/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>43745732
Why are you learning japanese?

kono tatakai ga subete wo kimeru ze
*powers up for nine minutes*

>>43745796
escapism

simple as

>want to read the various Japanese monogatari stories
>dekinai so looking for English translation
>google just shows me shit like Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari (animeslop)
I fucking hate anime so much it's unreal (kidding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95pxNOdoR38

wonder if they'll come close to my house

曲
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cm5RZwV9lI&list=RD2cm5RZwV9lI&index=1

I'm reading, now, but it feels, to me that the japanese place their commas, like Walken, and they, confuse me.

Not in frequency, mind.

they place them when they make a pause in speech, no rules

how do i get stronger 勃起s unironically

https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm36371591

>>43746567
its a bit racist, but this could work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMLiOPgyLik

>>43746620
not finna eat watermelon every day

eat suika covered in salt for the true nipponjin experience

>>43746628
you could drink it

kinokoooooooooo ChAnNnErUuUuU

deddo channeru

Very Meron

>>43746513
sometimes not even that...

>>43746503
there's no real grammatical origin in japanese that necessitated commas in writing, they just imported it over from english a few decades ago and other than taking the concept of it indicating a pause in speech, the rules are pretty liberal about where you can place them. a writer can decide to use commas to separate whichever elements in a sentence they feel like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_GX3WsR_w

Why hasn’t the whole “don’t learn too many cards a day” bro science died yet? People act like your 31st card falls straight out of your head, I’ve genuinely done 200 cards a day and only dropped like 5% retention

I love opening ッツ and being greeted by 20 JKs staring at my soul

>>43747075
Low iq people projecting don't let them bother you. I did the same thing as you when I started.

i've settled on my dark theme

>>43747075
I never saw anyone act like that. the problem instead is that in the beginning the motivation is at its highest, but the number of daily Anki reviews is very low, and people tend to react to this by adding a shitton of new cards. but then after the honeymoon period, motivation necessarily decreases, yet it's exactly then that the number of Anki reviews grows tremendously due to the delayed effect of the new card pile up.
I can't speak for everyone, but for me the only point where it was possible for me to quit was exactly when the initial burst motivation has run out but I also wasn't able to read anything yet. thankfully, I didn't have 2 hours of Anki reviews to go through every day, because I didn't go full retard at the start. so I got through it with just 45 mins of total study every day and I made up the lost progress later once immersing for hours every day became completely effortless.
if you can't relate to that, just remember that most people aren't autistic.

why hasnt the whole anki retention bro science died yet

all the anki bros should die

if you don't grind anki for at least 3 hours a day, you're not going to make it

>>43747438
i grind my dick on your moms granny cervix 3 hours a day, do 0 hours of anki and speak japanese way better than you ever will

B-based babachad...

as uncle george once said: people who are gmi are gmi no matter what they do, and people who are ngmi are ngmi no matter what they do.

>>43747480
unko u sound mad bro chill
hes still new and doesnt know who u r

uncle george: i like them flat faced chicks

腐りきったバッドエンド抗えない

i just made golden curry for the first time. what do i think?

ok you guys are no fun.
i liked it. i bought the "hot" golden curry, though it isn't very hot. i guess it's japanese-people-hot.

>>43747841
you forgot to fully write the n's in cunny.

>>43747573
anki is gay sorry

>>43747928
ピリ辛 can be anything from barely even spicy to very fucking spicy

japs be putting ketchup and cheese in curry dont trust that shit

i love anki

heres some golden curry for you *pisses in your curry bowl*

still better than indian curry (made with fecal matter)

british curry is better

How do you even learn without anki?

how do you breathe without a brain?

you want hot curry then pour it on your cock and balls

how do you even read without rtk

this is the dirty foul mouthed djt ive been waiting for now im ready to learn some fucking japanese

how do you even post when you have no original thoughts?

like this

ima post mindless shitposts between the chapters of my ln and nobody can stop me

this except for the ln part

>You should immerse yourself on japanese twitter, anon!

2 years input 2 years output

>>43748173
yes

Need help with a word. It's romanized and looking it up, it means keyboard. But I don't understand what they mean by it. Context is a play with an okyaku, oiran, boatman, nakai, yarite, and kemban.
I know an okyaku is a customer and an oiran is a whore. But looking it up (and using context clues) I can't figure out yarite or kemban. As far as I know, yarite is a hotshot. But kemban only comes up as "keyboard" when i search it up.

every word you read with a pitch accent bar sets your japanese ability back by a week.

