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Japanese never stops being full of surprises. 😁
I was wondering about ロコミ (rokomi) today, meaning word-of-mouth, but these days mostly "online review".
It turns out it's a (deliberate) mis-spelling of 口コミ (kuchikomi), with the same meaning, except 口コミ actually makes sense (the kanji 口 means mouth, and the katakana コミ is short for communication).No idea how this came to be, but language (and slang) is endlessly fascinating and exasperating in equal measures... 🤷
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#WaniKani レベル三十三 / Level 33 ✅ 🎌
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A little WaniKani in-joke 😁
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Watching the latest episode of 田鎖ブラザーズ (Tagusari Bros.), I noticed I'm finally picking up the different levels of polite speech I struggled with for so long (I still do, but it's a start 😅).
When one detective asks a medical examiner if she can talk to him for a moment, she asks 少しお話しいただけますか。 Later on, another detective asks a 19-year old the same question, but this time it's ちょと話せるか。
I take it as a good sign that I'm noticing these subtleties now (although I'm sure Japanese people do not consider them subtleties 😉).
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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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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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guess this would be a good time to mention that i would welcome polite correction of any and all japanese language posting on this account. (^_^)
もしぼくの日本語は間違っていたら、教えてください。お願いします。m(._.)m #日本語を勉強する
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TIL that 探す and 捜す both read さがす and both mean "to search", but 探すmeans searching for something you want, and 捜す means searching for something you lost. 🤯
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I learnt the term 親展 (confidential, as in "confidential document") on WaniKani the other day, and today was the first time I could use it in an email to a colleague in our Tokyo office. 😅
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I appreciate it when Japanese words are very literal. I've just come across 各駅停車 ( かくえきていしゃ、kakuekiteisha). I hadn't seen it before, but I know all the four kanji, so you can put them all together and sometimes (not always 😁) the combination makes sense and you can get the meaning.
In this case, 各 each 駅 station 停 halt 車 car = local train (a train that stops at every station). 💡
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The usual problem trying to do this week's Japanese homework 😹
今週の日本語の宿題をやる時、これがいつも問題になります😹#LearningJapanese #JapaneseHomework #日本語を勉強する #日本語の宿題 #CatsOfMastodon
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New level (29) in our Japanese evening class tonight, and we finally reached 敬語 (keigo, honorific language).
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Just took a TTBJ test, and scored around 60%. Probably not too bad for a ~1 year of study of Japanese. If nothing else I should return to this test some time later to see how much the skill improves over time.
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I came across the term 上の空 tonight, and it made no sense in the context (it literally means "above the sky"), so I had to look it up.
It means "absent-minded" or "not paying attention" 🤔 - apparently it was originally 上の空なる心 (one's heart is above the sky) and was then shortened to just 上の空. Gotta love the way languages work. 😅
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Learned a couple of interesting Japanese words using 穴 (ana, meaning "hole").
穴場 (anaba) literally means "hole place" and is a place that is hidden/ small/ not well known but good (such as a restaurant). It's interesting that English also uses a similar term involving "hole", "hole in the wall".
And 穴子 (anago) literally means "hole child". What child lives in a hole? It's a conger eel (or just anago, it's one of these Japanese words that have become more common in English). 😅
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Came across a new (to me) Japanese word today: 一夫多妻。
It means "polygamy" in English, but it's amusingly literal: 一夫多妻 means "one husband many wives" 😁
Also interesting that "polygamy" is gender-neutral, but 「一夫多妻」 clearly isn't. But of course, there could be another Japanese term that is gender-neutral, I just don't know it.
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私の小さな日本語の宿題ヘルパー。
My little Japanese homework helper.
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I think this is the first time I "got" a Japanese pun without checking. 😁
おつかれ様 (otsukaresama) is used in the workplace to mean "thank you for your hard work" or "good work". Yamap is a Japanese hiking social network app (think Strava for hiking), and here they use おつかれ山 (otsukareyama) which sounds very similar, but 山 (yama) means mountain.Apparently there's many 山 puns in existence, examples of the numerous ダジャレ (dajare, wordplay) that Japanese is so suitable for because of its huge number of homophones - these puns are often called 親父ギャグ, oyaji gyagu (oyaji gags, old man gags, or in English "dad jokes").
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Not sure this is the ideal setup for doing Japanese homework 😹
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Finally caved in and bought myself a lifetime plan for WaniKani as an early Christmas present. Every year they offer $100 off over the Xmas period.
It's still not that cheap ($199),but if I'd done it 2 years ago it would have paid for itself by now....
#WaniKani #LearningJapanese #Kanji #日本語を勉強するWaniKani, a kanji learning application by Tofugu
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I kept forgetting the Japanese word for "translation", 翻訳 (ほんやく、honyaku) until I realised that 翻 (ほん) sounds just like 本 (book), so now I remember it because I just need to think "book" when thinking translation. 😁
Occasionally the enormous amount of homophones in Japanese can be helpful (but most of the time it's making things harder, unless you're a stand-up comedian grateful for the endless opportunities for puns it provides).
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Now that the short story has been published in a new translation by Ted Goossen, as "Mole" in 川上弘美 Hiromi Kawakami's new collection Dragon Palace, I thought I should finally finish the Japanese version (called 鼴鼠) that I've been reading (or more accurately, been trying to read) for the last 6 months - it's no more than about 25 pages long 😂.
There's a great sentence and a great new (to me) word I just read:
東京の空いっぱいを覆いつくす、猛々しい夕焼け。(A raging sunset that occupies the entire sky over Tokyo.)猛々しい (たけだけしい) means raging or furious, and I love how it repeats the 猛 kanji, which by itself already means fierce, furious or wild, so 猛々しい is like rage or fury doubled 😁
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Kanpai! is probably the first word in Japanese anyone knows (or maybe the second, after arigatou 😉). But I've only just come across its Kanji, 乾杯. 乾 means dry, and 杯 sake cup, or cup for alcoholic beverages. "Dry your cup!" makes sense (I like Japanese kanji that make sense, haha).
杯 is also used as the counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, etc. (also makes sense), and more intriguingly, as the counter for octopi and squid 😅 -
Helping with the Japanese homework as always. 彼女は相変わらず日本語の宿題を手伝ってくれています。😺
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Today I learned the word 美容院 (びよういん, biyouin) which sounds very similar to 病院 (びょういん, byouin).
美容院 means beauty salon or hair salon, 病院 means hospital. So correct pronunciation could save your life in Japan 😂