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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Can someone give me a translation for the following sentence: 銀行はモチロン、大手消費者金融から見放されたブラックリストの連中だ。 My initial translation was: "As for banks, well naturally these are blacklisted guys that have been a... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2013-07-04, 9:08 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Ash_S Wrote:Don't know if it's accurate but I just found this concerning いざ生きめやも: もともとこれはフランスの詩人バレリーの「風が起きた。生きねばならない」という意味の原詩を堀辰雄が文語調に翻訳したものです。 それが、国語学者の大野晋さんによれば、「生きめやも」だと「生きようか、いや断じて生きない、死のう」の意味に... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-12-15, 1:38 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Awesome, thanks for the explanation! |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-12-14, 10:57 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread So the title of the next Miyazaki film is 風立ちぬ. Can anyone tell me what the ぬ is doing there? I know that ぬ can be attached to negative stems, but that doesn't seem to be what's going on here. The p... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-12-14, 8:21 am | ||
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Thread: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Post: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? vix86 Wrote:Do most of the smartphone apps support easy jumping? I haven't used a dedicated denshi jisho, so unfortunately can't compare the two. I suspect using a smartphone is more clunky for jumpin... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 24 | 7,799 | 2012-11-14, 4:03 am | ||
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Thread: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? Post: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions? vix86 Wrote:The thing about all these smaller smartphone apps is they won't grow with you as a Japanese learner. Most Ex-words now have 2-3 large 国語 dictionaries, an Oxford dictionary for E-E, and a g... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 24 | 7,799 | 2012-11-13, 7:42 am | ||
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Thread: Amazon's Japanese Kindle Store opens tomorrow Post: Amazon's Japanese Kindle Store opens tomorrow rehlee Wrote:kitakitsune Wrote:6. Click on "country settings" 7. Change to Japan I tried kitakitsune's steps but get stuck on step 6 when changing the country setting to Japan. I'm being asked to ente... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 100 | 38,749 | 2012-10-29, 6:09 am | ||
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Thread: Amazon's Japanese Kindle Store opens tomorrow Post: Amazon's Japanese Kindle Store opens tomorrow kitakitsune Wrote:Hi good news everyone You can shop at the Kindle store at amazon.co.jp from outside Japan. It's simple. Here's how to do it. 1. Log into your amazon account 2. Click on "your acco... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 100 | 38,749 | 2012-10-28, 6:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Mangajin PDFs? Post: Mangajin PDFs? What's the quality of those scans like? I managed to download the complete set of Mangajin a while ago, but the quality of the scans is pretty bad. It can be difficult to make out the kanji :( |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 15 | 5,055 | 2012-07-27, 8:40 am | ||
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Thread: Kenkyusha Usersへ Post: Kenkyusha Usersへ Oddly enough, the Daijirin and Daijisen J-J dictionaries also don't seem to have ぶつかり合う. |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 9 | 6,593 | 2012-06-28, 10:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Kenkyusha Usersへ Post: Kenkyusha Usersへ I think the Kenkyusha results are short because they come under the entries for 需要 and 運転. The other two sites you listed search a sentence database for all sentences containing those words. So for e... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 9 | 6,593 | 2012-06-28, 3:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Anime with manga that matches dialogue Post: Anime with manga that matches dialogue kitsu Wrote:「夏目友人長」is the same way. Currently at three seasons covering material from the first 12 volumes of the manga, with season 4 already announced. Season 4 finished back in March, just so you k... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 11 | 3,155 | 2012-06-19, 3:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictionary? Post: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictiona... vileru Wrote:Elenkis Wrote:vileru Wrote:Is it possible to do this without jailbreaking (last I checked, I remember the only decent epwing app required a jailbreak)? If so, please share the name of the... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 44 | 12,826 | 2012-05-17, 6:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries Post: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries partner55083777 Wrote:If anyone knows of an android app/input method with really good kanji recognition, I would love to hear about it. The 7notes with Mazec IME has the best kanji recognition I've se... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 21 | 8,480 | 2012-05-15, 10:10 am | ||
