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I am Filipino-American born and raised in the US. The only difference is when I first visited Japan, I had some (pathetic) Japanese language capability and I spent 3.5 weeks there with a 7 day JR pass.

> I'm 24 years old, from the US, and I only speak English as I am a Korean American.

Here's the funny thing. When you step outside of the US, you'll just say you're American. If you say otherwise they may try to start using different languages on you or asking you questions you can't answer which is pointless so you end up clarifying you're American anyway.

> Anyone know how racist and xenophobic they will typically be towards Asian Americans like me?

There isn't much xenophobia if you don't understand Japanese and you claim you're there for travel as an American. The reaction is more along the lines of, "oh, nevermind" if they were seeking information or "oh that's nice" because it is understood that you're not going to be there after a few days.

For Asia I've been to Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Of the 3 I would say South Korea has the most immediate xenophobia and racism. In Japan the odds are generally in your favor for getting help even if you can't speak the language. The trick in Japan is to ask anyone that is working like a train station attendant, someone working at a store/restaurant etc. If those people aren't available, then ask someone that is standing around waiting for a friend or someone to show up.

What will be different compared to say a white American's experience is people may assume you are Japanese if you look anything like a Japanese person. If you obviously look Korean, then there might be some other differences. If people assume you're Japanese, they tend to treat you like they would a Japanese person but it probably won't matter because you won't understand what they say to you anyway.

Basically I wouldn't worry about xenophobia and racism if you don't speak the language and you're there for a short period of time. Japanese people's true thoughts won't come out until later in your relationship anyway.

> I'm also a little worried that I don't know any Japanese

You will want to pick up a Japanese phrase book. Here's a few:

http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planet-Japanese-Phrasebook/dp/1742201865/

http://www.amazon.com/Berlitz-Japanese-Phrase-Dictionary-English/dp/9812681574/

The most useful phrase you will use: "sumimasen".

If you want to try a restaurant that doesn't have a menu with pictures, your best bet is to go with "osusume" which is asking for the recommended dish. However, some restaurants don't really have this concept. For example there is not really an "osusume" if you show up to a purely kushikatsu/kushiage restaurant. Also some kushikatsu/kushiage places they'll just keep serving you until you tell them to stop.

If you're having trouble communicating but the person is obviously trying to help you, try writing it down or showing them how it is written on paper. Japanese English writing/reading capability tends to be better than their speaking abilities. Also you may be pronouncing Japanese words incorrectly.

> Any good guides?

I have yet to come across one. This is generally true of any travel. The locals will always know something the guidebooks know nothing about. Things also change really quickly especially in Tokyo.

For example the guidebooks may not mention anything about "you-shoku" which is western style Japanese food. Despite the name, it is actually different from what I've had in Europe and America. They probably also won't mention that super trendy Udon place in Roppongi. Or Donquixote stores. Or Uniqlo stores and the fact that hemming is a free service.

On my first trips before I gathered a lot of Japanese friends, my strategy was simply to ask the hostel/hotel receptionist for recommendations. They usually have something to suggest. Hostel (not hotel) receptionists usually have more creative ideas as they tend to be younger and have done some sort of travel themselves. Hotel receptionists on the other hand are often a little more rigid. This isn't because that's how they normally are but rather just the formalities of Japanese style formal language (keigo).

Tokyo is also 3 dimensional. By that I mean the best places are often hidden on the upper floors of a building or the basement levels and they won't have a huge sign (there's too many signs anyway). The train stations can also be pretty confusing; not all train exits/entrances are equal.

> I'd also like to possibly see the hot springs

They're called onsen and scattered everywhere in Japan. For a better experience you may have to travel outside of Tokyo like to Hakone. I'm no expert on this but I will say they usually have a "cold" pool where the water is...cold. I couldn't manage to submerse myself in it.

> gardens

I don't know of any good gardens in Tokyo, but there is the Imperial Palace East Garden.

> anime merchandise

Akihabara.

> I also really want to see the universities in Tokyo (Univ of Tokyo, Nihon Univ, Tokyo Tech) and possibly meet the college students there.

That's nice but also very optimistic. If you know someone, it's probably great. If you don't, I think it's going to be hard to get around unless you're a naturally charismatic or an outgoing person. If you want to do something like this you're better off contacting someone in Tokyo beforehand and meeting them when you get there. I say this not because I don't think you can do it on the spot, rather you're probably underestimating the difficulties of not being able to read anything and not being able to communicate in English. If your trip is only 6 days in Tokyo, there isn't a lot of time to experiment.

Given that, here's my recommendation for what you should do with your 6 days:

Day 1: Morning: Tsukiji fish market. Afternoon: Ginza.

Since you're jetlagged anyway, Tsukiji early morning. I don't know if they still open the fish auctions to the public, but if they do you will have to take a taxi at 4:30am to make it in before the crowds. Otherwise you can take the first train in the morning. It is best in the morning as you see the weird looking carts driving around.

If you're not too tired, you can head over to Ginza which is two stops away by subway.

Day 2: Morning: Asakusa Sensō-ji. Afternoon: Ueno Ameyoko market, Ueno park if you want. Afternoon/Evening: Akihabara.

Asakusa Sensoji is a famous temple with a walkway that has many shops. The area around it is also Edo-period-ish and has a bunch of shops you wouldn't normally find in other parts of Tokyo. Food is cheap.

Ameyoko market in Ueno has a lot of cheap food products. Stuff like dried fish, fruits, etc.

Akihabara is the anime/electronics/maid cafe area.

Day 3: Morning: Shinjuku. Afternoon: Harajuku + Meiji shrine. Evening: Shibuya

These are are primarily shopping areas. Shinjuku has the Tokyo metropolitan building which has a free observatory. You can go up there can get a free high level view of Tokyo.

Harajuku bridge on Sundays sometimes has people cosplay. If not there is Takeshita street which has lots of shops primarily targeting high schoolers.

Near Harajuku is also Meiji shrine. This is a big shinto shrine but it's a bit of a walk.

Shibuya has Hachiko crossing. Lots of videos on youtube and pictures of this crossing. Shibuya also has a lot of restaurants and cafes.

Day 4: Kamakura

I would actually want to spend 2 days here as you'll need to do a lot of walking to get anywhere. A lot of historical sites/shrines/buddas/etc. Don't bother with the beach, however, it isn't worth seeing.

