• 速いはやいAs it appears here: 速
  • ·fast; quick; rapid; swift; speedy; brisk; prompt
  • ·early; soon; earlier than usual
  • ·premature; too soon; too early
  • ·easy; simple; quick; fast
  • ·as soon as ...; the moment ...; the instant ...
  N5
• 言葉ことば
  • ·language; dialect
  • ·word; phrase; expression; term
  • ·speech; (manner of) speaking; (use of) language
  • ·words; remark; statement; comment
  • ·learning to speak; language acquisition
  N5
• その
  • ·that; the
  • ·part (as in "part two")
  • ·um ...; er ...; uh ...
  N5
• 話はなし
  • ·talk; speech; chat; conversation
  • ·topic; subject
  • ·discussions; negotiation; argument
  • ·rumor; talk; hearsay
  • ·tale; story; fable
  • ·circumstances; particulars
  N5
• きく
  • ·to hear
  • ·to listen (e.g. to music)
  • ·to ask; to enquire; to query
  • ·to hear about; to hear of; to learn of
  • ·to follow (advice, order, etc.); to obey; to listen to; to comply with
  • ·to hear (e.g. a plea); to grant (a request); to accept (e.g. an argument); to give consideration to
  • ·to smell (esp. incense); to sample (a fragrance)
  • ·to taste (alcohol); to try
  N5
• 私わたし
  • ·I; me
  N5
• なる
  • ·to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain
  • ·to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be)
  • ·to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of
  • ·to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished
  • ·to change (into); to turn (into); to transform
  • ·to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do)
  • ·to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make
  • ·to play (the part of); to act as
  • ·to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as
  • ·to be promoted
  • ·to do ...
  N5
• する
  • ·to do; to carry out; to perform
  • ·to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  • ·to serve as; to act as; to work as
  • ·to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  • ·to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as
  • ·to decide on; to choose
  • ·to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
  • ·to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  • ·to be worth; to cost
  • ·to pass (of time); to elapse
  • ·to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
  • ·to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B
  • ·to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B
  • ·to feel A about B
  • ·verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
  • ·creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  • ·to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to
  N5
• 暇ひま
  • ·spare time; free time; leisure
  • ·time (it takes to do something); time required
  • ·time off; leave; vacation; holiday
  • ·dismissal; firing; severance; divorce
  • ·free; not busy; unoccupied; idle
  • ·slow (business); slack; dull
  • ·to be free; to be not busy; to be available; to be doing nothing
  N5
• あるAs it appears here: あったら
  • ·to be; to exist; to live
  • ·to have
  • ·to be located
  • ·to be equipped with
  • ·to happen; to come about
  • ·to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)
  N5
• よむ
  • ·to read
  • ·to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
  • ·to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
  • ·to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
  • ·to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
  • ·to count; to estimate
  • ·to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
  N5
• つまらない
  • ·dull; uninteresting; boring; tedious
  • ·insignificant; unimportant; trifling; trivial; worthless
  • ·absurd; foolish; silly; stupid
  • ·useless; pointless; disappointing
  N5
• よむAs it appears here: よま
  • ·to read
  • ·to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
  • ·to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
  • ·to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
  • ·to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
  • ·to count; to estimate
  • ·to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
  N5
• 本ほん
  • ·book; volume; script
  • ·this; present; current; ... in question; ... at issue
  • ·main; head; principal
  • ·real; genuine; regular; proper
  • ·counter for long, thin objects (sticks, tubes, strings, bottles, pillars, rivers, rail lines, etc.)
  • ·counter for films, TV shows, etc.
  • ·counter for telephone calls, letters, and emails
  • ·counter for goals, home runs, etc.
  • ·counter for rounds or points (in judo, kendo, etc.)
  N5
• 読むよむ
  • ·to read
  • ·to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
  • ·to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
  • ·to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
  • ·to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
  • ·to count; to estimate
  • ·to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
  N5
• 覚えるおぼえるAs it appears here: 覚えられ
  • ·to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember
  • ·to learn; to pick up; to acquire
  • ·to feel
  • ·to think; to regard
  N5
• もの
  • ·thing; object; article; stuff; substance
  • ·one's things; possessions; property; belongings
  • ·things; something; anything; everything; nothing
  • ·quality
  • ·reason; the way of things
  • ·used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen
  • ·item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...
  • ·cause of ...; cause for ...
  • ·somehow; somewhat; for some reason
  • ·really; truly
  N5
• ちかごろ
  • ·lately; recently; nowadays
  • ·terribly; awfully; extremely
  N3
• 訓練くんれん
  • ·training; drill; practice; discipline
  N3
• 方法ほうほう
  • ·method; way; manner; process; procedure; means; measure
  N3
• 人間にんげん
  • ·human being; human; person; man; mankind; humankind
  • ·character (of a person)
  N3
• こすAs it appears here: こした
  • ·to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across
  • ·to get over (e.g. hardship)
  • ·to pass time (e.g. a winter)
  • ·to surpass; to be better than; to exceed
  • ·to move house
  • ·to go; to come
  N3
• こと
  • ·thing; matter
  • ·incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
  • ·circumstances; situation; state of affairs
  • ·work; business; affair
  • ·after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
  • ·nominalizing suffix
  • ·pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
  • ·alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or
  • ·necessity; need
  • ·you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...
  N3
• さらに
  • ·furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
  N3
• 差別さべつ
  • ·distinction; differentiation; discrimination
  • ·discrimination (against people)
  N3

