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[nihononthego]

Eclipse Vocabulary

太陽 (たいよう、taiyou) - sun

月 (つき、tsuki) - moon

地球 (ちきゅう、chikyuu) - earth

光球 (こうきゅう、koukyuu) - photosphere (bright, visible surface of the sun)

食年 (しょくねん、shokunen) - eclipse year

金環食 (きんかんしょく、kinkanshoku) - annual (solar) eclipse

食の季節 (しょくのきせつ、shoku no kisetsu) - eclipse season

食 (しょく、shoku) - eclipse

日食 (にっしょく、nisshoku) - solar eclipse

月食 (げっしょく、gesshoku) - lunar eclipse

皆既 (かいき、kaiki) - totality, where the sun is covered by the moon (solar eclipse) or the moon is in the earth’s shadow (lunar eclipse)

皆既食 (かいきしょく、kaikishoku) - total eclipse

部分食 (ぶぶんしょく、bubunshoku) - partial eclipse

To be more specific, the previous two can also become 皆既日食 (total solar eclipse), 皆既月食 (total lunar eclipse), 部分日食 (partial solar eclipse), 部分月食 (partial lunar eclipse).

隠す (かくす、kakusu) - to hide

皆既帯 (かいきおび、kaikiobi) - path of totality (the path the moon’s shadow travels the earth during an eclipse).

光環 (こうかん、koukan) - corona

軌道 (きどう、kidou) - orbit

本影 (ほんえい、hon’ei) - umbra (a complete shadow)

半影 (はんえい、han’ei) - penumbra (part of a shadow)

疑本影 (ぎほんえい、gihon’ei) - antumbra (part of the moon’s shadow that extends beyond umbra)

[atejapan]

[nakamorijuan]

Japanese Counters - Buildings & Houses

[japanesepod101]

Places in Japanese!

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[fromirelandtokorea]

Korean Masterlist:

FROMIRELANDTOKOREA’S LESSON MASTERLIST

Seeing as I have a masterlist for ALL of my posts, including resources, books, etc (find it here) I wanted an organised lesson one! I hope this will help everyone!

HANGUL/READING:

Lesson 1: Hangul Basic Consonants Pt.1 Lesson 2: Hangul Basic Consonants Pt.2 Lesson 3: Hangul Basic Consonants  Lesson 4: Diphthongs Lesson 5: Aspirated and Double Consonants Lesson 6: Batchim Pt.1  Lesson 22: Batchim Pt. 2 NEED TO KNOW:

Lesson 17: How Korean Age Works Lesson 18: Levels of Politeness in Korean

VOCABULARY:

