/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Fuck ankidrones
You don't study a language like you're studying for a test

i think abandoning anki is only worth it if u actually enjoy reading and can commit substantially more time to it in exchange for dropping anki

pretty much anyone who has ever gotten good fast at japanese who didn't use anki also claims to have read like 6+ hours a day. not using anki is inefficient as fuck.

>>21633244
>>21633256
>>21633279
After downloading this language pack the font still looks the same unfortunately, do I have to somehow manually set the font?

>>21634133
if u dont enjoy nihongo u aint gonna learn nihongo no matter how much anki u do

>>21634157
check out https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/japanese-text-displays-incorrectly-in-explorer/770c6bf7-609a-4b91-b34c-536c7eaf7a7d it might help

>>21634169
yeah thats what i think to but some people talk about timeboxing reading and shit and im like wtf so im not really sure why those people are even learning this language in the first place

>>21634186
timeboxing is just a strategy for avoiding distractions
it's not limited to doing things you don't like doing
people can timebox an activity and end up just doing much more than they planned because when they finally were able to concentrate, they did in fact enjoy the thing

>>21634103
I see value in how it can accelerate the process of memorizing tens of thousands of arbitrary facts, which is necessary to become fluent in any language

passive learning through immersion can only take you so far, sometimes you have to put in a little active effort to get something to stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR-mLGV0X1I

and in the beginning when people don't understand anything, reading takes a lot of mental energy and focus
easy to see why strategies like timeboxing would be helpful for people in that stage

>>21634196
this, today I told myself not to touch a game that's not in nihongo until two and I forgot about them til 5, even then I don't feel like play

anki is great when used strategically (starting out with 10 or so n+1(2) sentence cards a day as a beginner, as you progress only adding words you've seen before rather than adding every brand new word)
when used obsessively it can be harmful (adding every single word you see for the first time, not thinking it's possible to learn any words outside of anki, spending more time on anki than input past the very beginning stages)

let's do what we want instead of theorizing about shit that is of no use to anyone

>>21634217
sounds more like basic self discipline than timeboxing

>>21634246
timeboxing is literally just boxing activities into set time restrictions
that's what he did

>>21634200
I like it good post Anon

>>21634259
i thought breaks were part of the point to improve concentration between the breaks but im not into that shit

>>21634246
don't we all have this? since we are learn Japanese and stuff

have fun making 40k anki cards
i would rather read a story

>>21634200
should have become a neet

>>21634232
I think it helps to keep up with anki at any point in your studies. 10 cards a day is plenty. If you overdo it, there's a good chance it will just feel overwhelming and not feel worth the pace of improvement you get. But when I don't use SRS at all, I feel a noticeable decline in my rate of improvement. It really helps iron out any weak spots, i.e. words you keep forgetting the proper meaning/reading of, words that you get confused for other words, or those kanji that you're only half-able to tell apart sometimes

>>21634301
by "read a story" I assume you mean read 80% of a story while guessing 10% and looking up the other 5%
some of us want to move past that point faster by actively focusing on vocabulary acquisition

>>21634309
お金も足りてないだから働かなきゃいけない

>>21634181
Didn't help, so I copied my old anki folder from my old win7 partition into my new anki folder I installed on win10 and now the font works.

It only showed me the weird ching chong font on a new installation of anki, even after installing language packs and changing region.

>>21634336
or you can just read and look up every word you don't know.
that way you will run into all the words you need to know faster (not taking time to make anki cards or review them) and level them all up to fully acquired

anyone else here ever ruin their experience with a show they wanna watch by watching it in japanese before they can understand much

I'm trying to watch My Hero Academia raw and I can't. This show is just too fucking mediocre. How on earth it got so popular is beyond me, and I've heard all the cookie cutter explanations.

>>21634390
Stop watching it, it's shit. That's why I haven't seen a single episode of it.

>>21634395
based

my japanese learning goal is to be able to understand logh so i can tell quiz i liked it and we can be friends.

word of the day : 必要最低限

so i can just translate youna as x that is y right
e.g 疲れたような顔 tired face

>>21634405
no

>>21634405
no... https://jisho.org/word/%E6%A7%98-2

>>21634409
oh

>>21634405
ようするにわたしはゲイ

Are there any japanese songs that could be understood by someone with a weaker understanding of japanese?

>>21634447
>>21634200

So how do I do this meditation thing? If I try the focusing on my breath there's still a movie playing in my head every millisecond, this movie was about an argument with a dude I haven't met yet. Makes me question if I'm just fucked for the rest of my life, up until now this is harder than learning Japanese for 3 years.

>>21634483
https://youtu.be/1aGq2ZLORxI

>>21634483
>this movie was about an argument with a dude I haven't met yet.
are u aight tomodati

if learned words like 自殺 and 哲学的 without anki then so can you!

>>21634483
just do whatever. the placebo effect will kick in.

>>21634513
Source on the pic? Its been a while since I was able to live without every second thinking of something. I can't even imagine eating something without thinking about the conversations that I will have in the rest of the day, looping the same thing over and over again with a full fledged scene in my head. I'd take any placebo effect at this moment.

>>21634513
Kys for spreading jew propaganda

>>21634371
the problem is that by looking up words once, most people tend to forget them unless they come up often enough in their immersion to be reinforced "organically"
there's a lot of semi-rare words past the mid intermediate level that might come up once every 2 months depending on what you're reading, and it's really hard to just absorb all of that through some kind of passive osmosis

so if you see it 2 months later and remember oh it's that word i saw 2 months ago that means it's somewhere in your memory and you are going to remember it anyways.

>>21634555
the more words u know the easier it is to pick up new ones
and u have to ask urself how much u want to ask urself if u want to put extra time into words uve seen once and u wont see for months

>>21634580
you might be completely forgetting a lot of them and not realizing that many "new" words aren't really new

>>21634595
unless u have actual memory problems thats prob not very common especially if u have a moderate size vocab already to be worrying about rarer words

>>21634590
that one word at that frequency level might not seem worth it, but there might be thousands and thousands of words at that level, and when you add them all up, it can contribute a lot to your general comprehension to know them

the average adult knows something like 30-40k words in their native language, and they're going to use all of them from time to time, and unless you eventually acquire them all you'll always have gaps in your understanding

right so in that case you can add every new word you encounter into anki like quizmaster and do anki for 6 hours a day.

let's not forget the fact that you get answers wrong in anki anyways (who has 100% answer rate?) so it doesn't work that well in the first place for learning languages.

so where would you rather forget and relearn a word, in anki or in reading? i say if you forget a word in anki you are totally wasting your time because you could have forgotten the word reading a book and then seen it used in a new context.

