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This is great. Would be awesome if the little squares also held a romanized version of the japanese text they contained. Are the first lines hiragana, then th
by jolmg 6y ago
This is great.
Would be awesome if the little squares also held a romanized version of the japanese text they contained.
Are the first lines hiragana, then the second ones kanji? Are they always pronounced the same (i.e. would they both always have the same romanized representation)?
- howlgarnish 6y ago> Are the first lines hiragana, then the second ones kanji? Yes. > Are they always pronounced the same? The hiragana show how the kanji is read in this particular sentence, but most common kanji have at least two readings (kunyomi/Japanese and on'yomi/Chinese) and there can be 30+ for pathological cases like 生. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F#Japanese https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F#Japanese
- presentation 6y agoWhile Romaji is convenient for casual learners who have little interest in actually learning Japanese, learning the kana is easy to do and much more natural for parsing Japanese - I think that if this material is for a serious learner then they should not include the Romaji.
- jolmg 6y agoSo the reason to not include it is for gatekeeping? What's wrong with just having a casual interest instead of being serious about it? Perhaps interest would grow from learning a bit more, but an attitude about needing to be serious from the start hinders that. In particular, I think Romaji would help for those that have some interest in understanding spoken Japanese, but not really in understanding written Japanese (at least not yet).
- presentation 6y agoNo, because a lot of learners use it as a crutch. I don’t think everything needs to be for everybody. If you want a casual resource, the amount of casual resources is already overwhelming.