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先生の説明を聞いて、分かったような気がしたけど、家に帰ってもういちど勉強し直したら、また分からなくなってしまった。
Hoo boy, the longest sentence ever, I think! I hope I covered everything, but you are as always free to message me or comment if you have questions or (especially) corrections. Sentence from Tobira translated by me.
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There’s this theory that in any given language, there are 600 basic words that are really, really good to know, because, you guessed it, they are the most common. Up next is the second half of some of the most commonly used verbs!
love － 愛する｛あい～｝
make － 作る｛つくる｝
may (=permission) － ～てもいい
may (=possibility) － かもしれない
NB! This is an expression, not a verb.
mean － 意味する｛いみ ～｝
meet － 会う｛あう｝
must － ～ないと行けない｛ ～ないといけない｝
NB! Insert a verb at ～, to indicate what it is that you must do.
need － 要る｛いる｝
obtain － 掴む｛つかむ｝
open － 開く｛ひらく｝
ought to; should － ～べき
NB! Auxiliary verb; add a verb in its dictionary form at ～, to indicate what it is that you should/ought to do.
pay － 払う｛はらう｝
play － 遊ぶ｛あそぶ｝
put － 置く｛おく｝
read － 読む｛よむ｝
remember － 思い出す｛おもいだす｝
say － 言う｛いう｝
see; watch － 見る｛みる｝
sell － 売る｛うる｝
send － 送る｛おくる｝
show － 見せてもらう｛みせて～｝
shut － 閉める｛しめる｝
sing － 歌う｛うたう｝
sleep － 寝る｛ねる｝
speak; talk － 話す｛はなす｝
stand － 立つ｛たつ｝
stay － 泊まる｛とまる｝(overnight)
stop － 止める｛とめる｝
suggest － 言い出す｛いいだす｝・申し入れる｛もうしいれる｝
take － 持つ｛もつ｝(bring) ・飲む｛のむ｝(medicine) ・撮る｛とる｝(pictures)
teach － 教える｛おしえる｝
think － 考える｛かんがえる｝・思う｛おもう｝
travel － 旅行する｛りょこう～｝
try － やってみる
understand － 分かる｛わかる｝
use － 使う｛つかう｝
(get) used to － 慣れる｛なれる｝
wait for － ～に待つ｛～にまつ｝
walk － 歩く｛あるく｝
want － ～が欲しい｛ ～がほしい｝
NB! This is actually an い-adjective, and behaves as such!
will(intend to) － ～をするつもりです
work (=operate) － 動く｛うごく｝
work (=toil) － 働く｛はたらく｝
worry － 心配する｛しんぱい～｝
would － ～したものだった
NB! Auxiliary verb.
write － 書く｛かく｝
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「十分」 vs 「十分」
You are probably looking at the title and thinking I must have mistyped, but it’ll become clear to you in a moment why I’m pitting two words spelled exactly the same against one another!
See, 十分 can be pronounced both じゅうぶん, meaning “enough”, or じっぷん, meaning “ten minutes”. So how can we ever tell the difference?
The short answer is: from context. The long answer is to do with how Japanese can both be written vertically and horizontally.
When writing horizontally, you should use the Arabic numerals when, y’know, numbers are required. E.g., don’t write 八時 to write it’s 8 o’clock; use ８時 instead. So when writing horizontally, the distinction is easy; just write １０分 instead of 十分, and we’ll know exactly what you’re talking about.
Vertically, however, you should use the kanji-numerals, 一, 二, 三, and so on, when writing out numbers. To write the year 1904, for example, you’d write 一九〇四年, and to write “ten minutes”, you’d have to write 十分. So how do we know how to tell the difference when reading a Japanese text that’s been written vertically? Well - you don’t. Sorry! All you have to go on in those cases is context to figure out whether your friend Anna has enough bananas or ten minutes bananas.
