幸せ [しあわせ] (adj-na,n) happiness, good fortune, luck http://www.shiawase.co.uk/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:02:13 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 http://www.shiawase.co.uk/lib/exe/fetch.php/wiki/dokuwiki.svg http://www.shiawase.co.uk/ http://www.shiawase.co.uk/doku.php/blog/chika%E3%81%95%E3%82%93_s_flashcards Chikaさん's Flashcards When cleaning up my server and deleting the old site I noticed these pages which I handcoded years ago using my teacher's drawings (with permission). I wonder if Chikaさん uses them still. Basically they are pictures that when you click on them they show you the word and the english meaning. Mostly basic vocab from beginners classes. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:31:19 +0000 http://www.shiawase.co.uk/doku.php/blog/hello_world..._new_beginnings Hello World... new beginnings After a long hiatus I decided to clean up my online presence and start my personal site anew. Previously I used WordPress, but with their move to Gutenburg which never worked for me I sort of lost interest. What was once interesting was now a chore. The software felt bloated and slow as well.The last straw was an upgrade of php which killed the site, and I didn't have the energy to repair and restore it. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:31:36 +0000 http://www.shiawase.co.uk/doku.php/blog/nhk-for-schools NHK for School The schools service from NHK is a wealth of programming for students of Japanese. There is a variety of subjects for all interests. The Japanese is natural, possibly slightly simpler than adult speech. Most programs have transcripts, and some have subtitles. Some will have worksheets and additional activities. Most are short enough for repeated viewing at 10 to 20 mins length. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:20:02 +0000 http://www.shiawase.co.uk/doku.php/blog/ocr-of-japanese OCR of Japanese Ocr’d from the above skewed photo which is a crop from a photo taken further away. Hence the bluriness of the kanji. How blobby the kanji actually are Google Lens hypoconter. How it couldn’t get e but could make out the blobs of kanji I don’t know. It has omitted a number of characters. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:20:42 +0000 http://www.shiawase.co.uk/doku.php/blog/old_homework Old Homework More old files. These were little projects I made for Japanese class. Mistakes and all. (I now think 優しい is a better word than 甘い to describe my dad. 甘い as indulgent or not strict works though.) 僕の夏休み 2005 Slides from a presentation I gave of my first trip to Japan. You can see I liked kanji. I always wonder about students giving language presentations to each other if anything is understood properly. Although I always tried to keep my spoken language at a level to be under… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:26:48 +0000 http://www.shiawase.co.uk/doku.php/blog/regex-for-japanese Regex for Japanese Regex is not set up for non Roman based languages. Lack of built in classes and lack of spaces denoting word boundaries make for challenges. However there is at least one implementation of regex that has features for Japanese. Oniguruma regular expression library by K. Kosako. It is used in Textmate. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:32:30 +0000