Daily Japanese Thread DJT #1722

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Ayano wa shitto

女 confirmed for most difficult kanji to draw properly.

>But i know you got the 1st one (3) right. Can you explain it to me?
I'm not sure myself, I just picked what made most sense to me.

If I had to explain then I'd say because of the sentence after the comma "and fell right back to sleep again" the ___ part has to be something that just happened right before, and only 3 fits because 1,2 and 4 are general statements and 3 describes the state of the person's eyes.

>Its because the 4th option means the speaker is more sure of himself.
I think I just interpreted that sentence wrongly.
国へ帰った could be returned to Japan or his home country for me. I'm not really sure.

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It's just くノ一 though

It always ends up lop-sided. Especially as a radical.

thanks for explanation.

I just never seen something like 3 before, but i guess i got to be more deductive. And as for the return to japan, i couldn't tell either.

Nice image.
I want to give Ayano a big hug. In return, have a cute wallpaper.

>女 is くノ一
mind blown.

Also why my microsoft ime forgot all my self entered words?

Two questions:

>そんなのは、あるかよ！

In this context, is not the explanatory の, right?

>誰が盗んだのか、誰か知りませんか

Same here, what's the use for the の? Does it nominalize the whole sentence (誰が盗んだ) or is it the explantory one?

I really struggle to understand when this participle is used in the explanatory way or not.

そんな na-adjective
の generic noun (thing, one, etc)

のか compound particle

Why does Chinatsu look so soft

I want to become Akari and cuddle with her

H-how'd I do?

Second to last one was pretty good

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Why does Agata include furigana in his tanks?

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>かかってくるがよい。　
>貧乏神を押しつけまくってやるわ！
What does the second phrase even mean?

What are your guys' opinions on ajatt? To me the guy talks a bunch of metaphorical bullshit and then just tries to persuade you into buying his shitty over-priced "sentence-packs". im really doubting if he can even speak japanese because there's only one video of the guy speaking anything. his website design is also complete horse shit.

It's a name and pretty common for names to have furigana when first used in a given chapter or so, as how it was serialised.

I preferred his spin-off porn site template better.

基本的には薄汚れた老人の姿で、痩せこけた体で顔色は青ざめ、手に渋団扇を持って悲しそうな表情で現れるが、どんな姿でも怠け者が好きなことには変わりないとされる。家に憑く際には、押入れに好んで住み着くという[1]。詩人・中村光行によれば、貧乏神は味噌が好物で、団扇を手にしているのはこの味噌の芳香を扇いで楽しむためとされている[2]。
仮にも神なので倒すことはできないが、追い払う方法はないわけではない。新潟では、大晦日の夜に囲炉裏で火を焚くと、貧乏神が熱がって逃げていくが、代わりに暖かさを喜んで福の神がやって来るとされる。囲炉裏にまつわる貧乏神の俗信は多く、愛媛県北宇和郡津島町（現・宇和島市）では囲炉裏の火をやたらと掘ると貧乏神が出るといわれる[3]。

tldr

There's pretty much no doubt he can speak japanese but his only video is from after he was living in Japan for a while, and who knows when he really started.

But it actually is possible to get quite good in a year. If you do something like spend 2 hours a day on anki and spend every other waking minute talking to tutors you'll probably get fluent pretty fast too. So it's not like it's impossible to learn a language quickly.

Sentence decks are garbage without full native audio though.

大力に伴って大責任がある

It turns out that he is part of Kenyan royalty or something and basically learned Japanese before even starting up his blog site. There is a thread on the kanji koohii website where someone found out about some of the other scams he was running and that happened to come up.

偉い責任?

奇麗ですね

Reading phrases like that in Japanese seems weird.

>35 days to JLPT N1 exam
Fuck. I will read the final chapter of my current VN and I spend the rest of these days cramming grammar using Kanzen Master.

Goddammit these exercises.

Hafus abominations.

>tfw you get ahead of yourself and start reading
>spend 2 minutes per bubble looking up the text in an ocr reader
i just want to read already fuck.
was completing tae kim at only jplt 5 such a bad idea after all

Why is the food censored?
Is this some weird porn thing again and all the girls are actually 20+ years old?

>tfw you are almost sure you are going to fail N2 this year

Is there a way to play VNs without having to constantly change the administrative locale every time I want to play?

github.com/xupefei/Locale-Emulator/releases

please respond

>he doesn't know about the 微妙な料理

If you can read OK you will pass, the other sections are not punishing, contrary to N1

諦めないで！

How do I hook into firefox? Translation Aggregator is shit. I'd rather use rikai.

Cool I still haven't read more than the first page of my shin kanzen master dokkai and haven't read anything in Japanese in months

言われなくてもそうするよ！
ありがとう

pastebin.com/raw/DgZ84qwk

Okay, guys, I finally realized I was a moron and I'm starting to practice drawing, because I have problems remembering the stroke orders.

My first question is: do you always draw with your pen? I mean, I tried it a lot of times, but my characters always look like some abominations, being thin as hell and all. If I try to counter it by making them smaller, I can't really train my precision. Also, it feels really unnatural to imitate the sharp brush turns at the end of some strokes. Would using some kind of a brush be better than using a pen? Has anyone here tried it?

My second question is: how do I know I'm doing alright? I mean, I know I'm not gonna draw a perfect 永 at first and it's gonna look clumsy as hell. So how do I know what to look out for? I'm not gonna upload every sheet of paper and ask for guidance, I want to know if the direction I'm taking is the correct one. I'm afraid of doing something wrong and sticking to it for eternity without realizing I made a small mistake that could be really hard to unlearn later on.

