{"id":351,"date":"2020-02-01T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2024-03-31T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:54:11","slug":"the-rainbow-japanese-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/the-rainbow-japanese-english-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rainbow Japanese-English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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General Details<\/h3>\n

Title: \u5c0f\u5b66\u751f\u306e\u305f\u3081\u306e\u30ec\u30a4\u30f3\u30dc\u30fc\u548c\u82f1\u8f9e\u5178\u3000(The Rainbow Japanese-English Dictionary)<\/b>
\nVolumes: 1
\nLanguage: Japanese
\nPublisher: Gakken
\nYear: 1990
\nPages: 272<\/p>\n

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The \u5c0f\u5b66\u751f\u306e\u305f\u3081\u306e\u30ec\u30a4\u30f3\u30dc\u30fc\u548c\u82f1\u8f9e\u5178 (literally: The Rainbow Japanese English Dictionary for Elementary School Students<\/i>) is a small, but immensely colorful and cute bilingual dictionary. According to the introductory material, it includes 2,535 main entries and approximately 3,400 total words. There are a large number of themed guides to conversation (\"Various Greetings\") and details (\"Fish\", \"Insects\", etc).<\/p>\n

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Each entry presents the headword in kana and, where applicable, kanji and then provides a simple English definition. Many entries are accompanied by a sample phrase or sentence, and 95%+ of them are accompanied by an illustration. There is a katakana guide to pronunciation above the English with the word stress bolded. One thing I particularly like about this dictionary is that it knows its target audience - if I were to ask my kid what word she wanted to look up in a dictionary, I know exactly what sorts of things she would pick: gas, butt, poop... if it's in a Captain Underpants<\/i> book, it's also in here.<\/p>\n

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There are a few fun bonus-features in this dictionary. On certain pages, the lower-left-hand corner of the left page features a blue lizard in a baseball hat with the text \"Where am I?\" - meaning that a smaller version of that blue lizard is hidden somewhere on the two-page spread. In the lower-right-hand corner are a series of images which, in a slowed-down flip-book fashion, tell the story of a family's ill-fated trip to the beach and shark encounter. This is truly the sort of work that all children's dictionaries should aspire to emulate.<\/p>\n

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Sample Entries<\/h3>\n

I attempt to look up the same entries in every reference work featured on this site, to allow for a fair comparison: \"Saint Louis\" and \"umbrella.\" Saint Louis does not appear in this book (which makes sense, given its limited scope and target audience), but \"umbrella\" appears on page 60:<\/p>\n

\u304b\u3055\u3000\u5098<\/b> an umbrella\u30a2\u30f3\u3000\u30a2\u30f3\u30d6\u30ec<\/b>\u30e9<\/rt><\/ruby><\/p>\n

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General Details Title: \u5c0f\u5b66\u751f\u306e\u305f\u3081\u306e\u30ec\u30a4\u30f3\u30dc\u30fc\u548c\u82f1\u8f9e\u5178\u3000(The Rainbow Japanese-English Dictionary) Volumes: 1 Language: Japanese Publisher: Gakken Year: 1990 Pages: 272 The \u5c0f\u5b66\u751f\u306e\u305f\u3081\u306e\u30ec\u30a4\u30f3\u30dc\u30fc\u548c\u82f1\u8f9e\u5178 (literally: The Rainbow Japanese English Dictionary for Elementary School Students) is a small, but immensely colorful and cute bilingual dictionary. According to the introductory material, it includes 2,535 main entries and approximately 3,400 total words. There … Continue reading The Rainbow Japanese-English Dictionary<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[42],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}