Questions tagged [resources]
資源. Questions about books, websites, and other resources about the Japanese language.
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Is there an equivalent of the Harvard sentences for Japanese?
The Harvard sentences (Wikipedia, full list of sentences) are a set of English sentences that:
Are phonetically balanced in the sense that the phonemes that are used in the sentences appear at the ...
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Japanese prepositional phrases
In the same way that in English and other languages as well there are groups of expressions classified as "prepositional phrases"
For example: "in spite of", "in response to&...
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Rules and tools for assigning furigana
It often happens that I want to supply the furigana (振{ふり}仮{が}名{な}) for some kanji-containing word, but can't figure out the right assignment of the kana to the kanji.
To be clear, the problem here ...
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Is Duolingo's pronunciation decent or good?
This amateur video complains about Duolingo not having perfect Japanese pronunciation, and dates from 2021. The author of the video goes as far as to recommend that the audio and listening exercises ...
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Characteristics of/Sources about roujingo
I'm finding various characters using ろうじんご in various works, and I'm trying to understand what are its characteristics; for example, わし for "I", じゃ/じゃろ as sentence-ending, のう I think like a ...
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Good sources of example sentences?
I have the impression that Deepl.com usually does a good job translating, such as in this sentence:
渋谷【しぶや】は偏愛【へんあい】が集【あつ】まる街【まち】、偏愛【へんあい】に寛容【かんよう】な街【まち】
Shibuya is a town where eccentrics gather, and ...
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Causative passive form vs. Passive causative form: Both are grammatically possible, but is there a citation to prefer one over the other?
The "causative passive" form is very well documented. It's easily made possible because the a causative verb is a valid ichidan verb, and therefore compatible with the passive conjugation.
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Using も alone to mean 当然 / “naturally”
I’ve found a usage of も that doesn’t seem to be in any dictionaries, but I’m convinced exists. The structure is:
「〜だから or 〜ば、〜もする」
And the meaning should be:
「〜だから or 〜ば、〜するのも当然のことだ」
“Because ... or ...
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pitch accent for suffixes
I am trying to learn about pitch accent, and I have heard that there are rules for suffixes regarding pitch accent. Are there any resources where I could learn about those rules ?
I am not yet able ...
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Goo Dictionary: What does it mean? [closed]
I’m sure you guys are well aware of the Japanese dictionary Goo.
https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/
Why is it called “Goo”? Even in romaji, Goo sounds unusual. I doubt it refers to the English meaning of ...
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Pitch accent websites differing for certain words
For the word 九日 (ここのか{LHHH}), both OJAD and weblio agree on the pitch accent of the word itself, but for the particle that comes afterwords (say 九日の), they differ by this:
OJAD: ここのかの{LHHHH}
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た くみ or 匠 or たくみ
た くみ (notice space) is translated by Google Translate as 'take it easy'
匠 as 'master' or 'artisan'.
たくみ as 'Takumi'
I don't find any evidence besides Google Translate that た くみ can be 'take it ...
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Learning kanji readings with examples [closed]
As background, I haven't really focused on learning kanji. I've mainly focused on learning words, and just using the correct characters for those words (purely typing, I don't write kanji by hand). ...
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Japanese kanjis and Chinese characters: a request for comparative stroke order
Because the first stroke order for Chinese characters was codified in Han period, the sequence of strokes was a subject to change during the time. If my memory serves me right, even simplified and ...
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Is there a radiotelephony alphabet standard for kanji, similar to NATO phonetic alphabet ("alfa, bravo, charlie")?
NATO phonetic alphabet is used for precise dictation of English letters:
"A" is pronounced as "Alfa"
"B" as "Bravo"
"C" as "Charlie", etc.
There are similar alphabets for other languages.
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How to find alternative writings of a kanji in electronic form?
Some kanji have alternative writings that are significantly different from each other (e.g. different numbers of strokes). For example, see here.
I'm looking for ways to find alternative writings ...
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Where can I find the nuance/meaning differences between words with different kanji options?
This question is related to the questions (here) and (here) regarding a word or verb with multiple kanji options, for example [作る、造る、創る] or [蔵、倉、庫]
Is there a resource somewhere that will tell me ...
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What is the difference between spellings しまう、仕舞う、終う、了う?
What is the difference of meanings between the spellings しまう、仕舞{しま}う、終{しま}う、了{しま}う?
Or at least, between the first two? (They are marked as common.)
If there is a source about such nuances, I'll ...
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chart for interrogative words
I have been looking for a comprehensive chart for interrogative words and their altered forms. But unfortunately I haven't been able to find one yet. So I thought maybe someone may have already come ...
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What is the English equivalent of the フヒヒヒ laugh? [closed]
I'm trying to translate a game from Japanese to English, but I cannot figure this one out. I know a lot of different forms of laughter, but this one escapes me. I've been looking for about an hour and ...
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Is Japanese one of the Buddhist canonical languages?
The languages of oriental Buddhist traditions, be it Theravada or Mahayana, do not always provide complete and entire canonical texts.
Up to now, I am aware of Pali, Chinese and Tibetan versions of ...
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Why do English sources for learning Japanese leave out pitch?
I always thought that besides Kanji, one of the most difficult things about Japanese was its immense amount of homophones. For example, 花 (はな), which means flower, and 鼻 (also はな) which means nose. In ...
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Japanese newbie, Chinese intermediate, how to get started? [closed]
I know mandarin, specifically pinyin tones, strokes writing rules, about 1000 characters. So what'd be a starting point for me with Japanese?
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Is there a list of kanji ordered by usage in novels?
I have found many lists of kanji ordered by their usage in newspapers, but are there any lists that order by their usage in novels and other fictional material?
