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Read the guide before asking questions.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pKgBm8Aa58mjB1hYhbK-VOPZsRBTXBuPBzw8Xikm2ss/pub?embedded=true
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>>143443866
Reminder individual kanji study is a complete waste of time
>>143482046
>>143482098
Individual Kanji Study?
Cute OP pic
is there epub/txt for this?
>>143482110
悲しいです
Can any of you advanced level Japanese speakers explain to me, what なる signifies/means in ここは全能なるわれらマゾーンの第2の故郷なり? I don't know what becomes what.
>>143482741
>目茶苦茶
FTFY
>>143482353
rikai says as a suffix its 'that is' or 'who/that is called'
unless 'suf' doesnt mean suffix
Nips are literally retarded when it comes to english. My friend showed me a school english textbook and when I read it it looked like a textbook for 3rd graders. I was shocked when he said it was the english textbook for 高校一年生
>>143482920
what did you expect; its not singapore
>>143482920
That's how high school foreign language classes are in the US as well, though. Very basic lessons that never get you to proficiency.
>>143482975
It's the same here in the UK. I did 3 years of German in school and by the end all I could do was ask where the toilet was.
Being Takeshi-san is suffering
>>143483232
a shame, their animals are great
motherfucking shield toads
>>143483309
>>143483424
>>143483461
everything eater isnt a goat?
>>143483461
>>143483498
>>143482271
imouto said it was shit
>>143482353
連体形 of 也
go see the other dudes post in the other thread for the long version
>>143483570
stop
>>143483587
I already have, Hans.
this is a japanese thread. you could have done the same but with jp-wise
>>143483652
Do the Japs have any amusing animal names? Whether it's because of how they translate literally into English (like with the German ones), or whether it's the kanji used to write their names.
>>143483652
yeah but japanese words for animals are either chinese pictures or just english words turned into kana
>>143483733
I mean シマウマ isn't any less wacky than half of those but you're the one who should be doing research
目障りだ
消えろ
Would reading literal Japanese children's books be a good idea to read before finishing Tae Kim? Where would I even find such a thing?
>>143483980
>Would reading literal Japanese children's books be a good idea
Not really.
>>143483980
Reading hanahira would probably be more beneficial and compelling
>>143482353
I wrote an explanation for you in the failed other thread.
>>143480013
>what なる signifies/means in ここは全能なるわれらマゾーンの第2の故郷なり?
This guy is wrong >>143480269 which only confuses the asker >>143480366.
This guy >>143480262 answers better, but let's add details.
In classical Japanese you have verb forms that are no longer distinguished in modern Japanese.
For example the 終止形 vs. 連体形. Simply put 終止形 is the form at the end of sentences, 連体形 is the form in clauses. For most verbs these were the same, and similar to modern dictionary form, e.g. 食ぶ, 食ふ, 云ふ, 見ゆ etc. (Put in the simplest for possible, it's the form ending in -u when writting in romaji.)
Only few examples exist where these forms are different. Verbs なり, たり, あり and 侍り (はべり) have 終止形 that ends in the -i line.
Even in periods when difference was recognized, sentences were sometimes ended in 連体形, which was a sort of "soft ending". Like you'd now end a sentence with three dots, if you will... Since for most verbs both forms are the same, ultimately ending sentences with 連体形 prevailed.
For the sentence in question, なり is the revelant verb. It simply means である/です and is written as 也. So なる is its 連体形. 全能なるわれら then becomes 全能であるわれら. Or in modern terms 全能のわれら, since 全能 is tied to nouns with の. This guy >>143480262 is right though, that modern な is a changed version of the なる I'm explaining now.
And at the end of the sentence you can see なり in its 終止形.
(Bonus: It's debatable is the concept of "sentences" applies to classical Japanese, but it's easier to understand everything with them.)
>>143483980
Best to just go through Tae Kim first, learn a little vocab along he way as well but don't focus too much on it. Then once you finish or aren ear finishing being more focus to vocab, after studying that for a bit then see if you can understand books.
At least that's my plan, on Adjectives there atm but that's because I"m literally writing down the whole thing in a journal because I feel it helps me learn. If you think something else will work better though then go for it.
>>143482163
That guy probably took it from whiny ass. I'm the retard doing an anti kanji deck (meaning, kun and on'yomi and some jukugo) with nothing else on the side, meaning even after learning 1000 kanji I still can't read jack because I'm not doing any vocab or grammar.
