/jp/ - Otaku Culture

はんせいはいらない

せんせいもしらない

がんばれおにいちゃん

Thanks to everybody who answered the poll.

惑わす星 = Planet = 惑星

>>17728141
>はんせいはいらない
もちろん、してない

黒人は大嫌い

おやすみ

I was showing Core cards in random order instead of order added.

>>17728397
おはよう

Strawman Japanese Learner: What is wrong with Japanese, 3000 unique characters to learn? This is unreasonable

Also Strawman Japanese Learner: I literally cannot spell 20% of English words without assistance

>>17728462
False Equivalence Japanese Learner: You

>>17728474
prove that it is a false equivalence

>>17728474
He's not saying the flaws are equivalent, he's pointing out both languages have deep flaws in their writing systems, and likely that one therefore must be considerate when criticizing Kanji, for the alphabet system in English is not nearly universally smooth going and to portray only Kanji as being absurdly difficult at times would be unfair.

It's called DEEP orthography, bitches!

>>17728482
>read
>pronounced rid
>read
>pronounced red
Deeper than depth.

>>17728477
First of all, 20% is too low, but I assume you're just being hyperbolic. The actual false equivalence is that if you know an english word phonetically, you're almost 100% guaranteed to be able to read that word if you see it written. It takes until the end of high school for Japanese students to be able to read words that they've known for a lot of their life.

>>17728487
i don't see how my post conveyed that, can you tell me where i expressed that?

>>17728490
>What is wrong with Japanese, 3000 unique characters to learn? This is unreasonable
My point is that it indeed is a pretty unreasonable and inefficient writing system.

>>17728494
i never said it wasn't

>>17728487
>It takes until the end of high school for Japanese students to be able to read words that they've known for a lot of their life.
This is not true. Think about this for a few seconds, anon. Do you think Japanese teens spend literally 18 years of their life not knowing all 2000-some Jouyou kanji? When it's trivial to learn them in a single year of casual study? When they're surrounding by ALL kanji 24/7, in books and TV and movies and manga and so on? Don't be ridiculous, Japanese kids have the jouyou down fucking pat by the end of middle school easy.

Incidentally, your 100% is just as hyperbolic as the 20%, because even a single counter example can ruin you. And here I go: Segue, or even faux pas.

>>17728498
Archive. Almond. Crustacean. Fourier.

>>17728494
If it's unreasonable, why does Japan have a nearly 100% literacy rate, and why are there so few movements - and no successful ones - to remove kanji? Simple - Kanji may arguably be inefficient, but it's certainly not unreasonable.

おはようございます。朝ごはんは何ですか？

>>17728498
> Do you think Japanese teens spend literally 18 years of their life not knowing all 2000-some Jouyou kanji?
Yes, that's why only like 20% of them pass the Level 2 Kanji Kentei test.

>because even a single counter example can ruin you
It would if I had said 100% but I said "almost 100%". Obviously, there are exceptions, specially loanwords like the ones you posted.

>>17728507
あしたはなににしよう

ごはんと

おみそしると

やきなすと

ゆでオクラと

サラダにしようかな

>>17728511
Kanji Kentei test is not the language in its natural form. That is, it doesn't test whether they know the Jouyou kanji so much as it grinds their knowledge of the language in unnatural ways - it even says, "tests special or unusual kanji readings", i.e., readings not used in natural language. Saying not passing the Kanji Kentei is not knowing the Jouyou Kanji is wrong and deceptive.

>>17728502
>why does Japan have a nearly 100% literacy rate
Their education system is very effective, even if pretty oppressive.

>and why are there so few movements - and no successful ones - to remove kanji?
Do you really think a country as nationalistic as Japan would abolish one of the most defining aspects of their language? Kanji might be highly inefficient as a writing system but it's also very elegant.

>>17728520
None of your arguements are relevant to the question of whether it's unreasonable or not. Middle Schoolers can read Japanese effectively and adults nigh universally have no problem with kanji (that is, to the same extent English-speaking Adults have no problem with spelling). Therefore, kanji is not unreasonable, simple as that. If it were unreasonable, the entire population of a fairly sizable country would not be effectively and easily using it.

>>17728527
>Middle Schoolers can read Japanese effectively and adults nigh universally have no problem with kanji

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

>>17728533
>to the same extent English-speaking Adults have no problem with spelling
Already destroyed you, try again.
Or are you going to say being unable to spell for example "crustacean" means alphabet systems are unreasonable?

>>17728533
I literally cannot spell 20% of English words without assistance

>>17728539
Sounds like the problem is you, not English.

>>17728542
Go ahead, please reproduce the entire dictionary with a low spelling error rate.

>>17728542
Wow. Sounds like the problem is with them >>17728533 , not kanji. Kind of a pointless video then, huh?

I before E except after C or when sounding like A, as in neighbor or weigh including only cases where the spelling represents the "long e" sound.

>>17728536
You don't think there's a difference between someone misspelling "crustacean" and someone literally forgetting how to write the basic characters that form the words in the first place? Has someone older than 4 ever forgotten how to write a letter of the alphabet?

>>17728567
Kanji aren't basic characters. Kanji encode morphemes. If you want to compare to letters you have to forget how to write component graphemes.

Romanesque

There are three orthographic units here. Rome, a word, roman, a form of that word, and esque, a suffix morpheme. Forgetting how to spell esque is not like putting the wrong kanji in the wrong place, it's like forgetting which components go where in 様. That is something that is entirely possible for the typical highschooler to do in both languages. That doesn't mean they can't read words using these.

How do you make Anki more 楽しい and less shit?

>>17728577
Ok, you convinced me. Kanji is actually just as easy to learn as the latin alphabet.

>>17728520
Is argue it's less the effectiveness of their education system and more that they don't have an immigration issue where a bunch of kids gets brought to their country and dumped in to school as a free baby sitter while they don't understand the language.

>>17728602
>>>/pol/

>>17728605
He is right, though.

>>17728579
You don't

>>17728406
A travesty.

>>17728579
Don't use it to try and learn from. I mean it's a handy flash card program, which is decent enough for spaced repetition memorization, but learning a bunch of moon runes without context only gives you a bit of an advantage as far as familiarity when you actually have to read a sentence.

Never 4get

why not just delete the thread then forever if youre gonna smother the only actual discussion

>>17728788
Because then beginners wouldn't have a place to ask questions

Now go on ahead, pick your shitposter reply of choice. But remember, you may only pick one:
>implying anyone answers questions here
>implying anyone here has ever learned japanese
>implying djt has ever helped someone with their studying

>>17728821
they do its on the real djt?

