Technical Japanese

Although technical terminology in general has a relatively high concentration of words adapted from English, the number of programming and computer technology words is especially high. Starting with the basics:

プログラミング – ぷろぐらみんぐ – programming
プログラミング言語 – ぷろぐらみんぐげんご – programming language

I will be focused on Java, because I happen to have a book on it.

The first thing everyone knows about Java, and on the first line of the wikipedia article is:

オブジェクト指向プログラミング言語 – おぶじぇくとしこうぶろぐらみんぐげんご – object oriented programming language

This had a new word for me:

指向 – しこう – point (to)

Interestingly, the top wikipedia reference was:

性的指向 – せいてきしこう – sexual orientation

So it appears it may be be commonly used for the English “orientation”.

The next result is

指向性 – しこうせい – directivity

used as in;

指向性マイク – しこうせいまいく – directional microphone

As usual, within the first sentence, I am somewhere completely different.

Reading materials:
Wikipedia –
Java – http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java
Programming Languages – http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/プログラミング言語

Math – æ•°å­¦ – すうがく

Equation – 方程式 – ほうていしき

Solve an Equation – 解きます – ときます

How to solve -　解き方 – ときかた

Inequality – 不等式 – ふとうしき

Number line – æ•°ç›´ç·š – すうちょくせん

Actual usage:

Solve the following equations. – 次の方程式を解け。- つぎのほうていしきをとけ。

Solve the following inequalities. – 次の不等式を解け。 – つぎのふとうしきをとけ。

Show the solution on a number line. – 解を数直線上に示せ。- かいをすうちょくせんじょうにしめせ。

Basic sciences:

Science – 理科 – りか

Science/Scientific – 科学 – かがく

Physics – 物理学– ぶつりがく

Biology – 生物学- せいぶつがく

Chemistry – 化学 – かがく

college of science – 理科大学 – りかだいがく

academic society – 学会 – がっかい

science fiction novel –科学小説 – かがくしょうせつ

Actual usage:

Tokyo University of Science – 東京理科大学　-　とうきょうりかだいがく

Okayama University of Science – 岡山理科大学　- おかやまりかだいがく

Chemical Society of Japan – 日本化学会 – にほんかがっかい

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I became interested in learning Japanese because I was interested in the robotics work being done by Honda and others, as well as the generally high level of technical and scientific information available in Japanese.  I have been studying Japanese for quite a while, and I have noticed that the number of excellent sites for learning online has been increasing, and the availability of good textbooks has improved as well. However, I have found very little in the way of learning more technical japanese, especially on the web. Although I am by no means fluent in Japanese, I still felt inspired to start this blog with hopes of assisting others with similar interests.  I plan to post twice a week with words and sentences related to a range of somewhat technical topics.

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I welcome anyone’s corrections or additional explanations. I am also considering compiling a list of available resources for Japanese study, particularly more advanced material for self-studiers.  If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know at account name: tj provider: technicaljapanese.com.