>>43748342
post the thing

I will keep watching anime with english subs and you will not stop me.

how do i train my memory?
as a teen, i used to be able to remember entire conversations i had, word for word, the whole thing.
but nowadays, my memory is so hazy, i can only remember a summary of what people say to me, but the details get so wishy washy

i want to simp for japanese e-girls, but financially i can't justify spending money on them. so i came up with a cool plan: i'll start riding my bicycle to work instead of driving, thus saving money on gasoline. i can then spend the money i'd normally spend on gasoline on simping for japanese e-girls.
thus i'm not spending any extra money

>>43748363
*stops you*

>>43748441
cool plan bro hope she responds favorably to your superchats

>>43748419
you can google tricks for specifics types of items but those are only a crutch
natural base memory cannot be improved

https://youtu.be/IN_nXN2LxB0?t=19356

so sad

i hate sadness. i want happiness to rule the world

emptiness rules the world

>Sakuta loves to keep his earphones in his ears at all times because he loves to hear the world through his earphones. He especially loves the band INCEST and the singer, named IVE (pronounced eve), who is like an idol to him.

worth reading? or no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7gbCg2j6zg

reminder to move your body for increased BDNF production

reading is never worth it. listen and feel the world

move your body off a tall building

>>43748704
no i let all my brain cells die on purpose, because it means i won't be able to feel the horrors of the world anymore

ur gonna run out fast bro

i only watch kimetsu no yaiba because the MC has a cute imouto

Someone break this down for me.

明確な悪役がいないから軒並みちょっといい話で終わってたりする

>>43748826
明確な悪役がいないから
軒並み
ちょっといい話で終わってたりする

>want to read picrel
>going in completely blind
>assume that the book is only 137 pages long because this was
>it turns out it's only the first 2 chapters
>there's a lot of translation issues.
>uses footnotes occasionally for untranslated words
>some untranslated words have no footnotes, however
>Go read the Tuttle version translated by Aiko Ito
>it's even worse
>Meitei, Kangetsu, Toufuu's names are all translated literally into English
>Miss Miké is called Tortoiseshell
>huge mess
So I'm going to have to make my own translation, aren't I?

you dont have to translate if you know japanese

>>43748884
>Miss Miké is called Tortoiseshell
do you know what a 三毛猫 is

>>43748826
There's no clear villain so, overall it could end as just a nice little story.

yeah i'm sure you can make a better translation than a professional translator who is fluent in japanese
and also what >>43748904 said.
i'm an ESL and i dont translate anything into my native language, i just understand english as it is written or spoken

>>43748921
you shouldnt be translating anything brother >>43748884

dont forget to put out the inflammable garbage today

>>43748931
You're right but viewing a translation can help you parse how a sentence works when you don't understand it.

ngmi

I can understand half-width but is this a bit much

>>43748922
>>43748906
>changing foreign names to English names in a translation
It's literally an amateur mistake. Anyone with a brain would leave their names in Japanese. Meitei is not "Waverhouse". Toufuu is not "Beauchamp". Kangetsu is not "Coldmoon".
Calico cats are not the same as Tortoiseshell cats, mind you. If you're going to literally translate names at least get them right.
三毛 is a calico
感月 is not "coldmoon"
>感
>1. feeling; sensation; emotion; admiration; impression
So yes, I could make a better translation, faggot.

i hate manga protagonists who are so dense that they don't even understand their own feelings

>>43749128
>感月
wtf are you talking about

>>43749128
then do it.
or don't and keep being ass mad in a vietnamese seal clubbing forum

>三毛 is a calico
https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/%E4%B8%89%E6%AF%9B%E7%8C%AB/

>>43749146

>>43749162
retard

torties are only two colors
calicos are tricolored cats hence 三 in 三毛.

>>43749177
have you considered reading the book instead of your shitty website lol
it's in the public domain
https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000148/files/789_14547.html

just deepL the whole thing

>reading
cringe!

https://youtu.be/L3BYO9-0xQc

it's crazy what the dunning krugerites of the world come up with

a picture is worth a thousand words and and a video is worth a thousand pictures! watch raw anime if you wanna make it

>>43749246
but if you watch with subs that's just more words on top of the thousands from the images

if you don't read fast enough to make a movie in your head you're ngmi

a video has a thousand images per second, and an anime episode is 20 minutes long, so that's 20,000 images per episode

its gotta be raw man, you gotta force your ears to parse to survive

>>43749214
I concede, but it truly is irrelevant whether it's a correct translation of his name because it's one of the basic rules not to translate people's names. I wonder why a translator should think himself called on or entitled to do any such thing. It would be like calling the author of I am a Cat "Summereye Garglestone"

>>43749358
rules are for people who don't know what they're doing like you

>>43749372
>I don't think you should translate people's names, and if you leave Japanese terms untranslated you should have a footnote explaining what it means.
>TRUST LE HECKIN EXPERTS YOU CHUD

>>43749265
>a thousand images per second
most anime is lucky to have more than 5 frames per second and a frame that only gradually moves lines isn't worth its own thousand words it's only worth a dozen.

you can watch anime with your eyes closed.

