Studying Japanese Vocabulary

Tiger00111

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17 Dec 2005

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• 17 Dec 2005

• #1

Hello to all...

In my studies, I've managed to create an extensive database of Japanese vocabulary. I made a site that presents these words in various ways depending on how the user wants to study (kanji, romaji, and so on.). Currently, I am only displacing around 2,000 words... but another 6,000 are on the way

Tigersan

Any advice on how to make the site better please let me know. Otherwise, happy studying

P.S. the link is to a non-commercial website

 

Gaijinian

Sempai

3 Jun 2005

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• 18 Dec 2005

• #2

小さい
ＩＳ ちいさい、Ｎｏｔ ちさいい

So your in Okinawa... 今、天気どうですか？

 

Tiger00111

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17 Dec 2005

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• 19 Dec 2005

• Thread starter
• #3

Nice Catch!

I just fixed that word in my database and I will update it tomorrow Thanks for the help!

今日はちょっとさむかったです。。。Ａｒｏｕｎｄ 65 ｄｅｇｒｅｅｓ

 

Gaijinian

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3 Jun 2005

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• 19 Dec 2005

• #4

Please don't forget your talking to someone from Wisconsin...
65?!? いいな！住んでるところ、変わりましょう？

 

Tiger00111

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17 Dec 2005

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• 30 Dec 2005

• Thread starter
• #5

Take 2

I haven't updated much with the vocabulary section just yet (holiday season and all). However, I did put together a Japanese Language Portal. The site is located at



I will work on the vocabulary section next year

 

m477

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6 Jun 2003

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• 31 Dec 2005

• #6

I clicked "show kanji," but there still weren't kanji for some words, for example 乾燥機.

 

jimySz

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3 Feb 2012

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• 3 Feb 2012

• #7

Let me recommend this site:
Japanese-English Vocabulary Teacher 言葉の先生
You can study your own vocabulary with this java applet.
Some samples also provided.

 

FinancialWar

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19 May 2006

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• 8 Feb 2012

• #8

stop recommending vocab sites, they are useless. The best to learn vocab is reading.

 

jimySz

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3 Feb 2012

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• 8 Feb 2012

• #9

That was ruuuuude. Let everyone decide what is the best for them! All my friends like these programs and find them very effective.

 

Mike Cash

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15 Mar 2002

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• 8 Feb 2012

• #10

Never mind rude; it's just plain bad advice.

 

FinancialWar

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19 May 2006

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• 8 Feb 2012

• #11

Mike Cash said:

Never mind rude; it's just plain bad advice.

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really? Reading Japanese to improve vocabulary is bad advice. But randomly encountering words from a computer generated program so that you don't know how to use the word in actual context is a good advice.

Reading not only have you to gain vocabulary, how to use the word in context, you also learn grammar, knowledge and general comprehension. And most importantly, reading is fun.

Not to be rude, but yeah those vocabulary sites is nothing but a waste of time, it's just a electronic flash card system.

 

jimySz

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3 Feb 2012

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• 8 Feb 2012

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Reading is important of course. But if you spent some minutes checking the program I suggested, you would reckognize that it is working with your own vocabulary what you collect during reading. Please do not speak about what you haven't checked at all!

 

FinancialWar

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19 May 2006

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• 8 Feb 2012

• #13

jimySz said:

Reading is important of course. But if you spent some minutes checking the program I suggested, you would reckognize that it is working with your own vocabulary what you collect during reading. Please do not speak about what you haven't checked at all!

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why would I want to go to a Java based flash card system that can not even save my own vocab after closing the browser, that's lame upon uselessness.

There are plenty better spaced repetition application out there on Windows/iPhone/iPad/Android that can

1. save vocab. (that's the whole point of the repetition system, you want to be reminded of words from a reading last week)
2. portable. (be able to carry vocabs with you all the time)

Therefore, not only is site useless, it's not even practical.

 

jimySz

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3 Feb 2012

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• 8 Feb 2012

• #14

So it seems that you regularly use vocabulary study programs but you say to the others that those are useless?
And you still haven't checked the one you're talking about (there are no flash cards at all). ;-)
But anyway if you're experienced with the ones you enlisted, please suggest me a good one for Android.

 

Mike Cash

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• 8 Feb 2012

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FinancialWar said:

really? Reading Japanese to improve vocabulary is bad advice. But randomly encountering words from a computer generated program so that you don't know how to use the word in actual context is a good advice.

Reading not only have you to gain vocabulary, how to use the word in context, you also learn grammar, knowledge and general comprehension. And most importantly, reading is fun.

Not to be rude, but yeah those vocabulary sites is nothing but a waste of time, it's just a electronic flash card system.

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In order to read you have to have knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, etc to begin with. What you're talking about is decoding text by looking everything up. That isn't reading. You end up spending time decoding words that you have no idea if they are useful/commonplace or not until after you have invested the time and effort to look them up.

I agree that random lists are also pretty useless. It is far better to learn vocabulary based on how common and useful it is, getting the most useful stuff first and leaving the rarely used stuff for much later.

 

FinancialWar

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19 May 2006

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• 8 Feb 2012

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jimySz said:

So it seems that you regularly use vocabulary study programs but you say to the others that those are useless?
And you still haven't checked the one you're talking about (there are no flash cards at all). ;-)
But anyway if you're experienced with the ones you enlisted, please suggest me a good one for Android.

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try Anki, they have been around for ages.
AnkiDroid quick overview - YouTube

 

jimySz

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3 Feb 2012

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• 8 Feb 2012

• #17

Thank you! I appreciate it.

 

FinancialWar

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19 May 2006

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• 9 Feb 2012

• #18

List of flashcard software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I haven't used flashcard a while now so I don't know how the industry is now. From the link above. It seems that Anki and Mnemosyne are the only two on the market that are both open source and available for Android (I use android myself). I am sure you can link your phone with your PC.