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>>133729268
なるべく諦めない!
なせば大抵なんとかなる!
Time spent shitposting is time spent not studying. If you're about to engage in a silly argument or off-topic discussion, close the thread instead. Use your time productively!
Persistence is the key to success. You CAN learn Japanese!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCRfTmBSGs
If you're tired of staring over, stop giving up.
>>133749752
How did you manage to pack /any/ fate references into such a useless post, let alone two.
http://skypech.com/
How many of you managed to find a decent girl to talk to on there? Most don't even have a profile picture
>>133755024
Define decent.
>Cornucopia
How do I get a Japanese gf with huge tits?
I'm struggling hardcore with vocab
Help me /djt/
Every i-adjective has a clear distinction between the functions of its -い ending and its -く ending, right? Yet for some reason, in colloquial speech すごい, and only すごい, is used as an adverb while still retaining the -い ending. For example, you can say either すごくたのしかった or すごいたのしかった and it won't make a difference, but you can only say 厳しく扱ってくれる and not 厳しい扱ってくれる. I believe ひどい also does this sometimes. I wonder what makes them so special that they seem to be the only i-adjectives that went through this "adverbalization" process. Probably because they're so common in spoken language, but then a lot of other adjectives would have been good candidates too.
>>133755453
Do Heisig/Kanjidamage/learn to write.
>>133755250
What's so funny about cornucopia?
>>133755250
>10 (not 十?)
>what I believe to mean "spot"
Pls explain
>>133755592
点
Mouseover with Rikai or look it up on Jisho.
>>133755514
I don't really understand but I subconsciously use either form to attach to other adjectives but the connective form to connect to verbs.
>>133755592
>点
>what I believe to mean "spot"
Is this the power of keywords?
>>133755592
>>what I believe to mean "spot"
>RTK
>>133754962
But shitposting is so much fun
>>133755557
It sounds a bit archaic in the 21st century 2bh
>>133755695
>>133755773
>using a deck that only has Heisig keywords
>not using one that also has Kanjidic words and example vocabulary
>not eventually fading out keywords for cloze vocab
If the keywords end up causing confusion like that because you weren't paying attention, then it's your own fault for using a bad deck and/or misunderstanding the method.
>>133755592
It means 10 points
>>133754962
I can't even learn the kana
>>133755912
Yes but why
>>133755930
Well. There's 10 which means ten. And there's the kanji that means point.
>>133755953
But why 10 and not the Kanji for ten?
>>133755514
>Probably because they're so common in spoken language
This combined with the fact that they are overused by dumb people, and are slangy
>>133755963
Nips usually use normal numbers. They are easier to use and look nicer
>>133755963
Because Nihongoland uses arabic numbers frequently anyways. You typically see the Arabic "10" on score cards from judges anyways.
>djt memetexts RTK every time
>djt recommends RTK every time
Another question about translating ranks: Is it true Private E-1 is translated as "Nitohei (二等兵)" and Private E-2 as "Ichitochei (一等兵)?"
>>133756206
It's almost like DJT has at least 2 people
>>133755592
It means your Japanese test score
how helpful is rosetta stone japanese?
>>133756228
Ittouhei
Just google 一等兵 you wil instantly get how to read it
>>133756268
It helps rosetta stone's profits. Please buy their shit.
>>133756268
I pirated it once.
It's pretty shit. Decent for learning pronunciation
>>133756268
I used it and became beyond fluent
>>133756294
Thanks
In regards to syllable marks, if they're recommended due to romanization issues with replacing "ō" with "ou," what about "Hadouken" from Street Fighter? Go with "Hadōken" or "Hadouken?"
>>133756384
What else did you use?
How le fug do I mine this word? Do I put all the meanings on one card? That seems incredibly burdensome.
What do you guys do when you run into a word with so many different meanings?
