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Moving to a new blog - please follow there instead!
Now that it’s summer and I’ll have lots of free time, I’m getting back to studying Japanese regularly. To help with that, I wanted a fresh start for this blog! I’ve always wanted it to be my main blog, for convenience and so I can better interact with other people :) It’ll be basically the same as this one, but I want to post more original content and post more often!
You can follow the new nyaahongo here -> =^-^=
Moving to a new blog - please follow there instead!
Now that it’s summer and I’ll have lots of free time, I’m getting back to studying Japanese regularly. To help with that, I wanted a fresh start for this blog! I’ve always wanted it to be my main blog, for convenience and so I can better interact with other people :) It’ll be basically the same as this one, but I want to post more original content and post more often!
You can follow the new nyaahongo here -> =^-^=
Moving to a new blog - please follow there instead!
Now that it’s summer and I’ll have lots of free time, I’m getting back to studying Japanese regularly. To help with that, I wanted a fresh start for this blog! I’ve always wanted it to be my main blog, for convenience and so I can better interact with other people :) It’ll be basically the same as this one, but I want to post more original content and post more often!
You can follow the new nyaahongo here -> =^-^=
A secret to more fluid speaking in Japanese
Adding よ or ね at the end of your sentences can help soften and add a more natural sound to your spoken sentences! よ is like adding “I tell you” and ね is like “right?” (Keep in mind, these are usually at the end of informal sentences, but you can add them after です as well!)
Here are some examples:
これかわいいね！- This is cute, isn’t it!
日本語は難しいよ - Japanese is hard I tell you!
この食べ物は美味しいですね - This food is delicious, right?!
この花はきれいですよ！- This flower is beautiful I tell you!
Already that makes sentences sound less stiff and even adds personality~
Also, avoid ending sentences with just だ as it sounds like an anime villain and not natural
An important caveat to “yo” and “ne” that isn’t explicitly stated above:
“Yo” implies that the listener either is unaware of or disagrees with what you said.
Aさん：この宿題の締切は明日だよ〜 (This homework is due tomorrow.)
Ｂさん：えっ?!来週じゃなかったの？（汗）(what?! It’s not due next week? *Concern*)
“Ne” implies the opposite, that the listener is either aware of, or that they are in agreement with what you said.
Aさん：この宿題の締切は明日だね〜 (This homework is due tomorrow.)
Ｂさん：そうだね。一緒に図書館に行く？(Yeah. Wanna go to the library together?)
Once I was out with my hostmom and we saw a lady with a super cute dog, and I told the lady ワンちゃんとてもかわいいですよ！Afterwards, my hostmom was like, “Why did you use よ? She owns the dog so I’m sure she already thinks it’s cute too. ね would have been better.”
A very minor thing, but it’s those minor things that really help us sound more fluent!
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知的生命体 (ちてきせいめいたい) - intelligent life 火星人が存在しないことははっきりとしたものの、この宇宙の中には知的生命体が存在する可能性は十分にある。
珍妙 (ちんみょう) - odd, strange 珍妙な日本語 知られざる珍妙なイギリス文化
世を忍ぶ仮の姿 (よをしのぶかりのすがた) - a disguise or secret identity to blend in and hide who you really are
変貌 (へんぼう) - transformation (+する) 遂げる (とげる) - to carry out, to achieve 変貌を遂げる - to undergo a drastic change in appearance 日本は工業化の結果急激な変貌を遂げた。
Sigh I’m supposed to be studying for exams but I feel like studying Japanese instead...
I keep getting in the mood to get back into studying Japanese regularly but then I think of all the effort it takes and how long it’ll be until I’ll get back to Japan and I get discouraged ;~;
I just started learning kana a month ago!! It's going really well so far!
That’s great!! I hope it continues going well for you!
May 5th is Children's Day (こどもの日 or kodomo no hi) in Japan! This day celebrates the health and growth of children as well as expressing gratitude to mothers and celebrating the family as a whole.
In the past, Children's Day was known as 端午の節句 (tango no sekku), which a seasonal festival at the beginning of the fifth month. The character for "go" sounds like the word for "five" and thus the celebration occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month. The celebration originally was for the sons of the family (Girl's Day or Hinamatsuri ひな祭り is on March 3rd), praying for them to grow healthy and strong. Thus, the decorations and celebrations for this festival center around samurai even though today it celebrates all children.
