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>>143849290
First
>>143915473
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>abysmal memory
>sub 70% correct every day
>300-400 reviews a day takes almost 2 hours
>finish at midnight and wake up at 7 for work in the morning a hollow shell of a human being
>get home and repeat the process
Anyone here know where I can read the ミサイルとプランクトン manga? I checked both nyaa and the CoR but no success
>>143915993
You're not good enough to read Romeo yet.
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>ふつうせいじんをとおりこして、ふつうかいじゅうちかっちになっちゃう
God damnit, this is why I usually try to avoid English subtitles like the pest these days. Instead of helping me they just make me feel even more insecure about my own understanding.The translation IS wrong, right? Context is her talking about how "normal" she's been all her life.
>>143916516
いいsubだよ
How do I write like ｓｗｑｌ but with the o, a, e, etc letters? It automatically turns into お、あ、え
>>143916925
ｆａｇｇｏｔ
>>143916925
ｓｕｍｍｏｎ ｙｏｕｒ ｉｎｎｅｒ ｊａｐ
>>143917219
>>143917226
ｃoｍe oｎ ｇuｙｓ
>>143915786
That's me half a year ago. I don't want it to sound trivial, but: give up on drugs / alcohol, tidy up your diet and eating habits, and hit the gym or pick up jogging (or other form of physical activity). You'll be able to concentrate for longer periods of time while retaining much more information.
And if time is a non-issue then - to prevent your motivation petering out - do it like that: more than 150 reps? Do just them, don't add any new cards. Fewer than 150? Add those 20-25 new ones. Doing it this way will take longer, but at least you'll how much time you can expect to spend on Anki. And you won't end up being overwhelmed.
>>143915493
You're late
>>143915493
What exactly does 一日 add here?
>>143917664
毎日同じシットポストを排出して楽しいかい？
>>143917716
毎日するのは健康にいいらしいだから
>>143917664
She only tries her hardest on the first day of a month.
any other decks like the yotsuba reading deck for other manga? i like not having to break while reading every couple lines to look something up, especially since i read a lot of physical stuff
>>143915993
I found a site that only had the first chapter but that's it.
A-Anyone?
>>143916716
じゃあ、いもうと
明日はどっちの党に投票しようと思っているでしょうか
成人だったら
Are -naru adjectives related to the verb なる?
>>143918460
I don't think so. The former なる comes from にある, and you never see が used, as opposed to verb なる which requires が
>>143918433
りっこうほします
せいさくはせんきょをスマホからとうひょうにします
Does anyone have a big list of verbs that shows whether they conjugate regularly or not, and that shows the basic forms for the verbs??
>>143918718
Search for a verb on Jisho and hit "show inflections"
おやすみ djt
>>143918683
>せいさくはせんきょをスマホからとうひょうにします
正直にいってそれはいいアイデアですよ
いもうとさんを支持しますぞ
>>143918976
またね
また。ね。
>>143916925
>>143916925
plz respond
妹 was in my leeches for a while. I wrote it out on a piece of paper and gave it to my little sister but it still took a while to get it down. I kept getting it confused for "girl".
>>143919718
Ｃａｎ’ｔ ｙｏｕ ｊｕｓｔ ｃｏｐｙ－ｐａｓｔｅ ｌｅｔｔｅｒｓ？
>>143919953
I want to type it by myself!
>>143919978
>!
ｋ ｙ ｓ
why do people keep saying spoken Japanese is easier than learning to read or write it?
so many words sound and are said the same that most of the time I don't know what they're actually talking about
>>143920054
That's the case for every language. You can become native tier speaker by just being around people who speak it, even if you can't read or write the language. This is how babys learn it after all.