Day 5: Morning: Odaiba. Evening: Roppongi.

Odaiba is reclaimed land with a bunch of funny looking buildings on it. Sometimes they have real-size Gundam's there. I don't know much about it. There's a Toyota showroom there and a Fuji-TV building I think. There's also a statue of liberty over there.

Roppongi is not really my favorite place but it's worthy a visit I guess. It has a high number of foreigners, bars, clubs, and restaurants. There's also Tokyo Tower there. (But it is probably overrated now that the Sky Tree is open.)

Day 6: Whatever else you want + shopping/packing.

Night stuff:

If you're into the American club/bar scene and you must have your fix in Japan, you've got the foreigner bars/clubs in Roppongi or more Japanese clubs in Shibuya or the most famous Ageha (take the bus from Shibuya). Note: since the trains stop after midnight, the clubs/bars will be dead until ~11pm. Everyone goes from 11pm till 5am and whoever is left takes the first train in the morning.

I highly recommend you make a friend or organize meeting someone before hand because the better stuff should be done in groups:

Izakaya. Japanese Pub would be the translation. But it is organized more like a restaurant. I guess it would be similar to a Korean style bar except the food in Izakaya is usually pretty good and authentic.

Shabu Shabu. It's a hot pot with boiling water. But it is not Hong Kong style where they put flavoring in the broth. Instead you each the meat and vegetables individually first. Then with the left over broth you usually have noodles or rice mixed in with it.

Karaoke.

Food:

I'll let you look up each item.

• Okonomiyaki
  
• Yakitori
  
• Yakiniku
  
• Kaiten-Zushi
  
• Kushikatsu/Kushiage
  
• Katsu curry
  
• Udon
  
• Ramen
  
• soba
  
• you-shoku
  
• takoyaki
  
• oden
  
• tenpura
  
• Mos burger
  
• gyuudon
  
  If you want to drink "sake" the correct word is "nihonshu". If you want the better kind ask for junmai daiginjo.
  
  If you're really into sushi, you should try to find a place that serves real wasabi made from the root. It doesn't really have the horseradish properties of powered wasabi. If you want to be ruined for life try a piece of good ootoro.
  

That's very sweet of you; I'm glad you liked the music! Rossini is one of my favourite composers. If you've never seen all of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, it's so much fun. Donizetti's great too and in a similar style; here's an aria.

Italian will help you somewhat, and honestly, if you have a good English vocabulary, that will help you a lot too; no other languages necessary. Regardless of how you do it, it's going to require a pretty big time commitment. I majored in Latin, have been studying it for six years, and in fact I placed first in a Canada-wide competition for third- and fourth-year undergraduates in translating a previously unseen passage, and I still read Latin a fair bit slower than English. I can certainly testify to the utility of reading ancient texts in the original, though. I had a bit of an epiphany in fourth year when I was reading Plato's Phaedo (not written in Latin, I know, but it still applies). There was one point where I was interested in how different translators interpreted a particular passage, and when I compared four or five different translations, I couldn't help but notice how different each of them was from the others. It made me realize how much interpretive work goes into a translation, and it made me happy that my studies were enabling me to make those sorts of judgements myself.

If you do decide to tackle Latin, I can recommend two series to start you out that you could choose one of, depending on what kind of approach you like. In my university, we used a very grammar-based textbook called Wheelock's Latin. It covers almost all the important grammatical concepts necessary to read genuine Latin, and includes towards the end unedited passages of real Roman writing. The downside of the book is that it encourages a deciphering kind of approach, rather than learning to be comfortable with the language first.

The other, more welcoming approach is the one taken by the Cambridge Latin Course. I will note that I haven't used the textbooks myself, but I know it's extremely popular in high schools. Those books try to get students reading right away and gradually increase the difficulty and introduce grammatical concepts along the way. It's more like a modern language textbook. There are three or four books in the series. I suspect that these books would be better for an amateur learner than Wheelock.

If I were you, I'd see if I could take a look at both those textbook series before buying anything of them. Some copies might be in a nearby university library or a high school that offers Latin.

After textbooks, good first authors to read in actual Latin, depending on your interests, are Catullus's poems, Phaedrus's adaptations of Aesop's fables, Julius Caesar's accounts of his campaigns in the Gallic and Civil Wars, Cicero's letters and speeches, or bits of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Ars Amatoria.

If you get past the textbooks and are reading real texts, you'll need a dictionary. This and [this] (http://www.amazon.com/Cassells-Latin-Dictionary-Latin-English-English-Latin/dp/0025225804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347668490&sr=8-1&keywords=latin+dictionary) are good choices. Anything by James Morwood, like this, is not. Having some kind of grammatical reference is essential as well. Woodcock's Latin Syntax is my favourite for its excellent explanations and its great readability, in spite of its thoroughness.

Edit: Huh, this got quite long. Sorry about that. Anyway, don't feel pressured or intimidated by the length of this. I just listed a few things in case you decide to give Latin a shot.

Politeness rules in all countries, but possibly nowhere is it more important than Japan, so all the usual "first phrases" are your go-to firsts here as well: please, thank you, excuse me, hello, good morning, good evening, etc. Then there's survival phrases like "where is the toilet/train station/police box/etc."

You should definitely get a phrasebook. I used the Berlitz Japanese phrase book & dictionary during my two 2-week trips and it was invaluable. Here are the essentials it lists in the inside front cover:

• Hello - konnichiwa
  
• Good bye - sayounara
  
• Yes - hai
  
• No - iie (sounds like "yeh")
  
• Excuse me, pardon me - sumimasen
  
• I 'd like ... - ... ga hoshiin desu ga
  
• How much (money)? - ikura
  
• How many? - dono kurai
  
• Where is the ...? - ... wa doko desu ka
  
• Go ahead - douzo
  
• Could you help me? - onegai shimasu
  
• Thank you (for food) - gochisou sama deshita
  
• You're welcome. - dou itashimashite
  
• Please speak more slowly. - yukkuri itte kudasai
  
• Please repeat that. - mou ichido itte kudasai
  
• I don't understand. - wakarimasen
  
• Do you speak English? - eigo go dekimasu ka
  
• I don't speak Japanese. - nihongo ga dekimasen
  
• Where is the bathroom? - toire wa doko desu ka
  
• Help! - tasukete
  
  Edit: standardized my romaji. "ou" is a "o" sound lasting two syllables: "sayohohnara." Repeated characters are also such two-syllable sounds. "ii" is "eeee." consonants doubled make a halting stop: yukkuri - "youk - kurē"

First and foremost, absolutely feel free to come back here and chat with myself and the others if you have trouble at any point in the course. I'm not particularly familiar with this AP test but I do remember my time with De Bello Gallico pretty well.