>>21634633
>right so in that case you can add every new word you encounter into anki like quizmaster and do anki for 6 hours a day.
nobody said that you strawmanning nigger, but doing a reasonable amount (like 30 minutes) of anki a day can help you remember vocabulary at a faster and more consistent rate than if you don't do it at all

it's like you have something against trying hard or some shit lmao

>>21634633
>let's not forget the fact that you get answers wrong in anki anyways (who has 100% answer rate?) so it doesn't work that well in the first place for learning languages.

This is one of the most retarded arguments ever, just because it doesn't provide 100% retention rates doesn't mean it's not better than nothing. I'm happy with 95% or even 90% retention, that's better retention that you'd get with no spaced repetition at all

>>21634619
but u will eventually acquire them whether u worry about it or not
also the rarer u get it starts to depend on ur actual interests they dont all know the same words
sure theres a lot of relatively rare words all natives know but ur also obviously going to run into words that a lot of natives dont know
btw active vocabulary is much smaller than passive vocabulary

*deletes ur anki*

also if u had 100% retention rate ud be wasting ur fucking time lol

>>21634669
no. the anki cult thinks srs helps you remember things due to the spaced repetition algorithm. if it helped you remember things 100% it would be worth using because you would never forget things you put in there but language just doesn't work like that.

>>21634676
Are you retarded?

>>21634676
nobody ever, ever said that SRS lets you remember 100% of what you put in it
but i would be willing to bet that you don't remember even 50% of the words that you look up in the dictionary a single time

>>21634676
the real srs cult knows that theres a retention sweet spot
100% retention means ur wasting time reviewing too often or only reviewing shit u know so well its useless to even have a card for it
>>21634690
>that you look up in the dictionary a single time
every failed review is equivalent to another dictionary lookup and every successful review is still like a quarter of a lookup worth of memory refreshment lol
pointless masturbation to say u remember a word uve only looked up once because u review it in anki

>>21634711
i'd rather spend 30 minutes a day reviewing anki and really nailing down the words i want to nail down rather than having a "fuzzy", passive-only understanding of the reading material i'm actually invested in

>>21634719
ur understanding is fuzzy anyway if u havent seen the word in so many sentences that u can feel it

what do you do when you get to a fuzzy part in your reading do you put all the words into anki and then rep them for a year then pick the book back up so you can finally understand it without using a dictionary? it would take forever to read a book like that

every word that i fail at first but later pass in anki is a word that i won't ever need to look up while reading eroge again

>>21634726
you're probably still at a low level if you're constantly encountering words that get repeated over and over again in the wild, of course you don't need anki for that shit

>>21634733
says the guy who thinks that not needing to look up a word cuz u memorized a definition means ur understanding isnt fuzzy lol

>>21634730
What makes you think you can't read with a dictionary just because you're doing anki?

>>21634747
yet you're the one who says you just look up words as you're going along to understand the written material you're reading

if that doesn't contribute to your understanding, then why bother?

what I mean by "fuzzy understanding" is only recognizing/knowing 90-95% of the words you're reading instead of 100% like someone proficient in the language would

>>21634749
i think you can. the person above said he wants to nail down his flashcards and then have a non-passive understanding of his stuff. which kind of sounds like do 40k flashcards before opening a book.

>>21634764
>which kind of sounds like do 40k flashcards before opening a book.
Wrong, you open lots of books and for-native-by-native material and pay special focus on the bits you don't understand so you can conquer them and actively grow in your skills

>>21634772
how many books have you read cover to cover?

>>21634788
do doujinshi and VNs count

>>21634796
Only if the text is good enough on its own to make you cum.

Do you niggas know of any somewhat entertaining Youtube channels that post videos with JP-subs?

>>21634092
Yo, that's a pretty good site. I was wondering if there was a website with manga and books in Japanese. Any suggestions for light novels? (I'm N2 level)

>>21634763
>yet you're the one who says you just look up words as you're going along to understand the written material you're reading
i didnt say i did anything im just replying to bad arguments lol
>if that doesn't contribute to your understanding
it isnt sufficient on its own
it isnt useless either but over just checking a dictionary again its mostly just faster
not accounting for however much time u put into anki in the first place
>what I mean by "fuzzy understanding" is only recognizing/knowing 90-95% of the words you're reading instead of 100% like someone proficient in the language would
ur definition is strange
its fuzzy if u have to rely on a definition to understand the sentence whether u have the definition memorized or not
also no one knows every single word they read

>>21634092
I'm asking here since I don't know where else to ask (no light novel thread).
I'm about to finish th ln I was reading (8 pages left without the あとがき) and I was wondering wich ln I should read next beetween:
-Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria
-Anti Magic Academy “The 35th Test Platoon”
-inou battle become common place
-Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei

>>21634824
ヒカキン's videos are pretty kimochiii if you ignore the absolutely obnoxious editing and personality

>>21634825
what was your score on the test?

>>21634832
>its fuzzy if u have to rely on a definition to understand the sentence whether u have the definition memorized or not
What the fuck does that even mean? It's fuzzy if you have to know what words mean before understanding them?
That makes no sense. Once you know what a word means, it's pretty fucking easy to put two and two together when you see it in the wild again. Fuzzy would be more like understanding 90% of the words in a sentence but having to fudge/look up/guess based on context for everything else

>>21634846
I will be taking the N2 test this December for the first time. But as far as GVRK knowledge going I am at that level.

>>21634850
>Fuzzy would be more like understanding 90% of the words in a sentence but having to fudge/look up/guess based on context for everything else
having memorized a word from a flash card but not having encountered it enough in the wild to instinctively feel what it means is the same as looking it up its just faster cuz the definition is in ur brain
if u have to put two and two together in the first place its fuzzy

>>21634837
Not him but I checked it out and DAMN I couldn't last 30 seconds

>>21634873
it's significantly less fuzzy than the understanding you would have if you had no/little idea what you meant and had to take time out of what you're reading to look it up again

at that point it just becomes a reinforcement of something you already kind of know, which is better than having to re-remember it all over again, because it accelerates the process of reaching the point where you get a "feel" for it

i don't want to wait like 10 years for every single vocab word to come to me unconsciously

I'm 27 with a job and I spend my free time watching cartoons about Japanese middle/high schoolers in order to learn a language I'll never use in real life. What the fuck is wrong with me.

>>21634860
Assuming you know all of the 教育漢字 and have more or less covered the equivalent of everything up to the Uppper Intermediate section on Imabi's guide, you should be able to easily read LNs like ゼロの使い魔 or the 物語 series, even if you would occasionally have to look a few words up in a dictionary. As a matter of fact, anything that's not high fantasy or hard SF should not be much of a problem for you.

>>21634915
I'm pretty much in the same boat but I think that it's ultimately good for your brain and you never know what will happen in the future and whether you'll end up using it or not

>>21634915
Free time and recreation are part of real life too.
Instead of restricting yourself to English-language entertainment, you can access Japanese-language entertainment too.

