/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>18975598
What did you expect from an all ages vn? Dodge that shit at all costs.

>>18975638
The second sentence is redundant.

If I learn Japanese will I be able to lick Asagi's armpits?

Been awhile since I looked at the manga library. It's been worked on a lot. I really appreciate whoever has been putting this much effort into it.

One day, I will be able to finally fap to this.

>>18975656
It's all low quality trash, JPEG artifacts bigger than the kanji

>>18975695
ねとられ禁止

>>18975696
Welcome to raws.

>>18975650
Whoever wrote this has never guided anybody to fluency.

>>18975734
if I press this whilst scrolling the catalog and make no further effort in nihongo study will I still learn it?

>>18975749
If you combine it with anime, sure.

The official guide to learning Japanese

Year 1: read Genki I
Year 2: read Genki II
Years 3-4: read Tobira
Years 5+: dunno, no one's ever made it that far

>>18975765
You forgot the crucial step of subscribing to /r/Learnjapanese

>>18975738
thats like your opinion unlike how thats a fact regarding the djt "guide"

>>18975749
if you truly press the learn nihongo button you will learn nihongo thats the way it works

>>18975765
The worst part about this post is that it's actually what some people do. It's really more sad than funny.

>>18975773
>your opinion is an opinion
>my opinion is a fact

>>18975656
Seconding this. It's nice to have everything neatly organized. I've been meaning to upload some series from my collection, too, I'll see if I can get around to it this week.

>>18975696
Making the scans look this shit must be deliberate.

>>18975773
unfortunately it's not an opinion it's a fact

bring me someone who can demonstrate theyve learned nihongo undeniably and will credit it to djt "guide"

surely if it works some of them would come back to their precious お世話になったスレ and give it some kudos bakusho!!!

>>18975773
It's so bizarre to me how you keep shitposting against the guide despite the fact that it literally says the same thing you do. It even says that base vocab gained through anki isn't a necessity. Have you even fucking read it? Be honest.

>>18975813
i never said anything in that picture in my life

also yeah i looked at that rag once a long time ago that was it

You don't know Japanese.

How many decks for Anki should I do? I'm currently only doing the recommended 2k/6k one and I'm finishing my dailys often now.

Should I find more decks or just stick to one to retain memory?

?

>>18975823
Do core then mine. Use other decks when core doesn't have the word you're looking for or just make the cards yourself

>>18975816
Your entire thing is that people should read native content as opposed to using anki as their primary learning method and you are always shitting on the guide as a supposed antithesis to that stance, when in reality, the guide also advises starting to read native material VERY early on. 1000 words and a single read through of a grammar book is literally 2 months of work at most.

>>18975850
no, apparently their thing is that you should do production practice with a non-native tutor which is uh... a terrible fucking idea

>>18975856
Aight, well at least I tried. You are either just staggeringly stupid or disingenuous.

>>18975868
you might want to reread my post and figure out who i am

>>18975850
but my stance is you shouldnt even think about reading till youve had 10000 hours of exposure to spoken nihongo with varying means of assistance in letting you know whats being said conceptually

Is "す / っす" just a very casual form of です ?
Does anyone actually use it or is it a manga thing like キサマ ?

>>18975888
yes

How does Steve Kaufmann have so many videos that all say exactly the same thing?

>>18975888
貴様 isnt just a manga thing we just live in a more civilized world now

i can guarantee you someones getting referred to as 貴様 right now

>>18975908
Well, the Internet says that 貴様 has become somewhat ironic, like when you call your friend a cheeky bastard, and if you use it seriously as a rude pronoun you might get laughed at.

>>18975903
Retirement is one hellova drug.

>>18975925
pretty much but its hard to laugh at someone callin you kisama when theres some cold ass hanzo steel laid across your kubi

>>18975903
He spent several years training in communist China's propaganda ministry as a youth.

Bros I think our guy nuke gave up learning japanese again. He hasn't posted a new video in 2 weeks

>>18975990
But I just saw him today giving advice to r*dditors about the most efficient ways to learn Japanese

I'm trying to create a mining deck but I'm kinda confused. I read the guide and I installed the plugin.

I was wondering how do I make my mined cards similar to the 2k/6k deck? I know sentences will probably not be there, but I want the term on the front, definition on the back and audio.

It seems my options are limited to two. So far, I have the term on the front, and the definition, but not the audio. Is there way around this?

>>18975620
Nice faded text. This actually blew my mind the first time I noticed in the LN.

>>18976060
Read the rikaisama docs, it's explained pretty well there.

>と... 思います

>>18975806
There's no point in even trying because you have an inexplicable hateboner against this thread and will always find a way to undermine people's achievements. If someone posts certificates or test scores you'll argue that they don't prove anything; if someone claims to have read [insert whatever "difficult" Japanese work of fiction] or that they've reached a point where they can comfortably consume any Japanese media they want you'll say they're deluding themselves and don't actually understand what they're reading; if someone posts in Japanese you'll jump at every slightly unnatural turn of phrase, etc. So what does having "undeniably" learned Japanese actually entail? Have you undeniably learned Japanese even though you still make mistakes (like a while ago when someone posted a line from a prayer asking about ん and you said it was ぬ), and how are you in any position to judge people in this thread when you claim to have been in contact with the language for fucking decades?

>>18976116
Why did you feel the need to post this again

>>18976151
Why did you feel the need to reply?

>>18976168
Why did you feel the need to reply?

