Daily Japanese Thread DJT #1547

Reminder that the Reading List exists and needs some love.

Cornucopia of Resources / Guide
Read the guide before asking questions.
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Friendly Reminder

How to tell if something is a shitpost:
>calls the community made guide/whatever method a piece of shit with no reasoning given why
>insults someone giving helpful advice with no reasoning given why
>attempts to create arguments over virtually nothing (eg opinions without facts)
>"spam questions" that are easily answered via a 1 second glance at the guide
>uses obtuse Japanese fragments interspersed with English to attempt bypass people trying to filter the shitposts
>any mention of anime being shit, or claiming that X isn't "real Japanese"
>spells the word as romaji

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Anyone can make it if they put the effort in!

You're not born with willpower anymore than weight lifters somehow pop out of their mothers already jacked up with massive muscles on their tiny little bodies. You develop willpower by forcing yourself to do something even when you don't feel like doing it. That's all it is!

おそっ

There are 20+ DJT images floating around, and you decided to use a plain image that doesn't say DJT anywhere on it. You fucked up.

Requesting that for next time, to kindly put DJT somewhere on the OP image. It helps in finding the thread when quickly scanning the catalogue images.

ありがとうございます。

>scanning the catalogue images
>he doesn't know how to filter

6k is a cruel mistress.

There's no need for specific DJT pictures. The OP says everything that needs to be said - "DJT" and "Read the guide before asking questions" - and the specific DJT images just cause autism.

If you're using Sup Forums X, which you should be, just open up the settings, go to the Filter tab, then select "Subject" from the drop down list and put this in there:
/djt/i;highlight;

Now you never need to search for the thread again. Or if you don't want to do that, a simple CTRL+F for DJT will find the thread quicker than manually looking through the catalog. The Sup Forums X catalog has a search field and I'd imagine the default catalog does too, so you could even just use that.

That's no good. Gotta put a bit of effort into it.

hehehehe ganbaruzoi!

memes

Is there something like the beginner VN lists but for LNs?

Does anybody else take breaks from new cards when your retention turns absolute garbage? From the last three days of new cards I've remembered 20/60. Should I just deal with it and keep going or will just doing reviews for a few days be okay?

The threads on Sup Forums seem to get by just fine with no specific picture.

Really, with the amount of shitposting lately, the less things people have to get autistic about the better.

Would I be right in assuming that most people quit moon at the beginning? I went through the entirety of kanjidamage and my mining deck just hit 2k vocab, is there still any "major" obstacle ahead that could make me quit? Or is it just a case of slow and steady vocab grinding from now on?

Learning nip is an exponential process. The better you get, the faster you learn.

However the first months are the worst.
You are forcing sguiggily lines and gibberish in your head to understand a whole new way of communicating, but theres a "ceiling" you come to that you push and push and you eventually break, then its like a whole new world.

I know that sounds really gay, but you'll know when you get there. Dont think about what might cause you to quit. Assume its nothing.

The worst part is over, but you're still in for the intermediate hell.
That is, when you get to the point where you read 3-4 easier VNs, LNs, manga series or whatever, but you still can't easily read anything harder than that, and feels that even though you've been reading for a year you still meet several unknown words in every sentence.

youtube.com/watch?v=8_0zYcj-43E

>2016
>learning japanese

Man the engrish in that episode traumatised me, can't believe they'd do that to Ika

Still not as bad as Kiniro I guess but at least in that you expect it

you can push through my ceiling anytime, userちゃん〜

study hard today

なにそれ

No. I will study in a chill way like all days

You'll never become more jouzu with an attitude like that user

>kanji for mutally
>互

Oh you.

Wait till you see the ones for concave and convex

LEWD

I also like the Kanji 胎.

Truly savage.

I've just started with the anki cards, and I have the RTk and core decks setup. Will the rtk deck start showing the reverse side, I.e. train recognition instead of recall, or should I depend on the core vocab deck for that? Also, is there any deck someone can recommend that has definitions written in Japanese?

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Is that from the rtk PDF?

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うん. Preface to lesson 5, IIRC.

猫娘等、根絶やししなきゃ
サタンよ我が陰茎誘導せよ!

あっ、そっか。そこまでまだ読んでないけど感謝ね

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How polite is 我々 compared to 私達?

A lot, 我々 is like ceremonial formal, kind of like English royal We

You can only use 我々 if you're part of an evil organisation and you're explaining your evil plans to someone

新しいズボンを着てるのに改めて肛門に逆らってうんこが出て来ました

おむつでやれ

N2 is on July 3rd and I haven't started studying for it yet. What should I focus on?

on giving up until december

大きい瑞々しいチンポ

At least do a mock exam.
不合格確定

I did. Score something like 110 on it. Too near the passing line for my liking.

ノーウェー女性

何でもいいぜ

幼児などには楽勝だよね

That's not good. You're going to be throwing away that registration money at this rate

When can I consider myself intermediate?

have you taken j-cat?