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Japanese vocabulary broken up into 100 word, bite-sized flashcard segments. A continuing project as I continue to add more words as I come across them!
hey everyone!
i started a memrise course called 言葉練習 (kotoba renshuu) which will contain multiple levels with 100 words in each level! there’s no “system” to the levels, it’s just a bunch of words that i’ve come across and wanted to study, so there’s a mix of difficult and super easy stuff (like 渡す and 少子化 in the same set).
i’ll continue to add on more words and levels as i come across new words, and here is my plan for how to use these flashcards:
start with “test on kana, prompt with english” for every level i begin
when 50-75% of the words are mastered, start a new level
get all words in the previous level to mastered
switch that level to “test on kanji, prompt with kana”
master those kanji while working on other vocab in following levels
repeat
if you’d like to use the course, feel free! i’ll try to add to it often and keep it really updated since it’ll make a good vocab practice resource for myself and others.
tumblr-vocab in Japanese
A brief overview of useful words to know, in case you switch the language of your tumblr to Japanese!
Posts （投稿数「とうこうすう」）
Text post － テキスト
Photo － 画像（がぞう）
Quote － 引用（いんよう）
Link － リンク
Chat － チャット
Audio － 音声（おんせい）
Video － 動画（どうが）
Notes － リアクション
Reply － 返信（へんしん）
Reblog － リブログ
Like － スキ
Tags － タグ
Source － 出典（しゅってん）
Blog （ブログ）
Account － アカウント
Username － ユーザー名（な）
Main blog － メインブログ
Sideblog － サブブログ
Draft － 下書き（したがき）
Queue － 予約投稿（よやくとうこう）
Schedule － スケジュール
Blog theme － サイトのテーマ
Settings － 設定（せってい）
Activity － アクティビティ
Past 24 hours － 過去24時間（かこ24じかん）
Biggest fans － 熱烈ファン（ねつれつ）
Most popular post － 人気投稿（にんきとうこう）
Interaction （相互作用「そうごさよう」）
Ask box － 受信ボックス（じゅしん）
Anonymous ask － 匿名での質問（とくめいでのしつもん）
Tumblr IM － メッセージ
To follow － フォローする
Follower － ファン
X began following Y － XがYのフォローを開始しました（かいし）
Search tumblr － tumblrを検索（けんさく）
Blocked blogs － ブロック済み（ずみ）ブログ
Submission － ゲスト投稿
X submitted a post － Xからのゲスト投稿
X mentioned Y － XはYについて投稿で言及しました（げんきゅう）
Body parts
体 ~ からだ (karada) - body
頭 ~ あたま(atama) - head
髪 ~ かみ (kami) - hair
毛 ~ け (ke) - body hair
髭 ~ ひげ(hige) - mustache
皮膚 ~ ひふ (hifu) - skin
顔 ~ かお (kao) - face
歯 ~ は (ha) - tooth
目 ~ め (me) - eye
鼻 ~ はな (hana) - nose
耳 ~ みみ (mimi) - ear
口 ~ くち (kuchi) - mouth
声 ~ こえ(koe) - voice
首 ~ くび (kubi) - neck
喉 ~ のど (nodo) - throat
肩 ~ かた (kata) - shoulder
お腹 ~ おなか (onaka) - stomach
手 ~ て (te) - hand, arm
手くび ~ てくび (tekubi) - wrist
肘 ~ ひじ (hiji) - elbow
足 ~ あし (ashi) - foot, leg
足くび ~ あしくび (ashikubi) - ankle
膝 ~ ひざ (hiza) - knee
指 ~ ゆび (yubi) - finger, toe
What are the best Kanji learning resources for beginners? (if textbooks pdfs would help a lot) thank you :)
For kanji, I really recommend things you can do on-the-go such as apps and flashcards. In such a digital, busy age, it’s so much better to have things you can do while waiting in line or while commuting to school. Those little moments will really help!
I’d recommend the following resources:
japanesetest4you
stickystudy (phone app)
mindsnacks (phone app)
wanikani (paid, but not the first 3 levels so you can try it!)
memrise courses can be really helpful, as well as quizlet!
If you Google “Genki Textbook PDF” you’re bound to find copies of all of the Genki books, which are highly recommended for beginners. The same goes with Minna no Nihongo. I’ve used both and would say they’re both good for different things, but both will teach you kanji that is necessary.