>>21633244
>Both are Arial font
Arial doesn't contain Japanese glyphs, so no they aren't.

Since Arial doesn't have the glyphs in question, Anki is defaulting to something else which does. You can tell there's something fucked up by looking at the bottom one where it's using a (Simplified Chinese) serif font for the kanji and a sans font for the okurigana.

>>21634157
You need to tell Anki to actually use whatever Japanese font you have on your computer (probably Meiryo).

>>21634919
Thanks. I will check them out.

>>21634945
>You need to tell Anki to actually use whatever Japanese font you have on your computer
in the Styling section of your card formatting, that is

e.g.:
.card {
font-family: Meiryo;
}

replace "Meiryo" with whatever you want/have, e.g. IPAexGothic, Noto Sans CJK JP, etc.

you either use anki or you should just give up on learning japanese. that simple

Just give up on life altogether

>not reaching fluency in only 18 days by listening to japanese 24/7 including in your sleep and mining 10,000 i+1 sentences from eroge

>>21634833
Well I'll go with anti magic then, I'll just have to get use to the chunibyou vocabulary.

What the fuck is this # and ppm thing showing up in Nazeka now?
>#799 (全身:ぜんしん) (100.64ppm)

have u ever wondered why they talk about anki instead of japanese lol

Can anyone say how to reset an entire anki deck and start over?

step by step tutorial right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkPerIYzo8#t=84

>>21635036
export the deck without scheduling information. then import it.

but it doesn't matter.

>>21635028
as far as i know, people here talk about learning JAPANESE in anki, so i dont get why your butt hurt this much

>>21635050
but you don't 'learn' in Anki. Instead you remember

>>21635052
i thought remembering was a huge part on learning japanese (or any other thing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGionL95sjU
Korean sounds like babble produced by a gum-chewing mouth in comparison to Japanese.

>>21635048
私は貴方に愛しています。そして貴方が有難い。

>>21635058
when u wrote ur post u didnt remeber every word u just wrote the post and unfortunately for all of us pressed the post botan

>>21635060
actually her japanese sounds like that too

>>21635065
wait... what?

>>21635073
?

>>21635071
Yeah, but it's at least got words I understand.

korean is like ching chong but less chingy and more chongy lol

What is the most annoying thing about the Japanese language

>>21635087
too many homosexual phones or whatever they're called. and similar sounding words in general.

>>21635085
Korean sounds like ch'ong ch'ang surum, whereas Japanese sounds more like korikorikoritachitachitsui to me.

>>21635087
Id say dead touhous

its not the language thats annoying but the people who use it : )

>>21635060
You think she's still a virgin?

>>21635104
I think you are

>>21635114
delete this post

>>21635060
I can tell you have never heard a Korean speaking as if speaking to a king who is holding and completely willing to crush his farther's balls

>>21635087
The fact that it's not using the pre ww2 writing system

>>21634824
https://youtu.be/dF8iJkxRs0c
this channel posts let's plays of them playing games that use text boxes and they read out loud (sort of like subs). also youtube has a shitty auto sub generation feature now

>>21635089
Yep, homonyms.

When I punch しょう into the 漢字源, I get 539 hits.

539 characters which can all be pronounced as しょう. This is what happens when a language which already has a shitload of homonyms is mapped into one with far simpler phonology and phonotactics.

>>21634915
>what the fuck is wrong with me
you're me

>>21634915
It could be worse, you could be studying a language you're not interested in at all that you'll never use in real life t. college language major

>>21635145
Not sure if you're joking or not, but 歴史的仮名遣い actually does have advantages in that is serves to disambiguate words which would be indistinguishable from each other in modern orthography.

It really isn't that hard to learn either.

>>21635162
That's why you should've picked Software Engineering instead of Linguistics.

>>21635167
Heh. I used to be a programmer and database designer, then *later* ended up becoming a translator.

>>21635172
Do you translate technical/business writing or fiction? I'm gonna bet it's the former.

>>21635150
That is possibly why sentences pop up a lot in Japanese television. English has Homophones & Homonyms too, but we don't rely on it as much as the Japanese language, thankfully.

>>21634990
I actually did this except in only 1 day by cramming the entire core 10k deck. I ended up fluent the next day but forgot everything the day after that. It was a great day though. Totally recommend trying it if you're on the fence about learning Japanese and want to know if it will be worth it before putting in so many hours.

Do certain words have one less syllable pronounced?
I hear お巡りさん as おまりさん
and おすすめ as おすめ

>>21634915
Believe me, it will help with career, look around for places that administer the JLPT, passing that would definitely help with looking for a better job / position.

>>21635204
listen more

>>21635191
I know the human brain tends to let people forget things often but that sounds like a load of crap.

>>21635150
情けない事いうな、ちゃんと勉強しろ。

>>21635197
元気してるよ！

>>21635211
That's called making a false flag argument.

>>21635180
Yeah, academic stuff, research papers and the like.

It pays very well, partly because it requires high-level, specialised language, and partly because the usual weebs are fighting over who gets to translate the next major JRPG, so there is little competition for the work.

why can't westerners produce good hentai? it's like they don't want their languages to be learned and popular

>>21635186
English has a few dozen homophones, most of which are easily distinguished as they are generally different parts of speech.

Japanese has a few *thousand*, most of which are nouns.

Yeah, it's rough. And don't get me started on Chinese adjectives like 淅瀝 which no longer even remotely suggest the thing they were onomatopœically meant to suggest.

>>21635222
but he's right you know. there's no way anybody could do that not even me

>>21635238
There's a few Westerners who can produce good erotic drawings, even though they're not that good at writing h-scenes.

>>21635197
元気です

>>21635272
he was talking about the other post

>>21635204
happens to me too buddy. i think we're fucked.

>>21635225
can i be a successful translator if i have a low iq

if youre an iq denialist dont even respond

>>21635314
If you're diligent and rock the autism, sure.

>>21635238
honestly though how many people do you think learn japanese for hentai/eroge is. it's got to be at least 80%

>>21635318
i'd guess around 5% or less.

>>21635013
i think that's word frequency not sure about ppm

Why do they do this?

>>21635375
Steamの絶対状況・・・

>>21634990
if that's all u need to do that to reach fluency somebody wouldve already done it by now

idk how u guys play without text hookers manually putting in kanji into google for multiple words in a sentence is so annoying especially when i have to redraw them cause my mouse is trash i think there comes a point where quantity takes priority of quality cause this is so fuckin slow to read ill try again when i know more than 100 words idk thanks for reading my blogpost

>>21635412
some people think you have to skip most words you don't know. i don't get why. if i had to skip most words i wouldn't bother reading. i prefer hovering over all of them with yomichan to get the gist and move on.

