/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Any place to get free audiobooks for listening practice?

Thanks.

>>18332006
check the cornucopia of resources, there should be some listening stuff to download there
if not then check youtube or something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AajPxROvcTA

don't do your reps

>>18332013
Nothing in cornucopia and can't find anything on YouTube :(

>>18332020
Read more

>>18332006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct_CXn7mHf4

how difficult is nekopara to read?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Tty2ls2bc

>>18332015
Does anti-Dekinai actually want me to learn Japanese?

>>18332234
Very difficult. The language is easy but it's so bad

If any of you are interested in an offline J-J dictionary program you might want to check out ATOK since it comes with a dictionary you can activate by highlighting a word and tapping CTRL twice.

I don't like it as much as google ime, but you can still use the dictionary even if you keep google ime as your default.

I'll try to make this quick.

When I do my reps, I make sure to write down all words given to help retain them in my memory. Though after a year of doing this, my notebook is getting pretty full and has never been organised since I started. I'd like to organise them in a way that's both effective and efficient but am not sure how to go about it.
I was thinking of just sorting by Noun, Adjective, Verb.. etc. But as I started sorting them out, I realised that this method would cause me to flip between categories frantically when I want to look up words that use a specific kanji. So then I started going by first kanji used. Then of course right off the bat I realised that words that use the same kanji in different orders like "会社" and "社会" would be too far apart from each other to quickly look over and compare.
I know I shouldn't focus on this as much as I should just keep practising, but it's difficult for me to flip through my notes when I want a quick refresher.

>Just use a dictionary
Not quite the solution I'm looking for. When struggling to remember new words from memory, going through my notes is a lot easier than trying to remember which kanji were used, or how the whole word is pronounced.

Sorry for the wall of text.

I missed a day of Anki and now want to die.
How often do you anons miss days?

>>18332640
I forgot to mention that I was seeking for advice if that wasn't obvious. Any help is appreciated.

>>18332650
How much would you say writing the words from Anki help? Do you just write every word you get incorrect?

>>18332640
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>>18332647
About one day every two months or so, usually happens because I didn't have time to do them during the day, and then fall asleep before getting the chance to do so. It doesn't affect much except for double reviews the next day. I wouldn't recommend skipping more than a day in a row though, because than can start fucking with your intervals.

>>18332647
Usually when I have exams and essays in uni and I need to use that hour for cramming, I usually try to avoid that by halting new words which makes me like twice as quick over a week but sometimes it happens

>>18332640
I read this post several times and I'm confused because it almost sounds like you're creating your own dictionary in a notebook and you somehow believe this is more efficient than using an actual dictionary.

>>18332665
I write them all down in the order given. Then when they come up again in the review, I'll answer based on memory. The ones I have trouble with I'll mark down on my notes. I do this until I finish my reps for the day and go back to my notes to write down the ones I've struggled with at least 10 times in a row. Then once I've finished doing that, I'll go through them again without checking the definition to see if I've learned it well enough. if not, I'll go over it again another 10 times. Depending on my mood, I'll keep doing that until it's for sure stamped to memory, otherwise I just end the review there.
I'd say writing them down helps a lot for me. In my spare time I'll try to write down what I know from memory. Helps give a visualisation as to how well I'm retaining what I've learned, and a good reason to look up words I know, but have forgotten kanji to when going over them again in my head. That's sort of why I'd like to better organise my notes. So I can quickly find what I was looking for in these situations.

>>18332683
I haven't studied ANYTHING along the lines of sentence structure, verb conjuration, or tenses. Anything I read I'll just try to interpret based on context. Not really a solution to my problem though.

>>18332726
You aren't wrong I guess. It's just that this "dictionary" helps me keep track of my progress as well. So anything I've learned recently I can easily look over. Using jisho alongside this seems pretty inefficient if I cant remember pronunciation or kanji. Just going by translation is also hit and miss. I guess I just find this way works better for me.

>>18332726
He's one of those people procrastinating from learning Japanese by making up these little ''side-projects'' that he can flaunt to friends to look cool and make believe that he knows a lot more than he does. Disregard him.

>>18332647
About 5 times in 4 years.

>>18332490
gotem

>>18332739
There are various tools that make looking up words very easy in the guide resource list. I can't imagine you're reading very much if you believe this ridiculous project is a worthwhile use of your time. If you intend to learn Japanese in this decade you should follow the advice in the guide.

>>18332647
once every couple weeks; i have a delayed sleep phase disorder or something

>>18332821
a sleep cycle that insists on shifting over time is called non-24 and it's supposedly absurdly rare but that's just underdiagnosis

>>18332833
Yeah, I sleep an hour or 2 late every single day, it sucks, but also kind of nice if you're a NEET. Get to experience everything. NEETing is probably what caused it though, actually.

>>18332845
I'm a NEET because of it instead of the other way around. It started happening early on in highschool and made it so I couldn't function at all. It wasn't until I gave in and left school that I started acting like a human being again instead of a zombie.

>>18332855
i usually forced it down with sleep aids when i was working, but sometimes it stays in place, so i think my lack of shits to give has just brought it back out.

I've just started "learning Japanese" (I already know phonology, simple grammar + about 200-300 words from being an irredeemable weeaboo) using Anki and writing down kanji as I encounter them during that. Been doing it for about a week now.

It's a great method! I really like the way Anki organises the learning process for you so you don't forget things easily. I wish I had known about it for my other subjects in secondary school, I probably would have done a lot better on my GCSEs.

My question is, once I'm a few months in and I have lots of reviews each day, if I spend about 15-30 seconds (including writing stuff and what it means & the kana before I see the definition) on each card, how much time is it going to take up each day?

>>18333000
You're gonna see each card at least 5 times for reviews before it's "mature" so do your own math based on that.

>>18333000 (cont.)
I should say, I have a pretty good memory so I'm marking things as easy about 1/2 of the time, and I know a lot of the basic vocab that's showing up early on as well.

Also - wow. I got lucky with those digits.

>>18333000
>>18333017
go back to r eddit

>>18333156
don't worry, he will once he realizes there is no meme points here and any use of identity will get him filtered

>>18332743
Oh shit, that reminds me. I gotta optimize 6k again

>だからこそ、そんな美しいものを僕が汚せるという、喜びに溢れていた。
>うん……まあ、よい趣味ではないのだろうが、愛とお互いを高めあうときに生まれた癖、なのだろうな。
The 時に here is talking about time in general right? "habit (性癖？）born from the times when ～"?

Can anyone explain what meaning does "という" have in:
そうか。　お前も武器を手にして
魔王軍と戦おうというのだな。

>>18333771
"と言う"
You've just said (1)directly or (2)indirectly "I'll fight against ~."
I guess (2) is very likely in this line.

Please recommend to me a manga that will keep my interest.

>>18334021
What do you like?

