/jp/ - Otaku Culture

it is time for our community to come together and heal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOiGJbeLzxM

watch Emirin

>>34247300
why do japanese youtubers sub everything they make?

>>34247315
thats because spoken language doesnt have kanji, so you cant tell apart homophones.
so they need subtitles

>>34247300
unko is dead you're next faggot

how long does it take to complete core2.3k on average

>>34247343
dunno but takes about 4 months to get that far + 700 kanji in wanikani

情報はいってこない

どこかのサーバでもおちたの？

>>34247343
you should aim to do 50 words a day

>>34247394
make it 1000 and we're talking. shouldnt take you any longer than it took you kana.

>>34247403
i think you missed a 0.

finally got 快い the reading. that was a huge leach for no good reason for a while. all the ＿＿＋良い ones trip me up at the start

leech bro

おそらくだけど

中国が

台湾に戦争したっぽい？

なんともおかしい

did the tatusmoto bot get banned...normally he posts first reply in a few seconds

Use of pronouns for suspense in Japanese

Hey everyone! This is a bit of a complicated question, so I’d appreciate everyone’s patient reading and thoughtful responses.

So in English, I feel like we have a habit of using pronouns to emphasize an attribute of a sentence. For example—I might say something like “despite having only studied it for two years, I am fluent in Japanese” (lol fat chance). Another example, to be spicy: “I’m not sure if you’ve realized it yet, but I like you.”

In both of these examples, the use of “it” is for dramatic effect in my mind; by prolonging the actual point of the sentence, it creates a sort of anticipation that feels appealing to me.

While I know that grammatically speaking it’s possible to do this sort of thing in Japanese — using の for example — so this question is more directed at whether or not it’s something that’s typically done in the language.

My experience in speaking Japanese with people around my age (young) is that there’s less of an emphasis on use of emphatics or drama for effect (usually to be funny), so I’m trying to reorient my Japanese thinking to reflect that.

What’s your experience with this phenomenon? Do you think the prolonging of the “main idea” of the sentence for emphasis is something usually done in Japanese? If so, are the situations in which it’s done different from in English? How does this affect the way you think about “thinking” in Japanese?

Thanks so much in advance to your responses! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

>>34247315
it's for japanese learners of course. they are aware there's a massive amount of gaijins loathing for anime waifu pussy and the japanese way so they want to help.

Imagine being a young japanese voice actress, aspiring to do great things in the industry. You get an offer to voice a game. It's an eroge. You ignore the pit in your stomach that's telling you to keep your integrity and find a realer role. It offers good money though, and you need to pay for your tokyo apartment. And it wouldn't hurt to have a credit, would it? So you voice lead heroine in Cummy Wummies In My (Step)Sister's Tummy. You give it your all, and the director is so happy with your work. You even get to record the opening song. The game is successful. You have to record a drama CD, a full vocal album done talking about how much you love your big (step)brother and his cummies in your tummy. It's all going downhill from here. People start to recognize you. They shake your hand, and you can see in their eyes that they want to put their cummies in your tummy. Life is dark. You miss your inaka town. Was the cummies in the tummy worth it? Maybe you should just give up. There are other offers for more games though. You're by all accounts a success in the voice acting industry, only, not the one you wanted to be in. All because of some cummies in your tummy. Maybe the long dark at the end of the rope is looking enticing. The cummies in your tummy theme song plays as you step onto the chair and tie the rope around your neck. You let out a whimper, and kick it out from under you. The news reports say that you were not very well known, except for cummies in your tummy. It was a good life.

>>34247481
im curious if this is an esl or a native speaker

>>34247482
no furigana. rip

>>34247338
>>34247482
i know these are both troll answers but i cant come up with anything more plausible

>>34247492
its for intermediate learners

>>34247504
i dont know if this is more plausible, but it could be for deaf people. does japan have a lot of deaf people?

2 ghibli movies down. 20 to go. think it's like 30 hours of immersion. pretty easy stuff too. tried watching one of them on hbo but they hardbake the subs in. watched a bit of it that way though, seems like they change a lot. they translated "外国" as "skull" because they were pointing at a skull emblem.

>>34247515
technically yes bc of aging population...but i dont think they're watching youtubers.

dang. wanted to get on jptvts and forgot to apply and now they're closed again. is it any worth tho over club?

>>34247504
idk just google around you might find more meaningful answers than on here where there are literally no japanese or people with any knowledge of this stuff whatsoever.
my guess is they just evolved like this. why do germans love beer? why do americans love to get fat and be retarded? why do viets eat spiders and chinese eat bats? who the fuck knows. they just evolved like this just like pidgeons evolved to shit on statures and the earth formed as a habitable planet.