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I will give something in return to all the 0 girls who gave me chocolate!
Angel Harris
I'll give a coffee grinder to my gf
Adrian Morris
I'm glad somebody else is using these. I think they're perfect for new learners.
Joshua Jackson
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Jaxson Ramirez
I just downloaded them, the Level 1 one gives me a zip file - When I unzip that, it gives me a .zip.cpgz file. When I unzip that, it gives me a .zip file again and it keeps looping like that what do
Jace Lee
you downloaded malware. run a scan on your machine.
Alexander White
I can't vouch for the files I owned the books physically at one point
Owen Baker
Probably what said, I just unzipped and it worked fine.
Gavin Bailey
I used a different program to extract and it gave me the proper folder It couldn't be malware because I'm on a mac :^)
Kayden Gonzalez
Jesus, that first story was depressing.
Liam Sullivan
>mac white and based
Henry Johnson
Do Japanese people really call each other by their last names? Or is that just in anime/manga.
Jayden Ramirez
Your question was retarded and you should feel stupid for asking it here instead of just googling it.
Christopher Anderson
チンコを男の後ろに入れりたい
David Nguyen
Google takes to much energy
Ethan Lee
>Do Japanese people really call each other by their last names? What's wrong with that?
Julian Allen
You have to be close to someone to use their first name otherwise it's disrespectful It's an honor culture thing where families are more important than the individual
Kevin Cruz
h-help with sentence construction
'これは字の侍ですあ'
これは正しいですか
Carter Anderson
I got a cookie from my coworker. It was sakura-flavored. おいしかったよ
Lucas Gonzalez
I don't know what you want to say, sorry.
Benjamin Moore
Yeah. They're all famous Japanese stories so it's a good way to get acquainted with the culture too.
Jeremiah Clark
「これは侍という字ですか?」 「これは侍という字です」 かな? I have no idea what you want to say, sorry.
Anthony Lopez
apologies.
This is the kanji/character for samurai, i think i fucked up
Colton Hall
Then you want to use 's >これは侍という字です。
Connor Gutierrez
Does knowledge of hanja and hanji carry over to kanji?
Jonathan Parker
>be me in English class >always suspected one of the students was hiding a certain power level >dude's short, fat, pale, has a shitty haircut, a neckbeard, speaks autistically, and smells like shit >reviewing preposition words (shit like "good for" or "important to") >have to write two sentences using these words >teacher gets to him >he reads his paper >"I'm good at drawing anime" >60 year old woman asks him what anime is >starts explaining to her what anime and manga are Found a weeaboo in the wild, guys!
Jackson White
Pretty much, I think. The only problems I can think of (Other than pronounciation) are that the Chinese might use kanji the Japanese don't use (and viceversa) and that IIRC the Japanese use the simplified script, so if you know Cantonese you're fucked.
Adrian Evans
How old are you, 15? Back in the day everyone watched anime. Hell, even my brother who is from 1999 had his monkey normie friends from public school recommend him Nanatsu no Taizai, so I wonder if the culture is still alive and I've just managed to transcend all human contact.
Lincoln Morales
No, Japanese uses mostly traditional variants, with the several hundred simplified ones being really common anyway (学, 会, etc.)
Nicholas Collins
It opened fine for me. Try re-downloading.
Angel Gray
Then I suppose that must be exclusively a macaco thing because the most anime the average person watched here in Argentina is Dragon Ball Z when they were kids. Well, guess I was wrong then.
Jason Phillips
B-but spics are also a major weeb powerhouse when it comes to animay piracy, subbing, being retarded on Facebook and whatnot.
Maybe Argentina was left out of the loop, but I'm sure Chile and Peru has lots of weebs.
Anthony Reed
Don't get me wrong, there is a radioactive amount of weebs in Argentina, but it's nowhere near as dense as Chile. Idk, maybe it's just the area I live in (It's a fairly normie town). The only other weeb I met irl was some edgelord who went to my school 3 years below me who shared emo cancer on facebook and had L Lawliet as his profile pic.
Eli Barnes
When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Amongst your family it's your given name that identifies you, in other groups it's your family name that best identifies you.
Angel Parker
What, even ジョンさん日本へ?