The guide no longer mentions leech settings, either suspend or tag only.
Does this mean its fine to set them to suspend? I really don't feel like I'm learning them

>>18334083
I wouldn`t suspend them. Maybe search for an example sentence or try to add a picture if you can. I didn`t do it before but this is the aproach i`ll take now that im back to learning. Or you could just suspend them if you feel it doesn`t make any difference.

>>18334131
Thats probably a good idea. I suppose on a value scale of 'how bad I feel when they are suspended indefinitely' vs 'these few are eating heaps of your review time unnecessarily' the former is more painful, my time is not that precious.

>黒目がちな瞳
I assume this guy's talking about this girl's dark pupils, but I'm confused as to what the function of がちな is supposed to be.

>そこから退こうとしない
I get the gist of what he's saying, but how is 退こう read?

>>18332640
>write
Stopped reading there.

>>18332020
>Nothing in cornucopia
Japanese !L-R
https://mega.nz/#F!EMpAyToL!zvcXRz4Yq_n-SRifJpXsEw

>>18332640
>When struggling to remember new words from memory, going through my notes is a lot easier than trying to remember which kanji were used, or how the whole word is pronounced.
That's not good. Your mind has associated the recollection of these words with the action of going through your notes rather than the sight of the word itself.

>>18334429
Move aside: どく
Retreat: しりぞく, ひく
Probably.

>>18332542
EBwin handles catalog files, meaning any of those monolingual dictionaries from the CoR can be loaded into it. Pic related.
These dictionaries, btw
https://mega.nz/#F!UxhhlKzb!9T8-35RugwmkuZ33oTqVrQ
It is offline, in case it wasn't clear. EBwin
http://ebstudio.info/manual/EBWin4/EBWin4.html
Direct download page
http://ftp.vector.co.jp/69/94/3584/ebwin4_5_2.zip

>>18334028
I like a good romance (not a big fan of ecchi, though I'll put up with it if it's not the main focus). I'd prefer something with minimal furigana, some is fine, I just don't want every kanji to have them.
I passed the N2 in December so as long as it isn't something notoriously difficult don't worry about that.

>>18334516
I guess I'm sticking with しりぞく then.
For context, he's, uh, had his arm pinned down by his sister's butt and is thinking it's now or never, basically

>>18334788
I also really enjoy the works of Kiyohiko Azuma, so a comedy as good as Azumanga Daioh would be great.

>>18334825
Comedy is pretty subjective. Do you prefer four panel manga or freeform? What about selecting the without furigana and comedy filters on mokuroku.neocities.org and putting together a shortlist to read the first chapter or two of?
I found ゆゆ式 and ご注文はうさぎですか？ hilarious at times but, yeah: subjective.

おはようおにいちゃん

きょうも掃除するぞい

>>18334963
おはよう妹ちゃん
君の写真を見つけた

>>18334980
能ある鷹は爪を隠す

>>18334881
I've lately gotten really sick of the Cute Girls Doing Cute Things genre, because it was all I watched/read for six months. Maybe it's not the genre itself, but the sickly sweet feeling of it, like when you eat too much candy. I want something that will make me feel something other than comfy and fuzzy.

>>18335045
That's why you watch 30 shows per season so you get that variety

>>18334429
ひくのときは

引くとまぎらわしいから

退くは

しりぞくとよむことがおおいよ

>>18335045
What did you read? A list, post it.

漢字は本さえ読めばそのうち読めるようになるさ。自分には文法の方が問題だ

>>18334797
>I guess I'm sticking with しりぞく then.
I think ひく is used a lot more? Like every time I hear this word pronounced it's ひく, but しりぞく

>>18335201
>の方が問題だ
え？

>>18335045
Yeah you're supposed to balance it
i use CGDCT after a particularly sad series, or just one that was massive and fun, and I feel sad that the ride is over

>>18335201
いじわるなぶんぽうってあるよね

>>18335201
文法がんばれｗｗ

>>18335223
>CGDCT
This is the dumbest fucking meme phrase. It doesn't mean anything; it doesn't describe anything beyond the most superficial of elements. Both /a/ and /jp/ would be a lot better off if trying to post this trite triggered a 24 hour auto-ban. Do you also call things "shounen"? Don't answer that.

Having some (a lot of) trouble with the last two panels on this page. It starts with "According to our tactics, I understand why we're going together, but is it really okay to pair up those two?" After that, I basically have to guess several things:
1. "なんとかライダー?" なんとか doesn't make sense to me here, is it short for なんと言うか, as in "are you talking about Rider?"
2. "どうとかで" according to Google it means "by any means" but I don't understand what it has to do with the following sentence "(he) brought Riokku down with a kick". Something like "in his case, anyhow, he brought Riokku down"?
3. What's "倒したりしてました" doing there? How is it different from "倒しました"? The only use of たり I know is to list multiple verbs, guess I'll have to check DoJG
4. "あいつにしてみりゃ" then on the next page "親みてえなもんだろ". From what I'm reading (http://selftaughtjapanese.com/2013/12/24/common-japanese-abbreviations-intermediate-advanced/)) りゃ is either short for れは or れば so the whole line must mean something like "This guy is trying to be like a parent" but I'm purely guessing at this point

>>18335235
>>CGDCT
可愛い女の子が可愛いことをしている。略して「KKKKS」

>>18335241

>>18335240
Forget the first question, now I realized that since it's the same person speaking it must be something like "What's his name, Rider?"

なすになりたい

いつもそばにいたい
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DZjCgxbx5U

>>18335219
間違っているのか？

>>18335240
>なんとかライダー?
Something Rider, she only remember the Rider part of someones name
>どうとかで
どう　とか　で
Not sure how to explain this but リオック got kicked because of something to do with rider, would be easier if I knew what was going on
>あいつにしてみりゃ" then on the next page "親みてえなもんだろ".
あいつにしてみれば親みたいなものだろ
From his point of view (someone) was like a parent to him

>>18335240
>"どうとかで"
>how something is (e.g. I don't really care how your dog is doing)
I got the above from the KireiCake dictionary.

>>18335300
Thanks, haven't seen みたい shortened to みてえ yet.
Also, about 倒したりしてました, I assume たり is there to indicate that things other than kicking the guy down were done.

>>18335359
To me it sounds like she saw it when it was happening but didn't see it all the way to the end so there might have been other things happening aswell

>>18335240
Honestly you're clearly too bad at japanese to start reading now. Finnish tae kim then come back.

まめまく

＞屁にもならない。
どう言う意味？
>>18335489
おにいそと
ふく～いち

>>18335495
>へにもならない

おとこことばだよ

かなりつよい

いみはちほうによってちがうかも

あたしのちいきでは

「へのやくにもたたない」

っていうかたちでつかうのかなあ

「まったくだめ」の意味だよ

>>18333771
〜しようという = 〜するつもり
〜しようという is used only from the third person point of view.