>>143483587
止める！！
How long is the wait before Anki lets you do your daily reps? I don't think it's that long since I can do it one evening and again in the morning/noon of the next day.
>>143484662
You can change that yourself, but by default it's 4 hours past midnight. Tools (at the top) > Preferences > Next day starts at
>77.9% correct
Alright, almost a 80 perc
>64.7% true retention
>>143482971
Learn to punctuation
>>143484199
Hey imabi can you summarize your thesis on the split in the use of man'yogana?
I missed my reps on accident after a month long streak, feels bad
>>143485116
Do them anyways. There's a neat feature that it'll automatically mature any card you get right due to the time period.
>>143485191
Are you ESL or just dumb?
>>143485285
Let me rephrase. Any card you get right will automatically be marked "mature" due to the long period of time between the last practice and the current.
>>143485099
You mean 甲 and 乙 for some syllables. Sure is mysterious. I wonder what the pronounciation differences were.
>>143485363
What's your native language? My guess is Spanish.
>>143485368
No, not that. Imabi wrote a thesis on there being two different subcultures of the use of man'yogana writing system.
>>143485285
Ｅ・Ｓ・Ｌ！（ ﾟ∀ﾟ）o彡ﾟ
Ｅ・Ｓ・Ｌ！（ ﾟ∀ﾟ）o彡ﾟ
>>143485771
Link?
better be esl, than eop desu
>>143485801
That's the problem. He only posted about it, he didn't post any of the actual information.
He did write a monograph-like article on the man'yogana in his grammar guide though, in the form of an argument against a particular interpretation of the nature of the writing system.
>>143484325
>being a beginner and trying to give advice
Just fucking stop.
>>143485893
So what do you recommend, sensei
>>143485830
I'm reading this now.
http://www.imabi.net/l335manyogana.htm
Very interesting. I admit I only gave a cursory check to Man'yougana, cause it's ultimately not needed for studying many of Old Japanese works, but he makes some interesting points.
Like:
>Watabe gives the character 君 meaning “you” as an example of why purely phonetic spellings with no meaning were necessary. In his opinion, 君 (you) could be read as kimi, anata, or omae because they were all words for “you”. As a result, writers would have devised phonetic spellings to disambiguate readings. According to Watabe, the spellings 岐美, 吉民, and 伎美 were created with no semantic relation to the word kimi. Looking at the first spelling 岐美, the characters literally mean “crossroads of beauty”. People referred to with kimi at the time had divine roles.
>So, in light of the actual meaning of kimi, 岐美 may be thought of as a reasonable artistic spelling of the word. In the second spelling, 吉民 literally means “fortunate citizen”, which can be viewed as a reasonable artistic spelling of kimi focusing on the wealthy status of the individual. The third spelling伎美 literally means “skill and beauty”, which may also be viewed as a qualification of the majestic role of someone referred to with kimi. Thus, these three spellings demonstrate that the meanings of these characters may not have been ignored in phonetic spelling but may have been taken into account for semantic play.
>xxx(insert consonant+あ sound here)らない adjectives
>the billions of little phrases that have meanings along the lines of "you know...", "well, you see...", "be that as it may...", etc.
I swear to god, these things are never going to sink in.
I should really start using lang8, and making a deliberate effort to use shit that's not sinking in. That different approach might be what I need.
>>143486534
And here we have a specimen of an anon who hasn't read enough
あれ？なんで先のスレは決たのか..びっくりした
>>143486625
> Huh? I wonder why the previous thread was decided... that scared me.
Did I do good
How many decks do you use?
Just 1 big one or do you divide into kanji, your vocab mining deck, core6k, and perhaps grammar?
I'm thinking about creating decks specifically for trans/intrans verbs, giongo, and gitaigo, if not others.
>>143487141
消した＊oops
>>143486534
Talk to people. I live in japan and know not everyone can or wants to, but simply talking to people has made so much of the grammar and nuances you read about so obvious.
The explanations in those books are correct but they wont be intuitive until you try. Like explaining how to ', i dont know, play basketball or some video game.
>>143487198
お前が消したってこと？
Can snes and n64 emulators play jap roms? Do jap version roms even exist on the internet?
>>143487236
>look at me i'm a normalfag learning japanese shittily like normalfags do
>>143487340
Why wouldn't they? Did you even tried to look?
>>143487340
yes and yes
>>143486625
You should use 消された here. And don't add "のか" to the end because it makes you sound pretentious and trying too hard. Save that stuff for when you're fluent.