A few simple tips I can give without reading through it again:

Caesar has a tendency to tack a bunch of phrases together. It helps to start with the verbs if you feel a little lost. Once you get used to his writing you might find yourself liking his format though.

He likes idioms as much as we do in English. Some of these you'll be able to decipher just by thinking about the literal translation. If something seems out of left field then check some online resources a good one here.

I highly recommend a good dictionary like Cassell's. It does a good job letting you know about idioms and some of the more obscure uses of words that you will find when you do Vergil and others. More or less it is very helpful for the popular readings that you will be doing.

Try your best to enjoy it! Translating Caesar was a blast back when I first did it. He writes differently than other authors and you have an opportunity to learn quite a bit more about the language.

Here are a few I think are good:

Getting Started

On Writing: This book is great. There are a lot of nice principles you can walk away with and a lot of people on this subreddit agree it's a great starting point!

Lots of Fiction: Nothing beats just reading a lot of good fiction, especially in other genres. It helps you explore how the greats do it and maybe pick up a few tricks along the way.

For Editing

Self-Editing For Fiction Writers: there isn't anything in here that will blow your writing away, land you an agent, and secure a NYT bestseller, but it has a lot of good, practical things to keep an eye out for in your writing. It's a good starting place for when you are learning to love writing (which is mostly rewriting)

A Sense of Style by Steve Pinker: I really loved this book! It isn't exclusively about fiction, but it deals with the importance of clarity in anything that is written.

Garner's Modern American Usage: I just got this about a month ago and have wondered what I was doing before. This is my resource now for when I would normally have gone to Google and typed a question about grammar or usage or a word that I wasn't sure I was using correctly. It's a dictionary, but instead of only words, it is filled with essays and entries about everything a serious word-nut could spend the rest of their^1 life reading.

^1 ^Things ^such ^as ^the ^singular ^their ^vs ^his/hers

Publishing

Writer's Market 2016: There are too many different resources a writer can use to get published, but Writer's Market has a listing for Agents, publishers, magazines, journals, and contests. I think it's a good start once you find your work ready and polished.

There are too many books out there that I haven't read and have heard good things about as well. They will probably be mentioned above in this thread.

Another resource I have learned the most from are books I think are terrible. It allows you to read something, see that it doesn't work, and makes you process exactly what the author did wrong. You can find plenty of bad fiction if you look hard enough! I hope some of this helps!

This is something that takes a lot of practice, and many schools don't or can't teach it. Fear not, it's easier than it sounds.

First, some background:

http://www.amazon.com/Global-History-Modern-Historiography/dp/0582096065

This will introduce you to most of the historical method used today. It's quite boring, but if you're going to study history, you'll need to get used to reading some pretty dry material.

For a styleguide, use Diana Hacker's:
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Style-Manual-Diana-Hacker/dp/0312542542/

It will teach you everything you need to know about citations.

As far as getting better at source analysis, that's something that comes with time in class and practice with primary and secondary source documents. If you're just going into college, it's something you're going to learn naturally.

However, I do have some tips.
-The main goal of a piece of historiography is to bring you to a thesis and then clearly support that argument. All REAL historiography asks a historical question of some sort. I.E. not when and where, but a more contextual why and how.

-Real historiography is produced 99.9% of the time by a university press, NOT A PRIVATE FIRM. If a celebrity wrote it, it's probably not history.

-Most, if not all real historiography is going to spell out the thesis for you almost immediately.

-A lot of historiography is quite formulaic in terms of its layout and how it's put together on paper:

A. Introduction -- thesis statement and main argument followed by a brief review of past historiography on the subject.

B Section 1 of the argument with an a,b, and c point to make in support.

C just like B

D just like B again, but reinforces A a little more

E Conclusion, ties all sections together and fully reinforces A.

Not all works are like this, but almost every piece you will write in college is or should be.

Some history books that do real history (by proper historians) and are easy to find arguments in, just off the top of my head:

http://www.amazon.com/Wages-Whiteness-American-Working-Haymarket/dp/1844671453

http://www.amazon.com/Economists-Guns-Authoritarian-Development-U-S--Indonesian/dp/0804771820/

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Battalions-Crisis-American-Nationality/dp/0805081380

For the primer on social histories, read Howard Zinn:
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-Present/dp/0060838655/

What you're going to come across MORE often than books is a series of articles that make different (sometimes conflicting) points about a historical issue: (I can't really link the ones I have because of copyright [they won't load without a password], but check out google scholar until you have access to a university library)

Virtually any subject can be researched, you just have to look in the right place and keep an open mind about your thesis. Just because you've found a source that blows away your thesis doesn't mean it's invalid. If you find a wealth of that kind of stuff, you might want to rethink your position, though.


This isn't comprehensive, but I hope it helps. Get into a methods class AS FAST AS POSSIBLE and your degree program will go much, much smoother for you.

I use this book constantly.

I’ll have a few kids look up each part of a word and announce it out and we break down and build the words and meanings together.

I know it’s not a website but it’s an amazing resource.

edit I did an activity once where the kids had to create their own Genus and species for already existing animal. So like bear could be “brown fur big teeth” but then latinized. To help them, I created my own spreadsheet with words and latin/greek translations that I created from that book I linked and they had access to that through GClassroom.

