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When I ask gaijins who learn Japanese the reason why they learn Japanese, they always answer it's not for anime. Why?
Caleb Brown
Denialism
Asher Barnes
Because they are insecure. And they are actually interested in anime.
Tsundere weebs are the best to bully.
Eli James
>start by something due to Anime do you want to get bullied?
Nolan Taylor
I'm learning japanese because the last 3 anime/manga i saw/read had a fuckton of puns so i got mad and decided to learn the language as revenge. I'm still trying to memorize Hiragana and Katakana, though.
Cooper Peterson
Is japan a country racist? Please a serious answer, i'm getting a scholarship
Juan Price
can you use 古典 when you want to talk about music classics like stuff from the 80s or some shit, or what do you say then
Andrew Sullivan
No. 古典 refers things from ancient ages. 一昔前の is good way to say that.
Dominic Carter
教えてくれてありがとう、先輩
Michael Stewart
WOAH, just read 60 pages of Yotsuba+ without getting stuck, checked the dictionary only once. Last time I attempted (2 years ago) it took me a good amount of hours and I had to check the vocabulary/sentence tables all the time.
If you look Brazilian/Peruvian, they can be depending on where you're settling, because they have their fair share of halfu immigrants coming back home several generations after and forming ghettos over there.
Justin James
Should I be concerned that I'm getting mature cards wrong? My correct rate is about 95% but when I see people here posting perfect retention rates for, and the fact that I have a pool of mature cards several hundred large- meaning even 5% represents several dozen terms, it's kind of alarming.
Liam Butler
>tfw learning cs all day long >still have to do my anki reps I want to die.
John Murphy
You should be good as long as you're above 90%
Joseph Reed
yes, you should feel very bad you might as well drop japanese all together, this shit is unacceptable
Jaxson Ramirez
I don't want to learn Japanese. If I were to learn Japanese it would ruin anime for me.
Andrew Howard
drop anki
Hudson Parker
anime is ruined somewhere in your 20s anyway
Blake Baker
Yeah you should honestly just commit suicide. You'll never be as good as a native. Natives of any language never forget words they've learned and they most certainly never use phrases like "what was the word for x again?".
Hudson Richardson
And with joy returned to my heart, I can safely retire to my bed.
Good night, DJT. Don't kill this thread too!
Hudson Campbell
I've been reading more into grammar and one that that always confused me was the quoting particle. Mainly the interpreted quote, and what is actually being quoted and what isn't before. Is it just by context or are there given rules?
Justin Anderson
Yes.
Carson Cruz
It's by context
Jaxson Lewis
ネコが飛び出す丸い入れ物
Luis Howard
>read Hanahira >don't get shit
Given this is the one people called incredibly easy, that was kinda disheartening.
Jayden Bailey
Du bist alt.
Zachary Thompson
Hanahira doesn't have easy grammar, it has no grammar! It's a trainwreck of sentence fragments and abbreviated slang. Try reading something that has complete sentences instead. Like NHK News Easy.
Disclaimer: I haven't read Hanahira. I'm basing my evaluation on screenshots of the game and conjecture.
Ian Peterson
Grammar seems to be my biggest issue, yeah. Vocab is something you can always look up but more complex sentences are lost on me.
I've tried a bit of NHK News Easy and shounen manga with furigana and found them more to my liking. I just want to get to a level where I'm not so frequently lost.
Jace Scott
>I just want to get to a level where I'm not so frequently lost. this may take a while though
Kayden Jackson
Puns were part of the reason I started, too. I believe in you, user.
Leo Murphy
How long are we talking on average?
Henry Morris
better than my reason, I just want to bane post in nip speak.
Caleb King
I want to marry イモト
Jose Hall
>today i've finally reached the 1000 cards in 2k/6k Feels good.
Tyler Bennett
おめでとう
Lincoln Adams
Does anyone else using the core 6k or 10k sporadically have Anki "cut off" the first audio file that plays the word and start playing the sentence?
I have to press R to replay to hear the word, sometimes multiple times before it gets it right.