>あれ？ 先のスレはどうして消された？
>>143487378
>talking to native speakers is a bad way to learn a language
How dumb are you? Not even that guy, but the fastest and arguably best way to learn a language is to just move to the country and talk to people there.
>>143487449
Dirty ESL.
>>143487148
DOJG, Core5k, mining
>>143487582
>You should use 消された here
Makes sense
>And don't add "のか" to the end because it makes you sound pretentious and trying too hard.
Wait, what the fuck? Interesting
>>143487378
I study 3+ hours a day using many resources, which is why i'm here.
Unlike you i'm serious about learning beyond chinese cartoons
>>143487800
It's not wrong or anything, but it just bugs me when I hear people talk like that because they definitely picked up from a manga or a movie and use it to sound cooler or something. Then again, even a lot of native Japanese males do it for that same reason because you gotta put up that tough front, right? It's like the elementary school boys who say stuff like "何言ってんだおめェ？ 俺はなぁ。。。" They sound so ridiculous, but kids will be kids.
It's like if somebody who is studying English but still sounds like a beginner would say "Yo, what's up, man?" Anyway, I'm just ranting because I'm bored. If you want to use it, go ahead.
http://dat.2chan.net/img2/res/1521722.htm
ハリーポッターって１０歳の教師が中学生女子をクシャミで剥く映画なの？
"Harry potter" is a movie where a 10yo teacher skinned a middle schooler with a sneeze?"
...What?
>>143488023
All this time I thought it was perfectly natural, glad you stopped me. Thanks for the heads up
>>143488123
Perhaps you shouldn't break your head over random shit on 2chan. The sentence seems as retarded in Japanese and in English.
Imagine someone who's learning English coming to 4chan seeing the shit people write post. Would be confusing too.
>>143488172
It is natural, technically. There's nothing wrong with it in a grammatical sense or in the context of mother tongue.
However, being a foreigner who speaks like that, you will inevitably be asked by somebody if you learned your Japanese from manga or video games because it's not a proper way of speaking that is taught in any textbook or classroom.
It's just all up to you. Just keep in mind that even some Japanese people don't like guys who talk like that because it makes them sound like "tryhards" who want to sound masculine or tough. It just all depends on the person or context.
What I said earlier was largely my opinion, but I know that my wife feels the same way.
>>143488204
yes my friend, just taking a break from books and articles
there are some pretty funny posts there though
>>143487967
>I study 3 hours a day
>I'm serious about learning
>>143488306
調子乗ってんじゃないわよ
テメーの意見はどうでもいい
>>143487616
Yeah that's why there's tons of people in japan who claim fluently but are barely n2 right
>>143487967
>3 hours a day
>live in japan
lol dude
That's like how much raw anime I watch a day
>>143488522
>調子乗ってんじゃないわよ
There's so much wrong with this that I don't even know where to begin.
>>143488023
>It's like if somebody who is studying English but still sounds like a beginner would say "Yo, what's up, man?"
So, like they're trying to relax and be sociable?
I used to know an extremely obvious ESL that made basic grammar mistakes who would greet me with "Hey, what's up anon?" (replace with my IRL name, obviously) It didn't sound weird at all.
>>143488620
何もできないくせに何言ってやがるこのバカｗｗｗｗ
This is an offtopic general thread. Take it to >>>/jp/
Where can I find raw anime at?
>>143483980
if you look up "Japanese graded readers" you should be able to find a series of books that have picture book+audio. the books are pretty expensive to buy physically
I don't know where you're from but the library in my city has a foreign languages section, which has kids books
here's a website with audio but no pictures:
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/betu/aesop/12/16.htm
pic related
>>143488667
This one is fine.
>>143488306
It's easy to overuse pretty much any part of the language as a foreigner but everything has it's place. If you just go around talking keigo everyone pretending to be kageaki that would sound silly too.
>>143488764
The other one was fine too
>>143488809
No, it wasn't.
>>143488684
はい、分かりました。
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>>143488764
>>143488830
>>143488843
I'm trying to start thinking in forming sentences and such, do these two have the same meaning?
私を行為させる
(do (some)act) (me)
私に行為させる
(do (some)act) (to me)
And when it's with a verb, would it be the same?
私が殴させる
(me) (to beat) (allow it)
私を殴させる
(allow to beat) (me)
私に殴させる
(allow to beat) (to me) [same meaning as above?]