>>18976148
why is my request so unreasonable that you have to be aggressive towards me instead of the issue

>>18976243
because you literally asked him to "bring" you someone as if we know each other outside of this place and as if we had ways to contact anonymous posters you tard

>>18976243
I'm not even being aggressive. Is there anything I described in my post that hasn't actually happened before? Don't expect people to address issues that you bring up but refuse to explain.

I don't know senpai, that guide was pretty useful as a pointer to start learning Japanese. Not sure why there's so much debate. Who cares about opinions anyway, it's time wasted not doing something useful like reading.

My first child is due to be born within the next four months. Me and my wife are both monolingual but I'd really like to be able to teach my child a second language.

I find Japanese particularly appealing. I would be teaching myself, rather than paying for lessons. Is it possible that with concerted effort, I could get my Japanese to the level required to talk to my baby by the time it arrives? Obviously I don't need to be fluent by then, because children don't start to learn to talk until about 18 months. But I do need to be able to speak to him/her in Japanese so that they get used to the sounds and so on. After that, I think 18 months is probably long enough to get conversant (enough) to teach my child the language properly.

As many here have already trodden the path of self-learning Japanese, do you think that, given the extreme time constraints, this is realistic?

>>18975925
I often see 貴様 even in serious works, especially in army context. I guess it fits the environment perfectly.

>>18976311
Boomers belong in reddit .

>>18976329
I'm 23

>>18976311
I am very disappointed this isn't a copy paste from reddit

https://japantoday.com/category/features/opinions/why-you-shouldnt-learn-japanese

thoughts?

>>18976372
article written by a dumbshit who believes that every second that isn't spent manically pursuing money is a waste of time. "hurr in the time you spent learning japanese you could've learned guitar!" stupider than shit man.

>>18976372
>bringing shit like this here
>>>/int/djt
I didn't read the article, but it's correct. You shouldn't learn Japanese. Now get out.

>>18976372
Very good advice which you should absolutely follow.

>>18976401
Don't get mad at me 兄さん that's just some article I found when I was browsing the internets and it really spoke to me spiritually so I thought it was pretty valuable to share with DJTの住人たちs

>>18976424
>double plural
absolutely kys

>>18976372
Half of the arguments in this article boil down to, "you don't want to live in Japan", which, sure, if that's your entire reason for learning Japanese is maybe something that you need to think hard about. The other half boil down to, "even in Japan you don't need Japanese", which might be technically true,, but nobody likes the kind of people who move to a country and refuse to learn the local language. Overall it's a shit article.

Anybody here watches ダラケ? Where do you get the videos?

>>18976459
This, I just want to be able to read my porn magazines

>>18976311
Realistically, since you're not a native speaker, this just seems like a bad idea. The reasons to have a child be bilingual are when they will actually use both, with the best example being one at home and one outside the home.

Overall, you should use that time teaching them something practical instead. Japanese is just a hobby language unless you're planning on moving with the kid.

>>18976564
Thanks for the advice. You're right that it would just be a hobby language and we certainly aren't planning on moving. I've read that being raised bilingual has many benefits outside of the obvious practical use of the language itself. I want to give my child the best start in life I possibly can. Perhaps you're right that I could/should be teaching them something else - music is another common recommendation. Thanks again.

>>18976312
Probably because it sounds like an officer drilling some recruits until they're proper soldiers. I guess that's why Medaka uses it too

>>18976653
Bilinguality has some nice benefits, but can also be pretty confusing for a child. It all depends on the child itself whether it can take in one or two languages properly. I wouldn't recommend teaching a second language you don't know yourself properly either. Even if it works at first, it sooner or later will start to ask nasty questions you won't be able to answer as a novice.
I'm not evne sure if I'd try to raise my child in both my mother tongue and English, cause my pronunciation is a bit off sometimes and I make some errors here and there. I'm still pretty confident, but early errors can have long-term effects.

>>18976372
>Of the roughly 20 countries I’ve been to, Japan is probably the most set up to accommodate people who don’t speak the local language.
What backhole countries did he visit? I haven't visited Japan yet, but I can imagine it's hell for a foreigner everywhere that isn't a tourist spot. You can ask almost anybody in small European countries and they'll response in English.

Also Humboldt or any other intellectual of that time would probably punch his face in for uttering such nonsense.

I don't learn or have any interest in japanese but I lurk these threads because I love seeing you all being passionate about learning. Keep up the good work and the shitposting lads.

>>18976801
ありがとうアノン君～

>禁物
>shit was 物 read as もの or ぶつ in this
>flip card
reeeee

>>18976825
>considering a kun reading in jukugo

>>18976833
I don't even know what on and kun yomis are or the difference between them, I only learn vocab words. Maybe I should look into that though.

>>18976833
別物

>>18976839
>a word no one uses

Thanks for proving my point

>>18976839
Are you telling me that 別物 is self-describing?

>>18976879

>>18976879
10.4 million results on google... hmmmmmmm........

>>18976903
And 11 million for "acquiesce"! We English speakers must surely use that word more than once a decade!

Is Spotify a good/complete source for Japanese music?
I'm curious what the japs have to offer.

>>18976914
https://www.soccer-king.jp/news/world/esp/20180503/751686.html
literally 5 days ago

>>18976914
More than half of those are about a song called Acquiesce. Which already brings it to half the results of the Japanese word, and English has far more speakers than Japanese, so comparatively it's even smaller.

>>18976879
物心
物事

>>18976914
If you read anything having to do with the law it shows up more often than you would expect.