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Thread: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictionary? Post: Is there a monolingual Japanese learner's dictiona... vileru Wrote:partner55083777 Wrote:As long as you have no qualms about stealing from the internet, you can get many electronic dictionaries in epwing format. These can be read by apps on iphone or an... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 44 | 12,826 | 2012-05-13, 5:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries Post: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries PotbellyPig Wrote:I loaded some EPWing dictionaries into EPWin on windows to try out. Seems to work okay. Does EBPocket Pro support sound? I have this big NHK pitch accent dictionary (it's like a g... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 21 | 8,480 | 2012-05-13, 5:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries Post: Japanese Electronic Dictionaries I don't see a compelling reason to buy a denshi jisho if you have a good phone. My Galaxy Note has a 5.3" high resolution display with wacom powered stylus and combined with Mazec handwriting IME I c... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 21 | 8,480 | 2012-05-13, 11:48 am | ||
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Thread: 研究社 新英和大辞典 as an apple app? Post: 研究社 新英和大辞典 as an apple app? You could also get it in EPWING format and use it with an EPWING dictionary app like EBPocket Pro. Only the two most expensive of Casio's models (9800 and 10000) have it as a dictionary, so it certai... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 7 | 2,072 | 2012-04-21, 7:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Is JSPEC out of print? Post: Is JSPEC out of print? The publisher Kodansha International was closed last year. So I believe all their books are now out of print and becoming harder to find :( |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 18 | 5,653 | 2012-04-18, 6:43 am | ||
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Thread: Need help with reading books Post: Need help with reading books jettyke Wrote:I tried writing this first kanji by hand on Aedict on Android and it didn't come up even after 3 times. Maybe it's because I did it without a stylus, I dunno. The Mazec handwriting recog... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 29 | 4,591 | 2012-04-11, 5:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? Post: Can anyone recommend a good Intermediate Textbook? I will add another recommendation for Tobira. I prefer it to Integrated Approach as it covers quite a lot more grammar and for most of the book the reading exercises are longer, more varied and bette... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 14 | 9,083 | 2012-02-06, 7:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Core2k/6k vs Iknow? Post: Core2k/6k vs Iknow? The content is mostly the same. Some words/sentences have been added and some removed, but most of the change they did was reordering them and changing some of the definitions to make them clearer. I ... |
Elenkis | Learning resources | 14 | 3,788 | 2012-02-04, 8:52 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:I think the use of the -te form is like in English if we would write "Adapting to the society where more women work, some women..." Ah, that makes sense. Thanks to you both! |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-01-22, 9:34 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Me again. This is the start of a paragraph: 女の仕事がふえた社会に適応して一部の女は変身し、結婚しても仕事をやめないことにしました。 Is 一部の女 working as the subject of 適応して, and if so then why the て form? I'm assuming 女の仕事がふえた社会 is all one nou... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-01-22, 7:52 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:The entire phrase 子どもを持っていない人が多い is modifying ２５～２９歳の既婚者. Thanks, that's what I figured but for some reason I couldn't make sense of it when I tried putting it together. I was proba... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-01-20, 8:37 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Oh wow, I really got that one wrong. Thank you for the response, it's much clearer now! Edit: Though now I'm wondering what exactly the 多い in the first part of sentence is modifying, as I don't think... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-01-20, 5:57 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread I'm having some trouble with the second sentence in the following paragraph: 女性の労働力率を１０年前と比べると、未婚者は９６年の６０．４％から６３．７％に増えたのに対し、既婚者は５１．０％から４８．５％に低下。晩産化の影響で、子どもを持っていない人が多い２５～２９歳の既婚者の労働力率が上がる一方、育児が忙しい３５～３９... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-01-20, 4:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Guide: Android: Japanese Environment on the go Post: Guide: Android: Japanese Environment on the go jettyke Wrote:https://lh5.ggpht.com/FavVuO6qE4OUu0tEIH...l2nHg=w124 Aedict Probably the best free dictionary app for android yet? Correct me, if you know a better one please. As far as edict apps go I... |
Elenkis | General discussion | 83 | 33,877 | 2012-01-15, 1:16 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Thanks for the responses to my sentence. The author is Donald Keene, talking about how he first started studying Japanese in 1940. I'm not sure if it would help, but the full paragraph is: そんなある日、大学... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-01-11, 9:07 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread In the following sentence: その頃、私は金がなく、 昼の中華料理屋で、 三十セントと三十五セントの定食のうち、せいぜい月に一度か二度、高いのにありつければよいほうだった。 Is the author saying that among the 30 and 35c meals (that he usually eats?), if he could obtain an... |
Elenkis | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,868 | 2012-01-10, 9:43 pm | ||