>>17728160

Addendum: In case anyone doesn't know, the reason planets were considered "perplexing stars" is because it is very hard to predict their orbits just from observation on earth (because we are stuck right in this clusterfuck of orbits). It wasn't until the 16th century with Keplers laws of planetary motion (that led to the development of calculus) that it became possible.

The ancient greeks similarly called planets "wanderers".

>>17728931
thats really interesting and cool

>>17728831
beginner here, please link this real djt

「私に売る」が「私のために売る」、の同じ意味でしょう？「私が買う」の逆は「私に売られる」だけでしょう？

>>17728947
>>>/int/80233178

>>17729001

>>17729001

I'm pretty sure 私に売られる would mean "sold by me". Not "sold to me". http://www.imabi.net/thepassive.htm

>>17729081
They were saying that the passive is the only opposite of 私が買う, and wondering that 私に売る and 私のために売る have the same meaning, neither being the opposite of 私が買う.

>http://www.imabi.net/

It just keeps happening. Imabi should probably move to neocities or something.

>>17726899
Well, I skimmed through the library and found three which sound quite interesting:
AURA ~魔竜院光牙最後の闘い~
六花の勇者
ノーゲーム・ノーライフ

Has anyone read any of them?

>>17729172
watching aura is better in some ways than reading it
watch it first then read it later imo

>>17729001
私のために売る = "sold to me" or "someone sells something for me"

私に売られる = "sold to me" or "sold by me"

>>17728063
>#1845
Any particular reason for this?

>>17729186
>Hanazawa Kana as female lead
hhnnnggggg, tempting

But if I watch it, I know I won't be interested in reading it, at least for quite some time.

>>17729238
they probably just copy pasted it funny

>>17729267
its a pretty good movie but only a merely ok book

>>17729359
Oh right. It sounded a bit reminiscent of Chuu2 so I thought it might be a fun read.

Are there any LNs that you would recommend?

>>17727501
>Hmm, well, seems they don't ship overseas anyway when it's a big set of books like that. I guess that figures.

Most people selling used sets of books don't ship overseas, but if you buy the ones fulfilled by Amazon they will.

>>17729435
well re aura without giving anything specific away it was a fresh take on some classic lit so if youre not familiar it goes over your head and it goes double if your japanese isnt good enough to notice it from the text
its much easier to notice whats going on if you watch it though

anyway i dont read a lot of light novellas but as always i can rec you haruchika because i thought it had strong author voice and was frankly fresh as fuck

>>17729500
Doesn't always work either.

Can someone help me translate the quoted part on this page? I'm mostly having trouble with 「りゅうぐうじょうに　ごあんないします」 Thanks

>>17729521
hes going to bring you to a castle under the sea

>>17729521
ごあんない = ご prefix + 案内

>>17729500
I added all of the listings to my cart and slowly clicked through to see which ones they'd send and which ones they'd refuse to send, and the only one that they're willing to ship to America is the one that's listed for like 13000 yen, at which point it's hardly a great deal. That, and I already ended up just seperately ordering the first six volumes anyway, so if I did want to do that I'd have these duplicates because it's too late to cancel.

>>17729521

Hiragana kids stories are cancer

>>17729541
cause you dont know words

>>17729521
Cute as shit. Where is that from?

>>17729545
t. ankidrone

>>17729553
A collection of children's books called Japanese Children's Favorite Stories. You can find it in the CoR.

>>17729559
i never did a flashcard in my life and think theyre gay desu but the guy readin the my first urashima taro book is doin the top tier shit

>>17729569
>anti-anki defending hiragana stories
Why?

>>17729508
>anyway i dont read a lot of light novellas but as always i can rec you haruchika because i thought it had strong author voice and was frankly fresh as fuck
Ah, you're the same guy from the last thread?

I looked for Haruchika in the library, CoR and on nyaa, but it doesn't seem to exist anywhere digitally.

>>17729574
¿Not him but what does being pro or anti anki have to do with hiragana stories? Do people use anki as a way to recognize words like 国会委員会 phonetically on the fly?
I have trouble with that. I can read those words perfectly but if I'm listening spoken japanese I have to pay very careful attention to such aglutinative "words".

>>17729531
>>17729534
Thanks a lot!

>>17729553
Urashimatarou

>>17729567
>>17729595
Thank you.

>>17729510
Oh, I didn't know that.

>>17729574
prolly because they are written in the most basic ways possible to help you establish how grammar actually works

plus now in the case of that book hell have a frame of reference for urashima taro jokes and references to urashima taro that may come up in the future

overall very dope !

>>17729586
i have the books but im sure they can be stolen on the internet

Man, learning to read Japanese names is fucking hard.

>>17729670
I don't even know how it can be possible. I was watching a Japanese LP of Machi, and every time a character's name would pop up they would struggle for a few seconds to figure it out.

I image searched 獣姦 to make sure I understand the nuances of the word.

Can someone translate "Have a great new life in Japan" for me please?

>>17729888
お前ら日本人の大切なクソ島が海に沈んだらいいよ
You're welcome!

>>17729888
日本に新しいグレート命を奏でれますように
youre welcome

>>17729949
wew was almost going to send the message before I knew better

>>17729970
Thanks

Fucking fuck ン and ソ and シ and ツ.

>>17729606
If they guy can't find it why not let him a hand?
Also, you would be surprised how many insanely popular LNs are only available in images or even not at all. Nips and weebs are just retarded and can't into using a one-click de-DRM tool (with fucking GUI, it's not like you need to be a leet haxxor) so they resort to taking fucking screenshots of text like some fucking Neanderthals. And since this retarded method is rather bothersome, a lot of shit isn't available at all.
Now I'm angry again.

>>17729783
It kinda isn't. Some names can be read many different ways, no way of knowing which one the particular person uses. You may try to guess the most common reading, but you can't know how to read it.

https://streamable.com/njmoz
>discussing pronouns

>>17730047
i dont steal things so theres not much i can do
i dont even know what the stuff you were talking about is

>>17730038
ン and シ are aligned on the left,
ソ and ツ are aligned on the top.

This is true for all fonts

>>17729783
The thing is, that person was at least able to make a reasonable guess, they weren't completely clueless. That's the skill I'm trying to acquire.

>>17730047
>the guy can't find it why not lend
I'm drunk.
>>17730113
>How dare you steal the potential monetary gain of local bakers and fisherman by multiplying the fish and the bread!
So that's the real reason why Jews killed Jesus, he was stealing their money. I can't blame them, such a vile crime deserves capital punishment.