>>133755024
I'm back. I managed to have a decent talk with a girl for about half an hour. Was pretty good. My first time speaking too. I've only been studying 5 months but the conversation flowed alright. I can't pronounce for shit though, I need to work on it
>>133756700
jesus take the wheel
>>133756675
Pimsleur and Slime Forest
>>133756465
Both ok. Most Japanese are not autists who would be triggered by that small variety In writing words.
There's a reason why Japanese people write Tokyo Kyoto and Osaka not Toukyou Kyouto and Oosaka. Well, you should use all syllable to use Japanese IME but it's hella mendokusai for major Japanese in handwriting.
>>133756700
>mining ultra-common words with complicated meanings
You're doing it wrong. Just pick it up through reading more.
Most of those meanings go along with set expressions, so if you see カギをかける and the meaning of かける confuses you there then add the whole expression.
>>133756700
I can give you three good reasons not to mine it at all. First, for obvious reasons you don't get a lot of benefit from doing words that are very common in anki, and かける is extremely common. You'd be better off using that deck space with some other word. Second, anki doesn't work very well if you have to stop and think about several meanings of a word, it's supposed to be fast, but there's also no reason to pick on meaning of かける over any other, so it's just not very suited for an anki card. Finally, memorizing a list of meanings might give you the wrong idea about the verb. Many of these meanings only arise in specific constructions which you're better off getting acquainted through exposition.
>>133755453
>>133755518
I'm down to doing only 10 new vocab / day and I still forget them as soon as I close the card
Do I need to quit society and go to the mountains to train?
>>133756930
You pick hang because that's usually listed first in every dictionary and Heisig/kanjidamage and move the fuck on.
>>133757353
It's still a waste to make a card for it at all. Also, over 90% of the time you see it it's going to be with some other meaning that's not quite "hang".
>>133757398
Hang is a very versatile word that can sort-of substitute enough times to make it useful.
If I was making a card instead of using someone else's deck, yeah, I probably wouldn't make a card for it, but it's not going to hurt you if there's one in there.
>>133757439
You're late
>>133757584
I agree, but anon's question was about mining, i.e. making a card for it. I'd even add that if somebody came to me and asked me to define かける in one English word I'd first tell them that it's impossible, but upon insistence I'd just say "hang".
>>133757592
Was busy talking to lolis in Japanesein my dreams
>>133756930
Thanks for the advice. I'll keep that in mind.
Do you ever make separate cards for certain words with more than one meaning?
How often do Japanese schools fire foreign English teachers for incompetence?
>>133758149
I never have and I don't think that would be necessary. Most words have at most 2 or 3 notably distinct usages, so it's easy to fit all of it in a single card. Those words that do have a lot of usages tend to be extremely common like かける. Having that said, I don't think there's anything wrong with isolating a specific usage of a word in a card if you think it would be better for you to reinforce that in your memory, and it just might happen that a word has two usages you wish to reinforce in isolation, though I don't think this has ever happened to me. In general, I think it's just better to 'get to know' a word through exposure. Anki is best reserved for the simple task of making a simple connection between a word and a simple meaning, you can expand on the complexity of the word later.
>>133758088
ロリと日本語で喋っただろう?
>>133758451
There is probably no data besides anecdotal data on this.
>>133759289
Would it be likely to happen to me if I'm bad at the job, though?
>>133759381
Sorry, I really have no clue. On the one hand Japanese people have a fame of being very rigorous about work, but on the other hand maybe gaijins get a completely different treatment.
I'm too retarded for core2k
>>133759524
No you're not, you're probably just not approaching it correctly.
>random words, some incredibly easy, have furigana in this LN
Were they throwing darts to determine this?
>>133759598
Help me ;_;
>>133760137
Post your anki stats for the deck
>>133760137
Do RTK. I'm not even joking. If you're having a lot of trouble with anki doing RTK is a way out of your slump.
I'm never gonna learn Japanese lmaobut i love trying though
>>133760185
not the anon you replyed to Im a different retard, what's RTK
>>133760218
Read the pastebin in the op.
>>133760218
Heisig's Remembering The Kanji, a slightly polemical and very memetical book around these parts.