>>21635412
Please learn to use English grammar properly before posting again. Your post was physically painful to read.

>>21635412
buy a pen tablet you fag

>>21635412
if u really want to then play without a text hooker for ur first few vns until u have a good amount of everyday vocab but once you no longer have to look up more than one word in a sentence u should consider dropping it

>>21635412
play games with furigana

>>21635492
The worst thing is games in which furigana cannot be disabled. Dragon Quest Builders 2, for example.

Should I spend this night:
a) watching this documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e076EeMtbZE)) on the legacy of Russian Revolution
b) reading another 10 pages of Kino's Tabi
c) do anki reps
?

>>21635508
Why don't you decide on your own, instead of asking us to make decisions for you?
Remember you're here to entertain others, and not vice-versa.

wrong this thread has entertained me for months lol

>>21633932
>I feel like the only way to "fix" myself is to move far away as possible
stop running away from yourself dude
i mean you can try but it won't work
the reason you feel like shit is INTERNAL you have old accumulated shit inside of yourself (your brain/mind, and as an extension your body) that you haven't healed
so go do that shit
a therapist can be helpful if you're (afraid? hesitant?) to try it by yourself
find one that focuses on working directly with difficult emotions
or just google "difficult emotions and loving kindness" and click literally any link that comes up

>>21635412
Just download a dictionary and a ch/jp handwriting keyboard onto your phone.

>>21634915
??? if you consume japanese media as a hobby then that IS "using it in real life"
if you don't consume japanese media or care about it then stop learning now and go do something else with your time
it's really that simple.

>>21634808
>Only if the text is good enough on its own to make you cum.
this comment was very homoerotic

>>21634534
he didn't even read the metastudy it came from, which there were multiple problems with in the first place. he's just determined to talk down on it any chance he gets, despite having never done it or learning what it actually entails. very strange behavior, just ignore him.
if you want to learn about meditation, try listening to culadasa/dr. john yates on this podcast
https://radiopublic.com/deconstructing-yourself-GMBYdj/ep/s1!94d40
he's the neuroscientist who wrote the book "the mind illuminated", and in this podcast episode he goes into detail about what meditation does, why it helps, and the basics of the process. if what he says strikes a cord with you, get his book (i recommend the audiobook) and get started. it's really enriching, goes deep into the neuropsychological underpinnings, and guides the user step by step through stages of progress in skillfully training, healing and freeing the mind.
and even if you try other meditation techniques afterwards which is totally okay, having the instructions of that book as a foundation will help a lot.
i also recommend searching the book on amazon and read the reviews. lots of people telling their stories about how learning to meditate with it has transformed their minds and their relationship to it.

>>21635934
Y'know, after hearing that Sam Harris got a PhD in Neuroscience by studying the supposed "neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty", I kinda lost respect for this neuroscience bullshit.
Besides, how tf do you expect to get any empirical research done on beliefs with pseudo-metaphysical assumptions like meditation/yoga?

>>21635013
rank, frequency
ppm means parts per million

Why are you learning a dead language?

>4 or 5 years of japanese study
>still don't know the language

fuccck!

>>21634633
except in the last screenshot qm posted it took him 15 minutes why do you make this shit up

>>21635706
経験豊富な売春婦

>>21635167
Thankfully I had two majors unfortunately the other one was equally useless

>>21635969
>neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty
what do you know about this topic?

>>21636237
元気じゃないよ。。。

>>21635969
>beliefs with pseudo-metaphysical assumptions like meditation/yoga
not all teachers of either have metaphysical beliefs though? and even those that do, what does that have to do with any non-metaphysical benefits of the practice? what you’re saying is like making the claim intermittent fasting can’t have any legitimate research done on it because it’s a religious tradition... despite the fact that non-religious people use it all the time for health and weight loss and the research on it in regard to those areas has been very positive.
the issues with meditation research so far come with discrepancy in methods (casual 6 week “mindfulness” courses vs. long-term, deeper practices, not to mention the specific contents of each). most people doing research on meditation now aren’t even concerned about anything “metaphysical”, they’re simply looking at effects on things like anxiety, depression and self-reported stress levels. many, might i add, with pretty positive findings, despite the flaws i’ve already noted.
not sure if you’re the person i originally replied to but if you are, the only way you’ll actually know if meditation will work for you is if you try it. no amount of debating will actually do the work of training your mind.

>>21635186
zenzen chigau zo

>>21634153
no

>>21635969
Spoken like someone who has never understood research or higher education

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

How do you remember """words""" like ぼかぼか or なかなか?
The words really don't make any sense, it's stupid.

>read hentai cos you are horny
>fap
>you arent horny so you dont want to read hentai any more
>any other manga doesnt interest me nearly as much as hentai when im horny

what do? i guess i should either not fap or find some non-hentai manga

i love girls with big eyebrows, they look cute

>>21636423
might have to kys

>>21636372
hiro gayboy

>>21636420
>ぼかぼか
what does this mean

>>21636420
comprehensible input

>>21636435
辞書使え

>>21636425
だろう？太眉の女は最高！

what single piece of media gave you huge gains in your nihongo study? could be at any point of your studying history, just pivotal enough

for me it was graded readers as my first reading of nihongo where i could see grammar that i read about in Tae Kim in use in simple sentences
then it was NHK News Easy for new vocab and grammar (altough both are very limited)
I'm starting to like reading manga more cos it keeps you hooked and you may eventually remember this difficult word you've never could remember with Anki alone

>>21636472
Anki

>>21636454
>ものを連続してたたくさまやその音を表す語。
>勢いのさかんなさま。
what's so hard to remember about this exactly?

>>21636420
意味は有るよ。完全に勉強不足だね。
http://daijirin.dual-d.net/extra/giseigo_gitaigo.html

ぼけぼけ

>>21636492
kimi no neta wa, ittsumo dame dame

>５７％の家庭が「生活が苦しい」

life in japan is shit

>>21636479
not so hard
just that u have a different sound in English(?)

>>21636530
It's shit everywhere.

>>21636530
just u dont know the word kenson

>>21634199
>passive learning through immersion can only take you so far
Fluency?
t. Learned English as a baby

I mine around 50 words a day, but only SRS 15 per day, how can I ever catch up?

>>21636472
Anime with Japanese subtitles. Ongoing process.

>>21636618
At some point you will run out of words to mine.

>>21635375
think it has something to do with licensees not competing with sales in japan
>>21635412
you gotta want it enough
but theres nothin wrong avoidin it for your first few vns
its only a problem if youve read a few vns and you still dont play shit youre interested in cuz it cant be hooked
>>21635424
some people skip words even when they do hook but thats a separate argument
i dont do that but if you do skip shit it shouldnt be 90% of unknown words it should be info dump sentences that have like 6 unknown words each
the angle i took is to look up the words but if i still didnt understand the sentence after doin that then dont worry about it and move on

>>21634833
None of the above.

