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I am a native Japanese speaker with a casual interest in languages. I
sometimes have trouble explaining the Japanese grammar in English because I do
not know the established English translation of some technical terms in the
Japanese grammar such as _joshi_ (助詞). (In this particular case, it seems that
_joshi_ is usually translated as “particle.”)

I can look up a Japanese-English dictionary for this purpose, but is there any
more easily accessible list of technical terms, preferably freely available
online?

_Added_ : I know several general Japanese-English dictionaries and translation
services freely available online, which can be used to satisfy my need but not
in the most convenient way. I am looking for a simple table of technical terms
in the Japanese grammar written both in Japanese and in English, which may
look like:

>   * 文: sentence
>   * 段落: paragraph
>   * 名詞: noun
>   * 動詞: verb
>   * 助詞: particle
>   * …
>
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Is there an easily accessible list of terms in the Japanese grammar written both in Japanese and English?
Sounds like you are looking for a technical dictionary (i.e. [Japanese -
English Dictionary of Technical
Terms](http://www.kanji.org/cjk/samples/japterm.htm)) which is more or less
the Japanese term followed by the English term and the reading. These tend to
be very specialized and domain specific (e.g. Computers/IT, medical, etc) so a
standard dictionary may or may not have all of the terms you are looking for.

In regards to finding such a resource, you might be better off looking for one
what was written for native Japanese speakers trying to learn English as most
of the resources I've been able to find (i.e [Japanese Grammatical
Terms](http://thejapanesepage.com/terms.htm)) appear quite limited.
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I found a [list of English grammar terms in Japanese](http://www.alse-
net.com/column/grammar-terms.htm), and a very exhaustive list of [English
grammatical terms](http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary.html) which you could
use with a dictionary to compile your own list. The Japanese-English list
isn't authoritative, but has a good enough translation for many terms.
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I found three fairly comprehensive lists online; each covers slightly
different areas.

  * <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese/Vocabulary/Linguistics>
  * <http://thejapanesepage.com/w/index.php?title=Grammatical_terms>
  * <http://www.omegawiki.org/Part_of_speech/jpn>
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Section 5 of the [ipadic user
manual](http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ipadic/docs/ipadic-2.7.0-manual-
en.pdf/en/1/ipadic-2.7.0-manual-en.pdf.pdf) (warning: 271KB PDF) has a list of
Japanese parts of speech which seems quite exhaustive. Each entry includes the
name for the part of speech in both Japanese and English, an explanation in
English and several Japanese examples.
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