>>133760168
Which part? I only just started a few days ago
>>133760317
The whole screen
It has a save image button
>>133760330
I'm on my phone right now, it's separated into tabs on mobile
>>133760352
The part that shows what buttons you press for new cards, reps, and mature cards then
>>133760375
>XとYのZ
>"X and the Z of Y"?
>"X and Y of Z"?
>"When X, Z of Y also"?
NAZE NANDA NIHONJIN????
>>133760410
Holy shit that's bad
Do kanji meaning study somehow
>>133760582
Now write Japanese sentences where the translation actually works like that
>>133760648
>Holy shit that's bad
Am I incapable of learning Japanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ-dBHCHo3E
why japanese people
>>133760700
Just like learn japanese
it'll happen eventually
I went 9 months without studying and now I'm reading hanahira fluidly.
>>133760893
>are you aware of your own defect
How do the people who make those books get away with this shit?
>>133760927
>I went 9 months without studying and now I'm reading hanahira fluidly.
wow lad
>>133760927
Is not studying the key to success then?
>>133761451
Not really, I would've been reading it at one month if I sturied.
>hey me, you know what would be a good idea?
>what?
>unsuspending all your leeched cards at once
>brilliant!
Why am I such a retard?
>>133761500
Install load balancer before you kill yourself.
>>133761500
>mature leeches
What?
>>133760927
>Just like learn japanese
>it'll happen eventually
?????
what does that even mean
>>133761500
>>133761546
Just like learn japanese man
Just do it
>>133761543
I'm not only reviewing my leeched cards.
Is it normal that the mature % rate for my mined deck is low, like 85-90%?
>>133761631
*I meant mature correct % rate
this cat is FUCKING CUTE
>>133761500
Bad idea. Leeches are leeched for a reason - anki didn't effectively get you to memorize them. You have to study leeches outside of anki, you have to give them extra special attention. Write them each 10 times, make mnemonics, do custom study for them every day. Or, let them be suspended and just pick them up through reading, though I don't recommend that. Either way, don't be retarded and unsuspend them
「無一物」
仏に逢えば仏を殺せ
祖に逢えば祖を殺せ
何物にも捕われず
縛られず
ただあるがままに己を生きる
>>133761869
kono neko wa mechakucha kawaii desu yo ne
>>133762531
haha arigatu desu ;P
>>133762531
mashuramu hedo wa kusai desu.
Pay attention class
>>133762316
Is the second sentence saying "Hee... I certainly wondered if you liked harems"?
>>133762698
She thought a harem would be good. She's being boke about MC having 6 girls clinging to him at that point in time
>>133762724
Oh right, she's talking about herself.
>>133762724
Why the のか then?
>>133762822
Because that's what she was thinking.
Had 2 years of university Japanese but I am returning to it now after a while. I've been grinding Kanji and my short-term goal for now is getting through the 1006 grade school Kanji before starting the Core 2k vocab deck.
Someone tell me if I'm being a moron.
>>133762904
You should grind the kanji while doing core2k. Do both at once.
>>133762316
what's the name of that nukige
>>133763307
https://vndb.org/v15482
>>133761869
>english sentence
This is what the Jews want you to do, hide it if you want to learn Japanese.
>>133763340
Any good?
>>133763355
Hey, good advice. Thanks. Wish I coulddo that, would be even better.
>>133763452
you're dumb
>>133763437
Leftmost girl is mostly just gangbangs with the demon queen, middle girl's route has tons of vibrators and bondage, rightmost girl has pure love and tsundere being broken down; overall it was a nice fap but not something remarkably good. It DID have a lot of plot for a nukige (like real plot unrelated to sex) so it was good reading practice, though.
>>133760927
>>133760648
Nothing else? So is there just no hope for me? I really am too dumb to learn this language?
I tried doing today's cards but I've had to relearn almost everything from yesterday so I turned new cards to 0 for now
>>133763645
Just keep trying to learn japanese and you'll get there. There's no such thing as too dumb to learn a language, unless you're mentally retarded as to be unable to speak any language at all, which is clearly not the case.
