I’m working on a Japanese Onomatopoeia dictionary (WIP)

Hi everyone\~

**Why another dictionary**

I know there’s a lot of resources out there (books, websites, etc) but I had problems with things I need to look for (not only onomatopoeia). My biggest complains are:

1. Need to look deeply to find…
2. If you find it, you’ll probably need to look at diff resources to understand it and…
3. Probably, they don’t have a visual example so you’ll get a catch **even without explanation**.

**Visual clues**

Having a visual explanation for words / grammar it’s really really useful. At least for me, I get better if I see a conversation rather than reading a grammar point (plus I hate this). There was too long ago I started with an anime project where I collected the most common words + most common real-life words… To make a visual dictionary of them!

I already posted this on Reddit but sorry… I had no time so I stopped working on it but it’s only less than 700 words left (of 2500 words) so hopefully I’ll finish soon.

I’m a visual learner. I mean… I can really REALLY remember every single word of a TV show I like as I if I were reading the script. I’m better remembering sounds and visual clues than what I read. That’s the reason why I started that anime project and why I started this onomatopoeia project.

**The Onomatodict project**

[You can find it here](https://github.com/matsumurae/onomatodict-jp). As I said this is still under development, so please don’t be too harsh!

This is made in English + Spanish but if you want to collaborate, feel free to submit a PR on Github.

At first you’ll find the homepage, where you’ll get to know the diff between onomatopoeias. If you go to /dict/ folder, you’ll see the available words distributed alphabetically in folders. Let’s say you go to N folder… There you’ll see all the available words arranged alphabetically.

If you click on the word that interests you, you’ll see (English and Spanish below:

1. An image describing the word (I try to get them from manga but sometimes it’s hard to find them, so I’ll collect while I read them)
2. Video and / or sound if they’re available.
3. Meaning, type, category (this is used for JSON categorizing, because I plan to make this a website), equivalence.
4. Usage and examples

**Notes**

I’m not native Japanese nor studying Japanese linguistics. This is my own personal project and I thought it could be useful to post it public on Github.

If you want to collaborate, feel free to open a PR or submit an issue. If you don’t know how to use Github, just write me and I’ll help you!