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@NewMetaQuestion There is JavaScript on this page that shows exactly how to write each stroke. At jisho.org enter the kanji, a blank space, then "#kanji". Halfway down the left column, the "[play]" icon is super-imposed over the greyed-out kanji. Press [play] and the kanji is drawn, stroke, by stroke as if for 書道。

@jkerian really? Where is the raw data? The 100,000,000+ documents written by native speakers from which the reference book is derived is out there on the net.

how do you acquire that data?

so, how can you discover what the japanese natives do (if you can't live in japan). google?

you know, but native speakers don't look at reference sites like that one you sent me. they copy what the people around them do. they copy what the newspapers that they read do. they copy each other.

ok. that reference site you sent me is way beyond my ability to understand tonight. i'm going to need some native's to help me.

ok. i see the page.

no. i am sorry. i never saw it.

which question? do you mean the link about the rules for okurigana?

i just want to copy how native speakers use japanese. nothing more.

(3) i don't care about all "possible" okurigana.

(2) i am happy with just settling on 1 okurigana. the okurigana that is most frequently used.

(1) my native speaker friends say that meaning does not change with okurigana.

i've struggles so much with okurigana.

i just am thinking about discovering how native speakers use their language by comparative frequencies.

well, do you agree with using google searches to discover comparative frequencies of vocab / kanji?

what is a better source? (must be accessible via net, and must have access to the raw data)

what bette source?

Why can't the "# of returned pages" in a google search be a proxy for the comparative frequency of the use of words in written Japan? A question from earlier today was discredited and deleted because of this. So, I'm asking a follow-up question I guess.

ha. yeah. in the sticks of the deep south, no asians here. not even any chinese.

oh, well... i have tried talking to my iphone and recording my voice. this helps a little. i can at least work on the flow of my speaking, and pronunciation.

ok. i've been scheduling times, but the 14-hr time difference is a problem. and people break their appointment to talk with me. i want to speak, so, so much more than i do.

like, i want to talk "right now". start a conversation with anyone who is a native speaker.

but, what about immediately. trying to schedule a time to talk does not work for me.

what is the quickest method to start a conversation over the internet with a native japanese speaker? i want to just start talking about what's on my mind in japanese for maybe 10 minutes. i'd be happy to teach them anything about english grammar. certainly, there is a demand and supply for language exchange, but is there a mechanism? facebook? i don't know how to use social media for language study.

i've got a macbook and use a msft bluetooth keyboard. the keys do not map very well... i must have a wireless keyboard, and don't have enough usb slots (even with a hub)...

yes. "fn+f9" also works. i definitely need to get to know my mac a little better.

sweet. the "ctrl-L" works great. thanks.

not working yet.

let me do some more testing with f9.

by "input", i just mean type then from a keyboard. going to katakana / hiragana mode, let's my type fullwidth numbers and punctuation. but, if i type "a" of course i get the kana characters: あ or ア

i am using osx. i need to input the full-width character for each letter in the latin alphabet. anyone know how? - You must login to post

so, "ください" comes from "くださる", and the command forms would be: "くださりなさい". is that correct?

well, i thought so, but then i did some research:

So, is "ください" and command?

that sounds very strange to me.

In my mind, any sentence that ends in "ーさい" sounds very abrupt. As if a command. If everyone's sentences are ending in です、ます、 and then someone ends with a さい,

I was just reading the earlier discussion about "ください" and "くださる", and now I'm extremely confused.

i sure thought i could trust cnet... but, my system is back to normal. again, thanks for your telling me about those srt files. those are so useful!

but, i got too excited about the srt files and, without doing due dilligence, installed the srt reader off of cnet. the installer gave me the conduit malware. :-(

and got the videos, themselves, on dailymotion.com.

d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_137239.htm

@snaillplane sorry i did not give props to you for the srt files you told me about yesterday. based on your lead, i've also gotten the sdr files for "hanzawa naoki" here:

@Chocolate Those srt files for "Hotaru-no-Hikari" is everything that I was looking for. I'll tell my friends about that resource. Thank you very much.

even so, i think native speakers have a "flow" and "rhythm" that only a native can have.

absolutely.

of course, when speaking with other native native speakers, such english is quite common. but, speaking in half-sentences in a group that has one, or more, non-natives is bad form i think.

i cannot imagine how a non-native can understand such english. it must be impossible.

what i REALLY don't like is when a person begins a quickly spoken sentence, stops half-way through, and starts another quickly spoken sentence.

that is important to me.