>>17730136
>muh semantics
Kill you are self.

>>17730147
Hollywood and other lobbies call it 'stealing' to make people believe in their retarded agenda. And as we can see it's fucking working.
There are some cases where words do matter, my friend. They are misusing the term to brainwash us.

anyone know where to find the katanagatari LN raw? only one on nyaa has 0 seeders, bakabt it's blacklisted, and most of the other sites have 0 seeders

>>17730179
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%88%80%E8%AA%9E-%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E8%A9%B1-%E7%B5%B6%E5%88%80%E3%83%BB%E9%89%8B-%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE%EF%BC%A2%EF%BC%AF%EF%BC%B8-%E8%A5%BF%E5%B0%BE%E7%B6%AD%E6%96%B0-ebook/dp/B01LMU2ISS/

>>17730179
It's in the djt library man. Why was that not the first place you looked?

>>17730184
nice meme

>>17730159
you wouldnt download a car

>>17729187

Dumb language!

>>17730159
don't call it your hobby if you're not willing to spend money on it lol

>>17730191
good question, thanks though

>>17730199
what if your hobby is living vicariously through the pirated content you consume via the internet access your parents pay for

>>17730193
Wouldn't I?
>>17730199
I spend if what I want is unavailable and then make it available for others.
Do you have some mistaken belief that you have to spend money to have fun? Absolutely retarded.

>>17730199
By what definition can something only be called a hobby if one spends money on it?

>>17730229
mine

https://youtu.be/0zL2akvpWJc

>>17730232
to be more clear, i just think that if you're not willing to fork over ten whole dollars for a book you want to read which isn't available in any other format, maybe you don't care enough to read through the book to begin with?

>>17730241
>if you're not willing to fork over ten whole dollars for a book you want to read which isn't available in any other format
Nice strawman.

im gonna miss all these posts when theyre gone
all ill have left is my memories of when djt was allowed to have a conversation

>>17730247
>calling something that isn't a strawman a strawman
grasping at strawmans i see

>>17730256
Please give me the quote where anybody claimed they wouldn't pay if they really wanted something and it was unavailable on sharing sites.

stop grabbing at each others strawmans (chinkos)

isnt it strawMEN

isnt mans just a way more fun word

>>17730274
the plural of man is "mans," dude.

>>17730276
THIS guy gets it.

all mans and womans and strawmans are equal

anyone want to come over and play the new chinpokomans on my okama gamesphere

Does there yet exist an OCR'd PDF version of the HJGP?

Or even just a regular PDF version?

>>17730357
No, but you're free to make one.

>>17730357
I may or may not be OCRing it, but it's a very slow process and I'm skipping the main example sentences.

>>17730196
yesterday evening I was evening out some dirt and refuse, chores I couldn't refuse since the only other person with me was an invalid making the option invalid
yeah great language

>>17730359
Already tried making a PDF myself but I think my computer is too much of a toaster to do it. ImageMagick kept complaining about there not being enough memory or something to that effect, and none of the solutions to the problem I found through Google worked.

>>17730372
Downscale it one image at a time with a script. Then it should be able to build the PDF.

Differences in DoJG vs HJGP? Haven't been to DJT in a year or so, so I'm not familiar with it.

Also, if I can (mostly) understand grammar explanations in Japanese, would I be better off reading a Japanese resource instead, and if so, which one?

>>17730501
>Differences in DoJG vs HJGP? Haven't been to DJT in a year or so, so I'm not familiar with it.
HJGP is basically a more modern less bloated DoJG. It contains more explanatory information and makes it easier to find. DoJG is also split up into three volumes for no reason but to cost more if you acquire it legally.

>>/jp/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=dojg+hjgp

>Also, if I can (mostly) understand grammar explanations in Japanese, would I be better off reading a Japanese resource instead, and if so, which one?
Unless you're completely fluent, no. Grammar explanations need to be understood 99.9%, not 95% or even 98%.

>>17730501
>DoJG vs HJGP
Former is terse in abbreviations for constructs, assumings you want to produce so includes formation, its example sentences contain a fair amount of common names and uncommon words making reading a chore

Latter focuses on exactly the example sentences, has a lot more of them, less names, simpler word choice and a brief explanation. But its also exhaustive in every instance the construct might be used. I prefer this one over DoJG.

>>17730524
You have me convinced but there's no deck.

>>17730542
i just use this
https://core6000.neocities.org/hjgp/

Could someone help me with this, please? I only started learning Japanese a few days ago, but I'm trying to understand a drawing meme that's been going around Twitter for a while. I get the title, and most of the descriptions, but what's throwing me off is お好みの女子を. I haven't gotten to a use of を without a verb yet, so is the English equivalent something like "Designated as women's favorite"/"Popular with Women"? And if so, is that in a "gets along well with other girls" sense, or a "other girls are attracted to them" one?

>>17730551
I mean I'm able to read without any problems so I don't bother to look anything up, but I'm doing one new card a day (only exposure, i.e. I read all the info, but don't score myself) for a painless one year experience.

>>17730542
I've been contemplating making a deck of all the sentences in it, but the gargantuan nature of the task has put me off doing it so far. There are 13 example sentences on the first page alone, and I dread to imagine just how many there are in the entire book. Even taking a conservative estimate of 6 sentences per page, that's more than 4000 in total, and every single one of them has to be manually typed out and then carefully re-read a few times to check for errors.

Even if I were to start it, I can't see myself making it through more than a dozen pages before giving up.

>>17730542
Why would you use the deck?

>>17730617
It can be simplified with OCR.
Just wish people who made the DJG deck used this instead.

>>17730623
To learn all the grammar.

>>17730569
It's a sentence fragment with an unspecified or implied action.

>>17730624
Wasn't available in English at the time.

>>17730617
Try >>17718147 (https://forum.koohii.com/thread-14814.html))
You can paste sentences with mistakes into a text editor, fix them, and paste them back into the reader. It autosaves everything.

>>17730626
Would you use Recognition or Cloze?

Is there any good Kanji writing software for touch screen pcs?

>>17730658

Google translate.

>>17730664
>translate
Wrong thread.

>>17730675

No, really, Google Translate has the best kanji input system.

>>17730664
Yeah I'm trying to practice my writing and memorization, not look up what i write terrible

>>17730675
Nicely memed, but Google translate is objectively the best way to search for kanji if you don't want to fuck with radicals.