>>143919978
Ｖｏｗｅｌｓ ｔｕｒｎ ｉｎｔｏ ｋａｎａ ｂｅｃａｕｓｅ ｙｏｕ ｃｈｏｓｅ ｈｉｒａｇａｎａ ｏｒ ｋａｔａｋａｎａ ｉｎｐｕｔ ｍｏｄｅ． Ｉｎｓｔｅａｄ， ｃｈｏｏｓｅ ｆｕｌｌ－ｗｉｄｔｈ Ａｌｐｈａｎｕｍｅｒｉｃ ｏｒ ｗｈａｔｅｖｅｒ ｉｔ ｉｓ ｃａｌｌｅｄ． Ｕｓｅ ｔｈｅ ｒｉｇｈｔｍｏｓｔ ｉｃｏｎ ｆｒｏｍ ｔｈｅｓｅ．
>>143920110
Yeah, I'm pretty dumb and didn't consider the fact that there are actually illiterate people out there that have no problems speaking the language. My bad.
>>143920054
Learning grammar rules and vocab in romanji followed by practising speaking and listening is all you need to learn to speak and listen.
Learning thousands of kanji, the pronunciations and meanings, the stroke order etcetera is much more time consuming.
is there a way to show more entries in rikai-kun?
note the ... below
>>143920002
Y'know kys is danish for "kiss".
The more you know
>>143920431
>the stroke order
What's that even for? So that you can recognize half-drawn characters?
>"ＸにはＹを" means "putting X into Y"
please tell me this is illegal
>>143920675
It's useful for reading cursive writing
>>143920711
ケツマンコには雌チンポを
>>143920711
ぞい子のマンコに精液を入れる
>>143920899
I don't think you understood
Ｏｈ Ｉ ｓｅｅ ｎｏｗ ｔｈａｎｋ ｙｏｕ！
>>143920002
Ｙｏｕ ｔｏｏ！
>>143920865
How do I become better at recognizing 草書?
I know the stroke order but that does not help me much in many cases
>>143920865
そのかんじが下の名前に付いてたら要注意だよ
よみかたが１００通りくらいあるよ
>>143920675
handwritten characters tend to look neater when the correct stoke order is followed, and if you can tell the order of the strokes of handwritten characters it also makes similar looking kanji easier to differentiate
I'm sure there's other better reasons but that's all I can think of right now
Can you hook JRPG like Kiseki?
what would be the English equivalent of calling someone a 男女? the context implies it's derogatory and aimed towards a girl
>>143921149
Is it PC native? If yes, yes, if you need an emulator, then most likely no.
>>143921401
Tomboy? Mannsweib? Kampflesbe?
>>143921402
Yeah they're on PC. But I heard of unhookable games and VNs before so I'm wondering if anyone has experience with those.
>>143860648
How many years?
>>143921513
> Tomboy?
I said derogatory, not a compliment.
>>143920054
Because they're dumb and kanji dekinai. Practicing listening is comparatively easier when you're lazy.
>>143921756
Your fetishes cloud your judgment anon.
>>143921401
butch
>>143914288
>formalなひびき
formalな日々気？たとえば謙譲語を使う日常
>>143921018
I found these resources, if that interests someone:
http://www.kabipan.com/language/japanese/shodo/index.html
http://www.nisk.jp/shodokisochishiki/soushonohayaoboeho.html
http://www013.upp.so-net.ne.jp/santai/santai.htm
>>143922907
I can't tell if you're joking or not
Maybe I am autistic after all
>>143923245
Yes it is a joke. 響き is a pre-beginner word now thanks to hibike euphonium
my gramma is fucked, FUCKED
now that I know how to read some of the characters I realize it wasn't the main problem, figuring out what the fucking sentence is saying is
right now I feel like I could learn every kanji on the book and go through core 10k and still not be able to understand what I'm reading
fucking kill me I want to dekinai from life
>>143923481
I'm sorry to hear that about your gramma, anon. I hope she gets better.
>>143923474
phew I managed to not make a fool of myself and get roasted by anons
>>143923481
yet another kanjionlyfag mishap
Anyone have "The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation.pdf" ? I picked it up in /djt/ but I can't find it.
>>143923481
>tfw there are others like me
I feel slightly less shit now
>>143924080
the worst part is the "READ MORE!" meme doesn't work
it doesn't help in the least when I don't understand what I'm reading in the first place
>>143924129
>"READ MORE!" meme doesn't work
>>143924129
Read something easier then
probably the easiest thing you can read is NHK easy, NOT children's books because children already know japanese for fucks sake. And core is mined from NHK so the vocab is ez.