>>43749393
those footnotes really helped you "understand" didnt they

>>43749422
a video is more than just pictures moving

yea dno this looks like a W for the uppercaser tbqh

Day 36: No update yesterday because I have to go to vist a relative, but back to normal now.

>>43749358
>it's one of the basic rules not to translate people's names.
if a female character's name was めすぶた you wouldnt translate it?

just dont translate it has always been that simple

yep *burps*

>>43749516
You're a nigger. You're a goddamn stupid fucking nigger for even attempting to compare these situations, you fucking retarded gorilla-black ape nigger.

ok this just became based really fast

saying you "shouldn't translate names" is completely wrong if a) they are made up names, b) they actually mean something to the original reader
take the lord of the rings for example. the hobbit family "proudfoot". it's just a made up name, but it's clearly supposed to mean something to the reader.
what gain is there just calling them プラウドフット in the japanese translation?
the reader might not understand that at all in the same way someone reading english would understand "proudfoot"
and sure enough they are called the 足高家 in the japanese translation, which is more fitting.

>>43749534
how is it different? "i am a cat" is not exactly high literature, the character names aren't supposed to be normal names or anything.
it's like george orwell's animal farm.
probably.
i never read "i am a cat" so i'm just making this up as i go along

never read an orwell

>>43749550
>t. braindead ape who translates Susanoo as His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness

dont reply to me again

not hiring yall for tls

>>43749542
Tolkien disagrees with you.

>>43749578
the matter is to me important; it has disturbed and annoyed me greatly
lmao he mad

>>43749578
tolkien was extremely autistic so i'm not surprised he agrees with you

yah tolkien one of the greatest writers ever is wrong but a dumb anon in djt is right

>>43749625
he was mid and did shitty loredumps too lmao

>>43749631
oh yeah wheres your novel masterpiece ?

>>43749534
lol

if you understand japanese it doesnt matter
just read the book, its in the public domain
https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000148/files/789_14547.html

>>43749636
>um trust the experts sweaty you can't criticize the dish if you can't cook it
cope

>TRUST LE HECKIN EXPERTS YOU CHUD
>BRO TOLKIEN SAID THIS SO IT MUST BE TRUE
pick one

>>43749648
>>um trust the experts sweaty you can't criticize the dish if you can't cook it
yup ill take that as your concession

>>43749636
it's right there on furry fanfics dot com

>>43749659
>MUH DEAD AUTISTIC (((ANGLO))) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
seethe

im humble so i defer to the masters

>>43749648
>>43749658
you can criticize a dish even if you can't cook.
but you can't criticize a JP-EN translator if you yourself dont even know japanese

>>43749625
his argument basically just boils to "you cant translate the vibes bro..." but the vibes just don't exist if you're reading katakana transliterations of these place names and shit anyway so you may as well just try and capture it in a different way

I'm too retarded to understand grammar pls help

>>43749500
Day 36: Nothing to say here about anki session today.

localization派　対　translation派

translating is a fool's game but ore ga itiban tuyoi fool yo.

havent watched the lotr jp dub but it probably sucks ass

>>43749724
https://streamable.com/zspyyo

>>43749139
I hate manga protagonists in general

>>43749690
learn a bunch of words and then read stuff that uses them and has a lot of context information. with all that you'll be able to deduce the grammar and acquire it

ごきげんよう

i translate itadakimasu as bon appetit

i translate gotisousamadesita as burp

i translate it as itadakimasu*

*tl note - itadakimasu means to humbly receive

>>43749542
>>43749678
the gain is not being a shit translation.
you truly cannot "translate the vibes". Japanese know this and that's why they love giving their fantasy characters European-esque names.

>>43749778
true true imagine naming ur blonde european isekai mc tadasuke or some shit lmao

but it's also how you end up with a an MC called "clive" like the latest ff game

>>43749690
If you want advice other than read tae kim/genki you're going to need to explain why

dame currentlyhannah is starting to look old
the female wall is unfathomably cruel

>>43749789
or ff9 where the main character was named after that french soccer player

>>43749802
that was kinda based though

in certain genres japanese sounds like mongolian or chinese and thats when you know those stories arent meant to be in japanese

>>43749778
>you truly cannot "translate the vibes"
why are you so obsessed with translating stuff then? just learn japanese instead of reading shitty translations. there isn't even any point at all of reading 吾輩は猫である in english

used to think the name risa was katakana lisa

yosh time to jack off to zelda ntr

>>43749831
>why are you obsessed with translating stuff
It's fun.
>just learn japanese
I am. Specifically to translate stuff.

