Yup.Just learned a new use of を. From Midori:3. indicates an area traversed
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 November 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
Is midori worth 10 dollars more than the free Japanese dictionary on iOS?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 19 November 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
Yes
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
You could also try imiwa? which hasn’t been updated in a year or so I think, but is free and still pretty good.Also, here is a good write up of something I have been thinking of and we may have discussed before: http://lingwiki.com/index.php?title=On_vs._Kun_readings
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
actually jisho.org looks pretty good for kanji purposes, maybe one of us mentioned upthread/zing
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
Still gets me a little stirred up when Midori and imiwa? have strange, rare, kanji readings like the second one here ふみ【文, 書】that I can’t find in any other learner’s dictionary.
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 November 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
So LingoDeer is going to paid subscription model, although prior users are grandfathered out of it for a little bit. Still, this Japanese- and Korean!- 2 course looks really good and seems to be worth it. Another two days to get the lifetime subscription.
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link
I bought the lifetime subscription on the strength of level 2.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 25 November 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
Went ahead and did the same for the same reason
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
My Reverse Duolingo Tree approach has been useful but tedious and laborious
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 November 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
轍鮒
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
鳩が豆鉄砲を食ったよう
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link
盆と正月が一緒に来たよう, 盆と正月が一緒に来た様
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
深淵に臨むが如し
Wonder who else if anyone will jump on the LingoDeer bandwagon today
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
So mildly curious why the beginning of ヶ月 is pronounced “ka” and not “ke”
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
Also interesting that 図 has two ON readings
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Can’t actually find such a character in a Chinese dictionary. Do find the inside, 斗 dǒu, which seems to represent The Big Dipper.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Simplified Chinese “map” is 图, pronounced tú, with old complicated character being 圖. So perhaps another case of different simplification.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Ah, and now I see same words with both the new and old kanji written out in the entry ずかい【図解, 圖解】And, even betterふと【不図, 不斗, 不圖】
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
Just learned ないといけない【ないと行けない, 無いといけない, 無いと行けない】
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
So far so good with LingoDeer Japanese 2
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
I'm doing that in my spare moments but most of my time available is spent omg WaniKani and Bunpro. It's locking in grammar and vocab like nothing before.
I can bust out a
毎日漢字を勉強したら、漫画を読むことが出来る。日本語はペラペラになるといいです。
no sweat.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
You mean Bunpro?
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
no bunpro
bunko I hadn't heard of, looks interesting
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
bunpo
Parsing sentences like this
食べたことのない甘さがあるクッキーをつくってみたい。
Is really hard on paper, but doing it whilst listening is really hard. It feels like the hook of the sentence is right at the end
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Bunpro?
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
That is a Bunpro sentence, yes.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 7 December 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
Learning about the use of 方 and より in comparatives
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
Duolingo just told me君ならできる
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
頑張ってください
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Ha, thanks. It tells me that too
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
It’s all so simple.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf/page1-1754px-AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf.jpg
I have a laminated copy of this in my work bag
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 14 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
Heh, that looks pretty good.So have been using three dictionaries apps extensively recently: imiwa?, Japanese and Midori. Perhaps I will organize my thoughts at some point and post about how they measure up to each other.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
Just printed that out. Very interesting but some of it is hard to read, such as the green humble and honorific box on the back.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
井の中の蛙大海を知らず
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
猿も木から落ちる
ナイス!
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
The Duolingo Japanese course from English is so-so, but the Progress Quiz is actually quite challenging.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Okay, the Manabi app for learning to read Kanji now allows you to click and search in your dictionary apps
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
彼は私に泳ぐよう強要した。Can’t figure out quite how the よう works here.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
I’m not sure the よう is necessary, where did the sentence come from?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
Duolingo Reverse Tree
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
English for Japanese speakers
それは私にはありえません。Translated as:It is not possible for me.Can’t quite parse this one either, same source.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
On the first one it could be a really bad mis writing I of the volitional 泳ごう。 making it ‘He made me want to go swimming’ which seems a bit weird, but ok could work.
That last one you posted I just don’t know. I do get the sense that some of the less popular corners of Duolingo don’t get proofed very well. There’s a quite a few errors in the later levels of LingoDeer as well.
My reading is coming along by leaps and bounds I can recognise 750 kanji and I’m starting to do pretty well with teenage novels and manga.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 8 April 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
Duolingo just significantly upgraded their Japanese course, wondering if this addresses any of our concerns, tend to doubt it.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
There do seem to be a lot more kanji in the lessons, I’ll give them that
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
I took a peak and it didn’t look any different. Not going to waste my time on it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link