Start with that mate, you will definitely get better. It's impossible to fuck this up.
>>143923481
So learn grammar?
>>143915493
Delete this and never fucking sexualize /djt/'s waifu again you fucking pig.
>>143917716
おこるのかい？
>>143924129
read more tae kim
>>143924286
Not him but I don't get how NHK easy works. Why do they only have news about natural disasters?
>>143924755
That's the in-thing in Japan right now
>>143923474
Learning kanji/words through best girls is great. It's like RtK, except for vocab.
>>143924129
Try reading what you like. I learnt English while playing this:http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile3/winexile3.html
>>143924286
look man I appreciate you being the minority and actually trying to be helpful in this shithole of a thread, but how is attempting to read a god damn newspaper supposed to help me?
I'm struggling with よつばと and have to switch to the english translation every two lines to check If I'm right (which 99% of the time I'm not) for fuck's sake
>>143925764
Yotsubato is aimed towards kids and the slang will fuck you in the ass. Having to constantly refer to the translations doesn't help either.
NHK Easy is aimed at kids but mostly foreign japanese learners. Articles are presented with simple vocabulary, are concise and even have built in look up functions for harder words. It might not be compelling, but it's a great way for you to gain confidence as you comprehend it yourself without relying on a crutch like translations.
>>143924129
I got to understand japanese sentences through being a weaboo for over 8 years. When i finally got to study japanese i already could pretty much read it if it was in romaji. Just by watching hundreds (actually just a little over a hundred really) of titles with subtitles and playing through hundreds of hours of different games i could get structure of sentences, as well as base vocabulary.
I can understand you though. Japanese prepositions and suffixes are really quite different from western ones.
I would actually recommend watching anime with subs for some time.
>>143926095
Thanks for the 'advice'
>>143926163
How about you fucking get good? Is that "advice" enough for you? No one here is under an obligation to help you.
Can のが utilize the "but" function of が or it's just like のは but with the が particle?
>>143926287
I'm not him, shitter
>>143926163
I'm serious tho. It can help if you won't just tune out japanese speech and would try to listen. That's basically a lot of examples of sentences, that you would immediately get translation for. If that's not the way to get the structure without actually sitting through textbooks and trying to wrap your head around something that natives know without thinking (actually can anyone please tell a better way to say "know without thinking" in English?) i don't know what is.
>>143926430
don't even think about
>>143926430
It's shit advice to tell him to watch 8000 hours of anime to get fluent when he can achieve it in much less with less time and effort put in either
"know without thinking" I would say "understand intuitively" is a good way to say it
I do get your point because I've watched a lot of anime (obviously) and it has helped my early learning a lot but in the end it's still fucking inefficient
>>143926430
Intuitive, instinctive?
>>143926313
「聞いてるのがよく分からない」はどうだ
>>143926663
Nah that's definitely wrong
怪雨
>>143926748
Where did you find this specimen of rare vocab?
>>143926558
>>143926590
>"intuitively"
That's the word i was looking for, thanks!
I guess anime or movies aren't the best way to learn. But then, they are fun. I think fun is more important than efficiency.
>>143926825
Beginners learn exponentially faster so it's not like you have to do one or the other
Grinding core2k and easy reading material isnt fun but it opens many gateways for fun learning e.g. anime with jp subs
>>143925764
Try the DOJG, it has a shitload of example sentences and honestly your time would probably be better spent reading those for half an hour than reading something where half the content is stock phrases, i.e. hanahira and yotsubato
>そういうことは規則に反するから出来ないという風に説明しておいけばいい。You can explain that (literally: explain it in a way to mean that) we cannot do things like that because they are against the rules.
>彼はもう我慢が出来ないという風に荒々しく立ち上がった。He stood up in a violent manner showing that he could no longer bear it.
>彼は母親が危篤だというのに、映画を見に行った。He went to see a movie in spite of the fact that his mother is in a critical condition.I don't know why I began copy pasting these but now that I'm here I might as well post them
>>143926313
Even のは sometimes utilizes the の as nominalizer and the は the usual way so yeah, It's just like that.
