The idea of reading something like Berserk casually, on the train, is quite funny to me.
Yeah, it's not the kind of manga I would read when there are people around. Though I don't read much when someone's around in general.By casually, I don't mean "no big deal" , just "I can't be bothered to look up words" :p. Although, whenever I come upon a sex scene I have to hold the book half-closed out of shame haha.
I'm having much more ease reading and recognizing kanji than remembering them then writing them, am I weird or is that pretty common ?
Hey,
At work I have around 8 hours daily to listen to anything using my headphones.
What would be the best for me to listen to learn new Japanese phrases and grammar? I have a lot of time daily.
Or what would be the best in general for me to improve my Japanese? Or expand my vocabulary etc
Hey,
At work I have around 8 hours daily to listen to anything using my headphones.
What would be the best for me to listen to learn new Japanese phrases and grammar? I have a lot of time daily.
Or what would be the best in general for me to improve my Japanese? Or expand my vocabulary etc
I'm listening to this aswell, I don't understand very much, but I think it helps to get a feeling for the language.I recently stumbled across IGN Japan's podcast しゃべりすぎGAMER. It's a completely Japanese podcast that discusses a gaming topic each week for about an hour or so. It's really good for listening practice.
If you just have the neutral form, no, you'll have to learn them the hard way.Is there any way to distinguish a ru-verb and an u-verb with a ru ending?
This is driving me crazy.
"What is there at your school?"I have a very simple question:
Anata no gakkou ni nani ga arimaska?
what does that translate to, exactly? Where is your school?
I found out that there seems to be some rule, but of course it has its exceptions:Is there any way to distinguish a ru-verb and an u-verb with a ru ending?
This is driving me crazy.
I took N3 but wasn't ready for it so I'm still preparing n case I have to take it again next year.Anyone took the JLPT on the 1st? I'm planning on taking the N2 in July of next year.
I can confidently say my level is around N3 but I wanna take a more difficult test.
Use anki, but make your own cards from stuff you're actually interested in. Add as much or as little context as you need. That's where the software really takes off.
Grinding vocab lists is boring as fuck (though you need to do it to some extent for tests). It's in actually trying to read interesting things where you'll get the most bang for your buck imho. (Well, time, which is probably more valuable in the long run)
Thanks a lot!Birdseye : You don't have to use Anki. It makes the process more efficient once you've set it up properly, but the most important part is and will always be immersion.
If you weren't already up to N3 I'd still suggest using it to get you up and running on N5/N4 vocab and grammar in a way that's much faster and less tedious than just drilling those textbooks over and over, but I'm honestly tempted to tell you to just drop the JLPT textbooks, watch/read whatever you want and look up the words that stick out to you in your favourite dictionary* as you go along. It's much more organic that way.
* Obviously, I'm talking bilingual dictionaries for now. Once you're a bit more comfortable with the language, try transitioning to monolingual dictionaries.
Here's how I use Anki with the custom deck I have: Have the Jisho app installed on my android phone. Whenever a word comes up I don't know I simply type the word into jisho and send it to anki from tapping and holding the word. Next while I'm studying, I quickly search the new words on japandict.com for any example sentences. If there aren't any you could try yourei.jp, but the out of context sentences are sometimes a bit difficult to grasp. Overall while it is a bit tedious to add sentences this way I think it works for me.I want to improve my vocabulary. Do I have to use Anki? Anki feels tedious, especially without example sentences (I did it while studying Tobira and wish I had just read the actual book sooner instead of studying the vocab deck).
Meanwhile, I have the Shin Kanzen Master JLPT N3 vocab book with example sentences so I'm planning on using that, unless you know of a better solution.
Cure Dolly posted an interesting video with some really good advice on this topic:I want to improve my vocabulary. Do I have to use Anki? Anki feels tedious, especially without example sentences (I did it while studying Tobira and wish I had just read the actual book sooner instead of studying the vocab deck).
Meanwhile, I have the Shin Kanzen Master JLPT N3 vocab book with example sentences so I'm planning on using that, unless you know of a better solution.
Yeah I saw that, but frankly I'd rather have my own mnemonics for this ha haCommon enough to have a series of books called "Remembering the Kanji" =P
There's a reason Heising recommends practicing trough "keyword -> mnemonic -> Kanji". Not ideal for vocabulary acquisition and learning the language in general, but pretty good for remembering how to writing them ;)
Also, I have a question : is my sentence correct ?
私は医者です。私の専門は開業医です。
I want to say
I am a doctor, my specialty is general practice.
Thanks !
