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Post by Jembru on Jan 27, 2014 22:20:57 GMT
I've just realised I have been keeping something to myself for months that possibly no one here knows about (besides LittleGaijin, I sent her a link a while back following a skype chat one time). Does everyone know about this site? www.nhk.or.jp/ You can watch some shows, trailers and all kinds. If you go to the kokugo pages, you'll find the ohanashi no kuni stories I talk about somewhere. You can watch the show then read along (and rikaikun doesn't work so it's good practice). Otsuta to Tenjirou is on there too and.. well, I only watch the kids stuff, but I'm sure our more advanced members will find other cool stuff if they poke about. Enjoy!!
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Post by Bokusenou on Jan 28, 2014 1:30:33 GMT
Great site Jembru! That reminds me, I don't think I mentioned www.nhk.or.jp/kokokoza . It's got whole courses on high school subjects, meant to help out Japanese high school students, but it's also useful for advanced learners.
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Post by Jembru on Jan 28, 2014 5:22:57 GMT
Ah, I had a feeling you'd already know the site! Still, everyone else was sharing popular stuff, so I thought it wouldn't hurt.
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Post by Bokusenou on Jan 29, 2014 22:08:26 GMT
Yeah, but I've only used it for browsing the tv program listings, and using the site I mentioned above. It looks like there's much more there than I thought! It seems like a lot of the educational things for children younger than high school are here: www.nhk.or.jp/schoolThough Jemma probably knew that^^, so I'm posting it for others browsing this thread.
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Post by chocopie on Jan 30, 2014 11:59:34 GMT
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Post by MidoriAbby on Feb 3, 2014 23:30:55 GMT
chocopieCool, I've actually never seen that website! Thanks for reading my article too ^^
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Post by 魔 on Feb 14, 2014 21:38:01 GMT
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Post by Jembru on Mar 5, 2014 9:46:30 GMT
Does anyone know of a dictionary (either Japanese-English or Japanese only would do, as I'd only be using it to look up Japanese words), that tells you if a word is formal/written style, or conversational? The only way I can ever find this information out is by either asking people, or waiting to hear it in a conversation. While I try not to worry too much about accuracy, for some reason keeping formal words out of my active vocabulary is something I really seem to care about.
Now I'm trying to patch holes in my vocab with JLPT vocabulary, I'm getting anxious, because a lot of these words smell like newspaper to me.. I've heard that the JLPT includes a lot of written style Japanese, so I'm reluctant to use any of these words until I'm sure. This probably means refusing to use it until I hear it in a conversation, which could take months! A dictionary that told me this kind of thing would be a huge help.
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Post by Bokusenou on Mar 7, 2014 0:52:56 GMT
JembruI checked through all my dictionaries with both a conversational word (やばい), and a formal/written word (のみならず). In my small test, a lot of them noted やばい was conversational/slang (using 俗語or 隠語), while only two dictionaries, both monolingual, noted that のみならず was formal (using 改まった表現/文章語). Those two were 明鏡 and one just called 日本語辞典. Unfortunately neither are online, but I can send you the dictionary files, and there are links to EPWING (dictionary file) viewer software here.
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Post by Jembru on Mar 7, 2014 5:56:23 GMT
You'd do that? You don't need to go to trouble for me. I should have said, but I was actually thinking I'd like a hard dictionary if I couldn't find anything online. I still use my kanji book to look up kanji more often than jisho.org (although I use jisho.org if I'm out and about and can't read something in a text message). It's probably not faster, but for some reason it feels easier to be holding a book and just scanning my eye down the page until I find the character I'm looking for.
In the summer, I'm attending a wedding in London, so will be down their for a few days. There's apparently a huge book store that keeps a large selection of imported Japanese language books. It definitely has dictionaries, so hopefully I'll find one of the titles you've mentioned. In the meantime, I'm just googling the words and seeing how they've been used. Not very scientific, but it's better than nothing for now.
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Post by chocopie on Mar 7, 2014 21:44:47 GMT
I just posted it in 今日のいいこと but I'll post here too as it is a resource. If you have a Kindle you can use a program called AozoraEpub3 to convert a Japanese text file so it will display with vertical text. If it has aozora bunko formatting (essentially "kanji<<furigana>>") it will display the furigana too!
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Post by Bokusenou on May 30, 2014 3:24:15 GMT
gacco.orgWho knew Japan had MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses, like Coursera) too?! Lecture videos have full scrolling transcripts, which you can click on a line to go back to it.
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Post by chocopie on May 31, 2014 13:13:47 GMT
I've been waiting for the 化学生命工学が作る未来 course to start! Which course are you doing Bokusenou?
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Post by Bokusenou on Jun 1, 2014 0:20:50 GMT
chocopie Oh, wow, you've known about it for a while then? さすがchocopie! I started the "Internet" one, though it looks like I'm a week behind. Anyway, I love tech stuff, especially internet-related tech stuff ( guess it goes with being a web developer/designer XD), so I'm excited to have something else which combines two of my major interests. I've been doing the coding tutorials at a Japanese coding video tutorial site, but this looks like it's different. It's more like a behind-the-scenes look at how the internet works, which is interesting to me as someone who works on sites everyday.^^ I'm also thinking of taking the マンガ・アニメ・ゲーム論 one when it starts, since it seems like it could be fun.
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Post by chocopie on Jun 1, 2014 12:27:58 GMT
www.englishlife.jp/phrase/index.shtmlThis is aimed at Japanese speakers learning English and this phrase section has loads of examples of casual everyday phrases in Japanese and the English equivalent. You can search through them in English or Japanese.
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