Good source for example sentences

[jbraswell]

Whether you use Anki, some other SRS, or something else entirely, if you're interested in a new source for (what I think are) often hard-to-translate sentences, check out 「マーフィーの法則で英語耳」, i.e., Murphy's Law's. I picked it up in Japan, and it's a book aimed at Japanese people learning English.

It's kind of expensive because it comes with a CD of all the laws stated in English (not much value for us), but I still think it's worth it. It contains lots of sentences that, although when rendered in proper Japanese aren't that complicated, definitely seem foreboding when you first try to say them, often due to the presence of quantifiers and comparatives/superlatives. Some are short, e.g., "Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse", and others are pretty long, e.g., "To estimate the time it takes to do a task, estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by two and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus, we allocate two days for a one-hour task."

Just a thought.

[zonjineko]

A great (free) site for example sentences is http://tangorin.com/examples

I use the site quite often for it's multi-radical kanji finder but the example sentences are very useful for anyone who learns well that way.

Works great to grab a few examples to use in Anki or whatever SRS you use.

[jonwaller]

What about http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/skills/vocab/sentences/ ?

[fuwafuwa]

You can many many examples from http://www.alc.co.jp/. I think tanos also took the example from there.

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[jkerianjapanesepod5596]

Does anyone know of a good RSS feed for something like a "word of the day", with reasonably complex japanese words, example sentences, AND translations of at least the word?

[rshiplett]

thanks

[rshiplett]

I am now using Perapera as it has a few useful options and I like its behavior (they are also working on a Chrome version and ask for Beta testers)

[rshiplett]

I also like the tangorin site for simple sentences. It is too bad that there is no Japanese equivalent to simple.wikipedia.org