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I’m working on season 1, and I’m not happy with the fact that I can only find borrowed-English translations for a number of my passion list words. A few of these seem like they must have a native Japanese word. I’d like to post my list in the hopes that someone might have a few better suggestions for some of these… any help is greatly appreciated.
My passion is movies… that’s why I’m learning Japanese, so I can watch Kurosawa without subtitles! :) 14 out of 20 isn’t bad, I guess, but still… there has to be a Japanese word for “motion,” come on.
movie: えいが
*film: ふいるむ
*camera: かめら
scene: ばめん
actor: はいゆう
actress: じょゆう
director: えんしゅつか
writer: さっか
composer: さっきょくか
editor: へんしゅうしゃ
audience: かんしゅう
theater: えいがかん
*screen: すくりいん
*projector: ぷろじえくたあ
*video: びでお
curtain: たれまく
lighting: しょうめい
color: いろ
applause: はくしゅ
*motion: もおしょんthanks!
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Ron Moses. Reason: misspelled えんしょつか
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Avoid infestation. Rotate.You’re lucky your passion list has 14. Mine was less than half in hiragana. :)
Borrowed English words can be quite popular, go with it (in katakana).
I guess I got lucky then! But still… motion? Okay.
Thanks!
RonAvoid infestation. Rotate.Motion as in “motion picture”? That’s just えいが – there’s no separate word for it.
For motion on its own, my dictionary also suggests 運動 (うんどう) and 運転 (うんてん), but those are motion in the sense of doing exercise and driving a vehicle, respectively. Motion in the sense of “I would like to move that the minutes be accepted” is 提言 (ていげん) or 動議 (どうぎ). The act of making a motion (such as signaling with your hands) is 動作 (どうさ). Motion in the sense of things moving – the motion of the stars – is 動き (うごき). But yeah, none of those are really movie-related, though the last one is in the right vein.
Of course, the danger of using a dictionary is that it gives you no idea of how common words actually are in regular usage. モーション is included in the list of results, though.
I think うごき is closest to what I’m looking for. I was kinda scraping the barrel by the end of my list, and “motion” (or, I suppose, “movement”) seemed like a relevant term in regards to describing how characters move through a scene, or how the camera moves. Very useful when discussing Kurosawa. :)
Thanks!
RonAvoid infestation. Rotate.“…my dictionary also suggests…”
Y’know, I can be a real moron sometimes. I got so caught up in the TextFugu instructions for this exercise – which say to use Jisho.org – that I completely forgot I received a “pocket” Kenkyusha dictionary for Christmas. Duh! Well, now I have a much better word for “screen” anyway… がめん. Note to self: use your resources.
Ron
Avoid infestation. Rotate.I tried making a “Passion List” based around music, but I gave up after a few entries – if I can barely say “Hello, how are you?”, I doubt I’ll be having an in-depth conversation about guitars any time soon :P May as well just learn the words as I see them. Everyone has different views, but I don’t really see a Passion List as being necessary/useful.
Hah. I gave up on a passion list the moment Koichi said “yeah, you know that subject you just picked to make a passion list from? Don’t bother.”
Well… I figure I’m going to try and follow the TextFugu method as closely as possible and not venture too far from the path. I mean, I paid for it, so why make up my own thing?
Early on I decided to skip keeping a journal, because I’m really bad with those and didn’t see the point. Soon I discovered how useful it could be when I was having a hard time with ぬ, ね, め, れ, and わ. Writing those down and examining them in isolation really helped me to nail them. The ‘n’s have a little knot at the end. And for whatever reason, when I see め I find it such a wishy-washy character my first thought is “meh.” Once I had those fully mnemonicized the other two fell into place. So now I’ve learned to stay on target and trust the mighty TextFugu.
And as for を, how could a character that’s comprised of the letters THC not make you think “whoa”? ;)
Ron
Avoid infestation. Rotate.Projector: えいしゃき (映写機)
Though プロジェクター is much, much more common and I think 映写機 refers specifically to the old school film/slide projectors rather than modern digital ones.
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Elenkis.
holy cow…. i can’t believe i never noticed that the をparticle is comprised of the letters THC.
ron, you just blew my mind a little lol.i started being able to pick words out of the movies & anime i was watching (in japanese) after only the first few seasons…. and i gotta say, its pretty awesomely gratifying. good luck with your にほんご の べんきょう！ (japanese language studies) :)
@Samurai Sam: I know that feel… this Little Caesar’s commercial makes me smile a little more each time I see it, just for the thrill of being able to follow it. Not that it’s high-level or anything, but it’s gratifying nonetheless.
Avoid infestation. Rotate.Those little victories are fantastic.
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