Sometimes learning Japanese is like dealing with legacy code

>>18976951
Dealing with legacy code is far worse, anon.

todays nihongo word of the day is 罵倒

check back tomorrow for the next nihongo word of the day

i've been reading for the past 9 hours because i want to know what is going to happen in this novel but the fatigue is starting to hit really hard

>>18977098
subscribed

Newfag here, how should I do my reps? Should I write down the word every time I see it, or just once?

>>18977117
Do whatever you think it takes to hammer that fucker into your brain. If you wanna draw it, draw. You can also take a paper if a pen works better.

>>18977087
thank mr. nihongo

>>18977087
Why is it never something interesting like 合鴨?

I use wanikani
it's /comfy/ to grab something to drink and then do reviews

>>18977117
>writing

>>18977228
because 飲む打つ買う exists

>>18977243
>comfy
get out 豆男

minna genki?

>>18975990
>learning japanese
forever searching for learning resources is not learning

>>18975925

(貴様)

kisama-ra genki?

nando mo anmari genki de wa nai nanodesu.

>>18977413
華のさかづき大江山
How would I go about translating this? The Mt. Ooe in which the flower decorated sake dish resides?

スタークさん, 気分が悪い...

>>18977516
お前はもう、死んでいる

おまえわもおしんでろお

お前はもうゲイなんだ

How do get better at pronunciation?

>>18977604
Get adopted in Japan.

毎日は５漢字を勉強します。いつも改善します。

根本的に俺

>>18977604
アニメを見る

>>18977794
僕はアニメをたくさん見ますですが僕の発音全然磨きませんよ

>>18977813
もっとアニメを見ろ

What is this, dekinai hours?

>>18977842
そんなことを出来ませんよ
僕NEETではありませよ

>>18977813
>ですが

>僕
自殺しろ

>>18977867
僕の日本語が下手です
申し訳ありません

>>18977872
どうして? 君酷い人ですよね

我輩 > ironic 小生 > 俺 >>> *

ニートではないなら/int/に行ってなさい

>>18977889
>行ってなさい

みんなのぶっ壊れた日本語好き

What exactly is wrong with using 僕?

>>18977917
It's ゲイ

>>18977919
俺 is more ゲイ

>>18977917
Absolutely nothing if you want to relay to everyone that you enjoy taking cock on an hourly basis and probably have a vibrator in your ass at that very moment.

>>18977917
Nothing, really. It's sometimes seen as a bit "boyish", and it's also used fairly frequently in the gay community, but plenty of well adjusted straight Japanese males use it. Honestly though you should use 俺 and 私 if you don't want to look like a twink.

>>18977921
Say that to my face and not online, see what happens.

Hi,

American here who is traveling with my wife to Japan for two weeks. We will be there around New years at the end of this year. She is fluent in Spanish and I am ok in Spanish but not fluent. I am familiar with duolingo and have tried to start but being in college my time is limited during the semester. However, with summer coming up I've decided to dedicate a good portion of my time to learning Japanese for the trip.

Has anyone taken any online courses that they enjoyed? I'm looking for something a little structured as opposed to just winging it. I'm in Fort Worth, TX but haven't had any luck finding anything local. If anyone knows of a good coursera, EDX, etc etc for Japanese I would appreciate it... or any other helpful suggestions. Thanks for reading

>>18977917
just asking that question is wrong honestly

>>18977928
hi whos your favourite toho character

>>18977922
>>18977923
I use 僕, and I'm masculine as fuck

>>18977936
Bears are still gay, bro.

>>18977942
I have a gf(male), bro
Somrthing you 俺fags will never have

>>18977936
Masculinity and homosexuality aren't mutually exclusive.

Use 吾 or GTFO

im gonna get aids and fuckin die if you bone heads keep posting this idiotic pronoun shit

>>18977953
t. 俺fag

>>18977952
>Not わし
Get off my lawn, kiddo.

>Not 朕
Philistines, the lot of you.

>>18977923
I thought 俺 is too rough and rude? I mainly use 私 when speaking to other Japanese people but then people say you should it once you get familar.

>Not わたくし

>>18977956
わたくしはゲイぞわ

>>18976372
Well, by that logic nobody should learn more than two foreign language in their lives, one of them being English.
It's probably a reverse-psychology motivational article.

実績が解除されました: get aids

>>18977965
>>I thought 俺 is too rough and rude?
It is in formal situations, where 私 is more appropriate. Generally if you're speaking casual Japanese, 俺 is fine. Textbooks say 俺 is "rough and rude" to prevent new Japanese learners from going out and using it in inappropriate situations. 僕 is a completely fine pronoun to use in casual conversation, and it's "safer" than 俺 in that it is less "rough", if you'd rather use 僕 go for it, ignore the memes.

>>18977975
そのオオカミに私を犯されたい

honestly just use わたし because you probably are needlessly using pronouns because youre a self absorbed gaijin shit bag and by using わたし everyone will understand and forgive you

playing games with pronouns only makes you look more retarded straight up

>>18977996
still not as retarded as you lol

>>18978000
i own you in my sleep kid get on my level

>>18977994
I don't think "私を" should be there.

俺のチンポが君のマンコに入っていますね

>>18978044
小さすぎて何も感じない

>>18978025
I just checked and yup, it should.

>>18978066
in what language

>>18978066
What function is that direct object supposed to have if the verb is passive?

>>18978044
どきどきする

>>18977975
かげろうちゃんめっちゃかわいいいいい!!

>>18978075
Should've made the verb causative I guess, my bad.

>>18978131
聞いてなかった、要りません。

>>18978154
"I want to make the wolf rape me" ?

>>18978172
Non-past?

わたしは犯されたい
逞しいreal ninjaに犯されたい

>>18978189
What are you trying to say?

