Review #20 | Da | Learn Japanese For Free

This review is for Altaica. I would recommend it for like a challenge levels of learners, or Russian-Japanese intermediate learners. Because a certain someone cough cough me decided it would be a really good idea to not do this on the Sunday but I'm pretending this was done on the Sunday, you are getting a rushed job on the train about directories if you can be bothered to follow through all of the baloney.

Alma Karlin in a Japanese dress (c.1919, PD) Digital Library of Slovenia 

To prove a point, this is a Russian website co-opting Japanese resources, so

to balance the aura points, because its more demure (check the date above if you think its a joke that'll

date itself because it literally does) to highlight a Balkans resource instead of a Russian one <3 

What

The site is a sort of  self-study guide as usual. Sections are split into Eurasian languages such as Turkish Mongolian etc and Japanese because Russia is neither Sinocentric nor Eurocentric. Tabs are split into for our interest Japanese dictionaries, grammar and corpuses, textbook, word trees, academic articles and scholars of the Russian variety into these proposed linguistic varieties. This follows on from the idea that Altaic language families are able to be proven, they are not, as you can see in the section under linguistics family trees post in the Japonic section.

Where

Available at  https://altaica.ru/japanese_corpora.html for example.

Who

https://imabi.org/ belongs to it creator Ilya Gruntov, but it seems unlikely there is any real legitimacy to a claim of intellectual property or rights over the majority of the sites contents.

These all have many, many people involved in these projects whom I would love to highlight if they wish to be.

When

Available 24/7 but only online, unless you download the materials/print-pdf them I guess.

Why

I would recommend this methodology as a study tool guide for revising new words if you get bored or like linguistics because nerd stuff I guess. 

You may be thinking, why/how is this important? And that is becuase, as I found out recently, some people seem to think you sop developing your skills when you get to a certain point. Learning is a process of continual change and growth, not a static group of metrics you learn and enter. That would be doing something simple like learning Hiragana or Katkana charts, not studying the continuing output of materials which you learn from.  

I cannot do the learning for you, you need to do your own learning, and getting an idea of the resources available to you helps you to be able to utilize time, money and strategies towards goals more easily. Not to mention, no one learns in exactly the same way as another person. Nor will somones starting point be the same as someone elses. Plus, maybe learn to ask more questions in your life rather than just going 'It's just how it is'. Nah. DIY!

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Olympics | オリンピック

 I may have been watching too much of the Olympics and got carried away, but also, yay I got my job thing!

Costa Rica Stamp for 1964 Olympics (2015, CC2.0) Mark Morgan

Thought I would give a brief overview of some Japan facts instead.

1) Japan first held the Olympics in 1964 and used it as a way to signal their place on the world stage.

2) Japan held the Olympics again in 2020.

3) Japan currently has 9 gold medals, and 24 overall so congratulations to them!

4) Japan first participated in the Olympics in 1912.

5) Japan won its first medals in the 1920 Belgium Olympics.

6) Including the Winter Olympics, Japan has held them 4 times.

7) Skateboarding debuted as an official Sport at Tokyo 2020.

8) Sky Brown who was 13 at the time was one of the youngest British-Japanese Olympians ever to compete in 2020

9) Yuzuri Hanyu and Midori Ito exist.

10) Kohei Uchimura the internet tells me has 3 gold medals and is one of the most decorated Japanese Olympians. 

Some facts because my contribution to the Olympics is essentially cheering and pointing at the Terebi.