>sit on bed
>open up ハイペリオン
>just read
>follow along with the story
I have reached my final form.
>>133764505
今、あなたの日本語わ最高ですか?
>>133764639
そうです。
羨ましいな~ 俺わ日本になりたいけど私の日本語わ最低です。
>だが次二ふざけた子と言ってみろ・・・
>「バレーボールの刑」にしてやる
>However the next time you dare to say such joke, [punishment name] yada yada (let's leave it at "I'll turn you into valleyball"
Correctness aside, what do てみろ and にしてやる do?
>>133765232
頑張れ!名無しさん
>>133765282
I suck cocks, you know where に and こ should be.
>>133765282
I keep reading 次二 as 二次
http://strawpoll.me/6055772
3 years later and I'm fluent in Japanese, time to move on to an actually hard language. Wish me luck!
>Can't for the life of me remember anki cards
Most cards takes me at least 30 times to remember, and even then just barely. I can usually remember what the kanji means after a few times, but I keep forgetting the pronunciation.
What am I doing wrong?
>>133766469
>Wish me luck!
I will not
English and Japanese are the only languages worth learning
>>133766548
Maybe if you're an /a/ peasant.
工廠
rare kanji for you rare kanji colonists
>>133766469
chinese is only hard because no compelling content
>>133766548
I'm learning Chinese just to learn it. Same thing happened with Japanese at a certain point. If the learning process isn't reward enough you will probably end up stagnating as a intermediate and be forever in this vague inbetween zone where you have to guess at stuff based on context and never really understanding everything. That is where most people who call themselves fluent end up.
>>133766596
>chinese is only hard because no compelling content
Chinese is hard because of pronunciation. And I'm not talking about tones, I'm talking about trying to hear sounds that don't exist in English.
>>133766596
Here's one for you in return: 竣工
>>133766639
Meh. If you keep guessing based on context eventually all of your guesses will be right. If you keep reading (and looking up words) you will achieve close to 100% understanding soon enough (couple years) for familiar contexts. 90% of that "vague understanding haze" is not knowing the vocab well, and 10% being unfamiliar with grammar, obviously looking up words will eliminate the unknown vocab and simple quantity will solve the grammar problem, so no worries.
>>133766680
Compelling content broski
>>133766729
My point is that if you don't enjoy that process you will probably end up stagnating, aka not do it consistently enough to actually make progress. You will be what I like to call "polyglot fluent" in the language. If you want native fluency you need to keep pushing even when certain types of texts seem easy enough. Branch out to the news and pre-WWII literature.
>>133766844
>If you want native fluency
I'm not concerned about that. I have one concern: Do I understand what I'm consuming? If not, I need to learn it, if so, then all is well. It's a solid philosophy that has done me well. No imaginary "native" levels, no "ploygot fluency" stuff. Just simply, do I understand.
>>133766943
It's easy to stay in a comfort zone. You could be able to read lots of easy VN's but try and read a thread on 2ch and be completely fucked.
おい、そこの幼女、百合百合したいか
>>133764505
>Reading VN on auto-play for the first time ever
Pure bliss
>>133767068
I will worry about a thread on 2ch when I read a thread on 2ch. If I have no problem reading everything I want to read, be it in a comfort zone or not, why would I care? Like I said, I'm not concerned about an imaginary native level, or any lofty goals. I just want to understand what is laid before me at the current moment. If I can accomplish that, I will be satisfied.
>>133767143
about how long did you study Japanese before being able too keep up with a vn?
>>133767086
したいくらいはしてないわけではないかもしれない・・・?
>>133767344
This VN is pretty damn easy compared to others I've played. There is no narration and everything is voiced, which is why I can keep up. It feels like a voiced SoL manga basically. Sometimes I pause to look up some words but it flows pretty well.
I studied pretty hardcore for about 6-8 months then didn't have contact with any japanese media for about 5 years. Since I restarted I've been at it for 4 months
Man, my grammar comprehension is at all time low today.
