Subjects: Learning the Japanese Language 日本語勉強

Japanese WOTD: 鍵っ子

Posted 2006-07-20 (木) 午前1:05 by terra

Every week I learn something new from my Japanese class. Now I have the bad habit of never copying notes (rationale: I never look at them afterwards anyway) in class and tend to rely on my *ahem* awesome short-term memory to remember new things. Unfortunately, my long-term memory is sorely lacking…

The best part about blogs such as this is that they’re indexable and searchable! So why not regular posts on new Japanese learnings? (Briliant, Terra, brilliant) ^_^

Today’s 日本語語彙 is: 鍵っ子（かぎっこ）: It looks like it’s a direct translation from the English term latch-key child; in Chinese it’s 挂钥匙儿童 (suǒ yào shi ér tóng).

Subjects: Learning the Japanese Language 日本語勉強

Tags: Japan, vocabulary

敬語使い方

Posted 2005-02-13 (日) 午後3:25 by terra

本っ当に難しいと思う‼　使わなければならない時、とても緊張してしまう…　敬語を使い、間違いの心配が溢れていく…*泣*

The following is a scan of a Straits Times article published today:

Subjects: Learning the Japanese Language 日本語勉強

Tags: Japanese, keigo 敬語, Straits Times

PPC Win2003SE Settings for Japanese (Revised)

Posted 2004-10-02 (土) 午後9:31 by terra

日本化しよう！

Revised registry code (click here to see the outdated code)for the English OS version of PPC Win2003SE using the Japanese version of wince.nls. This has been tested with ComPOBox for Japanese input and so far works perfecty fine. Time to try a commercial Japanese input software like ATOK I guess.

Things you need…

ComPOBox from here for the Kokugo Jiten.
Nihon Win2003SE wince.nls from here.
Any version of MSGothic (you can even take from WinXP or whatever)
The registry code below…

=============Start==============

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI]
"FontLinkMethods"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink]
"Symbol"="\\Windows\\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Times New Roman"="\\Windows\\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Courier New"="\\Windows\\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Arial"="\\Windows\\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Tahoma"="\\Windows\\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SkipTable]
"Symbol"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"
"Times New Roman"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"
"Courier New"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"
"Arial"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"
"Tahoma"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\SYSFNT]
"CS"=dword:00000080
"Nm"="MS PGothic"
"HtInPts"=dword:00000001
"Ht"=dword:00000384
"It"=dword:00000000
"Wt"=dword:00000190

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE]
"Limit"=dword:00004000

==============End===============

Subjects: Learning the Japanese Language 日本語勉強, Technology 技術

Tags: Japanese, pocket pc

PPC Win2003SE Settings for Japanese (Outdated)

Posted 2004-09-19 (日) 午後11:10 by terra

Note: The following is outdated as of 2 Oct 2004. For revised version click here.

Code for UTF-8 Japanese sites only.

Replace MS Gothic with Arial Unicode MS for fonts of other languages (UTF-8 sites) to be displayed correctly

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI]
"FontLinkMethods"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink]
"Symbol"="\\Windows\\Fonts\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Times New Roman"="\\Windows\\Fonts\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Courier New"="\\Windows\\Fonts\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Arial"="\\Windows\\Fonts\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"Tahoma"="\\Windows\\Fonts\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"
"System"="\\Windows\\Fonts\msgothic.ttc,MS PGothic"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SkipTable]
"Courier New"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"
"Arial"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"
"Tahoma"="00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE]
"Limit"=dword:00004000

Japanese localisation on an English OS

Temporary solution (side effects not tested for) until I can find a new copy of wince.nls from Japan: replace wince.nls with Win2003’s (1st edition) wince.nls. Ensure that MS Gothic font is in the \Windows folder and not the \Windows\Fonts folder.
This is a cleaned up version of this site’s code.