Barnes and Noble carries it and my other books, but here's a link to it on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/501-Spanish-Verbs-Verb/dp/143800916X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543253492&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=barrons+501+spanish+verbs&dpPl=1&dpID=51MgUXgrZkL&ref=plSrch

There visually dictionary is pretty nice also

https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-Visual-Dictionary-Hispanohablantes-Dictionaries/dp/1438006004/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543253572&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=barrons+visual+dictionary+spanish&dpPl=1&dpID=51GeCXitr%2BL&ref=plSrch

I have there grammar book but I've barely used it

https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Grammar-Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced/dp/0764146076/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543253697&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=barrons+spanish+grammar&dpPl=1&dpID=511BQ2mS84L&ref=plSrch

I also have this one from Berlitz which is great for traveling!

https://www.amazon.com/Berlitz-Phrase-Dictionary-Spanish-Phrasebooks/dp/1780044887/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543253803&sr=8-1-spons&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=berlitz+spanish&psc=1

A word of caution: while /u/ProbableWalrus has succeeded in making your first few paragraphs more interesting, his version is still error-ridden. You'll need a solid understanding of grammar and punctuation if you want to get published.

I think Martha Kolln's Rhetorical Grammar would help you tremendously. It provides a thorough-but-accessible overview of modern phrase-structure grammar, favoring critical, rhetorical decision-making over rote memorization. If you're interested in something more advanced, Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style is also wonderful. Pinker is on the cutting edge of modern linguistics.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/087779295X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1459084551&sr=1-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=dictionary&dpPl=1&dpID=51dO1tc6GRL&ref=plSrch

How good does it feel to slam the down vote button on my posts? You're totally the best at making your point clear and concise. I can see you've upped your game and are totally not repeating yourself like a broken record.

>How much does the person engage in broad generalizations, saying that all Muslims are X or Y? (Less is better.)

To say that we will not let Muslims into the country temporarily is nothing against the group as a whole, that's simply a statement of physically what will happen. Since your grasp of words is not the greatest, you might want to think about buying that dictionary.

I suppose I would care a lot less about the country if I just sat around and made videos of me playing old video games. Moms basement is already pretty safe so who cares about our borders.

Kindle Touch, with this dictionary. There are other dictionaries, there are free ones, and I'm sure most will work. E-ink's the way to go for a simple reader, but I wish my Kindle had some sort of lighting, which will be on future models I understand, but is something other brands already have.


The books come from anywhere on the internet. Some are free and already on Amazon, some I copy-paste from The Latin Library. Word files, .txt, .pdf, and more all work for this. I use calibre to manage things and convert formats that aren't easily workable.

There is some bugginess with language tagging in the metadata, and the easiest way to get around it all is to just archive all your other dictionaries while reading Latin books. This makes it so the Kindle defaults to your Latin dictionary to look up words.

Whenever you go back to English or other languages, just remember to bring your dictionaries out of archive if you want to use them.

The best Esperanto-English-Esperanto dictionary is the one by John C Wells: https://www.amazon.com/English-Esperanto-English-Dictionary-2010-Christopher-Wells/dp/1595691499/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482736111&sr=8-1&keywords=esperanto+dictionary

In addition to Amazon as canadianguy1234 said, there are some Esperanto organizations that set up their own online bookstores. If you're in the US or Canada, Esperanto-USA's site would be your best bet; a great thing about it is that if you're a member of the organization you get a discount: http://esperanto-usa.org/retbutiko/

I have used M-W, which was quite reasonable, and [Barron's] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DMJDTG) which was comparable to M-W both in quality of definitions and in overall depth.

Both of the FR-EN dictionaries suffered from an inability to parse contractions ( e.g. l'eau ), making them useless for any contracted word. That was at least a couple years ago and I would hope it was resolved, as it was extremely annoying. The product should never have shipped with a bug that big.

My favorite kindle dictionary is Dixel - Le Robert. It's not French-English, only French, but has great definitions and great depth, and always finds the right word, even when contracted or using a rare conjugation. It can be difficult to get onto a kindle depending on where you live. That said, it's a superb French dictionary for the kindle.

For the popular languages, I'd recommend Routledge's Frequency dictionary of _ series for this.

The two I own use of corpus of both verbal (subtitles, transcripts) and written (newspapers, books, journals) material and some fairly sophisticated methods to derive the correct lemma from all found lexemes (conjugations, declensions).

I built my French vocab deck this way and am pretty happy with this. Grammar, unfortunately, isn't quite as easy to SRS-ify.

> I am Rollo Tomassi now. Don’t worry, I’m not legally changing my name. At first it was a clever online handle for me, and my real name is so white-bread generic it almost serves as a form of anonymity. Now it is me, and I’m okay with that.

It's funny to imagine you have another, real name. I can't imagine you as M. Steve Smith or a Thomas Anderson.

Happy to hear you'll be focusing more and more on helping men in this decaying society. I recently heard of a friend of a friend trying to commit suicide, following a nasty divorce, as per usual now. It made my blood boil to think that I have in my possession the (free) cure to that widespread mental illness that is modern men's unhappiness, and to not be able to give it away easily.

I humbly recommend Steven Pinker's "Sense of Style" as a resource to keep improving your writing. It's not that you don't write well; Only that self-improvement never ends.

Happy birthday old man. And thank you again for your insanely positive influence in my life.

This is a step up from the other list to the extent that it is sourced from a modern Japanese corpus and mostly is composed of real words, but this still is not very good.

The biggest problem is that the corpus is a single source. A good language frequency dictionary or list will use many sources as its corpus. Newspapers, novels, tv and movie dialogue, and so on. In short, language from fiction and non-fiction writing and spoken dialogue from broadcast and film. The failure of using Wikipedia as a corpus is clear when you see that 放送 is ranked with higher frequency than 行く, even though 行く is one of the most commonly occurring verbs in the Japanese language.

Another problem is that it uses kanji for common words rarely written in kanji such as 成る、有る、居る. What is remarkable is that 居る（いる) is marked as the #1,340th most common word in Japanese. This is ridiculous!

If you want a real and useful Japanese frequency dictionary, here it is - the 5,000 most frequently used Japanese words. Yes, it costs about $45 but at least you are getting something useful. Its corpus is compiled from books, newspapers, official documents, web pages, and spoken dialogue for a comprehensive sample of the Japanese language.

I promise everyone - you are allowed to follow Rule #4.

I'd strongly recommend getting a copy of the book 501 Hebrew Verbs, which provides an excellent explanation of the verb conjugation system as well as lots of great examples of verb conjugations.

Lewis has an abridged version called An Elementary Latin Dictionary which is cheaper, but still kind of expensive. Another solution might be to get something like Cassel's Latin Dictionary for the basics and use the online Lewis & Short as needed.

