How to google for grammar
Added 2024-07-21 12:42:30 +0000 UTCEver wondered where all the references in the decks are coming from? I've been using a set of simple patterns that make it quite easy to google for Japanese grammar, and I've written an article about it. This has been tremendously helpful for my own studies, and maybe it will help you too.
I've added this article to a new FAQ/hints section on the jlab website, where I also plan to include answers to all the general questions I receive(d). Additionally, I have a rather large collection of insights that I've written down over the years. I originally wanted to share these on YouTube, but for now, writing them down in articles is faster. So, I hope to gradually add these insights there over time (fingers crossed!).
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Oh, one amazing feature is easily missed though so I better mention it. Once you open the search-page/clipboard-monitoring-page(1) and enter a complete sentence there, make sure you try clicking on different parts of the analyzed sentence that turns up beneath the search textbox. This let's you explore every part of the sentence, which word that part might be, that word's meaning, and what conjugation forms it is in. Yomitan will show every possible match, because guessing the correct one with certainty is virtually impossible, so sometimes the correct one is not the first result, but it is virtually always there in one of the first few hits in the search list after you've selected a section of the sentence. 1. Click the extension icon, then the magnifying glass.
Magnus Lidbom
2024-07-21 16:09:45 +0000 UTCIt does most of what it does fabulously. And it does a lot of stuff, breaking down sentences figuring out where the word boundaries are, figuring out the conjugations, allowing you to use a bunch of different dictionaries all at once, grouping together multiple entries that share meanings, etc etc. There's really way too much to say about it to summarize quickly. I'd highly recommend just taking the time to try it out and explore what it can do for you. I can't imagine you will regret it.
Magnus Lidbom
2024-07-21 14:14:43 +0000 UTCNice remark, thanks! I never used that myself, does it also work well for things other than conjugations?
Joe
2024-07-21 14:05:06 +0000 UTCAI disrupts this to some extent :D. In general however, I advise caution when asking any AI. Since the rise of LLMs, I keep getting feedback like: "Look, ChatGPT says this, so I wonder if card X is correct?" In several cases, the AI answer was wrong (I still use, like and pay for GPT-4 though).
Joe
2024-07-21 13:48:51 +0000 UTCOh, and it integrates with anki. So when you are missing vocabulary words, you can add it to anki right from the dictionary in Yomitan. Including audio with a single click. Just fabulous.
Magnus Lidbom
2024-07-21 13:18:44 +0000 UTCThis is some really nice advice. However, I'd really can't recommend checking out the browser extension Yomitan strongly enough. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/yomitan/likgccmbimhjbgkjambclfkhldnlhbnn?hl=en Yomitan will automatically recognize and display most of these forms in sentences for you. Check the far side of the screenshot here for a simple example: https://github.com/themoeway/yomitan/blob/master/img/ss-anki.png You'll see it tell you that 読め could be the imperative form of 読む or it could be the masu stem of the potential form. Hover, Yomitan will happilly show the full explanation for complex conjugation like the ones talked about in the article linked here. If you hover over the name of the forms in its display, it will show a short description of the meaning of the form. Exactly the answers that one is usually looking for. It has the ability to monitor your clipboard as well. Enable that, then just copy any sentence you want to explore within Anki, and Yomitan displays the sentence for you to explore all the words and conjugations within it. Like I said, I just cannot recommend it strongly enough to anyone studying Japanese. Use it and needing to use google will be far less common.
Magnus Lidbom
2024-07-21 13:16:53 +0000 UTCShrimply ask gemini ai 🚬
Zint
2024-07-21 12:46:13 +0000 UTC