Basically I'm in doubt when it's a verb/word and I want to express (do something) (to or towards) (someone), do I use を or に depending on what?
>>143489232
Are you asking about を and に after the 動作主 in 使役?
This explains it well.
http://www.tomojuku.com/blog/shieki/shieki-jyoshi/
But the best thing is to just read and learn more, eventually you'll develop a sense for it.
>>143488504
>>143488612
Memes and reaction images will get you no where
>ignore '+'
If i any use or consumption of japanese counts as study then im actually studying upwards if 14c''5 hours a day.
But congratulations on makinf le epic shitpost that no one finds funny. Probably not even the poor lonely virgin sitting behind that computer screen.
>>143489911
Sorry I'm too busy watching raw anime which I can watch because I'm not a beginner to get offended by your middle school level trolling
>>143489480
That was a bit more complex than I thought, but I think I made sense of it.
Actually that was way too complex and I'll probably forget about it tomorrow, but I'll at least try to remember を for obligation and に for permission on intransitive verbs.
Many thanks!
>>143488306
>because it's not a proper way of speaking that is taught in any textbook or classroom
So actually good Japanese, then.
>I know that my wife feels the same way
Native Japanese speakers have retarded ideas as to the ways gaijin should speak. I've seen people who have insisted that gaijin should never ever speak in anything other than 丁寧語 at all times. Fuck 'em. (sorry for my use of 'em there, hope I don't come off as a try-hard!)
>>143490894
>I've seen people who have insisted that gaijin should never ever speak in anything other than 丁寧語 at all times
oh god lol i remember that guy
>>143483980
Even if you can read Hiragana, It won't matter if you don't know any vocab
>see translated page from manga that I've read raw
>translator isn't wrong, per se, but his stiff, overly literal presentation makes the lines seem boring compared to the original Japanese
This is why you should take a more liberal approach to translating. You're going to lose the original Japanese feel no matter what you do, so you might as well take the route that will simulate the energy of the Japanese text.
>>143490981
Why even bother translating, just make shit up that fits the pictures and if you have excess speech bubbles just edit them out and draw some dicks in their place or something
>>143490981
if a scanlator does a meme and there's only EOPs around, does it make a sound?
>>143491831
If a meme does an EOP and there's only sound around, does it make a scanlator?
>>143491690
Very few of us would be here if not for translations. They're better than nothing, and you can't expect someone to learn Japanese for Japanese media when they've had no exposure to it.
How do you express "didn't have to" in Japanese?
Can you negate the ~なくてはいけない construction? Or something like ~なくてもよかった？
今日、晩ご飯を作るつもりだったから、ホテルで食事をしなくてもよかったよ。
I was planning on making dinner this evening, so you didn't have to eat at the hotel you know.
How is that?
Hey guys. I'm about to finish genki 2, and thought about getting into tobira. However I heard it's a bit too advanced going straight from genki. Is there a better alternative or should I just stick to it?
How do you revise grammar? I'm getting close to finishing Japanese the Manga Way, and there's a lot of information to remember.
>>143482046
I'm getting frustrated. I reached the point I don't have many problem with grammar, but I can't read more than a page or two without being stressed. This happens because of the SOV aspect of the language, I keep forgetting this, feeling like a retard every damn time.What can I do to read a little faster?
Mīmu to wa, jinrui no bunka o shinka saseru idenshi igai no iden jōhō de ari [ 1 ]、[?] tatoeba shūkan ya ginō, monogatari toitta hito kara hito e kopī sareru samazama na jōhō o imi suru kagaku yōgo de aru 。
1 man nen mae to gendai de wa bunmei ga ōkiku shinpo shi ta ga, sore wa hito no nō ga seibutsu gaku teki ni shinka shi ta kekka de wa nai. Sonokan wa, nō wa hotondo shinka deki te ora zu, bunmei o shinpo sase ta no wa, nō nai ni uketsugareru jōhō ga shinka shi ta kekka de aru. Shakai teki ni kyōyū sareru jōhō wa kaiwa, hitobito no furumai, hon, gishiki, kyōiku, masumedia tō niyotte nō kara nō e to kopī sare te iku ga, sono purosesu o bunseki suru tame, sorera no jōhō o mīmu toshite teigi shi, bunseki suru koto ni kono gainen. kagaku yōgo no igi ga aru (tadashi mīmu to wa nani ka toyuu teigi wa ronsha niyotte haba ga aru). Mīmu o kenkyū suru gakumon wa mīmu gaku ( Memetics ) to yobareru.