I also have Lewis & Short on an iPad app, which works great.

Yeah....I think your comment just summed up the heart of self-righteousness. Bless your heart!

Only 6 bucks on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary/dp/087779930X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427396910&sr=8-1&keywords=dictionary

501 Spanish Verbs
Best resource around with great descriptions of how each tense is used with examples. Each page is dedicated to one verb with useful sentences on the bottom of each page.

I have no idea what those levels mean, but here's a fun visual dictionary that is basically just a bunch of vocabulary lists. Good if you want to try to communicate in formal Arabic and decide "I want to know words about cars today" or something like that.

What helped me when learning plant names was learning a bit of Latin along with it. I'll use my dad's old copy of Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms to check out what some of the species names mean. For example, Cornus sericea (Red osier dogwood) is named as such because the leaves are silky. Which I hadn't really noticed before with my run ins with that plant, but more associations makes it easier to remember. Good luck!

This Lakota dictionary is pretty good too: https://www.amazon.com/New-Lakota-Dictionary-2nd-Multilingual/dp/0976108291

I forgot about this one (1000 pages): https://www.amazon.com/Tzotzil-Dictionary-Domingo-Zinacantán-Volumes/dp/0835781534/

And there are some great dictionaries for the Inuit and Yup'ik languages as well

About Bilingual Dictionaries

Why are some bilingual dictionaries mono-directional and some are bi-directional?

Refer to English-Esperanto-English Dictionary (2010 Edition) by John Christopher Wells (Author). Why is title of this bilingual dictionary only in English instead of English and Esperanto? Does the language of the title mean anything or is it arbitrary?

Refer to English-Esperanto-English Dictionary (2010 Edition) by John Christopher Wells (Author) and Esperanto-English Dictionary: Esperanta-Angla Vortaro (Esperanto Edition) by Paul Denisowski.

Notice that there are parts, which explain the rules of Esperanto. Notice that there are no parts, which explain the rules of English. So it explains Esperanto but does not explain English. It seems that the dictionaries are for learners of the Esperanto language instead of the English language. Is that correct? The pages even mention Esperanto learners and not English learners.

Edit 1: If you can only answer few or some questions, that is better than nothing is.

Edit 2: Links and formatting.

Edit 3: Here is the link for the same question but in /r/languagelearning. It has better answers and more answers.

Join us at http://www.lakotadictionary.org and order this book and get started. It’s great fun! Btw, the dialogue in Dances with Wolves is mostly incomprehensible to native speakers.

:D. You're very welcome! For teaching yourself ASL i recommend Lifeprint.com. Deaf-owned/operated. He's an ASL Instructor at a university in California whose name escapes me.

I forgot to add! There is a true ASL-English Dictionary where you can search for a sign by the English index in the back, or by the Handshape(s) used in the sign.The ASL Handshape Dictionary (The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563684446/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Xp2hAbX7HB7G1).

No single item has been more helpful to me in learning Russian than Kenneth Katzner's Russian-English dictionary. It is absolutely unmatched in how comprehensive and easy to use it is, and it is a rare, rare thing I'll think of an expression in English that he hasn't included. Deserving of all the praise and 5-star reviews.

Of course, that's not a first step, you need to get some basic grammar and reading/writing skills first... but to have that dictionary with you, it will be useful at every level, beginner to advanced. Can't recommend it highly enough.

This one is pretty solid. It's small but has good coverage. We issue or recommend these to students at the university at which I teach.

If you give me your address, I'll send you a free one of these, on the house: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary New Edition (c) 2016 https://www.amazon.com/dp/087779295X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_KKWWzbB1ZJ4J

Focus on your contractions too. Something we learned in the 1st grade over here. Good luck.

All of the big Advanced Learner dictionaries will work for that: Merriam-Webster's, Collins COBUILD, Cambridge, Oxford - American and so on.

However... studying vocabulary from a dictionary is not optimal. I like vocabulary builders for that a lot more: Merriam-Websters and Oxford American are the the two I had used - plus TOEFL, CPE and IELTS vocabulary books. And Swan's Practical English Usage - that last section is a gold mine - highlighting the small differences between words and expressions and whatsnot). And I had found Oxford Collocations Dictionary very useful as well.

And do not underestimate the online resources - all of the big dictionaries are also online and you can look up examples and explanations very easy.

I personally use John C. Wells English-Esperanto-English dictionary. It's extremely handy for looking up words. It's much less handy for figuring out how to translate shades of meaning because there are no definitions just a list of equivalent words in the target language.

You may also want to pick up PIV 2005 for more in-depth definitions.

Honorable mentions:

• ESPDIC an open source Esperanto dictionary — a text file really — which is easy to search.
  
• PMEG probably the most authoritative book on Esperanto grammar there is. Though, I should also mention Being Colloquial in Esperanto as well.
  

So I'll give it a shot at answering your question since some other people seem to be confused as to why it's so praised.

First of all, Wolfe's work has more in common with highbrow literature than conventional fantasy. I don't mean that in a patronizing way because there are plenty of amazing works in the genre that can stand up to highbrow literature in their own right (Guy Gavriel Kay, Patricia Mckillip, Mervyn Peake etc); I mean in terms of what to expect, the narrative structure, the way it is supposed to be read. Many people come in to this novel reading it like a conventional fantasy novel and end up disappointed and confused. Think more Luis Borges than JRR Tolkien.

Second, Wolfe writes in a way that requires a reread to contextualize the story. The Book of the New Sun is a densely multilayered text with tons of symbolism, allusions to classic literature and mythology, actual historical events, and much more I'm sure I missed out on. Couple that with its infamously unreliable narrator who outright lies about, misdirects, and omits information and you have a very difficult book that may seem impenetrable to some. A lot of active participation is expected on the part of the reader. This has lead to it being a subject for scholarship, so much so that their is a 400 page companion academic textbook to help you parse through the subtext.

Third, if the previous points haven't made it obvious, this isn't an especially fun or entertaining read. The detached writing style makes it hard to care for the characters, the slow pace and philosophizing, the humorless tone, and seemingly disconnected events can make for a really frustrating read.