Lesson 7: Hello, Thank You, Goodbye, Yes and No Lesson 8: I’m Sorry Lesson 9: Please, More, a Little Lesson 14: Native Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 16: Sino-Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 19: Days of the Week Lesson 20: Months Lesson 21: Body Parts Lesson 23: School Subjects Lesson 24: School Vocabulary Lesson 25: Family Lesson 42: Today, Tomorrow, Now etc. Lesson 58: Vegetables Lesson 59: Fruit Lesson 60: Emotions Lesson 61: Food and Drink Lesson 68: Sports Lesson 69: Places in Town Lesson 79: Animals  Lesson 80: Clothes  Lesson 84: Sickness Pt. 1 Lesson 85: Sickness Pt. 2 Lesson 86: Sickness Pt. 3 Lesson 93: Transportation Lesson 94: Halloween  GRAMMAR: Lesson 10: It Is, What is It? Lesson 12: This Is, What is This? Lesson 13: This, That, It, Thing Lesson 26: Have/Don’t Have Lesson 17: 15 Useful Verbs Lesson 27: Present Tense Conjugation Lesson 28: Past Tense Conjugation Lesson 29-32: Future Tense 1 2 3 4 Future Tense Meanings and Examples 1 2 3 4 Lesson 33: How to Form Korean Sentences Lesson 34: Don’t + Verb Lesson 35: Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~은/는 + ~이/가 Lesson 36: Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~은/는 + ~이/가 Pt 2 Lesson 37: Object Marking Particle ~을/를 Lesson 38: Want To -고 싶어요 Lesson 39: Location Marking Particles ~어디, ~에, ~에서 Lesson 40: Negative Sentences Lesson 41: Negative Sentences with 하다 Lesson 43: Who? Lesson 44: Why, How, How much? Lesson 45: From - To - , From - Until - Lesson 46: Therefore, So Lesson 47:  And, With ~하고, ~(이)랑 Lesson 48:  But, However, ~그렇지만, ~그런데 Lesson 49:  To/From Someone Lesson 50: Plural Nouns Lesson 51: Telling Time Lesson 53: -지 마세요 (지마) Lesson 54: -(으)세요 Imperative Lesson 55: -아/어/여 주세요 Lesson 56: -도 Too, Also, As Well Lesson 57: -만 Only Lesson 62: Can, Cannot - (으)ㄹ 수 있다/없다 Lesson 63: Present/Past/Future Progressive Lesson 64: A bit, Really, Very, Not really, Not at all Lesson 65: Changing Nouns into Verbs -는 것  Lesson 66: Counters 개 + 명 Lesson 67: To Be Good/Bad At Lesson 70: Have to, Should, Must Lesson 71: Still, Not Yet Lesson 72: Already Lesson 73: (으)로 Lesson 74: If, In Case Lesson 75: Let’s Lesson 76: Pronouns + Possessive Pronouns Lesson 77:ㄹ/을 것: Lesson 78: Doable/Worth Doing Lesson 81: (으)ㅂ시다 Lesson 82: 처럼 Like Lesson 83: More….Than Lesson 87: 좋다 vs 좋아하다 Lesson 88: -ㄴ가 Lesson 89: 다, 더 - All, More Lesson 90: Behind, In Front of, Beside Lesson 91: Written Descriptive Form Adjectives Lesson 92: Before -ing Lesson 95: To be Similar to/The Same as -같다 Lesson 96: To Care/Not Care Pt.1 Lesson 97: To Care/Not Care Pt.2 Lesson 98: Connecting Verbs Lesson 99: Might, Perhaps, It’s Possible Lesson 100: To Want 원하다 PHRASES:

Lesson 11: Where Are You From? I’m From Lesson 52: Self Introduction 

[bobbycaputo]

A Sea of 4.5 Million Baby Blue Eye Flowers in Japan’s Hitachi Seaside Park

[polyglottraveler]

Vocab for essays (Spanish-French-English)

I had this list in Spanish and French, and I decided to translate it into English. So here it is, a trilingual vocabulary list for essays :)

Con tal que -  Tant que  - As long as Ni siquiera -  Même pas  - Not even Por eso -  C’est pourquoi  - That is why Mientras -  Pendant que  - While Mientras que -  Tandis que  - While Mientras tanto -  Pendant ce temps  - In the meantime, Meanwhile Resulta que -  Il en résulte que  - It follows that A raíz de -  À la suite de  - In the wake of, Following A partir de -  À partir de  - From Cabe subrayar que -  Il faut souligner que  - It should be emphasized that Desde luego -  Décidément, Certainement  - Definitly, Certainly De ahora en adelante -  Désormais  - Henceforth Ya no -  Ne plus  - No longer Ya que -  Puisque  - Since, As Sea como sea -  Quoi qu’il en soit  - Either way Desde entonces -  Depuis lors  - Since then A pesar de -  Malgré  - In spite of En vez de -  Au lieu de  - Instead of Desde hace tiempo -  Depuis longtemps  - For a long time Tan pronto como -  Dès que  - As soon as A medida -  Au fur et à mesure  - Progressively   En efecto -  En effet  - In fact, Indeed Entonces -  Donc, Alors  - So Además-  De plus  - Besides, Moreover A continuación-  Puis, Ensuite  - Then También -  Aussi  - Also En particular -  En particulier  - In particular Especialmente -  Notamment  - Specially 

[5oil]

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[sweetness-please]

Different ways to make descriptions in Japanese!