>>21636472
Good for you, manga isn't reading though.

big vocab gain: V[ぶい] - victory

can anyone give me the nastiest doujins about sagging girls' tits? i think i might have acquired a fetish of sagging perfectly nice boobs but can't find any material to research

How would you translate this?

>This annoying thing that obstructs the way of this young man future, dissapear from this world!!!

sigh this https://exhentai.org/g/1143039/246bf00deb/ is the only thing with making tits saggy i found so far, i'll have to read it later to see if it's only one story or more... i feel sad bros... but my dick can't cry....

>>21636716
I'm not gonna sift through the whole thing to find whatever it is you're referencing.

>>21636744
the first story

Is Code Geass hard to understand?
I've only watched SoL stuff with jap subs and that was kinda alright to understand.

>>21636777
Military lingo will fuck you up the first time around but there is no avoiding it.

Where's a good place to watch Jap subtitled TV online?

>>21636795
Define TV. If you just mean regular daily TV program, nothing specific, the answer is either nowhere or that more than enough TV programs have some amount of subtitles in them already. For the rest you will just have to listen.

>>21636784
Hmm, I guess I'll just not mine it since it's "useless" vocabulary anyways.

DJTの滅亡は定めですもの

>jlpt soon
>can do everything besides grammar
super worried that I might fail because of it.

>>21636860
which one are you taking
i’ve been doing the N2 grammar deck for the past 3 weeks and i feel totally ready now

>>21636024
I've never seen ppm used in this context before. Is it supposed to be estimating how many times you'll run into a given word on average per 1,000,000 words you read?

e.g. you would run into 全身 approx. 100 times per 1,000,000 words you read?

>>21636667
「垂れたおっぱい 同人」を検索してみて

>>21636530
not mine lol

>>21636134
when you stop adding cards to anki the number of cards you have to review each day goes down. just because someone has 15 minutes of reviews one day doesn't mean every day in the past was 15 minutes long...

>>21636944
Trying n3 because wasnt confident to go for higher because of my grammar, I'm now going trough nihongo sou matome and mostly get 50% right.
My vocab and reading is at N1 btw, not to sure about my listening comprehension.

>>21636991
i don’t get how your reading can be at N1 but grammar at N3 if grammar is like half of what reading involves....

>>21636997
When I have to choose what kind of grammar I have to put into a sentence I always make mistakes, but when I just read texts I can easily understand it. It's like how I suck at grammar for my own native language, but can still read hard things.

classic self-assessed n1

>>21637035
Not self-assessed, did a course jap in uni and got put in N1 class for vocab and in N3 for grammar after placement test before starting it.

post more, guys
i’m bored

>>21637046
what was your passing score on the official n1 exam?

>>21637100
Why are you so angry, please stop bullying.

>>21636244
>and the research on it in regard to those areas has been very positive.
lol

thinkin about tryin out meditation cuz all my hobbies are useless so it seems like a perfect addition to the set

>>21637046
What kind of stuff have you been reading to be N1 in terms of vocabulary? Do you read newspapers and the like for fun?

The "higher" levels of "grammar" on academic-style aptitude tests like the JLPT and J-CAT amount to knowing the specific things that they teach in Japanese textbooks. You can do well on the grammar sections of these tests but be unable to produce interesting Japanese without making tons of grammar errors, and vice versa. Of course, you'll pass the JLPT N1 and ace the J-CAT no problem if you REALLY know Japanese, but the fact remains that using textbooks gives you an "unfair advantage" so to speak, in the sense that aptitude tests place too much emphasis on things that are taught in textbooks or vice versa.

By the way this is why the N2 and N1 don't actually have separate grammar sections.

http://www.jlpt.jp/e/guideline/results.html

>>21637351
Is there any failsafe way of learning how to speak grammatically correct Japanese, supposing that neither active immersion nor textbooks can actually help much with that?

>>21635865
This. Most people I know who pull trough continuously with this language have this on common.
It dosen't have to be anime or anything otaku. You have alot to chose from.

>>21637371
dumbass

>>21637378
I'll take that as a "no".

>>21636420
Unironically watching more anime

https://twitter.com/_AME95/status/1146433049501978626
is this funny?

>>21637402
actually it annoys me cuz its not authentic shes just roleplaying

anyway u know what time it is boyos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NcOz6C7qxo#t=61

https://twitter.com/mattvsjapan/status/1146640107677425664

wise thread from matt

looks like hes setting up for his exit stage left finally cant say im surprised

>>21634092
What the fuck is the difference between 怖い and 恐い

both show up as Kowai

>>21637416
>My experience has been that, after a certain point, language learning becomes inherently boring. Simply memorizing arbitrary patterns. Ignoring that reality, and trying to manipulate yourself into finding a way to continue the process, is backward and delusional imo
based matt still cant figure out that languages exist to be used and not to be memorized lol

>>21637371
Talk to Japanese people.

>>21637439
imagining him pondering this concept while posed like the thinker on a japanese toilet lmao

is there a difficulty chart for light novels? I dunno which ones is suitable for n4

none of them are pin this post to the top of every thread

>>21637452
one hand under his chin the other holding his earbud sleeve up to his ear

>finished my reps
Feels good to free for the rest of the day

>>21637453
pick anything to the left of cross channel that interests u
unless ur actually n6 then maybe stay left of nasu but u can do almost anything u set ur mind to if u really want it

i cant read but u should still play eroge cuz its ftw

>>21636963
okay where is the 6 hours figure from except out of your ass because we have countless anki screenshots from quiz it’s never above 30 minutes

once i started making sharex cards my review time went up from like 7 minutes to 18 minutes because i spend more time listening to the audio repeatedly. since i'm trying to improve my listening.

and i gotta say, i hate it. but hopefully i can do this for a few months and i'll improve enough to where i won't have to listen to them as much, and input alone will suffice.

>>21637453
Go to the itazuraneko LN library, look for something that's got more than 1000 but less than 1500 kanji, read it with yomichan, mine the fuck out of it.

>>21637428
There is none. They are effectively identical with their 訓読み, so the choice of which kanji is just idiosyncratic.

>>21637488
you mean there isn't a difference in nuance like there is with 聞く and 聴く?

>>21637473
he said light novels my ninja

>>21637480
dont forget that ur also spending 20 minutes to make a single card

>>21637498
yeah see >>21637475

it's not fair bros...

