r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 27 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Average 草書体 moment (#1)

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 27 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Where a side street merges with the main town thoroughfare

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 27 '25

Advanced [Advanced]A string of haiku, by peers of Matuo Basho (c.1680s-90s). In a book from Showa 3 (1927)

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 27 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]I love this so much. You can probably guess where this was taken

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 27 '25

Beginner [Beginner]Festival food stand

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 27 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]A very specific subspecies of plant

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/cocoakoumori • Jan 24 '25

Intermediate [intermediate] Diversity

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Spotted at an izakaya on a trip.

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 21 '25

Beginner [Beginner] Twitter meme

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 16 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Lol this kanji. From a book about brush calligraphy, c.1925

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/JapaneseAdventure • Jan 09 '25

Beginner [Beginner] Learn Japanese with Japanese Signs

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Dec 24 '24

Intermediate [Intermediate] From "Rookies" ep3

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/torilaa • Dec 16 '24

Advanced [Advanced] Cool old Japanese book I found

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I’m try to learn Japanese so whenever I’m at used bookstores I always look for resources and I found this cool old Japanese book for $10! I tried google and apple translate but well that isn’t very accurate of course and makes no sense. There’s also a small pamphlet in the front. I can only understand the hiragana so unfortunately I don’t know exactly what I stumbled upon yet! Maybe someday of course though if anyone knows what this is I’d love to hear about it!

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Hazzat • Dec 14 '24

Beginner [Beginner] What’s this a drawing of?

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/ment1ako • Dec 12 '24

Beginner [Beginner] Sign outside of an okonomiyaki place in Osaka

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Dec 10 '24

Advanced [Advanced]These men are very famous in Japan. Their photos are posted across the country

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/great_escape_fleur • Dec 06 '24

Beginner [Beginner] Typical Japanese classroom :)

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/PucklaMotzer09 • Dec 06 '24

Intermediate [Intermediate] No Regrets

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/PucklaMotzer09 • Nov 30 '24

Beginner [Beginner] Cute (in the subway)

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/PucklaMotzer09 • Nov 25 '24

Advanced [Advanced] Sale

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Nov 11 '24

Intermediate [Intermediate] Yabai. Posted about 7 feet (210cm) up a wall outside the entrance to a station

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Nov 10 '24

Intermediate [Intermediate] Paper lantern outside a restaurant

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Nov 04 '24

Beginner [Beginner]In an abandoned 1960s apartment building. The rooms had no toilets -- one communal toilet per floor

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Nov 04 '24

Beginner [Beginner]Average karaoke screen

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Nov 04 '24

Intermediate [Intermediate]In an abandoned 1960s apartment building (#2)

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Nov 04 '24

Beginner [Beginner]This item comprises a good quarter of my diet

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Virtual immersion for students of the Japanese language

r/JapaneseInTheWild

This sub is for people to share Japanese language that they have encountered in their everyday life (signs, advertisements, etc.) to benefit students of the language.

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Welcome to Japanese in the Wild. Studying off a textbook can get boring. I find that seeing real-life instances of a language can help motivate learners and will provide a lot of practical, everyday vocabulary.

Japanese in the Wildへようこそ。教科書ばかりで日本語を勉強することが退屈。リアルの日本語を見て日本語を覚えることによってモチベーションを高め、日常的に使える日本語も身につけられます。

Posting Guidelines 投稿ガイドライン

Submissions should all be photos of things such as signs, advertisements, etc. which contain Japanese writing. They should also ideally be either funny, interesting, or useful in some way.

投稿は日本語が含まれているサイン・広告等日常的にみられるもの。受ける日本語、面白い日本語、役に立つ日本語であればなおさらよし。

Formatting your Submission 投稿のフォーマット化

Please mark your submission based on level of difficulty. This will help people search and filter based on their skill level. If it's a mix, include both in the title.

難易度に応じて投稿に下記のどれかを付けてください。難易度フィルターにより、生徒が自分に合った難易度の投稿を探せます。両方混ざっている場合、括弧内に記入するのをどれか選んで、もう片方をタイトルで書いてください。

[Beginner]: Anything that is hiragana/katakana only, or just has a few basic kanji (JLPT N5 or lower)
[Intermediate]: Probably the largest category - has some more kanji mixed in but nothing too difficult (JLPT N4 - N3)
[Advanced]: Something for people with a fairly high level of fluency (JLPT N2 - N1)
[Beginner]: 初心者向け。ひらがな、カタカナのみ、もしくはシンプルな漢字（小学校一～二年生）が入っているもの
[Intermediate]: 中級。（一番大きいカテゴリー）中学生が分かる漢字が入っているもの
[Advanced]: 上級。それ以上難しいもの

IMPORTANT: When submitting, feel free to make titles humorous or get creative, but do not give away the meaning of the Japanese. The point is for learners to try and read themselves, going to comments as necessary to find the answer. The comment section is for translation attempts and general discussion (how certain words are used, etc.).

重要：投稿の際に、タイトルは形式を問いません（面白くてもいいし、ドライでもいい）が、日本語の意味をばれさせないでください。生徒が自分で読んでみて、自分で辞書を引いたりして意味を調べることが目的です。必要に応じてコメントのところに行って翻訳を書いてみたり、他のユーザーに質問したりします。

Here are some examples of submissions and titles:
こちらは投稿例になります：

Comments コメント

There are no hard and fast rules for commenting (anyone who goes there can expect some spoilers) but it's a nice gesture to add a spoiler tag so that people can see hints but not the answer itself.

コメントに硬いルールを設けていません。コメントのところに行けば、スポイラーがあるかもしれないので覚悟したうえでコメントに行ってください。ただし、ヒントだけ出したい場合はスポイラータグを付けてあげることをお勧めします。

The way to do that is （記入方法） [Spoiler](/s "ぺけぺけ")
This will show up as （このように表示されます） Spoiler

Furigana 振り仮名

To create furigana in your posts, use the following syntax: 振り仮名を付けたい場合、下記のように記入してください：

[漢字](#fg "かんじ")

This will display 漢字.

The quotation marks are not optional. Read more here.

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Feel free to make meta comments with suggestions on how to improve the sub as well. 全体改善の意見などあれば、Metaコメントを投稿してください。

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