Hey guys! I’m just getting around to asks and reblogs, so I’ll be checking the tag soon to reblog some things. Unfortunately I’ve been really busy so I haven’t had much time to come check in here.
Hey, I’m new to Japanese and am having struggles to find ways to practice. I also usually don’t have much time to practice, since I’m busy with work and school. Is there any quick way of practicing that could help? Thanks
I highly recommend downloading an app like HelloTalk! It’ll let you practice with natives without having to worry about sitting down and studying. You can just practice conversation and get used to talking in Japanese.
Another good way to practice is to watch tv shows (i.e. dramas) and films. Even if you watch them in the background, it’s a good way to see what vocabulary and grammar you’re missing!
There really isn’t any “quick” way, it’s just a lot of small ways that can lead to big improvement. 🍀
こんにちは！Do you have/know children's story books PDFs for beginners? thank you :)
こんにちは！While it seems to be commonly recommended in the language community to read children’s books and stories in your target language, remember that the language a native speaking child needs to learn and a beginner learner needs to learn are totally different.
That being said, I’ve compiled a fair number of resources to get you started!
You can find some at the following websites:
Children’s Books Forever
Hukumusume (the website is in Japanese but they have a lot of stories!)
Some Japanese folktales which are good to know!
Ilya Frank’s Japanese folktakes
More stories
I’d also recommend looking into either a local library or the Japanese Graded Readers ^^ 頑張ってください！
An impromptu picture to celebrate me finishing Genki’s first unit! Very pleased with myself :)
この地方は冬は雪が多く、夏はとても暑い。
Back with another sentence, the focus of which is (yet another) way to connect two sentences. Sentencetaken from Tobira.
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February: Places
郵便局 － post office
スーパー － supermarket
摩天楼 － skyscraper
教室 － classroom
駅 － (train)station
レストラン － restaurant
ドーミトリー － dormitory
映画館 － movie theater
病院 － hospital
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Review: PIBO
A Japanese picture book app.
Difficulty level: beginner | intermediate | advanced
Options
Japanese only: ☑ Yes; ☐ No
Free: ☑ Yes; ☐ No (Paid version available)
Interaction with others: ☐ Yes; ☑ No
Score: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
PIBO is a really neat picture book app available on iOS from the App Store. It’s exactly what it says on the tin: A really big collection of picture books entirely in Japanese.
After downloading the app, here’s what you see. The selection available to you changes each day. Now, this interface is important to explain what differences there are between free and paid users. Paid users
Get an unlimited number of books to read per day’.
See where it says 「０かい」? That’s because I’ve already read my 3 free books for the day when I took this picture.
Can access the full list of available books (through「すべて」).
Can access the books they’ve marked as favorite (through 「おきにいり」).
Which, obviously, free users can’t do, but I find that just going through 3 small books a day is a very good form of practice. And, as a free user, if you really liked one book, you can still find it under your 「りれき」 tab!
Opening a book will give you information about its intended age group - bearing in mind that ‘intended age group’ refers to Japanese children, who have grown up with the language! - and a little bit about the story you can expect. I’ve seen mostly books for the 3-6 age group, but also something marked appropriate for ages 10-12, which made me mark this app as suitable for the lower intermediate level.
Final comments
I’m really enjoying this app. It’s a good way to get some exposure to very simple, but natural Japanese. You run into odd variations of conjugations that a textbook probably won’t provide for you, which is only a good thing! The texts are entirely in hiragana, too, so if your kanji knowledge isn’t that solid yet, this is a safe bet for you.
