Lyrics translations in Works
Since college, I’ve avoided using anything more complicated than Notepad for any offline writing whenever possible. Even if was trying to study a song I’d just set it up—kanji, romaji, english—in one...
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I said I was going to talk more about Anki vs. Smart.fm/iKnow the other day. This post on Nihongoup: The end of smart.fm tells you the whole story of what happened to that service. I’m not feeling to...
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Continuing from June. (I should start tagging posts.) The Good: I managed to clear out the new cards for the song decks, got the max turnover down to 5 days for all the decks I’ve started (not counting...
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The Japanese Learning Proficiency Test, or JLPT, is held every year on December 4th. Because the deadline is not midnight on December 3rd, I miss it every year. You’ve got to apply in September, and...
View ArticleMore Replacements for Smart.fm
You know what, maybe you should just join the new site. Go ahead. Fine. I’m sure it’s fine. Sure I’m sure. Fine for YOU. Me, I’m stubborn. (It helps as much as it doesn’t.) I’m doing good without it,...
View ArticleAnki for August
It continues. Looks like I did pretty well. Did for a while. This past week I’ve hit the wall. I could blame the hurricane, but it was not that bad in my exact area. Didn’t even lose power. It was...
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Yeah, I need to get better at this. Kinda bein a dick with it. The whole thing I mean. What can you do. I’ve applied for the N4 level of the JPLT. Turns out the grades are pass/fail. Hadn’t looked that...
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Not even screencapping this time. Thought about cramming for a few hours and then doing it but then realized I am a complete asshole for even thinking that and really even for people that read this...
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In about a week, I’ll be finished all of the new cards in Core 2000. I’m not going to keep updating about it here anymore. I need to be writing in Japanese on a regular basis so I’ll be doing that on...
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My 2014 Year End post did not really cut it as far as things I’ve been working on. It also included about a dozen things I plan on not doing again: running jokes that have stopped running, and were...
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