just ran across this while looking up 高等学校 to see if jisho.org had any more information. immediately went “huh. that’s a terrifying word.” followed by “huh. i can read most of that now.”
it looked like most of the other threads of this nature have fallen off/expired. so… new thread: have you seen anything like this recently in your readings?
that’s 自律神経性運動失調 (autonomic ataxia) for those feeling lazy. i like the 運動失調 at the end though. i have a feeling i would have never seen the japanese version of ataxia (even though the characters are taught pretty early) if it hadn’t been for this thread.
This used to be a mouthful for me but it rolls off the tongue relatively easy now. It’s the title of the Combined Fleet Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. It’s also the name of a film about Isoroku Yamamoto of the IJN. The recent remake with Yakusho Kōji was pretty good, I thought.
…and that’s how i ended up reading wikipedia for half an hour late at night when i should have been doing the first reviews of level 20. never gonna get to bed at this rate.
Every day struggle! See something interesting that leads to something else interesting that leads to something else even more interesting… gah! Kinda like hanging out in the community, right?
(Sadly enough, it would probably be written as “Tokyo-Erdbeben” instead of “Tokyoerdbeben” in German. Boring, I know. But we love to concatenate other words, e.g. “Frühwarnungssystem” (early warning system), so at least “Tokyo-Erdbeben-Frühwarnungssystem” would still look pretty majestic!)
I was level 22 at the time, this was the moment where I reflected on how WaniKani had taught me so much in so little time. Despite the long string of kanji which would’ve normally just scared me away, I was able to read it easily.
That is a great story. Also, I was also able to understand it, and its making me so happy right now. I was in Japan in April 2019 (with zero Kanji/Hiragana/katakana knowledge) and now in January 2020 I could get most of your image.
高精度視線速度系外惑星探査装置 = High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS)
I remember it traumatized me a little. I was a complete beginner, was looking for a fairly simple word on jisho (I think it was “accuracy”) and ended up finding this one…
Wow, I’m surprised I could read that. Whether or not I would’ve been able to figure out what it means even after breaking it down, that’s a different story