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jp-hurts · 9 months

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#people compare bodegas to japan's lawsons as if lawsons are small business #bodegas are family run #its not corporate shill #its not sterile 7/11 #its someones home

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jp-hurts · 10 months

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A language tip for all the french guys out there

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jp-hurts · 10 months

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The first Pokémon to examine couldn't really be anything else except one of my favourites:

Skitty

Big disclaimer: I'm still learning myself. This blog is an attempt to learn something new for myself first. If anyone notices any kind of error in what's written here, even just a spelling typo, please let me know!

Learning is what we are all here for after all.

First, let's start with the Japanese name

エネコ　Eneko is a pun between 狗尾草　エノコログサ　Enokorogusa, which refers to the green foxtail, the type of plant that Skitty's tail looks like, and 猫ねこ neko, cat.

Then let's look at some of the Pokedex entries:

動くものを見つけると夢中になって追いかけ回す習性を持つポケモン。

夢中(むちゅう) being absorbed in something

追いかけ回す(おいかけまわす) to chase something around

"When it sees something that moves, this Pokémon has the habit of getting immersed chasing it around"

You can attach 回す to the -masu stem of a verb to indicate that you are doing that action "all around, all over"

(Example: chasing around)

動くものをつい追ってしまう。

"It ends up chasing moving things unintentionally"

Different dex entry, same general meaning but with a slightly different nuance. I find reading these kind of dex entries useful because they offer multiple ways of saying the same thing, and are good to reinforce the same vocabulary that appears in them and grammar rules.

ーてしまう signals that you are doing the action without meaning to

つい as an adverb similarly shows that you are doing the action unintentionally, subconsciously, and it's often paired with てしまう to emphasize it.

For its abilities, they are mostly named with English words anyway even in Japanese, except for Cute Charm (which was its only ability in Gen 3, if I remember correctly, since Normalize didn't exist)

Cute Charm is called メロメロボディ, which uses the "meromero" onomatopoeia to indicate being spellbound or madly in love.

Some interesting moves it can learn:

猫騙し (ねこだまし, Nekodamashi) Fakeout

The Fakeout move has a interesting bit of trivia in its Japanese name! It has the kanji for "cat" and "to deceive" in it, and it's actually a reference to a specific sumo move!

"Nekodamashi" refers to a sumo technique where one of the athletes slaps the air with both hands right at the beginning of the match near their opponents face to stun them. That's why it can only be used in the first turn in the Pokémon games!

And since it translates pretty much to "cat's deception", it's the reason why mostly kitty Pokémon other than Fighting types like Hariyama can use it.

真似っこ (まねっこ, Manekko) Copycat

It stands for "to imitate" and I can't help but think that the reason it can learn this move is because of another cat pun in "manekko", which conveniently also works in the english version. Sadly not in other languages.

Skitty's lost signature move:

猫の手　(ねこのて, Nekonote) Assist

Another cute move with its origin stemming from a Japanese idiom!

Assist is another move that can be learned almost exclusively by cat Pokemon, and it's effect was to randomly use a move known by another Pokémon in the party. It was unique to Skitty in Gen III and is what made it maybe my favourite Pokémon ever: watching this adorable pink kitty bust out Earthquakes and Flamethrowers that the rest of my team used was hilarious. Was it effective? Usually not, but it was hilarious.

I always had a Skitty on my team during most of my Gen III playthroughs and in ORAS.

The idiom is 猫の手も借りたい ("I want to borrow even a cat's paw), which is a way of saying "I'm desperate and need any help I can get ". Even a cat's.

Cute and fitting name for a move where a kitty asks the rest of his team for "help"!

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jp-hurts · 10 months

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Business Japanese Review Part One: Emails!

I'm not sure how many posts I'll make about Business Japanese, but probably more than one so I say the part one is warranted, haha.

Feel free to add anything or any questions in the notes! Like I said, this isn't a fully comprehensive infographic. Also, what do people think of the lined paper style background for the title page/intro? I think they look kinda cute for the introduction, but not for the informative parts...

One thing I will add that I couldn't fit on the slides: I think some textbooks don't have super clear distinctions between 「謙譲語Ⅰ」　「謙譲語Ⅱ」 and 「ていねいご」, so I only specifically mention 謙譲語 broadly here. Parts of 謙譲語Ⅱ and ていねいご are both described as "extra-modest" in some things, for example! Just keep in mind that my post is a simplification, and if you're interested in formal language, maybe start at learning all of the different keigo categories and what they involve!

