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Giongo even after all these years - mezbup - 2015-04-20 Seriously... I hear a new giongo almost every day it feels like. A couple of days ago my wife and I walked past a baby that was sort of fidgeting and she said 赤ちゃんもぞもぞしている。I was like.....what's もぞもぞ？ I swear... there must be thousands of these things. Anyone out there actually mastered giongo? Harder than kanji in my opinion haha. Giongo even after all these years - Zorlee - 2015-04-20 Nope.. I have like 10-20 i use actively and wing the rest when I hear them. I heard ぽくぽく the other day for the first time, and I asked a friend of mine what the hell and she was like "木魚を叩く音やで!" and looked at me as if I should've known that. I didn't even know what a 木魚 was, so I had to google that first, haha Giongo even after all these years - harahachibu - 2015-04-20 There's a book called 日本語擬態語辞典 by 五味太郎. I have a copy of the book and intend to go through it in Anki at some point, but that's for after N1 for me. Relevant thread: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3078 *Edit: I guess giongo, giseigo and gitaigo are different, so apologies if you meant giongo specifically. Giongo even after all these years - sholum - 2015-04-20 I rely solely on context for those I haven't learned yet. If it's not used in something like 「＿＿が何々っと＿＿」 or otherwise given context, I have no idea... When it's used like a verb, I have to look it up if I want to know. Giongo even after all these years - Zgarbas - 2015-04-20 I usually just get them from context. onomatopoeia are my favourite sounding Japanese words*, but for the life of me I can't remember them. *srsly, whenever I hear one I'm filled with this temporary burst of joy.