>>17730656
Use what you want.
I'm too lazy to look up the nuance during reading as I'm more or less able to get the meaning, so I'm just doing the deck to hopefully remember some nuance.
As there's too much info for SRS to be worth it and the most basic info can be found in yomichan anyway (and will be remembered easily by reading) I'm just reading all the info and hitting good.
You could argue I would probably get most of the nuance in a few years of reading, but it's painless so whatever.

>>17730679
Just use pen and paper. If you really want to use your PC, why not stuff like paint?

>>17730681
>Nicely memed
Fuck off to >>>/int/, buddy.

>>17728063
anyone capable of translating this image?

>>17730693
I'm capable. Do you want to be capable? If so, read some of the links on the pate linked in the OP.

>>17730693
Nah, we just discuss study methods here. I doubt there are people here who can actually read and understand everything in your image.

>>17730686
I want something that shows me how to write it, and then grades my accuracy based on stroke order and other various criteria.

>>17730693
Nope. 7 billion people on this planet and not a one can understand both English and Japanese.

>>17730699
Maybe you could emulate DS bimoji training?

>>17728063
>read the guide
How much does it cost to stay a week in Japan if I want to buy stuff, eat good, and avoid yakuza.

Also being able to date a jap QT3.14 would be nice, but I doubt they would want a black man who can't speak japanese. This is the least of my concern though.

>>17730716
>7 billion people
Wow! Didn't know DJT was this popular.

>>17730522
>DoJG is also split up into three volumes for no reason but to cost more if you acquire it legally.
They were published years, even decades apart, you mong.
A complete single volume would be a multiple thousand page tomb, expensive to publish and would end of costing far more. There is also a reason why large encyclopedias publish in multiple volumes.
Please don't talk about things you do not appear to understand.

>>17730781
>They were published years, even decades apart, you mong.
There is no reason to compile them into a single cheap volume.

>A complete single volume would be a multiple thousand page tomb
That is a very bad thing.

>expensive to publish
We have this thing called computers.

>and would end of costing far more
DoJG contains less useful information than HJGP. Why should it cost more than that?

>There is also a reason why large encyclopedias publish in multiple volumes.
Because they actually contain so much information that they must be.

>Please don't talk about things you do not appear to understand.
You're a fucking moron.

>>17730784
>There is no reason to compile them into a single cheap volume.
this is sarcasm btw

>>17730693

>暑いからぬいじゃお

温度が高すぎるので、女の子がちょっとしぶしぶと上着を外す。しかも、発音や書き方が態々ちょと変わられると、「脱いじゃう」から「ぬいじゃお」になった。ついに、最後の単語の後に八分音符を付けると、例の違いと可愛い感じになる。

In Anki's styling section for card types, how can I add comments? Is there a special character for it, like "#" you often see in code?

I have to add lots of little fixes for Ankidroids and it's getting a bit messy to differentiate which styling stuff is my actual styling and what's fixes for Ankidroid or add-ons.

Bitch mod deleted my post, where else on the site am I supposed to ask you faggot?>>17730741

>>17730825
>>>/wsr/

>>17730825

This is a thread for pretending to learn the Japanese language. Go to: >>>/int/80287944

>>17730838
quoted for fucken truth

>>17730819
/* comment */

>father

>>17731020

父じゃなくて乳だ

>>17730902
Thank you! At first, I didn't get that the asteriskes were supposed to literally be there.

Why learn just Japanese when you could learn Japanese and Esperanto at the same time?

>>17731122
Same.

>>17730631
I figured that, but is there a general trend for what that construction means – what action tends to get implied in that context?

>>17731222
In that picture it means drawing the artist's お好み.

>>17731253
Okay, just wanted to make sure. Thanks, anon(s).

https://youtu.be/Vpg2RdjNuWQ

Have any of you idiots actually memorized a decent amount of kanji through Remembering The Kanji? I can't decide if I want to switch to it from just learning through vocab.

>>17731328
Ah, he's rude, he's rude!

Finished my first VN route.

I didn't anticipate finishing it today, but I just couldn't stop reading. I think I read for about 6 hours straight.

Not sure now whether to read another route or take a short break from it to try something else.

>>17731389
How many words did you mine from it, anon? I'm at almost 900 from my first one.

>>17731429
Zero.

I wanted to see how I managed without using Anki, and it went fairly well actually. I managed to learn quite a lot of words just by reading, and towards the end, there were a quite a lot of sentences where I already knew all the words or only had to look up one or two.

I might give mining a try with whatever I read next, but I'll leave that decision to tomorrow.

>>17731429
Not him, but I read Flyable Heart as my first VN and I mined 2178 new words and 164 new kanji (I had done RTK beforehand, so that's 164 that weren't in RTK or the 2.5k~ words of Core I did). As I got around halfway through the common route I started being a lot more conservative with what my mining criteria were so that I could keep the new card queue down.

>>17731429
I mined 2.5k from Satsukoi. That was after completing Nayr's 5k/Anon5k deck.

>>17731441
Okay, had a little play around with getting the Anki import thingy setup for Yomichan and I got it working without much trouble. Think I will give mining a shot from tomorrow and see how I get on with it, but if it starts becoming a source of procrastination then I'll most likely stop and go back to just reading.

I'll probably go pretty steady with Anki and just do 10 new cards a day. I don't want to be one of those people I see in these threads who spend an hour or more every day just doing Anki, and I think I will be more likely to keep it up if it's something I can get out of the way quickly each day as well.

おはようおにいちゃん

おつきみってえいごでなんていうの？

>>17731548
moon watchingかな
あるいは放心状態のやつ
'lost the plot'みたい

>>17731568
じゃあおつきさまは？

Daijirin or Daijisen?

Jani deleted my Japanese post that he can't even read.

へんたいはだいたいペンギンがすき

にほんのことわざ

I have no idea what this means, can anyone help out?

>>17731716
Isn't it something like "I remember the day you guys' mom was born like it was yesterday"?

>>17731716
しどにあ？

さいきん二瓶よんでない

>>17731778

It's from 人形の国, apparently it is supposed to be set in the same universe as knights of sidonia but I'm not familiar with that series so I can't say. It takes place on the surface a giant ship covered in snow, the art style is super cool, with light grey shading taking place of most of the ink work because snow reflects so much light and gives you super strong global illumination.

>>17731834
にへいはすごいよねえ

よんでみたーい

>>17730372
What kind of script did you use?