そこにいるのはクック君かいっ！
help with noha and kai please
>>143927526
I can't read romaji. Could you type it in hiragana please?
>>143927526
っ before an exclamation mark? What is this madness?
>>143927762
へるっぷうぃず「のは」あんど「かいっ」ぷりっず！
>>143927837
Read the guide dumdum
>>143927526
That's basic shit mate. Here's かい, のはshould have its own section in Timberly Kipple. Just google common stuff like that.
>>143927825
Read some untranslated porn manga, expand your horizons
>>143927526
>noha
出来ない
>>143928090
You don't have to get a perfect grasp on grammar when going through grammar guides, just get familiar with it and be prepared to have to reference it every now and then once you start reading.
>>143928090
you gotta reaaaad
>>143927526
You can pretty much think as の as "reason of explanation", even when it's something like 俺の言葉 (my <> reason/explaining <> words) and not just a _'s_ or _of_.
With that in mind, you just mix の and は to get something like "reason/explanation for is (context)". I hope I'm making sense, if not, FEEL it.
For かい I'm going with the dic definition of "yes-no question".
> そこにいるのは
What is in there is...
> クック君かいっ！
a/the cook-kun, yes or no?
>>143928169
Sorry if my english is bad but "what is AT there" -> "what is in/over there" (I seriously don't know what I'm supposed to use here)
>>143928169
What the fuck are you doing anon
>>143928169
>in there
Appreciate the sentiment and all, but maybe it's too soon for you to give advice, friend
>>143928424
Weird huh, it makes sense in my head, but I can't really explain it.
Well then just go with のは as something along the lines of "that what is _" or "the one which is _"
>>143928169
That's the nominalizing の. It makes the previous shit a noun.
>>143923511
>>143916925
that depends on what ime you're using you dipshit.
>>143928356
Read more and you'll be able to guess the kanji even if half of it is obscured.
Does anyone know a good place to stream Japanese television?
I'm thinking of having some random news or something, running in the background.
>>143928988
Yea some anon posted this a while ago
http://mov3.co/
Is there anywhere a flashcard deck that, instead of English translations, has definitions in Japanese? I feel like if I just memorize the English definitions it makes it harder to read it 'in Japanese' as such as opposed to just mentally translating to English.
>>143923481
imo i found the grammar in dragonball to be way easier than yotsubato and hanahira, try reading that
you'll have to look up a lot of words but it has furigana so you should be fine
>>143929264
>>imo i found the grammar in dragonball to be way easier than yotsubato and hanahira, try reading that
I honestly think Dragon Ball is criminally overlooked as an early reading resource.
>>143929087
Perfect. Many thanks, anon.
>>143929259
I don't know of a J to J core sorta deck since those are for beginners, but you can use the kenkyuusha (?) dictionary from the CoR for rikai and get J to Jish imports that way.
>>143928988
http://mokodojo.net/M.swf?src=http://203.162.76.92:5021/live/308|c03%20&showList=1&bufferTime=10&setLanguage=en_US
I think there was something you're supposed to add on to the end of that, fuck me if I remember though
>>143928169
>>143928629
so what does the sentence mean, man? I still don't understand it even after that lengthy explanation
>>143929691
Well, splicing the two halves together:
>What is in there is a/the cook-kun, yes or no?
Or phrased in slightly more normal English:
>So the one that's in there is Mr. Cook, right?
(Based on a bit of Googling, クック seems to mainly be the proper name Cook, not the normal English word 'cook'.)
>>143929948
that doesn't make any sense, though
the person saying this line already knows who the character is and where he is right now
>>143930032
That's why people always say CONTEEEEEEEEEEXT
The line does say that though, it's just a matter of adjusting it to the context
>>143929948
Note the exclamation mark
>>143930032
He's declaring it, like "Oh, I see!"
Can someone pls help? How would you translate
底
In
純粋の闇 真実の夜 その底に潜む
Hidden in base?
>>143930170
I feel like I can picture British or Australian people saying similar things... like: "that's a good beer, yeah?" where the yeah is more of a declaration than a question.
>>143930120
>>143930170
I will never learn Japanese.
