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I usually think Japanese is a more poetic, or at least more complex, language than English or German (the only two languages I'm fluent in), but sometimes you find it's the other way around.
I came across 盗作 (tōsaku) today, meaning "plagiarism", and realised that I can't think of a native single English or German word for this, only the Latin-derived term.
盗作 on the other hand is nicely simple - 盗 means "steal" and 作 means "make" or "production", so 盗作 is stealing what someone has made or produced. Related, the 作 kanji is also used in 作家 (sakka), meaning "author". I like these terms because they're easy to remember. 😊
BTW, there is another tōsaku, but written with different characters (倒錯), meaning "perversion" - but this, as they say, is a story for another day. 😅
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I always thought 腹が立つ was really weirdly funny (literally it means "the belly stands up", but the actual meaning is to get angry, or pissed off).
There's a few more 腹 uses in this article 😁
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2017/03/06/language/belly-nice-nasty-many-uses-hara-japanese/
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#LearningJapanese question:
I started reading Japanese books (and I much prefer physical books), and I'm wondering how people deal with finding kanji they don't yet know. Without knowing how they sound, I can't easily look them up - I use the Takoboto dictionary app, and this lets you manually write kanji, but with more complex ones that's very timeconsuming.
Ideally I'd like something that lets me point my phone camera at a kanji (or word containing one or more kanjis), and look it up that way.
I know I can use things like Google Translate with my phone camera, but that translates everything it sees, and I then have to dig around to find the original word/kanji I'm interested in.
Are there any (Android) apps I'm not aware of that would help with this, or any other tips? ありがとうございます！
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I made it halfway through #WaniKani 🙌 🇯🇵
Just another few years and I'll get to the end. I just have to live long enough. And I already know what 地獄 means. 😂
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I made it halfway through #WaniKani 🙌 🇯🇵
Just another few years and I'll get to the end. I just have to live long enough. And I already know what 地獄 means. 😂
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I made it halfway through #WaniKani 🙌 🇯🇵
Just another few years and I'll get to the end. I just have to live long enough. And I already know what 地獄 means. 😂
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I made it halfway through #WaniKani 🙌 🇯🇵
Just another few years and I'll get to the end. I just have to live long enough. And I already know what 地獄 means. 😂
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Shortened katakana words in Japanese are just the worst (but kind of fun, once you know them).
I came across スクショ today... So I think "sukusho", what on earth could that be? Turns out it's short for スクリーンショット (sukuriinoshotto, screen shot). 🤪
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Not sure this is the ideal setup for doing Japanese homework 😹