>>18335378
I did and I'm doing all right, thank you

>>18335508
ありがとういもうとちゃん

Is there software that will make *vocabulary* (not voice line-based like most seem to offer) decks out of srt files, sorted by frequency?

I want to try reading ふたつ屋根の下 and あなたを大人にする○つのこと for kanji practice but I can't find them on Nyaa or anywhere I usually look, am I fucked?

I also tried looking for the magazine they are published in 電撃だいおうじ on Nyaa but I can only find the parent label 電撃だいおう. I can find 電撃だいおうじ on CDJapan but I don't know what volumes the debut chapters are in.

Does anybody know what volume the first chapters are in or maybe where I can download them?

>>18334528
Yeah, but those don't have the up-to-date versions of those dictionaries that ATOK has. If I want daijirin 3 or daijisen 2 I have to use kotobank.

>>18335543
That would be pretty slick. The only thing I can think of is to export the srt file as html and then use rikaisama/yomichan's anki import to make your own cards.

>>18335274
何も間違っていません　t.native

>>18335593
ふたつ屋根の下
http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/watch/mg275473?track=ct_first
you can read Ep1,2,3,and 9.

あなたを大人にする〇つのこと
http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/comic/30911?track=list
you can read Ep1,2,3,and 6.

>yomi-chan
what the actual fuck. why do I have to install SIX (六) extra third party dependencies

>>18335792
oh, you don't have to do any of that

Why is it always such a pain in the ass to get Japanese subs to work with anime?

The timing is never right and I have to waste a lot of time on each episode just to sync it up and then half the time it will fuck up again in the middle of the episode and I have to sync it again.

>>18335954
I initally thought kanji subs were a good idea, but VN into no subs is actually better
its painful at first but then again so is reading to begin with

Roughly how much kanji/vocab should i know before reading simple books becomes useful?

Doing wanikani/anki/duolingo/lingodeer a couple hours a day is manageable and i'm def making progress but i'm kind of wondering when i'll be tall enough to grab that bottom rung of the ladder and start fuddling my way though simple books. Last time a tried i was spending so much time looking up words I just got frustrated. My speaking and listening are passable for my level of study. Any idea when I can be expected to play simple games or read simple books?

This is kind of a newb question but:
I got the sentence 家に遊びに来てください and i dont understand why they used the word 遊び here. I understand it's probably some sort of customary phrase but where does it come from? I feel insecure not understanding

>>18331890
Anti-Learning (So Bad, it's Good)
Here's how it works:
>Uninstall anki
>Never study grammar
>Just read and listen to Japanese stuff

If you do this you'll be fluent in a couple years, and it'll be fun. Thank me later.

what's a good card to add to core6k? having 5999 cards is deeply unsettling me.

>>18336033
膣分泌液

>>18336033
便通

Which of these J-J dicts is the best one?

Do you still remember the face of your God?

>>18336019
>遊びに来て
thats a set phrase

>>18336061
daijirin

>>18336061
Meikyoukoku is my favorite. I'll sometimes use Daijirin or Koujien (in that order) if the explanation doesn't immediately make itself clear. Shinmeikai is trash honestly. Never used Daijisen.

>>18336061
Just use weblio or some shitty online dictionary you fucking autist

>>18336068
>what the fuck is this retard talking about Katakana is so fucking easy
>3 years later
>steve is always right, fuck katakana

>>18336126
I want to use it with yomichan though.
I hate using J-E with all their shit inconsistencies and there is no J-J JMdict.

>>18336139
what does he say about kata? i've never bothered to watch his videos

>>18336145
Wow do you actually use yomichan to learn words? Are you that lazy?

>>18336019
if you want to invite someone for a special purpose, you can change the 遊び to the other verb(ます-form) . (遊び implies no such purposes)
e.g. 家に夕ご飯を食べに来てください
　家に掃除をしに来てください

～に行く works in the same way.
あの家に金を盗みに行きましょう

>>18336139
did it get harder or is it just the only thing that remains consistently mildly annoying even after learning everything else pretty well?

>>18336154
No I used weblio and jisho before and want to test how it works.
Seems pretty good but the window it shows you is a clusterfuck and way too small.

I mostly read from real or e-books so yomichan won't help me anyway. Just playing around a little.

>>18336156
>あの家に金を盗みに行きましょう

>>18336061
新明解はジャンル：コメディです
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Bookend-Soseki/3578/miryoku.htm

>>18334440
Why is DJT so opposed to writing/production?

>>18336355
I've had my fair share of americans who think they're hot shit because they've read genki 2, when they actually don't even know how to put up a conversation
It's better if it stays like that

>>18336355
Most of us here never intend to live there, nor speak to anyone that we don't have to
it makes learning the skill of production/writing the only time we would ever use it

My retention is so fucking bad. Curse my brainlet ways.

>>18336636
Just keep practicing, maybe try a new way of memorizing things like writing them down or saying them out loud

>>18336652
Thank you anon. I will cease my bitching and continue.

>>18336636
If you're just starting it will get easier. When I started doing core 2k/6k I would get ≈55% correct, but after a few weeks it would go to ≈85%.

Why are racial slurs in japanese so tame?
アメ公 = american boy
露助 = russian guy
ちょん = don't even know what this means but probably some onomatopeia or imitation of korean sounds

>Have you accepted that Kahen Rider doesn't exist?
>He exists
>Please think a little
The question is, what's 先ではないですか supposed to mean?

>>18336720
>Firstly(先では), you should accept that Kahen Rider doesn't exist, shoudn't you(ないですか)?

>>18336303
>　「この辞書でのえんきょく表現」って、そんな語釈、反則です。

Holy shit this made me laugh.

I'm 20% into core with a true retention of 76%.

Is this acceptable?

>>18336788
If you have less than 20 new words then it's shit

>>18336778
You have good taste!

>>18336802
Alright then no more lapses from now on.

>>18335726
ありがとう

>>18335743
Thanks, man. It's very time consuming looking up individual kanji but I feel like i learnt quite a bit from just a few chapters.

Where else can you find lesser known manga if it's not up on Nyaa? I'm mainly thinking of individual chapters.

Is there anyway to make KanjiTomo text bigger? I have a 4K monitor and a full HD monitor as a dual set up. The KanjiTomo window doesn't work well with 4K and when I drag the KanjiTomo window to the HD monitor it doesn't resize properly and the text get very tiny and blurry.

Great program otherwise

I want to do isolated kanji study for words that hit leech threshold (hiragana only words aside). Is there any way I can create a new deck with this in mind with relative ease? As in, not having to make each card individually?

I was trying to translate a Tweet but I could barely make sense of the sentence.
What does ボロボロにしてる mean? And according to jisho 草 means lol in slang, is that true?

>>18337257
Oh boy, I'm retarded and posted the wrong picture. Way to make an ass out of myself.

