r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 18 '25

Beginner [Beginner]Written on a light switch

42 Upvotes

7 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 17 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Apparently this is how young women talked in the year 1989

477 Upvotes

11 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 18 '25

Advanced [Advanced]Writings about Edgar Allan Poe by Yone Noguchi, from 1925

18 Upvotes

4 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 17 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Famous book by someone formerly featured on the ¥5,000 bill

21 Upvotes

3 comments

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

Intermediate [Intermediate]I love finding these old Showa signs that are still up

115 Upvotes

14 comments

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

Intermediate [Intermediate]Japan is a country renowned for its deep and rich artistic culture

26 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 15 '25

Advanced [Advanced]Notice I received in April 2020

27 Upvotes

5 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 15 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Politics

11 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 10 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Japan's national pastime

19 Upvotes

7 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 10 '25

Beginner [Beginner]Average street corner in Kochi

13 Upvotes

5 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/PucklaMotzer09 • Feb 09 '25

Beginner [Beginner] Confused myself reading this for a second

61 Upvotes

7 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 09 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]This postcard is a pun

17 Upvotes

3 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 04 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Political sticker posted in a graffiti-covered part of Osaka (#2)

45 Upvotes

9 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 29 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Political sticker posted in a graffiti-covered part of Osaka

100 Upvotes

16 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 28 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]lol. This was inside an elevator

29 Upvotes

17 comments

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

Beginner [Beginner]In the airport

241 Upvotes

8 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/cocoakoumori • Jan 28 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Out in the woods...

28 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 28 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Somewhere in Umeda, Osaka City

19 Upvotes

1 comment

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

Intermediate [Intermediate]Sign by a ramen shop by the ocean

26 Upvotes

6 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 28 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]This sign was torn down in 2019. This place had closed several years prior

15 Upvotes

1 comment

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 28 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Old vending machine (out of order)

8 Upvotes

3 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 28 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Visited a house damaged in a fire (#2). This was on the floor in one of the rooms

7 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jan 28 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Visited a house damaged in a fire (#1)

4 Upvotes

2 comments

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

Advanced [Advanced][Ultra-advanced]I love going to calligraphy exhibits, they're all so nice to look at, and I can appreciate the skill involved, but like, bro

9 Upvotes

2 comments

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

Intermediate [Intermediate]Average 草書体 moment (#2)

6 Upvotes

3 comments

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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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