>>143494114
Why do you want to read faster?
>>143493560
http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/skills/grammar/sentences/?grammarid=511
>>143494031
By reading something easy like yotsuba or NHK easy news
>>143494143
You didn't use a textbook or anything, just reading?
>>143494012
I think that would probably be pretty hard for a beginner, but anything would be hard when you're just starting off, you could pick one of the easier recommended VNs like hanahira or flyable heart, and you'd have less of a hard time, but you might be able to deal with tobira, it really depends how much motivation you have to keep pushing forward
>>143494174
I used textbooks only for about a year.
>>143494114
>I reached the point I don't have many problem with grammar
Why are you lying? If you actually learned enough grammar to "not have many problems", you wouldn't have a problems with reading and the language being SOV.
Why does everyone in DJT lie like this?
>I reached the point I don't have many problem with grammar
>>143494174
You've already used a textbook, you said you're almost finish with Japanese the manga way, you can't just keep reading grammar guides forever, gotta start reading jap shit at some point, it's the best way to revise grammar and you won't improve much until you start
>>143494135
because I'm getting frustrated. It's been almost six months I reached this point, and still I can only read few pages time. Truth be told, I don't read every day, but I didn't have this problem when I learnt English or Spanish.
>>143494230
It's just that some people talk about using genki or whatever else, and I was wondering if I should delay reading for something like that first.
>gotta start reading jap shit at some point
But yeah, you're ultimately right. It's probably better to learn Japanese more naturally through reading anyway.
>>143494341
Well take it from me, I spent fucking ages reading grammar guides, because I was always convinced I didn't have enough of a grasp of grammar, I read all of the manga way, tae kim, genki, and a lot of the DoJG, but ultimately it was completely unnecessary to waste so much time doing so
Reading Japanese shit for the first time always feels impossible no matter how much preparation you do with grammar guides and shit, I really just think it's better to get right into reading straight away, even if it feels like it's impossible, and to just keep looking up the grammar and vocabulary that you see when and where you see it
It's really hard, but it's gunna be hard no matter what, so it's better to just get right into it so that you can start improving asap, you improve a hell of a lot faster from reading native material than you do from reading grammar guides trust me, just try not to get demotivated from how hard it feels
What's your favorite Kanji?
Mine is 少
>>143494981
A close tie between 式 and 國
>>143494981
Not really sure, there are a bunch of kanji/radicals that I love drawing though, like 隹, 衣 and 我
>>143494981
園
or maybe 參
I dun goofed.
Today I'll take it easy and review all the material (which hasn't been touched for a long time) and tomorrow I'll resume studying.
At least the reviews are flowing easily, meaning I really absorbed what I've studied!
出来る！！！！！
>>143495438
>taking more than a maximum of 2 weeks to read tyrone kimchi's grammar manual
>>143495517
Everyone should progress at his own pace.
>>143495529
doesn't stop me from pointing it out when his pace is slower than a crippled three toed sloth 笑誕
Pretty sure anki's going to give me a mental breakdown at some point
>thin shadow
>inconspicuous
this pleases goat
![[DmonHiro] Mitsudomoe 01 (BD, 720p, AAC) [988FEE0C].mkv_snapshot_06.56_[2014.12.25_06.51.45].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wUjTZVi.jpg "[DmonHiro] Mitsudomoe 01 (BD, 720p, AAC) [988FEE0C].mkv_snapshot_06.56_[2014.12.25_06.51.45].jpg")
>>143495517
I'm doing ANKI and learning French simultaneously, plus I have a full-time job.
And I'm also trying to get back to drawing and composing.
Juggling knowledge is hard and inefficient! Reading Tae Kim is a bonus activity.
what's the most widely used firefox app here among anons?
rikaichan or rikaikun?
>>143495742
rikiasama here, cant speak for the others
>>143495742
Why would that be an indicator of quality?
>>143495742
rikaikun is chrome, rikaisama is the firefox app
>>143482098
>Reminder individual kanji study is a complete waste of time
dunno about anons but y'all should study kanji radical first, then use a good kanji lookup app like midori if you have an iphone
>>143495769
>>143495779
>>143495780
what's the difference between rikaikun and rikaisama? which one is better all around?
I just downloaded anki and the beginner cards. For some reason the hiragana are cut in half (vertically). Is that normal?