>>18337257
>>18337264
It says ボコボコ, not ボロボロ (it means beaten up)

>>18337288
Ah, thanks. That makes more sense now but I still don't understand who got beaten up by who.

Does he call Leo a monkey?　ベヨ most likely means Bayonetta.

Could anyone tell me what this says?

>>18337532
Yes, the people over at >>>/wsr/

>>18337537
I thought this thread was for helping with Japanese?

>>18337550
It's for Japanese learners. It's not a translation service.

>>18337559
I am trying to learn Japanese, that's why I'm asking

Has anyone used TangoRisto on android? Is it worth a try?

>>18337566
Learn kana.

>>18337532
the pleasure of being cummed inside

What does ("Name"+達) mean? Something like "Name's crew or group"?

>>18337864
I don’t know?

>>18337864
>"Name's crew or group"
technically yes, but often you could just translate it with "they"

>>18337864
Name-tachi

>>18334492
I guess I worded that wrong. Of course, I still try to remember what kanji were used, but when I'm absolutely stumped I'll check my notes for a refresher. I don't think I'm associating the word with flipping through my notes. Again, I'm trying to write from memory not read from it. Obviously when I read the word I wont need to look for a translation. It's just that due to the complex nature of kanji itself, when I'm trying to write it from memory I may need a refresher to make sure all the strokes are in the right places. I see what you're saying though.

>>18337257
Yep 草 means lol.
笑う (to laugh) > 笑 (shortened to just the kanji) > w (shortened again) > wwww (it kinda looks like grass) > 草
That's how it was explained to me, not sure how legit that is but there you go.

おはようおにいちゃん

にちようびあさだよ

おきろー

>>18338518
おはようございます
そして、二度寝します

この世界は弱肉強食だ

>>18338606
>弱肉強食
>the weak are meat the strong do eat

>>18338606

体格で体重を増やせないのは俺のせいじゃないよ、暗記のやつめ！

>>18338606
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yEWREw32L4

Need a good ecchi or lewd manga to motivate me to read. Does anyone have a suggestion?

>>18338775
Prison School

>>18338775
まんが家と

>>18337532
サワー　= sawa- = sour
Guess it's a sour drink.

>>18338839
かわいい女の子【男】は最高ですよね

>>18338944
そうなの？

よくわかんないや

A while ago I read that all fundamental Japanese words fall into one of four pitch accent categories. Someone said they color their anki cards according to which category the word is in. I know that one of them is the "accentless" category and one of them is the "downstep after the last mora" category, but what are the other two?

who here has trouble with understanding the usage of koto and mono no matter how many explanations they read. it just seems extra to me most of the time.

>>18335954
Just download the subs from animelon

That's what I did anyway

>>18338839
ちんちんのついてねぇ女が全員メスビッチだ

>>18339025
http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/pitch-accent.html

>>18339025
す↑し↓

はい

こえだしていってみて

Is there anyone here willing to do English to Japanese translations?

>>18339283
how much are you paying

>>18339283
I've done it before, it's a lot harder than J-E translation, wouldn't recommend it

>>18339283
I tried it once for the Made in Abyss threads on /a/. It sucked so I won't do it again.

Why is マ〇コ even a thing?

>>18339548
Why is f*ck even a thing?

>>18339572
But in porn?

>>18339580
I think I've seen it before. As for it being much more common over there, they also censor everything, maybe it comes with that mindset.

Why is ゴブリ even a thing?

ゴ〇ブリ

だいしゅき〇ールド

>Studied x cards in y minutes today.
What is a healthy amount?

>>18339548
>>18339617
>>18340130

>>18339292
I don't know, I have never done this before.

I'm trying to commission someone for some art, so the gist would be the general introduction, the meat of it would be the picture description, and the rest would be odds and ends about any details that might need to be changed.

I was hoping someone had done this before.

I'm not quite understanding his explanation for what he's doing in the classroom. I understand that everyone from class A is in the middle of something, but what does あがるさ mean here?

>>18340428
上がる(be raised to a higher status) さ

おなかすいた

やきいもたべたい

So I saw this
http://tadoku.org/en/l-method
and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgQEVIOtZ8o&feature=youtu.be&t=4m
Both say you learn best if you don't use a dictionary...
Should I not be using a text hooker for my VN's? Is a text hooker different, considering how easy it is to use?

>>18340696
あなたわなにおたべたいですか？

>>18340729
If you need to use a dictionary to understand the story then you just need to use a dictionary, no matter what anything else says.

Anything other than that is subjective.

ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 is great

>>18340729
>Reading Harry Potter in 3 hours
Is this real life?
Also, aren't these electronic dictionaries on their desks? (This picture was taken from tadoku.org)

>>18340850
You can read Harry Potter in English in like 5 hours if you have middle-school level WPM, if you're skimming at the 1k WPM mark you can read that shit in like an hour.

>>18340729
I hate videos like this because they remind me that I could have spent my childhood learning other languages and picking up valuable skills instead of squandering it on video games.

>>18340929
Unless you want to get into professional sports, it's never too late to start.

>>18340850
British version of harry potter book 7 has 600 pages (american version has larger font / wider margins so it's ~750 pages).
so that's >3 pages per minute which is like "book report due tomorrow" reading speed.

>>18340937
Certainly. That's why I'm here in the first place. I also hope to teach myself several programming languages, but balancing that with my habitual Japanese learning will be tough.

>>18340733
やきいもと

ぎょうざを

てにいれた

>>18340729
You learn best if you read things that you can understand without a dictionary. Trying to read something difficult without using a dictionary would be a waste of time.

>>18340729
>you learn best if you don't use a dictionary
You don't learn anything if you don't understand at the slightest what you're trying to comprehend.

あとこれかってきた

>>18340877
How can you read with this speed and still enjoy what you're reading? I can read very fast if I skim through pages but I don't understand why I would want to do it. I learn a lot from books even in my native language.

My reading is so good but I can't get good at listening even though I'm watching so much shit

>>18340729
this only work if you buy their grade reading crap full of furigana

>>18341078
You just need to listen more, maybe. I really wish we had a collection of drama cds like we do with manga and novels.

>>18335240
Stop translating. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about your translations are wrong for the parts that you think you know.

>>18334440
>>18336355
>>18336474
Because DJT is retarded. Most people who never learned to output kanji ironicaklly tend to be bad at reading (because they can't recognize similar characters) are slower are memorizing new words. They also generally can't infer unknown words based on their composition.

>>18341136
I'm not "translating", I just want people to point out exactly where I'm wrong.

>>18341136
>for the parts that you think you know.
I'm pretty sure he was aware that he didn't understand the meaning based on his first paragraph and he what he thought to show that he was making an effort to try and understand such that people would be more inclined to help him.
>>18341154
>/r/learnjapaneseorwhateveritscalled

How do you guys read stuff on a 3DS? I tried Dragon Quest XI, but the Kanji are impossible to read.

