Hanni

Hanni//26//UK Blog to study JP

[hannijp]

Hi I’m Hanni! This sideblog is for my Japanese studies, follow comes from @softhanni 💖

I’m terrible at keeping on top of studying and my grammar is non-existent, I hope langblr will be gentle on me 😭

[hannijp]

I need language learning friends TwT

[hannijp]

hangul is the bane of my life, I've tried SO many times to learn it but it just WON'T stick -smashes my head directly through drywall-

[shika-kojika]

hi hi i'm a new langblr sideblog ! my name is aster, i'm 25, and i use fae/fleur/it pronouns.

currently studying japanese and newly chinese but i learned french for some years too and i dabble in other languages! i am the number one duolingo hater boooo. and i might post about learning to code and the books i'm reading too.

maybe reblog so i can find ppl to follow? :D

[kin-no-suke]

[grammar] うちに入らない

Upon reading Murakami’s 1Q84, I came across the following sentence:

鍵はかかっていたが、鍵のうちには入らないようなものだった。

I couldn’t make sense of the second part of the sentence, so I asked my Japanese friend for help.

Apparently, Nのうちに入らない means something like “can’t be regarded as N” or “not really a N”. So, you might translate the sentence as, “It was locked, but it wasn’t much of a lock.” 

This phrase seems to be more often used with verbs, as in Vたうちに入らない, rather than with nouns.

My friend also mentioned that Japanese teachers often use this phrase when students haven’t done something properly, e.g., cleaning the classroom:

こんなのやったうちに入らないだろ！ You can’t seriously think this counts as cleaning, right?!

When I thanked my friend for the help, he replied with:

こんなの助けたうちにも入らねーぜ。 This doesn’t even count as helpin’, man.

After some further research, I discovered that this is actually considered an N1-level grammar point.

Has anyone else encountered this phrase before? If so, let me know the context in which you’ve seen it!

[corvid-language-library]

和製英語（わせいえいご）

Japanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan

和 = Japan, Japanese style (also: harmony, peace, soften)

製 = made in...; manufacture

英 = England, English (also: hero, outstanding, calyx)

語 = language, word, speech

Examples

A non-exhaustive list. Please feel free to reblog and add more!

サラリーマン (salaryman) white-collar worker

オフィスレーディー (office lady) female version of "salaryman"

フライドポテト (fried potato) fries

スーパーボール (super ball) rubber ball, bouncy ball

ガソリンスタンド (gasoline stand) petrol/gas station

サイン (sign) signature

マンション (mansion) apartment block

ツインテール (twin tail) pigtails, bunches

ソフトクリーム (soft cream) soft-scoop ice cream

ホットケーキ (hot cake) pancake

タッチ (touch) high five (does also mean "touch" apparently)

キーホルダー (keyholder) keyring

ブラインドタッチ (blind touch) touch typing

シャープペンシル (sharp pencil) mechanical pencil

シール (seal) sticker

アメリカンドッグ (American dog) corndog

バイキング (viking) buffet

ワンピース (one piece) dress

ビーチサンダル (beach sandal) flip-flops

[moonshinemagpie]

Hope you don't mind me sharing a list I made awhile back of wasei-eigo words that threw me off at first:

1. マンツーマン, man-tsuu-man, man-to-man

In Japanese, this means one-on-one. No gender connotations.

First heard in the context of: paying for a private man-to-man Japanese lesson. (Was startled when my teacher, a little old lady, told me she wanted to meet man-to-man.)

Last heard: A student asked me whether I'd assess her project in front of the class or "man-to-man."

2. プラスアルファ, purasu-arufa, plus alpha

In Japanese, these means "in addition."

First heard: My Japanese friend speaking in English and very casually starting a sentence with "Plus alpha..." Japanese speakers sometimes inadvertently use incorrect English because they mean it in the wasei-eigo context.

Last saw: In a job offer describing possible salary bonuses.

3. リベンジ, ribenji, revenge

In Japanese, this means making a second attempt after you fail at something.

First heard: My friend and I missed a train and she said we could get our revenge by making the next one.

Last heard: An interview with an English-Japanese translator, where he described failing at English in high school and getting his "revenge" by succeeding as an English major in university.