>>143930388
NANDA, TEREBI MITEIRU KAI
thats what im thinking of
Holy shit. Starting to learn vocabulary from scratch is a pain in the ass.
Will it ever get a bit less frustrating to learn?
>>143930032
I'm pretty sure that line is from Yotsuba and Yotsuba does not, in fact, know the cook is in there for certain. Next time post the page.
>>143930376
True darkness lies dormant in the deep of the night.
5日目 = day 5? 5 days elapsed?
what's the 目?
>>143930535
I've felt that way at times about every language I learned. In a couple years you'll probably look back and think, "Why was I saying things like that? I was silly then."
>>143930650
目(め) can also be an ordinal suffix. So it means 'fifth day'.
>>143930676
Brother in two years I have made zero progress. At this rate I'll be 70 years old and still struggling to read porn and asking dumbfuck questions in this thread, which is all I'm learning this piece of shit language for.
>>143930631
Oh, that actually makes sense, thanks a lot.
>>143930801
The fact that you were able to even tell what the words in that sentence were shows clearly your progress, though perhaps small, is non-zero. Plus, hey, you learned at least one language already, right? But it took a while; most people don't speak even their home country's language perfectly until they're about 12 or so. So one can't expect too much after just 2 years; there's not much to do except keep practicing.
Does anyone have any idea what the first character is?
Source: http://exhentai.org/g/940764/61ae225670/
>>143931033
お疲れ
>>143931033
I think it's 疲.
>>143931077
>お疲れ
Ah, for some reason, the character with the water radicals on the side did not come up when I used Google Translate/Similarity Search.
Thanks.
>>143931157
It's not a water radical, it's the surrounding radical from 病
>>143930938
> The fact that you were able to even tell what the words in that sentence
uhhhhh no??
it's worthless anyways
like, brother, you can give me a sentence like image related which I randomly picked from some manga and all I see is random words in a bubble like a puzzle and I somehow have to make out what they author is trying to say
> something about not thinking of a weird request
> first kiss flavor something
> how to put it, a little weird?
this is fucking pathetic
>>143931033
If I'm not mistaken, it says:
>Since you looked awfully tired, I left without waking you up.
>I'll come over to play again. Thank you for the tea and whatnot.
> - Youmu
Is that right?
>>143931157
>water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_104
>>143931338
Watch more anime
>>143931338
My point is merely that before you started studying Japanese, you couldn't have even told what any of the words were, or even how to pronounce themー it would have just been squiggles to you. At the very least, that's progress.
>>143931345
> without waking you up
こさず is negative?
>>143931345
That is pretty much how I translated it.
t. OP
>>143931345
>>143931366
Ah, Actually, I was doubly wrong, in that I confused water for ice, and then ice+cliff:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_15
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_27
Thanks
>>143931475
起こさず is negative, yes
>>143931475
Usually "Without X"
Not sure how you would write "Without not doing X"
>>143931460
and what I'm trying to tell you is what they haven't been any better than the squiggles I used to see for TWO FUCKING YEARS because I still don't know what they're trying to tell me
any normal functioning human being should at least have a basic grasp at the language by then
>>143930547
oh; i haven't seen something like before. basically "what the hell are you watching on tv?" maybe?
watakushihadekimasen.
>>143931552
where is this taught in japanese the manga way or tae kim? I had never read this before
>>143931569
Try studying more than 30 minutes every Sunday.
>>143931678
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/negativeverbs2
>>143931569
Don't act like some special snowflake whose brain is so different, you're no different from the rest of us. You either underestimate the time you need to put in, or your study method sucks.
>>143931475
～ず is used as a negative verb ending, especially used in the sense of 'without doing', used for example in the term 親知らず, which can also be spelled 親不知, meaning wisdom tooth.
(The second spelling has to do with a remnant of kanbun kundoku, see this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanbun)
>>143930572
yes
>>143931716
>>143931720
gonna have to be more aware of ず after verbs from now on
>>143931569
Despite having been surrounded by English for the past 2 years, how much English did you speak or understand when you were 2 years old?
>>143931802
>親不知
Yeah, that makes quite a bit of sense if you try to read it with a "classical Chinese" reading in mind.
