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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 937 of 1702 15 May 2013 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm still not happy with my flashcard deck. I'm going to to switch it up again. I'm gonna try making sentences.
Even if I'm making sentences from every sentence I read. Just watching an anime. It's probably an older on.. But new to crunchy roll. It's called R.O.D. It's fun. It has good characters and plenty of action. And I like how this girl has English class and I get to listen to a Japanese person speak English with a really thick accent. There's a lot of English classes in anime. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 938 of 1702 16 May 2013 at 1:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I just updated the rom on my android phone. It's really a annoying how you go through the trouble of rooting a
device and then it kills your beautiful Japanese fonts when you update it. Well it doesn't kill it, it's more like it ignores it. I think the fonts are still there waiting but the won't use them. I forget exactly. I'm thinking of abandoning android to go to apple. I'm probably gonna do it. I'll suck up the little screen. You can type reasonably well in English or Japanese on the iOS keyboard. I hate having to switch input things on android. I usually don't go through the hassle and just speak in English as a result. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 939 of 1702 16 May 2013 at 5:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I decided the heck with it. I ordered an iPhone. The local t-mobile only carried the 16 gig in stock which I'm not happy with. I could get by with it for sure but I'd have to discipline myself a bit on what I put on the phone. 32 Gig would be fine. I got 64 just in case. There's a good chance I'll resell it when the new phone comes out if it has a bigger screen. I must say I get a bit of sticker shock when I think about how much the stupid phone costs. (trying not to think about that lol!) I'm going to love having Midori and "Japanese" (it's the name of a really good iOS dictionary app) in my pocket all the time. The android dictionaries work and they use the same open source dictionary but their interface just isn't the same. These two iOS dictionaries are so much better.
Yet another strategy for drilling vocabulary. I just printed out a vocab list of a deck using excel. It prints out pretty well although the flashcard app itself doesn't facilitate this in any way. So I can quickly scan the words to review and cover up whatever and test myself any which way. I still want to do the SRS thing but I think studying the same material in different ways is good. And I used this list method for German and Spanish and it seemed to work for those languages. This was before I had a smart phone. I guess I'm dating myself.. who remembers life before smart phones these days? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4640 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 940 of 1702 16 May 2013 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Noooo... not an iPhony! Just kidding. To each his own.
I don't have a smartphone, but I have the next best thing - an Android Walkman. Even if you don't use a flashcard app, there are a ton of useful apps out there, and the ability to carry digital copies of your texts instead of hard ones is a plus. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 941 of 1702 16 May 2013 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Just took a peek at Google to see what an android Walkman was. It's pretty interesting, but it runs a dated
version of android. Might not be a big deal I don't know. I was thinking it would be nice to have an android device just to keep on top of android in case it gets better and for when swiftkey supports japanese... I'm really interested in that. But I am gonna sell this phone. I need to offset the price of the iPhone. (really expensive /sigh). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4640 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 942 of 1702 16 May 2013 at 8:14am | IP Logged | ||
I don't have the model numbers with me, but the newest Android Walkman runs Android 2.x, while the one I have, which is the previous, smaller model, runs Android 4.x. They were selling both models at the local electronics store here, and I bought the older (and smaller) one precisely because the Android system was newer. Why Sony decided to put an older Android system on their newest Walkman, I have no idea. But there seems to be an advantage to having Android 4.x, such as compatibility with some apps (Google Chrome, for instance), lock screens, widgets, etc. EDIT: The one I have is an NW-F805. Edited by kujichagulia on 16 May 2013 at 8:16am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 943 of 1702 17 May 2013 at 6:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I am gonna try the srs flashcards that come with the iOS Japanese dictionary. New update added the feature
and it looks nice, even better than midori. It tests you bi English and Japanese..and it has an option to start out with furigana on kanji for new words and later removes them... Although I haven't used it enough that I have seen is happen. It comes with some vocab and kanji lists already. You can easily make your own which I plan to do while watching anime. There's an N3 list which I find interesting. Midori just groups N3 with N2 on its list. I wonder how accurate the list is. And it gives you a random sentence for word too.there's tons of sentences and if you tap the sentence it will show you the furigana and you can tap on words for their definitions and for kanji info. No audio but I think that's more than ok. I'm noticing anime getting easier and easier to understand. If I have subs on or off I don't usually tune out the Japanese regardless.. My brain is tuning it in automatically. There's more room for improvement but I'm feeling pretty positive about this. I really don't think having subs on reduces the benefit at all. Having them off might make me work a little harder but when the dialogue starts using words I don't know I think it's good to have the English. As mentioned my brain isn't tuning it out even if I don't know all the words..it's still grammatically parsing the sentence and well listening to it. So this weekend I am hoping to make good progress on Harry potter book 1. Since the class is over and all there's no reason not to get my first book done with. It's always been a watershed moment of me learning a language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 944 of 1702 17 May 2013 at 6:58am | IP Logged | ||
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What I meant to say is that japanese people really seem like they're speaking slower. That's what I mean
by easier. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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