[Discussion & Feedback] Baseball Vocabulary Deck

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Baseball Vocabulary Deck!

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Learn the essential words that will help you support your favorite teams and make watching your favorite baseball anime shows much easier! These words were all obtained through the #baseball tag on jisho.org. They’re not ordered in any particular way, but in due time they could follow some sort of word progression.

Link: https://kitsun.io/store/detail/5f5e0faf6f5de75e536e5734

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This deck allows you to study:

  • Vocabulary -> Meaning
  • Vocabulary -> Reading (for kanji words)
  • English -> Japanese

Some advice:

  • You can turn off any of the above ways of studying by going to deck settings -> Layout Filtering.

  • If you’re choosing to also study English -> Japanese, I highly recommend you to turn on the “Delay Card Siblings” option (Deck Settings -> Study Session), as this will avoid having you spoiled with the answers to the different layouts. My recommended interval is 23h.

  • If your kanji knowledge is not that advanced still, you can choose to learn only the katakana words for the time being by going to Manage cards -> Searching for the tag “Katakana word” -> Add to front of lessons queue.

Feedback:

Feel free to send recommendations of words to be added or to suggest a specific order of how the cards should be displayed through this thread and Kitsun’s feedback system. I’m still very new to the sport, having only watched 2 anime shows about it :rofl:

勉強を楽しんでください！

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#2

Nice deck idea! If interested, I crossed checked some extra sources, couldn’t find these words in the deck but feel free to double check. They are from a cultural blog so should be common (they are common in US baseball at least :slightly_smiling_face: :baseball:)

I think most are in the dictionary if you want to auto add, perhaps Jisho just didn’t tag them. There may be more.

  • 内野手(Naiyashu) Infielder
  • 審判(Shinpan) Umpire
  • 勝利 (shouri) – Win
  • 敗戦 (haisen) – Loss
  • レフトオーバー (Refutoōbā) – Left Field
  • シーズンオフ (Shīzun’ofu) – Off Season
  • ウイニングショット – A pitcher’s best pitch
  • エース – A team’s best pitcher – same in English or Japanese
  • えむぶいぴー – MVP/ Most Valuable Player
  • 抑え（おさえ) A closer; a relief pitcher
  • かっ飛ばせ（かっとばせ）- Is a popular cheer meaning “Send the ball flying!”
  • 完封（かんぷう）- A shutout.
  • ファストカンバス – First Base
  • 防御率 (bougyoritsu) – Earned-run average (ERA)

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/japanese/japanese-baseball-vocabulary-words-phrases-list/

救援投手 ( kyuuen-toushu ) – relief pitcher
先発投手 ( senpatsu-toushu ) – starting pitcher
打率 ( daritsu ) – batting average (different than slugging percentage)

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#3

Nice! This is a great example of more specific yet general decks that can be made. :smile: Similar to the programming deck in that sense, but more general since more people are going to need baseball terms in their lives, and it’s a popular Japanese sport!

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#4

Hey, thanks for the extensive lists! :grin: I’ve added 32 words from both those websites, the deck having 408 cards now.

I feel like it would be good for this deck to teach words in some specific order. Any suggestions?

EDIT: I also added the tag “Katakana word” to all the katakana words. This means that:

  • People that don’t know many kanji just yet, can now choose to push to lessons the katakana words.
  • There’s a lot of baseball vocab that has an equivalent kanji and katakana words for the same meaning, like 本塁打 and ホームラン. When going ENG -> JP, this would be a problem since one wouldn’t know which word the deck is asking about. Since the tags appear in the front of the card, this will serve as a tip to know which one you’re being asked for :slight_smile:
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#5

Yeah, good question! :grin:

I may suggest tagging words by category. Just an example:

Positions (shortstop, catcher, umpire)

General (diamond, base, Japanese baseball league, high school baseball)

Pitching Terms

GamePlay (ex. grounder, make a double play, triple, home run, inning, throwing error)

For word order, I would say positions and general are probably more basic while pitching and gameplay may be a bit more technical, that may help prioritize. There may be some that don’t fit into a category perfectly.

However here were a few oddballs not everyone may know and may benefit with notes:

Fungo- (in practice sessions) a ball tossed into the air by the batter and struck as it comes down. Don’t hear it used often or ever.

Shuuto- I’ve never heard anyone say ‘shootball’ in US. According to wiki, it fall under the category of movement pitches (slider, screwball, breaking ball, change up, knuckle)

Texas Leaguer - A “Texas Leaguer” is a bloop that falls between an outfielder and an infielder for a hit. I don’t recall hearing this often.

Pepper game - Pepper is a common pre- game exercise in which one player hits brisk grounders and line drives to a group of fielders who are standing about twenty feet away. The fielders throw balls to the batter, who uses a short, light swing to hit the ball on the ground towards the fielders.

If you grew up playing, you know this but general spectators probably don’t know

Hot corner - never heard of it but may be used

That’s all I could find at the moment. Baseball (or sports in general) have a lot of slang terms too so there is probably plenty more Japanese expressions…maybe some terms from a fan perspective?

*edit- ERA is a pitching term

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#6

I will use those categories you mentioned as I go through the deck, thanks :grin: If you guys see a non-tagged card that fits one of the categories, feel free to send a suggestion through the feedback system (just leave it in the text box, since you can’t suggest tags).

I also added the information you gave in the notes of those cards :v:

Thanks for taking the time!

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