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About This Website
Welcome to Takashi’s Japanese Dictionary (Takashionary)! This website introduces unique Japanese words and phrases in English, most of which are not covered in standard textbooks or language lessons (e.g. slang words and idioms). If you want to express yourself creatively and/or humorously in Japanese and astonish your Japanese friends, this is the website for you. If you like this page, you may follow my social media accounts (X, Instagram, Facebook: @takashionary) and keep yourself posted!
About Me
Hello, I’m Takashi. I’m a native Japanese speaker (born and raised in Japan) and a PhD in Engineering (specifically, Natural Language Processing: NLP) from The University of Melbourne (my researcher profile/CV is here). While working full-time as an ML/NLP researcher in Japan, I also work part-time as a lexicographer of a Japanese dictionary (国語辞典), mainly writing definitions of newly coined Japanese words. If you have any suggestions/work offers (e.g. Japanese language lessons or any sorts of collaboration), please let me know via my social media accounts (preferred) or a contact page!
日本語
初めまして、Takashiと申します。このブログでは、「ありがた迷惑」のような日本語独特で面白い表現を英語で詳しく解説しています。また本サイトとは別に、英会話やライティングなどで使える面白い英語表現を紹介する日本語のサイトも細々と更新しています。本業は機械学習・自然言語処理の研究者ですが、副業で国語辞典の辞書編纂の仕事もしています。
もし、仕事のご依頼（英訳、日本語教育、英文法・英作文指導、辞書編纂、機械学習、自然言語処理関連のプロジェクトなど）やご意見・感想等ございましたら、SNS・ソーシャルメディア (X, Instagram, Facebook: @takashionary)またはお問合せフォームより是非ご連絡ください。（なお、研究者としてのCV/プロフィールはこちらです）
Acknowledgement
I’m grateful to my friends, followers and teachers for providing me with a lot of fruitful advice and feedback!