Does this say that the hobby is complaining TO women in adult games or complaining ABOUT women in adult games?
How do I stifle the urge to mine every word I see? I know it's dumb but I still want to.
>>133767646
Don't resist, sooner or later you'll run out of words to mine.
>>133767143
oh shit I need to read this
>>133767646
Make up a rule like "only mine X a day" or "only mine words with new kanji" or "only mine words that bother you"
>>133767646
Add everything. Easy words will quickly become mature, so it's not much of an added labour.
>>133767683
Do it senpai
>tfw just started katakana training the other day and the joy of going to a .jp website and being able to make marginal sense of the menu selections
It's a little thing, but it's such a good feeling when you start to see than memorization is not for nothing.
>>133767633
Adult games and complaining to women.
に means "and" in this case.
>>133767666
>Don't resist, sooner or later you'll run out of words to mine.
Haha, good one.
>Adjectival Noun
What
>>133768006
You sure about that?
>>133768249
na-adjective
>>133768340
I don't know what that means either
I really don't have much problems recognizing kanji when I'm reading but when I'm trying to write them down, it's getting very tight. What's the problem?
>>133768557
You practice more from kani -> meaning than meaning -> kanji
Memory doesn't necessarily work both ways
>>133768557
You aren't doing RTK or an equivalent.
>>133767833
>なんか夫婦っぽくないか、今の私達
What is this supposed to mean? "Are non-married couple things like our current selfs" ? I feel like I'm so far off, I shouldn't have even said what I was thinking
>>133768557
Foreign language recall is four times recognition.
I thought that was common knowledge
>>133768672
>Foreign language recall is four times recognition.
>I thought that was common knowledge
Fuck, reproduction not recognition.
You can recognize four times as much as you can produce on demand.
>>133768006
>に means "and" in this case.
It can do that? First time I hear it.
>>133768664
>It kind of feels like we're a married couple (when we're like this), doesn't it?
>>133768395
Well, you should. Haven't you studied any grammar at all?
Why did the Japanese use to cheer so much?Well, it was the 唱和 era after all
>店に歩いたのはパンを買った
>walked to the store to buy bread
I have so much trouble trying to correctly order everything
>>133768730
I've seen it used like that before.
ハンバーグにコーラです。お待たせ!
>>133768877
>>133768877
Why are you worrying about classification of words then? They make no sense unless learned in a context of grammar.
>>133768963
Because it was an English term I didn't understand, not a Japanese one
>>133769026
Are you being facetious on purpose? Learn grammar and you'll know that shit, there's no point in knowing it know..
>>133769026
It's an English term that exclusively refers to Japanese grammar. So if you don't know anything about Japanese grammar it's only natural you won't understand.you dumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjectival_noun_%28Japanese%29
>>133768720
For me it's a ratio of 1000:1, so don't come here with your common knowledge.
>>133768824
お店に歩いてパンを買った
>>133769265
This is just "I walked to the store and bought bread."
>>133768824
This doesn't make a lot of sense at all. Sounds like you're saying "The reason I walked to the store is I bought bread." or something like that.
店にパンを買いに歩いて行きました
>>133768824
パンを買いに店に歩いて行った
我が人生はパンを買うのためにあるぞ
>>133768824
パンを買うためにお店に行った
>>133768824
パンが欲しいなーって思って店に行って来た
>>133769705
確かにパンは大事だけど、奇跡だとでも言われるほど大事だけど、自分をもっと大切にしろ
お店には、パンを買うしかないだろう
>>133769265
>>133769467
>>133769626
>>133769739
Okay, I'm still having a lot of trouble knowing when to use particles, what particles etc.
>>133769798
Read more.
>>133769821
もっと店でパンを買った方がいいな、同感だ
>>133769798
もっと読め
What's パンの耳 actually mean again?
>>133768824
パンをお尻に挿れる希望を与える為にお店に行ってパンを買った。
>>133769821
>>133769872
I will try my best
>>133769798
もっとパンを食え
>>133769893
What the fuck, Japan. Why???