>>43749981
holy cringe

does anyone know how i can play summer memories in japanese?

i have the jap locale paks but dunno what to do with them, theres no options in game

>>43749997
did you pirate it or buy it? usually there's some .ini file you can edit for the language of steam games or an option in the properties on steam if you bought it

lmaoing at the pathetic NEET 出来ない learning japanese so he can jerk off to untranslated hentai games. pretending that doing flashcards every day will help him learn a language.

>>43750012
i pirated it yeah

>I am. Specifically to translate stuff.

>>43750032
with cracked steam games there is usually some kind of .ini or .cfg file in the folder that controls steam settings and you can edit that to change the language

>>43750069
yeah annoyingly its from gog

>>43750083
only thing i can suggest is if there's an en.pak or whatever just rename the ja.pak to that but it probably isn't gonna work that simply

umm working in jp sounds miserable

>>43750208
bro you 16 or something? how do you not know this, japan is notorious for brutal work conditions, whyd you think drinking culture is big there for salarymen

>>43750208
thats why you get a job at a european company with an office in japan. preferably french

not a fan of the french

>>43750305
if theres 1 thing the french are good for its being lazy which is what you need in a workplace

just start a business bro

too lazy

you can be even lazier once it gets going

damn people on jpt really have their own businesses and gfs

dont want a business or a gf
too much effort required

my gf is my business
t. pimping out gf on onlyfans

tfw no business

get a business first and youll get a gf
get a gf first and youll never get a business

>>43749542
Ah, here comes the dude who thinks that the show should be called "Cardcaptor Cherry".

poppin jk sakura

cardcaptor cherryblossom would be a fine name

"bear bear bear bear"

>>43750486
imagine what japanese people think when they see "kuma kuma kuma" it must be so cringe right

the japanese are cringe as a people so it works out

if you want some great immersion misskey is pretty damn good, just a constant feed of jap

Can I say I can’t do something by conjugating to te form and adding dekinai? Example: うちに帰る待ってできない。

>>43750679
what are you trying to say

>>43750679
I think they're trying to say something like "I can't wait to go home"

>>43750695
I can’t wait to go back home.

When should I stop revising hiragana and katakana? I've gone at least the past 2 weeks without making mistakes in the flash cards. Is it time to phase them out?

>>43745732
asked this in the dying previous thread: I've been using ankidrone's tango decks (I'm on N5, of course) for 10 days now, should I switch to core?

As for going home, can't wait.

never phase out cards do hiragana cards till you die

>>43750795
yes, switch to core 2.3k, before you start memorizing kanji for the capital of vietnam

>>43750787
give it another two weeks and report back, you know just to be sure

>>43750835
glad I'm not the only one who found those annoying, kek
thank you!

>>43750784
うちに帰るの待てない。
Or more naturally just
帰りたい

>>43750843
Alright.

>>43750784
家に帰るのが待ち切れない
待ち切る -> 待ち切れる (potential form) -> 待ち切れない (set phrase)
use this when you've been away from home for some time, such as on a trip, and your thoughts are somewhat fixated on returning home
for a positive nuance of waiting ("i am really looking forward to getting back home") where you are not dissatisfied with your present situation of not being at home, use 家に帰るのが待ち遠しい
for ordinary use: 家に帰りたい

>>43750787
Just start immersing already so you review them for free passively without having to dedicate time to them specifically

>>43750868
i feel bad, i was fucking with you please move on from the kana and start learning vocab to read

guh... boss invited us out for dinner and drinks at a japanese place... had a lot of fun... had fun hanging out with my crush... gonna do anki and got to bed... hope you boys had a good day too

>hey anon tonight has been great how about we head back to your place
>no can do sugartits i gotta focus on my anki reps

have some ancient japanese wisdom
朝マラの立たぬ男に金貸すな

>>43751004
nah there's no way tonight would have played out like that in any universe... i'm happy with the way things went as is

>>43750914
Oh, I already have. I've finished going through N5 but my accuracy sucks on it (80% or so). I was just doing kana in addition.
>>43750904
I don't think I can really do anything yet to immerse myself. Reading anything just runs me into Kanji I don't know yet.
Shiritori is fun though.

I made a catalog of audiobooks on nyaa
https://core6000.neocities.org/audio/

こんばんは

>>43751041
when you run into kanji you don't know you just... look the word up and keep reading.
yes this is slow when you're a noob.

drunk anki sucks but when you get in the zone it's not too bad

if you love anki so much why don't you marry her?

too inebriated to tell if you're being subtle or actually talking about anki

i just shitpost man

>>43751041
I just skimmed through katakana and reinforced my reading by downloading some random katakana-only deck filled with loan words. I do it alongside vocabulary and it really helped me read katakana quickly.

