If anybody here uses tatoeba.org much you'll surely have noticed the ever more-frequent outages. It's a site I use for sentence mining literally everyday, and when I lack access my learning is seriously impaired. Are there any worthwhile substitutes out there?

For those that don't know it's a very large, searchable multi-language corpus of translated sentences.

I have never used or heard of tatoeba, but I use tangorin for my example questions. Tangorin looks like it uses the same thing as tatoeba, if you look at the bottom and it has a link to tatoeba.

check it out, it may be what you are after: http://tangorin.com/examples/

If you just need J-E, any Edict-based online dictionary is going to have it, or you can download a copy at http://ftp.ftp.edrdg.org/pub/Nihongo/00INDEX.html

The entire database is presumably available for download somewhere, but I can't check since tatoeba.org is down...

http://www.alc.co.jp/

vix86 Wrote:http://www.alc.co.jp/

This.

Vempele Wrote:The entire database is presumably available for download somewhere, but I can't check since tatoeba.org is down...

That's right, it's called the "Tanaka Corpus". You can download a regularly updated gzipped file from here.

Savii Wrote:You can download a regularly updated gzipped file from here.

This version that's not actually mentioned on the Wiki should be used (according to Jim Breen): http://tatoeba.org/files/downloads/wwwjdic.csv

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll have a look the next time the site is down. The thing I love about the site is the sheer diversity of the material--and it reaches far wider than the original Tanaka Corpus, thanks to an active community of translators adding new material daily.

If you haven't used it I'd check it out.