November 30, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Sentence mining is a process of extracting sentences
that contain unknown words
from the content you read, watch or listen to in your target language
and adding them to Anki in a form of targeted sentence cards (TSCs).
You put an example sentence in the question field
and the definitions, pictures and pronunciations in the answer field.
Sentence mining and immersion are the two most important components of our method.
Immersion provides you with new vocabulary to be mined,
and mined sentences become fuel that advances your language learning.
Finding your own sentences is much more fun than learning from a premade deck,
or, god forbid, a textbook.
Because you're creating Anki cards out of vocabulary found in your immersion,
you're always learning what is relevant to you.
Once you reach this stage, it is way harder to quit Japanese,
as the foundation is already in place.
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October 13, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Japanese subtitles can be found in
many places.
Often after downloading an archive with subtitles for your show
you find that the subtitles are not in sync with the video files you have on your computer.
In this article let's discuss what you can do to sync them.
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September 29, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Qolibri
is a Qt-based dictionary viewer.
It lets you search multiple dictionaries at one time
so for every word you look up you immediately get multiple definitions.
Qolibri remains one of the most widely used Japanese dictionary viewers for GNU/Linux.
By itself, Qolibri is just a viewer.
To utilize it, you need dictionary files.
The dictionary files Qolibri reads are called EPWINGs.
EPWING (electronic publishing WING) is a dictionary format
that was allegedly utilized in portable electronic dictionaries.
Qolibri is much better at searching a big number of dictionaries at the same time than Yomichan.
If you try to use more than 5 dictionaries with Yomichan,
it quickly becomes very cluttered and hard to navigate.
Qolibri lists all dictionaries you have on a sidebar.
It is easy to jump between them if you need to.
If you haven't started using Japanese to Japanese dictionaries yet,
feel free to skip this article for now.
Though Japanese to English dictionaries for Qolibri exist, their number is not very large.
The main reason you want to use the program is to browse monolingual dictionaries.
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September 10, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Let's define a "target" as any unknown piece of information
in a given sentence in a foreign language.
It can be either a word or a grammar structure.
We can divide all sentences we encounter while immersing in our target language into three groups:
0T, zero-target.
Sentences that don't contain anything you don't already know.1T, one-target.
Sentences that contain one unknown piece of information.2T+, MT, multi-target.
Sentences that contain multiple unknown pieces of information.
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September 07, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Ankidrone Sentence Pack is an Anki deck
that contains over 44,000 Japanese sentence with native audio.
This deck is not to be learned from back to back,
its purpose is to aid you in finding example sentences
for your targeted sentence cards.
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July 13, 2021 — Tatsumoto
Though Anki is an excellent piece of software,
you can learn languages more effectively if you tweak some settings and know how to review.
Even if you're using Anki for something other than studying human languages,
this article may still help you.
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June 20, 2021 — Tatsumoto
On a freshly installed GNU/Linux distro
Japanese characters may not look pretty.
This can be fixed by installing
Japanese fonts
and creating a proper
Fontconfig
configuration file.
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June 17, 2021 — Tatsumoto
This is Tatsumoto's AJATT FAQ.
You can search questions you're interested in if you press Ctrl+f.
I'm going to update this article as I receive more questions.
If your question hasn't been answered, ask it in our chat.
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