Need help (proofreading)

NihonGaijin

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I'm busy studying Japanese using "Genki 1", and I'm also currently busy making electronic (computer software) flashcards for Genki 1 and 2 which I, my fellow students and anyone else can use.
However, being a novice I may have made a typo ....or maybe even two 😄
So I was wondering if any of you could help read through the contents of my flash-cards.
To make it easy I've created one Word document for each book's contents. It lists the kanjis and words we're supposed to learn. If whoever looks through it finds a mistake they can type the correct spelling in red color (so I can easily find it) next to the erronous one, save the file and send it back to me (or upload it somewhere).
It would be even cooler if I could upload it to some place and several people could enter their corrections in the same document instead of several people correcting stuff that has already been corrected by others. If anyone knows how this can be done, please tell me.
So, any takers?
I'm going to try to enclose the text for Genki 1 here, as an attachement.
 

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And here's Genki 2

It worked! The attachement I mean.
So now, here's the stuff from Genki 2.
Thanks everybody! :-)
 

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Doc #1
あしのぼねをおりました。=>あしのほねをおりました
足の骨を折りました。
I broke my leg.

もおいちどいってください。=>もういちどいってください
Please say it again.

はつ=>ばつ
╳ (wrong)

Doc #2
ですうりょう=>てすうりょう
手数料
commission

グブル=>ダブル
double room

する=>すり
pickpocket

ばしゅう=>ぼしゅう
募集
recruitment

はっびょう=>はっぴょう
発表
presentation

-けご=>-けど
..., but; ..., so

やっぱり=>やはり
after all

Just delete them. We don't say those expressions now except in samurai costume plays now.

ござる
extra-modest expression for ある
-でござる
extra-modest expression for です

おや?=> Don't know which word you want to translate, おや? or Oh!
Oh!

Certainly.
さあ=>もちろん or 確かに

やる
to give (to pets, plants, younger siblings, etc.)=>あげる

そうそう=>そうですね but there are other expressions.
You are right.
 
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やっぱり=>やはり
after all

I checked with the "Genki 1" book and it's written as I entered it (やっぱり), actually in several places in the book including the dictionary pages of the same book and an example dialog.
Are you sure it's supposed to be やはり and not やっぱり ?
Can anyone else confirm this?


Just delet them. We don't say those expressions now except in samurai costume plays now.
ござる
extra-modest expression for ある
-でござる
extra-modest expression for です

Noted. But since my cards are based on the Genki books I think I should really keep them as they are even though some of the translations might not be so good.


おや?=> Don't know which word you want to translate, おや? or Oh!
Oh!

Same problem as above. In my book it does indeed say: おや? Oh!
I also checked with the dictionary pages. In a sentence in the book where it's used it says:
おや、あめですね。 (Oh, rain.)
... the complete sentence being:

It is a good souvenir. Oh, rain. Do you have an umbrella?

I have no idea why there's a question-mark there. The question mark is present in the "words" section for that chapter as well as the dictionary pages, but not in the sentence. And I've been told that question marks are usually not used in Japanese anyway, so I'm further confused.


Certainly.
さあ=>もちろん or 確かに

I actually wrote "certainly" as: かしこまりました which is correct according to my book.
さあ is (in my book and my flash-card entry) translated into "I am not sure,...", so according to my book I've entered it correctly.


やる
to give (to pets, plants, younger siblings, etc.)=>あげる
そうそう=>そうですね but there are other expressions.
You are right.

I'm sure there are better words/expressions/translations to use (as a newbie I'm personally in no position to say either), but since the exams for us are based on what we're learning from the Genki 1 and 2 books I don't think I should take the liberty to change the words.

My task here is just to make flash-cards out of the words from the books that we're being taught.

If there are actual typos I will of course correct them right away, as I now have, based on your feedback.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this! :-)
Has anyone else found other typos that need to be corrected?

PS: After each correction of the relevant flash-cards I'll also make the same corrections in the Word documents and replace the old ones here. That way several people don't need to alert me about the same typos. See the next message below for the updated Word files.
 
Updated (corrected) files so far

Here are the Genki 1 and 2 Word documents again, updated with the mistakes pointed out so far being corrected.
Can anyone find any more typos in them?
 

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I haven't read your docs but here is just a quick note:
Are you sure it's supposed to be やはり and not やっぱり ?
Can anyone else confirm this?
やっぱり is a more casual way of saying やはり, and is quite commonly used (=Not impolite).
Just delet them. We don't say those expressions now except in samurai costume plays now.
ござる
extra-modest expression for ある
-でござる
extra-modest expression for です
It's useful to know ござる, because many modern expressions have taken root from it.
さあ is (in my book and my flash-card entry) translated into "I am not sure,...", so according to my book I've entered it correctly.
I would not give a fixed translation for expressions like this. How it should be translated is totally dependent on the context it appears in. :)
 
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