This might be useful to have because ...
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Learning Japanese rhetoric and composition [closed]
One aspect of studying Japanese that has greatly frustrated me is my university's lack of writing classes. Learning kanji, vocab, grammar and an academic or other style is important, but Japanese ...
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Where can I get a list of Japanese words with context? [closed]
I want to study for the JLPT with authentic sentence examples, in-context Japanese. Does anyone know a resource for this? I have searched for a long time, and I haven't found anything.
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Beginners Japanese learning resources [closed]
I want to learn Japanese Language by myself.
I googled around and there are some resources but due to the fact that I have absolutely no idea what I could be missing, I was looking for some well ...
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How do specific characters get included in 囲み文字 and what are the meanings they convey?
I have this book 「図解でわかる 文字コードのすべて」 which lists many of the Unicode and JIS symbols that one can type. I noticed the section of enclosed alphanumerics (囲み文字). Not all kanji are included in 囲み文字 which ...
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Relation between kanji readings and meanings
I understand that a kanji can have several possible readings and several (typically related) meanings. Furthermore, I've noticed that a single reading typically corresponds to some subset of the ...
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Is there a Japanese version of urbandictionary?
I came across this phrase today:
むぎゅむぎゅ
From context, it looks like it should mean something like "cute" or "poor you", but I couldn't find it on jisho.org or goo.ne.jp.
Is there a Japanese ...
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List of suppletive honorific and humble forms
Is there a reference that lists words whose honorific and/or humble forms are suppletive?
For nouns, I am supposing that 父親, 父, and お父さん are different forms of a single noun differing only with ...
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Equivalents of Google Ngram for Japanese [closed]
Are there any equivalents of Google Ngram for Japanese?
Google Ngram doesn't currently cover Japanese, and the only other thing I could find was http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/catalogEntry.jsp?...
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Sentence level pitch accent for 標準語
I was wondering if anybody had any references (preferably freely available) or insights that explain 標準語 (or should I say 関東語) sentence-level pitch accent.
I already have a dictionary which describes ...
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What Japanese lullabys are available to provide early Japanese exposure to children?
I'd like to expose my young children to the sounds of Japanese at night as they go to sleep.
Specifically, I'd like to play Japanese lullabies or other soothing music with vocals. Where do I find such ...
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Is there a list of popular surnames organised by region/prefecture?
I've seen a lot of 'Top 100 Japanese surnames' sorts of lists, but obviously some names are much more popular in some regions than others. Is there a resource (preferably in Japanese!) that would take ...
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Children's audio books good for listening practice?
I'm looking for a website with free audio recordings of Japanese children books. I found one a long time ago but alas I lost my bookmark to that site. I'm planning to go through those books since it'...
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Looking for Japanese common speech phrases list [closed]
I'm looking for a large comprehensive list of phrases that are commonly used by the Japanese, anyone know of some resources for that?
I've seen the list on here but most of them aren't exactly what ...
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Appropiate anime or media to learn japanese [closed]
This might be an off topic question. If it is just close my question.
I want to know what anime do you recommend to learn japanese? The problem with the anime I've watch so far is that they tend to ...
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Free, online resource for kanbun readings of particular texts?
Having picked up about 2,000+ characters from Chinese, one of the fastest ways for me to acquire a feel for Japanese grammar and word order, as well as some useful kanji readings, has been to study ...
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Looking for the original Japanese of this haiku [closed]
I'm sure this is a translation of a haiku but I'm not able to find the original text or even the author.
As the sun
goes down the birds
land one by one.
I've been trying to Google it but can't seem ...
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i-adjective specific intensifiers/qualifiers? e.g. 物凄い {ものすごい}
I noticed that some i-adjectives have specific prefixes that can be used to intensify the quality of the states that are described by the adjectives, similar to "flaming hot", "freezing cold" etc in ...
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How can I research how a film quote was translated into Japanese?
Are there any websites that lists Japanese-language translation quotes of English-language films? For example, how would I find out how English, mother******, do you speak it? from "Pulp Fiction" was ...
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Is there an online list of frequently used words in the news?
There are a few books with lists of words and kanji compounds found in the news. Like this one, this one, and this one.
However, unless one wants to spend a lot of time doing data entry, they don't ...
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Redistributable Anthology of Haiku or Tanka in Electronic Form
I think a graded anthology of haiku or tanka might make an excellent chrestomathy for learning kanji and japanese.
Are there any appropriately-licensed (e.g. creative commons / public domain) haiku ...
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I am looking for an online Japanese dictionary with audio pronunciations [closed]
Does anyone know any online Japanese dictionary which provides audio reading?
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Written resources for scientific and philosophic japanese?
In this Question about computer science jargon, most answers to date are electronic resources and that makes sense.
But I would like to know if there are printed japanese/english or japanese/german ...
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Sites/ways helpful for learning internet/slang lingo? [closed]
As the title says- I'm wondering if anyone is aware of a website used for learning dialects and internet lingo?
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What are the Japanese terms for "character dictionary"? "漢辞海"? "漢字典"?
I'm looking for a cheap secondhand character dictionary in Japan but:
I don't know if there is one or more kind of these, and I don't know what they are called.
Two I saw had these on their spines, ...
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Is there an objective source of the origins of kanji?
Is there an authoritative source that explains where the different kanji come from and what the radicals mean? I think it's hard to tell from most of the textbooks/other sources whether a shown kanji'...
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Japanese dictionary for mathematics/computer science jargon [closed]
I study mathematics and computer science, and I'm starting to learn japanese. Could you suggest me dictionaries/sites/etc where I could learn terminology on these subjects?
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