>>143931795
> or your study method sucks
I just try a little bit of what people in this thread tell me and follow the guide.
I don't think I'm a special snowflake I think it's the oth
>>143931569
Buddy, I've been studying for around a year and 3 months. Halfway through, I fucked up and had to re-do all my progress after skipping Anki for a month, and I've gone through KD twice, and made it to 5k in core. I'm barely even JLPT3 tier, and my only reading is most of the volumes of Yotsuba and whatever porn I look at daily.
That page is a complete joke in terms of difficulty, you must have the worst work ethic in the fucking world.
>>143932068
Have you tried watching 10000 hours of anime?
>>143931338
Seems to me like you have a pretty good idea of what it's trying to tell you already. Stop trying so hard to come up with an English translation that makes sense, just getting a rough idea is good enough. That rough idea is going to get more defined the more you read.
>2 years
I'd assume you weren't studying consistently enough those 2 years, but if you actually were trying hard and in truth just lack the aptitude for language learning I'd be another one of those feel good "you can be anything" faggots so I'll instead resort to calling you a lazy retard.
今晩はー。先に就職できたぞ。エッグスマートで毎日８時に始める。
僕はこの店に入ったが早いか、「レジュームは無理です。ようこそ！」と社長が僕に言った。
当然でしょう？またね
>>143931597
"Oh, you're watching TV"
>>143932261
ありがとうお兄さん
I guess should pay more attention to commas and such.
>>143932225
You got tricked into a shitty job dude
tfw the eroge you use for learning Japanese makes a joke about using eroge to learn Japanese
>>143932509
うるせえぇIt's my first one
>>143932192
>lack the aptitude for language learning
No such thing. They already learned one language, which proves they're capable of it.
>>143932840
But then, some people start speaking earlier
and better
than others.
>>143915493
百合セックス？
>>143932663
True for me except it's otome.
>>143932663
what's BL... CD?
>>143917878
Just like the majority of us then
>>143933294
A Boy's Love audio CD, as opposed to a BL game, mr. 0 reading comprehension.
>>143933437
>The inclusion of 「も」 must be consistent with the answer. It would not make sense to say, "I am a student, and Tom is also not a student."
Why?
>This is where the 「が」 particle comes into play. It is also referred to as the subject particle but I hate that name since "subject" means something completely different in English grammar. Instead, I call it the identifier particle because the particle indicates that the speaker wants to identify something unspecified.
Why?
>The first sentence seeks to identify a specific person for "student" while the second sentence is simply talking about the student. You cannot replace 「が」 with 「は」 in the first sentence because "who" would become the topic and the question would become, "Is who a student?"
Why?
etc.
>>143933437
Same reason why we spell 'knight' with a 'k' and a 'gh': the pronunciation changed but the spelling remained static. That is, the topic particle was at some point pronounced /ha/ but at some point people started saying it like /wa/ for whatever reason, and the spelling stayed the same.
>>143924129
>"READ MORE!" meme doesn't work
Are you fucking serious.
I wonder how the Japanese can become literate then.
>>143933541
>the topic particle was at some point pronounced /ha/
I don't think that's true at all. Hiragana spelling used to be much more idiomatic than it is today, with words like 今日 being spelled けふ. I'm fairly sure that は as a particle was still pronounced わ in classical Japanese. There's a historical relationship between the あ, は and わ rows because they don't have true consonants in them, which is also why を and へ are pronounced strangely as particles.
What's with these beginners constantly deleting their questions a few minutes later? This is the third one at least
What's with this guy who keeps deleting his posts here? Are you autistic?
What's with this guy who keeps shitting in my backyard?
>>143933437
>>143933539
>>143933541
>>143933675
See here: http://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/379/why-are-the-particles-%E3%81%AF-ha%E2%87%92wa-%E3%81%B8-he%E2%87%92e-and-%E3%82%92-wo%E2%87%92o-not-spelled-phonet
Some other anon explained it on here a while ago, but I think the TL;DR goes something like "Both the は sound and the は particle used to be pronounced like [pa] but eventually the kana became a [ha] sound while the particle became a [wa] sound"
Probably butchered that explanation completely, but I can't be arsed reading the full explanation
Also, Google is spooking me with its algorithm
>>143933744
newfriends from /r/learnjapanese
>>143929264
>>143929343
I'd definitely recommend DB.