>>21637494
i mean when i see 1 kanji or the other i think of what other words they are used in and thats waht gives me the nuance if some1 intentionally writes something with a different than usual kanji tho i wouldnt do that on shit like 聞く and 聴く or 見る and 観る just cuz i intuitively know the difference already

>>21637505
yea i read that after i @ed u and was like maaaaaahh eeeyyyaan

>>21637494
I've consulted every dictionary I have -- and that's quite a few -- and found no significant difference in connotation between the two. The only variance is that one kanji is prefered in 常用 usage while the other is not. That's pretty much it.

>>21637509
one step closer to a 1500 post thread

>>21637506
Nah, it's fair. He didn't wanna read eroge or VNs, which is why he ain't got something to look out for for the sake of learning 日本語.

prolly not dude doesnt seem like theres much to nipah about lately so ive been enjoying the other aspects of natsu instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axKpUjUaJ2k

>>21637476
go look in the archives yourself. you should be used to wasting time by now since you use anki

Watching documentaries about the dark side of japan depresses me
Do a lot of people have silicone sex dolls?

>>21637550
why buy inanimate dolls when u can buy real living ones

hows that for dark side of japan

someone really needs to teach matt how to use commas

>>21637555
I watched documentarieS, so shit like aum shinrikyou, loli trafficking,... as well
Sex dolls is mild but still sad

>>21637550
Watch documentaries about real shitholes, like Turkmenistan or the Democratic Republic of Congo, to make Japan seem comparatively better from your point of view.
Besides, some Japanese people are degenerate, but Americans do tons of embarrassing, degenerate shit too (visit /pol/ or /int/ for a few examples).
As a matter of fact, I bet you EVERY single country has lots of perverts and weirdos who keep weird shit at home, but who don't take it outside. It's probably kind of difficult to find people who actually don't have any kind of fetishes or niche interests. Even if they claim they don't, I bet you they probably do.

>>21637556
why not just teach him english while ur at it : )

>>21637550
ur in /jp/ and ur surprised by sex dolls ?

>>21637550
>Do a lot of people have silicone sex dolls?
Don't worry, a lot more people are going to start doing that globally too.
It only means more female attention for you, unless they start to buy those things too.

>>21637592
>start

>>21637566
You can find tons of messed up shit like that in other countries, like Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, etc. Japan ain't the worst, and you shouldn't expect Japan to be some kind of accelerationist cyberpunk shithole.
I know you probably idealize Japan to a certain extent because you relate it to anime and manga you've been learning Japanese for, but remember to keep your ideas of what fiction is separate from what real life is.

so many people either think japan is amazing or japan is a shithole
have u ever thought that maybe japan is just a country

>>21637530
okay there is none then retard

>>21637616
last time i checked countries are shit holes

Every country is shit to an extent. Only the people you interact with can make it good

if theres humans its shit

honestly the only place that is both 1st world and full of good people is hawaii

if u go to the third world theres a lot of good ppl cuz when life is simpler ppl are less mad all the time

ofc u can go to hawaii and find pockets of corruption and crime and u can go to the third world and get ganged by a bunch of spear chuckers who will rip ur body into a million pieces and fling them around everywhere but hey thats life lol

So, I'm learning about -teiru to say ongoing action. It's confusing because I don't understand ongoing action vs. present affirmative form of verb.
ｘさんはさかなをたべています says x is currently eating fish.
ｘさんはさかなをたべます　say x is eating fish, right? I get the -teiru sentence, but it's fucking with my base understanding of verbs. What exactly dose present affirmative even mean?

if you look at crime rates, corruption, charity, etc. the best places in the world are 1st world countries, no exceptions. the question is which are less shit. now obviously those are gonna be somewhere in western europe since they're the most empathetic and generous people in the world.

>>21637688
たべますか ? y/n

>>21637688
not gonna lie u can just put this into google translate and clear it up instantly and stop worrying about it

>>21637704
the "right?" wasn't a part of the sentence translation. My bad.

>>21637695
the 1st world is only better cuz the competition is stiffer to be on top of the corruption and evildoing

it still all just a illusion that its better though just cuz u arent able to see the brutality both physical and non doesnt mean the repression and control isnt as or even more sinister than the 3rd world where the extent is just a simple display of physical superiority

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de2W3rtZsA

>>21637714
>the competition is stiffer to be on top of the corruption and evildoing
no they flat out just have less corruption. much less. and that's part of why they're the 1st world. less corruption leads to better-functioning organizations. chinese corruption is what's held it back from reaching parity with taiwan or japan in various per capita metrics.

>>21637719
thats what i mean what better corruption is there than to have the majority believe they are free to do what they want when really ur just having them do what u told them : )

>>21637695
Pretty much the whole Europe is a meme

alright i'm starting to hear っことだ more

>>21637791
fuck meant ってことだ

>>21635172
Any recs on how to get into database design?

at what point in the process does japanese stop sounding super fast and you're able to comprehend entire sentences?

>>21637858
when you have watched 1000 hours of JAV

I don't know if this is still the go-to deck around here, but hooray I guess.

>>21637321
mostly read manga and ln, also added a shitload of words to my anki deck. I'm also starting to understand basic chinese sentences too because of it. There might be a few words I didnt learn yet, but also learned stuff that's not jlpt related.

>>21637863
Cool, I deleted it at 2k because it started to feel like a chore. But then again I finished RTK without real problems.

>>21637868
It is (was?) a chore, but I always work on it while watching youtube or something so it's less painful.

>>21637864
Manga isn't reading though.

>>21637864
https://www.jlpt.jp/e/samples/n1/index.html
tell us what you get on this

>>21637863
how useful is that deck actually?

>>21637850
i still think it's hilarious how he puts stuff like go to sleep and meditate on there talk about 余計なこと

>>21637931
Got to N2 with just that and Tae Kim, so pretty good, maybe? Also I feel like I understand more moon speak on movies and youtube and shit.

This is probably around my limit right now, anything harder than this busts my ass: https://youtu.be/woCXNGdWJEs

Bro, just go to Japan and spend time in bars

https://streamable.com/01rxt

Is this common in Japan?

>>21638159
he literally didn't do anything though

streamers are subhumans that guy is based

>>21638159
he literally didn't do anything though

What a bitch. Dude just didn't want to get his hair wet.

How do I search name readings? I found 咲 without readings, how should I read it?

>>21638218
Just feel it dude

anyone know any good japanese youtube channels that do political commentary? i can't find shit

>>21638222
I won't complain just because you have nice repeating numbers

>>21638159
god i hate women

>>21638218
you know the verb 咲く? like 花が咲く
take the く and turn it into き and shove it into the kanji

>>21638241
Thanks a lot, does that work with every verb/name?