Hudson Adams
What does Sakura flavor taste like? Cherries?
David Morris
Does 「毎人」
mean everyone/each person?
Sebastian Foster
おはよう?今日スレドはすごく静かだよね…
Charles Bennett
What's the word for "coast" in Japanese? Every dictionary I've checked is giving me multiple alternatives. I'm looking for a word referring to "the country's coast", like how we say "west/east coast" in English.
Levi Gonzalez
I've never seen such a combination, 毎 and 人. I may guess its meaning and understand it like either 毎秒, 毎分, 毎時 (per second, minute, hour) or 毎回, 毎晩, 毎朝(each time, every night, every morning). but I would ignore it and forget it soon because that's an insignificant thing.
Christopher Bell
west coast 西海岸 east coast 東海岸
Asher Cruz
thanks!
Elijah Davis
How do you guys use SRS?
Say you have 500 kanjis on your belt, and is to add 50 today, would you review all 550 today? eventually reaching 2500 kanjis in one day? and do you plan to do this everyday?
but does SRS really work for everyone? I heard Tae Kim not recommending it?
Hudson Myers
Theoretically yes, since it takes the concept of the "forgetting curve" and implements reviews in the most efficient way.
However, not everyone has the patience / focus to go through with all of their reviews each day, as is required. Keeping a schedule can be tough for some, which makes language learning tough regardless of using an SRS system or not. There's also the problem of decks becoming super large after a few years and needing to trim them down some.
These are very small prices to pay for efficient study though, it should work unless you have literal brain problems? Not sure how a learning curve of a mentally retarded person would look, might be exactly the same.
Jonathan Hernandez
>There's also the problem of decks becoming super large after a few years and needing to trim them down some. How do you trim it down?
Andrew Williams
Re-evaluate what you really need to be reviewing (stuff you encounter often anyways), cut out cards with like 3+ years duration till next review. Cut out cards that are plain boring, or outdated etc.
Sebastian Collins
ありがとう
Ayden Lewis
Is there any effective difference between ⻏ and ⻖other than its position in the kanji? Both Heisig and Jisho list them as separate radicals.
No answer there to be found. Where's the fucken verb after から? It would have been perfectly fine with me if it were like 霊夢の帰りを待ってから出掛けたの方がいい But what verb does の方がいい , in the pic, refer to?
Jackson Butler
>霊夢の帰り What did she mean by this?
Eli Stewart
Reimu's return
Eli Rodriguez
Got the context to the rest of the scene?
Xavier Campbell
>"can someone help me with X?" >is given the answer to X >"wow what the fuck there's no answer to Y here"
Easton Johnson
What's your point?
Carson Russell
ハァ~ 化学宿題を完成した!
Wyatt Murphy
Wait, a sec, I think I finally got it. It's the form of から that means "because". You don't need to state both clauses in a から sentence if it's something that's already known, but you still need から at the end of the clause. I was trying to see if I could deduce what she was talking about.
Dominic Robinson
から makes no sense there without a verb that is supposed to follow, doesn't it?
Dominic Williams
The reason I said "pretend to study" is because I'm drowning in work for all of my other classes on top of self-studying Japanese. Playing a game like that in Japanese would let me screw around for a bit without feeling like it's a total waste of time.
Jason Jenkins
Anyone fluent in dick-in-mouth-while-speaking Japanese?
ふあひめふぇて
Any ideas?
Oliver Harris
おめでとう、アノンくん!まだアンキのレップを終えない。
Mason Barnes
>I was trying to see if I could deduce what she was talking about. I suppose she says sumfink like "I guess we should have waited for Reimu". Which I think should look like 霊夢の帰りを待ったの方がいい
Austin Ramirez
>Anyone fluent in dick-in-mouth-while-speaking Japanese? Might have better luck if you just linked us to whatever you heard that in.
Kevin Morales
It does. の following particles can't be new thing for you, this is like that.
Hudson Mitchell
That's the nominalizing の, correct?
Aaron Morales
て-form + から means "after doing X." It's the から that means "from," not "because."
帰ってから宿題をする To do homework after going home.
霊夢の帰りを待ってからの方がいい After waiting for Reimu to come home is better (than doing it before she comes home)
Ayden Russell
No, as a noun, 方, follows it.