Man I fucking love Kino no Tabi

I'm so happy I just randomly saw it in the guide all that time ago and decided to pick it up on a whim

Even just this one LN makes it all worth it

So I fucked around with the Reading List in the interest of giving it some semblance of organisation, but I think it looks pretty fucking awful. I'm not the maintainer, but I figured people might be more encouraged to use it and contribute to it if it were a bit better organised, so I experimented with colouring in the format and difficulty fields to that end, but as I said, I think it looks like shit.

Please go take a look and give your thoughts (you'll need to select the dynamic list to see the changes). If the general opinion is that it's awful, then it's easy enough for me to undo it.

The other option is manually re-arranging all the fields. There are two ways this could be done:
1. By difficulty, THEN format. Everything rated "easy" would be at the very top, and everything within the easy section would be sorted by format.
2. By format, THEN difficulty. VNs, for instance, might all be at the top, then all the entries in the VN section would be sorted by difficulty. The next section might then be manga.

This is obviously a lot more effort so I decided to try the colouring approach first.

Becoming intermediate at Japanese lies somewhere on the road towards becoming fluent at Japanese, but as everyone knows that is impossible. That road doesn't exist. Therefore becoming intermediate, too, is impossible.

Oh yeah, and I meant to say...
>The other option is manually re-arranging all the fields. There are two ways this could be done:
>1. By difficulty, THEN format. Everything rated "easy" would be at the very top, and everything within the easy section would be sorted by format.
>2. By format, THEN difficulty. VNs, for instance, might all be at the top, then all the entries in the VN section would be sorted by difficulty. The next section might then be manga.
Please give your preference between these two options.

its always a waste of money

i was a angsty teen once

neatly organizing shit is still playing with shit at the end of the day

what if i told you japanese isnt even real to begin with and its all in your head

>i was a angsty teen once

And now you're an edgy no fun allowed neckbeard?

When you start Genki II.

I personally think difficulty sorting is more valuable than format for learners? Is there no way to sort via column?

Not that I'm aware of without saving the spreadsheet file and editing it yourself in MS Excel or Libreoffice Calc.

The registration fee cost $2 in my country (hurray for fucked up economy), so I really couldn't care less about that. My score can only improve now on, right?

Come on you fags, give me some feedback before I lose interest.

this thread is so advanced even the shitposting is automated

I'd prefer by format then difficulty. Can't take a look at the list right now, I'll do that later.

I honestly don't care. The format seems fine to me for how rarely I use it.

Not recently but I figure a mock test is more accurate than JCAT for gauging JLPT levels.

i have fun 24/7

it sucks ass and youre gay

>censoring bookmarks and tabs
Fucking insecure faggot. Afraid we'll see all your gay porn?

>Genki
おはようレッディトくん!

You can tell he wanted us to notice it too otherwise he would have just cropped the picture since he was editing it anyway

Fuckin attention whore

Maybe he just wanted the URL to be included, in case someone was wondering where he pulled that from.

Perhaps

You’re just jealous

Mary and takeshi is a tale of romance they'll be telling for years to come

How to tell if something is a shitpost:
>post misuses greentext
>suggests using RTK
>suggests not using RTK
>post suggests using anime to learn
>post suggests you can't use anime to learn
>badly written japanese
>contains japanese but no kanji
>contains japanese
>suggests that self study is better than learning through tested methods from qualified teachers
>suggests that you can pass N1 in less than X time
>suggests that you can't pass N1 in less than X time
>suggests taking the JLPT

>make anki deck from all of LOGH's vocab
>ends up at about 15,000 cards due to selective preening (no words more common than 100 appearance, no words that only appear once)
>go through deck, know a lot of the words
>right now deck is closer to 9,000 words total
>have had to delete 1/3 of all cards I've seen
mendoukusai, mattaku...

I found it faster than normal with this image desu.

みんな調子はどうだあああああ

ここいいスレですねいいこといっぱい

お前らはいつか日本語が上手になりますよね

youtube.com/watch?v=BhmuhFgrTH4

What is the role of ただ in this sentence? Context is kyouko ate the bread when she was supposed to give it to akaritachi

what does ただの mean dude i dont の

Ordinary

It's an ordinary bag

oh i thought it was a grammar thing i guess im overthinking it

Its like saying this is JUST a bag

Mmm I remember thinking the same about kana only words

>tfw there are more kanji in the japanese language than there are stars in the universe

haha yeah dude that feel lolo

Thank god because I finished studying all the known stars the other day and I've been itching for something to fill my time with.

そのただはただのただ

お前も日本語うまくなれよ
これでも応援してるから

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Am I going crazy or is "ただ" under "free" in core? But now that I hover over it it has no "free" definition

It should be somewhere in the first 1k

try ただで

Neither rikai nor jisho has that

只(ただ) also means free as in no shekels

I guess it's just under ただ in jisho

The definition in the yryr manga is far more common though

>But now that I hover over it it has no "free" definition
u blind, bruh?

why the fuck does this word have some many alternative kanji?

I see. But I'm pretty sure it's written in hiragana, and the picture provided with it is a green scenery

ロハ(ろは)は只でものを売ることだよ

テストにはでないにほんごじゃないかなあとおもうよ

You forgot
>Refers to himself using 僕
Easiest way to spot a shitposter and/or a beta faggot desu

>why the fuck does this word have some many alternative kanji?
Because they're free.