>>21638250
not sure since im not good with names yet. i can think of 薙ぐ in 草薙（くさなぎ）and 成る 一成（かずなり） for example

>>21638218
https://jisho.org/search/咲%20%23names

>>21638274
that isn't very helpful in this case though since it gives like a dozen different ways that it can be read

FFXIVで日本語を勉強見ろと思った
だが、絶対無理だ
何でも分からない
8月前勉強始まった
誰か殺してくれる下さい

>>21638314
ファンタジー設定のせいじゃない？
そういうのは難しいよ。。。

>>21638332
i think i'm just retarded case closed
i'll try this again a year down the line after eating at least a few manga and reading some more VNs

>>21638349
well if i can give you some advice i would say stick with the game if that's what you want to play. the more time you spend with it the more you will be able to understand it

>>21638159
lol she should look 2 invest in a larger at field lmao

>>21638357
i'm not that invested, just downloaded the trial to see how far i can get.
it seems to be a lot more big boy speech than stuff like FFtictacs advance, since that i can read just fine. but that game is aimed at literal children.
i'm not giving up on this ever though, regardless. thx4the encouragement

>>21638314
わたしはあなたとraidしたくない

一緒にmsqすることもng

ごめん さよなら

>>21638218
>咲
This is basically always さく.

dont >_< delete >_< ur >_< posts

is there a single book that isn't an outright plain old dictionary that has all the most frequently used vocabulary?
I don't mean most frequently used kanji, just normal words for everything, preferably organized by categories like animals, kitchen utensils, tools, car parts, foodstuffs, clothes, kinds of trees and so on.
All the books emphasize the grammar, kanji is it's own thing and I just want to speak but there is never enough vocabulary in any textbook I own to cover all the most basic things and phrases.

when do you guys unsuspend your cards?

>>21638499
who the fuck still carries text books in this day and age

>>21638514
never

>>21638521
so you just never learn those cards? i wanna unsuspend mine cause i have like 200 and want to learn them

>>21638523
I only suspend cards that I know, and don't need to see ever again

>>21638499
you can look at a frequency dictionary of japanese... i don't know if it has things split up into categories like you want them to be though.

i suspend cards i suspect i may forget, but think i could learn quickly again given exposure.

https://youtu.be/Dg_v_HXyN5A?t=141

>>21638537
categories just in general help me learn and search for words, and it appears the frequency dictionary has those too
thanks

>>21638371
>but that game is aimed at literal children
i wish y’all would stop caring about shit like this. japanese adults are playing these games more than kids are. there are 40 year olds playing youkai watch. and the “literal kids” playing games like FFA can’t even read a lot of what’s there because of the kanji. it’s still gains so stop devaluing it.

>>21638555
Pretty lame desu senpai. Here's a real banger
https://youtu.be/GPgpZ5PBHQQ

Well I've set up a MAL account for shit I've watched in Japanese/anime mined and it's not really much after all lol
https://myanimelist.net/profile/DJTQM
told you guys I'm lazy and not doing much, well I do a shitton outside of Anime as well but it's still a bit disappointing

>>21638499
watch anime

>>21638588
Awful. This might be the worst black metal record I've ever heard.

>>21638541
Started the first stage of The Mind Illuminated, 15 mins every day. Just focusing on the sensation of breath in my nose at the moment, I realized have super levels of ADHD, a normal person probably doesn't have this I'm sure of it. There wasn't a millisecond of silence, I either started saying phrases in my head, hearing them, seeing visions even visualizations of what was in front of me while my eyes where closed, even visualizations of my fucking nose breathing. I could hold focus on the breath for around 10 minutes then I noticed slipping but I returned. Will report back in 2 weeks.

>>21638314
>8月前勉強始まった
how completely unrealistic and deluded do you have to be to think you can comfortably play a game like final fantasy after EIGHT MONTHS of studying japanese when most native kids don’t even fully understand the dialogue in those games till they’re like 16.... oh my god stop with these unrealistic ass expectations

>>21638596
you really should get professional help, this level of attention seeking isnt normal

relax dude just let him play some final fanty if he wants to

>>21638599
I like it, I think it gets better the further it goes.

is baccano any good? i vaguely remember trying to watch it like 5 years ago and dropping it for some reason

what a surprise quiz tards watched less than 100 animes and thinks he knows japanese lmfao.

>>21638623
know more than you lol

How to know more Japanese?

didn't he do intensive watching though? looking up every new unknown word and making an anki card for it. i think that's a lot

>>21638623
cope

wish i could pay some indian 5 bucks a day to sit next to me and make anime cards for the shit i watch

>>21638630
u dont even understand the image im owning u with rn

>psychopass 5/10
>overlord 8/10
alright kys qm lol

>>21638644
idk why you think that I understand it perfectly just as I understand most normal Japanese perfectly

>>21638644
>u dont even understand the image im owning u with rn
This sounds like a good way to secretly ask for translations

>>21638655
thats not what i do tho i usually just post things only ppl who know japanese can appreciate and then lol with all my fluent friends on discord at retards with pitiful anime lists like qm

>>21638650
Overlord was fun Psycho Pass was boring as shit that's my only criteria
Psycho Pass is so flawed in so many ways btw but let's not get into that

also u can just easily google the translation so (im not supposed 2 tell u that)

>>21638675
the only good thing urobutcher wrote was saya fwiw (u prolly have no idea what any of that is cuz ur such a newborn baby lol)

Starting reading Yotsubato with the reading guide after learning a bit of vocabulary through Anki, it's a nice feeling to understand a bit and see words you learned beforehand.
Thanks for the guide Anons I feel like I'm on the right path.

>>21638684
dude im so old my taste in anime is so epic lmaooooooooooooooooo

>>21638616
i'm not saying he shouldn't play it i'm saying he shouldn't expect to understand most or even half of it at 8 months, that's extremely unrealistic
but i guess we were all there once

>>21638692
>I feel like I'm on the right path.
you wont when the anti anki crowd gets in ur head lol

>>21638623
a lot of people better than you at japanese don't watch anime at all... lol
and 100 animes watched attentively without english subs and paying attention to all new vocab is worth 1,000 watched with english subs anyway, at least when it comes to learning japanese

>>21638684
no I've heard of it plenty of times but I don't read VNs much in fact I still got a shitton lined up I'll do those first
I mean ultimately I'm not in a rush I've reached a point where I understand most shit effortlessly while still encountering new words here and there which I just mine and it's all smooth sailing from here so I'm all good

Yea I mean you got to consider I got some +100 episode Animes in there that I completely anime mined front to back that's probably a lot more than watching normally

>>21638704
thats not true cuz 1000 anime with english subs is literally worthless unless you use the tkyosam method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B15l8xn1aTM

>>21638695
if thats old to u we should talk about the real greats like densetsu kyojin ideon lol and just how epic tomino is in general

>>21638704
yah but i dont care about them maybe u should go to int or offa 4chan and to a more normie site ? im only interested in ppl who love anime and hentai

lowercase crew is buffclan btw.

