Thanks for the ping, I’ll bring this up with the team and see if we can make any changes.
Update: We may add more vocabulary in the future but for now we added “ratify” as the alternative meaning, and added “quasi,” “allow,” “grant,” and “permit” to the allow list for 准.
To be perfectly fair, words that would be used in Japan is the focus of Wanikani and the site is American, so that’s a pretty compelling reason to include it.
A lot of central america. The MLB has a ton of Dominicans, Haitians, Koreans, Mexicans, and even Cubans find their way to America to play. It may not be popular in Europe but it’s got a lot more global play than most of Europe would guess.
With Japan winning the WBC, there’s a ton of baseball talk all over the place. You can’t watch anything without seeing Shohei Ohtani being mentioned somewhere.
On the topic of 準決勝, it’s not only for sports. It’s pretty much any sort of tournament setup where there are semifinals, i.e. Chess, card games, eSports… anything you do any sort of bracket play, I guess.
Side note: Murakami blasting Japan into the finals in the bottom of the ninth against Mexico was absolutely epic.
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This is a good observation. There’s just those cultural/world events that you’d be foolish to ignore. I thought 染める wasn’t useful, then Corona happened and oh man that was in the first sentence of every NHK story and frankly every sign, etc.
It’s good to have awareness of other topics because it will enrich your engagement with the language. Am I a baseball fan? No. But my in laws had it on during Obon and I could understand what was happening and even chat a little about it. You might watch a show you enjoy and they might talk about sports and that conversation may have a deeper meaning related to the plot.
Just something to consider.
I literally just had my wife come in and say 髪の毛染めてる！ lol
Judging by your username, I am pretty sure you are a pretty dedicated baseball fan. Were you able to watch the summer tournament that just completed this week?
Lol, that was my first connotation as well 
If you know of a way to watch it in the states, my wife and I would love to know about it. We’ve been trying to find good ways to watch high school baseball from Japan as well as any other Japanese baseball we can find, but have only managed to catch some sketchy Chinese broadcasts of Japanese games, which appear to be rebroadcasts at least some of the time.
There should be plenty of options but not sure which would be available where you are.
Specific to Koshien, NHK shows all tournament games live. Depending on your cable or satellite provider, NHK may be one of the channels offered under one of their “international channels” packages. When I was still in Canada, it was an option from our cable service.
There are ways to stream NHK online but I think you would need to use a VPN located here. Abema TV also shows all the games and can be streamed online, but VPN connection is needed. You could also check out the link below. All games streamed live.
For general high school baseball games your best bet is to do some searching online and you are likely to find teams that live stream their games online, often on Youtube. Of course, these are not professional broadcasts and often come with no commentary, and maybe just a single stationary camera raw feed. But some may have students doing some commentary. Note. I do not know for this sure, I have not tried. I am basing this on having done the same for some ice hockey games.
I have the good fortune to pass a dozen or 2 baseball fields on the walk between my office and home. During baseball season there is almost always a game going on at many of them. Even more so on the weekends. I often stop and watch a few innings. No idea who the schools/teams are, but fun to watch. Often is junior high school level. I have been to games at Koshien (spring and summer) a few times. Two of my friends had sons that played high school baseball for 2 of the bigger baseball powerhouses around Tokyo. One of them made it to Koshien 2 times, which is how I ended up going the first time. I used to go to their school games once in a while, but that was about 12 or 13 years ago now. Went to their university games sometimes after they graduated from high school.
Another fun annual baseball tournament (been around a while - since 1926, and has a lot of history) is the Tokyo Big Six tournament. An annual championship series over a series of weekends involving the traditional six major sports powerhouse universities. There are some very long standing school/team rivalries there and going to the game live is a lot of fun as both schools show up en masse to very loudly and vigorously cheer on their teams. One my friend’s son that I watched play high school ball played for one of the Big Six teams, which is how I ended up leaning about this annual tournament.
If you are in Japan, and the time is right (8 weekends in the spring and 8 weekends in the fall - there were games this weekend as I write this), many/most Big Six games are played at Meiji Jingu Stadium, which adds to the history/tradition atmosphere in a big way. Like going to Fenway or Wrigley in the US. Unfortunately, Tokyo metro government recently announced a redevelopment plan that would see the stadium demolished. There has been some fair amount of outcry and “save the stadium” movements that have been started. Hopefully they do keep it around.
awesome、thank you。I`ll try some things you’ve suggested and see if I can get anything going
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