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Reply #1 - February 13, 6:17 am
afterglowefx Member
From: Gunma, Japan Registered: 2013-12-01 Posts: 228

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.

Reply #2 - February 13, 6:25 am
Babyrat Member
From: UK Registered: 2008-10-07 Posts: 144

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/

Reply #3 - February 13, 6:25 am
Vempele Member
Registered: 2013-06-16 Posts: 615

If you just need J-E, any Edict-based online dictionary is going to have it, or you can download a copy at 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...

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Reply #4 - February 13, 8:26 am
vix86 Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2010-01-19 Posts: 1469

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

Reply #5 - February 13, 9:05 am
chillimuffin Member
Registered: 2011-11-21 Posts: 72 Website

vix86 wrote:

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

This.

Reply #6 - February 13, 10:45 am
Savii Member
From: Netherlands Registered: 2012-08-13 Posts: 107

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.

Reply #7 - February 13, 3:50 pm
toshiromiballza Member
Registered: 2010-10-27 Posts: 277

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

Reply #8 - February 13, 5:30 pm
afterglowefx Member
From: Gunma, Japan Registered: 2013-12-01 Posts: 228

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.

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