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=149389
The furigana might be a bit difficult to read though.
>>143933675
If you read Classical Japanese out loud today you read は as /wa/ when it's a topic particle, but in ancient times the whole ハ行 was pronounced with /p/ sounds, hence why adding a dakuten changes it into /b/. So if you go back far enough it was /pa/, which changed into /ɸa/, and at some point the /ɸ/-sounds turned into /h/ (except for /ɸu/ which stayed as is) and either the same time or shortly thereafter the ハ行 kana that weren't at the beginnings of words mostly changed into ワ行. There's all kinds of research on this.
>>143934080
It this really that much easier than Yotsuba
>>143934095
That's interesting, I've never studied anything earlier than Early Middle Japanese.
>>143934238
Considering that page is a dialogue heavy one and only has 5 kanji, yes.
>>143933294
I don't think I'd have got that even if it were in English.
>>143932116
How have you done all that in such a short amount of time? I'm like 1000 cards Into KD and lately I only recognize like 40% of the old cards that show up every day.
I've only been doing like 10-15 new cards per day. Maybe I should decrease the amount.
>>143934426
I don't think kanji is the issue with Yotsuba either
>>143934503
I did 20 a day the first time, and 40 or so the second time through. Never dropped below 95% retention, mnemonics are great.
If you're only getting 40%, that sounds like you just aren't paying any attention at all to anything you're doing.
>>143934503
Are you trying to memorize readings AND a keyword or what? If so, stop that; you will get the readings via words/vocabulary eventually
>>143931910
Not him but there's quite a significant difference between the intelligence of a 2 year old and an adult.
>>143934601
Is the issue with Yotsuba that you struggle with the adult characters' grammar?
>>143934640
True, but even a two-year-old has the instinct programmed into them to pick up the language around them.
>all these people who can't into grammar
Just watch fucking anime
>>143934911
With the young girl's speech rather
Or I mean, that's what people seem to do. I don't struggle with either
>>143934951
Is it me or is the に particle used for way too much shit?
>>143934951
I can confirm. Been watching subbed anime for about 9 years now and I've never needed to learn much grammar explicitly aside from some conjugation shit.
>>143935199
Well obviously. In English you don't introduce yourself as your nickname or use a nickname instead of your real name onsocial media. Then again, the kinds of weebs that use honorifics on their accounts probably do use shitty nicknames elsewhere.tfw unfun 4 letter first name so no nicknames ever
>>143935370
t. didn't aquire a language before the critical period
>>143935212
One tends to get that impression about prepositions in natural languages. For example, the English preposition 'at' can indicate:
>location or arrival
>time
>point on a scale (e.g. "prices start at $100")
>in a given condition ("at a serious disadvantage")
>indicates the object of certain verbs (e.g. "look at")
>directed at ("to throw something at someone")
>the method or means of an action ("at knifepoint")
Some of those you may consider redundant or splitting basically the same sense across more than one entry, but even so it's quite a few.
>>143935370
Obviously you didn't watch enough anime
>>143935370
>"Nani" or "Itadakimasu"
>picking up the most muda words
>>143935655
Only? Did you come here yesterday?
Watch more anime.
>>143935713
>Watch more anime.
I don't think I can take more of it.
>>143935713
No you're supposed to feel anime I think
>>143935655
Come back after having watched 1000 shows
Do you guys punish yourselves for skipping Japanese study?
>>143935655
Only subs you should be using are Jap subs, you fucking idiot. Watching them with English subs isn't going to help you at all.
>>143935792
I do not skip. I have not skipped a single day since I started 3 months ago. I'd die of starvation by skipping food before I'd skip my reps.
>>143935792
Yes. I force myself to spend a day without studying Japanese
>>143935792
Yes. Whenever I miss a day of study, I don't fap that day and THIS KILLS ME INSIDE
>>143935834
>Only subs you should be using are Jap subs, you fucking idiot.