Luke Powell
it was my receiver using optical waiting too long to kick in, probably due to conversion delay, so i change the input to PCM
Jose Richardson
ありがとうございます。
Wyatt Brooks
>optical waiting u wot?
Joshua Williams
Meant to select "using optical". Anyway, I'm not really sure what you're referring to.
Jaxon Sanchez
>I'm still trying to memorize Hiragana and Katakana, though.
The worst part is the kanji. Kanji will fucking break you. Ready to memorize thousands of characters with slight variations between them?
Noah King
I have 2.5k matures and other 2K+ on a custom deck. It will takes me forever to reach the full 6k. :/
Thomas Wright
>Just got done learning Hiragana and Katakana >"Alright not too bad so far, what's n-"
Andrew Hall
To be honest, kanji are tough, but memorizing the most common radicals really helped me. It's not knowing that the 氵 in 湧 means "water" that helps me - desu, I've forgotten a lot of the explicit meanings - it's being able to split up the character into recognizable components 氵, マ, 田, and 力.
What it doesn't help at all with is kanji with eight dozen readings like 上 and 下. I haven't found a memorization aid for that besides brute force.
Adrian Martinez
>desu The word filter gets me every time.
Landon Harris
Is following sentence ok? I have problems with particles, like to, o and de.
>Watashi wa kino tomodatchi to basu de gakkou ni ikimashita.
Jayden Gray
I need to study radicals. Did you just use the Anki deck in the guide, or another resource?
Jayden Clark
Use fucking kana/kanji
Joshua Ortiz
綿死は木の友脱着飛ばす出学校似生きました。 Kind of strange.
James Jackson
Remember the Kanji, book one, is good for getting used to kanji components. It can be done alongside whatever else you are doing. It is kind of polarising in that some anons love it while some anons hate it. There should be an Anki deck and pdf for the fifth edition (or maybe the sixth edition) in the CoR.
Parker Green
Im beginner
Jaxson Rodriguez
it's perfect, moomin-kun
Mason Allen
So learn your kanas and stop using excuses
Ethan Mitchell
昨日、友達とバスで学校に行きました。・Yesterday, I went to school with the bus with my friend. Or I went to school with my friend with/using the bus.
Temporal nouns like 昨日 and 明日 are best used in this way and don't usually need particles.
As for the rest, just (sub-clause)(particle).
昨日、yesterday・友達と friend with・バスで bus using・学校に school to・行きました。went.
Simple.
Justin Edwards
you can use a bunch of different methods to get audio from your pc to a receiver, HDMI, RCA to 3.5mm jack and toslink(optical) however optical has a conversion stage from digital to light then back on top of the dolby digital compression conversion, the time adds up to a nasty startup delay PCM is uncompressed therefore its only the optical delay
im probably wrong on the details, but PCM works, i don't know your particular speaker setup, just sharing a similar problem that i was having
Jace Hill
Thanks
Alexander Smith
How do I type 九
Memrise says the kana is きゅう but when I type that the option for 九 never comes up?
Samuel Robinson
/djt/ i did something very bad.
because of reasons, i had to stop anki for a few days and came back to see 400 cards waiting for me from the 6k core deck
i tried over 3 days to do the cards while still being able to sleep between my job and college, but couldn't get it down below 300.
so this morning i just hit 'hard' on all them just to get the count back to a manageable 0 so i can 'start over again'
how fucked am i
Noah Barnes
Just tab more、it's there
Asher Wright
Ah ok I found it, but it's paired up with another character, that will do though
Xavier Watson
>Ah ok I found it, but it's paired up with another character, that will do though That shouldn't be the case. Which IME are you using, Microsoft's or Google's? The former is dogshit and you should get Google's if you already don't have it.
Joseph Rodriguez
I'm using Google's. When I typed kyuu it wasn't coming up.
Also I have a problem with Google's IME, I have to reinstall it every time I turn off my laptop, is this normal? Otherwise it doesn't appear in the toolbar at the bottom of my screen.
