I really love how much tech there is in learning Japanese.
Ok so let’s say you want to read a manga, but want to process it with Yomitan or something.
So you use Mokuro which reads the images and turns it into a .html file you can open and hover over text to read.
What if you want to send sentences etc to Anki? Take screenshots and send that to Anki?
You can use Mokuro reader with a Mokuro’d manga to do this! (Doesn’t work with Migaku )
Ok, but what if the manga you brough digitally is trash? What if you’re like me and using every Tadoku graded readers and the ones released many years ago are just hard to see… It’s not exactly HD? What if the text is so bad it can’t OCR in Mokuro so you can’t hover over it
Well, turns out not only is there a neural network designed to upscale images, but you can use this GUI to transform your manga from trash quality to HD by upscaling it!
Read 11 pages of スーと鯛ちゃん. It’s actually super cute and very funny. Some of the grammar is a bit hard, but it’s like the hard grammar is every 3 or 4 pages for me so I can still read without spending every second studying it.
I am enjoying this! There’s a Youtuber who watched Spiderverse 50 times to learn Spanish:
Similarly repeating things you’ve already seen / read does help a lot with remembering. It’s like its own SRS!
Lads I’m not being funny but you know how I upscaled that Manga? Turns out it’s too upscaled. It’s using 29gb of RAM and I can barely turn the page What the hell have I done here!!!
Studied some grammar from Tae Kim. I love Tae Kim. Man’s got a lot of slang lessons but he’s like “yeah don’t say this unless ur an evil overlord in Anime”
Read 4 pages of su-to chan, and 5 of crystal hunters 1.
Came across this:
Is “私達は私” normal? It feels a bit weird to use 私 twice to me (even though its both different vocab).
I can’t tell if this is normal speak or if they are repeating kanji to help you learn. I have read online that their speech is not always the most normal
Sadly no evening reviews today for WK. I went rock climbing and then my friend and I are working on a lil bug bounty. This could be a fun bug we exploit!
I value reading moreso than SRS-time, so hence why I read instead of did WK.
Also studiedsome kubernetes stuff today, I really need to get that cert!
I’d like someway to read and mine from a more portable device… Maybe my laptop or even a tablet… Would be good to take a look. The exact setup I want (Migaku + Mokuro) is a bit weird and idk if any old tablet would like that. My laptop does, but I don’t know if my laptop fits the need of portability (can’t exactly take it to a park lol)
I am thinking a Kindle fire tablet with Mokuro served from local files (no reason I can’t put it into an SD and open the plain old HTML files?) and use Kiwi browser with Migaku? I think…
Two separate clauses. 私達は Us (subject)
私のトラクが - my truck (object). But yeah I think it sounds a bit weird, feels constructed. Probably in normal usage you would just omit the subject entirely
Edit that said 私 twice in a sentence isn’t that odd by itself. 私達は私のちに行った wouldn’t sound too unusual I think (ち means house here)
Querying Anki with: 'deck:Default::Mining note:Migaku*'
Query found 1733 notes.
Getting note info...
Parsing frequency lists...
This will change 1712 notes (21 notes had no frequencies found). Type 'yes' to confirm, or anything else to exit.
> yes
Updating notes within Anki...
Done!
I think I’ll have to run this regularly since Migaku won’t expose frequencies
I haven’t exposed them in the card yet… And not sure if I want to expose frequency too? Would it be helpful for me to know how frequent a word is as i’m reviewing it, rather than just knowing that all my reviews are now sorted by frequency?
Although it rarely uses kanji, being an older game…
Which I like a lot.
Ok game plan, I think…
Watch Animal Crossing video to learn some of the basic vocab.
Play Mother. Even though it’s hard the gamescript looks so nice and I genuinely want to play this quite badly I also get to play on my miyoo mini and read the script on my PC
And tomorrow I will play around with Pokemon Scarlet / Violet
Also reviews + lessons, except I had some new reviews in the lesson… Some for later!
Anki
i messed up and had frequency aroudn the wrong way. So I was learning words like “Hamas” instead of… “Watshi” Fixed!
I am thinking to increase number of new vocab cards in Anki? I am getting like 50 cards to review a day, including my 15 new cards (grammar + vocab). And they tend to only take me like 25 - 30 mins now, whereas before I was doing 40…
Rest of the day
Played a bit of Pokemon and made an Anki card from it. It’s way above my head… But it’s fun
+1 card
Read Crystal Hunters pages 34 - 73
I think crystal hunters is good for beginners. I think it’s below my level for sure. Maybe like level 2 wanikani or 8/9 on natively. If they introduce a new words the charecters say it a lot, and it’s in thought bubbles etc so you kinda learn it fast.
I actually hate how the words are so repeated for me, because at my level I know them. So I’m reading “that’s a girl” 1000000 times a page
I think for someone whose literally on like level 2 of wanikani or maybe even 3 this is a good first manga! Especialyl the free resources. Heck, even do it on level 1
5 vocab, +1 grammar card.
Tae Kim grammar book
I have maybe an extra 15, 20 grammar flashcards from reading this
Animal Crossing - Played 30 mins. There’s so much text! A lot I don’t know! But I do know some of the text, enough to play
Famicom Detective - Finally got this to work The log is amazing. Great voice acting! I only understand maybe 1 in 10 sentences… So I should probably put this on the backburner? Or just push through it?
Idk maybe I’ll play Animal Crossing some more. It doesn’t have audio or a log so in theory it sucks, but I am familar with the game and it’s much more slice of life Pokemon suffers from the same. No speaking or a log, but it’s fun and I kinda know the series. Potentially also play??
Also discovered pokeJisho PokéJisho like Jisho but for Pokemon!
Anyway, a good lil adventure into video games to see if there were any I could play. TL;DR at my level no not really, but it’s not all lost!
Shirokuma Cafe ep 12
Finished the day with some Pokemon scarlet. Made some anki cards but I like it, just wish it had voice acting
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What the hell have I done here!!!
I also get to play on my 
