{"id":28,"date":"2007-02-07T15:25:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T06:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-cubed.info\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-02-07T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T06:25:25","slug":"expanding-english-vocabulary-from-learning-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Expanding English Vocabulary from Learning Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought one of the electronic dictionaries that so many English-speaking Japanese use. (For those interested, the one I bought is the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN on the Wordtank V90\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/06\/12\/news\/international\/canon_fortune\/\">Canon Wordtank V90<\/a>.) While very useful for many of its features, which include animated stroke order of kanji and handwriting recognition of characters, it&#8217;s not as useful to me as to a native Japanese speaker since it&#8217;s English-Japanese dictionary has the explanations of English and Japanese words in Japanese, and in full kanji-mode at that. As my Japanese improves (and particularly as my knowledge of kanji gets broader) it will become more useful.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was looking something up and got the &#8220;neighbouring word&#8221; distraction. The Japanese word &#8220;kakuka&#8221; was listed with English meanings of &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Drupe, or Stone Fruit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drupe\">drupe<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;stone fruit&#8221;. I&#8217;d never come across the word &#8220;drupe&#8221; before and it wasn&#8217;t in the English-English dictionary in the V90. Wikipedia to the rescue, though, and it turns out just to be a technical biology term for a fruit with a stone-like seed at the centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought one of the electronic dictionaries that so many English-speaking Japanese use. (For those interested, the one I bought is the Canon Wordtank V90.) While very useful for many of its features, which include animated stroke order of kanji and handwriting recognition of characters, it&#8217;s not as useful to me as to a native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}