A note about online dictionaries: I’ve noticed the www.minnatonihongo2011.blogspot.com site has a online dictionary (I haven’t checked it out yet), but also there’s another one I’ve encountered: Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC (the url is http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C). I’ve only used it a handful of times, but it seems quite useful and I have friends who have been studying Japanese for a long time and really like it.
And a bonus for those of us who know Chinese is that you can look words up by kanji! So I tried putting in 文化 and it told me the pronunciation is ぶんか and it means exactly what I thought it should (culture, civilization).
ありがとう！その日本語のじしょうはlooks very good!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, this seems very useful!
ReplyDeleteAs for the video/song you sent me, it was indeed...unusual. I'm practically having an identity crisis just thinking about how often the characters all transformed into others. But, an interesting song, nonetheless; thanks for recommending this to me!
ありがとうございます！I've been looking up some Buddhist terminology in there in Japanese and so far they seem quite accurate (which is rare for online dictionaries).
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