/jp/ - Otaku Culture

lurkmoar newfag

majoring in it, but i'm not that far yet

jlpt 3 ;_;

>>180712
i could pass 4 right now, but I haven't attempted it yet. I think i'll just wait until I'm ready for 3

>>180709
basically the same.

>>180763
yeah, I'm only a first year student...
But considering I won our speech contest (for my level group) and I'm going to another one at the end of the month, I'd say I'm doing pretty good.
I'm on my way.

>>180712
jlpwhat?

jlpt 2 here.

1 is going to be impossible, i will never attempt it.

just passed 2, time to start prepping for 1 next December..

It is Japanese,
It finds this board very amusing.

>>180771
first year myself, but I had a couple years highschool experience, so I'm in 200 level. My reading is great (from 10 years of reading manga), but my speaking is slow as fuck due to utter lack of practice....

Does the JLPT test cost money or something?

DISAPPEAR

>>180797
same kind of thing here...except that i just finding reading easier, not because of manga. I'm still pretty inexperienced with kanji, but I know the ones needed for jlpt 4.

Speaking is tough. I want to find some Skype people to talk to, but the most popular sites for it seem to be really unreliable for me

>>180801
NO, IT'S COMPLETELY FREE FOR ALL WHO DO IT

I have a minor in Japanese and was on a 3 month exchange program with Kanazawa Institute of Technology.
I am not Japanese. I don't think they leave 2ch to visit us.

However, I must inform you that this thread is an eye sore....

>>180789

Ha ha oh wow.

>>180826
lol why so

>>180842
......its a meme

did I just get trolled?

This board is /jp/, but I use this as the Touhou board that will never be.
I do not speak japanese, I am not japanese.

Just answering.
Pic sort of related.

>>180807
Hmm, we should have some sort of gay /jp/ skype weeaboo talk thing.

>>180870
lol

i wouldn't consider it "trolled" because you didn't react by getting upset or anything...but I was fishing for some sort of response, so...

>>180878
we could, but I dont know how i'd feel talking to /jp/-ers.

For one thing...there's trolls abound, and I don't konw how i'd feel about talking to non-natives (or people really more advanced than me) The whole blind leading the blind thing, you know?

But it's an idea, i'll give you that. I'd support it if it would actually work out well

moonspeakers come in one of two categories-

1. egotistical prick asshole who thinks that they're so fucking awesome that they know more than 50 kanji

2. retarded fuckward who gets all butthurt if prick asshole tells them what the meaning of a word is, even if they don't know the definition in the first place

there's many subcategories, but everyone falls under one of the two

>>180913
put those together:

The egotistical prick asshole who gets butthurt when another egotistical prick asshole tells him what a word means, and then what do you have? A paradox, that's what.

Full-blooded Japanese, but I don't like to bring it up here considering most of 4chan are white people. I speak fluent Japanese, however due to growing up in the states and general lack of communication in my family, I lack knowledge of many common words used in the society of Japan. although I understand just fine when watching raw animu. and I can only read/write up to katakana because I never finished Japanese school in my younger days.

>>180913
Ｗｅｌｌ，　Ｉ　ｅａｒｎｅｄ　ｍｙ　ｅｇｏ．　　

you know what's great about japan? the stereotype that only japanese people can speak japanese

at first it pissed me off, but after i found out how low of a level the other foreigners i've met in japan are at, whenever i saw a random foreigner on the street i thought, "i know that motherfucker can't speak japanese"

>>180942
aww

do you feel like doing it?

>>180878

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>>181008
scared?

check out these weeaboos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXoQn3vacAY

i did a certificate IV, 1 year intensive course in japanese.
im living and working in japan at the moment.
hiragana is perfect, katakana gets confusing but still good and im recognising more and more kanji by context.

>>181029

wuts a certificate IV?

I'm going to have to say no also. Because it would end up sounding something like this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=haVQNIVTS9I
"gomen sorry"

Am I supposed to say English words normally or am I supposed to use the Japanese accent. Is it polite to pronounce it like they would or is it all right just to say it normally.

>>181019

hardly, I just understand how disgusting it is when anonymous meets anonymous

:D

>>181059
Guessing here, but chances are, they don't know the real pronunciations of those words. They know that a real pronunciation exists, but if you started using it, they wouldn't relate it.
Take 'pencil' for an example. How they pronounce is really different from the original.

Currently teaching myself. I never took JLPT 4 but will go for 3 or 2 this year (Probably 3). My Kanji has got a long way to go, right now focusing on grammar. Anyway, to the point where I could almost be ok watching a raw - if not for my vocab.