>>18978202
this >>18978192
Thanks anons :)

まいどー

Is it too late for me to start learning Japanese if I am already in my 30s?

>>18978286
how mcuh anime have you watched lifetime

>>18978288
Probably not that much honestly, there were only really a few years where I watched anime all the time as a main hobby, most of the time it was just an occasional thing I did when the fancy struck me or when I heard good things about some series in particular.

Got 178 series completed according to MAL though I probably forgot to add a bunch of stuff from before I started using that to track it. And yeah I know I'll get some flak for using that site but shit, I'm a forgetful fucker and too many times I'll get halfway through a show and then take a break for a few months and it'll be damned impossible to find my place again, so letting Taiga (formerly MAL updater) track that shit for me is a godsend.

>>18978299
Nope, you sound like a dekinai.

>>18978299
if youre in your 30s you should know real ninjas keep their list in a txt file

for fuckin shame dude

sounds like you got some anime watching to do

>>18978286
It's never really too late to learn a language.
However it might be too late for the things you hoped to achieve by learning it, like moving to Japan.

>>18978305
Yeah I thought so...

To be honest I did study for a few months using Wanikani and learned like 2000 words using that site but then when I went to read shit I realized all the shit that site didn't bother to teach me (especially all the kana only words) and that I couldn't read fucking anything and got discouraged and kinda dropped it, so if I got back I'd have a lot of relearning to do.
>>18978316
Manually updating a text file is way less convenient than just clicking the name of the show from my currently watching list on Taiga, letting it find and launch the episode automatically, and automatically increment the watched count when my player has been active for a couple of minutes with it going. Also handles automatic torrent downloading with slightly less clicks required than my torrent client would do (mostly just right click show from torrent tab "use this sub group for this show" and then all the other filters are set up nicely out of the box)

>>18978331
dude its all about opening that txt file and reflecting fondly on what you just watched as you type the title in and then you look back at what you recently watched or what you watched back in the day before and after which shows and youre just fuckin 思い出に浸るing

you can learn nihongo but do you really want it bad enough

>>18978299
> And yeah I know I'll get some flak for using that site but shit <...>
Why are you explaining yourself, you insecure faggot? There's literally nothing wrong with using MAL. I've asked many times why people here hate it and all I got was incoherent bullshit, appeals to the authority of the 4chan hivemind and a few replies from /g/ autists who worried about muh privacy so much they basically wrote their own MAL.

>>18978354
mal is social media dude

shocking i know

>>18978354
Mostly just an attempt to defray a bit the inevitable "why you on MAL you faggot I bet you have a Reddit account too" that I knew was coming.

I do

>>18978362
So is 4chan, what's your point?

>Not tracking your anime in a spreadsheet

>>18978373
you gotta be squidding me mate

>>18978383
> Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

>>18978387
Is pornographic social?

>>18978390
Well, tinder is social media, and so is omegle camwhorimg

>>18978401
The scales have fallen from my eyes

>>18978383
Before this discussion strays from the topic any further, forget the "so is 4chan" part and answer the question.
It's social media. So what?

>>18978407
大丈夫？大人を呼びたいよ〜？

>>18978431

>>18978431
I bet you use Youtube too fag

>>18978448
how about i make your anal opening clench real tight by telling you i only use vimeo

>He consumes media
Fucking web 2.0 babbies

I was studying for a year and a half, got to a pretty good reading level, but today I woke up and completely forgot everything. Worse the Japanese characters look like meaningless squiggles to me now, like I cannot identify any patterns in them at all no matter how hard I look. This ever happen to any of you guys? I'm worried I might have developed brain damage or something.

>>18978471
Go see a doctor to get your stroke treated, anon.

>>18978464
fuckin this dude

when bandwidth was lower peoples brains operated at higher capacity

the internet ruined humanity and the only people i dont find to be utterly offensive existences are people 65+ years old

>>18978471
Well, that does sound like an honest to god stroke, if you don't die keep us updated

>>18978481
Says the oniichan who is in a thread about learning a language solely to consume native media.

>>18978495
the only shit i like i was liking back when isdn was the ultimate dream internet hookup so as long as i think about that it doesnt bother me that people are making their foray into eroge with shit made in this decade which if i actually think about it for longer than a second i get that weird anime vein poppin out on my head

Why is Japanese music so shit? Except for city pop, city pop is the shit.

My brain power increased 10 fold today
Hopefully I can do the same tomorrow

>>18978521
what program is that

>>18978513
why are turds so smelly except these turds i like the way these ones smell but at the end of the day they are excrement

heres top tier shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiUcrIGY-w

>>18978509
Sounds like you're on the wrong board.
/int/ is further that way.

>>18978524
read the guide tard

Why don't the stupid nipponese retards just use romaji? It works 100 times better and then I wouldn't have to learn stupid fucking hieroglyphs.

>>18978538
no im in the right place this is the thread with all the hopeless zakos im tasked with the impossible mission of saving

>>18978549
Why don't the stupid english retards just use kana? It works 100 times better and then I wouldn't have to learn stupid fucking alphabets.

>>18978549
To filter retard gaijin like you.

>>18978558
but you already learned at least 3 of em why not just one more dude

>>18978558
ゴオオド イデア, ファゴト

I'm drowning. I don't know what to do. I can't remember any new words. After hitting again dozens of times of the same words in the same session I end up just mashing good so I can be done with it until tomorrow. How the fuck do I remember this stuff? Am I just too retarded to learn Japanese? Here are some examples of words I just can't learn.