As for my own personal experience, on my first read I found it to be a simple picaresque journey with some interesting vignettes. Beautifully written and a bit of a slog but worth my time in the end. On a second reread, I found it to be a masterpiece. Armed with the requisite foreknowledge, I was able to fill in enough of the context for me to realize what a tremendous feat Wolfe pulled off. On my upcoming third reread, I'll no doubt begin to unravel some of the even deeper mysteries that lead Wolfe to be such a revered writer. I still don't love him as his work leaves me (and many others) a bit cold, but I can't help but admire and respect the level of serious craftsmanship put into it.

Tldr: The book is hugely complex puzzle. Damned difificult to crack but oh so satisfying when you do.

Ninja edit: In rereading your post and in my zeal to offer my opinion on Wolfe, I completely ignored your original question. Sorry! To answer it, I'd say no, there isn't really any type of huge plot twist or "aha" moment that makes it all worth it. It's more that on a reread you pick up on things that make you go "ooooohhhh... that's what's happening."

As /u/american_eisbaer said it does depend on the stressed vs unstressed. If the o is unstressed it would be pronounced like an a, if it is stressed it would be pronounced like an o. I would get a good dictionary with stressed syllables while you are learning additional words, it would probably help you tremendously.

I personally use the English-Russian Russian-English Dictionary by Kenneth Katzner, it was a requirement in high school and the teacher thought it was on of the better dictionaries out there. There may have been better ones made in the past decade or so, bu it is still a decent resource. I threw in an Amazon US link there, not sure what country you're in, but I figured seeing the cover might help.

For those interested in something with far fewer issues than this list, I can recommend A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese [non-ref] from Routledge. They use a larger corpus (~100M words) from a more representative sample of contemporary Japanese.

It also has the meaning of each word and usage notes (register and example sentences) It's kinda pricey, but it is a lot better than any of the online frequency lists I've seen - main difference being that this was prepared by language scholars with access to high-quality corpora prepared by other language scholars, not by someone on the internet parsing a random selection of public domain (or possibly illegal) books.

The New Penguin Russian Course is amazing and includes everything you need to know about Russian grammar. A book I am reading right now for beginners is First Reader in Russian. It is a very basic Russian book that has exercises and a dictionary in the back. The only bad thing about it is the dictionary doesn't include all of the words from the book so I usually have to go to my Russian-English English-Russian Dictionary. This dictionary also lacks many important words, but it hasn't given me any problems. Another good Russian reading source is Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book. If you just look around on amazon you will find many good resources.

> infixing is also a thing and it's fan-fucking-tastic.

Note that fuck is a very special word. It's the only one we can insert into other words in the way you did. It's in-fucking-credible.

Am I missing any other words that we do this with?

P.S. I remember seeing a good video about this. But, searching for fuck in videos is unlikely to turn up the one I'm thinking of. BTW, it's also OK to end a sentence with a preposition. Else you end up with sentences like this:

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we shall not put.

Have you read Steven Pinker's "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century"? You sound like someone who might enjoy it.

The Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary, easily. It's comprehensive without being overwhelming (I'm looking at you, OLD). Before that, when I was first learning, the Cassell's dictionary was surprisingly good for the price. Online, though, Wiktionary is my first choice, followed by whatever Perseus has.

There's a lot going on in this series. It's a personal favorite, but I won't wax too eloquent. Three things I'll mention.

First: the usage of masks, disguises, and false faces is one of the most interesting things to me about the series.

Second: Severian can both be trusted and not trusted at the same time. I think he uses language as a mask in certain places.

Third: If you're having trouble, check out Lexicon Urthus by Michael Andre-Driussi. It's a dictionary specifically for this series. Highly recommended.

William Whitaker's Words. I use standalone, but Notre Dame has a nice online version. I also have this one in print, which says exactly the same thing. Though neither of them actually list renatus by itself, if natus is from natus sum, and it has renatus sum as a verb from nascor whose appearance is unchanged by the prefix, renatus can clearly exist; at any rate, neither of them claim "renascatus" or even "nascatus" is a word anywhere.

I got the Routledge Frequency Dictionary of Japanese. I love it a lot.

Note that there are plenty of free frequency lists online, but I was never able to find one that wasn't mixed up with grammar structures, conjugated verbs and the like.

:)

If you are having issues with it perhaps an email to Merriam-Webster would make you feel better.

Here is another...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bug

1.
a. An insect having mouthparts used for piercing and sucking, such as an aphid, a bedbug, or a stinkbug.
b. An insect of any kind, such as a cockroach or a ladybug.
c. A small invertebrate with many legs, such as a spider or a centipede.

Maybe the problem is you have some strange dictionary.

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary/dp/087779930X

As always I am glad to help out.

For you

For me
such a big fan of Lynn C. Thompson I love him and kevin.

While I'm all for open access to learning, I feel a little hesitant sharing my class notes on the internet without the instructor's permission. However, Steven Pinker's book, The Sense of Style, shares a lot of the same information and is also excellent.

https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/0143127799

https://www.amazon.com/Arabic-English-Bilingual-Visual-Dictionary-Dictionaries/dp/1465436294/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482199992&sr=8-1&keywords=arabic+visual+dictionary

Books like these are great for visual learners. There are shorter simpler ones out there too.

Barron's 501 Hebrew verbs may be helpful... It's not exactly what you are looking for, but it may help to a certain extent. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1438010400/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=b4bbef4e-170e-463d-8538-7eff3394b224&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0812094689&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0749VNHZV7CTDFNZNEV6&pf_rd_r=0749VNHZV7CTDFNZNEV6&pf_rd_p=b4bbef4e-170e-463d-8538-7eff3394b224

Actually I literally poured it down a drain last time since I had to do it in a parking lot and it was too much water to put on the ground without causing a mini-river. And also, maybe check out Pinker's guide to style. You can get a copy here:https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/0143127799

In it, you will learn that texts, internet comments, and tweets are commonly referenced using the "said" indicator, something that most mainstream news sites do too.

So congrats, you played yourself.

I’d recommend Borror’s Word Roots. It’s $45 on Amazon and it really helps with understanding the Latin used in scientific nomenclature!

https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Word-Roots-Combining-Forms/dp/0874840538/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=borror+word+roots&qid=1572387932&sprefix=borror&sr=8-1

A collocation dictionary is similar to, but not exactly, what you're looking for. The Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English is an example, and the way an entry is structured is to give different collocations for the key you've looked up.

