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I just started Human Japanese and I like how it teaches things so far. But I got to the first chapter with vocabulary and there's no real way to drill it. Anyone know of a easy way to drill the vocab?
One of the most famous lines heard during Awa Odori is:
踊る阿呆に見る阿呆
同じ阿呆なら踊らにゃ損々
Odoru ahou ni miru ahou.
Onaji ahou nara odoranya son son.
A natural translation would be:
“The dancers are fools, and the watchers are fools. If we’re all fools anyway, you’re missing out if you don’t dance.”
阿呆 means “fool,” but here it is playful, not insulting.
踊らにゃ is a casual way of saying “if you don’t dance.”
損 means a loss or waste, so 踊らにゃ損 feels like “not dancing would be a waste.”
Awa Odori is held in Tokushima every August and has more than 400 years of history. I love how this chant captures the spirit of the festival: stop worrying about how you look and join in.
Would you dance or stay in the crowd?
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When i first posted this tool on here, i got tons of support from u guys with that post currently standing at 180+ upvotes & 26k+ views
In retrospect,when i think abt it, even the extension had a lot of flaws & still got so much support. l got a lot of suggestions & feedback
So over the entire past month, ive made massive improvements towards this tool
Here's the list of improvements ive made:-
From Only a single word, single line lookup to multi-word/sentence , multi-line & vertical text lookup support
From unformatted raw furigana to html ruby tag formatted furigana that floats above the word for the selected word with meaning with usage tags (Common, medium,rare).
From merely listing the kanjis to Detailed elegantly presented kanji breakdown with meaning, colored encoding for frequency, jlpt levels, kunyomi & onyomi.
From unreliable server pronunciation to always- reliable Webspeech API pronunciation audio with Google TTS fallback accurately based on kana
From simple saved words cards to advanced media rich (Movie/Anime/Yt snapshot+ subtitle+pronunciation audio)
Sentence Mining working with
One-click Anki flashcards creation directly from meaning popup
New sentence translation in English along with ur native language feature inside the meaning popup when u select a sentence
Popup inside popup, if u perform a lookup & further find an unfamiliar word inside the meaning popup, simply double click it to get further meaning upto 20 words
Updated the lookup shortcut from a hefty 3-key Ctrl+Shift+X shortcut to a handy "Alt + X".
If u already have the extension installed, ur shortcut will remain the same as the old one, to update it u can do it from extension settings if u want
Robust lemmatization & optimized japanese words segmentation pipeline
All these features absolutely for free, no signups, no data collection, no servers in between
Only optional ai features like context aware definitions,ai sentence breakdown explanation & azure premium tts costs money only if u wish
Now available for firefox as well as a lot of u guys requested it,
U can check out the website here, lexeye.study
For chrome: Lexeye
For Firefox: Lexeye
Let me know if u guys have any further suggestions/features u'd want me to add,
Peace✌️!!
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How are your Japanese speaking and listening skills?
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Hello! I'd like to share a project that I've been running on Discord for the last 5 years, 手書きの火曜日 (Tegaki Tuesday). It's a weekly Japanese handwriting challenge where every Tuesday there is a new prompt to submit to, usually picked from a stanza or two of a Vocaloid song or some other music. You write the challenge, submit, and then get feedback.
For the last couple months we've also been running a daily Kanji of the Day challenge. It basically works the same way, but instead it's a random daily kanji that's automatically posted for you to practice. The difficulty (and obscurity) of kanji ramps up through the week, culminating in the hardest kanji on Tuesday, so this keeps things entertaining (it's not just Joyo kanji).
We also have the entirety of 百人一首 (Hyakunin Isshu) available as challenges you can practice https://tegakituesday.com/hyakunin-isshu You are able to create your own challenges as well to share with the community and submit to!
I've been running this for a while but haven't really ever tried to advertise, so I'd be really happy if this could be helpful to more people.
I’m about to take my 18 year old son to Japan in a week. Although he may be secretly collecting ideas from Instagram or wherever the kids are these days, all I can get out of him is that he just wants to go and experience Japan.