報告
郵便
都合
販売
交番
解決
情報

They all look the same to me.

>>18978579
Time to write them out a couple times my dude. Remember to get the stroke order right the first time around for when you inevitably run into the same kanji again.

>>18978579
We told you in the last thread.
Slow down.

>>18978590
I can't really go any slower.

>>18978587
I don't have time to write. I'm not a neet sadly

>>18978593
>I can't really go any slower
Yes you can.
Stop new cards and just do reviews until you're good.

>>18978579
Pause your new cards for a few days and >>18978587 .

>>18978593
If you can't take 20 minutes to write out the kanji you're failing, then what the fucks the point in doing this? Are you even reading? What's the point in trying to learn a language you literally don't have time to use?

>>18978593
You're obviously not learning it for a job which means you definitely can cut out whatever entertainment it is you're learning Japanese for and use that time to write them down. Or just stop having a 2 digit IQ.

このスレにはばかばかしいばっかりですね

>>18978579
Just wait until you get to shit like this
>緑
>縁

man kanji that share most of the same rads are really scary i wish there was some way to never mix them up like learning nihongo or some shit..

>>18978626
This isn't too hard if you know your radicals.

>>18978662
You don't know Japanese.

>>18978689
?

>>18978696
>Getting to X isn't too hard if you get to X
Wow who would've thought.

man petard and retard look amazingly similar how do i know which one i am

>>18978605
I already cut the entertainment, my job keeps me stupidly busy.

>>18978604
There isn't anything else I can cut out of my day. I literally do not have the time to write these out if I want to get through my reviews.

>>18978768
So if you can only use Japanese for 30 minutes a day it seems like you probably shouldn't bother learning it. What kind of job keeps you busy for 24 hours a day anyhow?

>>18978781
software dev

Man, Rikaichan for firefox just reminds me that I'm on ESR with mine because I'm running on a Vista... and Firefox's Vista support is gonna end by around May and August. I need to upgrade my brick real soon.

>>18978768
>>18978818
If you only have 25 minutes a day to do flash cards and have 0 other time to practive Japanese, then what's the point in learning? It doesn't even sound like you've got enough time to use it for your own entertainment purposes. You realize you're still gonna have to do Anki reviews after you reach the end, yeah? In fact, you're supposed to be making your own mining deck from the stuff you >>READ<<. All that kanji you're learning is worthless if you're not reading to cement it/actually use the damn language, you know?

Like I don't wanna bully you into quitting, but you need to re-evaluate your priorities. If learning Japanese is important to you, then you need to cut something out of your life and create some more time for it. At least a full hour a day dedicated to it. 30 minutes on flash cards and 30 minutes actually using the shit you're learning.

あたしはかわいいよね

Reminder to read every day because no matter what it is, you'll always improve even a slight bit

>mined words this morning after reps
>forgot to view them before bed and now its a new day
feels bad

ゆっくりしていてね

Arigato is thanks.

>>18978978
で？

>>18978978
ついに....あたしは日本語を知っている!!!!!! ARIGATO!

>>18979086
Why do you talk like a girl?

あたし is for roleplaying fags.
あたい is for real マン子.

>>18979096
Who are you, the pronoun police? Don't be gay, anon.

>>18978978
あざます

>>18976920
What do you listen to? I can check for you if you want me to.

>>18975656
It has been/is a large time investment but I think ultimately it is worth having a reasonable sized collection all in one place without any of the more silly file host barriers or torrent seeder lottery can help readers explore more of what is out there in the rich but often overshadowed medium of manga.
At the moment you may notice a rather large discrepancy between what has been uploaded and what has been listed in the table/stats on the from page and linked gallery in comparison to that which can be found in the "All Manga/Ongoing/Concluded" pages. This is deliberate but temporary as at the moment it is easier and faster to add content than add all of the relevant details for each new series. The plan is to reach a round figure of 2000 total series before shifting focus back to the main pages but it may end up being less, depending on a few things.
There is a newer little feature on the front page: a random button. Selecting this will replace the page at random a single entry. I don't really know how much use it will receive but it is a curious way to answer the question "recommended me something". Discover something different, right?
Your post gave me an excuse to shamelessly give an update which I wasn't planning on giving for another month or two, so thanks.

Oh, almost forgot. There are mirrors for all the manga on the main pages and soon to be back up mirrors with single links for a main folder for the entire collection. At the moment this is 800GB over 21 mega dot co dot nz accounts.
Mega has a feature that allows you to import links so if anyone wants to make mirrors of their own or just download a lot of manga, they will be able to use these links that I'll post next update. It can already be done now, one link at a time but that would be mega pain in the osiri.

Pic unrelated. Shoulder length fluffy brown hair is so （*´▽｀*）
Feedback/comments/suggestions/whatever are also welcome.

>>18979141
Cool post, but
>can help readers explore more of what is out there in the rich but often overshadowed medium of manga
doesn't make sense because manga isn't reading so you might want to change up the wording a bit next time.

Which exactly "神様" do they always refer to?

I recently started Tae Kim's grammar guide, and I've got a question concerning one of the practice problems:
アリス）　辛い料理は、好き？
ボブ）　ううん、辛くない料理が好きだ。
To my pathetic understanding, it roughly translates to this:
Alice: Do you like spicy cuisine?
Bob: No, I like mild (?) cuisine.
The subject particle that's affixed to "辛くない料理" is used instead of the topic particle because the topic of the conversation is Bob's preference towards spicy cuisine, not the cookery itself; thus Bob's preferred type of cuisine needs to be identified.
Is this correct or at least somewhat so?