>>18341177
I don't know about 3DS, but I use an emulator for DS games and just man up. I'll either draw unknown kanji in google or use jisho's radical lookup.

>>18341177
If you have a good grasp on radicals, you can kind of guess. I want to say handwriting can help too, since bad handwriting looks like chicken scratch, just like the bunched up bullshit in some DS games, but some people will get pissy because production is evil.

>>18341177
I got through Sonipro and MHXX with no problems. Doesn't DQXI have furigana, anyways?

If you're having that much difficulty reading text turn on the 3D mode, as that makes it clearer, although most 3DS games use pretty common kanji that's hard to misread or misunderstand, especially given context. MHXX's skills aside...

>>18341154
I can't substantiate a claim that production and reading has any overlap
however I can read just fine, so whatever small efficiencies your claim has are outweighed by the uselessness of the production learning process anyway

常用漢字はそんなにおおくないよね？ね？

>>18341154
most people who learn to "output kanji" are ironically still shit at writing actual words

>>18341154
>because they can't recognize similar characters
Not everyone is as stupid and incapable of properly remembering characters and their distinctive radicals without writing them down 100 times like you are. Just saying.

>>18341312
８５てんとれればいいよってかんじ

こういうテスト

>>18341323
かいてみた

２こ書けなかった

９０てん

>>18341323
源
晩
盛
片
痛
翌
勤
危
姿
疑
担
視
腹
将
認
呼吸
収
存
呼
場
；）

>>18341323
I couldn't write a single one of these in if I tried, and I started out by writing down kanji. 3 years is a long time, and if you don't keep up with this shit for 15 years like most nip kids do, it'll all disappear from your head when you stop doing it.

Production is the biggest fucking meme.

>>18341343
よくみて

たてがきは

←←
↘
　↘
←←

じゅんばんこうだよ

>>18341323
いや>>18341154みたいに周りを見下してるやつは満点とらかったらダメだろ

てか問題ぬるすぎ、熟語の半分じゃなくて全部伏せろ

こういうのとか？

>>18341351
はい？それで？

>>18341366
ひにくー

やるきだうんしそう

>>18341349
good but depressing post
I always tell people "don't spend that much time learning to write until you already know japanese" but nobody ever listens

kanji is fun!

>>18341392
ききとれないけど

かける

そういうＡｎｎｋｉはむいみだっていういみなんだとおもうよ

besides the reading, is there any meaningful difference between 狩 and 猟?

>>18341406
ウサギが腹立つ

>>18341504
look at their kanji entries on https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/

Despite consulting both TK and DoJG on the subject of おく, I still don't quite get the third bubble. The character is talking about a big weapon her opponent pulled out as a last resort
>This is pretty big, isn't it?
>irritating me greatly for further convenience (I don't get it)
>still, I can't see it as anything other than a big piece of iron
>how is it different from your previous weapon?
I'm also not sure about grammatical purpose of the last と. Is it used for an indirect quote, as in "Speaking about your previous weapon"?

>>18341536
look up とっておき, your first translation is wrong

>>18341536
also you're misunderstanding the placement of ただ in the next line

it's not 「ただ、(rest of the sentence)」 but 「ただでかい」

>>18341536
https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/30307/meaning/m0u/
12 （補助動詞）多く動詞に助詞「て」を添えた形に付く。
(イ)その状態を続けさせる。そのままにする。「窓を開けて―・く」「言わずに―・く」

>>the last と
which?

>>18341536
also you're completely overthinking the と given that your intuition (and translation) in this case is correct

I'll respond to your question with a question: what particle would you possibly suggest if not と?

>>18341510
”分からない時は辞書を引いてね！”

>>18341580
窓を開けてイく・言わずにイく

>>18341647
イ、イきすぎぃ!!

>>18341081
Just set a moege to auto read and turn your screen off.

what is the first kanji friends

>>18341788
傑物

>>18341548
>>18341563
Got it
>>18341584
I can't really think of anything, the problem is that there's technically nothing being quoted which confused me
>>18341580
So, if it's そのままにする, then the sentence would be "it keeps irritating me greatly", followed by the next sentence which specifies that she's irritated (confused? I'm not sure about this word) because the trump card is nothing but a huge piece of iron?

>>18341805
よめたけど

あたしいみしらない

かんじから

おおまかなふんいきはわかるけど

>>18340729
I think the more accurate statement is that reading material where you can get by with minimal or no dictionary use is optimal use of your time. But as far as starting out that way as the first link suggests, I doubt it's a good idea, they're simply trying to sell you graded readers. My personal opinion is that graded readers might be an okay idea if they had a hell of a lot more material in them, and cost a lot less considering how many you'd need to buy.
It should also go without saying, motivation and interest are more important than efficiency. If you are enjoying what you're reading even if you are stopping constantly to look things up, it's probably better than switching to something easier which you don't enjoy. Within reason, of course.

I just remembered to check if jlpt results were out yet. We did it rebbit

>>18341838
>かんじから
>おおまかなふんいきはわかるけど
日本人は恐ろしい

>>18341964
>N2
>138
>did it

Seems you didn't aim too high.

>>18341964
>N2
for what purpose?

>>18341964
Good job anon. I passed the N2 as well but you got a much better score than I did.

>>18341990
>おおまかなふんいき
>>18341406
みたいなかんじのつながりだよ

傑作と人物のあいだくらいの

いみじゃないかなあっておもうんだよ

>>18342034
What do you mean, it's a low score? I expected to fail to be honest.
>>18342049
I dunno I just wanted to see if I could pass it and I don't think there's any way I would've passed n1. First time doing jlpt. Also can't you work in nip with n2? Not that I would ever give up hikiNEET life.

Went to my local Vietnamese place and saw this group of middle aged Japanese women. They talked about their children how well they do in school. I was surprised I understood them so well, yet I felt a little nervous. I wonder if they are a club of stay at home moms, it was afternoon.

>>18342199
should have striked a conversation and NTR'd one of them

>>18341990
だって漢字は表意文字 ideographs, not phonetic characters なんだもん
>>/int/中文(Chinese) から適当に拾ってきたけど

>在冬天,每一天是一样的:睡觉,上网,看书,可能去公园或是图书馆。

>在冬日,毎一日是一様的:睡覚,上網,看書,可能去公園或是図書館。

冬の日は毎日だいたい同じ。；眠りから覚めて、ネットして、書物を読んで、公園か或いは図書館に行くこともある。

>>18342137
>What do you mean, it's a low score? I expected to fail to be honest.

明らかに改善の余地がある。

Not directed at anyone in particular but one thing I've noticed in these threads is a lot of anons posting often highly off topic, blog worthy and otherwise dumb sounding shit in Japanese which wouldn't be tolerated in English. My question is to those who routinely do this: why and for what purpose?