>>43750903
Thanks

Anyone have an archived version of the Doth's and Jazzy's reddit posts? Reddit's learn Japanese sub is down and I can't access it

might be google cached

>>43751012
勉強なりました
it's posts like these that keep me coming back.

>>43751041
You can use an android app called pibo (読み放題)。It’s for kids so it has basic kanji, or just hiragana and katakana.

can't believe i managed to get through both decks tonight

neesans manko belongs to me. ill never forget the first time i saw it. no one else is getting it i fucking mean it

>>43751348
Not him, but currently, I'm practicing my reading through Reajer since it has some kiddy stories too and some of the more difficult words are explained by the dude handling the site.
What surprised me the most by doing this is finding out how much more easier it is to read doujinshi over reading children's stories.

>>43751041
>Reading anything just runs me into Kanji I don't know yet.
Reading will he like that for at least the first 6 months. You're not gonna skip that with cards lol

I hope reddit goes down forever

ねえさん の オマンコ 誰 に も 譲りません

shut the fuck up annoying freak

asian 太ももs

you will never understand true love

can u guys post wholesome stuff instead

>>43751348
Thanks. Will do!

Does anyone have Chainsaw Man LN and is willing to upload it?

>>43751640
おにいちゃん

せいきひんを買ってください

>>43751004
I have a recurring day dream of doing my reps hungover after a one night stand. Of course ever since I started doing anki 5 years ago I haven't had sex. These are probably related

Stop learning Japanese. I randomly came to this thread since I'm going to Japan again soon and I honestly regret being a weeb. I remember posting in DJT back when I was a teenager, watching anime, grinding anki decks. I'm decent at Japanese now, not great, but that's not the point. I've still never had a gf, and now I have all sorts of cringe memories trying to talk to japanese women I became a coomer sexpat. Whenever japs ask why you know Japanese, they always assume either Japanese gf or anime, and if you're not immediately the kind of dude that looks like he has gf, take a wild guess what they'll assume.

Don't get me wrong, I love Japan and I'm going back in a month so obviously it's not a terrible decision, but I strongly encourage a more acceptable language like Chinese, Spanish, or another European language. The the terminal end of the weaboism rabbithole is either becoming a tranny, a simp for an ugly asian woman, or a whoremonger. Honestly, I got off easy.

>S
didnt read lil bro

>reddit copypasta

for me, it's a simp for an ugly (fat) asian woman

>>43751794
>>43751783
Give me (You)s you dumb niggers I wrote it at least 75% unironically
>>43751798
Based but you didn't (You) me so cringe

>>43751043
based

>>43751746
>I've still never had a gf,
That's because you're a loser who never learned Japanese.

>>43751806
I mean I'm definitely not fluent but I'm good enough to have pleasant get to know you conversations with people

it was worth it just to be able to listen to fmsiata-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akfBzSO0kUQ
this is the good shit.
i hate that youtube keeps deleting people's videos though. who the fuck cares if someone uploads an old radio broadcast? you can't buy this shit anywhere, can you?

>>43751746
this image reminds me of tomefure

goood morning

immersion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwfO0UFgGHQ

can a gaijin go live in the japanese countryside and live a nonbiri life or will the locals make me disappear?

yes
https://youtu.be/r1gJE96W-uM?t=82

still reading this

how can you bear reading that shit?

>>43745796

>>43752234
kek

>>43752234
i can't because there's too much くま and クマ in the text.

Any tips on making my pronunciation clearer? There's still too many extra sounds/not clear cut enough when I pronounce

any tips for coping with the Critical Period Hypothesis

モミモミ

never miss a chance

日本も終わりだなー

everything that makes a nation unique must slowly fade

just rage-uninstalled Anki in light of this news

Do you guys try to memorize pitch accent with your main deck? Or do you use a separate pronunciation deck?

My retention rate is right now at 50% if I try to get pitch accent on my main deck

try to notice it during immersion or guess it for new words

https://streamable.com/aujql5

>>43752465
As long as your retention is over 10%, you're good.

>>43752465
I just put pitch accent information incidentally on my cards that I do mine, but I'm not trying to comprehensively memorize pitch accent of all vocabulary through anki or something

>>43751415
Interesting, I’ll try it myself.

>>43751544
No problem

if you want to say someone shared a cake or something with you would you use 共有 or 分け合う?

>>43751746
>stop learning Japanese
>learning since seven until thirteen
>started picking up back up at twenty
No. I speak with real people overseas everyday and learn based on real media, like YouTube blogs and not anime.

