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14 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Japanese SRS sentences #4

雑草のごとくたくましい ざっそう の ごとく たくましい = ”tough like a weed. ” *note “gotoku” acts as “like; the same as” here. 今日の呟き きょう の つぶやき = ”Today’s mutterings.” Sort of like a twitter post. I see people use this title for some of their youtube ramblings in japanese. They mostly just spell it out in hiragana, but I like to at first learn it in [...]

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12 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Japanese SRS sentences #3

Here are a few SRS sentences I’ve added in the last couple of days. Once again, I focused on sentences with Japanese food vocabulary within them. 押し寿司を作った おしずし を つくった = I made sushi-rice 鯛とヒラメの姿造り タイ と ヒラメ の すがたづくり = sea bream and flounder whole-fish sashimi 魚肉ソーセージを買った ぎょにく ソーセージ を かった = I bought some fish meat sausage. ごちそうさまでした = Phrase said after meals. Basically means “thanks for a [...]

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08 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Japanese SRS sentences #2

While mining sentences today, I focused a lot on cooking and food vocabulary. In the Japanese media there tends to be a lot of shows that focus on cooking food and especially on tasting foods where emphatic resounding おいしいs and うまいs can be heard. They’ll often have Japanese celebrities tasting foods on these shows. Comedy [...]

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07 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Japanese SRS sentences #1

Every so often I’ll be throwing some of the SRS sentences or phrases I’m using for my 10,000 sentences project on this blog. You are free to use them. Each entry comes from native Japanese sources as to use authentic language. I won’t be breaking down each word or using romaji. I recommend using rikaichan [...]

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