>>18342252
Sure and I'm not disagreeing with you but don't people often say "I did it" as in "I passed the test"? I don't see the problem.

>>18342297
>posting often highly off topic, blog worthy and otherwise dumb sounding shit in Japanese
about the only one that might do this on a regular basis is imouto
and hes a native who provides considerable assistance
but otherwise you're tilting at windmills

reminder that if someone can't read a whole volume of manga within a single day and only a few hours spent actually reading then their Japanese skill level is too low to trust them for any advice or help

>>18342492
whys that

>>18342199
Feels really weird when I hear spoken Japanese IRL. Not many Japanese in southern US.

>>18342492
>hours
w

>>18342504
i don't know Japanese and i can do it, so if anyone can't then their Japanese is far too bad to be considered

>>18342513
>can't

>>18342515
what if people spend longer than others just looking at the artwork
doesn't that throw off your time scale while their ability with the language maybe proficient

>>18342526
Yeah, the point was that you should take less than an hour for a volume of manga.

>>18342531
i already analyze the artwork deeply
also it was about capability, not their actual habits

>>18342538
This was never about that kind of thing. They were clearly stating a level range where they personally knew people couldn't be taken seriously.

>>18342545
Yeah, and I'm telling you that "more than one hour for a volume of manga" is within that range.

>>18342549
No, you're flaunting vague superiority without actually saying anything. Neck yourself.

>>18342492
I can't even pay enough attention long enough to read a whole volume in English, let alone Japanese.
I did it when I read Wingman, but I really had to force myself to read.

i never implied that a few hours a volume was a fluent reading speed
work on your English maybe?

>>18342563
You implied it was enough to take someone seriously.

>>18342576
nope
in fact i started the opposite

>i don't know Japanese and i can do it,
obviously you can't take advice from someone who doesn't know Japanese

>>18342556
So was the original poster.

Don't take advice from anyone bragging about their reading speed.

posting crappy reading speeds isn't bragging, but insisting other people are pushing low standards is

>>18342623
They actually said something: don't trust people who ___. All you did was greentext something out of context in attempt to suppress your depression by shitting on it. Get over yourself.

>>18342644
don't (you) them if it's like that

>>18342644
That was my first post in this thread. It came off like bragging to me too.

Flashbacks to reading threads on Reddit where established, respected community members who give help and argue all the time took like a week to read a volume of manga that had furigana because of looking up words (supposedly).

>>18342659
Work on your English communication skills. Setting a loose baseline based on their own ability isn't bragging. If it sounds like it then your mental framework for social behavior is very fucked up.

>>18342673
Sure dude.

>>18342673
>If it sounds like it then your mental framework for social behavior is very fucked up.
this is 4chan, everyone is an attention whore or has a mental illness, no normal social interactions allowed

>>18342663
Never again. Don't trust anyone who doesn't qualify for actual fluency and literacy. Knowing what someone who isn't fluent is capable of (how little) is important - I know people who know very little Japanese who translate doujinshi faster than I can read them (work my bad Japanese, but I always assumed even worse than them), and guess what, turns out they use machine translation. Same with a VN blogger I followed. Never again.

>>18342699
works faster than my bad Japanese.

Dropped a bit there.

>>18342376
>but otherwise you're tilting at windmills
Scroll up and see it yourself. Clearly you are one of these people and don't like feeling called out, but this shit is annoying for those of us who use this thread for its intended purposes. Why don't you go to a site like 5ch or something and mindless shitpost there? No one benefits from this activity, the least of all from the imouto clown you have decided to white knight for (which may be you for all we know).

>>18342750
This isn't healthy. Get a hold of yourself.

Four short sentences or less. Otherwise you're leaking personal problems.

>>18342699
>Same with a VN blogger I followed.

MDZ? Kiva?

>>18342699
>>18342795
Or Clephas? Then again, why would you follow Clephas?

>>18342795
I don't even remember anymore. It feels like decades ago.

>>18342800
Rings a bell but I never followed them.

Does anyone have some feedback on the language schools Osaka ARC Academy and OBKG (大阪文化国際学校)?
Both seem decent and cost about the same. I just passed JLPT N3 and I plan to study in one of these schools for 3 or 6 months.

Note: I know it's probably not worth the money but I still want to give it a try.

Does AJATT work?

>>18343356
>Do RTK
>Japanese immersion. But on steroids, times 100.

>>18343356
All roads lead to Rome anon. As long as you stop stopping after one kilometer and turning back.

AJATT is pretty much immersion on steroids times 100, if you read and listen daily there is no reason you wouldn't make it.

Is there a good site for Japanese etymology? I always find Kanji and words origin fascinating.

I'm also looking for a "complete" folklore storybook for children in japanese. Do anyone know about such a thing?

So the kanji for bug/insect is 虫, but the version used in the title of mushishi is 蟲. Google searches for the difference turn up a bunch of discussion threads saying how pretty much the latter is only used in manga so I assume it might be an outdated usage. However whenever a kanji is outdated usually the dictionaries I use say that, but they don't in the case with this. Anyone have some insight?

>>18343469
strictly speaking, 虫 and 蟲 means the different things.

See here:
http://animalbattles.wealthyblogs.com/?p=3662

>「虫」の意味
>人間・鳥類・獣類・魚類・貝類 shellfish 以外の小動物 small animal を意味し、特に昆虫に使われます。
*don't overlook "以外"

>「蟲」の意味
>「蟲」は、昆虫や爬虫類 reptiles、ねずみなどの小動物、魚類などの生物全般を意味します。

>>18343469
Or try "蟲 虫 違い"

As I'm learning Japanese I really like to translate stuff in my amateurish way, but the tools I use are very crude - just a notepad. Are there any simple tools you'd recommend for someone who wants to translate stuff? I mean editing tools, something that shows you the original text as you translate/progress etc.

>>18343572
>>18343595
I know I can look up 違い but I'm at that stage where I'm sluggishly getting through yotsubato so native explanations are kind of above my skill level although I'll try making sense of the article anyway, thanks.

>start learning japanese
>learn how to say the most basic useless shit, but it gets me into the language
>get to a high-beginner level
>can say a decent amount of shit, but still very green
>get to an imtermediate level of japanese
>can say and understand a respectable amount of shit
>continue getting better and better, and learning more and more
>always ask myself for fun "how would I say ____ in japanese"
>no matter how good I get or how much I learn, the answer is "I still can't"
How can I learn so much and know so little? when does this suffering end?

>>18343631
maybe your standards are too high

>>18343572
So basically what I'm getting is, 蟲 is used for large, reptilian-like non-mammals and slithery things like centipedes that people tend to be freaked and grossed out by, while 虫 is more for smaller insects like fleas and less "gross" or scary ones like beetles?

