日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 7

If you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.
日本の方からのご協力も大歓迎です。


■USEFUL TOOLS

Rikaichan
http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
A pop-up dictionary for Firefox that shows readings and definitions when you hover over words.

Rikaikun
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jipdnfibhldikgcjhfnomkfpcebammhp
Same as above, but for Chrome.

Anki
http://ankisrs.net/
Flash card program mainly useful for vocab and kanji repetition. Can sync decks between computers and your phone.


■WEB-BASED DICTIONARIES

ALC
http://www.alc.co.jp/
Offers a web interface to the Eijirou dictionary, made for use in translation work.

kotobank
http://kotobank.jp/
Pretty good for J-J lookups. J-E/E-J definitions from Progressive.

Tangorin
http://tangorin.com/
The best interface to Jimu Buuriinu-sama's EDICT, which is a mess, so don't use this unless you have to.

weblio 類語辞典
http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/
It's an extensive thesaurus.

(If you want the best J-E/E-J dictionary, get an EPWING copy of Kenkyusha.)


■MEDIA

D-Addicts
http://d-addicts.com/forum/torrents.php
It's a horrible community, but it's THE go-to for drama series. Many variety shows turn up there as well.

JPopsuki
http://jpopsuki.eu/
It's a private music tracker with an extensive selection of just about everything.

KeyHoleTV
http://www.v2p.jp/video/english/
An application that lets you stream live TV in shit quality.

Tokyo Toshokan
https://www.tokyotosho.info/
anime anime anime anime anime


■PREVIOUS THREADS

See >>2 for links.

>>485
it's kanji not kanjii u faggot

your advice is alright but i don't know why you are giving advice when you don't even know basics like determining where to place your study focus

just about every word's kanji are worth learning, unless you wish to be illiterate. if you are talking about learning to write them then maybe not. is it a word you'd find yourself using? if so learn to write it. if not fuck it

personally i stopped bothering with learning to write kanji years ago after realizing i never even write using the alphabet and put my efforts into reading instead. writing does help a lot with recognition, but i find i'm doing just fine without it anyway

seeing as how you're writing kanji as "kanjii" consistently you can't be more than a few weeks into studying japanese. i'm sure you're having a lot of fun writing the 10 kanji you know over and over on paper, but being able to write doesn't amount to much more than a party trick to pull out on nomikai to impress japs it's pretty much redundant in this digital age

tldr writing is for dweebs

>>484
agreed