Vocab list note: The set phrases in the greetings and closings are all comparable to set phrases in English for greetings and closings of emails. I'm putting these set phrases in their entirety in the list, with a comparable English set phrase as the definition. Do not take these as equivalent phrases! They have a similar feeling, but I am not asserting that they have identical meanings. I'm just offering something comparable in case it helps a person make more sense of them!

The full vocab list + a transcript of the post is under the cut!

Vocabulary List

試験（しけん）－　Exam, test

質問（しつもん）－　Question

食事会（しょくじかい）－　Dinner Party, Dinner Meeting/Lunch Meeting/etc.

お知らせ（おしらせ）－　Notification, Notice

会社（かいしゃ）－　Company

営業部（えいぎょうぶ）－　Sales Department

部長（ぶちょう）－　Section/Department Head

「いつもお世話になっております」　－　This is a basic email greeting, similar to "Good afternoon" or "Hello, [name]" even though the meaning doesn't match at all!

「だんだん涼しくなってまいりました」　－　Similar to "I hope this email finds you well"

さて　－　Now, Well, Then

謙譲語（けんじょうご）－　Humble Language / Extra-Modest Language

下記の通り（かきのとおり）－　The Following

返事（へんじ）－　Reply

「お待ちしております」　－　Similar to "Awaiting your reply"

「よろしくお願いいたします」　－　Similar to "Thank you"

「取り急ぎお返事申し上げます」　－　Similar to "Please get back to me soon"

申し上げます（もうしあげます）－　To Offer, To Extend (thanks, congratulations, greetings, etc.), To Do, To State（謙譲語）

以上（いじょう）－　Since, Seeing That, Above-mentioned

なお　－　Furthermore, In Addition

日時（にちじ）－　Date and Time

午後（ごご）－　PM (Time)

場所（ばしょ）－　Place, Location

集会室（しゅうかいしつ）－　Meeting Room, Assembly Room/Hall

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jp-hurts · 11 months

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Simple name today, and very elegant. 戸田 is read Toda.

戸 means door, and it's also the counter for houses. It can be read to or ko, and it contains the flag/corpse radical 尸.

田 means rice paddy, and it's read ta or den.

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jp-hurts · 11 months

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打ち消す

うちけす

to deny; to contradict

彼は人の言うことを頭から打ち消す。かれはひとのいうことをあたまからうちけす。 He will flat-out contradict someone's words.

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jp-hurts · 11 months

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Watch cat videos when you’re tired 😺

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jp-hurts · 11 months

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Japanese word of the day

庭

Reading: にわ

Meaning: garden

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jp-hurts · 1 year

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Similar Japanese Words

基準　きじゅん　standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum

規準　きじゅん　standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum

These Japanese words have the same pronunciation and the same meaning. So what is the difference? In what situation should you use which word?

While they both mean "standard" the word 基準 is used much more frequently than 規準. 規準 is closer to the meaning of "norm" or a standard that is accepted worldwide. 基準 is often used in daily life and indicates a standard against which other like things are to be measured.

Just for fun there is also:

規範　きはん　model; standard; pattern; norm; criterion; example

標準　ひょうじゅん　standard; level; norm

While 規範 indicates a standard or norm, it's more of a literary word used in academic articles or in financial or business documents and is not used often. 標準 is also a popular business word and is used in words such as 標準化 (ひょうじゅんか) or "standardization," and 作業標準 (さぎょうひょうじゅん) or "operation standard."

So, in conclusion, 基準 is your best bet for using "standard" in most situations.

Further Reading:

What is the difference between 基準 and 規準 ?

Differences of 規範 vs 基準 vs 標準

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jp-hurts · 1 year

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Countries where Easter (Good Friday or Easter Sunday or Easter Monday- or all of them) is a public holiday.

by dodi_maps

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jp-hurts · 1 year

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If you’re learning a language — which do you do ?

Maybe elaborate in the tags? I love knowing what people pick and why

#1 the standard dialect #you can learn dialects after tbh

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jp-hurts · 1 year

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四字熟語

四字熟語 (よじじゅくご) or yojijukugo are what are known as "four-character compounds" or "four-character idioms" in Japanese.

