Nihonshock’s new vocab section
Following on yesterday’s graphical tweak of the site, I’ve added a new site feature: Vocabulary.
Now, whenever you view the Nihonshock homepage, below the most recent post you will see:
These are basically short posts (just a paragraph or so) about a specific Japanese word that I thought was either interesting or worth talking about. The words included will (for the most part) be quite high level, or will otherwise offer unique trivia for lower level words, but I’ll do my best to make the explanations accessible to learners of all levels. I will, however, stay away from words that aren’t known even to native Japanese.
Note that on the top page, just an excerpt is given, so be sure to click the words to go to the page with the full explanation.
I haven’t gotten around to making a dedicated page where you can easily browse through all of the vocabulary (there’s only 2 words right now, anyway), but it’s on my “to do” list.
I’ll try to add words at a frequency of every day or every other day, but no guarantees.
There’s 4 ways you can keep up with Nihonshock’s new vocabulary section.
- Bookmark Nihonshock’s home page and come back every day.
- Follow me on Twitter (I’ll let everyone know when a new word goes up)
- Subscribe to the Vocabulary RSS Feed
- Vocabulary will not appear in the regular RSS feed.
- Join the Nihonshock vocab goal on smart.fm (I’ll try to keep it as up to date as possible)
As always, I’m interested to hear everyone’s opinions and suggestions.
UPDATE: April 24, 2010
I made a dedicated category page that makes it possible to quickly access past vocabulary. If I can keep up the whole word-a-day thing, this section is going to get pretty big pretty fast.
Check it out: Nihonshock Vocabulary Bank.
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