I'd like to learn Nihongo, where should I start? Hiragana, katakana? or even Kanji? I badly need an advice :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Tad was learning Japanese for a while. I think he started off with the Pimsleur audio tutorials and then started learning the written language... eventually he got a tutor. I was using Pimsleur too and I would recommend it even though I never got nearly as far as Tad. - Lindsay Donaghe
Thank you Lindsay for the details! :) I actually can't afford (will explain someday) the Pimsleur method myself, so I started with the NHK lessons: http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/en... But from my 2 days research I'm stuck with so many opinions : one says that I have to learn all the kanjis, another says that learning the kanjis should be a contextual matter... :( Not very encouraging I admit :'( - directeur via NoiseRiver
Go look at your local library - ours had the full Pimsleur. Once you have all the CDs in your hands, what you do with them is up to you... - Tad - just Tad
Well, actually I went to the part of town with the highest Mormon concentration - they send missionaries all over the world and they had tons of complete Pimsleur sets... - Tad - just Tad
Thanks Tad :) But I'm from a "poor" african country. I won't find the method even in the town libraries. I thought that I can learn online actually. Anyway, how was/is your own learning experience? - directeur via NoiseRiver
When I was in college I started dating Foreign exchange students..it seemed to have the right motivation to learn complete words and sayings :) - Fred Grott
@Fred: Thank you! You'll laught but I swear we don't have any japanese living here :) So I subscribed to livemocha ( http://www.livemocha.com ), I think it's a nice way to make online foreign friends - directeur via NoiseRiver
i'm late to offer advice, but you may want to try learning hira/katakana and learning the kanji by reading things like comics. i know that's not proper, polite, textbook stuff, but texts read by young people often have the kana written next to the kanji because the person may not have learned the kanji yet. i've forgotten what that practice is called ... anyway, i specifically say comics because i have a lot and could scan some for you to study. it won't teach you everything, but it's fun! - idnan
I just finished watching a great anime called "Mahoraba - Heartful days" in japanese (with french subtitles) and told to myself: Boy! Look! What you're missing! - directeur via NoiseRiver
I have to admit: I'm at the same time very excited and affraid! I'll have to learn hiragana, katakana, and hundreds of kanji and still to listen, read, write and speak. this is really something BIG! I already love 日本語 :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
“Been off Friendfeed for 10 days straight! (well almost) to build a new app. I'm happy that the base framework is working. now time to technical stuff”
A last one before I go off. I love this duet and I LOVE even more when Ella says: "Oh I love to climb a mountain and reach the highest peak" - directeur via NoiseRiver
prachtig nummer, staat op de cd Kulanjan, een van de laatste cd's die ik nog gekocht heb. Zij zingt: We love each other, I'm going to see my lover, when i go to sleep at night, I think of you (uit het boekje). Mocht je het niet verstaan ;) - Ninia
I've allways loved that story about him and Duke Ellington! - directeur via NoiseRiver
There's a Dutch expression: het swingt de pan uit. I Like. - Peter
I'm sure this has been mentioned before... but do I have to do anything special to get those audio buttons to play? I click them and then they disappear everytime :-/ (oh yeah, Ibrahim is grrrrreat!!) - Robert DeBord
Ok, I know you lazy folks won't listen to anything that is not a tease. So, yeah, I'm going to work on a nice app and I need to concentrate my efforts :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
possible248: hum... well a first usable beta at least. I adopt the Samouraï coding style and it works fine for me... For eg. the first version of NoiseRiver was done in less than 10 days, a week maybe :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
directeur : I don't know... Just good luck buddy! CU - A.Diba
wait, wait, I bet this is how some accounts had many followers last week without having a single one in return! Look at that STORED guy, he's followed by 679 people without a single update... - directeur via NoiseRiver
That's scary, that reminds of a similar problem with justin.tv some time ago when people logged into strangers accounts... - Oli Kenobi
You want to know what it is? It's twitter - Gordon Swaby
As leased it's stored ... it could have been lost - Charlie Anzman
I hope you do not have nightmares now! Can you imagine to wake up and your Twitter account has been deleted? I mean all this stress! You have spent years building your followers on Twitter and one day it is all gone. Time to sue Twitter for emotional distress! - Igor The Troll
Igor, well yes, that'd be bad, but I can survive... I will survive yeah yeah... (Sing with me) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I wonder if Robert Scoble would survive Twitter Armageddon? 25k followers gone over night! Wow suicide time! - Igor The Troll
revenge... ah sweet revenge. don't like my feeds eh people? well panopticons is laughing at your deleted accounts now - Noah David Simon
Yes I got "Stored" before... and I was as confused :P - BeeLing
Yes, sir! I got STORED this morning. I saved the screenshot but didn't post it. - Anthony K Valley
At 8:43 AM CST, STORED had 739 followers with 0 updates, following 0 people - Anthony K Valley
I think that it's Ella Fitzgerald who's singing it. Not sure. Nina Simone and Billie Holiday's voices are different... - directeur via NoiseRiver
Oh and I wanted to say that I'd be off FriendFeed for a week or 10 days. Yes I have some "serious" coding to do -- So do Nothin' till you hear from me :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
we'll miss you, directeur! I've gotten accustomed to the great tunes you share. :-) - karen2
Oh! Thank you Karen! I'll be back as soon as I achieve a big part of the project I'm working on :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Love this song! And I just started checking out NoiseRiver :) - BeeLing
@BeeLing Poh: I'm happy to make someone happy at least for about 2 minutes and a half :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I remember those days when a friend of mine was reading Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn... and me Tolstoï, Tolstoï, Tolstoï... - directeur via NoiseRiver
I like seeing others post information. Interesting to see what they are posting about. - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
Yet wondering why JAZZ isn't very visible in this wordle. I'm overwhelming people with jazz posts here :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
its pretty big.. I found it. Compared to things like NoiseRiver and FriendFeed though, you know? I see Miles and Coltrane in there too :) - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
@Tim: Ah yes! Found it too! I see Miles and Coltrane too! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
hah! That's great! How did you get it to stretch out so long? - Lindsay Donaghe
@Lindsay: It's actually Tim who made it. Tim would you answer the lady!! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Lindsay: if you use the "open window" button in the bottom left of the applet, then resize the window to your liking, then refresh the Wordle, it will fill in to the size of your window. - Trent Olson
Boy directeur, you sure do like that "noiseriver" thing..LOL - Rahsheen
@Rahsheen: Man! I do! I love that NoiseRiver thing, I'm sure that the guy who made is so awesome (EDIT: +handsome) , smart and strong... that every friendfeed's gal dreams of marrying him ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
@Lindsay Donaghe (bluecockatoo): I do a couple things, I change the default # of words to around 300-500. The reason directeurs is streched more is because his words are a little more evenly distributed (with the exception of NR of course). In wordle, you can remove some of the bigger words to stretch it a bit more. - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
