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Review #28 | Cooljugator | Learn Japanese For Free

This review is for Cooljugator. I would recommend it for intermediate and advanced levels of learners, but all could in theory use it. A sort of search engine for verb conjugations (see conjugatons or suffixes on google for more). Useful for when your brain has given up and the textbooks are being evil and omitting information again because 'reader stupid'. I know I said Yomitan, but my Pasukon is fudged and I cant be arsed explaining PL durama to the void.

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What

A search engine for verbs. Gives the verb endings and different potential forms that a verb can take. Doesn't have every single verb, but gives a good grounding in the basic ideas of what you can do with a verb if anything. 

Does have a lot of ads, but useful as a jumping off point. Includes options to display 'transliterations' (romaji), translations and Hiragana into English. Most of the options are available based on Japanese tenses or 'forms' (Kei 形). Forms are pretty much how Japanese grammar describes tenses in English, but in Japanese grammar verbs can change more than what in English grammar is strictly referred to as tenses, hence, they are 'forms'. Blame Japanese grammarians and lexicographers (dictionary people) not me. After all of that, they give examples of your selected 'verb'. More additional similar verbs are available afterwards.

Useful for people wanting to practice grammar and morphology.

Where

Online at https://cooljugator.com/ja/%E8%A9%A6%E8%A1%8C%E9%8C%AF%E8%AA%A4

Who

Cooljugator belongs to its creators Linas and Alexey.

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

When

Available if you have internet.

Why

Verbs in Japanese end in different forms, instead of the way English grammar defines them. Therefore its easier to simply remember the ending of the verb changes on the contextual, pragamtical and unspoken information that Japanese speakers know is added in the ending of the verb. For example, Tabe-masu simply means 'to eat'. Tabe-mashita means 'to have eaten/ate'. In this way, you will see once you sorta go through actual verb conjugation that this is how so many of these types of things work out in Japanese and that instead of fighting it and getting confused as to ehy your textbook is talking about 'u/ru verbs' and yet now theres these irregular verbs that you 'didnt need to worry about', that Japanese is a complicated beast and that to understand that requires you giving into it and just doing the actual bloody Japanese instead.



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