Is it even possible to learn calligraphy without a knowledgeable tutor?

本当にありがとうございます、助かったよ。

The amount of reading practice you get while edging and playing nukige is incredible

Would recommend if you're okay with your dick hurting for a day or so afterwards

so i can fap to it easier

I can't even manage to read up to the first sex scene in most nukige I just download the save file

>Would using some kind of a brush be better than using a pen?
Dunno. Just try one.

jetpens.com/Brush-Pens/ct/221

Paper and ballpoint pen.
>Is it even possible to learn calligraphy without a knowledgeable tutor?
Don't bother with calligraphy before you can write Japanese normally. 書道 is the art of writing beautifully but to do that you need to be able to write normally first.

Holy shit, this is beautiful

Looks like any other texta you can get a dozen of for a few bucks.

This is going to make things a lot easier. The line counter is really nice too. Thanks

Do you have a link by any chance? Sounds entertaining

(4312) 1
(4231) 3
(3142) 4
(4231) 3 (having my doubts about this one)
(1342) 4

Pretty sure everything I did here was wrong.

11
4-3-2-1
12
4-2-4-1
13
3-1-4-2
14
4-2-1-3
15
2-4-1-3

Which parts did you find hard?

>4-2-4-1
4-2-3-1, I mean.

はじめしゃちょ uses these:
youtube.com/watch?v=QexJ6r1L_zY

I'm not sure myself, I just use a pen I had lying around.

2/5
5/5, you need to answer fast though
With an exam-like timing I got 3/5

>a shit load of DJT regulars are now actively discussing and approving of writing kanji
How did things get this bad?

I was always fast with these.

I always have N1, but I guess some revision can never hurt.

I thought this was the norm around here?

I don't visit often but I remember people spamming a study that chinese students who wrote kanji did way better at recognition.

What's the difference between yamete and yamero? I'm not studying Japanese, I'm just curious.

>always
already*

Jesus, I suck at thinking today.

Does anyone have the link to that 24/7 Japanese TV stream?

Individual kanji study is (was?) frowned upon by literally everyone. It's usually met with ridicule and 出来ない.

>2/5
Yeah I didn't feel very confident in my answers. I hate artificial sentences like these.
In real conversations people would just say what comes to their mind first.

>literally everyone
Not really.

Any tip to remember anywhere/everywhere/etc?

There are enough keywords in that post that a google search should find it.

>having furigana

>5/5, you need to answer fast though
You really don't need to be that fast if you know the stuff I think

In practice tests I end with lots of extra time. At least 20 mins

Don't confuse the loud, obnoxious, autistic minority with the majority.

>In practice tests
Different to the actual test environment and content. How you may do in pressure free exams is really a lot different to how most people do in actual exams.

>minority
user, you're projecting again. Individual kanji study and handwriting in particular is considered obsolete in essentially every JP learning community. Even the author of KKLC tells people to not bother with handwriting, and the sole purpose of that book is to systematically teach you 2300 kanji.

My own personal story, but on N2 I ended up not having enough time to finish every reading exercise. On N1 I finished everything with 20 minutes spare.

Neah I literally never stress out at tests. Especially when I know the material. They just don't matter enough to stress out about.

Also, that guy was talking about with an "exam like timing" not an actual exam environment

you actually watch this cancer

>not learning stroke order
出来ない

strawpoll.me/11538238
Let's settle this.

I forgot where I put my spoon sorry.

Never mind. Found it. Here it is for anyone that's interested: wilsonjj.me/jptv/

I don't really enjoy, but it's listening practice.

i feel that if you want to be able to write, you need to grind them out individually. otherwise just reading is fine.

awesome. thanks man.

I began to make an anki deck for Kanji study a while ago, but I never actually studied a single card.

I really want to be able to write, but I just don't wanna learn it.

I don't really see the point of wanting to learn to write kanji, though. You only have to recognize the kanji and know its reading to be able to write anything you want digitally. Outside of school/college, when was the last time you ever wrote anything by hand aside from scribbling signatures?

I like to write stories, so often.

>応接セット

There's really words for everything in Japan.

>strawpoll.me/11538238
Does it even make any sense to do it?

Does it help with kanji compound words you never saw in that constellation or long kanji strings?

>Kanji are a blessing, not a curse.
>They make learning EASIER, not more difficult – à la longue.

>When I saw 電子 (electron: electricity + child) for the first time I knew INSTANTLY what it means and guessed how to pronounce it: でんし densi. It would not be possible to guess the meaning, if you saw it written in hiragana or romaji.
>The same goes for countless kanji. And reading: it's just like looking at pictures instead of describing them. It's 天国 tengoku (heaven, sky + country) – paradise.

>I NEVER learnt kanji as single entities. I always learnt words in texts (audio + transcript + translation + pop-up dictionary). I never memorized anything. I relied on massive comprehensible exposure.

Not everyone is you.
Some people enjoy writing on paper with pens.

I see where you're coming from. If you're just learning Japanese as a hobby and have no plan to live in Japan or find work there then you're right, there is no sense in learning to write. It's a waste of time outside of your personal preference and what you envision yourself doing with the language.

As for me, I just think of learning to write the Kanji as something that will help bolster the foundation I've already set out. That and also I won't look like an idiot if someone wants me to write something.

> have problems remembering the stroke orders
Is there even a point to remembering them? Most of the time, stroke order is obvious isn't it? left to right, top to bottom. Just write out all the vocab that you're adding to your Anki deck once and it stroke order should become second nature.

You are part of that obnoxious minority.

>Even the author of KKLC
Who?

>instantly guessed what 電子 means
>when 子 adds literally no meaning

背もたれ

Do you know what an electron is?

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