#yomitan

Et en prime, deux tombes avec pour une fois un beau point de vue.

Grammar: Imabi; notebook; pens

Vocab: Anki; Yomitan (a popup dictionary that can make Anki flashcards for you)

Dictionary: Yomitan; Jisho

Handwriting: Anki; genkouyoushi paper (although any kind of gridded paper will work); pens

My personal input: Crunchyroll (costs money) with Jimaku - you’ll have to install Tampermonkey to see the imported subtitles and it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s so helpful for drilling both reading and listening skills at the same time

If you can’t afford a Crunchyroll subscription, I’ve compiled a list of free sources of Japanese input here

And of course, the amazing Discord server I’m in that recommended me these resources and helps me understand concepts I’m having a hard time with (warning: they don’t allow discussion of Duolingo or LLMs on the server)

𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢. 𝙿𝚕𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊 (𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚒) 𝚈𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚗 [読谷村], 𝙾𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚠𝚊 [沖縄] 𝙹𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚗 [日本], 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟷

ゆんたんじゃ　金ちちすば♪読谷村金月そば

うちなーぐちぐゆみ10月11日（うらんだぐゆみ2022年11月4日）

うってぃまでぃ　じこー　いちゅなはいびーたしが、やっとぅ　かっとぅし　ありくり　うわいびたん！

いっぺー　うみなーくなとーびーさー。

ちゅーや　ゆんたんじゃ　ちなーんけい　ある　金ちちすばとーてぃ　すば　かみーが　いちゃびたん。

まーはーびーたん！くゎっちー　さびたん✨

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一昨日までとても忙しかったのですが、やっとであれこれ終わりました。

とても安心しています。

今日は読谷村喜名にある「金月そば」で、沖縄そばを食べにいきました。

Other Ryukyuan Languages Resources

Besides the (now tentatively offline) Nakijin Dialect Dictionary that can be found on this blog’s resources page, I do not have much resources for other Ryukyuan languages, not that I have been looking that much as I have been focusing on the Okinawan language, primarily on then Naha dialect with the Shuri and Kunigami dialects also in the periphery. 

That being said, In have recently purchased the almost $400 book Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages which includes a detailed grammar of not just Okinawan, but of the Amami language, Okinoerabu Ryukyuan (I say “Ryukyuan” here as it’s hard to tell if Okinoerabu is a dialect of the Amami language or a dialect of the Okinawan language thanks to its position in the Ryukyuan continuum), the Tarama dialect of the Miyakoan language, the Hateruma dialect of the Yaeyama language, the Yonaguni language (known natively as Dunan) and even a little bit of Proto-Ryukyuan. If anyone is interested in any particular language, I will see what I can do in conveying the information from this $400 book here on this blog.Though remember that these are grammars and not really dictionaries or lexicons. 

I’ve been meaning to add these pdfs to the resources page, but there also are some intro books (in Japanese) to Okinawan dialects and Ryukyuan languages though I haven’t gone through them myself yet.

Miyako (specifically the Hirara dialect) Yaeyama Yonaguni