Decorations
Carp streamers or koinobori (鯉のぼり) are flown to pray for the health of children in the family. In the past, they were flown for the sons of the family, but now they represent the parents and all children in the family. The red koi (carp) traditionally represented the oldest son, while the blue and other colors represent the younger sons. Today, the black carp represents the father, the red or pink carp represents the mother, and blue, green, and orange carp represent the children.
Families often display samurai armor, either the full set or just the headpiece, along with a bow and quiver of arrows and a katana. These symbolize strength and vitality. This display is usually only set up in families with boys (families with girls set up doll displays in March).
Kintaro (金太郎) is a popular folk tale about a young boy who was raised in the mountains and befriended the animals who lived there. He was an active, super strong little boy who carried a hatchet and wore only a bib with the character for gold (kin 金) on it. His adventures include fighting monsters and demons, sumo wrestling with bears (and winning!), and helping woodcutters to fell trees. Kintaro is based on a real person who lived during the Heian, who as an adult became a personal retainer to a samurai due to his impressive strength. It is easy to see why this folk hero is a prominent figure in Children's Day, and in addition to decorations featuring Kintaro, often young boys are dressed in his signature "kin" bib for photos.
Food
Children's Day food centers around symbols of strength. Oak trees (kashiwa) are strong and solid and thus they fortify the children who eat their leaves. Mochi cakes (glutinous rice cakes) filled with red bean paste cooked and wrapped with oak leaves are called 柏餅 kashiwa mochi. Glutinous rice wrapped in an iris or bamboo leaf in a long cylindrical shape are called ちまき chimaki. Another Children's Day non-food tradition is for boys to soak in a bath of iris leaves and roots (called 菖蒲湯 shoubuyu) which prevents illness and misfortune. A competition is also called shoubu (written as 勝負) and thus this bathing was used in the Kamakura era to pray for samurai to win battles.
Song
There is a song called 鯉のぼりの歌 Koinobori no Uta (The Carp Streamer Song) which is short and simple.
Japanese
やね より たかい こいのぼり おおきい まごい は おとうさん ちいさい ひごい は こどもたち おもしろそうに およいでる
Romanized
Yane yori takai koinobori
Ookii magoi wa otoosan
Chiisai higoi wa kodomo tachi
Omoshirosoo ni oyoideru
English
Carp streamers are higher than the roof
The biggest carp is the father
The small carp are children
Enjoying swimming in the sky
Here is an animated video with the lyrics in Japanese, and here is a video montage of Children's Day decorations, plus a bonus song called せいくらべ Sei Kurabe (Comparing Heights).
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Jōmon Period (c. 11,000-400 BCE) 縄文時代
The Jōmon period is a span of about 10,000 years during which the first neolithic, or post-Ice Age culture, inhabited Japan. The advent of the Jōmon people is associated with the separation of the Japanese archipelago from mainland Asia at the end of the Ice Age.
The Jōmon people were hunter-gatherers, as in most early neolithic communities. The presence of pottery vessels at 16,000 years ago (during the Ice Age) makes paleolithic communities in Japan the earliest ceramic-producing culture. The culture is famous for cord-marked ceramics (first discovered in 1877), which were made by impressing rope or cord into wet clay. The name of the period and the culture - Jōmon (縄文) - means cord-marked in Japanese. Jōmon ceramics are so prolific that they have been categorized into 70 styles with more than 400 local variations. The Jōmon period is subdivided into six phases, divided by differences in ceramic styles.
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I would like to add on to this because I noticed someone asking what the polite way to say the examples for the second rule is. I just learned about this myself recently and also looked up more references to make sure what I’ve said is right, so I’ll link some: 1 2 3
You could say, for example, “山田課長、ケーキはいかがですか？” or just ”山田課長、ケーキどうぞ”
When you’re asking someone if they want to do something, both casually and politely, it’s often more natural to just use the dictionary form (or ～ます/～れます)
”お菓子持ってきたけど、食べる？”
You can also use a negative verb to ask if someone wants to do something. This may seem weird since you’re not literally asking what they want to do, but essentially you’re getting the same point across, just in a different way!