In a similar vein, there's REDES diccionario combinatorio del español contemporáneo (REDES combinatorial dictionary for contemporary Spanish) for Spanish. In addition to collocations, it presents linguistic restrictions on what kinds of words can pair with or occur near whatever word you've looked up. It doesn't necessarily present its collocations and entries as constructions, but it does end up inadvertently giving information that could easily lend itself to construction grammar. There's a flash website here that gives examples of the kinds of entries it has. It's in Spanish, and Google can't translate Flash apps, so it might not be accessible for you, though.

This book helped me the most to understand grammar.



And this is the best Russian-English dictionary I've found.

You'll want to carry this around with you to learn the case endings.

Mondial is a good site to get books from and These books available on amazon are recommended


English-Esperanto-English Dictionary (2010 Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595691499/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_EFnodhvgyeQd5

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto https://www.amazon.com/dp/1517225981/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_G1jBJvtjKk1jb

The book is Diana Hacker's "A Pocket Style Manual," 6th Edition. I love this little book and use it for all my papers.

Yep, the kindle contains an english dictionary (move the cursor over the text the definition is loaded automatically), this one should work in the same way for eng/fra http://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Websters-French-English-Translation-Dictionary-ebook/dp/B002ROKQU6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1313429826&sr=1-1

Edit: about the non-efficient, i'd say is way better than using a real/web dictionary, everything is on the device, you just need to move the cursor.

I minored in Russian and this is the one we all used.

It's awesome.

> Gratias

Nescio cur mihi agas gratias, cum adhuc pro te egi nihil.

> > Thank you

> I don't know why you're thanking me, when I haven't yet done anything for you.

---

If you want to try learning Latin by translating from English, the Perseus Digital Library has an exhaustive online dictionary (the "English-to-[Language] lookup" section), and Wikipedia has a nice overview of the grammar. (Of course, you can't understand Latin grammar without understanding the grammar of your native language...) If you're willing to shell out a few dollars for actual books, Wheelock's Latin and this handy dictionary are the ones that I used.

You need a handshape dictionary.

Here’s a print one: The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563684446/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QMqQCb93KCWFR

asldeafined.com has signs grouped by handshape, but I’m not sure if that’s free or not.

I like to have this handy for that reason. :-)

I create ebooks that I can read on my Kindle with help of a Kindle version of William Whitaker's WORDs dictionary. A few examples:

• Seneca
  
• Wojtyła, Montini, et al
  
• Cicero
  
  Also, TLM.

If you're a serious student, this book is invaluable. https://www.amazon.com/American-Sign-Language-Handshape-Dictionary/dp/1563684446

You look up a sign by one or two hands, then by handshape and position.
It may be a little dated and regional, but when it has the sign you're looking for, it's useful.

Does anyone know of any J->E collocation dictionaries? I know the book "Common Japanese Collocations," but can't seem to find anything like a bilingual edition of the Oxford Collocations Dictionary.

It's not suffering, it's evolving. Language is and always has been dynamic.

Check out the opening to this book. Steven Pinker: The Sense of Style

I'm pretty partial to Stephen Pinker. He has a very accessible writing style: http://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/dp/0143127799/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1464980131&sr=8-2&keywords=stephen+pinker

Probably =/= definitively. I was asking for a definitive answer. That doesn't make me daft. It makes me inquisitive.

https://smile.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482254021&sr=8-1&keywords=dictionary+english

I recommend this one so that you can learn your words.

There are various JLPT vocab books out there. There is also A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese. If you’re going to learn from a word list, it might be effective to just learn the first few thousand words that way, and then learning words directly from native materials, focusing on a specific genre or author (narrow reading).

The above is merely armchair theorizing on my part, because I did not use these books to learn vocabulary; I simply read as much as I could, for example from older readers such as Modern Japanese: A Basic Reader.

I'm reading Pinker's book now and as somebody who works with scientists and engineers, really liked this section. We have this in spades. There's a lot on the web about it, but it might not hurt to buy the book.

What exists for a high quality reference equation handbook?

Specifically, I've seen these kinds of handbooks for writing:
"A Pocket Style Manual" - Diana Hacker

https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Style-Manual-Diana-Hacker/dp/0312542542

The layout is by subject, color coated, simple bolded items, etc.

What would be the equivalent for math?

Starting in algebra, rules of exponents, point slope, geometric equations, equations for sine wave, linear algebra and vectors, calculus formulas, etc and so on. Does anything like this exist?

Komencanto here!

I bought the Wells dictionary recently, and like it quite a bit. It's a decent size (average paperback) and has both Eo-En and En-Eo sections, with a brief reference grammar in the front. It's recent too, so it has terms for things like phones and computers that some older vortaroj might lack.

Borror's Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms

It got me through my undergrad, even helped me get a better understanding of the interconnectedness of it all

Routledge have just published one of these. Anyone know if it's any good?

I hear this one is good.

More like this one.

The biggest problem I had with raw memorization was not understanding what the words meant. This book helped me a lot. Helps build a nice basic understanding of everything you'll ever have to learn. There are, cough, plenty of PDF's available online, cough cough.

Do yourself a favor and buy one of these.

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=Websters+dictionary&qid=1567991363&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFBTFpXVUdZOUM2UFomZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA5NDYzMTZRSzZFMVRKRlFUVEYmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDc0MzM0NDEzUTdUNFlTMUNXNFgmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

Yikes, looks like you'll need this as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=dictionary&qid=1566450288&s=gateway&sr=8-2

You sound like someone who needs a dictionary.

was it "Dictionary of word roots and combining forms", cause that book is badass LINK: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0874840538/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/184-6392304-2293855

Yeah you need to throw that dictionary in the trash and get a different one. Here ya go.

You can get a paperback dictionary that will last years for less than $4. $3/month is quite a bit more costly than a physical dictionary.

On the other hand, with all the protesting against ad-based websites and web tracking you see on reddit, you'd think reddit would be a little more friendly to non-ad-based revenue models.

You don't like ad-driven websites? This is one of the only practical alternatives right now, reddit.

The gold standard for this sort of thing is going to be A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers. You would also do well to pick up The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.

You could do for some light reading as well.