A nifty trick to boost your conversation skills! 

[tofugu]

61 Japanese Words You Didn't Know Were Portuguese

Learn every Japanese word that came from Portuguese. This is the history of Portuguese words in Japan (bet you didn't know tempura was Portuguese).

In 1543, villagers on the island of Tanegashima in southwest Japan came upon a curious sight: a storm-wrecked Chinese trading junk carrying two men who looked unlike anyone they had ever seen. A Chinese passenger of the ship communicated with the villagers by writing kanji in the sand. He explained that the two strangers were nanban 南蛮, or “Southern Barbarians.” These were the first Europeans to set foot on Japanese soil. And they were Portuguese.

In the decades that followed (1543 to 1614), the two countries exchanged countless physical items, as well as important knowledge and cultural practices. Some of the more notable trades include the introduction of guns, refined sugar, and Catholicism. Many of the objects and ideas were entirely new to Japan, meaning new words had to be imported to describe them.

Though small, the Portuguese influence on the Japanese language is profound. In fact, their contributions from some 400 years ago have been so well integrated they sometimes go completely unnoticed. If you’re going to be studying Japanese language or culture seriously, it’s worth your time to learn these Portuguese loanwords and their origins.

Editor’s Note: In the tables and throughout the article, the Portuguese “root” words we reference are pre-modern Portuguese (these loanwords were created 400 years ago, after all). So words like “bateira” for boat, no longer exist. Today it’s “barco.” This is another reason links between these Japanese words and their Portuguese origins have been lost, making them much more interesting to uncover.

Read more!

[j-rock101]

文法：〜うちに（While, during, as）

A うちに B　→　While still A, B A（＋ない）うちに B　→　Before A,/While A is not occuring, B

A is a verb or adjective in plain form. If A is a noun or な-adjective, it will be followed by の or な respectively.

うち comes from 内, which means “inside, within, while.” It is very similar to the grammar form 間に, as both indicate a time period in which an action happens. However, they are slightly different.

A間にB is used to describe events B that happen “throughout” or “during” a specific time period with a specific start and end.

AうちにB on the other hand describes an event A that does not have a specific end or beginning during which B is performed before it’s over. Therefore, it has more of a sense of “Take this chance before it’s gone!” (An interesting discussion breaking down the differences between the two forms can be found here.)

雨がふらないうちに、芝生を刈りなさい。 Mow the lawn before it starts raining. 晴れているうちに、… 晴れている間に、… … while it’s still sunny.

雪が溶けないうちに、雪だるまを作ろう！ Let’s build a snowman before the snow melts!

子供の時、両親が寝るうちに、よくホラー映画を見ました。 As a kid, I used to watch horror movies while my parents were sleeping.

J-Rock Examples:

革靴は知らぬうちに／あのリズムを奏でては列車中に空しく響く Whenever my leather shoes unconsciously / tap out that rhythm, it echoes through the train in vain ［関取花 - 石段のワルツ］

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I’m hungry!

Polite: お腹がすきました・おなか が すきました

Polite casual: お腹すいた

Casual: お腹減った・おなか へった

Slang casual: はらへった

[nihongoround]

Mario: Why didn’t the Japanese chef boil the rice for 30 minutes? Tanaka: Why？ Mario: Because “10 minutes” is “enough”. Tanaka: You know, “10 minutes” is pronounced “じゅうっぷん”, but “enough” is “じゅうぶん”. They are the same kanji, but… Mario: You always ruin my jokes. Tanaka: It’s not so difficult.