>>143495807
Rikaisama is the better one by far. I'll leave it to you to find out why. It isn't that hard.
>>143495807
You can't do the anki import shit with the chrome one
>>143495741
it seems to me you aren't serious about learning japanese
that's ok if you understand it means you won't learn japanese
just the fact that you're even bothering with that kinda gives me the impression you don't understand how slow your own progress is though
to put it in perspective it took me two weeks to get through all of the grammar extravaganza while it's taken you two months to get through less than half of it
i'll have finished my first LN in the same amount of time it's taking you to read tae kim
>>143495808
yes, most serious japanese is actually written using only half of each kana, this is referred to as 'half width' kana
you're expected to learn to read exclusively that way by around the time you start your third year of grade school in japan
>>143496284
You made my day
>>143489005
>つりだし
考えオチはあのんくんたちに通じないとおもうよ
![[DmonHiro] Mitsudomoe 01 (BD, 720p, AAC) [988FEE0C].mkv_snapshot_11.56_[2014.12.25_06.58.14].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LnWNJGr.jpg "[DmonHiro] Mitsudomoe 01 (BD, 720p, AAC) [988FEE0C].mkv_snapshot_11.56_[2014.12.25_06.58.14].jpg")
>>143495913
That's what planning ahead is for, anon.
I've survived the animu hobby without Japanese knowledge for almost 10 years now.
And I won't need my Japanese skills for anything important for at least 5 years.
My goal for 2016, which I set up in 2015, was to finish Core 6k. Anything else is a plus. And everything is going according to keikaku so far. I'll finish this year in 黒字.
If you equal "serious" to "urgent" or "number one priority", then yeah, I'm not serious about learning Japanese.
I'm doing it in bite-sized chunks and taking advantage of long-term exposure, letting it soak in as I go. If you don't understand this concept, you're probably a monolingual who's going out of your ignorance cave for the first time. It's natural to feel full of yourself when you're not used to anything past your own shadow.
>>143496338
djtはじじつのむだ一番だよ
>>143496284
Seriously?
How do you read 家 when it's after a surname?
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>>143496854
Ke.
So DJT, how are you all with your japanese onomatopoeia? I doubt most people studying japanese take it very seriously, thinking its too childish and thus end up neglecting it or am I just projecting?
お父さん、新聞テレビ？？だけちょうだい
>>143497047
What is this accusation based on? Surely you must have some research or polls to back this ridiculous claim.
>>143497076
ふーかがしつれんした
How can I make the half width into full width kana in anki
>>143497122
Gut feeling. If you wish to dazzle me with your glorious mastery of onomatopoeia i will not refrain from stroking you.
>>143497076
it ought to be 欄 but fuck if I can tell
>>143497076
欄(らん) meaning "section".
>>143497272
>>143497294
ah thanks that makes sense
>>143497152
ネタバレかな
>>143497152
いもうとさん今日の気分はどうですか~?
治った？
>>143497047
There are plenty of words like that in ANKI, so I end up studying them - karakara, betabeta, pekopeko, gabugabu...
Otherwise I might have ended up ignoring them.
But while I believe they're pretty informal, it seems to me they are not as childish as you are picturing.
They are mainly used for situations that are not very serious in nature, so the tone is not that off.
Think of someone saying "a wooshing noise", or using words like squiggly, mishmash and hocuspocus.
>読みましたよーおかえりなさい
>ー
I don't get this. I thought this meant something like 'I read it, welcome home.' while it's unclear what was read, but what is the ー doing here?
>>143498137
hyphen
>>143497983
You minsunderstand me. I'm not saying I think they're childish. I'm saying I think many foreigners who study japanese might not take their study seriously. And I also admit I might be totally wrong about that.
The main problem with them is that there's so frakking many of them, and its hard to have sense of what any new one you just encounter might aim to convey
>>143495741
Hint hint, reading any native material is a much better investment of time than Tae Kim.
>>143498157
Why would that be needed here?
What J-drama should I watch?
>>143498216
Kazoku Game
It's really weird and bizzare and uncomfortable, but still very addicting to watch. I have not seen anything like it, ever
>おっぱいって素敵ですよね
>Boobs, you say? Those are great!
>Speaking of Boobs, those are great!
>Boobs really are great!
I hate 'って' so much, what the hell
>>143498171
Oh, I see.
I can speak only about my own experience - I thought they were childish and wouldn't have picked them on my own.
Your theory might be right!
