practical japanese@無理よりのＭＵＲＩ

"cup" in japanese is コップ. but there's another word for cup, too: カップ. what's the difference? and did you know ガラス and グラス mean different things? here's a quick guide how to refer to different types of cups in japanese! #learnjapanese

心を鬼にする: harden one's heart; steel oneself; toughen up (literally, make one's heart an oni*) lol #nihongo *creature in Japanese folklore kind of like an ogre

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the kanji 﨑 is referred to as たつさき (立つ崎) to disambiguate it from the more common 崎. the たつ in the name indicates that the top right of the kanji looks like 立 rather than 大.

this kanji is actually a rare variant form of 崎. another more common variant is 﨑. compare the rankings for the various ways to write the surname やまざき: - 山崎 - #21 - 479,000 ppl - 山﨑 - #659 - 29,600 ppl - 山㟢 - unranked (via myoji-yurai.net, h/t @moegami2)

"Balloon art: 'Large Intestine'" 大腸 (だいちょう): large intestine 盲腸 (もうちょう): cecum (also means appendix or appendicitis) [上・横・下]行結腸: ascending/transverse/descending colon Ｓ状結腸 (エスじょうけっちょう): sigmoid colon 直腸 (ちょくちょう): rectum #learnjapanese

@jake_j_jung @JPRidgeway i think they mean that the words 「漢語」and 「和語」 are both 漢語. the 和語 way of referring to 和語 would be 大和言葉, i believe

@JPRidgeway I'm curious as to what you mean. When I say "wago," I mean words inherited from Old Japanese rather than having been borrowed. The kanji writing system of course comes from China, but "yama" meaning "mountain" has nothing to do with Chinese, which is not in the same lang family

Surely it's been said before, but I see similarities between how English has vocab of both German and Latin origin and Japanese has both "wago" as well as "kango" of Chinese origin. E.g., "speak" (German) vs. "declare" (Latin) 話す (wago) vs. 発言する (kango) #nihongo

船(ふね)を漕(こ)ぐ Literally "row a boat" = "nod off when sitting, i.e. what a sea of Japanese 'salary-men' (businessmen) do on a train late at night" (It likens to rowing a boat how you sway your head while sitting asleep) #日本語勉強 #Japaneselanguage

"The sheep's butt is stuck! ...But don't worry. It stuck itself there. It likes being in this position. Sometimes the sheep will even shove its head through because it wants to. No need to worry." #jptweets

🇯🇵Today’s slang ✅パクる=pakuru =1️⃣to steal 2️⃣to copy ✅借りパク=karipaku =to borrow and steal, never return 　 😃借りる=kariru=borrow←not slang, a general word ✅パクツイ=pakutsui =copycat of someone’s good tweet posts 😃ツイ=tsui=abbreviation of tweet

@TalkBack83 @jisho oh crap, i’m so sorry about that—i’ve never heard that term before so i didn’t realize it was offensive! you can suggest an edit here to remove that gloss: edrdg.org/jmdictdb/cgi-b…

@ertchin was (ry in the lyrics? super curious about the song if so

（ｒｙ is such a fun slang expression! it's short for (略), which would be (ryaku) in romaji. （ｒｙ is a jocular expression that you use to cut off a sentence when you don't need or want to say the rest. you can even cut yourself off while typing a word in にほんｇ(ry

@sara_da_yo here are some examples i found off twitter just now: 結婚しry -- 結婚したい 全然無理！無理無理無理無ry -- 無理無理無理無理無理 ※音量（ｒｙ -- 音量注意 here's the query i used if you want to try! twitter.com/search?q=(ry%2…

@practicaljp Would you have any examples? This is super fun

@mrbowers i’d say it’s more meme-y but yeah! it also only works over text

@practicaljp So like if I were to say something like "he who is without sin yadda yadda"?

Probably blew their minds because the conception of 外国人 most Japanese have is not “foreigner” but specifically “non-Japanese” (def 2: “one without Japanese citizenship”). Perfectly natural for a Japanese person to arrive in LA and say, “わあ、外人いっぱいいる”

thanks @808Towns for showing me this 😆

tfw the bank asks you to write furigana for your email address

記念受験 (きねんじゅけん) Literally "taking memorial exams" = "taking tests for qualification/admission with little chance of success" For instance, it is going to be a ‘memorial exam’ if you take the JLPT N1 test armed with in-depth knowledge about anime and manga only #日本語