>>43752944
wakeau

>>43752944
共食い

今日は私の誕生日です

are 暑 and 熱 interchageable? what is going on here? is he just saying her mouth is warm? or is 熱 an adjective of the 精液?

>>43753035
おめでとう

お誕生日おめでとう!

>>43753035
お誕生日 おめでとう！

>>43753035
おめでとう御座います‼

So another post with this title inspired me to share my own story. But I feel like mine is an actual failure story whereas op actually turned it around.

Studied Japanese at university, brutal program that takes you from 0 to roughly n3 level within 1.5 years. Hiragana was easy and I was always good at reading and writing kanji too. I dedicated so much time to reading and writing, because that was the focus of the program. So for pronunciation and grammar, it was up to me to out in the extra work. I got myself multiple tandem partners so I could practice speaking. (Didn’t feel like it was too helpful desu but that’s a different story).

The grind of the first 1.5 years paid off - I had good grades and was able to go to university in Japan. When I was there I was ranked upper mediate level and was dedicated to get as much out of the Japanese course in Japan and my stay there as I could.

I wanted to be fluent to a level where I could converse easily and understand what was going on in anime or Japanese shows.

Yeah that didn’t happen. Of course I improved, and I was able to run errands and live everyday life there smoothly with a bit of preparation when I needed something out of the usual.

But the conversation part and talking part was what bothered me. Anything where I had to improvise and try to form sentences that I wasn’t used to or that required a bit more grammar I just couldn’t do. Like a blockade inside my head, or a missing puzzle piece. I got frustrated with myself. Still am.

Another thing happened during that time - even though I was aware that Japanese society isn’t as great as your usual anime fan assumes, I got pretty disillusioned with Japan staying there. The conservativeness, sexism, misogyny and racism. That it was impossible for me to make genuine friends because I’m not an extrovert. Don’t get me wrong, there’s tons of great things there and I’m so grateful I got to stay there. But I got so frustrated, unable to ignore the bad sides. Not able to concentrate on the good stuff.

I watched shows like terrace house because it was recommended to me a lot and I wanted to increase my immersion. I absolutely hated every second of it. Most anime I started I got so frustrated with the casual sexist pedo stuff that’s going on in so many of them. I just despised Japanese media, you get the drill.

Covid happened and I returned home. I still took online classes. In the following year my dad died, and I had some other hurtful stuff going on in my life.

I tried to prepare for the N3 and N2 but failed and copped out of both. Finished my bachelors this year with superb grades. But I’m not able to speak the language I majored in. I feel like a complete failure and cringe so much thinking about studying Japanese again. Feels like a waste of 4 years of my life. Even though objectively, I know it isn’t. I know I still learned things and gained experiences. But I was too stupid to get the one thing right I was supposed to do in those 4 years.

My friends tell me to either embrace where I am now and move on or to try and stick with it even if it’s difficult atm.

I can’t even ask you guys for help on how to start again. I guess I wanted to share my story because maybe someone can relate to it.

Edited for paragraphs :)

fuck reading all that shit lmao

https://streamable.com/lwzb9n

i was going to give you a chance but with a first post like that you’ve earned yourself a place on the filter list

>>43753088

Most likely copy pasted from reddit

>>43749747
this

wish trans people chose different colors for their flag white pink and baby blue is such a nice color scheme but now it will forever be associated with being trans

>>43753035
暗証番号はきっと1606ですわ

Which is the easiest big shounen manga to read? I hear Naruto has a bunch of archaic language in it and frankly Bleach is boring as fuck. How about Dragon Ball or One Piece?

why don't you try reading a couple of chapters and find out

>>43753451
I mean I will if nobody else has read them, but I figured this might be faster than downloading poorly seeded torrents of entire volumes via my 2001 tier rural internet.

>>43753436
ive read dragon ball
main reason i chose it as one of my first manga series was i already knew how the story goes so i had that context to help me understand stuff

sometimes it has really weird fonts though

>>43753496
smart move

>>43751746
yeah that further confirms the problem isn't learning Japanese but being a deluded cringe weebdittor manchild. I'm now even more motivated to keep learning Japanese
>>43753372
wish Nazis picked the reddit alien for their flag

Is Danmachi's title supposed to be a pun? Like if 出会い had エンカウント written over it it would actually be quite clever.

you dont know japanese

>>43750787
if you think you got it down, you pretty much got it down. just reading anything in japanese will quickly reinforce it to the point it becomes as second nature to you as the ABCs now, even example sentences in the core decks.

