Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

>>692
I'm the one who asked about the spaced repetition programs

From what I've found, there is indeed more vocab. I looked and looked, couldn't find anything, then I hit the jackpot.

http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=12761

That has almost 8000 words. It was a bit complicated to figure it out, but you gotta save it in the right format I think then when you import, you'll need to swap around the options for like meaning/reading/etc

For radicals, I doubt it exists. However, it is definitely possible to do it as you are able to put pictures inside anki

As for pictures/text, you could use this link http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1R

It doesn't have definitions of radicals though. If you or someone ever decides to make one, feel free to share it. I already know all my radicals but I don't know the meaning behind most of them.

>>692
me again, I did a quick google search for more helpful material.

there's this, which tells the meaning and reading of the important ones
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa070101a.htm

then there's this one it links to, http://japanese.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.nuthatch.com/kanji/demo/strokes.html which talks about all 214 of them

Being able to recognize radicals is crucial to remembering kanji, so if you can't then this is important to learn. But yeah.. definitely share it if you make it. If I wasn't so busy I'd do it just for the readings/definitions.