>>18343631
At least you're able to say anything in Japanese. I'll never be able to be conversational at all because my social retardation won't let me.

>>18343610
those articles are not easy to read because most natives are also confused...
i support your motivation.

>>18343631

because you haven't worked on that at all. find a speaker to practice with.

>>18342492
漫画を読むために日本語を学んできた
一日で一巻ぐらい読めないやつがおかしいし
いったい何のために日本語を学んでいる？

Anyone got scans of cardcaptor sakura of volume 1 that are readable?
I got some but they're too low res.

Other volumes I found look decent

>>18343870
いや漫画を読む以外色々な理由があるっしょ
お前の方がおかしい

>>18335600
Sorry, but you're wrong. The versions for the most popular EPWING dictionaries in the CoR are as follows:

Daijirin - 3rd Edition

Daijisen - 1st Edition (revised version)

Kojien - 6th Edition

Kenkyusha (J-E) - 5th Edition (the 6th Edition is also in the CoR, but that's E-J, not J-E)

>>18343469
蟲 is just an old version of 虫 which is still ocassionally used. There is no difference between them aside from the fact.

>>18336061
Kojien is to Japanese what the Oxford Dictionary is to English. Daijirin is Kojien's main competitor and is also good. I recommend using both.

>>18343958
例えば？

Is there a way to erase any furigana from aozora books on their site?

anki data keeps increasing .2 mb per day

the question is, for how long does it keep journaling?

>>18344503
It's a botnet that keeps saving your personal info and sending it to Dekinai-chan

Is this two typos in a single sentence? I can't imagine rice bowls are a very important component for gigantic fighting robots, and I'm pretty sure in this case Takeru meant to say 関節 instead of 間接.

>>18344803
関節じゃない？

"Reproduction doesn't matter" - The eternal N3

>>18344503
Forever.

>>18345243
More like it's pointless to try and produce if your main goal is just to consume since by consuming large amounts of native media you will naturally build up knowledge that you can use to more easily produce sentences than someone forcing production like some textbook exercise rigidly adhering to a set syntax. Even Steve-sama says this; I remember him saying something along the lines of "I've talked to people who said they read but they have trouble producing sentences, so I ask them 'what do you read?' and they can't answer that. I tell them that, in order to be able to produce, you need to read more."

Do Chinese-derived compounds have a fancier connotation to kun-reading terms with the same meaning?
清涼 and 涼しい, for instance.

What should I read to prepare myself for the N1 next December?

>>18345311
From my experience compounds tend to be more literary.

In picrelated, is the い in いクラス a 異 - so it means something like "different class" - or am I misunderstanding something? Otherwise the みたいにい doesn't make much sense.

今みたいにいクラスでも…

>>18345243
>Reproduction

>>18345311
They can but it depends on their frequency.

>そのような性格によるところが大きい
I'm having trouble understanding what it says after に。

How do I stop myself from looking at furigana?

>>18345429
Read things that don't have furigana.

>>18345399
>によるところが大きい
>largely based upon
>largely due to
Did you try looking any of that up? I imagine による at the very least would show up in grammar guides.
>>18345429
Hold the text farther away from you and do you very best not to look at it by keeping your focus towards the left side of the characters.

>>18345429
ふりがなちゃんはかわいいけどあまり見るとふりコンになっちゃう

>>18345429
There's nothing wrong with looking at furigana. It's what they're there for. Just make sure you look at the kanji first.

>>18345429
graduate from baby shonen manga to seinen

>>18345429
>>18345443

>>18345543
>seinen
just read hentai

>>18332855
>>18332857
I made it through middle school and high school with like 0-3 hours of sleep every night because I HAD to wake up at 6:30 to make it to school.
Spent 3 years as a neet, my rhythm went full circle probably every two weeks. I'm in uni now and it's still doing it, mandatory attendance this semester is wreaking havoc on me though.
I've never met anyone that does the same so I thought I'm just crazy, my shrinks never mentioned it as any specific condition.
It ruins my anki reviews because every few weeks my sleep rhythm passes the reset time threshold so I do double reps but anki says I missed a day, it's annoying

>>18345696
yeah this is almost to the dot how it goes for me, not counting attendance responsibilities

>>18345696
>but anki says I missed a day
If the scheduling starts fucking you over, you can always turn back your clock before you do reviews.

Kanji was a fucking mistake.

How much does writing down words actually help you to remember them (the kanji parts).
As in just writing them down, not looking back on them or anything.

>>18345793
It was, but there's no use complaining about it. It's too late to get rid of it now, so if you want to learn Japanese then you'll just have to deal with it.

>>18345793
It was, but it isn't anymore.

>>18345810
Less than learning radicals. More than just seeing them.

>>18345810
It forces you to spend more time with the information and thus artificially increases your chance of remembering it.

>>18345810
It forms a tactile memory. Particularly if you consider the radicals while writing. >>18345884 too.

>>18345793
I like kanji, it's a good pleb filter. In fact, we should use 万葉仮名 again to make Japanese even more intimidating to weed out the true EOP's

>>18345848
Yeah but I still don't know the most efficient way to learn it.
Right now I'm doing the 2/6K vocab anki deck, but pretty much 99% of my Again's are due to not being able to recall the kanji and their reading, and it certainly doesn't fucking help that each kanji have different readings depending on which word they're in and how many of them there are. And even if I do learn them, I'll just lapse like crazy a few days later.
Meanwhile my hiragana is almost perfect.
I did get about 25% through a radical deck but I didn't really think it was helping, and it might've just made things worse for my memory. Should I pick it back up?

I guess you really can't learn Japanese.

>>18345860
Why?

>>18345900
Don't think of ways how to learn it, just learn it you fucking autist.

>>18345810
It takes time. More exposure time. Thats it

>>18345900
sorry you're a brainlet

>>18345900
>my hiragana is almost perfect

You can't learn Japanese, just leave before you start feeling the sunk cost you peanut brain

Reminder that starting with kanji study before you have any other fundamentals is a very bad idea. Kanji study is not useful if you do not have a basic understanding of the language or how Japanese written text works, and even worse, you spend a lot of time worrying about things that don't matter at all, and you're going to be building misconceptions that will take months to dissolve when you start actually reading. Time spent early on on kanji study is better spent doing almost anything else, even just sitting around relaxing. Once you reach a basic level of vague competence this stops being the case, but that's where everything becomes subjective and learning advice outside of "read more" is useless.

Wait, did he just say he killed both his parents? In the very first panel of this manga?

>>18345946
Damnit, how does this keep happening.
Also scratch that, I’m a moron with reading comprehension issues

>>18343609
anyone this one?

>>18345951
I mean there probably are, but trying to translate with a notepad is how my Japanese learning started to really accelerate. I think as long as you approach it systematically (like transcribing the original text first for instance), a notepad should be fine, and more helpful for you as a learner.