Christopher Lee
I think I get it now. Just couldn't imagine 方がいい without the preceding の
Juan Robinson
>not "because." I don't recall insisting on this. >After waiting for Reimu to come home is better Thks!
Dylan Cook
The because part was for the Argentine, sorry
Dominic Perry
Shit, you're right, don't know how I could miss that.
Easton Baker
>I was trying to see if I could deduce what she was talking about. Ok I just thought you were heavily implying something.
Christian Martinez
>Just had to completely delete the Katakana deck because I came back to 120 cards to review and didn't know the answer to a single one.
Man... Jap...is...hard..
Chase Martinez
Well, there's a significant difference between "I watch anime" and "I watched DBZ, Saint Seiya, Rurouni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho when I was a kid".
Joshua Powell
>Katakana >Hard How? Even me, the retard, learned it. Vocabulary (that has kanji in it) however makes me want to off myself desu. Can't memorize shit. Keep relearning old words everyday. Even knowing the radicals doesn't really help me that much. It's like trying to memorize thousands of pictures that all have their own meanings and a specific way to say them. Learning Russian and English was piss easy since there are proper alphabets.
Nicholas Collins
I came back to it after like 6 months. I managed to recognize a lot of the Hiragana and only had to practice 1/3 of it. I know all Hira now, but Kata is just.
I memorize what a character is by using mnemonic devices. So for example the n character looks like a man sticking his penis inside of a woman in the doggy style position. I imagine the sound he makes as he does this is nnnn.
A lot of the Katakana is just A FUCKING BOX. And that's hard for me to. I also have aphantasia btw.
Benjamin Cruz
>the following phrases are all unacceptable because the nouns following 毎 do not indicate a time or period of time. >a. *毎人 every person
I call bullshit. These niggas lack poetry in their hearts.
"Her heart was like wind, indomitable. She would blow into people's lives and just as soon go away. But with every person, her soul grew wearier and bitterer."
Wouldn't 毎人 here be appropriate, describing ephemeral relationships?
Owen Powell
No, every class in my school had its otaku nucleus, and I was living on a tiny-ass hillbilly town.
Things like Death Note, FMA, Lucky Star, Angel Beats, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Soul Eater were well known, to mention a few.
It was as common as finding people who played Ragnarok/Tibia/CS/Mu Online.
Isaac Richardson
I remember back in France, there were some who studied Japanese for 4+ years who couldn't remember katakana for shit because of a bad case of no exposure
Jack Evans
Huh. My experience was totally different, probably because I went to school in RS where Japanese culture isn't as prominent, so I hid my power level.. And now that I live in SP I don't have any friends so I just continue to hide my power level.
Grayson Campbell
>Things like Death Note, FMA, Lucky Star, Angel Beats, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Soul Eater were well known, to mention a few. That's not weeb, that's just normie otaku stuff. Everyone who isn't a normie tincho who goes out clubbing every weekend has heard of those shows.
Adrian Cox
Dang.. I guess those boxes are dangerous to everyone.
Wait a second why does this new guide say nothing about learning Katakana? It seems to suggest that I go on over to learning the vocabulary after I've learned Hiragana.
Cameron Hughes
But it does.
>Katakana is also important, but it's fine to move on to the next step without having as firm of a grasp on katakana.
Colton Mitchell
Is there a reason why 牛 and 失う look and sound as similar as they do?
Dylan Fisher
>That's not weeb, that's just normie otaku stuff. Well, you were the one all flustered because you heard a fatso saying "I am good at drawing anime" in the first place, why the suddenly high standards?
Eh, my few RS friends back in the day were weebs, one was obsessed with Shakugan no Shana. But I met them on the Internet, so there's already a filter going on.
Alexander Wright
Wait until you reach 牛,午
Jace Price
I wasn't complaining that they're hard to tell apart or anything, I was just wondering if there's any reason to them both having うし in their reading and both having the same top section in their kanji
Joseph Watson
>tfw had meningitis so I was hospitalised for ~10 days >couldn't do Anki since I wasn't allowed electonic devices >2000+ Cards due AHHHHHHHH