Eli Reyes
>Also I have a problem with Google's IME, I have to reinstall it every time I turn off my laptop, is this normal? Not at all. What OS are you on? Also you don't have to activate it from the toolbar every time, you can bind it to hotkeys.
Gabriel Torres
ここにいると、たまに俺らとほぼ変わらない日本語を巧みに使いこなす外国人がいるからびっくりするわ。
Parker Anderson
On Windows 10, I'll have a read up and see what I can do hotkeys-wise, cheers.
Cameron Campbell
just keep going
Jose Walker
Note that all DACs introduce a small amount of delay (usually less than milliseconds) because you have to oversample the audio before reproduction to prevent audible aliasing, and oversampling = resampling = you either need taps on both sides of the sample you're generating or you're using an IIR filter that has positive group delay.
Jose Robinson
実際にあったらわかると思うけど、うまく書けても全然話せないから無意味だよ
Ethan Anderson
それだけ書けるなら、十分話せます^^
Aiden Robinson
Some clarification from someone knowledgeable, please: >己の立てる所を深く掘れ、そこには必ず泉あらむ。 = 己の立てる所を深く掘れ、そこには必ず泉あらん。 = 己の立てる所を深く掘れ、そこには必ず泉であるだろう.であろう。 ? Reference is pic related.
Gavin Fisher
let's 筆談
Kayden Peterson
It's called hiding your power level.
Brayden Brown
What's hard about it?
Dig deep where you stand, for surely it is there that you shall find a spring.
Do you keep track of which VNs you've read/played?
Adam Perry
Then delete your post.
Jason Murphy
Did you read it?
Easton Stewart
You didn't ask a question. Don't blame other people when you're too lazy to write your post properly.
It should be がある instead of である though
Juan Perry
Yes of course
Aiden Bailey
I was asking about あらむ, and checking to see if someone who knew a bit of classical Japanese could check the あらむ→あらん→であろう|であるだろう、as that is what a few natives on 知恵袋 were saying and everywhere else was just explaining the expression in modern Japanese. Thought it was pretty self evident if you read the post but obviously not. These are one of the 知恵袋 posts I used. detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1052862080 There were a couple of others with more or the same thing.
How many VNs have you read?
Samuel Scott
41, not counting fandiscs/alternate versions/shit I read in English/shit I dropped.
Nolan Hill
Nice, how many years and how would you describe your language proficiency because of it?
William Sanchez
Slightly over 2 years and good
Nathaniel Taylor
Taken the JLPT or J-CAT?
Joshua Flores
何が好きのどうじん?
Joshua Clark
What the HELL is this turbonerdry? Next thing you know one can't do Anki reps without having a Hi-Fi system connected through XLR cables that are no longer than 1m..
Juan Powell
shit i'm only at 30 (also not counting shit i dropped and such) and i've been studying for forever
how do people read so much
Alexander Hall
if the front end of audio is cut off from most things it really doesnt matter
Liam Hughes
なの
Gavin Russell
何が好きな同人? barely sounds like "what's your favorite doujin?/what kind of doujin do you like?."
好きな食べ物 好きなゲーム 好きな日本語 these are how to use it
Daniel Sanders
そんなの興味ないわ
Ryan Martin
This score is from May last year, would probably do better now.
The key is to have no other hobbies or stuff to do in your free time.
Jayden Baker
>The key is to have no other hobbies or stuff to do in your free time. But then I wouldn't have time to shitpost on djt
More seriously though I'm pretty happy that DJT got kicked off Sup Forums just because I spend much less time here these days.
Adam Jones
I shitpost on DJT too, but you can't spend all your time here. You should be reading a VN right now, and tab out every now and again to quickly check it, like me.
Jayden Hill
what vns did you start on as a raw beginner, if i may ask
Oliver Lopez
>The worst part is the kanji. Grammar is hard opinion in my opinion Kanji is easy
Luke Lewis
Sticky Note user here Day 3 into the practice and it's going well, it's helping me remember Kanji more strongly and by noticing reoccurring radials I can sometimes guess a kanji's stroke order correctly. Gimmicky bullshit my butt.