But how am I supposed to understand anything then?
I think there is a problem in communication somewhere. Are you talking about learning from anime BEFORE you started learning japanese or AFTER?
>>143934607
>>143934612
Just the meaning of the kanji. I'm getting a little tired of KD because his mnemonics fucking suck most of the time and sometimes doesn't even have anything to do with the radicals used, not to mention the on readings all use the same shit like "see her underpants" for shu and other hard to remember garbage.
For example, 咲 / Bloom
"When Fabio puts your clitoris in his mouth, it will bloom so bad he will take you to horny heaven."
Nigga in like 4 months when this kanji shows up again all I'll remember is "mouth" and "horny heaven". If he kept his shit short and didn't include so many random words in the mnemonic like fabio, bad, take, etc. this shit wouldn't be so hard to recall.
>>143935834
Jap subs are only useful if you want to learn kanji readings while watching anime
![[Coalgirls]_Tamako_Love_Story_(1280x720_Blu-ray_FLAC)_[FE976F87].mkv_snapshot_00.36.39_[2016.07.09_18.47.39].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HqiBDEw.jpg "[Coalgirls]_Tamako_Love_Story_(1280x720_Blu-ray_FLAC)_[FE976F87].mkv_snapshot_00.36.39_[2016.07.09_18.47.39].jpg")
>>143935370
That just reminded me of this.
>>143935921
If you could actually read a reply chain like a normal person, you'd understand we're talking about practicing grammar by watching anime.
>>143935792
>skipping days
出来ない
>>143935995
>まだいすきた
what does it mean tho
>>143935655
If you watched even a decent amount of anime, eventually your brain should've started associating certain spoken words with the words that appear in the subs. This isn't rocket science.
>>143935970
They're nice if you mishear something and want to correct yourself.
>>143935792
I can't not study because weeb shit is my main hobby. It's the same reason I can never give it up.
>>143936053
The answer is vertical
>>143935792
No, I'm a lazy bastard and I keep telling myself that "I'll do it a bit later tonight" and then by the time I start posting on DJT and want to study, I tell myself it's too late and I'll be wasting my time.
>>143935934
When I'm recalling KD mnemonics I usually don't recall the whole story but it still helps me to remember.
It's gotta be memorable, unique to recall it.
I would find it impossible to learn kanji without these mnemonics idk how the fuck Japs do it. No wonder it takes them years.
>>143936053
Dub a rub rub for the grub is thankful
>>143933437
>>143935199
>>143935370
>>143935655
>still keeps deleting his posts
Holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you?
>>143936414
Why are you talking to dead people?
>>143936220
you gotta admit there's some pretty easy to recognize kanji among the heaps of garbage, like for example I can instantly recognize 遊 as "play" without having to remember the story behind it because it's so damn common in everything I read
Any babe here have a tutor?
>>143936605
For some of them that's true but there's quite a few of them that are very similar, and I rather have a way of being able to tell them apart.
Knowing each part that makes up the kanji.
Though some kanji will just have their own little unique change.
>>143936636
I fucking wish. There's some Japanese schools I'd like to attend in my country but shit's in another city so that's a no go.
>>143936732
Skype seems to work for a lot of people.
>>143936636
>babe
>>143936220
You don't have to think about mnemonics to read numbers or symbols, you just do it. It's really all about repetition until it clicks with you. You have to get to the point where you aren't thinking about the meaning in English, if you try to translate everything back to English to understand it you'll never be fluent.
Some anon further up was complaining about not being able to put together sentences he was reading, when his real issue was that he was trying to translate it all back into English to understand the meaning.
Mnemonics are good for initial learning but you should strive to get past them.
> someone told me speaking to Native Japanese speakers was a good way to learn
> sign up on interpals
> sent about 15 messages to native Japanese speakers informing my desire to learn the language and offering my languages in return
> not a single reply
back to anki reps then
>>143936605
私の恋人は変人です :)
>>143936858
Did you send the messages in Jap?
Did you describe what you're into and things you like to talk about?
You were probably being too vague, people are picky and want to discuss things they like. They don't know you and you're going to have to spend a lot of time talking to each other so they need to know these things.