Example sentences are translated by AI.

• に越したことはないN2

  Says the preceding is the best option though not strictly required — 'nothing beats', 'it's best to'.

  そういう習練をする暇があったら一本をよむにこしたことはない。

  If you have time for such training, you would be better off using it to read a book.

• ねばならないN2

  Formal, somewhat literary way of stating an obligation, "must / have to (do)".

  つまらない本に時間をかけるのは愚かなことだし、丹念によまねばならぬ本をすばやくよむのは、さらに愚かなことだ。

  It is foolish to spend time on a worthless book, and even more foolish to rush through a book that needs to be read carefully.

• さらにN2

  Adds a further point or a greater degree — 'furthermore', 'moreover', 'even more'.

  つまらない本に時間をかけるのは愚かなことだし、丹念によまねばならぬ本をすばやくよむのは、さらに愚かなことだ。

  It is foolish to spend time on a worthless book, and even more foolish to rush through a book that needs to be read carefully.

• というN3

  Quotative marker plus 'say' that introduces a name, definition, or reported content — 'called', 'known as', 'that (one) says'.

  ちかごろ、速読術などという言葉、その訓練の方法の話をきくと、古風な人間である私はカッとなる。

  Lately, whenever I hear terms such as “speed-reading techniques” or hear about methods for training in them, an old-fashioned person like me gets irritated.

• によって/によるN3

  Marks means, cause, passive agent, or a factor something depends on; 'by (means of)', 'due to', 'depending on'.

  そういう差別は種々の本を読むことによってしか覚えられぬものであろう。

  The ability to make such distinctions can probably be acquired only by reading many different kinds of books.

• などN4

  Lists one or more representative items and implies others of the same kind exist — 'and so on / etc. / such as'.

  ちかごろ、速読術などという言葉、その訓練の方法の話をきくと、古風な人間である私はカッとなる。

  Lately, whenever I hear terms such as “speed-reading techniques” or hear about methods for training in them, an old-fashioned person like me gets irritated.

• たらN4

  Conditional/temporal ending on the plain-past stem meaning that once or if the first action happens, the second follows ('if / once / when ... then').

  そういう習練をする暇があったら一本をよむにこしたことはない。

  If you have time for such training, you would be better off using it to read a book.

• がありますN5

  States the existence or possession of an inanimate thing, "there is / to have".

  そういう習練をする暇があったら一本をよむにこしたことはない。

  If you have time for such training, you would be better off using it to read a book.