're going to do for 30 minutes. If this were a language class we could organize some sort of activity to pass the time but it's a presentation. Oh well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 992 of 1702 23 June 2013 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | ||
If it's any help, JPOD101 has a whole set of lessons covering a bunch of 擬態語 and 擬音 語. 30 minutes sounds like a lot of time to fill ... 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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