The site lets you submit text in any language and then a native speaker will come along and record and upload a recording of it. The two most popular langauges are English and Japanese, so Japanese recording tend to be uploaded pretty quickly, and you get moved up on the list if you upload your own recordings.

I’m putting 10-20 of my sentences up at a time and getting audio from native speakers. It’s ridiculously helpful.

Sentence:
正しい耳掃除方法を教えて下さい！

Notes:
ただし•い【正しい】〘形〙ただ•し〘シク〙２道理にかなっている。事実に合っている。正確である。「—•い解答のしかた」「—•い内容」「公選法は—•くは公職選挙法という」派生語：ただしさ〘名〙
みみ【耳】１頭部の左右にあり、聴覚および平衡感覚をつかさどる器官。哺乳類では耳殻（じかく）が張り出し、鳥類とともに外耳•中耳•内耳の3部分からなる。爬虫（はちゅう）類•両生類では中耳•内耳があり、鼓膜が露出。魚類では内耳だけで、平衡器としての働きが大きい。「—まで真っ赤になる」
そう‐じ【掃除】〘名〙スル １掃いたり拭いたりして、塵や埃、汚れなどを取り去ること。「庭を—する」「ふき—」
ほう‐ほう【方法】１目標に達するための手段。目的を遂げるためのやり方。てだて。
おし•える【教える】〘動ア下一〙をし•ふ〘ハ下二〙２知っていることを相手に告げ知らせる。「道を—•える」「花の名所を—•える」
ください【下さい】《動詞「くださる」の命令形》（補助動詞）「お」を伴った動詞の連用形、「ご（御）」を伴った漢語、また、動詞の連用形に接続助詞「て」を添えたものなどに付いて、相手に何かを要望•懇願する意を表す。「お座り—」「ご覧—」「止めて—」

Source:
r25.jp/magazine/ranking_review/10008000/1112008032716.html

I think it’s usually good to put the source down too. That way if you for some reason don’t understand a sentence due to context or something, you can always go back and see where you got it from.

Cheers!

-kev

o and whats that dot you put between these characters for? どう・ろ

Also, on your sidebar, you have a link to www.japanese.carliek.com/. Looks like carliek.com is gone for good.

Apart from that, thanks a lot for this website of infinite motivation.

>Could I skip this part and just include definitions of new words?
Yes, you could. If you still need a translation you could just keep a “natural” translation.

“とう・きょう と おお・さか と どちら の ほう が たくさん あめ が ふりますか

Tokyo [and] Osaka [and which] [the way of] [sub. marker] much rain [sub. marker] falls [question]

Which has more rain, Tokyo or Osaka?”

Doesn’t this fall into the trap of attempting to dissect the language? Could I skip this part and just include definitions of new words? ps. This website is an amazing resource 😀 I wish I’d found it months ago. The way I used to learn Japanese was cringe worthy.

and the answer will contain this:
A: どう・ろ　で　あそ・ぶ　のは（のわ）あぶない (PL2)
Street [in] play [business as-for] dangerous
It is dangerous to play in the street

I’m confused about how you’ve suggested avoiding english

PL1 – rude or very colloquial language (use with extreme caution).
PL2 – normal plain speech, often marked by using plain forms of verbs, like “da” instead of “desu”, “aru” instead of “arimasu”, etc.
PL3 – polite speech, the kind foreigners are encouraged to learn first. Often marked by using polite forms like “desu” instead of “da”, etc.
PL4 – very formal/honorific speech, used when addressing superiors and the like. Instead of “desu” you might use “de gozaimasu”, etc.

As an example, I think “doumo” is probably around PL2, “doumo arigatou” is certainly PL3, and “doumo arigatou gozaimasu” is probably around PL4, although I think all three of them are fairly close to PL3. Not having any real command of the language, though, I could be wrong. 🙂

It’s used to mark the sentence as a whole, not the words used in the sentence. For instance, using a humble verb in reference to yourself may be PL4, but using the same verb in reference to who you’re talking to could be PL1!

I learned this system from “Learn Japanese Through Comics” and related books. I don’t know where else it might be used.

– Kef

I spent ten minutes trying to figure out what 教えてくれて is before noticing the answer section. Is the くれて supposed to be 呉れて? 🙂

what does (PL1), (PL2), etc mean ?