Is it possible to convert a PDF format book that has furigana to an HTML file that retains the furigana? Tried calibre with default settings and the furigana weren't properly tagged and were on their own lines not positioned or tagged properly. I'm reading something in PDF format and Yomichan isn't playing nice with it if the word isn't the first word or two of a line.

It's mostly just a minor inconvenience since I can just copy the text from the PDF to a different tab to look up, but still would be nice if I could just convert it to HTML.

The PDF in question, if you want to play around with it https://a.pomf.cat/kiccge.pdf

>>17731122
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY2wF_EEaV0
>Alice sings in Esperanto
Sasuga.

why's it so hard to find japanese people to practice with? they just ignore me

>>17732005
you haven't found any yet, just english teachers

>>17732009
i didn't mean on 4chan

Is there any place where I can find Japanese subtitles of Owarimonogatari S2?

>>17731716
>>17731726
"I remember the day your grandmother's grandmother was born like it was yesterday." if I'm not mistaken.

あしたは

はれるとおもう？

あめだとおもう？

>>17731605
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk-lA12FBk

>>17732118
晴れるや
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3h2DAgeno

>>17732161
せやｎ　って関西弁とちゃうわ！騙されたやねん

>>17732118
自分の行末のような暗雲

>>17731328
It werks for me, but if you have good spacial memory then you don't need to.
Well, at least my verbal memory is good so after I associate shapes with words then learning vocab is easy.

forgive my lewdness, but maybe someone with a better ear than me can figure this out

I called a deriheru earlier to see if I could get it in. when they answered I didn't quite catch everything they said. I called again to get a recording hoping i'd be able to figure it out but i'm stumped

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1potyUb5HGg

So far I've got:

あ、えっと今日、女の子がもう＿＿＿＿が埋まっててご案内できないということですね。

I'm aware the overall message is that the girls are all booked up tonight, but can anyone understand what the hell that blank is?

>>17732394
全員 something something

>>17732394
>全員御予約

だとおもうよ

>>17732405
this is definitely it, thanks bud

>>17732424
あたしはねるから

あとはほかのひとにきいてね

Do you guys have strategies for picking which words to mine? I mined too many at once.

>>17732640
read book for child where every single word isnt new to you

>>17732640
If there's a chance I will ever see that word again, I mine it.

>>17732642
I do read easy stuff but I read a lot.

>>17732640
1) Does it have a kanji I don't know (if so, mine)
2) If not, was I able to read the kanji (if not, mine, if so, check if I read it correctly, if so, don't mine, if not, mine)
3) How long did it take me to correctly read the kanji? (if fast, don't mine, if slow, mine)

If I knew the kanji and read it fast correctly, I don't mind.

This technique is for strengthening kanji skills. If you are at the point of reading all words correctly knowing every kanji and the proper reading, you are done with Anki.

レディーファースト？

なんでやねん

>>17732834
レディーは拷問されるにはファーストやで

Holy shit don't play this game, I just wanted some imouto cuddle and sibling love, but this damn megane rapist keep monopolizing every scene.
Imouto isn't even relevant, stupid imouto locks herself in her room.

>>17733021
why didnt you just read any shit generic post 2k10 moe game instead of yosugaのfuckfest
however its a very deep and thought provoking game lol

Any opinions on japanese the card game?

>>17733118
Games won't teach you more than a few hundred words and basic grammar.
This is nowhere near enough to actually understand anything not specifically targeted at someone of that level.

got my first 30 days straight of anki lads.

>>17730643

>>17733161
Drop that cramming, Anki will make sure you remember everything without wasting time on cards you already know well.
Use that extra time to add more cards or to read when you're at a level where that's possible.

>>17733021
Doesn't it fucking depend on the route?

Does anyone here keep decks of Japanese names and famous Japanese people?

>>17733161
>6059 reviews in 30 days
Christ dude, how many new cards are you adding every day?

good traditional folk music?

>>17733179
I started cramming because I wasn't remembering but I lowered my daily new cards from 20 to 15 and it made a big difference. I'll take your advice, that time is better spent doing something else.

>>17733199
15 cards, I think it counts every time the card is shown as a review, every time you click again it counts it as a review

>>17733199
>below 200 reviews (apart from the retarded cramming)
>a lot
OK

>>17733209
fuck wrong thread
ごめんね

>>17733183
judging by the post i think hes still in the first hour of the game lol

>>17733229
>*reviews a day

>>17733199

I have even more.

>>17731122
>no history
>no culture
>no media
>no one but smug autists to speak it with
Why would anyone waste their time learning Esperanto?

>>17733241
Step it up

only ~300 of these are on japanese

I'm new to this. Today I'm finishing the kana. I started last week.

>>17733260

I used to do over 400 a day, but that was a few years ago; made me want to die.

I bet no-one can beat this young/mature ratio.

>>17733265
>5k new cards
>no reviews
What am I looking at?

>>17733265
Anki is overkill for Kana
You'll see all of them so often that an Anki review every few days/weeks won't do anything.

Just cram them for a few days and then move on to learning vocab and grammar.

So do you guys just spend like, 2+ hours every day reviewing cards in anki? I hope you guys, uh, learned your cards good.

>>17733277

I can do up to 20 cards a minute.

>>17733277
Literally nothing wrong with that

(take a deep breath, dont get triggered yet)

as long as you spend another 2 hours studying grammar and reading

>>17733271
I'm following the book Remembering the Kana. I started last Saturday with it.

>>17733273
I don't know, anon. The syllabary is so basic that I want to get it right. As I said, this is the last day I'm studying them. Tomorrow I'm starting with the basic grammar and reading kiddie books.

>>17733289
>Remembering the Kana

Good choice. That's what I always recommend.

>>17733277
Spending ~15 minutes a day to remember 17k cards forever was worth the time I had to spend in the beginning.

>>17733303
oops, forgot the picture

>>17733306
that's a big deck

>>17733316
４ウ

>>17733316
More than one deck.

~2500 Kanji, ~12000 vocab cards, 2500 grammar cards (mostly the DOJG sentences)

>>17733277
Yes, and I still fail like 25% every day.

Is it possible to strip all the crap like P, ichi, news, JMDICT (English) from cards created via Yomichan without losing the actually important info like n, uk, vi, vt, adj-na and so on?

>>17733183
don't think I'll make it to imouto route she and this annoying guy just keep coming even though there are not even on the cover

>>17733495
>ichi is useless

>>17733495
Yes, but you'll probably have to mess with the handlebars stuff at the end of the settings, and I have no idea how that works

>>17733511
I don't care if a word is common or not. If I'm learning it, it's common enough that I think it's useful to know, and that's all that matters. I just want to see what kind of word it is without all the clutter.

