Lang-8: Possibly the Best way to Practice Japanese Writing

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[ww92films]

If you are on a PC, right click your toolbar and highlight the toolbar cascade, then enable the 'Language Bar'. There should be an 'EN' on your toolbar now if you are in english. Right click the 'EN', then click 'add' to add a language. When you want to change your language, left click the 'EN' button and select your language and means of input. I recommend 'Hiragana' for input. Hope this helps

[Forsaken87]

8-(rotate)->∞ (infinity)

[rss313]

this site RULES. you forget to mention it'll replace anything from work to your crack addiction in regards to time management. ADDICT GET.

[Fenul]

@quakemaster789 don't write with kanji then. And if it's reading that you have a problem with, try Rikaichan :). It is a helpful extension.

[Fenul]

@RelVleDy I am at a beginner level and on the contrary, think it helps a lot. If you can get past the shyness and the fact that most people will be reading your posts out of kindness rather than interest, it does wonders. Forcing yourself to write out sentences and ideas, even if you do it with mistakes, can really help improve your grasp of the language. Learning from your mistakes is also the best way to surpass them, if you ask me.

[quakemaster789]

I can't read kanji so I struggle to read the kanji when I write a journal?

[aimmaster18]

It's a great website! I strongly recommend it to everybody ;)

[skj91]

ya as long you know you're dealing with Japanese speaking (reading/writing) people then you can use only Hirigana and Katakana until you're more comfortable with the kanji.

[skj91]

@UndeadVanity3013 in either case if you add the Japanese IME version available from microsoft then all you have to do is select Hirigana (or Katana, as neccessary) from the input style list on the language bar it's set to Japanese IME (click the little down arrow at the bottom right corner of the icon for the letter A to find the list) and from there all you have to do is type in the romanji and it will convert the type to hirigana every time you hit the space bar or enter key

[skj91]

@UndeadVanity3013 you download and install the Japanese language pack from microsoft then go into your control panel and:

Win7 or Vista go to control panel -> Clock, Language, and Region -> Region and Language -> click Keyboards and Languages tab -> click Change Languages button -> click Add button and select from list.

XP go to control panel -> Date, Time, Language, and Regional -> Add languages -> click the Languages tab -> click Details button -> click Add button and select from list

[tamagochita]

the symbol for infinity look like (oo)= 8 vertical.

Great post .. as usual

[nero2kewl]

the 8 is the symbol for the mobius loop, turn it on it's side and it means infinity.