As for the hardship of guessing what they refer to, it's really bothersome sometimes, but a lot of them make sense.
For instance, karakara (dry/thirsty) shares the ka with kawaku and kansou.
Others I try to make mnemonics. Pekopeko (hungry) is that eats-everything bird from Ragnarok, Perapera (fluent) sounds like "waitwait" in my native language, which is something we'd say for a fluent person talking too fast.
What I really hate are words like sukkari, sukkiri, kikkaku, sekkachi and whatnot, those look way more confusing without any kanji to help.
>>143498273
>Talent agency: Johnny's Entertainment
Nope.
>>143498436
Dunno what you're talking about bud
>>143497920
しんぱいかけちゃってごめんね
ばななたべたらなおったよ
>>143498462
The main actor is with Johnny's Entertainment
Can't really pinpoint when, but I've developed a disliking for them over the years. Probably because all their previous 'talent' couldn't act for shit.
>>143498473
よかった～
ゆっくりしてってね
>>143498541
Eh I don't really follow or care about that stuff, seems pretty silly. The guy however was pretty good, though the entire thing as a whole has that soapy atmosphere around it (which I find adds to it in a good way). Everyone who watches jdrama should at least try it imo.
>>143498190
japanese doesn't have semicolons
>>143499145
How do they poo then?
What does 話に聞いた here mean? I know 話を聞く means "to listen to a story/what someone says", but what about に? Please enlighten me.
>>143499296
more force
I found an old conversation between ONE and Ishida and have one question.
>東京喰種アニメ化おめでとうございＭＡＸ
>ありがとうございMATH!
Is the Max and Math just supposed to be a joke on masu (ます = Mas/Max/Mash sounds the same) or is there a hidden meme in this that I don't know,
>>143499322
feel dude
feel
>>143499322
I think it's another case of:
>>143489480
しちがつしちにちは
たなばただよ
おにいちゃんはなにをねがうの？
Is 々 optional?
Can I write kanji everywhere, even in stuff like 食べて居る?
>>143499613い…いもうとを
>>143499613
やっぱりたくさんのできるポイントだよ！
>>143499625
Yes, but your text will look dumb
>>143499625
>Is 々 optional?
It feels off if you just duplicate the kanji. I don't think it's grammatically incorrect, but you should use it.
>Can I write kanji everywhere, even in stuff like 食べて居る?
Yes, but it feels super formal or pretentious.
>ここがあるから上手くなりたい。
I don't get what あるから means here. Is this the "because" kind of から?
Help please.
>>143500732
Thanks.
Pretentious is what I'm aiming at!
>>143500820
I want to be good because there is [context] here.
>>143500882
That's what I guessed but the problem is that there's not much context, if at all. I guess I shouldn't think everything written in japanese has to make sense.
>>143499322
話に聞いた is more like "heard from the story". It's a less direct thing.
>even birds have been intonation than me
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1466621062411.webm
>>143502643
なーんだ
あぎりさんか
>>143502643
*better
they can probably spell better too
>>143502643
How does it even pronounce Ms without lips?
>>143503129
Probably something to do with it being an alien or a robot
>>143502643
>that どうしたの
What the fuck is that bird
If someone's dedicated they could download and upload a ton of audio books off of amazon for free using method here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct_CXn7mHf4
>>143503738
Nice try FBI-san
>>143502643
>a bird is teaching me
is media lost due the meltdown of desustorage coming back? someone posted a JAV webm right when that was happening.
>>143505600
What?
>decide to take a break from Japanese
>stop doing Anki for a month
>come back with 4,536 cards due
頑張ります
>>143506077
Well what did you expect would happen
That decks pretty much fucked now too because the intervals will be all messed up
>actually felt myself reading faster today
Feels good man.
>>143505809
nevermind. apparently it was just two days ago. manged to cop it.
Do you guys use audio books at all for studying?
I managed to grab a bunch of them recently
>>143506911
Where? Share.
I came across this sentence, and am a bit puzzled at what's trying to convey. Could somebody help me out?
Context: Guy is nauseous, somebody asks if he's okay, guy lies and makes up an excuse. Then says to the reader: 本当は、案の草体と以の草体が胃もたれしたってところかな
I sort of get that he's saying that he feels terrible, but I'm not sure what 案の草体と以の草体 actually means.
>>143507087
I actually did what >>143503738
Mentioned but I havent downloaded all of them yet, if its not that huge ill upload them maybe for you guys, I only grabbed things that were 3-4stars+
>>143507118
Are you sure that it's 案?