Look at this shit. It's an eyesore.

Before you ">mining ある" or something in response, I'm not actually going to add ある to my deck, I'm just testing the import feature out right now.

>>17733526
There's {glossary-brief}, but if that removes too much, you'll have to do it yourself with >17733520

>>17733526
use j>j dumbass

>>17733526
Sorry, I didn't pay attention and assumed it's ichi vs godan.

>>17733306
can anyone beat my vocab deck?

>>17733550
good work anon. how long have you had that bad boy cooking?

>>17733550
Looking at the stats it appears I've spent 962 hours doing 535,363 reps. Worth?

>>17733554
Almost 5 years, something like:

year 1: 10,000
year 2: 10,000
year 3: 4,000
year 4: 500
year 5: 500

>>17733536
Looks like dogshit even with glossary-brief because of this list layout. Some entries having bullet points while others don't just looks awful, as does the fact that bullet points start on the same line as the number.

And I have no idea how to edit that handlebars code. I want to learn Japanese, not a programming language.

>>17733540
What use is a J-J definition if it contains a word I don't understand? And how am I supposed to answer such a card? Do I have to recite the entire definition in Japanese for a correct answer?

>>17733560
>Do I have to recite the entire definition in Japanese for a correct answer?
No, you have to understand the word, and the J>J definition is just there to remind you of the meaning. You don't need to recite anything, even with english definitions, you should know whether you know the card without even looking at the the back most of the time.

>>17733593
Seems like it would make more sense to have the word appear in a sentence rather than as an isolated vocabulary item in that case. The only way to know whether you're understanding the word is if you can understand a sentence which uses it.

>>17733603
Then you end up remember the sentence and not the word. "Oh it's this sentence, I know which word I'm supposed to remember", without even looking at the word at all you already know. In reading you wouldn't know until you saw the word in a unique sentence.

>>17733603
Yeah, I have sentences on the front of my cards and use them to differentiate different meanings of that word.
I try not to look at them unless I know it's a word I have multiple cards for, because the sentence often makes answering the card too easy (you remember the sentence and the answer, but not necessarily the word itself)

フツボル or サツカー?

>>17733639
足丸と手卵やな？

>>17733650
つーか足球つもりやった
今夜頭おかしい

>>17733603
>The only way to know whether you're understanding the word is if you can understand a sentence which uses it.
Why do brainlets keep saying this? Stop parroting some youtuber or whatever and spend like 20 seconds thinking this through yourself.

>haven't studied in 1 year and a half
>let my problems/stress get to my head and give up

I'm weak.
出来ない　indeed...

>>17733626
Use expandable sentences then (just google or see how the DoJG does it).

>>17733639
never seen anyone using フツボル.

Also I'm pretty sure Genki and iKnow use サツカー

>>17733770
What a disgrace. God damned Americans and their handegg.

>>17733774
Hey, I'm Brazilian, I'd go with フツボル because that's what's natural to me, I was just stating I don't see it being used in Japanese, it's all.

>>17733758
The DoJG doesn't do anything about this. You're referring to a deck, not the DoJG. You can't substitute one for another in this kind of statement.

>>17733781
the dojg deck obviously
you can see in their card styling how to make hidden sentences that will only be visible once you click the placeholder text

>>17733639
>>17733770

あのう、「サツカ」って何？

「サッカー」じゃない？

tfw imabi

>>17733901
he really should move away from webs

Reminder that you need to read as fast as the left side to consume compelling content comfortably.

>>17733639
>>17733770
>>17733778
＞ボール

>>17733757
I haven't studied in a year. I tried to start reading Leyline. I started it, read a few lines and then minimized it. It has been sitting there for over a month now.

>>17733199
>>17733241
>>17733260
Small time

>>17733910
Reading is doable, comprehension in parallel isn't.

>>17733665
That guy is fluent, you aren't.

>>17733931
He's not.

>>17733935
Ok.

>>17733910
I can do it with that particular excerpt, but doing it consistently with any kind of content is still a problem.

>>17733925
>Reading is doable, comprehension in parallel isn't.
That's skimming then, not actually reading.

>>17733757
>>17733916
今日から頑張りましょう

>>17733910
Left is doable when I read something I've encountered before + no new words.

>>17733916
>MM/DD/YYYY

>>17733951
Reminder that the Metric date format is the only date format.

>>17733951
Anything but YYYY/MM/DD is worthless.

>>17733951
>not writing year as 平成29年

>>17733920
you're cute

>>17734047
>909 per day
Why y'all this way lmao

>>17734047
Did you learn japanese yet?

>>17734047
how many real sentences do you read per day?

>>17734121
i'm too stubborn to lower my new below 20 per day, it only takes me a little over an hour and my mature retention only recently slipped below 80%.
>>17734135
no
>>17734148
I read for 2 hours a day, between manga and whatever current vn.
It should be obvious to anyone that anki is not the goal, just a means to an end, despite what trolls want to call us 'ankidrones'.

>>17734047
That's just fucking stupid. Sure this might be the fastest way to learn, but it sure as hell isn't time-efficient at all.

>>17734165
If you read for 2 hours you aren't an ankidrone.

>>17734244
>fastest way to learn
>not time-efficient
I am sorry, but what are you trying to say?

>>17728063
Are there any websites where I can take tests on specific Genki lessons?

yes

>>17733931
You don't need to see the word "naive" in a sentence to know what it means, for the simple reason that "You are naive" doesn't give the 'naive' any context other than telling you it's a word that can be applied to a person.
There, argument disproven. And who are you even talking about with "that guy," the one you're parroting? Fucking hell mate, when someone calls you out on parroting don't reply "but he's a solid source to parrot!," that's just pathetic.

And if you're some random different anon, same question. Who are you talking about?

>>17734244
>>17734283

To be honest, he's kind of right. I couldn't really utilise what I had learnt in Anki until after a significant amount of reading.

>>17734336
Not the anon you're replying to, but let me say that stuff like this is why you need context. Maybe add the sentence before "You're naive" in order to get some contextual clues to help you guess its meaning.

>>17733920
We aren't so different, you and I.

きこえません おにいちゃんのたわごとは

>>17732118
アリゾナだからいつも晴れる

Whats the job market like for JtE Translators? I dont want to make bank or anything, but do they make a livable amount? What about qualifications needed and all that jazz?

>>17733910

Ｎｏ　ｙｏｕ　ｄｏｎ’ｔ．

Can someone hook me up with Eromanga Sensei epubs?

