Hello! I'm currently labelling my room in Japanese with sticky notes to help me with Japanese, but… - Feed Post by PotatoJemz21
Hello! I'm currently labelling my room in Japanese with sticky notes to help me with Japanese, but I can't find the proper translation for some things. Can anyone translate:
- Wind Chime
- Blinds
- Chest of Draws
- Bookshelf/Bookcase
- Bedside table
Thank you! (>.<)/
- Wind Chime
- Blinds
- Chest of Draws
- Bookshelf/Bookcase
- Bedside table
Thank you! (>.<)/
posted by PotatoJemz21
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I know few ..
Chest of Draws - tansu
Bookshelf - Hondana
Thank you very much :)
Google translate! Drawers not draws.- site dictionary too!
風鈴（ふうりん）wind chime
風（ふう）wind + 鈴（りん）bell
ブラインド blinds (venetian blinds)
日覆い（ひおおい）blinds / window shade / sunshade / sunscreen
日（ひ）sun + 覆い（おおい）shroud
箪笥（たんす）chest of drawers
箪（たん）bamboo box + 笥（す）clothes chest
本棚（ほんだな）bookshelf
本（ほん）book + 棚（たな）shelf
ベッドサイド bedside + テーブル table
ナイトテーブル "night table"
(Apparently, over there in the US, you guys sometimes call it a "nightstand" or a "night table"? Well I found this in the site's Japanese dictionary, but I've no idea whether Japanese would use this word or not....)- Oh. It looks like ナイトテーブル might actually be the normal Japanese word for a bedside table. To see what I mean, check out the following page and scroll down to the third image:
http://kidspicturedictionary.com/japanese/%E5%AE%B6-house/
The pictures on that web page look to be taken (stolen?) from a book titled "Let's Learn: Japanese Picture Dictionary". If you use the "Look Inside" feature on the following Amazon page for that book, then you can scroll down to chapter 2 "Our House" to see this ナイトテーブル and half the other words you were asking about. ^^
https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Learn-Japanese-Picture-Dictionary/dp/0071408274 - Thank you @mog86uk super helpful :)
@JACKBOSMA I wouldn't have asked if I could find them, and google translate isn't always correct. - @mog86uk Excellent dictionary! Your responses are the most informative!
- Thank you! Will definately be using it in the future :) @JACKBOSMA
- @mog86uk You look like you've been studying Japanese for a long time :) I've been self-learning for almost 2 years but I can't seem to advance in my learning, any tips??
- *self-studying
- me too!
- I have been learning it for a very long time but not in a proper studying manner. I don't have any important specific purpose behind why I'm learning Japanese: I'm not aiming to pass any courses or JLPT, I don't have any goal of living or studying or working in Japan, and not even primarily for the purpose of being able to understand anime/manga/games without needing subtitles/dubs.
I primarily learn Japanese because I enjoy doing it and because I find it really interesting and stimulating. As I've not got any real deadlines or critical targets to meet, I've therefore not made any attempt to learn it in a time-efficient or balanced way. I'm not even remotely fluent in Japanese—maybe not so bad with reading, but in almost every other aspect of the language I'm pretty weak (especially speaking)—even after all these years of self-study.
So I'm not sure any tips I give will be a good idea to take onboard. Like I play lots of learning games: JCJP, Slime Forest Adventure, Kotoba-chan, Kanji Study, Kanji No Owari, Clozemaster, Duolingo (JA→EN course..), and several others. Whether spending so much time using these is the best thing to do is something that doesn't concern me at all in my situation; I use these websites and apps because I have a lot of fun learning in this way.
Other things I've spent time learning and reading about:
・Spent several weeks focussing on learning in detail about English grammar instead (couldn't tell you what a noun or verb was back when I first attempted to learn Japanese grammar).
・Spent ages being interested in learning about Classical Japanese.
・Read up quite a bit about Chinese character radicals, ancient forms (oracle bone script, bronze script,...), etymology, origin theories,...
And other things like that. My studying is pretty haphazard. My tips aren't sensible things like "work your way through the Genki workbooks" or "study things in JLPT level order and pass each test" or "every day learn 10 new kanji and practice drawing them repeatedly". I'd probably have to suggest things I don't actually do myself—"do as I say not as I do" kind of thing—unless you want to spend(waste?) as many years of your life as I have learning Japanese! :P 
I do that too.