Instinctively I'd say that since frequency comes first in a lot of cases, following immediately with the duration just seems more logical (since both are related to time).Another simple question for you folks. Why does the word order change in questions two and three? The second sentence has it location/duration/verb and the third has it frequency/duration/location/verb. I'm wondering why they swap location and duration in each example. See below:
Clause order is extremely flexible in Japanese but you generally put the "most important" information closest to the verb. In this case you can understand that [studying Japanese at the library] is an activity, perhaps separate from [studying Japanese at home] or whatever and so it should be directly attached to the verb, while [at the department store] is just supplemental information and doesn't need to be attached to the verb.Another simple question for you folks. Why does the word order change in questions two and three? The second sentence has it location/duration/verb and the third has it frequency/duration/location/verb. I'm wondering why they swap location and duration in each example. See below:
There isn't a correct order. You can change them freely as you want.Another simple question for you folks. Why does the word order change in questions two and three? The second sentence has it location/duration/verb and the third has it frequency/duration/location/verb. I'm wondering why they swap location and duration in each example. See below:
Anyone took the JLPT on the 1st? I'm planning on taking the N2 in July of next year.
I can confidently say my level is around N3 but I wanna take a more difficult test.
As Jintor said, the particles are in the wrong order, but you're also translating "at the" too literally.Is this sentence corect:
食べ物に食堂がとても高いです。
The food at the cafeteria is very expensive.
your particles for 食べ物 and 食堂 are the wrong way around i think
Thank you very much.As Jintor said, the particles are in the wrong order, but you're also translating "at the" too literally.
食堂の食べ物はとても高いです。would be a better way to say this.
Yeah, an admin messaged me asking if I knew of any Japanese people I thought would be a good fit for a mod. I said you because you're awesome. I used to post in this thread a lot more back on gaf, and you have always been nice and helpful. You also love 龍が如く, so you're cool.日本から参加しているメンバーのためにmodになることに興味ないかってメッセージがきた。誰かからの推薦があったみたいなんだけどAizo?
とりあえず自分よりはZefahのが適任だってZefahを推しておいたんだけどZefahってアカウント自体が完全に抹消されちゃってるのね・・・
ようこそう!I only just started Duolingo and installed Anki in the last few days but I'm hoping I can study enough to have confidence to carry on a casual conversation someday. My goal is mainly to help communicate with other members of a taiko group. It'd definitely be just to impress and help fit in since everyone is bilingual and there are some English only members like myself. I've traveled to Japan though and I'd definitely love to go again so it'd also help with that.
I have the spare time for now so it'll hopefully at the bare minimum be a rewarding way of spending time. I used to speak OK French and was always pretty proud of that so this should be a good challenge.
Thanks already for this thread. The OT and followup posts have lots of helpful information. Sounds like there's no shortage of resources, and I'll try to look into Genki I. Duolingo is useful so far just to learn the Hiragana and pick up a few nouns.
ありがと!ようこそう!
That's the great part about the language, because there's so much demand, there are so many good resources.
I'm also using Genki, but I'd recomment to also get "A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar".
はいありがと!
Do you mean the basic dictionary by Takino and Tsutsui?
日本から参加しているメンバーのためにmodになることに興味ないかってメッセージがきた。誰かからの推薦があったみたいなんだけどAizo?
とりあえず自分よりはZefahのが適任だってZefahを推しておいたんだけどZefahってアカウント自体が完全に抹消されちゃってるのね・・・
There isn't a correct order. You can change them freely as you want.
It's a way to express his surprise/dumbfoundnessPerfect!
And another:
I was watching a Japanese boxing match, and one of the comentators said, "Slippu nante!" This, as you can imagine, happened after one of the boxers slipped. Is this him excitedly announcing the slip or is he questioning the legitimacy of the slip?
I recently reached level 11 on WK and slowed down a bit, because I drowned in lessons and reviews. I was holding onto my 8 - 9 days streak, but I had over 200 vocab lessons and I just caught up on it right now. Now I only have level 11 items left.Hello friends.
Quick report on my side: lvl 20 in WaniKani.
This has been a huge time investement (at least 2 hours every single day). I'm thinking of slowing things down a bit (from 8-9 days per level) to about 12 so that I can spend a bit more time in the actual grammar and reading.
I have to admit that being able to read the Kanji, on top of all of the vocabulary that I already "get" when reading other sources...is magnificent.
I recently reached level 11 on WK and slowed down a bit, because I drowned in lessons and reviews. I was holding onto my 8 - 9 days streak, but I had over 200 vocab lessons and I just caught up on it right now. Now I only have level 11 items left.
Now I try to keep my Apprentice count at 100 to 150 or otherwise I'll drown in reviews again.