>>133768824
市の売店に食パンを購入しに散歩した
>>133769951
It makes sense when you know what it actually means instead of the vague edict definition.
>>133769951
cmon its so cute
>>133769893
パンの耳をお店で買いに行った
焼けた食パンの表面はきつね色や薄茶色であるが、サンドイッチなどに使う時は白い部分だけを用い茶色の部分あたりは切り落とすことがある(ことが多い)。切り落とした部分は「パンの耳」などと呼ばれている。
>>133770151
Thanks, friend!
>>133769991
目的地がある時点で散歩じゃなくなるんじゃないか
>>133770151
おぉ、勉強になった
>>133770250
散歩はぶらぶら歩く、歩き回るってこと?
なるほど
>>133770151
i cant read this
>>133770443
パンの耳 are basically strips of breadcrust like what you get when you remove the crust from sliced bread when you make a sandwich.
Word of the day: ジパング
パンだけに
>>133769905
>>133770151
パンの耳もちゃんと食べなきゃ
>>133770539
おいしいぞ
>>133770430
ちなみに、「散策」という言葉は「散歩」とほぼ同じ意味であるが、「散策」には「風景や雰囲気などを楽しみながらのんびりと歩く」というニュアンスも含まれています
Best RTK deck?
>>133770859
The one you make yourself out of http://ziggr.com/heisig/
>>133770982
You can't even read おいしいぞ?
>>133770982
Maybe you should actually study Japanese if you are in these threads
>>133770982
>おいしいぞ
>もっとパンを食え
>>133770496
>zipang
>japan
>japon
>yaponia
Where did gaijin get those names from when it's called 日本? Chinese?
>>133771183
https://translate.google.com/#zh-CN/en/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC
Press the speaker icon.
>>133771183
Different cultures read the characters for 日本 differently, and baka gaijins distorted them even more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan
>>133771267
Fucking Chinese
>>133771183
ジパング (n) Zipangu (the name for Japan used by Marco Polo); (P)
Yeah I wonder who they could have gotten it from.
>>133771331
そこでニホンが伝わってさえいれば…とおもうわけだよ
>>133771183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-gbeI0AFQ
Multiply that effect over a few different distortions as the word travels through different dialects and language ans it's not really that surprising that Nippon has become Zipang or Japan at different places and times.
Word of the day:
社畜
>>133771331
What does the (P) mean?
>>133767833
Is there a PC version or do you just emulate it?
>>133771885
Emulator
>>133771827
Proper noun
>>133771979
Thanks heaps, I feel dumb now after seeing it so many thousands of times in edict definitions and never bothering to look it up.
>>133772046
How would you look it up? Google (P)?
>>133771964
Ok, thanks.
>>133772076
"edict word classifications"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDICT#Word_class_abbreviations
>>133769207
You're just dumb then.
>>133772461
Compelling
When things don't fit your world view, everyone else is an idiot and wrong but you.
トランプは株をできれない。
「え!」
Wow!
「え?」
Really?
>>133772660
>え!
canadians going "Hey?" at the end of every sentence
>>133772560
>everyone
No, just you.
>>133772690
ooi とか owoi だよ。おにいちゃん
>>133767833
first dialogue and a kanji I can't find
1st kanji on 2nd line, isn't the radical on the right 司? Why the fuck can't I find it on jisho radical search
I don't know what's the radical on the left
友達が「どうして日本語を勉強しているの?」と聞いている時に君たちの答えは何ですか
>>133772842
>I don't know what's the radical on the left
it's the 食 radical, grade 9 radical under jisho
>>133772897
>mfw I could read this
>>133772842
飼い猫
>>133772897
あたしのこたえは「今にも落ちてきそうな空の下で」おにいちゃん
>>133772767
>妹
>タバコを吸う姉ちゃんを掲載した
>>133772897
「趣味だから」と言う
>>133772946
>>133772958
why does this happen
一 is part of 司
>>133773116
It's not considered a fundamental component
>>133773129
That's retarded