4. グラマラス, グラマーな女性, glamorous/glamour woman

"Glamorous" is sometimes a body type you can check off on dating apps if you're a woman. It has the implication that you're busty/voluptuous. A man once messaged me and told me he thought I was glamorous, and I thought he meant I seemed, like, charming or worldly, but my Japanese friend was pretty scandalized and let me know that I shouldn't message him back 😅 I suspect this word comes from English-language glamour magazines/pin-up women

[gaki-jakku-kuri]

ワンピースの単語

One Piece Vocab Words

Episodes 1-101

海賊 • かいぞく• pirate/sea robber

海賊王 •かいぞくおう • pirate king

伝説 • でんせつ • legend; folklore

海鳥 •うみどり • sea bird

島 • しま • island

穴 • あな • hole

料理 •りょうり • cooking

海軍 •かいぐん • navy; naval force

恐竜 • きょうりゅう • dinosaur

獲物 •えもの • prey; spoils; loot

鹿肉 • しかにく • deer meat; venison

異常者 • いじょうしゃ • weirdo; pervert

賞金 • しょうきん • bounty

賞金稼ぎ • しょうきんかせぎ • bounty hunter

消火器 • しょうかき • fire extinguisher

[corvid-language-library]

Today's comprehensible input. I love learning about little cultural differences like this! This isn't something I've noticed particularly because I've not done much in the way of exchanging gifts, but it makes sense to me. And actually, I prefer the Japanese way! I hate when I get a gift and people tell me to open it because they want to see my reaction (maybe it's a neurodivirgent thing because I've had to train myself to make appropriate facial expressions and I'm scared of reacting incorrectly and upsetting people).

[goodplan-ipromise]

[hannijp]

Starting a Japanese sdv game!! Wish me luck T.T

[tealingual]

THIS LANGBLR STANDS WITH PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[buchi-to-pichi]

[hannijp]

Something I REALLY struggle with is particles, I’ve tried so many resources and practice but nothing seems to work so langblr do you have any recs for how to remember Japanese particles? 😭

[dokushoclub]

For grammar I like the explanations on Bunpro. They explain the grammar point in detail and give a lot of example sentences as well.

I will link you some of their explanations on particles:

は

も

の

が

を

で

に

Note: Do not worry about the differences between は and が in the beginning. The more contexts you will see these two particles in, the clearer their nuances will get.

[bangidlee]

Websites for Japanese Learners

! click on website name to be redirected !

all websites can be used for free and without subscribtion (thats why japanese101 isnt included)

-> apps for japanese learners (soon)

1. JLPT Sensei

study guides (N5-N1)

includes grammar, kanji, vocabular, adjective, verb and other lists for orientation when studying

free JLPT practice tests

2. Japanese Verb Conjugator

automatic verb conjugator

verb database

kanji database & kanji tester

over 180,000 example sentences with sound

3. Tanoshii Japanese

japanese-english dictionary (with stroke order!)

pratice games & interactive lessons (Kanji Mahjong etc.)

learning resources (japanese novel, textbook, magazine, movie recommendations)

4. Jisho

fast and smart japanese-english dictionary

draw and radical function apart from keyboard search

searching by topic and categories by adding #[topic/category]

JLPT levels, sentences, particles, counters, names included

5. Map Quiz

world map quiz in japanese

divided into continents and north, east, south and west

6. Japanesetests4you

free JLPT N5-N1 reading and listening tests

free JLPT N5-N1 vocabulary, kanji and grammar lists + tests

7. Shiritori Online

Shiritori (しりとり) is a popular japanese word game and is ideal to exercise vocabulary for japanese learners. 2 or more players take turns saying a word that starts with the last kana of the previous word. The game ends when someone answers with a word ending with -n (ん) because there are no words starting with ん.

it is up to the players whether all forms of a hiragana (kana and its diacritics; は,ば and ぱ etc.) are allowed or not (e.g やぎ -> きよう).

example: りんご (apple) -> ごりら (ゴリラ) (gorilla) -> らーめん (ラーメン) (ramen). The last person who said ramen loses because the word ends with -n (ん). Instead the person could have saidらま (ラマ) (llama) (e.g).