There’s this theory that in any given language, there are 600 basic words that are really, really good to know, because, you guessed it, they are the most common. Up next: a list of adverbs. Bear in mind that while these are adverbs in English, they aren’t necessarily also adverbs in Japanese! Some are nouns or conjunctions.
here － ここ
there － そこ
above － 上｛うえ｝に
below － 下｛した｝に
in front － 前｛まえ｝に
behind ー 後｛うし｝ろに
nearby － 手元｛てもと｝
a long way away － あそこ
inside － 家｛いえ｝の中｛なか｝で
outside － 外｛そと｝で
right (=direction) － 右｛みぎ｝
left － 左｛ひだり｝
somewhere － どこか
anywhere － どこまでも
everywhere － どこにも
nowhere － どこにも…ない
Note that you need to use a negative verb for the word to mean “nowhere”
upstairs － 階上｛かいじょう｝
downstairs － 階下｛かいか｝
now － 今｛いま｝
soon － まもなく
immediately － すぐ
quickly － 速い｛はや｝く
finally － 到頭｛とうとう｝
again － もう一回｛いっかい｝
once － 一度｛いちど｝
for a long time － 前々｛まえまえ｝から
today － 今日｛きょう｝
generally － 一般｛いっぱん｝に
sometimes － 時々｛ときどき｝
always － いつも
often － しばしば
before － 先｛さき｝に
after － 〇〇の後｛あと｝
early － 早｛はや｝い
late － 遅｛おそ｝い
never － 決｛けっ｝して
not yet － まだ
still (=as it has been) － 依然｛いぜん｝として
already － もう
then (=at that time) － それ
Followed by sentence to refer to event
then (=next) － 次｛つ｝いで
yesterday － 昨日｛きのう｝
tomorrow － 明日｛あした｝
tonight － 今晩｛こんばん｝
a little － 少｛すこ｝し
about (=approximately) － ぐらい/くらい
almost － ほとんど
at least － 少｛すく｝なくても
completely － まるっきり
very － とても
enough － 十分｛じゅうぶん｝
exactly; just － 丁度｛ちょうど｝
too much － 〇〇すぎ/〇〇すぎる
more － もっと
less － 未満｛みまん｝
also － また
especially － とりわけ/特｛とく｝に
gradually － だんだん
of course － もちろん
only － だけ
otherwise － 又｛また｝は
perhaps; probably － たぶん
quite － まるで
so; then (=therefore) － したがって/だから
too (=also) － も
unfortunately － 残念｛ざんねん｝
very much (=really) － 本当｛ほんとう｝に
well － ろくに
I will be making a Quizlet set with, if not all, then definitely most of the words in this 600 words series, for people to use as a sort of basis to build their vocabulary. Keep an eye out for that!
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あつい：暑い・熱い・厚い
Japanese likes to do this really delightful thing where it uses the same pronunciation for many words, but changes the kanji. Even if you know how to describe a thick layer of leaves and a hot day, you might not know that the kanji is totally different. Here’s a handy little guide!
暑い：hot (weather), warm
夜、とても暑い。 よる、とてもあつい。 Tonight is very hot.
明日はまた暑くなるのでしょうか？ あしたはまたあつくなるのでしょうか？ Will it be hot again tomorrow?
暑い天気も気にならない。 あついてんきもきにならない。 I don’t mind hot weather.
熱い：hot (thing, liquid, temper), passionate (feelings), intense, severe
熱い風呂に入ってから寝よう。 あついふろにはいってからねよう。 I will take a hot bath and then sleep.
熱いコーヒーを入れてあげましょう。 あついコーヒーをいれてあげましょう。 Let me make you hot coffee.
その鍋に触らないで。すごく熱いから！ そのなべにさわらないで。すごくあついから！ Don’t touch that pan. It’s really hot!
厚い：thick, deep, heavy, kind, hospitable
片方の本は薄く、他方は厚い。 かたほうのほんはうすく、たほうはあつい。 One book is thin and the other is thick.
彼女は寒気を防ぐために厚いコートを着ていた。 かのじょはさむけをふせぐためにあついコートをきていた。 She was wearing a thick coat to fight the cold.
トーストの上にハチミツを厚く塗った。 トーストのうえにハチミツをあつくぬった。 She spread honey thickly on her toast.
I hope this was able to help a few people studying kanji ლ(╹◡╹ლ) If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me!
I wish I could tell you that counting in Japanese is easy, but unfortunately it’s not as easy as it looks. The basic counting system (one, two, three) is quite simple, but from there it gets a little crazy!
I’m not going to put anything in romaji, so please don’t ask me.
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