>>17734598
No one has pirated them. Buy them from Rakuten and share them here if you want.

>>17734620
>tfw no money

>>17733639
サッカー
アメフト
フットボール is ambiguous

>>17734533
N-not really, these are my deck life stats

>>17733555
>>17734849 (here)
I'm only at 7000~ cards and i'm already close to half your total reviews.You must have had great retention back then too during your first year

Is there any chat rooms or discords for japanese learners and such?
primarily being in japanese but naturally would be a learning place.

>>17734870
Do you hit hard on everything or something? I guess it helps that I always went over all the cards I was adding before I added them.

>>17734988
Must be the result of more steps + lower retention i suppose. Looks like i'm going to see a million reviews.

>>17734903
such a thing is completely unsustainable without several people who can give good information and constantly interact

>>17731429
Anon from yesterday who you posted this in response to.

Started mining today and I'm already at 150 words just from 2 hours of reading through Yui's scenes (those which I didn't see before anyway) in the common route of Flyable Heart.

How have you only mined 900? Or have you only been reading for a few days?

Whenever I mine a word with kanji I don't know I just make up a meaning/idea for it and adjust it after I see new words with that character. Am I fucking up? Should I be looking up every meaning for words with new kanji?

It seems like studying a kanji, then learning common vocab for that kanji would be more efficient.

>>17735200
My first learning material was an LN, and I decided I didn't wanna mine because it seemed like a pain (I couldn't figure out how to set it up via Yomichan and I don't like Firefox so no Rikai). I finished it, but by the end I realized I hadn't really absorbed any of the vocab, so I decided I'd start a VN up and read through that, and this time I've been mining. So in short, yeah, I'm a new learner and mining for the first time, even though this isn't my first read.

>>17735299
I think you most likely did absorb quite a lot of vocab, it's just that kanji complicates matters... at least, that's what I'm finding. Quite a lot of the words which I have to mouse over with Yomichan are ones that I would easily know if they were written in kana but have trouble recognising because of the kanji.

For now, I'm not mining such words and instead resolving to try to pay more attention to how they're written from now on. If that doesn't work, I guess I will mine them in the future.

Also, I had the idea to start looking up every word I mine in a J-J dictionary (I've opted for Daijirin) and subsequently mine any unknown words present in the definitions. Hopefully this way I'll be able to switch over to J-J dictionaries before too long. I tried looking up some words in Daijirin earlier and there were just too many unknown words in the definitions for me to make use of it for the time being.

does 兄 always mean brother?

vocabulary test, 9/13 here, how about you?

>>17735338
Ask your dictionary.

>>17735372

0/13

>>17728160
>英語 planet の語源はギリシア語のプラネテス（さまよう者、放浪者などの意。IPA: /planítis/ [1]）。


漢字の「惑星」という呼称は、長崎のオランダ通詞・本木良永が1792年（寛政4年）、コペルニクスの地動説を翻訳する際に初めて用いた造語である。天球上の一点に留まらずうろうろと位置を変えるようすを「惑う星」と表現したことから来たと言われている。つまり天動説が主流であったころ星座を形づくっている夜空の星たちが同じような位置関係で大空を巡って行くのに、いくつかの星達だけが不規則な動きをするのが不思議に見え「惑っている」と見えたのである（→順行・逆行）。
天文学が発達する以前は、天動説の見地から太陽や月も惑星の中に分類されており、七曜、週の曜日名や占星術にその考えかたの名残がある（なお、現在の天文学上の定義では、太陽は恒星、月は衛星に分類される）。
惑星は、古くは遊星（ゆうせい）とも言った。「遊星」と「惑星」はともに江戸時代にまでさかのぼる言葉であり（ただし古い例では「游星」となっている）、他に「行星」の表記も使われた（参考：惑星と遊星）。
明治期に学術用語の統一を図る際に、東京大学閥が「惑星」、京都大学閥が「遊星」を主張した。結局東大閥が勝ち、天文学の分野では「惑星」の表記に統一された。しかし遊星歯車など異分野の用語として、あるいはフィクション内の表現として「遊星」の名が使われる例もある（例：『遊星からの物体X』、『遊星仮面』、遊星爆弾（『宇宙戦艦ヤマト』）、移動遊星（『21エモン』）など）。

おはようおにいちゃん

>>17735372
ひふの膚の字

たぶんかけない

膠質がわかんないや

>>17735372
i got like fat, skin, enamel since kana, mucus membrane and body hair as a guess on meaning, no clue on reading.
The rest are just guessing on both. 3/12, I'm not counting kana.

>>17735383
here's why i asked. she just addresses him as cray in the english version. jisho didn't do much to help me understand. maybe they're close enough friends for her to see him as a sibling.

>>17735453
she seems rather uninterested in the 流れ星
like -_-

>>17735453
http://bof.wikia.com/wiki/Nina_(Breath_of_Fire_IV)

>Because of a mistranslation in the English version, Nina's feelings toward Cray as an older brother was mistakenly translated to be that she was in love with him. This caused confusion among the western crowd. However, the Japanese version did not contain such dialogue.

I've never even played this game and I found the answer in under a minute. Learn to do things for yourself instead of begging everyone to solve everything for you.

あたまがぽわぽわする

寒露の夜露に寝冷え哉

I fell for the trap of only studying vocab and its really fucking me up. I feel like a total dumbass because my vocab is at an N2 level but my grammar is at an N4 level. Its so frustrating to be able to read every word in a sentence and still not knowing what it means.

@17735709
>I fell for the trap of only studying vocab
you're either lying, retarded or both, the guide has no such 'trap'

>>17735720
damn anon-tan maybe he didn't follow the guide, maybe he made some kind of mistake in his studies. to that other anon, i'd recommend you just read more. you have an advantage on people who have starter-level vocab because at least you don't have to hover every single word you see.

>>17735720

>calling someone retarded because he didn't follow some guide on the internet

Especially funny from someone that can't even reply properly.

>>17735709
So learn grammar, what's the big deal? Learning grammar will take you like 1/100th (if that) the amount of time it took you to learn the vocab you have. That's the only reason I usually tell people to start with grammar. It's really nothing by comparison but it's also kind of a confidence booster

にほんにきてさいしょにたべたいのはつぎのうちどれ？

・うどん
・カレー
・しょた

>>17735755
＞しょた
食べるのために？
うん。「しょた」だよね。人間たちをたべたいよ。

>>17735200
Made it to 300 words after about 5 hours of reading.