>>181059
you say it like how a Japanese person would say it.

>>181084
>>181071
Thanks for the info. :)

:D

How are any of these tests even relevant? The JPLT isn't even a requirement any more to get into a Japanese University, and from what I understand the new test isn't even remotely as hard.

ITT A bunch of fucking idiots with no real reason to learn Japanese, let alone go live there. Also, fags.

>>181059
it really depends on who you are speaking to. Because there are letters missing between our alphabet (for example, there is no "sea" [si] sound) it can be bothersome. As a rule of thumb, if there person is not good at english I pronounce in japanese, even though it makes me sound odd. If they know english well, its more or less ok to speak it as you normally would.

I've met Japanese students who are pissed because they are not taught how to speak in english dialect.

>>181103
For most people the tests probably serve no other purpose than a challenge - to be able to say you passed that level (that and it certainly wouldn't hurt on your resume)
Also, a lot of stuff doesn't get subbed and/or never makes it overseas - anime, manga, games, etc...
And really, it's fun...

>>181066
I'm not trying to call anyone out, I'm just saying practicing speaking might be worthwhile.

Those guys in the video are Chinese and lots of them are really good, you don't get that good just by reading yourself.

>ITT A bunch of fucking idiots with no real reason to learn Japanese, let alone go live there. Also, fags.
>>181103
Guilty as charged. Also, we're all pretty much fags here on 4chan, in one form or another.

I've been studying Japanese for about a year now, supplementing classes with independent study out of pure interest. As much as I'd like to believe that I know the language well, the road ahead is a long one indeed.

Out of everything related to learning Japanese, in my opinion, the most difficult part is not learning Kanji. Knowing how to phrase sentences and use expressions like a native speaker is a much more difficult part to master. It's a hurdle that requires more time to overcome (and such is evident by students who are able to recognize and write kanji with ease, yet still unintentionally fall back on their native tongue's pattern of wording ideas when trying to say/write something), though memorizing about 3,000 kanji is no small task either.

No point making a new thread for this, but what's the more correct way of saying Japan in Japanese, Nippon or Nihon?

>>181198

maybe for some people. it becomes a lot easier to make natural sounding sentences if you hear it on a regular basis.

as for me, pronunciation is the hardest. it's not too big of a problem earlier on, but unless your pronunciation is good then japanese people won't ever take you seriously.

>>181033 wuts a certificate IV?

to be honest i have no idea.
i did the course at RMIT in Melbourne in ausfailia.
it must be an aussie thing.

i was told however, that upon completing this Cert.IV course i could get into the harder japanese classes because i will have had the basics completely covered.

>>181205
Ni-Pah!

>>181205
Nihon is more commonly used. You'll hear it pronounced Nippon in official documents, etc though

>>6442361
She's okay. She got the shape of the skirt right but its got weird detailing on it... The fishnet pun is cute but has nothing to do with default Fef so it should just be left out. The symbol is awkward and fat and that circlet is too.... Hollow? I guess. It's the one Asherbee used. And she's missing goggles. A lot could be better but I wouldn't call it a train wreck. Just needs a lot of work.

I think I am japanese. not sure. my parents are not though

I am learning Japanese so that I can become Japanese.

>>183059
then you aren't

japanese race is based on blood, not on where you were born (unlike in the USA)

>>183059
then you aren't

japanese race/nationality is based on blood, not on where you were born.

I'm Japanese. I can speak at a conversational level, but I'm not very strong at kanji.

I've visited family there a few times and went on my own, so go figure.

What's the point of telling anon this, anyway?

Quarter-whitebred been in Amerikkka since 8th grade. Went back for a year after college to work. Now back again. Japan's like Vegas. Great to visit. But it sucks to live there.

Especially if any of your hobbies involved being outdoors (I realize outdoors is not anon-like lol).

all of you "japanese" that can't speak fluent japanese aren't japanese.

you are nikkei.

I've been studying Japanese in evening school for a year or so. My level certainly isn't very high, but I intend to continue studying. The easiest things is pronunciation, thanks to the fact that I'm Finnish. Also, watching anime has really helped in my studies.

>>183167
When people ask me in class, "hey what are you?" i'm not going to say "i'm nikkei." What an idiotic response.

I am a part of a full blooded Japanese father and a Malaysian chinese mother. I can speak and understand it but I can't write them. I grew up in Malaysia and more fluent in Chinese. Not really into anime and manga that much just like to troll in 4chan.

nikkei? you're a stock exchange?

no one is japanese nor do we speak japanese here, we just pretend we are and we do.