From today until June 19 you can watch 23 Japanese films and 2 TV dramas for free online at the Japanese Film Festival 2024 in 27 countries. There is drama, comedy, romance, LGBTQ+, classics, SF and a new talents horror film competition.
@nogajun@franklin thank you. And do you think the literal translation "Phonetic reading" is the most suitable name to describe the field in English? Or do you think there's a better option?
I assume the best string is the one that will be interpreted correctly when translating from English to e.g. Japanese (or any other language for which that feature is useful).
Wikipedia Furigana page says "Japanese pronunciation". However, it is not a Japanese-only feature, so it is just pronunciation.
Japanese users may feel a little uncomfortable with it, but it is not significantly different. And it should work for Chinese pinyin and bopomofo. However, Chinese users are unlikely to reorder with it. 😅
if you enjoyed 'Shōgun' the 1st 3 'Shinobi' films may be of interest as they effectively function as a prequel + lots of ninja trickery: walking on water, flaming shuriken, climbing claws, sleeping gases, poisons, flash bombs, tatami mats...
my #film#review of the new Radiance #Bluray box set of 'Shinobi parts 1, 2, & 3' (1962–63) is published in Frame Rated:
"“You can’t fully rely on translation apps,” said a 20yo Japanese woman who serves tourists at a dining bar. “It’s been more than a few times where I haven’t been able to serve customers [in English] and they wave their hands and shoe me away as if to say, ‘You’re useless.'”
Some Japanese service staff say they're struggling to cope with visitors who don't make any effort to find linguistic common ground. More below on tourists who insist on speaking their mother tongue (and how not to be That Guy).
holiday weekend, and I already knocked out the (very smol) work I'd promised to do, so now I can relax the rest of the day (already relaxed yesterday).
Excellent day yesterday, along with a nommy sushi dinner to wrap it up.
Made it to level 25 in Wanikani! #japanese Now manga is waiting for me, and google translate is helping a LOT. 😁
@TonyStark Hey there, I hope you are taking time to breathe and take care of yourself! I saw this on someone else's timeline and thought the absurdity reflects the kind of situation we find ourselves in-- 😜
Had a little trip to #Amsterdam today, which has one of the few stores in my country that carries #Japanese#CDs (whereas #Korean is in every record store now). Picked up a few more to grow the collection.
I actually never listened to #Diva and #GirlNextDoor, but they looked interesting and didn't cost that much so I figured I'd take them old fashioned style.
#TIL about a really high quality and expensive #vegetarian meal in #Japan called Shojin Ryori. It's a vegetarian cuisine that's prepared at Buddhist temples and is mostly found in Kyoto. You will need to reserve ahead of time for these. #Vegan#Japanese
@Deus the mushrooms used to make the broth are usually dried shiitake and that 'dashi' is very gently flavored (kombu is of course used). Otherwise a few other mushrooms used and served directly but nothing out of the ordinary (it's not too amped up in flavor or ostentatious in tastes)
Matsutake mushroom in Fall are good but expensive (and not really in the Shojin Ryori afaik but may be if it's local and from forests)
@Deus Definitely not easy to find fully vegetarian food here. You can get quite a lot of things that look vegetarian but still have meat or fish lurking somewhere (although you'll still pay quite a lot of money for an ellaborate spread like the one in your picture). Often broth is made from fish stock, even if everything else is vegetarian. As your other commenter mentioned, it can be made with seaweed instead.
Around the 7th century, Japanese underwent a change, ditching the self-referential kanji 倭 (wa) in favor of the 和 (wa) you see today that references "Japanese" things such as washoku (和食/Japanese food), wagyu (和牛/Japanese beef), and washitsu (和室/Japanese-style room).
Did you know that Japanese once only had four colors? Taking a closer look at the history of colors in Japanese provides a surprisingly deep insight into Japanese culture and history.
Ottawa also cited the lack of legal marriage in Japan for same-sex couples as a reason to certify the couple as refugees, noting the couple was denied the benefits given under the Japanese system to those in opposite-sex marriages.