Monday, October 20, 2008

Word of the day

I searched a long time for an electronic dictionary that could do German as well as English. A lot of words appear in the German-Japanese dictionary that Casio uses that aren't in the English-Japanese dictionary, and vice versa. Also, it is occasionally the case that there's a good translation for a word into German but not into English.

Also I sometimes end up learning a new German word at the same time I learn a new Japanese word. Today's word of the day is such a term:

灯心 - toushin
German: der Docht
English: wick

3 comments:

  1. Is this a NOUN (the wick of a candle) or a VERB ("wick away the moisture")

    Just curious.

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  2. It's a noun, Emily Grace. And what a sophisticated question at your age! Your mommy must be super proud :).

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