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What's a Japanese language-learning website with interlinear gloss translations?
I've been trying to find one of these for years. I love the wikipedia examples where they have a sentence, a word-by-word gloss, and an English translation. Like this:
太陽が|東の|空に|昇る。
taiyō ga | ...
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Is it more efficient to make flashcards for L3 in L2 and L1?
I'm currently learning Japanese as my L3, using flashcards (Anki) for kanji vocabulary.
My L1 is Portuguese and L2 is English (fluent). Is it more efficient to make flashcards for L3 in L2 and L1? ...
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Evidence that learning radicals speeds up character learning in Japanese?
Characters — in Chinese or Japanese (or Korean Hanja) — can be learnt in various ways, and it is plausible that paying attention to radicals helps memorization and retention. But is there any hard ...
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Is it easier for native Japanese speakers to learn Korean, or Korean speakers to learn Japanese?
Japanese and Korean are very similar from a grammatical point of view and it is even possible to translate word for word without losing too much meaning.
With respect to pronunciation, Japanese seems ...
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According to scientific research, which languages take the least time to learn for a native Japanese speaker?
Has there been research done about which languages are generally the easiest to learn for an average native Japanese speaker? Do they have an easier time learning Mandarin than learning a Western ...