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Thread: You know your writing system is complicated when ... Post: RE: You know your writing system is complicated wh... What was the reading of 殿? It can be used by itself as との in classical but I guess maybe they're looking for しんがり instead? I knew about 20-25% of those, which I guess isn't that bad. |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 12 | 537 | Yesterday, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2016-04-30, 2:14 am)FlameseeK Wrote: Still on this topic, I've just noticed another case of "not in the dictionary" in DS3 - 右武器 and 左武器. Since these are pretty straightforward and not in the dicti... |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,055 | 2016-04-30, 3:21 pm | ||
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Thread: KanJi Hybrid Times Post: RE: KanJi Hybrid Times This is the cycle that results in nonsense like this: 1. People try to study way too many kanji in isolation, outside of the Japanese language 2. Their capacity to memorize out of context shapes runs... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 6 | 870 | 2016-04-24, 6:37 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread You shouldn't expect to see a て there. Old guidelines by MEXT did say that you were supposed to provide okurigana for words like that, but in my experience that advice is not followed. |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,055 | 2016-04-22, 1:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji tatoo Post: RE: Kanji tatoo What would you think if you saw an Asian person with a tattoo that said "Journey life begin step"? That's what your tattoo will look like. If you still want it, go ahead, but the only people that will... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 12 | 920 | 2016-04-04, 1:59 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Vempele is right. This is 生きて来る (return alive), with the なよ (after a verb stem is request/command; some people say it's a shortening of なさい) |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,055 | 2016-04-03, 7:17 am | ||
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Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel (2016-03-30, 6:47 am)HelenF Wrote: It's much easier to say that way, so hopefully of some use to the OP. 千円 as "sen-yen" is what I'm used to hearing, and I was surprised when I heard the Jpod pronu... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 14 | 1,224 | 2016-03-30, 10:04 am | ||
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Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel Both of those are standard pronunciations. |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 14 | 1,224 | 2016-03-29, 5:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel (2016-03-26, 9:26 am)Zgarbas Wrote: http://forvo.com/word/%E9%9B%B0%E5%9B%B2%E6%B0%97/ Try saying every syllable separately; note that the tongue never touches the roof of your mouth. Then practice ... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 14 | 1,224 | 2016-03-26, 6:43 pm | ||
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Thread: How would you replace the Kanji writing system? Post: RE: How would you replace the Kanji writing system... Roman letters. It would work because Japanese can be represented by roman letters. |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 25 | 2,581 | 2016-03-07, 3:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Rare Grammar Points - 羽目になる、暁に Post: RE: Rare Grammar Points - 羽目になる、暁に This isn't grammar, it's just phrases or idioms. The J-E dictionary on my electronic dictionary has 暁に with two example sentences, and 羽目になる with three example sentences. alc.co.jp has a lot of exampl... |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 5 | 665 | 2016-02-23, 7:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Will you/do you in verbs. Post: RE: Will you/do you in verbs. ている can be either, but 行っている is only resultant state (or habitual action in some contexts), except for a few cases (like 行っている所). |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 17 | 1,420 | 2016-02-20, 1:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Olden forms for kanjis Post: RE: Olden forms for kanjis I usually don't see kyuujitai in academic articles; I only have to deal with them when reading things published before WW2. The current practice in publishing seems to be to change all kanji and kana ... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 5 | 567 | 2016-02-18, 10:03 am | ||
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Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants (2016-02-15, 10:37 pm)fkb9g Wrote: Go with the shinjitai forms in your own writing and don't waste too much thought. Unfortunately I don't think it's this simple because some of the shinjitai forms... |
yudantaiteki | Remembering the Kanji | 41 | 4,185 | 2016-02-16, 10:59 am | ||
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Thread: RTK2 Pure groups confusion Post: RE: RTK2 Pure groups confusion (2016-02-15, 8:03 pm)Lightninjaj Wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a little bit confused about the pure groups introduced in Chapter 2 of RTK2. It is my understanding that for these subset of kanji, each tim... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 9 | 1,011 | 2016-02-16, 10:56 am | ||
