Showing posts with label learn Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learn Japanese. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

kanji assocations as dot-grids

These are the kanji I had to review the other day as an older learner who has some typical challenges in re-visiting characters readily confused, mistaken etc

今 会 公  · 
 · 合 句 項
 ·  司 可 · 
 ·  同 何 · 
予  ·  分 · 
The grid suggests ready extensions as you may know from the Park book on Chinese characters:

仮


伝

友

Saturday, December 12, 2015

kanji KUN yomi singletons versus ON DOKU in Henshall book

I am distracted just now looking at kanji KUN yomi singletons versus ON DOKU in the old Henshall book.

By "singleton" I mean a reading that is unique for that book. In the case of KUN yomi, there are a great many in Henshall.

There are some errors and some oddities. The errors in the index are annoying!



Wednesday, July 23, 2014

From Day One



From day one of Kate's first year at college, her mother saw her as both 'green' and naive. If she had known how soon Kate would become involved with a boy met at a first-week mixer, Jean would have had her home those first few weekends instead of "getting used to being on her own."

初日
しょにち

初日から、彼女は間違っていた。
しょにち  から、 かのじょ  わ  まちが って いた。
From day one, she was wrong.

Denshi Jisho has

間違い
まちがい
1 : mistake, error, blunder
2 : accident, mishap, trouble
3 : improper conduct (e.g., between man and woman) ; indiscretion
common word ; noun

間違う
まちがう
to make a mistake, to be incorrect, to be mistaken
common word, Godan verb with う ending

Perapera browser plugin gave me

初日    しょにち    (n-adv,n-t) first or opening day; (P)
初日    はつひ    (n) New Year's Day sunrise
初    はつ    (adj-no,n-pref,n) first; new; (P)
初    うい    (adj-no,n-pref,n) first; new; (P)
初    うぶ    (adj-na,n,adj-no,n-pref) innocent; naive; unsophisticated; inexperienced; green; wet behind the ears; birth-
初    ぞめ    (suf) first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.)

Google translate gives

それは彼女の初めてだった。

for

It was her first time.

and

それは、家から離れて彼女の初めてだった。

for

It was her first time away from home. 

NOTE: also from Denshi Jisho web pages :

グループ1動詞
グループいちどうし
godan verb
noun
 
子音動詞
しいんどうし
consonantal verb (e.g. godan verb); consonant stem verb
noun




Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Fumio, the uncommon ふみ of ふみよむ


If you step outside the bounds of Common Words on Denshi Jisho you will find

   文読む月日  ふみ よむ つき ひ  days of reading

How many days will you devote to reading kanji before we get to the love letter, こいぶみ ?