I want to set up a habit to read Japanese an hour a day but I keep on floundering it. Would it be wise to take a week off from Japanese for a week and come back to it?

>>18978599

Just what I said
>>18975526

>>18979236
>I'm having trouble making myself actually do work, would it be beneficial to let myself continue not working for a prolonged period of time?

>>18979233
"辛い料理は" set the topic for the conversation. Bob's "ううん" was enough to answer Alice's question. He decided to also tell her that he likes "not spicy food", but the conversation is still about spicy food.

>>18979255
Yeah, I re-read my post five or so minutes after submitting it and realized that contradicting the topic marker was a stupid idea.
Have a cute demonic loli as token of my gratitude.

>>18979233
ただしいです。
「ううん、辛くない料理は好きだ。」でも、言いたいことは伝わるけれど、「辛さの好み」の話をしているのなら、「が」のほうが自然です。
「ううん、僕が好きなのは、辛くない料理だ。」と言ってもokです。

>>18979279
I'd recommend to read these articles.
http://www.imabi.net/theparticlegai.htm
http://www.imabi.net/theparticlewai.htm

But not right now. Maybe after you read chapters 3 and 4 of TKGG. This guy talks way too much and loses his train of thought sometimes, if an actual beginner read his "beginner" lessons he'd end up even more confused than before.

>>18979318
One day I will be able to easily and fully understand this.

>>18979329
Bookmarked. Thanks!

>>18979318
すき

きらい

じっさいのかいわでは

はっきりいったら

だめだよ

>>18979233
もんだいは

これ

からいのいみが２つあるよ

かんとうことばとかんさいことばで

あじが

ちがう

>>18979318
塩が多いのも「からい」

カラシが多いのも「からい」

あたしはちょうどちゅうかんにすんでいるから

からいは

すーぱーぽじしょんだよ

>>18978513
Thinly veiled rec post, but I'll give some anyway: Lucky Tapes, Yakushimaru Etsuko, きのこ帝国, SUCHMOS...

>>18979975
あたしはあのんのいうこともわかる

にほんのおんがくは

オトとコエのくべつがないからね

>>18978513
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et7hHTT0HSQ
Some Jap DnB is pretty nice.

>>18978579
Print/write out physical flash cards for your daily new words and bring them to work. Go through the "deck" whenever you have a few minutes. If you're doing 20 words per day it shouldn't take more than 2 minutes or so to go through them. If you are really working from the second you sit down till the second you get up from your desk, then do it during bathroom breaks and when you go for lunch.

>>18980058
ぱくりのぱくりみたいなのだね

だからだめっていわれるんだよ

>>18980058
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFMJVuzW53w

I wish RTK fags would just kill themselves collectively.

Is there anything I can do to improve my writing? Reading is so much fun, but I can't really write worth a damn above basic ass sentences.

>>18980487
When you say writing, I don't think you mean the same thing as I understand.

>>18980502
Basically putting sentences together. For example, the thought of writing something like "Last week I finished my first book in a foreign language" made me think about the overall syntax and which words go where in the sentence.

>>18980523
That's producing, writing would mean writing by hand.

>>18980542
Not always. Get over it.

>>18980523
just read more and you'll be good at it out of nowhere. don't try to produce trashcan-level japanese like the schmucks in this thread.

>>18980551
well if you want to be picky then i suppose you could use your feet or mouth but come on my dude why do you have to respond like that when you know what he means?

皆さん、オハヨウゴザイマス

Anyone know of any websites where you can make money with translating Japanese to English?

I tried to take the test on gengo, but it says that there's too many translators for Japanese to English and they aren't accepting anymore

can 失った be used like "you lost (in a videogame)"?

>>18980607
負ける

TIL you don't 'catch' a cold in Japanese, you 'pull' a cold.

Language is crazy.

>>18980629
It's "get".

>>18980629
fucking 豆男ｓ

>>18980638
引く？

>>18980629
Weird shit, huh

>>18980643
Yeah, the sense of ひく being used there is "get", not "pull".

>>18980648
would you accept 'attracted' a cold

>>18980655
Would you accept your wife's son?

おがつくと

>おかぜをめす

こうくっつきかたがかわるよ

>>18980658
I don't have a wife...

>>18980655
I suppose if you really want you can think of it as "contract"

>>18980673
Hypothetically.

>>18980587
>gengo is oversaturated with japanese translators
BUT THAT WAS MY WHOLE PLAN TO MAKE MONEY KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME

>>18980753
How about you get an actual job instead of working for some shitty site?

>>18980753
just get a job at mcdonalds
it pays more

>>18980694
im contractually obligated to this cold

I just started and it takes me an hour to finish my Anki reps for the day, but as I do more stuff I feel like at some point it could take up a whole lot of time.
How long have you been studying and how long do your reps take?

> 2 months
> 1 hour

>>18980898
That means absolutely nothing, how many reviews and new cards do you get per day?

>>18980898
>How long have you been studying
2 years and some months
>and how long do your reps take?
90 mins on average, 20 new a day

>>18980898
Do you mean just reviews? Or reviews + new cards

I'm a month and change in. Took me 30 minutes to do my 133 reviews today and usually takes me about an hour and 15, hour and 30 minutes for my 35 new cards.

>>18980907
I really just started Anki and now I’m doing 100 new cards/day, 50 Recall 50 Recognition since I don’t have school and nothing to do. I’m getting like 100 reviews a day right now.

>>18980915
I mean new cards+reviews. I’m just thinking for in the future, I feel like it has to ramp up but two of you said less than 2 hours.

