Japanese Language Forums

I was wondering if anyone here knew of any nice forums for intense Japanese language discussion: kanji, particles, radicles, grammatical usage. I am looking for a well populated forum specifing in Japanese. Any suggestions?

Or, any sites that go in depth on just about anything in Japanese would also be helpful.

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:44 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

This would be the best source for all you would ever need

www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

But then again you can always try on the newsgroups nntp
under alt.binaries.world-languages

Also, do a simple google. I bet you'll find a gazillion resources spawning off of Jim Breen's site above at the monash.edu down-under

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:45 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Go to www.japanese-online.com, it's not a forum, but you can learn japanese there, it's free for starter and payable for intermediate lessons.

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:10 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

well you could always start discussing it here, I'm sure there are lots of people who are trying to learn the language like you are.

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Techie:
Thanks for the heads up. I already have that website bookmarked Whistling

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Jerimiah:
I can't seem to access that site.

Ruroshin:
Alright, thanks for the permission. I just didn't want to bore people with my boring, specific grammatical questions. I hope someone here can help cheers

!

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:44 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

PhilsterT sorry, I wrongly typed the url:

http://www.japanese-online.com

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: c++ Post Rating: 0

I have a techie question, I'm not sure how many of our d-addicts members are also programmers, but anyway:

Whats the easiest way of converting a japanese sentance like:
涙した風をあつめていたいな

Into the same sentace, but written only in hiragana:
なみだ　した　かぜ　を　あつめていたいな

Is it at all possible? I have the edict dictionary at my disposal:
http://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict.gz

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

You're looking for software like this: http://kakasi.namazu.org/

that converts kanji to kana. Why you would want to do that, i dont know ;)

By the way, i've found that social networking sites like gree and mixi.jp improve reading skills and vocabulary a lot. Sites like mixi.jp are so informal, that people write the same way that they talk, whereas a novel is just written japanese (written japanese is different than spoken a lot of the time)

There are also problems with this strategy as a lot of kanji have different readings dependant on the situation. For example the title of the drama "hana yori dango" will probably show up as "danshi" because that's the proper way to read it. Software most likely wont pick up on the allusion to the japanese kotowaza "hana yori dango" and the resulting "kanji joke" if you will.

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Ahh - that is useful source code indeed - thanks very much ephesus! Why you ask. Well, doesn't one have to convert kanji into syallables, in their head to actually read aloud a japanese sentance? Otherwise you'd have to just know the reading of every combination of kanji, which would be a challenge.

I appreciate that romanizing a japanese sentance is a fairly useless exercise for most scenarios though.

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Being a topic of language and learning, perhaps I can take the liberty of popping in a statement of personal preference here.

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

You should have said that from the start. If what you want to do is convert stuff into a readable for for STUDY, use rikai.com which will parse japanese encoded text and pop up little windows with the reading and definition.

By the way, that kanji means big not war. So maybe it was saying "big war?" ;)

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:01 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

we recently re-started the learnjapanese yahoo! group. friendly people, native speakers - it's a great discussion group, and not completely overrun by noobs with a hard-on for anime.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learnjapanese2/

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

There is a big section on http://www.jdorama.com . kokuou, supermidget and ahochaude are experts and answer most if not all questions.
Try it. thumleft

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:28 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Anybody knows of Japanese film (or drama) forums? Figured out that it might be a good way to improve my Japanese and practise reading.