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Re:An experiment in teaching a language without relying on t... by Kwpolska on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:40PM (#25908497)
The Japanese Wikipedia is not a translation of the English Wikpedia. Wikipedia isn’t a good place to learn a language, and especially not by comparison. For example, here’s the Polish Wikipedia page:

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Oh, and here’s the German Wikipedia page:

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…hold on, that’s not right. Both Wikipedias have a disambiguation page, and the first link on them goes to their equivalent of Simian. The point is, every Wikipedia has its own structure, its own rules of what should be a page, and articles might be based on sources in that language, not in English.

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Re:An experiment in teaching a language without relying on t... by knolax on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:26PM (#25975179)
> The Japanese Wikipedia is not a translation of the English Wikpedia.

Yeah that's the point. "猿" and "monkey" are unrelated terms that only have a little bit of overlap. Translators ignore this.

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