[dany-japanese-study]

Putting all my Japanese Resources in one place.

Well, I wanted to make my life easier by cataloguing my resources, and I guess it might be helpful to someone so… This is gonna be  long. (sorry for spelling mistakes)

Main Tools: what I use frequently

Dictionaries

Jisho (Web) - Classic, Clean and Easy, probably the best Dictionary out there.

Takoboto (App/Web) - really like this one it has a grammar section, and the App has JLPT lists.

Akebi (App) - You can search by writing the Kanji, very useful, but not a very eye pleasing design.

Memorization

Memrise - LLJ Series of decks (Kanji, Tae Kim’s Grammar and Core Vocab), a think because Memrise uses a multiple choice system it works better for me, more than Flashcards.

Anki -  With Anki, I use Mostly Anime decks, for example, Japanese Like A Breeze. Jo-Mako decks: Core Anime Deck, Yotsuba, Your Name (Jo-Mako decks are really well done).

YouTube

Comprehensible Japanese -  AMAZING resource, her videos are all in Japanese and they range from complete beginners to intermediate.

Japanese Ammo with Misa - Explains grammar, has Pacific vocab videos and even breakdown music lyrics.

Cure Dolly - More grammar, she has the most eye-opening explanations I’ve ever seen, some might get annoyed by the robotic voice but ITS worth it.

The Japanese Page - Less Known but cool short videos about kanji, vocab, idioms, etc.

Game Gengo - Learn with games, his N5 Grammar video is great if you’re lazy like me

Japanese with Shun - Great Genki Podcast.

Immersion (aka. The best part)

Anime (How you can study with anime)

Immersion Kit Dictionary - PLEASE USE THIS! If you’re like me and the sentences provided by normal dictionaries never stick in your brain, this is perfect for you, you insert a word or sentence and it will find an Anime/drama/game with it. You can even send sentence cards to Anki.

Animelon - Made to Learn Japanese with dual subtitles, translation history and quizzes.

Animebook - Video player Works With Yomichan and Anki, I use this notation type (Eminent Note Type V2) drag video file and subs in this page and Done.

Kitsunekko - Subs for Anime and J-drama

Nyaa - Anime Raw Files (No subs)

Japanese with Anime -  If I could hug this person I would, very informative  Manga/Anime Slangs and grammar in general.

Japanese Anime & Manga - Cool site with an interactive manga, kanji games, and quizzes.

JPDB beta - Has already Built decks of Animes, Texbooks, Novels and more, also if you insert a sentence, it explains each part of the sentence to you.

Ichi.Moe - Same thing  it explains each part of the sentence to you, but it’s easier to use.

Manga (and reading in general I guess)

Manga.reader.to - I use this site to read my manga it has quite a big collection. Better Scans, and has Japanese options in most mangas

Docsumo Free OCR Software - Now let’s say you don’t know a word and want to search for it use this OCR, really easy to use and works quite nicely. There are better  options specifically for manga, but again, I’m lazy so…

Aozora - This site is for public domain novels (EX The Little Prince) Audiobook on YouTube.

Japanese.io -  You can read articles and news

Raikun - Pop- up dictionary for Words and Kanji. Simple and Quick

Yomichan - Now this one is a little more complicated, pop- up dictionary, but you have to download and set up the dictionary, Much more customisable than Raikun and create Anki cards

[hannijp]

Something I REALLY struggle with is particles, I’ve tried so many resources and practice but nothing seems to work so langblr do you have any recs for how to remember Japanese particles? 😭

[warau-okami]

People enjoyed the charts for English learners in Japan. Here, as promised, is one for Japanese language learners.

右 みぎ : right, right-hand side

左 ひだり : left, left hand side

横 よこ : horizontal (as opposed to vertical), lying down

side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back), width, breadth

side (of a box, etc.)

beside, aside, next to

unconnected

側 そば : near, close, beside, vicinity, proximity, besides, while

隣 となり : next (to), adjoining, adjacent

後ろ うしろ : back, behind, rear

下 した : below, down, under, younger (e.g. daughter)

bottom

beneath, underneath

近く ちかく : nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"), close to

上 うえ : above, over, up

中 なか : inside, interior

among, within