>>43753054
暑 is hot as in nature, like it's hot outside today
熱 is hot as in things or to the touch, like that pan is hot or i'm guzzling hot semen
the easiest way to remember it is the one about the heat from the weather has two 日 radicals in it

と　ば　たら　なら
How am I supposed to remember all the use cases?

https://note.com/pondebekkio/n/n4ed8718e6000

Based beyond belief

>>43751746
fuck off nigger i already know spanish imagine not knowing at least 2 languages in 2023, also japanese is the only interesting language left, might start italian or portuguese once im proficient enough just for the shit and giggles

i don't trust the words of anyone who uses a wojak as an avatar

>>43745796
I just like the language.

>>43754053
by reading a lot of Japanese text and hearing a lot of Japanese speech

hej friends i just wanted to share progress :)
lvl 10 wanicunny while also getting p gud at grasping the grammar and im having fun :)
i can sometimes read several pages of yotuba& in a row without using jisho and it feels better than an orgasm when i can understand japanese i find in the wild
flying to jp for my 3rd time this november, i wont be good enough for full convos but i will still manage (im shy but everyone always seem to rly want to talk w me prolly coz i look different)

>>43753965
thank you, i understand the difference now. but i still don't get if it's an exclamation or an adjective in that sentence. both sound so wrong to me...

>>43754282
>wanicunny
based

How long have you been studying Japanese and how much of this do you understand?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IYAIg0RnRE

can't jo too much or my dopamine levels will become unbalanced and i start feeling sad until my body corrects itself

i just had one of those hard-passing lots-of-pebbles shits. thought i was done and rinsed out my asshole in the shower but felt some more in there and dug most of them out. one got stuck in the drain and i couldn't get it out so i had to press it between the holes. so now there's a turd floating in the shower pipe drain thing. wonder how long it'll take to dissolve. or could it naturally rise into the part that will carry it away?

>>43753035
おめでとうございます。
>誕生日
I'm guessing this means birthday. The last two Kanji are a bit of a giveaway.

>>43753128
back to get owned?

>>43754651
what do you mean you guess how can you not read that

>>43754650
wrong website, you need to wait till /r/learnjapanese comes back

>>43754651
>誕生日
read this as nichiyoubi

https://youtu.be/jGt1b7vcCj0

>>43753128
man i posted here in 2019 and drop in today and nothing is fucking different. you've still got quizmaster posting logh clips and making his "return". where's jamal

i've dropped logh twice now. i got bored at episodes in the 80s and 60s for each watch. now it's been 2 years since my last session so i'll have forgotten details if i pick it up again. sigh i'll never finish it.

it took queef three months to gather the courage to post again. poor thing

>>43754834
shows like that i have to take notes on if i want to retain everything

>>43754846
yea i had a text file on my desktop i frequently updated while i watched. i think i deleted it though.

>>43754850
you could call it
a log of shit

imagine favoriting an anime or vinnie just cause its considered "hard" lmao how cringe

hanahira cemented itself as one of my favorite vinnies of all time

im getting too old for this shit. i already have my first grey hairs

read 538k today

>>43754891
its over

nuke got a lot better after his first greys

but hes still not fluent

anyone here play milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk? is it any good?

no

i wish i was fluent like og

>>43754834
it has no cuties so it sucks

og, now thats a name i havent heard in some time

they dont call it legend of the galactic homos for nothing

>>43754975
yep. wouldn't be surprised if queef is a closeted gay

wanted to see reinhardts sister get raped by a pack of feral dogs

very normal thing to say

any good siegfried x annerose ntr doujins?

Is rape funny?

hilarious even

do it yourself anime redone in live action? what the?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhRKKDw1ZQ8

>>43755107
the universe really be doing this sort of stuff to me honestly whenever i get into something

on that note i can't believe they can't cast a white girl to play the exchange student

shes not white

>can't cast
and yes it is better this way

do they have drama on nyaa? how am i gonna watch this when it comes out

>>43754895
yeah that's just an opinion polling website

i use avistaz

i failed an N2 practice test recently

>>43755336
sasuga

is 我家 read わがや, わぎえ, わいえ, わがいえ
, わがえ or わぎへ?

