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Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: relic2279 on March 26, 2009, 12:40:15 PM ---I had no idea where to post this, but this topic came up near the top in the search box.
Here is another resource if anyone wants to try it out. A semi-friend of mine from another website (reddit) just made this. It's a free online English ⇆ Japanese dictionary searchable in any script including romaji. It is a very clean page with super quick searches thanks to a realtime algorithm.
http://www.nihongodict.com/
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Very good website.
theillien:
--- Quote from: houkouonchi on November 14, 2008, 04:58:22 PM ---One of my friends introduced me to this site:
http://www.iknow.co.jp/
This has got to bet he best online site I have ever used for studying Japanese. I recommend it! If you couldn't guess my username on there is houkouonchi.
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Now at http://smart.fm/iknow
I've been using that and Slime Forest Adventure. I've also recently started using mnemosyne which is similar to Anki. So similar that I don't see any differences and I wonder if it is a direct ripoff. One reason I use mnemosyne instead of Anki is the Remembering the Kanji deck.
Tatsujin:
Does anyone know how to switch easily from English to Japanese with your keyboard (short cuts) rather than clicking back and forth from English to Japanese? I know I've done it once but it was accidentally.
jamienumber9:
alt + shift scrolls through installed languages on your computer. When you switch to Japanese, it will probably still be on romaji input so press alt + ~ to switch to japanese input.
Another handy shortcut is F7, which tranforms the kana you are typing into katakana.
Yeah learning Japanese is really not that easy. I'm almost 2.5 years into a Japanese double major at uni and, having never been to Japan, I'm still not super confodent in the language because there are always nuances that you don't understand until you really get into using it.
BTW, I know it was ages ago, but those people saying "learn 2000 kanji and the kana scripts and that should be enough to get by" are not terribly well-informed or are getting confused with Chinese or perhaps have taken some other route to being wrong. 1945 kanji are prescribed for the standard highschool education, a lot Japanese people, unless they go to college/uni in Japan, don't learn more than that in their lives, and just slowly forget how to write them because word processors are used so they don't actually have to write them (especially Japanese ex-pats). Then you have the 2 scripts, which obviously you will learn first and they aren't that hard.
FYI in my extended(double) major, at the end of the 3rd year i.e. After I've finished university I will have studied (and am supposed to be able to read AND write, but I won't because Kanji is hard) 1000 kanji, which is the amount Japanese people learn in Primary school. After that, I guess I have to study them on my own, which I'm not good at doing. I need to be institutionalised and regularly assessed in order to learn Kanji. :-[
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: jamienumber9 on April 24, 2009, 11:41:53 PM ---alt + shift scrolls through installed languages on your computer. When you switch to Japanese, it will probably still be on romaji input so press alt + ~ to switch to japanese input.
Another handy shortcut is F7, which tranforms the kana you are typing into katakana.
Yeah learning Japanese is really not that easy. I'm almost 2.5 years into a Japanese double major at uni and, having never been to Japan, I'm still not super confodent in the language because there are always nuances that you don't understand until you really get into using it.
BTW, I know it was ages ago, but those people saying "learn 2000 kanji and the kana scripts and that should be enough to get by" are not terribly well-informed or are getting confused with Chinese or perhaps have taken some other route to being wrong. 1945 kanji are prescribed for the standard highschool education, a lot Japanese people, unless they go to college/uni in Japan, don't learn more than that in their lives, and just slowly forget how to write them because word processors are used so they don't actually have to write them (especially Japanese ex-pats). Then you have the 2 scripts, which obviously you will learn first and they aren't that hard.
FYI in my extended(double) major, at the end of the 3rd year i.e. After I've finished university I will have studied (and am supposed to be able to read AND write, but I won't because Kanji is hard) 1000 kanji, which is the amount Japanese people learn in Primary school. After that, I guess I have to study them on my own, which I'm not good at doing. I need to be institutionalised and regularly assessed in order to learn Kanji. :-[
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You need to read:-
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-the-time-ajatt-how-to-learn-japanese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluency
Get Anki and start using it for Kanji, learn 5 or 10 Kanji a day. Times that by 365 and thats how much you've learned in a year. Of course, with reviewing.
Edit -- Thanks for the tips on the keyboard. Helps alot ~
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