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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4781 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 9 of 12 28 January 2013 at 2:30am | IP Logged |
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Yeah, I do tend to get many of my sentences from other sources. But there are times when I am watching TV, or other situations where I hear a new and/or interesting word, and I cannot "mine" the sentence. I type the word in at tatoeba.org, and I'm likely to find a sentence there.
The only problem I have is that Tatoeba does not handle verb conjugations. For example, in Portuguese, if I type "saber", I want to get sentences with "saber", "sei", "sabe", "sabemos", etc... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6059 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 10 of 12 28 January 2013 at 6:38am | IP Logged |
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Considering all the languages, untangling all the conjugations in the search would be near impossible. For just Finnish this is all quite complex, and maybe a pHd thesis-level project.
I'm not sure really what's going on with the search on tatoeba.org. I was searching for olisi, just because I'm working on my Finnish conditional tense lately, and it gives me sentences that include 'oli' -- which is just ordinary past tense. Quotes make no difference and give the same result. ... I'm not quite sure what the rules are for posting translations, but me, if I see untranslated Finnish and I'm reasonable sure what the sentence means, I just go ahead and post an English version. ... One thing, I think some of the Japanese sentences are translated back from English, so they are more designed to help Japanese people learn English than represent natural Japanese. A lot of these start with "あんたは” I think. If I encounter something weird, I find alc.co.jp is a better site. Edited by cathrynm on 28 January 2013 at 6:39am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Marski Diglot Newbie Macedonia Joined 4789 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Macedonian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 11 of 12 30 January 2013 at 7:54pm | IP Logged |
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I use it all the time for finding example sentences for my Anki deck. It's an awesome
resource. Edited by Marski on 30 January 2013 at 7:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5858 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 12 of 12 31 January 2013 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
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I'm another one who didn't about it before. I'll definitely have a look at the site soon.
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