If you’re talking about actual scanlating, that’s a separate matter obviously.

>>18343609
sounds like a shitty idea unless you have someone/something to check the accuracy of your translations

>>18344017
?
It literally says 第２版.

>>18345336
異クラス seems to be correct

I admit I've never heard it before but it looks real and used

>>18346109
Where is this picture from?

The EPWING dictionaries in the CoR all come from a torrent on RuTracker and there the Daijirin EPWING dictionary is listed with the 3rd Edition's ISBN number and release date.

>>18346152
That's a screenshot of the contents of the epwing dictionary.

>>18346159
Oh, I didn't know you could view an info page like this but I just had a mess around and figured out how to do it in the program I use.

It seems you are indeed correct. Sorry in that case. The original torrent description must be wrong.

What is the program in your screencap, by the way?

>>18346197
in mine >>18346159 it's ebwin also I'm not >>18346109

>>18331890
Question here, since I'm not good at messing with Anki outside of doing daily reps. I didn't have access to my Anki for several weeks, and I don't feel comfortable leaving off where I was without doing some review of the Kanji that I've 'seen' up to this point. I noticed theres an option for custom study, but is there a way to review the first 400~ kanji at a time?

So I'm having trouble understanding this sentence, I'm a novice so bear with me please.
秋の訪れを告げる冷えた風に乗って

They way I got to it was 秋の訪れ which is Autum's visit, then 告げる 冷えた風 I assume it's "cold wind informed"
However I can't get into 乗って

>>18346288
the cold riding on the wind signaled autums coming? i guess

>>18345810
When I started learning words I got about 150-200 in just by using the flashcards and not writing anything. By that point it became very frustrating and hard to recall or retain a lot of the words.

Since then I started writing them down every time a new one showed up. If I got one wrong enough to know "I keep getting that one wrong", I write it again. Ever since I started writing them down, I've made it up to almost 1000 with pretty consistent recollection and retention.

Its probably different for everyone, but writing has been a huge help for me.

>>18335600
>but those don't have the up-to-date versions of those dictionaries that ATOK has
1. does it matter?
2. if so, use the catalog files for those dictionaries.

anons please guide me, I went to Japan to study for 4 weeks some short course in iidabashi tokyo and I'm really into it. however I cannot afford to study at uni and private schools. can someone recommend a short basic guide to get to n2 level? I really want to work my way up there to hopefully for a career.

>>18346355
Read the guide before asking questions

>>18346355
とーきょーいいな

>>18346288
Riding the cold wind which signaled autumn's arrival.

>>18346365
sorry anon I meant like a time duration to get to n2. something like this >read genki---> anki---> vn's----> socialise,etc

I came across a nice font called Migu 1C.

http://mix-mplus-ipa.osdn.jp/migu/

It's basically the M+ font with modifications maid to aid readability by, for instance, making the handakuten mark way easier to distinguish from the regular dakuten mark even at small sizes. I hate having to press my face up against my monitor and squint to tell the difference so this is a very welcome feature for me.

The only problem is, while it's supposed to use the IPA font for kanji instead of using the M+ kanji glyphs, it seems to just be using the regular M+ kanji glyphs for me...

Oh, and there's also another version called Migu 1P, with the major difference between it and Migu 1C being that Migu 1C uses proportional kana while Migu 1P uses fixed (width) kana. There are some other small differences, but that's the main one. Then there's Migu 1M which is a totally fixed font (though the Latin glyphs and Japanese glyphs have different widths so it's not really monospace).

>>18346355
There's not really any right way to learn japanese (unless you're a redditard, then you're probably doing it the wrong way)
Anyhow it'll take at least 2 years to get to that level, this is coming from someone who actually took the test. There are no shortcuts in language learning. The more time you spend immersing yourself in it, the faster you will learn.

>>18346386
>>18346305
Thank you

>>18346442
How does reddit learn japanese?

>>18346442
thanks anon, can I ask what pathway you took? I'll try put 4 hours a day into learning japanese, considering thats how long the classes were back then.

>>18346427
>The only problem is, while it's supposed to use the IPA font for kanji instead of using the M+ kanji glyphs, it seems to just be using the regular M+ kanji glyphs for me...
Yep, just tried replacing the version from my distro's repos with the version from the site itself and I'm still getting M+ kanji glyphs with it for some reason.

>>18346464
Genki, DuoLingo, cloze cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ2_O9PlKTo

I don't get it

>>18346470
I read genki I, realised it was shit and dropped it in the early pages, started reading yotsuba, also dropped it because it's boring, read Tae Kim and stopped half-way through, only using it for reference as I read manga, started core and stopped later at 1k or so words, started browsing aimlessly the japanese internet, bought all 11 suzumiya haruhi books untranslated, started a mining deck that's still active today although I rarely use it anymore (right now it's at 136 reviews and still counting, it used to be more but I reviewed them all)
This is all in the span of one and a half years (I started in september of 2016). I also read a lot but I'm too lazy to list everything I read

>>18346355
>>18346407
how much did you do in those 4 weeks?

>>18346522
>私は大学院生でもあります。
wut. I've been at this for almost two years and I don't get it either. Is that right?

>>18346499
How do you even learn japanese from anime is beyond me

>>18346533
>>18346522
What do you not get even?

>>18346533
Is it because 私 is the subject twice or something?

I don't understand why (b) cannot have も before it and be constructed in the same way (a) can be.

Thank you for any help!

>>18340729
>reading that thick ass book in three hours
LAMO

>>18346542
Why can (b) not be constructed as (a)?

>>18346522

>>18346557
>>18346544
Oh, if you think of も meaning "also", you need to tack it onto 大学院生 and not 私 because you're saying that in addition to being a 教師, you are also a 大学院生. In the first example you're saying it such that it's emphasized like "I also am a 大学院生"
I just didn't get why で is thrown in there but that's because I guess I'm not exposed to polite Japanese that often.

>>18346574
で is a fundamental part of the expression である (unless you're chinese)
I basically interpret it as "I exist as"

>>18346499
I never thought a white American with a terrible accent would try to convince me to learn japanese a certain way

>>18346574
>In the first example you're saying it such that it's emphasized like "I also am a 大学院生"
Just to expound on this, the first example can be thought of "in addition to Keiko..." whereas the second example it would be thought of as "in addition to being a teacher...".
>>18346591
私は中国人ですけど…
いやぁ～、冗談です。
I always thought of it as ある, you just blew my mind. Thank you.

New to Japanese so I might sound stupid but why is sushi sometimes zushi sakura sometimes zakura and kami sometimes gami? Why are numbere like 7 sometimes read as shichi instead of nana? What exactly are the rules for this?

>>18346610
>What exactly are the rules for this?
日本語

>>18346617
じょしりょくふやしたい

ぎょうざたべるとー１されるからつらい

>>18346610
How many times do people have to explain this for you all to get it?