We fly in / out of Tokyo. I have booked a hotel for the first few days in Ueno. And have a list of places of interest including going to Kanazawa and/or kyoto/Osaka. But I’m looking for ideas on what to do and see beyond those typical attractions.
Doesn’t have to be those cities at all. Willing to rent a car or take a train to smaller towns or subway to districts not always covered on the travel blogs. Will only be in country for two weeks so I don’t want to feel like I’m always on the move. Also any recommendations for a ryokan at any of your suggested locations would be great.
This update is mainly a complete overhaul on Jiwami's UI and design, but it also has major vocabulary extraction improvements, proper Settings customization, huge Manga accuracy and speed improvements, and a lot of smaller fixes and optimizations across Jiwami.
Complete overhaul to all the Screens.
Home:
Archive:
Settings:
Result Screen cards show all the definitions for the overview. Recent history is now synced with Archive, and Archive entries open in the full custom screen.
Result:
Archived:
Long file names now move to be readable instead of clipping.
Source rows, text sizes, spacing, icons, and metadata were cleaned up across the whole interface. Window sizes also got improvments and more flexability.
You can now make proper Settings presets for Anime, Manga, Novels, or whatever workflow you want. Give them any name and color you want, select them later, update them, or make a new one from your current Settings. The selected one has its own animated color effect so you can tell what you are using immediately.
https://reddit.com/link/1vs2qyz/video/e2tyhc0y67kh1/player
If you change Settings without using a preset, you can just apply them normally. If you are editing a preset, you can update it. There is also a proper color picker now for presets, pitch accents, and target-word highlighting instead of being locked to a few colors.
Context furigana can now be shown on the front, back, both, or neither. The target word itself has a separate furigana setting, so you can show furigana for the whole context but hide it only for the mined word, or do the opposite.
Target-word highlighting can now be turned on or off, and you can choose its color. English definitions can now be turned off completely if you rather use the monolingual dictionaries only, or limited from 1 to 10 meanings if you do not want a card filled with too much English.
Jiwami is now much better at handling dialectal, archaic, variant, and longer chain-heavy forms, with around 32% fewer measured errors.
Speed improvments are also a big part of this update. As i said before, extraction is done mainly with GPU. CPU also works, but it'll always be much slower. In my testing with a 667-line subtitle file, both the GPU and CPU gave the exact same final result: 656 Unique vocabulary.
My RTX 3060 Ti took 2 minutes, while the i5-12600 took 27 minutes, which is around 92% less time on the GPU for the same result. Of course this is one test on my own hardware, so do not take it as a universal number, and better hardware means even faster speeds.
Manga text recognition now reaches 100% accuracy across 100 complex-layout Berserk pages. Berserk has very busy layouts, so this was not easy. Most of the text was already correct; the biggest improvements were punctuation and all the small details around it, bringing the number of mistakes down from 312 to 0 across these pages.
The same 100 difficult Berserk pages used to take 28 minutes and 42 seconds. They now take 4 minutes and 48 seconds, which is around 83% less time or almost 6x faster while keeping 100% accuracy across the same pages.
Like always these numbers are from my own PC with these exact 100 pages, so they are not universal. Better hardware will be faster, but the same improvements are there for everyone.
For additional info, see the Jiwami changelog.
so the app name is lengaki, all the n5 content is totally free from all the n5 vocabulary to kanji to grammar and the widgets feature is also free to use, please give it a shot and is on playstore to download
Name : Lengaki
The Core 2000 was already pretty good, and I think I've taken it even further
I just published two decks for learning N4 and N5 kanji on Anki. Words are carefully selected to match the level of the deck and ranked by frequency.
N5: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1647996993
N4: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1135549925
Feedback welcome!
A friend recommended this a while back but didn't give it a try then. Just got round to it and it's fantastic for my level.
This is embarrassing but also probably common.
I can read manga slowly.
I can follow easier YouTube if I know the topic.
I can recognize a ton of words in Anki.
I can understand basic conversations if they’re not too fast.
But if someone asks me something simple like:
「週末何した？」
my brain opens 14 browser tabs and crashes.
I think I accidentally built a Japanese “recognition machine,” not a Japanese speaking brain.
