/r/JapaneseInTheWild

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This sub is for people to share Japanese language that they have encountered in their everyday life (signs, advertisements, etc.) to benefit students of the language.

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Welcome to Japanese in the Wild. Studying off a textbook can get boring. I find that seeing real-life instances of a language can help motivate learners and will provide a lot of practical, everyday vocabulary.

Japanese in the Wildへようこそ。教科書ばかりで日本語を勉強することが退屈。リアルの日本語を見て日本語を覚えることによってモチベーションを高め、日常的に使える日本語も身につけられます。

Posting Guidelines 投稿ガイドライン

Submissions should all be photos of things such as signs, advertisements, etc. which contain Japanese writing. They should also ideally be either funny, interesting, or useful in some way.

投稿は日本語が含まれているサイン・広告等日常的にみられるもの。受ける日本語、面白い日本語、役に立つ日本語であればなおさらよし。

Formatting your Submission 投稿のフォーマット化

Please mark your submission based on level of difficulty. This will help people search and filter based on their skill level. If it's a mix, include both in the title.

難易度に応じて投稿に下記のどれかを付けてください。難易度フィルターにより、生徒が自分に合った難易度の投稿を探せます。両方混ざっている場合、括弧内に記入するのをどれか選んで、もう片方をタイトルで書いてください。

  • [Beginner]: Anything that is hiragana/katakana only, or just has a few basic kanji (JLPT N5 or lower)
  • [Intermediate]: Probably the largest category - has some more kanji mixed in but nothing too difficult (JLPT N4 - N3)
  • [Advanced]: Something for people with a fairly high level of fluency (JLPT N2 - N1)

  • [Beginner]: 初心者向け。ひらがな、カタカナのみ、もしくはシンプルな漢字(小学校一~二年生)が入っているもの

  • [Intermediate]: 中級。(一番大きいカテゴリー)中学生が分かる漢字が入っているもの

  • [Advanced]: 上級。それ以上難しいもの

IMPORTANT: When submitting, feel free to make titles humorous or get creative, but do not give away the meaning of the Japanese. The point is for learners to try and read themselves, going to comments as necessary to find the answer. The comment section is for translation attempts and general discussion (how certain words are used, etc.).

重要: 投稿の際に、タイトルは形式を問いません(面白くてもいいし、ドライでもいい)が、日本語の意味をばれさせないでください。生徒が自分で読んでみて、自分で辞書を引いたりして意味を調べることが目的です。必要に応じてコメントのところに行って翻訳を書いてみたり、他のユーザーに質問したりします。

Here are some examples of submissions and titles:
こちらは投稿例になります:

  1. [Beginner] In a restaurant toilet
  2. [Intermediate] My favorite kind

Comments コメント

There are no hard and fast rules for commenting (anyone who goes there can expect some spoilers) but it's a nice gesture to add a spoiler tag so that people can see hints but not the answer itself.

コメントに硬いルールを設けていません。コメントのところに行けば、スポイラーがあるかもしれないので覚悟したうえでコメントに行ってください。ただし、ヒントだけ出したい場合はスポイラータグを付けてあげることをお勧めします。

The way to do that is (記入方法) [Spoiler](/s "ぺけぺけ")
This will show up as (このように表示されます) Spoiler

Furigana 振り仮名

To create furigana in your posts, use the following syntax: 振り仮名を付けたい場合、下記のように記入してください:

[漢字](#fg "かんじ")

This will display 漢字.

The quotation marks are not optional. Read more here.

Related Subreddits 関連Subreddit

Feel free to make meta comments with suggestions on how to improve the sub as well. 全体改善の意見などあれば、Metaコメントを投稿してください。


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/r/JapaneseInTheWild

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[Beginner]The name of a coffee shop in Hiroshima

4 Comments
2024/05/01
15:29 UTC

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[Intermediate]"I'm going to eat healthy today!" I say. "I'm going to eat rice and beef today!" I say. Then promptly cover it in 1 liter of each of these

3 Comments
2024/05/01
14:53 UTC

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[Intermediate]Someone definitely died here

5 Comments
2024/04/26
09:14 UTC

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[Intermediate] In the mountains

3 Comments
2024/04/15
02:08 UTC

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[Intermediate] Neighborhood Garbage Wars...

9 Comments
2024/04/14
03:41 UTC

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[Beginner]I drank this. It had SO much sugar

1 Comment
2024/04/13
03:37 UTC

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[Beginner]Vacation photo #5

2 Comments
2024/04/13
03:36 UTC

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[Intermediate]Vacation photo #4

0 Comments
2024/04/13
03:36 UTC

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[Beginner]Vacation photo #3

2 Comments
2024/04/13
03:35 UTC

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[Intermediate]Vacation photo #2

5 Comments
2024/04/13
03:35 UTC

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[Beginner]Vacation photo #1

1 Comment
2024/04/13
03:35 UTC

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[Intermediate]Thomas has seen better days

0 Comments
2024/04/13
03:34 UTC

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[Beginner]Oh man Tokyo is FUCKED

2 Comments
2024/04/13
03:33 UTC

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[Intermediate]Bilingual

3 Comments
2024/04/11
15:33 UTC

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[Intermediate]Walking around an abandoned fish market

1 Comment
2024/04/11
15:30 UTC

37

[Intermediate]Neighborhood manners

5 Comments
2024/04/11
15:26 UTC

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[Intermediate]Japanese textbook, c.1947

2 Comments
2024/04/11
15:24 UTC

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[Intermediate]Pedestrian path under a bridge

8 Comments
2024/04/11
15:22 UTC

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[Intermediate]Posted on the wall at the supermarket

6 Comments
2024/04/11
15:20 UTC

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[Advanced]Laid against the wall inside a dark tunnel

0 Comments
2024/04/11
04:25 UTC

17

[Intermediate]Strange kanji choices

5 Comments
2024/04/11
04:22 UTC

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[Intermediate]In the forest. Nice, thanks

0 Comments
2024/04/11
04:20 UTC

9

[Intermediate]At a Buddhist temple

0 Comments
2024/04/11
04:18 UTC

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[Intermediate]Posted to the side of a house

0 Comments
2024/04/10
06:56 UTC

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[Advanced][Ultra-Advanced]I found it!!!!!

10 Comments
2024/04/08
23:39 UTC

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[Intermediate]Paper lantern. What do they sell here?

4 Comments
2024/04/08
23:39 UTC

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[Intermediate]Handwritten at the entrance to a bar

12 Comments
2024/04/08
23:38 UTC

10

[Beginner]There's Japanese in here somewhere

4 Comments
2024/04/08
23:38 UTC

3

[Intermediate]Stickers

1 Comment
2024/04/08
23:37 UTC

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