I’m wondering if I’m putting in too many cards but I can handle it at the moment

>>18977861
DEKIMASEN ああああああああああ

>>18980943
>100 new cards/day

>>18980943
>I really just started Anki and now I’m doing 100 new cards/day, 50 Recall 50 Recognition
?????

>>18980943
why are you posting with a new ip?

>>18980955
Idk I’m at a public WiFi, I might be disconnecting and using data when I post.

>>18980952
>>18980954
Im guessing too many?

>>18981012
What does recognition mean? Just remembering that you've seen the word before, not knowing what it is or what it means? And yeah, unless you have some eidetic memory shit, those cards aren't sticking. What's your retention rate?

>ドｓ
I can never remember whether that means sadistic or submissive.

>>18981032
I’m just doing an RTK deck right now. So I’ve got one card that shows the Kanji and then I say the meaning then one other card that says the meaning then I write out the kanji.
I’ll lower it if it’s better for the long run. I figured 50 kanji a day was a good pace but guess I must’ve overestimated.

>>18981113
>I’m just doing an RTK deck right now.
Should have clarified since most people here use anki for vocab.

>>18981089
Just think of M and S as a pair. If M means masochistic, S must mean sadistic.

>>18981126
You’re right I should’ve said specified, I started to realize something was off when you said if I just seen the word. So for vocab the pace should be like 25/day? So the pace I’m going at for RTK be ok (if you know)?

What do you guys think of graded readers, do you think it is a good way to increase grammar knowledge?

>>18981113
Just suspend the recognition cards. The point of RTK is to memorize all the kanji, not to memorize the keywords.

>>18980944
?

>>18981202
That’s fair. So 50 kanji seems good to you then?

>>18981149
>So the pace I’m going at for RTK be ok (if you know)?
I have no idea, never done RTK. For vocab people usually start with the default 20 new words and adjust lower or higher depending on how it goes.

>>18981225
Thanks for the info!

Does anyone have PDFs of Japanese English Textbooks? Especially vocab related. Something like 英単語ターゲット1400(4訂版) (大学JUKEN新書)?

みんな元気?

>>18981399
はい、基気です

>>18981399
はい! 僕は元気ですよ!
君も?お元気ですか

>>18981399
まあまあ元気

お前ら元気を習ってるの？可哀想ｗ

How common is うち and is it used usually by who?

>>18981344
Absolutely shit taste.

>>18981420
いいねその調子

わたしはいつも超元気

>>18981422
元気ならいいけど

>>18981426
それアカンよ

>>18981501
>>>/int/

彼はいきなり僕のおちんちんを吸って

>>18981537
お先にどうぞ爆笑

>>18981543
>僕
確かに

>>18981543
>彼
はよ続かんね!

I want to translate the following sentence:

>It is almost time to turn over the page.

My attempt:

>ページは裏返すの時間がほとんどだ。

But I know it's wrong. The problem is that I have two objects and two verbs, and I don't know how to structure the sentence. I tried to use particles but it sounds off to me.

>>18981589
>ページは
This is your first mistake.

ページをめくる時が来るぞ

>>18981589
そろそろページをめくる

そろそろページをめくる時間ですね

有るもう直ぐ時間様に捲る上に其のページを

。。。だぜ

そろそろゲイ時が来るぞ

>>18981650
I like this the most, save for the ね、which I find unneeded.

>>18981676
XD

実は僕はセクシー男の子が好き
君たちもセクシー男がすきですか?

セクシー男が好きのはとてもゲイだろう

女っぽいなら構わないけど
やっぱ可愛い女子は1番

ゲイじゃないよ
女の子好きのはすごくゲイですけど

素人の時間

僕は韓国語嫌いよ
とても難しい言語だ

>>18981786
日本語より難しいですか

夢見る少女じゃいられない

>>18981814
それは間違っています

>>18981786
한국어 배우기가 쉬워요 내닌자

日本語より簡単とは思います笑

>>18981842
僕は韓国すごく難しいと思います
でも僕の頭が悪い笑

>>18978513
t. GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI(略

>>18978513
back in the day when i was still but a wee lad and yet to become a trapaholic 奥居香さん was my first crush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doY90Hf4pdI

what you know bout that

>>18982062
>yet to become a trapaholic

>>18978579
I just started learning kanji, learned about 1200 until now

>>18978579
This is why you do RTK

>>18982516
Stop shilling RTK, you're screwing up the entire thread with "can't learn kanji? well, should've done RTK". I haven't done it and have no problems, just like a shitload of people here.

frankly youre all screwing up the thread by posting stfu

>>18979201
God

>>18979201
obviously our god, saviour and creator of the holy AJATT method MattVsJapan

>>18979201
obviously yung rap god lick g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19ziDI6im8

>>18978579
>knew all of those a week or two after learning them
feels good

learning toy request: a numpad keyboard trainer instead of a romaji typing trainer

I didn't even got to half of the 2k/6k and I have 50 leeches. I'd probably have much, much more if I didn't set the limit to 80 for a card to become a leech. It's getting me insane, I want to smash my fucking computer very time I hear this motherfucker saying "KETSUGOU" and others. After 7 months of study, I have 22% of mature cards. I won't stop but I feel like I fucking suck and it's making me sad more than mad.

>>18983279
>using audio
Mistake number 1
>not writing
Mistake number 2
>half of 6k in 7 months
Mistake number 3

>>18983279
>not reading more
Mistake number 1
>not reading more
Mistake number 2
>not reading more
Mistake number 3

theres 366 mistakes in this thread and counting

>>18983288
Care to elaborate?

