Daily Japanese Thread - DJT

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1.How does Japanese sound like to you?
I'm really curious about how it sounds when non Japanese listen to it.
2.Thankfully many people in Sup Forums think it as nice, but I think it's because they prefer Japanese culture and occasionally like its language. What do you think about it?

みんな、僕の分まで頑張って!

人任せに
するな

日本語学習者にとっては語呂がいいことに決まっているんだろう

>語呂がいい
LEBENSLANGEFREIHEITSSTRAFE!!!

明日から頑張るからいいじゃん!

ノルウェーでもこれ有名?

so I can't use this phrase in this context or what are you trying to tell me here?

Same as sounds for you. Only without understanding.

全然

Your usage in itself is OK, but 語感 is much suitable
I cited LEBENSLANGEFREIHEITSSTRAFE just because that also sounds cool 語感 really?

I see, thanks

そうか。
いたしかたないね。

明日から本気出す

I belive we share the same kind of ear.

youtu.be/ABC5TRSj9gE
youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY

when you understand something it starts to sound different to you

English sounds the same to me as it did when I couldn't still understand it.

はいはーい、アノンの皆さん、
日本語会話の時間ですよー。

皆さん二人一組になって、
パンツを脱いでくださいねー。

I think that's not completely true
for example when you understand something your brain has a clear order and starts to fill in all the blanks that may be there, for example slurred sounds in everyday speach or just really fast/slow, weird pronunciations, mishearing stuff etc.

チンポかと思った

I meant how Japanese sounds like to you? Let's take a example. French sounds sweet.

youtube.com/watch?v=TDntez5NXHw

寄生獣おもろい

Who likes LGH?

chinese sounds terrible and I hate it

youtu.be/uzM7XoVVGQc

it sounds pretty qt here, probably because of the cute girl but whatever

>真っ青
blue, white (pale)
>青い
blue, green

Are Japanese people colorblind?

Yeah that sound pretty good

>French sounds sweet
Never thought of sound of a language in terms of taste.
Japanese got associated in my head with green mountains, shallow rivers, stone torii stumps and tomb stones that are present in my home town.

Btw I have trouble making out these kanji.
Any ideas what they are?

サハリンでゆっくりしていってね!
手水鉢は、ひっくり返してあげていいよ!

Do nips arrange their books from left to right or right to left?

気の毒なギリヤーク人

right to left as far as I know

Purification

“浄水” in cursive scripts.
Meaning “pure water”

I wanted the kanji. Not the translation.

Thks!

>色々なことを学ぶひとつとして、あなたの学園の話は聞きたいけどね
ひとつとして here is just expressing a reason with emphasis right?

Not even speaking as a weeb but I think Japanese is one of the top nicest sounding languages, and definitely the best out of all the Asian languages. Most Chinese dialects are pretty shitty to listen to, SEA languages are a joke, and Korean is just okay.

Then again I think French and English are pretty nice sounding languages as well.

www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10011216251000/k10011216251000.html

Second line in pic.
>転がって体を動かすことが出来るようになったばかりの赤ちゃんは、。。。
The 転がって part feels a bit strange. The way I'm understanding it is "children who have just started to be able to move by tumbling around". I'm actually not certain if that's a valid use of the て form though. I think it's sort of in line with constructs like 連れていく and 歩いて行く which is why I feel like my interpretation is correct but maybe it could also be the simple "and" where it's just "[...] tumble around and move". Any thoughts?

>move by tumbling around
>it's sort of in line with constructs like 連れていく and 歩いて行く
Correct.(at least l feel so)

ありがとうございます。

返事が早い!

早すぎ?ごめん。

良いのですよアノン。

良かった。

こんにちわ
Do you guys know a good website or book to learn the kanji radicals?
Also should I really learn the radicals first?

I'd recommend you to start with Heisig's RTK, but only the first book
and also start learning vocabs while you do that

Thanks for the advice, are the other two books not as good? They all seem pretty similar.

the first book teaches you the meaning of the individual kanji, which gives you a solid base for starting to learn on your own
the second one theoretically teaches you the readings, but you won't remember any of them when you're through with it, plus, there are many kanji that you won't see that often so you'll waste a lot of time
it's better you start to learn readings by exposure

Thanks again, this is a big help.

Like a language with reasonable pronunciation unlike English

And then Pórando-san learns about ra, ri, ru, re, ro...

Unlike English, ら is always ら and never れい.

I always liked the sound of it from being very young and hearing it in Japanese video games, but it's hard to explain how it sounds to me...

It's a pretty versatile language and how it sounds depends a lot on the speaker really, and how that speaker is consciously trying to sound. To that end, Japanese can sound both really cute and really manly/cool. Even when it's just being spoken normally though, I still like the sound of it compared to a lot of other languages I've heard.

Yeah, and は is always は except when it's わ, へ is always へ except when it's え, and 生 is always せい, except when it's い, う, うま, お, は, き, なま, な, む or しょう.

