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Looking for resources - hknamida - 2009-09-10

Does anyone know of a good resource for learning the different nuances of words that can be written with different kanji, with nearly the same meaning? Ex. 在る/有る, 良い/好い/善い, 捜す/探す, and so on. There seems to be some of this in my 電子辞書, but not nearly enough.

Also, my relative ignorance of 擬声語 and 擬態語 is turning into a problem. Does anyone know where I can find a list of the more common ones, and just how do you make works like that stick, anyway?


Looking for resources - Tobberoth - 2009-09-10

Kanjigen usually includes a section on this. It's not a big section, but it's very simple to understand.

also, both Windows and OS X official IMEs have this kind of information included when you write kanji.

As for Onomatopoeia, I feel a book called 語彙力ぐんぐん1日10分 to be quite good. It costs 800 yen and let's you train (among other things) such vocabulary.


Looking for resources - Hashiriya - 2009-09-10

mimetic words: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rEMH3NVO_LvakofVwIfB8xw&hl=en

i recommend looking at these: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=2326

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?pid=43560#pid43560

you put them in Anki and review to make them stick


Looking for resources - Sebastian - 2009-09-10

hknamida Wrote:Does anyone know of a good resource for learning the different nuances of words that can be written with different kanji, with nearly the same meaning? Ex. 在る/有る, 良い/好い/善い, 捜す/探す, and so on. There seems to be some of this in my 電子辞書, but not nearly enough.
 Check the dictionaries at http://dic.yahoo.co.jp

Also, you can always look up something like "word1 word2 使い分け" or "word1 word2 違い" using your favorite search engine.


Looking for resources - hknamida - 2009-09-10

Thanks~