>>18983315
I really feel I was as elaborate as possible.

>>18983301
>theres
There are*

>>18983334
fuckin found the esl

Anyone else literally never practice writing?

>>18983331
"half of 6k in 7 months"? What does that mean?

>>18983338
Is this where I'm supposed to point out how retarded you are, after which you retort with "only an esl would be anal over an obvious grammatical error?"

>>18983346
That's a bit slow, but acceptable if you have a mining deck.

>>18983349
can you though

>>18983354
I don't have a mining deck. What can I do?

>>18983360
Start one.

>>18983341
I did to reinforce kana.

>>18983363
God why do I even come here.

>>18983375
the same reason i do to get fucking aids from esls

>>18983375
You forgot a comma.
>God, why do I even come here.

>>18983375
>>18983384
Dumbass doesn't even know English
You can't learn Japanese

みんなshut the fuck upしてくれないか

>>18983279
Don't put so much importance onto anki. It's a supplemental tool, not a primary tool to learn Japanese.
Starting out core was difficult for me too, and 20 new cards + reviews would take me more than an hour to do. However I felt doing supplemental kanji (do NOT stop doing core) helped a lot of the words stick. Even now I'll go out of my way to mine easy or really rare words just to reinforce the kanji.

>>18983390
I am not even english you stupid MF. "Hurr you forgot a comma". You sound like a dusty literature teacher. Fuck you.

todays nihongo word of the day is 死に際

check back tomorrow for the next nihongo word of the day

>>18983419
Thank you!

>>18983349
it's literally erraneous to NOT use there's in casual conversation

>>18983384
Seconding "you don't know English"

>>18983434
You forgot your capital letter on "English," furthermore, you forgot to delimit your clause once more.
>"Hurr you forgot a comma".
Also, it is widely accepted to have your full stop inside the quotes, given that's where the sentence ends.

>>18983463
>>Also, it is widely accepted to have your full stop inside the quotes, given that's where the sentence ends.
Only if you live in America. Pretty much every other part of the English speaking world puts it outside.

>>18983463
whats this guy saying https://streamable.com/gunpv

>>18983467
わたしわ血漿

>>18983384
>>18983390
Fuck, I love this thread.

>>18983486
i like you come over and fuck my sister

>>18983279
>1/3 through 2k and 0 leeches
Hmm...

>>18983486
why

>>18983466
Also only dumb people in the US put it on the inside, academics in most technical fields prefer it on the outside unless it's part of the quotation and also the Oxford comma is mandatory.

>>18983495
It's just funny as shit to me how cuntish people here are.

>>18983503
It's all funposting, no harm intended.

>>18983504
Ironic shitposting is just shitposting.

>>18983504
Aye, if someone asks a genuine question there is usually at least 1-2 ok responses among the turds so it's all good.
>>18983509
I feel like the only reason the /int/ thread doesn't have much shitposting, and is consequently usually dead in a day, is due to the flags. I'd be the only person from my country in that thread so I couldn't shitpost in the same way.

>>18983509
Nice conditioning. It would've been an adequate response, too, if anybody had denied that.

>¨不死
>ノー連濁
>不死身
>連濁
ホワイジャパニーズピーポー

>>18983503
it's because people ask stupid questions so instead of spoonfeeding you should either ignore or be mean to discourage that kind of behavior instead of allowing it which would just make them continue asking their stupid questions

>>18983538
>day
>spelled with y
>daily
>spelled with i
なんでだよアメリカ人

>>18983521
>and is consequently usually dead in a day, is due to the flags
No, its the flimsy nature of normalfags learning a language to be 'trendy' or some bullshit.
/int/ will dwarf this general in size during the months of jan-feb

>>18978579
Core2k/6k stats fight! I'm 100 cards behind you at about the same rate of 10 per day. Even though I'm reviewing 1/4 as many cards in 1/2 as much time as you per day I'm almost as far. Take note of the Review Time graph in particular. Even at only 10 cards per day I'm spending almost half of my total Anki time on them. Every new card I see I think about the radicals, words I've seen them in before, and all of the readings I know for them. If you focus your mind on new cards like this you'll probably do a lot better.

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>>18983563
There are multiple people in that thread who have been learning for years though

>>18983568
gay post you should stop

>>18983580
Yeah, and one of them, a leaf, comes to shill here.

>>18983582
でも…わたしはゲイだから～

>>18983592
共産主義者です

やっぱユーロビート最高だぜ

look at the aids you stupid fucks give me

I fell asleep while doing my new cards a few hours ago. If I add the remainder to tomorrows cards since it's 1am now and I'm half asleep, I'll need to do 50 total. Shieeeeeeeet.

>>18983620
those are just pressure sensitive histamine overproduction marks

>>18983620
>that hairless twink arm
Let me ream your asshole, boy.

>>18983620
how do you manage to stay so fair skinned while living in Australia?

>>18983634
never leaving the house of course

Should I go through the complete advanced topics part in Kim's guide as well before I start reading, or is it enough to just reference it when I come across one of it's expressions?

>>18983639
/int/ told me that the sun burns through the houses in Australia.

Do you remember obscure words like 鬼ごっこ?

>>18983647
>obscure
i literally learned that word before starting to learn Japanese

>>18983642
I'm interested in this as well, could someone answer?

>>18983642
Just give it a read through. Tae Kim says "advanced" but they're not really advanced.

Who do you guys think would win in a fight, Tae Kim or Wayne P(unchmaster). Lammers?

>>18983737
James Heisig

>>18983737
MattVsJapan

>>18983737
kokujin tensai