You're talking about how accurately spellings represent sounds rather than actual pronunciation with that example, and in terms of spelling Japan's writing system is a much bigger clusterfuck than English's due to the 3000 - 4000 characters in common use which for the most part all have at least 2 different pronunciations. Oh, and the fact that the spelling isn't really even properly standardised so you end up with words like 釣り合う also being spelt as 釣合う, and words like 挟む also being able to be written as 挿む.

This is more predictable than English.

いいな

Is there any way to remove the Easy button from Anki?
I keep hitting it on new words by mistake because it's right where Good is for repeat words.

Use the keyboard, it's faster anyway.

Also, you can undo anything in Anki with Ctrl + Z.

not the bloke you're replying to but thanks for that tip

yer alright for a leaf

How do say nigger in japandeze

you could say nigaa.

koibito

...

nigger lover

>not imagining the leaf calling a nigger "koibito"

Only if that nigger is muslim and fucking his wife against her will. Then he's bae. You know how those cucks roll.

How do kick nigger out of the japandeze

I do. The problem is that for repeat cards the 3 key is Good, whereas for new cards the 3 key is Easy.

What happens if I do that after an answer? Does it take me back to the card, or does it just put it back in the learning pile?

japanese is hard my head hurts

It seems US posters have relatively little bit richer preliminary knowledge about this country than others. Where are they getting it?

Donald J. Trump?

In fact, they are rare Pokémon in our society.
Please don’t deprive them of us.

I think anime is more popular in the US than in other Western countries, and as a result more people in the US are exposed to aspects of the culture that way.

Americans are intelligent and cultured.

Hello.

How do you pronounce “thy” (archaic way of saying your)?

Is it like thy of Thyroid Gland?
Or thi of Thick?

>今日はね
>今回はこっちです
I don't know why but hearing these in every other YouTube videos really bothers me

>Is it like thy of Thyroid Gland?
This one

Actually, it's a bit harder on the 'th' sound than 'thyroid'. Sorry about that

dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/thy

The problem is that ら is /la/ (ramen), /ra/ (Yakuza speech), both versions of /ɾa/ (ara), /da/ (benri) and /ɹa/ (kokoro). Last two being examples of the sound for a different vowel but you get the idea.
It may be the only symbol to map multiple readings, but damn does it go all in with the idea.

English do all sorts of nasty shit with their vowels but the consonants remain solid throughout. R will always be r and pronounced in a single way, just like in Polish.

how to use をめぐり?
And what different with をめぐって and をめぐる?

>how to use をめぐり?
djtarchive.neocities.org/bunpou/full_day.html#㊤をめぐって・めぐる
>And what different with をめぐって and をめぐる?
djtarchive.neocities.org/bunpou/advanced/Advancedをめぐって／めぐる.png

Thank

oh I feel you
I can't remember the name of the jdrama, but one female character started every 2nd sentence with あたしね

also tfw

While practicing in anki, should I try to memorise all the kanji in the sentence or just focus on the one at the top, learning the others as they come by themselves?

The way of pronouncing ら in Japanese language varies from one sentence to another?

Phonetically, yes.

IIRC, it's got to do with the special way you guys create the sound. Depending on the previous/following sounds, the produced sound varies greatly. It's supposedly the root of the issue for the inability to differentiate r from l.

I misunderstood that ら行 in Japanese corresponded to /L/ in English, hence I pronounced all the /L/ consonants in English in the way I pronounce ら行 in Japanese.
This is why my English sounds super thicc.
btw I'm the super thicc boi in "evaluate my Engrish" thread. You were there too weren't you lol?

"th" as in "the"
"y" as in "eye"
th-eye
thy

If it sounds like "thigh" you've done it wrong.

Okay. Thanks.

I think it's best to only try to memorize the one on at the top.
After all, the sentence isn't shown on the front of the card, so you can't use it for review, and review is the backbone of the study process.

Yeah, I was there yesterday.

Though speaking from experience, phonetics can only help so much. My hair will have turned white by the time I'm able to go through the entire Japanese vocabulary to learn the spelling one word at a time.

/l/ is present in ragyou but only for certain words. I simply can't recommend listening to actual English enough. You'll be able to hear the distinct lack of rasp in the English /l/ eventually. You should be able to find a word that does the same (I know of 六 and ラーメン as two words which can be pronounced with the standard /l/ sound, but it depends on the dialect used and it's definitely not the standard one) and form /l/ through ragyou or be able to form it as a separate thing altogether.

Good luck, user.

We describe beautiful black hair of women 緑の黒髪.

why don't you tell me what you see on this picture here, japan-kun

Thx m8!

It's clearly a metaphor. Green is the symbol of nature and youth. Youthful black hair or something of the sort.

I know a woman zombie will appear with loud screaming sound and jump scare me while I’m trying to read the number. Sorry but I won’t get tricked this time.