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Warning

The data you will find here will NOT be useful unless you are coding a language tool or doing some work on data processing.

If you want data that you can use as a humble language learner, you can check out the lists section where you can build your own lists of sentences or view others' lists and print them.

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For those who wonder why we're not leaving the data in the public domain, some explanations here.

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Sentences

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http://tatoeba.org/files/downloads/sentences.csv

Fields and structure

id [tab] lang [tab] text

Description

Contains all the sentences. Each sentence is associated to a unique id and a language code (ISO 639-3).

Links

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http://tatoeba.org/files/downloads/links.csv

Fields and structure

sentence_id [tab] translation_id

Description

Contains the links between the sentences. 1 [tab] 77 means that sentence nº77 is the translation of sentence nº1. The reciprocal link is also present. In other words, you will also have a line that says 77 [tab] 1.

Japanese indices

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http://tatoeba.org/files/downloads/jpn_indices.csv

Fields and structure

sentence_id [tab] meaning_id [tab] text

Description

Contains the equivalent of the "B lines" in the file of the Tanaka Corpus distributed by Jim Breen. See this page to learn the format. Each entry is associated to a pair of Japanese/English sentences. sentence_id refers to the id of the Japanese sentence. meaning_id refers to the id of the English sentence.

General information about the files

The files provided here are updated every Saturday at 9AM, France time.

Most of the Japanese and English sentences are from the Tanaka Corpus, which belongs to the public domain.