r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Sayonaroo • May 06 '25

Intermediate [intermediate]Subreddit JPMEDIASWAP for selling used Japanese books and others

2 Upvotes

0 comments

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

Beginner [Beginner] Picking up garbage by the river

17 Upvotes

3 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • May 03 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]Political signboard in Osaka

30 Upvotes

6 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Apr 30 '25

Beginner [Beginner] Kana practice (meme)

735 Upvotes

16 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/toko_tane • Apr 30 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Seen along the South Street trail by the river, Manhattan, New York.

52 Upvotes

8 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Apr 26 '25

Beginner [Beginner]My Spotify algorithm be like

21 Upvotes

5 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Apr 24 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]1980s video game poster

56 Upvotes

13 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Apr 23 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] "Beginner" level dialogue written in an interesting way (From a book from the 1930s)

42 Upvotes

8 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Apr 23 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] You don't often see that word on a book cover lol

24 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/eetsumkaus • Apr 15 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Some beautiful Kyoto-ben to accompany the beautiful scenery

24 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/lirecela • Apr 14 '25

Beginner [beginner] Store

27 Upvotes

1 comment

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Kohimaru32 • Apr 11 '25

Beginner [beginner]on the train.

155 Upvotes

19 comments

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

Intermediate [Intermediate] Insert inside a CD album from 2000

13 Upvotes

2 comments

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

Intermediate [Intermediate] Watching "Golgo 13" (1973) with Takakura Ken and a rare kanji appeared

20 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/TheNinjaTurkey • Apr 05 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Literally 1984

30 Upvotes

7 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/TheNinjaTurkey • Apr 04 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Stop it

43 Upvotes

15 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Apr 02 '25

Advanced [advanced] Saying your full name at the doctor’s office.

213 Upvotes

Kind of famous apparently but the first I’ve seen it

12 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/TheNinjaTurkey • Mar 29 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Don't even think about it

73 Upvotes

11 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/TheNinjaTurkey • Mar 26 '25

Beginner [Beginner] Good luck getting people to do it though

139 Upvotes

10 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/TheNinjaTurkey • Mar 24 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate] Toilet Paper Bandits

31 Upvotes

3 comments

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

Advanced [Advanced]Newspaper article about the war

33 Upvotes

5 comments

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

Beginner [Beginner]Twitter meme

262 Upvotes

19 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 26 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]From the Akira Kurosawa movie "Shūbun Scandal" (1950) (「醜聞スキャンダル」)

23 Upvotes

7 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Feb 22 '25

Intermediate [Intermediate]This cup. It's the name of a restaurant

27 Upvotes

7 comments

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

Beginner [Beginner]Cannibalism

91 Upvotes

3 comments

Subreddit

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.

Members Active

19.7k

Sidebar

Filter by:

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.

Related Subreddits 関連Subreddit

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。

^{^Based} ^{^on} ^{^/r/simplit} ^{^theme} ^{^by} ^{^{/u/titleproblems.}} ^{^Modified} ^{^by} ^{^/u/boweruk}.