“お菓子食べない？” ”居酒屋に行きませんか？”
However, it IS correct and natural to use ～たい (ですか) with an interrogative
”何を食べたい？” ”どこの国に行きたいですか？”
Though, it’s still best to use the previous way for superiors
“どちらに行かれますか？” Use the honorific verb form if you do use ～たい with superiors “どちらに行かれたいですか? “
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I walked past here everyday on my way to school when I was in Japan ;-;
your japanese textbook lied to you, people rarely use ときどき (tokidoki / sometimes) in real life. It's more common to use たまに (tama ni / occasionally) instead.
ゐ/ヰ (wi) and ゑ/ヱ (we) are kana rarely used today; they were replaced by い/イ (i) and え/エ (e) in 1946. That being said, the kana still sees some use today. For example, the name for the Japanese deity えびす (Ebisu) can be writte ゑびす. Also the beer Yabisu is written ヱビス. 🍺Whisky “ウイスキー” is sometimes written ウヰスキー stylistically. ★Check out our online store on https://www.coto-language.com
すみっコぐらし - Sumikko Gurashi
好奇心旺盛 (こうきしんおうせい) - full of curiosity 食いしん坊 (くいしんぼう) - glutton, someone who eats a lot
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Difference Between ～と言う and ～と言っている
I’ve always read them but never knew understood how to use them. Same with と思います and と思っています, which I will also cover in this post.
～と言う (to iu) is the form you use to directly or indirectly quote what someone has said. と is a quotation marker that can also be used with other verbs like 聞く (to hear)、伝える (to convey)、思う (to think), etc. 言う means to say.
～と言う
places emphasis on the fact the person said something rather than the content of what she said.
present/past tense (someone says something). For 言いました, it would be “someone said something.”
Kanji: 裕子さんはオレンジが好きだと言います。 Kana: ゆうこさんはオレンジがすきだといいます。 Romaji: Yuuko-san wa orenji ga suki da to iimasu. English: Yuuko says she likes oranges.
Yeah, she likes oranges, but the main point is that Yuuko actually said something.
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Japanese Addresses
The structure of the Japanese address or 住所 (じゅうしょ) is different from addresses in most parts of the world. Only the main streets in the cities have names, and individual buildings may not have numbers. The order of the address is written opposite to most English-speaking addresses - the Japanese postal code comes first while the street number comes last.
Large cities like Tokyo and Osaka are divided into 区 (く) or wards.
区 are divided into 町 (ちょう) which are towns or neighborhoods.
町 are divided into 丁目 (ちょうめ) or districts.
丁目 are divided into 街区 (がいく) which are city blocks.
街区 then have separate 番号 (ばんごう) or building numbers.
The address for the Tokyo Metropolitan Oizumi Central Park is:
〒178-0061 東京都 練馬区 大泉学園町 ９丁目４−3
The post code is 178-0061.
The city is Tokyo (東京都), read Tokyo-to, meaning the Metropolis of Tokyo.
The ward is Nerima-ku (練馬区).
The neighborhood is Ōizumigakuen-chō (大泉学園町).
The district is 9-chōme, the city block number is 4, and the numbered address is 3 (９丁目４−3).
However, addresses don’t always include all of these parts, especially in smaller towns, or even within Tokyo itself. For example, the address for the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo is:
〒106-6150 東京都 港区 六本木 ６丁目１０−1, 六本木ヒルズ森タワー, 53階
Here you will find the post code, the city (Tokyo-to), and the ward (Minato-ku) just as before, but there is no -町, just Roppongi (六本木) and then the address numbers (６丁目１０−1) and the building name ( 六本木ヒルズ森タワー or Roppongi Hills Mori Tower) and floor (53-kai). Oftentimes, the 丁目 is dropped and the address numbers would simply read 6-10-1.
Note: When you address a letter to Japan (or even within Japan), addressing it in the Latin alphabet or ローマ字 is perfectly acceptable. It is also acceptable to address it in the Western format, with the street address first and the post code last. If you address it in the Japanese format, the name of the person to whom you are sending the post would be last, with their name followed by the formal honorific -sama (様).
