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The Nuance Thread

Good morning everybody, Thought we could do with a “words that mean the same but have an annoying nuance or which are not well explained” thread around these parts. I have always found that the words for invite are never explained particularly well in English. Talking about 招待、招く、誘う. 招待 = the actual “invite” itself, this is the noun. 招く = this is when you invite someone to come to you. If you are hosting a party or something, or you are already at a place 彼女をパティに招いた < Your girlfriend will b…

The Nuance Thread

This thread’s goal is to finally help you figure out the differences between all those words meaning action, district and consent. In other words, think of it as the bible of nuances, where you’ll be able to come here and figure out the nuances of similar words/synonyms. Why am I making this? It’s very cool to be able to read and know the general meaning of a word. However, when it comes to actually use it, it makes me feel almost as helpless as if I didn’t know the word in the first place. I…

The Synonyms Thread

There are lots of synonyms in WK that make it difficult if you start learning in the other direction (English → Japanese). This situation is made even worse because we as learners do not yet have the same feel for the language as native speakers do. So we can’t always make a good judgement whether two things are synonymous or not. For example, English learners may not be 100% sure whether to buy and to purchase are synonyms or not. They are used in different contexts, but are practically synon…

and for kanji

The Nuance Thread : Kanji Edition

Based on @jprspereira great Nuance Thread template. This thread’s goal is to finally help you figure out why sometimes the same word can be written with alternate kanji and the nuances it entails (think 作る vs 造る vs 創る, all meaning roughly “to make” but with different nuances) Why am I making this? Thanks to Wanikani, your Kanji game is getting strong, vocab too, and it’s time to dive into native materials… But Japanese will throw another curve at you ! Most of the basic vocabulary is sometim…

Homophone Dictionary

The Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs put out a dictionary-like list of homophones (already a while ago, but I just learned about it and haven’t found it posted here before). It’s something I had been looking for and was close to building myself. At the same time, it’s a pretty nice beginners’ J-J dictionary for the words included with example sentences. Here’s a sample screenshot, in case you were wondering what it looked like: [ijidokun_140221_pdf]