>>43754482
10 years and 100%

You seem to be confusing me with someone.
Listen if you want to clear your name just say so. I'll post a link to the battle chat. Otherwise don't even bother pretending when I am around kid.
I'm the big dick in this thread now.

people say porn addicts end up with crazy fetishes but for me its just rezu kisu

>>43755077
depends

I just realized the name of the theme song fits the letters
D - どきどき
I - アイデアを
Y - よろしく

i literally listened to that song the entire drive to work and then on the way home after dinner
i love the part when they say "i do it myself!"

for me it's
積み木　折り紙　粘土　絵の具
持っているんだ　ずっと
こどもの君と　僕が
騒ぐんだ
in the full version

dame bros this kr girl is so cute but she already has a bf

>>43755399
>for me its just rezu kisu
that's in my top 10 for sure

>>43755399
it's crazy to have a fetish for something that doesn't exist irl

>>43755367
lmfao

its not that crazy, people have fetishes for elves, neko-girls and all kinds of weird shit

i wonder what jamal is up to these days

its too fucking hot for manabi

remember when he called himself nihongod?

why does kachite guy call himself quiz master

he never said he was the master of japanese, just quizzes

he sucks at the quizzes and didnt make them either tho

can bitchmaster read 鷦鷯

does quizler know the stroke order of manji

>>43755583
all jks practice kissing by doing rezu kiss in the toilet during breaks in school

>>43755648
my rule of thumb is any time there's 2 bird kanji next to each other it's oumu

my rule of thumb is if i can't read it, probably not important

>>43755708
bro havent you read the nihonsyoki its in the first fucking volume

my rule of thumb? i just understand it

daily reminder that cure dolly lied to you about everything

>>43755754
what specifically did he lie about? give three examples

>するべき
a cringe zoomer wrote this

sometimes i get in a mood and see a picture of an anime girl or something and feel like i'm too old for it
what does this mean

>>43755754
>>43755770
isn't that game mtl

>>43755771
there is no objective reality, everything is subjective.
if you feel you are too old, it means you are too old.

>>43755771
couldn't be me

im free today lads but
dunno what to do i never go outside besides work and anime is boring now that i know jap

>>43755797
grass
touch it

but grass is dirty and has worms in it

just like ur moms snatch

oof

lmao rekt

>>43755825
proof?

>>43755925
>>42472649

I am working my way through Tae kim right now and I need to use the negative Te form but that was never explained anywhere in there, how do I negative Te form?

>>43755960
i assume you mean this
するしないしないで

oh i guess 4chan doesn’t allow arrows
する
しない
しないで

>>43754697
I've only studied N5 so far. The first Kanji wasn't part of it.
>>43754786
I'm like 99% sure "tanjoubi" is birthday.

>>43755990
it does bro u->dumb

those are poor man’s arrows

better than itoddler emoji arrows

hello newfag

This thread is useless
I am useless
私

if ur an old faggot how come ur not dead from aids? checkmate

actually they’re just ヤジルシ and all japanese imes have them

>>43755990
yes how do I make that happen and why can it be しなくて and しないで
Cant make the form out of an I ending usualy

おまえにはできやしない

do japanese women like to date men that are 10 years older than them?

they like $$ yea

>>43756074
はい私の日本語はだめ。
助けてお願いします
これは>>43756066　わかないです

>>43754482
3-4 weeks
Something about a legendary sword, shutting up and anger. No idea what she said as she walked away though.

>>43756153
https://youtu.be/g3jCAyPai2Y?t=66

can someone please just tell me what the hell a negative te form is?

手じゃない

lmao bro is embarrassed

>>43756153
typical ngmi condition
take 1 pill of read more daily for 3months and a cure dolly therapy 3 times a week for half year

>>43756197
refer to imabi
https://www.imabi.net/negative-te-forms

>>43756255
>imabi
the authors hidden cry for help

it's a cute name

refer to deez

>>43756263
?

also read more and you won't even need to think about such things like the difference between なくて and ないで it just comes naturally

>>43756276
real cute

bruh your verbal lacking

bruhhh

>>43756153
>はい私の日本語はだめ。
Newbie here. Can you say it like that? It feels wrong. Shouldn't it be something like
>はい私の日本語は<word for bad/poor>です。

>>43756294
hello mr newbie do you like anime ?

>>43756305
Yes. I've enjoyed them for 20+ years in Japanese (with subs).

https://vocaroo.com/13XThO4erTd9

>>43756286
>>43756293
https://vocaroo.com/13XThO4erTd9

actually laughed out loud lol i hate

lol

>>43756320
>>43756321
https://vocaroo.com/18jT5Xtx469M

what no grammar does to a mother fucker

>>43756255
thanks anon, seems like I was overthinking it

ive watched anime for 20 years so im basically more japanese than a japanese person who is younger than 20

>>43756352
np and good luck on your journey

>>43756319
why not rewatch your fav shows with japanese subtitles ? open the english subs if you get stuck

>>43756404
if its your fav show, you already know what the characters are saying, so its not like you need any audio at all

>>43756404
That's actuality a great idea. I've tried watching new stuff, but I don't think I understood enough of what was said. With something that I've watched before I could tell.

>>43756429
if you know what theyre saying you can focus on the sounds theyre making to mean those things

all the anime ive truly enjoyed are from my english sub watches before i learned japanese