These contain four kanji, and the meanings of the individual kanji don't usually have much to do with the meaning of the idiom as a whole. But the meaning of the idiom often comes from a story which explains the derivation of the four characters used.

Like the rest of kanji, yojijukugo come from China. Yojijukugo come specifically from the Chinese Chengyu. However, there are many Japanese-only yojijukugo as well. Each yojijukugo represent the moral of a Chinese story, a Japanese proverb, Buddhist scripture, or an old Japanese story. Therefore to really understand the yojijukugo meaning, you would need to know the story behind it.

Estimates of the number of existing yojijukugo range upwards to 20,000 which is quite a lot of stories to learn. However, some are fairly straightforward and don't require a lot of information to understand the meaning. You can learn some of the most common ones without having to learn every story behind them.

Some Common 四字熟語

一期一会　いちごいちあい Once-in-a-lifetime encounter

一石二鳥　いっせきにちょう Kill two birds with one stone

一生懸命　いっしょうけんめい With utmost effort

温故知新　おんこちしん Learning from the past

以心伝心　いしんでんしん Without the need for words

花鳥風月　かちょうふうげつ The beauties of nature

初志貫徹　しょしかんてつ Achieving one's original intention

質実剛健　しつじつごうけん Unaffected and sincere

十人十色　じゅうにんといろ To each his own

清浄潔白　せいじょうけっぱく Pure in heart and with a clean conscience

天真爛漫　てんしんらんまん Simple and innocent

日進月歩　にっしんげっぽ Steady progress

臨機応変　りんきおうへん Playing it by ear

These are just a few of the four-compound idioms that Japanese has to offer. What is your favorite yojijukugo?

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jp-hurts · 1 year

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選手権

せんしゅけん

championship

ティラノサウルス着ぐるみのレース選手権を見に行きたい！ティラノサウルスきぐるみのレースせんしゅけんをみにいきたい！ I want to go watch the T-rex costume race championship!

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Tumblrであまり使わないのに、日本語をまだ勉強す続くことだ。単語について上達しているだっと思う！

#日本語 #japanese #language learning #japanese langblr #日本 #langblr #勉強 #japanese learning

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• 避妊「ひにん」 - contraception

• 避難民「ひなんみん」 - refugees, evacuees, displaced persons

• 避暑「ひしょ」 - escaping the summer heat, going somewhere cooler during the summer, summering

• 回避「かいひ」 - evasion, avoidance

• 退避「たいひ」 - 1. taking refuge, evacuation 2. [computing term] (See バックアップ) backup (of data)

• 避ける「さける / よける」 - 1. (よける only) to avoid (physical contact with) 2. (さける only) to avoid (situation) 3. to ward off, to avert 4. (よける only) to put aside, to move out of the way

• 不可避「ふかひ」 - inevitable, inescapable, unavoidable

• 避難「ひなん」 - taking refuge, finding shelter, evacuation, escape, seeking safe haven

• 逃避「とうひ」 - escape, evasion, flight

#this showed up in my anki cards today actually

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賑わい

にぎわい

prosperity; bustle; activity; crowd; turnout

暑くなってから海岸はたいそうな賑わいだ。あつくなってからかいがんはたいそうなにぎわいだ。 Since the hot weather set in, people have been flocking to the seaside.

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• 切り崩す「きりくずす」 - 1. to level (earth), to cut through (a mountain) 2. to split (the opposition), to break (strike)

• 崩落「ほうらく」 - collapse, break, cave-in, crash, (market) decline

• 崩し書き「くずしがき」 - cursive style of writing or calligraphy

• 雪崩「なだれ」 - avalanche, snowslide

• 山崩れ「やまくずれ」 - landslide

• 崩れる「くずれる」- 1. to collapse, to crumble 2. to get out of shape, to lose one's shape, to become disorganized, to become untidy 3. to break down, to be thrown into disarray 4. to crash (stock market), to slump, to decline 5. to break money into small change 6. to turn bad (e.g. weather), to change for the worse, to deteriorate

• 崩壊「ほうかい」 - 1. collapse, crumbling, breaking down, caving in 2. [physics term] (radioactive) decay, disintegration

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