I have been having a problem with vocab with more than one translation, similar to other vocab. Since it’s difficult to explain, I will cut directly to some examples: 大気 - atmosphere 空気 - air, atmosphere 一代 - lifetime, one lifetime, generation 一生 - whole life, entire life, a lifetime, all throug…

Did you already check the leeches thread? [image] Leech Squashing Japanese Language Recreating this topic because the Original Thread got archived. LEECH: An item in language learning that just won’t stick, and ends up wasting massive amounts of your time. 蛭 - ひる - Leec…

The problem is that if they don’t include those other meanings, then people are going to be marked wrong for blatantly correct answers. Let’s say you learn a word here on WK, then you review that one meaning a bunch of times, but in the next 4 months you do get that experience you were talking abou…

I also try to learn All English meanings → Japanese Japanese sentence cloze PLUS one picture / one meaning → Full Japanese sentence So, I’d both ALL and ONE meaning works, but differently. However, in context, there is only one meaning at a time. Also, my rationale for both Add Synonym and Ignor…

[image] acm2010: Did you already check the leeches thread? No, I hadn’t and it can be really helpful to have a list of leeches (also, cool concept!). Thanks! [image] Leebo: Now, they don’t have as many meanings as they would need to in order to cover that entirely, but that’s the general…

I’m not sure if there really is a solution to this problem, outside of just learning the separate words in context outside of WK. I mean, some words are just used in a way that you don’t necessarily think they would be, if you had only read the definition. For example, when I was in Japan, people wo…

I understand your frustration, but doing as @leebo suggested and looking at Japanese sources to understand the usage of words is the smartest strategy. Sure, you’ll take longer to go through your lessons, but you’ll have actually learned the word. If you learn only one-to-one Japanese-English simpli…

[image] zzzlurg: I don’t have a lot of experience with Japanese as a whole, but I get the impression that a lot of words depend heavily on greater context, I have the same feeling, context is really important in japanese. I will try to spend more time in my lessons looking for examples to un…

Multiple similar-but-not-completely-identical translations are confusing

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Did you already check the leeches thread?

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Multiple similar-but-not-completely-identical translations are confusing

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