Okay I just finished RTK1 and learning all the Kana and now I'm ready to mine for sentences but the dictionary that I'm using, the yahoo japanese dictionary, which I thought was a bilingual dictionary doesn't show me any English translations. Can anyone help me or give me an idea how it works?
2009-06-03, 11:23 pm
Go here:
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/
Make sure you click the 和英 radio button when you do a search.
If you get a weird result, check the list of results along the right side of the window. (You'll get a long list of words sometimes.)
When you're on the actual word page for the dictionary, you'll see something like this:
「くるま」をニューセンチュリー和英辞典でも検索する
in the upper right corner of the definition page. It's a link to the entry in the other 和英 dictionary Yahoo has. Yes, that's right. Yahoo has 2 和英 dictionaries. The other one will have another link in the upper right, which will jump back to the first one. (Usually.) You may need to check the list of words on the right to make sure you have the right word.
You can skip a lot of this by using FireFox and Mycroft.
Google Mycroft, go to the Mycroft page, and add the Yahoo dictionary URL to the Mycroft box, and it will give you some choices. That will add a Yahoo search box to your drop-down search box.
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/
Make sure you click the 和英 radio button when you do a search.
If you get a weird result, check the list of results along the right side of the window. (You'll get a long list of words sometimes.)
When you're on the actual word page for the dictionary, you'll see something like this:
「くるま」をニューセンチュリー和英辞典でも検索する
in the upper right corner of the definition page. It's a link to the entry in the other 和英 dictionary Yahoo has. Yes, that's right. Yahoo has 2 和英 dictionaries. The other one will have another link in the upper right, which will jump back to the first one. (Usually.) You may need to check the list of words on the right to make sure you have the right word.
You can skip a lot of this by using FireFox and Mycroft.
Google Mycroft, go to the Mycroft page, and add the Yahoo dictionary URL to the Mycroft box, and it will give you some choices. That will add a Yahoo search box to your drop-down search box.
2009-06-04, 1:49 pm
Oh wow thanks for the help! This has become much more useful to me since I was mining for sentences from translated sentences. I'll start to use this when the time comes since I just read that when starting sentences one should learn from already translated sentences.
Edited: 2009-06-04, 1:50 pm
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2009-06-04, 3:02 pm
It helps, but the best sentences to study are sentences that are:
1) Written by native speakers. (Well, not crazy ones or illiterate ones, anyway...)
2) Not too hard to digest all at once. (i+1 principle -- don't take on too much at once.)
3) Interesting to you. Boring stuff will drag you down over time. I guarantee it. At first you may not be able to find the most riveting stuff on the planet, but as time goes on, and you can, try to replace the boring stuff with more interesting stuff you come across. Works wonders.
1) Written by native speakers. (Well, not crazy ones or illiterate ones, anyway...)
2) Not too hard to digest all at once. (i+1 principle -- don't take on too much at once.)
3) Interesting to you. Boring stuff will drag you down over time. I guarantee it. At first you may not be able to find the most riveting stuff on the planet, but as time goes on, and you can, try to replace the boring stuff with more interesting stuff you come across. Works wonders.