So I’m trying a 30-day output experiment:
Input stays, but every input session must create output.
My setup:
Rule:
If I mine a sentence, I must change it into 3 personal sentences.
Example:
Original:
今日はちょっと疲れてる。
My versions:
昨日あまり寝てないから、今日はちょっと疲れてる。
仕事のあと、いつもちょっと疲れてる。
疲れてるけど、日本語の練習は少しだけする。
Has anyone fixed this “input is okay, output is dead” problem?
Did writing help first, or did you have to speak badly until it stopped being painful?
Hi all! Are there any tools that… for example the user is watching Netflix or YouTube Japanese content
Then there’s a side window that shows the Japanese text, Furugana and also English translation alongside?
Does such tools exist?
Hey guys,
I'm from a military base in Okinawa and I learned about the language and culture there when I was growing up. I'm trying to self-study the AP exam for it, but I'm having trouble finding reliable resources (the owl is kinda eh), and I want to learn the language well.
I know everybody is saying to use anki, but I don't really like the UI and the things for downloading are pretty difficult for me. I can hold basic conversations but I'm really trying to build more grammar and kanji, so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
I have attached a video which should give rough idea on how it works. I tried to learn Japanese from games i play. But haven't found any free and convenient way to do so. So i made this application to help me and others like me to have easier time learning.
Features of this application:
Uses OCR and highlight Japanese sentences highlighting the area.
If you click on those areas word + grammar lookup(using a modified version JMDict now).
You can add to add a word to ankidroid too (can customize deck name).
Can show full offline translation(uses fuguMT).
Any feedbacks would be appreciated. This is fairly new. All dictionary+offline translation model is bundled with the application. I can make it more like a yomitan sort of feature to import desired dictionary instead if there are feedbacks on it.
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nayeemcharx.jplens
Under the LDP, the current ruling party, Japan has seen wages flatlined, lifetime employment die and a third of the workforce shuffled into non-regular jobs with no security and lower pay. Meanwhile a weak yen and a PM Takaichi promoted tourism boom turned Kyoto into a theme park for people with stronger currencies, while the Japanese who actually live there watched their own money buy less every year. Nearly half of single-mother households live below the poverty line. Instead of explaining the shortcomings of its own governing record, the LDP shifted the blame onto the public.
Hi everyone! 👋
I’d like to share an app I’ve been developing called UniDict (EN・繁・简・日・한).
UniDict is a free offline dictionary and language-learning app for English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
🔤 What makes it different?
You don't need to select the input or translation language. Just enter a word or phrase, and UniDict automatically searches and displays translations in all five languages at once.
For example:
你好 → Hi / 嗨 / 你好 / こんにちは / 안녕
You can also search using romanization. For example:
watashi → I 我 私; 僕; 俺 나; 저
This is especially convenient for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean because you can search even if you don't know how to type the native characters.
📚 Learning Mode
UniDict also includes a Learning Mode that randomly plays vocabulary based on CEFR levels (A1–C2).
You can also choose to study only words you've previously saved.
🎮 Game Mode
There are four types of vocabulary games:
You can choose the difficulty level, and each question is played aloud in the selected languages. You can replay the pronunciation, long-press an answer for a hint, or skip a question.
⚙️ Other features
💡 Why did I make it?
I often encounter English, Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in my daily life. Whenever I used a traditional dictionary, I found it annoying to repeatedly select the input language and translation language.
I also wanted to see all the languages at the same time, use romanization to search, and have a way to randomly play vocabulary continuously for learning.
So I decided to build my own dictionary app.
It's still an ongoing project, and I'm currently also developing a version supporting English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
If you have any suggestions or feedback, I'd really appreciate hearing them!
Thanks for checking out UniDict and supporting the project! 🙏
I created a page that indexes Japanese news articles, YouTube videos (and some syosetu novels) by difficulty and JLPT level.
Currently at ~43.5k articles, ~4.4k videos, and 700 syosetsu novels indexed.
I'd appreciate any feedback, although there are a few issues I know about.
https://lingaku.com/jpn/explore
Edit: I forgot to attach the link.