Experience: Mining made me pay more attention to individual words and the kanji used to write them, but as a result of dividing my attention I was less focused on the actual sentences and was noticeably worse at reading than usual. I also found reading considerably less fun this way.

I hope this is actually worth it and I notice an improvement.

>>17735785
Uh huh, that's pretty much how it's been going for me. I'm trying to mostly ready throwaway manga and VNs that I'm only sorta kinda interested in for learning material. Either way, stuff can always be reread once we're better at the language. I'm sure it'll blow us away how quickly we can plow through an LN a few years from now.

アーマクリープ
アーマヴィートー

Anyone else had the problem with C10k's furigana spanning? I reckon it's going to get even more frustrating further down the line.

>>17735890
>Core

>>17735890
No reason to use anything besides Core 2k, hell you wont even finish Core 2k if you do it properly

>>17735907
Don't intend to do more than 2k. But I had a 10k deck downloaded on my phone already, so there's that.

>>17734625
Do any work at minimum wage for an hour and you'll be able to afford a volume. Work for a day, and you can get the whole series.

それはそうと

えりあ３の３がぬけられない

>>17734283
What I meant is even though you'll probably learn the language sooner than someone who works less hours a day, at the end of the day you'll probably have to put in much more hours overall because reviewing so many cards a day is terribly inneficient. Unless you spend your whole days actively remembering, but even then this is a really bad way of learning except if you're in a hurry for one reason or another.

How do I make the stroke order show up on Jisho.org?
I just see a blank space where it should be underneath the label "Stroke order"

>>17735959
Never had this issue. Reloading the page, deactivate any plugins that block stuff or use a different browser.

>>17735959
try disabling any ad/script blockers

>>17735959
Are you using "HTTPS Everywhere"? That breaks it. Disable the rule for cloudfront.net

>>17736000
Not him, but I use https everywhere and the stroke order appears just fine.

>>17735959
Do you use noscript?

>>17736000
Not him, but thanks for that. I tried fucking with the rules in uMatrix and disabling uBlock Origin on Jisho in the past to no avail. It never occurred to me that HTTPS Everywhere could be the problem.

So I've finished the kana. The cornucopia says to do the core deck, but that doesn't sound too fun for me, so I was thinking of doing RTK and reading stuff like >>17729521
Does that sound like a good idea?

Hey, djt, how do I go about setting up 1-click import to Anki for vocab in VNs?
I use ITHVNR + TA to read, so I assume I would need to somehow set up copying from clipboard to an empty Firefox window, and use the information from the Rikaisama part of the guide to configure the rest.
Is there any easier way to mine?

>>17736177
You can't read anything without first learning basic vocab and grammar. RTK is controversial, personally I think it's a waste of time but whatever floats your boat.

>>17736177
I used RTK, and I would still recommend it, but you should really read the introduction of it first to understand what it's for (hint: It won't teach you japanese, if you expect it to, you will be disappointed)
Reading children's books won't do much either, because while you can read the Kana now, you don't know any words or grammar.
In the end, you'll have to study vocab somehow.

>>17736187
> so I assume I would need to somehow set up copying from clipboard to an empty Firefox window, and use the information from the Rikaisama part of the guide to configure the rest.

Correct. There are two firefox addons that can do this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clipmon/?src=api
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clipboard-inserter/?src=search

You should also start with Yomichan instead of Rikai*, because the latter will stop working with the next Firefox update, which is only a month away now.

>>17736205
Gotcha, thanks.
Then the only thing I have to worry about is configuring Yomichan without a guide. Hopefully I'll manage.

>>17736222
- Install Yomichan, download some dictionaries from the Yomichan homepage and load them: https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/#dictionaries
- Install the AnkiConnect plugin in Anki , so Yomichan can talk to Anki: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2055492159
- In the Yomichan settings, select your Anki deck and card type, then tell it which field in your deck gets which data form Yomichan: https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/#flashcard-configuration

>>17736222
>Then the only thing I have to worry about is configuring Yomichan without a guide.
Everything is explained on the website:
https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/

いいことおもいついた

あーはー

>>17735915
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ_p4nActyo

>>17736296
Then you'll have to read novel scans instead of epubs

>>17736292
日本の征服プランですか
やるよ

No matter how much I read about it I struggle to understand the difference between か and が. Is this something that gets alleviated once I start actually reading?

>>17736400

'Ga' has a dakuten.

>>17736400

How are か and が at all similar??

>>17736400
>>17736413
>>17736434
Sorry, I just woke up. What I meant to say was the は and が particle.

>>17736442
https://8020japanese.com/wa-vs-ga/

>>17736446
beat me to it

>>17736442

が marks the subject, the thing doing the verb in the sentence. (note, a subject can be doing something as little as just 'being' or 'being cute' or 'being liked' or 'is cool')

は marks the topic of the sentence. Sometimes the topic is also the subject, sometimes it isn't. A lot of the time you can translate Xは as "as for X" in your head.

>>17728063
Realistically, how long would it take me to get to N2 level, how daily hours would I have to dedicate?

I'm certain I could pass the N5 test. I know both Kanas, and the basic Kanji and Grammar.

>>17736475
2 1/2 years, at 1 hour a day
Probably less, but I passed N2 with 172/180 at that point (the test is only held once per year hear, and 1 1/2 years definitely wasn't enough). I passed N1 the year after that.

>>17736497
Awesome, thanks.

>>17735925
No, it doesn't work like that. Don't talk about shit you don't understand. Anki is highly time efficient, period.

>>17736497
>hear
here

I'm reading fantasy LNs, and there are a bunch of towns/countries called [random Katakana]町 / 国
How are those names pronounced?
まち / くに or ちょう / こく

>>17736633
国 is usually こく in my experience

But 町 can be both I think. Case in point, these two towns with the same name but one is pronounced ちょう and the other まち:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%98%E7%94%BA_(%E5%B1%B1%E5%8F%A3%E7%9C%8C)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%98%E7%94%BA_(%E7%A5%9E%E5%A5%88%E5%B7%9D%E7%9C%8C)

>>17736446
This made it all extremely clear. Thank you.

>>17736468
I was familiar with this concept, but was having difficulty making the connection consistently.

>>17736189
>>17736193
All right, then I'll read Tae Kim to learn the basic grammar and then I'll go read and start mining for vocabulary.

>>17736633
machi pretty much always there

So pretty much all the Manga on the sticky were taken down, is there another good place to read good raw manga scans?

>>17736758
http://nyaa.si/
perfect dark
google (there are a million manga zip style blogs)