>>143507491
Actually, I'm wrong and it's 安. Although I have to say that I still don't get it.
>>143507587
As I expected. Pretty fucking obscure reference for gaijin to get.
I'm gonna hold out on the answer until you provide context properly like you should have done in the first place though.
>>143507628
Sorry, I don't understand. What would you like me to do better?
I recently read a book about learning Japanese from anime and manga. It sounds so silly and like a weeaboo's wet dream, but it took me by surprise. I don't know if I can even explain it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HHB884E
>>143507118
http://www.hana300.com/aakana.html
Oops, I forgot. Cover of said book.
>>143507667
Post a picture of the page. I mean the fact that you didn't even bother typing the sentence properly means I probably put more effort into figuring out your own sentence than you did. If you're gonna ask a question think about the people answering it and try to help them out a bit. Like how the fuck do you expect people to answer a question about something when that something isn't even what is written
>>143507815
Looks like shit
>>143507759
>>143507815
>shilling your own book
>>143507762
Now I get it. Thanks.
>>143507816
You're right. I don't have the file available on my computer, but I should have gone looking for it. I'm sorry to have upset you.
>>143507118
He felt like his stomach was tied in the shape of 案 and 以
>>143507815
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No.
>>143507943
For "context" it's also often more important to give the preceding/following sentence than to try to explain the plot or some shit. Just remember that if you're asking the question that means you probably don't know what the important information is so you should try to provide enough to be safe. Nothing in the context you gave explains why あい would make sense
>>143507839
>>143508038
Yup, It does. You know what though. I'd rather try anything else then Japanese classes though. I'm broke now, and they sucked bad. I hate grammar textbooks, and while they are not the entire class, they make up a lot of them.
>>143508136
Word, onii-chan.
Gladly, our Cornucopia is always full of free and less weeaboo-bait content.
Maybe Eric can sell his "book" on YouTube fansing videos, though. =^.^=
>>143508136
You don't have to spend a penny to learn Japanese properly.
Read the fucking guide in OP.
Does anyone know of a novel (light or regular) that I could find online or as one of those editable pdfs? I just want to be able to rikai words as I go, but every LN I find is stored as individual photos and I'd rather not mess with OCR and stuff.
>>143508311
Read the guide.
>>143508311
There's plenty of LNs in html in CoR.
Alternatively you can buy kindle versions of whatever the fuck you want and convert to html with calibre.
>>143508383
Okay thanks, I'll see if I can find them. And that's a good tip about the kindle versions.
>>143508788
Sounds like Captain Harlock
>>143503738
In the US an Audible subscription only gives you 1 audiobook per month. Why is Japan always so superior?
>>143509025
Yeah I got mixed up, just realized it.
I'd been fixing the subs a bit, but it's so mindnumbing I stopped after 5 eps.
>>143507759
>>143507815
What's wrong Eric Bodnar? Not enough likes when you shill on Facebook?
>>143507759
>Wanikani
It probably doesn't even mention Visual Novels, the Holy Grail of Japanese learning.
>>143509388
So it's literally the guide, but being sold on amazon.
>>143509388
The author looks like a douchebag too. And there's a nice fake review on Amazon 2 days after the release. Hilarious.
I've been playing Silent Hill in Japanese recently to help my reading/listening comprehension. And holy shit, they did not even try to translate some of these lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eOpM7qQHo
I bet people got paid for this "translation" too.
>>143509506
I wouldnt be surprised if it was one of ours trying to make money off of it
I know this is probably a question better suited for /jp/ or some shit, but I really wanna get into the touhou lore, but don't really know how, is there any good touhou manga, LNs or VNs anyone can recommend for me to read raw?
Do people do core to learn kanji and vocab before learning grammar or do they do it at the same time?
>>143509721
>trying to make money off a literal piece of shit
Seems like a bad idea.
>>143509388
Actually those are included in the second half.
>>143510149
>>143510282
Fuck off, Eric.
>>143510325
Studying manga and anime like a textbook does indeed sound silly and a bit baffling, but some folks do exactly that. A quick internet search will reveal there are a few diligent otakus out there who have taken the time to meticulously dissect entire episodes learning every single new word and grammar form. As dedicated as they may be, many will ultimately be defeated by this task after days or weeks or months of this insanity. Surely there must be another way, but how else could one study an anime? What would it look like?