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Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants There's no easy answer to this question, and the text in the Joyo List that deals with this issue is confusingly written and doesn't really clarify things. |
yudantaiteki | Remembering the Kanji | 41 | 4,185 | 2016-02-15, 10:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Favorite J-J Dictionary? Post: RE: Favorite J-J Dictionary? I most often use 広辞苑 or the 明鏡 because those are on my electronic dictionary. |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 5 | 799 | 2016-02-15, 10:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese "politeness levels" Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels" (2016-02-09, 5:51 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: I'm sorry, I realize now that you are an expert in Japanese. I will stop trying to push my own poor misconceptions of the language on you and go back to r... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 52 | 4,355 | 2016-02-10, 10:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Can anyone transcribe this calligraphy into kanji? Post: RE: Can anyone transcribe this calligraphy into ka... The last character is 談, I think. I still don't understand the sentence; 親不如 would be 親しからず but 手談 doesn't make much sense. |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 9 | 1,083 | 2016-02-08, 10:05 am | ||
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Thread: I don't really get the point of the "report story" function? Post: RE: I don't really get the point of the "report st... In addition to inappropriate stories, there have also been examples of stories that were simply wrong -- the person misunderstood the meaning of the keyword, etc. |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 10 | 1,308 | 2016-02-05, 2:28 pm | ||
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Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants Incidentally, 箋 is a relatively common character in the stuff I read for my research (because it refers to a commentary), and I have never seen 䇳. |
yudantaiteki | Remembering the Kanji | 41 | 4,185 | 2016-01-31, 8:01 am | ||
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Thread: Meaning of 1870s Kanji Shodo on Japanese Student in America Photo ? Post: RE: Meaning of 1870s Kanji Shodo on Japanese Stud... The right column is 米國, so that is America. I agree with the identification of 於ボストン. The next characters might be 書是, and 返 is a good guess for the last character. That at least makes an understanda... |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 5 | 996 | 2016-01-27, 7:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji I doubt it; it's probably just sound. Especially in the older literary Chinese writings like the Classics, there was a lot more freedom to substitute characters that had the same sound (like the frequ... |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,764 | 2016-01-17, 8:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji いずくんぞ can also be written as 悪, which I always think is odd. |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,764 | 2016-01-17, 5:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji This isn't unnecessary, but you start running into some really odd kanji and unusual readings (at least in comparison to modern use) when you read 漢文. Here are some examples from the beginning of Zhu ... |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 60 | 13,764 | 2016-01-17, 4:48 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread (2015-12-27, 4:25 am)Kuroro Wrote: A whole year with switched meanings and I never noticed lol Anyway right now I'm going through the three grammar dictionaries so maybe I'll run into this issue abo... |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,055 | 2015-12-27, 11:32 am | ||
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Thread: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? Post: RE: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? If you want to hear エーアイアイ, try watching dtcamero's video, looking at the エーアイアイ line while you listen, and thinking エーアイアイ to yourself in time with the speech. This is the only way I can hear it, and... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 27 | 2,644 | 2015-12-12, 11:02 am | ||
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Thread: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? Post: RE: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ? I can only hear 撮ったのかよ in that whole video until they slow it down at the end. What's really weird is the video with the different speeds; I can get parts of that to sound like either 撮ったのかよ or エーアイア... |
yudantaiteki | General discussion | 27 | 2,644 | 2015-12-08, 4:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Is it true that even natives Japanese people will struggle on JLPT N1? Post: RE: Is it true that even natives Japanese people w... (2015-12-01, 6:23 am)zx573 Wrote: Overall, I'd say I have as much faith in a random Japanese person being able to pass the JLPT N1 as I do a random American being able to pass something equivalent t... |
yudantaiteki | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 53 | 28,325 | 2015-12-01, 10:43 am | ||
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Thread: Strangest word you've come across? Post: RE: Strangest word you've come across? It's originally a Malaysian word so the characters are just used for sound. |
yudantaiteki | The Japanese language | 57 | 9,854 | 2015-11-30, 8:09 pm | ||
