Gakuu – Learn Real Japanese

Month: November 2011

  • 150,000 Free Japanese-English Sentences

    150,000 Free Japanese-English Sentences

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    Michael
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    Have you ever heard of the Tanaka Corpus? If you’ve been using Jim Breen’s fantastic free online Japanese-English dictionary JDIC, you may have unwittingly encountered it. The Tanaka Corpus is a collection of over 150,000 sentence pairs ideal for students learning Japanese. Perfect for repetitions in your favourite SRS software!

  • Intelligentsia – インテリ

    Intelligentsia – インテリ

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    Michael
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    This word, インテリ, is an abbreviated version of インテリゲンチャ, (the intelligentsia) meaning ‘intellectual’, referring to a person or class of people who have a tendency for intellectual prowess as opposed to physical strength or ability.

  • ASCII Art Omitted – AA略

    ASCII Art Omitted – AA略

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    Michael
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    You might see this term used online among Japanese netizens. The term AA is an abbreviation of ASCII Art – American Standard Code for Information Interchange – referring to those weird and wonderful faces made up of electronic characters.