These are some scripts that help me learn Japanese.
Most scripts are supposed to be used as plugins for an IRC bot or run on a shell. I find the following aliases to be useful:
alias ja="$JAPANESE_TOOLS/jmdict/jm.sh" alias wa="$JAPANESE_TOOLS/jmdict/wa.sh" alias rtk="$JAPANESE_TOOLS/rtk/rtk.sh" alias sen="$JAPANESE_TOOLS/yahoo_jisho/daijisen.sh" alias rin="$JAPANESE_TOOLS/yahoo_jisho/daijirin.sh" alias gd="$JAPANESE_TOOLS/google_dictionary/gd.sh"
I do most of my dictionary lookups with these aliases.
find_audio.sh finds an audio version of a given Japanese word on languagepod101.
$ ./find_audio.sh 夜空 Audio for 夜空 [よぞら]: http://tinyurl.com/p8aq8jo
Compares the size of different encodings of the same Japanese Wikipedia article. In almost all cases UTF-8 is smaller than UTF-16.
$ ./compare_encoding.sh 夜空 UTF-8 vs. UTF-16: 91213 vs. 156876 bytes. UTF-8 wins by 41.8%.
Internationalization support. Currently supported languages other than English:
- German
- Polish
You should call gettext/regenerate_mo_files.sh if you’d like to use any of the translations or they won’t work.
Counts the number of Google results. Uses google.co.jp for queries containing Japanese characters and google.com otherwise.
gd.sh looks up English words in the Google dictionary.
$ ./gd.sh diligent /ˈdiləjənt/ having or showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties
gt.sh translates words and sentences using Google Translate. The target language is determined by the environment variable LANG, but it can also be specified explicitly.
./gt.sh My hovercraft is full of eels. 私のホバークラフトは鰻がいっぱいです。 ./gt.sh it My hovercraft is full of eels. it: Il mio hovercraft è pieno di anguille. ./gt.sh Il mio hovercraft è pieno di anguille. My hovercraft is full of eels.
Currently this script is broken because Google switched off the translate API.
jm.sh provides jmdict lookups and wa.sh wadoku lookups. Works best for Japanese->English (or Japanese->German), not so well for the reverse direction.
To start, you first need to run the scripts prepare_jmdict.sh and prepare_wadoku.sh. This will download and process the respective dictionary files.
$ ./jm.sh 村長 村長 [そんちょう] (n), village headman 市長村長選挙 [しちょうそんちょうせんきょ] (n), mayoral election
A simple hiragana and katakana trainer.
<Christoph> !hira help
<nihongobot> Start with "!hira <level> [count]". Known levels are 0
to 10. To learn more about some level please use
"!hira help <level>".
<nihongobot> To only see the differences between consecutive
levels, please use "!hira helpdiff <level>".
<Christoph> !hira 5
<nihongobot> Please write in romaji: す と に ね へ
<Christoph> !hira su to ni ne he
<nihongobot> Perfect! 5 of 5. Statistics for Christoph: 44.64% of
280 characters correct.
<nihongobot> Please write in romaji: は と ぬ ほ な
Implements a lookup in kanjidic: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic.html
$ ./kanjidic.sh 日本語
日: 4 strokes. ニチ, ジツ, ひ, -び, -か. In names: あ, あき, いる, く, くさ, こう, す, たち, に, にっ, につ, へ {day, sun, Japan, counter for days}
本: 5 strokes. ホン, もと. In names: まと {book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things}
語: 14 strokes. ゴ, かた.る, かた.らう {word, speech, language}
This script has nothing to do with Japanese. It OCRs the image on http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.php?usr=LHC1 to provide live statistics of the status of the LHC.
read.py converts kanji to kana using mecab.
$ ./read.py 鬱蒼たる樹海の中に舞う人の如き影が在った。 鬱蒼[うっそう] たる 樹海[じゅかい] の 中[なか] に 舞[ま]う 人[ひと] の 如[ごと]き 影[かげ] が 在[あ]っ た 。
A quiz asking kanji -> kana questions. Only works as an IRC plugin for now.
<Christoph> !quiz jlpt2
<nihongobot> Please read: 発見
<Christoph> !quiz はっけん
<nihongobot> Christoph: Correct! (はっけん:
(n,vs) 1. discovery, 2. detection, 3. finding)
romaji.sh converts kanji and kana to romaji using mecab.
$ ./romaji.sh 鬱蒼たる樹海の中に舞う人の如き影が在った。 ussou taru jukai no naka ni mau hito no gotoki kage ga atsu ta 。
rtk.sh does a lookup between keyword - kanji - number. The keywords and numbers refer to Heisig’s amazing book “Remembering the Kanji”.
$ ./rtk.sh 城壁 #362: castle 城 | #1500: wall 壁 $ ./rtk.sh star #1556: star 星, #237: stare 眺, #1476: starve 餓, #2532: star-anise 樒, #2872: start 孟, #2376: mustard 芥 $ ./rtk.sh 1 2 3 #1: one 一 | #2: two 二 | #3: three 三
As the name says, it’s a simple IRC bot. You can start it with:
$ ./bot.py <server[:port]> <channel> <nickname> [NickServ password]
It uses all the other scripts.
Binding to Yahoo!辞書, the Yahoo Japanese dictionary. It prints a small excerpt from the dictionary and a link to the full result.
$ ./daijisen.sh うれしい うれし・い【×嬉しい】 ( http://tinyurl.com/32esm38 ) ［形］［文］うれ・し［シク］ １ 物事が自分の望みどおりになって満足で あり、喜ばしい。自分にとってよいことが起き、愉快で、楽しい。「努力が 報われてとても―・い」「―・いことに明日は晴れるらしい」⇔悲しい。 ２ 相手から受けた行... $ ./daijirin.sh うれしい うれし・い(3) 【▼嬉しい】 ( http://tinyurl.com/39bwl22 ) (形) [文]シク うれ・し 1 （望ましい事態が実現して）心がうきうきとし て楽しい。心が晴れ晴れとして喜ばしい。 ⇔悲しい 2 満足して、相手に 感謝する気持ちになるさま。ありがたい。かたじけない。 〔派生〕 ...