>not using the Matto method
https://youtu.be/Dl4U8s-Dp4U

>>21638700
It seems like a useful tool to me, especially if it's only a supplement for activities like reading, not the main thing you do.
But I'm just at the beginning of learning, maybe it gets less useful later on, I will find out I guess.

>>21638723
i said u were old not the anime, getting senile with ur old age huh?

>>21638734
thats what i mean tho why wouldnt i talk about the shit more relative to my actual seishun then as opposed to newage garbage made post y2k lmfao reading comprehension much ??

What even are shows that are only available with hard subtitles? Nothing I've watched so far wasn't soft subtitled.

>>21638740
i couldn't find blood+ without hard-subs. it was also just a fucking transcript of the dub which sucked ass. cant remember if i knew what nyaa was at the time though so there might have been one with normal subs lol

>>21638740
i actually tried this a while ago and struggled but i think i immediately thought of a worthy contender

legend of condor hero 2

>>21638749
It's on AB

>>21638753
That shit was never released in Japanese so it doesn't even count it's some chink shit

>>21638776
enjoy ur fuckin hardsubs and cantonese dubs not my problem

I'm never watching chink shit in my life

>>21638776
dont have an account

>>21638788
wait till u find out that japanese ppl are just island chinks lol

>>21638600
lol i'm pretty sure you don't have ADHD. everyone's mind is like this in the beginning. the truth is that almost everyone's minds, absent of meditative training or some other means of regularly slowing the mind down, behaves exactly the way you described. constant thinking and/or images, urges/impulses to do something or make some kind of plan for the next action. we're just usually not aware of all this mental activity because we don't sit down to pay attention to what's really going on in the mind. it's not until we do decide to finally sit silently and train the mind, that we actually see what's been happening under the surface all these years!

and yes visualizing an image of whatever part of the body we're trying to feel the sensations of, is also extremely common. what you're seeing is how conditioned we are to not only think constantly, but to associate feelings with images of the body.
with practice you will see those conditioned associations start to weaken or fall away completely, the thinking start to quiet, and your ability to just feel the breath or the body as it is, go way up. and that's when the sublime peace starts to come. it's awesome.
a word of warning though! do not try to *force* your attention to stay with the breath. when it wanders, notice that it wandered, give yourself props for noticing (rather than punishing/insulting yourself for "letting it wander"!), then bring your attention back to the breath. its normal and GOOD if that process happens multiple times in your first several sessions (like 30~100 times each sit) but if you try to "squeeze" the attention onto the breath, to "make" it stay and not wander before the skill has actually developed, this won't allow the mind to become comfortable with and ease into sustained attention, and instead will actually create more tension in the body and mind. it's like trying to lift 200 pound weights your first day of the gym. you'll just injure yourself.
so try to relax into the breath, let it be a process of noticing and redirecting the attention rather than forcing it onto the breath, make sure to give yourself props for every "rep" of redirected attention, and you will definitely see progress and less mind-wandering over time!
big props to you for trying this btw.

I accidentally learned Chinese, because my JAV had Chinese subs

>>21638796
oh my fCUkjin god i didNOt read this

>>21638644
>>21638677
let me help the scrubs out

chyea boy thats fuckin werd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duWTfl4MJ1c

>>21638714
you don't even have to put tape on your computer
just use a computer program like blackout to hide the part of the screen with subs on it

joudan dayo joudan
heres the real certified perfect translation
>>21638816
picked up

>>21637550
I live in a non first world country. We have slum areas but we also have a lot of nice clean places. I find international documentaries bullshit as all their articles revolve around the extreme poverty cases here. These people make a living showing the worst of a country so people would watch them.
To be fair, my country is shit, but they make it look like we are all in extreme poverty.

If you are still curious, try asking a Japanese person I guess

>>21638802
......it wasn't for you in the first place though?

>>21638796
Not him, but good advice Anon

>>21638835
of course its all bullshit if u just keep telling the poors theyre poor they will keep being poor and teach their kids that they are poor

and then 1st world mega corps can come and outsource their labor to ur poor ppl while also grossly mistreating them

>>21638841
i read lots of posts that arent for me (like every post in this thread basically)

>>21638854
kys

all my posts are for u
except when i try to help some poor kid

meditation timebox memes need to stop

>>21638863
so long and thanks for all the posts

meditation is so good

>>21638816
I'm convinced I haven't seen this shit since 2011 either.

>>21638888
should have said yous

>>21638920
i dont actually care about yous i just say it ironically sometimes to trigger ppl that do lol

I've tried FFXIV trial and played until like level 10 and it was decently fun but then I remembered how vain and pointless MMOs are and that I'd hit a paywall and be forced to pay monthly in no time for that shit and I noped the fuck out

imagining inviting quizmaster to my japanese final fantasy raiding fc and he just dies and wipes us and doesnt listen to the leader cuz he cant comprehend japanese and is sending me private messages asking what to do in english lol

Listen man I really doubt there is somebody in this thread that comprehends more Japanese than me

>tfw been learning for a year and still no nippon frens

>>21637550
but sex dolls are awesome. i will buy one that looks like a little girl when i move there, and hang it from the ceiling by a noose when people come over to visit.

ill tell u a funny mmo gaming moment i had with 1 of my home boys one of my japanese ninjas was offering to give him something and his response was just どうぞ and i asked him what his problem was and then he started saying it a bunch of times impersonating fuko from clannad and i got aids and died like nagisa lmao

nvm I don't want japanese friends anymore

>>21638977
>funny mmo gaming moment
cringe

mmo gaming was good 15 years ago my dude

リラックスできる体制を作ります、なるべく背筋を伸ばせる姿勢で
呼吸を意識します。吸って吐く呼吸の感覚を意識する、意識するだけでいいです。
呼吸以外のことを考えてる事にに気づく
呼吸以外のことを気づいた自分を褒めて、再びリラックスして呼吸を意識する！！

単純かすると、リラックス呼吸気づくリラックスの繰り返しです。リラックス、呼吸、気づくの３つを覚えて繰り返すだけで効果を期待できる(*´з`)

https://youtu.be/P8EU1bnZB24
This song is for all my cute nihongo learners

くそmed tranny早く死ねよ

>>21638850
>Not him, but good advice Anon
thanks dude
i hope it helps some people

welp, off to go get more compelling input
happy meditating to all who have chosen to walk this path of mental strength, clarity and inner peace! i salute you
to the naysayers, may you find the courage to confront your inner pain instead of attacking others in immature and toxic ways.

i think if u want to be zen more power to u but when u act smug and superior to anyone who doesnt suck ur dick its not a good look for ur supposed inner peace lol

瞑想は日本語の勉強にならないから
それについて投稿しなくていいんじゃないかと

>confront your inner pain
project much, some of us are happy without the need of spirituality.