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| Nieng Zhonghan Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 3470 days ago 108 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Japanese*, Spanish, Galician Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, Armenian, Mongolian Studies: Old English, Russian, English, German, Korean, Mandarin | Message 33 of 91 09 January 2015 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||
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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5781 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 34 of 91 09 January 2015 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6351 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish | Message 35 of 91 10 January 2015 at 10:52am | IP Logged | ||
I'm sorry to hear about your phone. However, it's relatively easy to make the micro sim card fit into the bigger slot of the old sim cards. When I broke my phone last year and had to wait two weeks for it to be fixed, that's what I did. I went to my mobile communication operator and they gave me a simple plastic rectangle, the size of the old sim standard, with a hole in the middle to put my micro sim card into. I didn't even have to pay anything for it. I'm sure you could get one as well. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5781 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 36 of 91 10 January 2015 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the information Evita, I will definitely see if I can get an adaptor!
I am finally over my anger about the whole incident. I think mainly because it's Saturday, which means I have time to myself to think about things properly and start making decisions, rather than just panicking about all the things I can't do while having to work and stuff. Also I somehow managed to get my phone to stay on for long enough last night to rescue my holiday photos, which has really improved my mood. I also remembered that you can set custom fonts in Ankidroid, which is the workaround I used on my previous phone so this could be an option. It doesn't help with internet browsing (which I actually do very little of in Japanese) and means I still have to be cautious with dictionary lookups unless I can find a dictionary app with custom fonts too, but at least it solves the biggest "problem" for me in terms of learning Japanese with an Android phone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5334 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 37 of 91 10 January 2015 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I too have a Samsung Galaxy S3. While I was very pleased to see it had Korean (and
several other languages) built-in for both UI and keyboard support which was not true with my previous smartphone (a Motorola Droid X that supported only English and Spanish), I was a bit surprised to see a lack of Japanese keyboard support given the other languages it had. Thus I had to switch back to the MultiLing keyboard like I had used on the Droid X once I started working on Japanese again. Even more disappointing, though, is that neither the MultiLing keyboard nor the built-in Samsung keyboard seem to offer Hanja character generation in Korean mode. For reference, the two phones mentioned above are both Verizon-based phones in the US, since carrier and country can greatly change the included language support. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5781 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 38 of 91 11 January 2015 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, bizarrely my S3 came with a Japanese keyboard built in, but you could not switch the phone into total Japanese mode directly from the user menu (although you could activate it with More Locale 2).
Now I've upgraded to a shiny new S5 and again, it has a Japanese keyboard built in - although interestingly this one is QWERTY based rather than the 9 key hiragana layout on the S3. But once again Japanese mode is not available from the user menu, and More Locale 2 will not work on the later versions of Android without root access. I was a little annoyed that the handset they had in the shop did have Japanese in extensive language menu (and switching solved the unihan issues), but the language list on the handset I left the shop with was much shorter, and crucially missing Japanese. I was glad I had a good look at all of the handsets in the shop. Turns out that the iphone has similar issues with the Japanese fonts, at least as far as safari goes. There was no problem displaying correct Japanese fonts on the ipad though. Anyway, it was really easy to set up a Japanese-friendly custom font in Ankidroid. And it seems that the developers of Firefox do actually care enough about the issue to fix the font problem within Firefox, so I'm using this for dictionary lookups and browsing in Japanese. (Bad news is rikaichan isn't working with the latest Firefox). You do still occasionally hear a pitiful whimper of "I want my old phone back" coming from my house, but it could be worse. Anyway, this is supposed to be a reading log, not a technology log, so I'll try and get back on track for my next update! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5334 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 39 of 91 12 January 2015 at 4:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I've also noticed that the tablets seem to have much larger language sets than the phones.
For example, my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 has a huge number of UI languages available (dozens) vs. my S3 that has only 5. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5781 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 40 of 91 16 January 2015 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is why there is a limit to the effectiveness of native language > target language flashcards.
Question: "to sign". First thought: "Huh? Sign language? I don't know how to talk about that yet in German." Second thought: "Huh? Road signs? It's relevant to my job but a bit too specialised for my German, and I don't know the answer. I give up." Answer: "unterschreiben" Me: "Doh." 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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