十分間 (jūppunkan) = ten minutes 十分 (jūbun) = enough

[fromtokyotokyoto]

Love this pun! :)

A quick note: 十分 as in minutes is pronounced じゅっぷん (no う), and I believe the phrase should be 難しくない rather than 難しいない.

[learnjapanesebod]

「Learn Japanese」 How-to say "the former" and "the latter" with 前者 and 後者 respectively

The Japanese language has two words, 前者 (zensha) and 後者 (kousha), that correspond to the English phrases “the former” and “the latter” respectively. 

The usage of these two words to refer to two entities that were aforementioned are also nearly identical to the English usage of “the former” and “the latter,” in which 前者 (zensha) refers to the first of the two aforementioned entities and 後者 (kousha) refers to the second of the two aforementioned entities. 

With a quick glance, it is observable how the kanji for these two words, in which the first character 前 in 前者 (zensha) means “in front, before” and the first character 後 in 後者 (kousha) means “behind, back, later,” reflects this dynamic. 

The second character in both words, 者, means “person, thing” and effectively turns both of these words into NOUN words, which is rather important when we make note of one big difference between the English usage of “the former” and “the latter” and the Japanese usage of  前者 and 後者 being that 前者 and 後者 cannot be used as adjectives to other words like “former’ and "latter’ can be in English (i.e. "the latter half of the event,” “the latter half of my life,” etc.).

Example(s):

テニスとバドミントンは人気であるスポーツですが前者の方がより人気があります。 Tennis to badminton wa ninki de aru sports desuga zensha no hou ga yori ninki ga arimasu. “Tennis and badminton are popular sports but the former is more popular.”

日本のマンガでは「 ワンピース」と「ナルト」がとても人気がある。前者は海賊のテーマで後者は忍者のテーマだ。 Nihon no manga de wa “One Piece” to “Naruto” ga totemo ninki ga aru. Zensha wa kaizoku no theme de kousha wa ninja no theme da. “Among Japanese manga, One Piece and Naruto are very popular series. The former is about pirates and the latter is about ninja.”

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[learnjapanesebod]

キャッチ！（Catch・捕る） Catch! おぉ～、ナイス・オア・ナイス！（Nice・魅力ある） Whoa! Nice! Nice! ヘイヘイ！（Hey・おーい） Over here! 展開しろ展開！ Come on! Let’s get a move on! キャッチ！（Catch・捕る） Catch! おぉ～、いいぞ～ Nice one! これが英語の授業？ This is suppose to be an English class? 体で覚えるってことだ It’s called learning through physical experience. イングリッシュ！　イングリッシュ！（English・英語） Speak in English! English! いけいけいけ！ Go! Go! Go! スッロー！（Throw・投げる） Throw! ヘッド！（Head・頭） Head! オー・マイ・ゴッド…（Oh, my god・なんてこった） Oh, my god! ディス・イズ・ボール（This is the ball・これはボールです） This is the ball! いいね発音 That’s some nice pronunciation there! カワイイ女子学生バワー！（Power・力） Power! ウップス（Oops・おっと） Oops! こっちフリーだ、フリー！ Over here! This guy’s open! スロー！（Throw・投げる） Throw! オー・ノー！（Oh no・しまった） Oh no! 学生３年無料ってなんて言うんですか？ What’s this no charge for three years student discount thing I’ve been hearing about? スチューデント・スリー・イヤー・スリー（Student three year free・学生３年無料） Student three year free! リアリー？（Really・本当に） Really?! スリー・イヤー・スリーだ！（Three year free・３年無料） Three year free! うるさい先生！ Be quiet, sensei! 先生にうるさいって言うな～ Don’t go telling a teacher to be quiet now.

Commercials are great, quick resource to brush up on your Japanese listening comprehension! Not to mention Japanese commercials are (barely) arguably the best in the world!

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Chidorigafuchi, Tokyo by Tomoaki Saito Via Flickr: April 2015