Book of the New Sun (Shadow of the Torturer, Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch) and the follow up The Urth of the New Sun are considered the "Urth Cycle". After the storm clears, I'm more than happy to lend you my Lexicon.

i have one called 'electronic latin dictionary' that works very well with inflected forms but i can't find it in the store anymore.

i wonder if this one is an updated version. it says it handles u for v which the one i have doesn't (which is an issue for some of the delphi classics editions) https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Latin-Dictionary-Thomas-McCarthy-ebook/dp/B005CA3W2G/ref=nodl_

tldr absolutely and there's even one for ancient greek too!

Hawking snake oil implies fraud, directing people to a great study resource is not fraudulent. Perhaps you should also pick up a copy of one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary/dp/087779930X

Possibly this one, it's worth a try.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/087779295X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466703276&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=webster+dictionary&dpPl=1&dpID=51dO1tc6GRL&ref=plSrch

> I think too often the linguistic community ignores prescriptivism as a meaningful social construct

Linguists don't ignore prescriptivism; they reject it as being unscientific. Much of what prescriptivists claim we ought to say or write doesn't stand up to scrutiny in the face of the linguistic evidence. That's the point.

It's not true to say that if you a descriptivist, you can't advocate for using formal language in an essay, or advise people on how to deliver a presidential speech. You just do it from an informed scientific point of view. For example, Steven Pinker, linguist and cognitive psychologist, wrote a style guide a few years ago as a modern descriptive alternative to Strunk and White et al.

On Strunk and White, this podcast episode by John McWhorter (Against Strunk and White) will give you more insight into the folly of prescriptivism. Well worth listening to.

Ahh, I see your problem. I highly recommend picking up one of these.

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485769569&sr=1-1&keywords=dictionary+english

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468929659&sr=8-1&keywords=merriam+webster+dictionary

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, New Edition (c) 2016 https://www.amazon.com/dp/087779295X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_vPqzDbVPGY6WH

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary/dp/087779930X

here, you should buy yourself one of these since you don't word so well.

Also get one of these if from EU or these if from NA.

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473909201&sr=8-1&keywords=dictionary

I do not think any of those words mean what you think they mean.

here you go

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1539810245&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=Dictionary&dpPl=1&dpID=51l4qdV0vEL&ref=plSrch

I suggest starting with "radical", "make up", and "vile". Then maybe branch out a bit and try "nickname".

Combine Steven Pinker's Sense of Style and The Little, Brown Handbook, and you'll be set.

I got you a present. http://www.amazon.com/The-Merriam-Webster-Dictionary/dp/087779930X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413745065&sr=8-1&keywords=dictionary

Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms https://www.amazon.com/dp/0874840538/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_NI79Bb2P63MWW

"an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand."

https://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Webster-Dictionary-New-2016/dp/087779295X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500394491&sr=8-1&keywords=websters+dictionary

This book

https://www.amazon.com/American-Sign-Language-Handshape-Dictionary/dp/1563684446


American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary come with a DVD so you can load it onto your laptop.


I use the book and DVD depending on what I'm looking for.

I would advice investing in this

Ive been using this one since AP Bio back in high school.


http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Word-Roots-Combining-Forms/dp/0874840538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348891767&sr=8-1&keywords=dictionary+of+word+roots+and+combining+forms

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055359012X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0877205612&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1SR61TPHB6X2C29VB9TD

Or it can mean marginalized. Buy a dictionary.

Here's a link

I'll just leave this here.

I found a book with all of the words that are censored on ROBLOX.

What specific political purpose was it made for?

The only reasons I can find are purely linguistic, such as the inclusion of the word "ain't". A focus on how words should be used, rather than how they are used. Basically removing what was considered slang.

The dictionary was introduced in 1969. Is your problem that it was updated in 2016? Because Webster updated theirs in 2016 too. I would be very surprised if their website wasn't updated more frequently than that.

komencinte lerni E-on mi trovis cxi tiun vortaron cxe mia publika librejo. gxi estas bonega por paroli kaj skribi E-e. mi havas cxi tiun libron. gxi estas tro simpla, tamen gxi estas helpema.

Am I posting fake social media news to push an agenda?

Seriously though, PM me your address and I'll ship you a copy.

Maybe check out some logic 101 courses too. Tu Quoque is important.

Japanska via Duolingo har en väldigt konstig learning curve. Den går från enklare än nybörjare till meningar med kanji utan att ens försöka förklara hur en mening eller kana fungerar i en mening. Rekomenderar att man inte kör med duolingo om man ska lära sig japanska.

Om slutmålet är att man ska kunna prata, läsa och skriva japanska så är det jag rekommenderar:

1. Att man investerar i en arbetsbok, tex Genki 1 (obs dyr), Japansese From Zero! 1 eller Minna no Nihongo (obs dyr), de ger dig en bra grammatisk grund att stå på. Böcker kan också finnas i en sjörövarbukt i din närhet.
   
2. Samtidigt som du använder dig av Anki för att köra igenom Remembering the Kanji.
   
3. Antingen medans du går igenom Remembering the Kanji eller efter så börjar du lära dig japanska ord genom att lägga in dem i en Anki kortlek. Finns en del färdiga kortlekar som redan innehåller alla ord från Japanese from Zero! eller från Genki.
   
   Detta är min strategi. Jag har kört igenom RTK på ca 3 månader och är nu inne på Japanse from Zero! 2, samtidigt som jag håller på och lär mig alla orden från A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese genom min kortlek som jag har postat här: LINK
   
   

• Denna videon förklarar rätt bra varför man ska använda sig av RTK om slutmålet är 100% förståelse av japanska.
  
• Nybörjarguide för Anki

Holy fuck. You do not know words.

Go buy this. You need it.

Are you dense or purposely trolling? Only one using "feels over reals" are the morons saying "undocumented" over ILLEGAL ALIEN, and the morons who think ~~"undocumented" ILLEGAL ALIENS have "legal status". No they don't you bleeding heart Marxist. They're criminal garbage as soon as they ILLEGALLY enter/border hop.

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Do you seriously think that someone who border hops and enters he country ILLEGALLY is anything other than an ILLEGAL ALIEN. Words have meaning. You should invest in a dictionary instead of donating to Bernie. You can get a Merrian Webster dictionary for $6 with tax on amazon. It'll be very useful for you. Perhaps then you can understand meanings of words instead of making them up.