# Forums like the Straight Dope in other languages (particularly Japanese?)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 24, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-like-the-straight-dope-in-other-languages-particularly-japanese/583013 "2011-05-24T14:52:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-like-the-straight-dope-in-other-languages-particularly-japanese/583013/1 "2011-05-24T14:52:58Z")

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Hello ladies and gentleworms. I’ve been looking to practice my Japanese reading and writing a bit more intensely, so I was wondering if any other fellow Japanophiles knew any Japanese forums similar to the Dope.

Of course, it’d be selfish of me to restrict this query to simply the language I’m interested in. There are probably similar forums in myriad languages. Let’s hear 'em!

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-like-the-straight-dope-in-other-languages-particularly-japanese/583013/2 "2011-05-24T15:40:56Z")

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Somewhere on the internet there was list of forums, I think ‘‘big’’ was in the name somewhere. There were many, perhaps mostly not English speaking countries. They may have had Japanese. I will bump this thread and try to find my link to the list of forums.

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**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-like-the-straight-dope-in-other-languages-particularly-japanese/583013/3 "2011-05-24T16:45:44Z")

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> [@janeslogin](#):
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> Somewhere on the internet there was list of forums, I think ‘‘big’’ was in the name somewhere. There were many, perhaps mostly not English speaking countries. They may have had Japanese. I will bump this thread and try to find my link to the list of forums.

I think it is [http://www.big-boards.com/](http://www.big-boards.com/).

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-like-the-straight-dope-in-other-languages-particularly-japanese/583013/4 "2011-05-27T05:46:09Z")

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Nobody else has a favorite forum that’s in another language? Maybe this should be in IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forums-like-the-straight-dope-in-other-languages-particularly-japanese/583013/5 "2011-05-27T12:49:42Z")

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> [@Autolycus](#):
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> Nobody else has a favorite forum that’s in another language? Maybe this should be in IMHO.

I never thought about it, since I’m mostly monolingual.

I used to speak quite a bit of German. I guess if I were to go to Germany again, I could spend time on a German forum to try to refresh. Makes sense.  
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