If you have all this free time at home why can't you speak Japanese yet?
You said you were going to learn is last New Years
>>25350530
I said I was going to do a lot of things last year
yet hear I am
still alive
>>25350530
No, i said that i was gonna learn to speak chinese.
>>25350530
No i didn't, you delusional white cracker.
sage
kono chiisai machi o mamorette imasu!!
I'm only learning to speak, I'm not interested in learning kanji. I have gana and kana down just fine but non-ascii text isn't allowed here.
No thanks. I'd rather learn cheeki breeki so Aya can look my way
this is the only thing stopping me
>>25350969
You mean mamotte imasu.
>>25351092
Thank you kind sir
I thought with present tense you turn the "u" particle to "e" before the tte, though. I am not sure why I think this.
I did it for a solid three months with Anki literally every night, and I just got bored of it. It's pretty neat to understand a large amount of lines in anime, but considering I don't want to (and can't) move to Japan, and I don't care a lot about untranslated material, it's pointless for me to in the long run.
>>25351092
btw this isn't Ditch, is it?
>>25350530
kanji is tough but i'm slowly getting through it!
>>25351408
KORE WO KESHITE KUDASAI
>>25351348
There's two types of verbs, ichidan and godan. Ichidan ends up being the verb stem plus te iru, godan becomes either nde iru, or tte iru. You can see what verbs are what in pretty much all Japanese dictionaries.
>>25350530
because Gensokyo is afterlife and I don't want to get involved with a culture of origin for women that exploit men
>>25351482
Of course this is your thread.
I even got the books. Why am I so lazy?
You're all bakatsuras
>>25351555
This is only partly true. The te-form does become -tte for u-verbs (godan verbs)ending in -u, -tsu, and -ru, in which case the last syllable is simply dropped and -tte added.
The te-form is -nde for u-verbs ending in -nu, -bu or -mu. For -su verbs it's -shite and for -ku verbs it's -ite.
It's exactly like conjugating them to the past-tense but with -te instead of -ta.
>>25351656
I'm not the OP.
because i'm terribly depressed and i don't have the willpower or belief that i can do it.
>>25351711
hey man hows it goin'
>>25351711
Like a vulture to a fresh carcass, though.
Biyori tomorrow!!
>>25350530
Because fuck Kanji and fuck the shitty grammar
I will still learn it because /a/ makes me mad enough to do it.
>>25350530
This summer once I am on break from uni, I am going to buy the Genki books and get on it, I haven't really procrastinated I just never had a desire to learn but now I do
What compelling content have you been reading lately /r9k/?
There are enough translated visual novels and rpgs for it to not be a waste of time.
>>25352078
A roman history book on battle tactics
>>25352177
Name pls? I've been reading Caesar and Christ by will durant.
>>25352284
Roman Warfare by Adrian Goldsworthy, got it for Christmas it is decent
>>25352326
thanks fampai
Have an original new year :D
>>25350530
But I learned chinese?
learnt the wrong chinkspeak sorry
>>25351853
HORSE PILLOW
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S L
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I would only ever go to Japan as a tourist, so I doubt learning the language would really be worth it. I'm happy reading subs.
>>25350969
Literally the only worthwhile thing about learning Japanese is learning Kanji.
Kana is pretentious, worthless garbage.
>>25350530
Japan is a shithole, nobody in their right mind would want to live there.
>>25354660
You need to learn kana to read Japanese, and there is nothing "pretentious" or "worthless" about it.
>>25354682
A syllable based writing system is completely retarded.
>>25354693
Kana is not used as a full writing system, it's used as a supplement to kanji.
>>25354754
Exactly, it's fucking retarded.
It's just another stupid isolationist island nation quirk they use to make themselves seem more special compared to the Chinese (see Nihonjinron).
>>25354785
Kana is very useful.
If you don't know anything the language and clearly aren't interested in learning, why are you trying to have such strong opinions on it? Are you just that bored?
>>25354806
I'm fairly weeb, but I despise Japan because I've read a lot on it.
>>25354821
>weeb
>despises Japan
These are mutually exclusive. Completely.
>>25354835
Nah, you can have your own deluded fantasy and see reality at the same time.
>>25354851
Weeaboo means wannabe Japanese. A person who idolizes Japan and thinks it's some anime wonderland.
>>25354868
How is this incompatible with what I said?
>tfw you realize all the years you've spent lamenting not knowing Japanese you could have been studying
>>25354881
Did you even read what I just said? Why are we even arguing about this? Jesus christ.
>>25354924
As I said, you have have your own internalized fantasy dream Japanland, which isn't really anything like the real thing (i.e. what weebs generally tend to have) and be aware of what the real thing is at the same time.
Don't remind me lad
>>25354937
Then you are not a weeaboo.
>>25351395
>don't care about untranslated works
Think about all the porn lad
>>25354976
ALL THAT WANG GIRL PORN
PHWOAR
>>25350530
But I didn't plan to family
>>25350530
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbYymmMFCFE
not affiliated in any way with this bank advert but it was pretty emotional for an advert
>>25354660
>Kana is pretentious, worthless garbage.
1. What the fuck does that even mean? You need to learn those to read Japanese
2. They're very easy to learn anyway
The hardest part is literally just getting started and getting a good consistent routine going. There is absolutely nothing hard or stressful about language learning.
Learn the kana by doing five characters at one on realkana. This can take a month or it can take a weekend. It doesn't matter. You could do a few and forget them for a month. It doesn't matter, they're still in your head somewhere. Then go to the /djt/ thread on /a/ and download and the recommended core2k/6k anki deck and do it daily at whatever pace you want. It does not matter.
You can worry all day about "buh i need to have perfect comprehension of every textbook grammar exercise and every kanji's obscure readings individually and never make mistakes" but that thought process is the only thing that makes learning an ordeal. Spend only as much energy as you need to make seeing and hearing the language more enjoyable every day.
>>25350530
Because I need to learn autistic programming languages instead and my tired mind can't retain that much anymore.
>>25357269
Anki doesn't work for me, I keep confusing similar Kanji
>>25358236
You can try doing a radicals deck
