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What do you mean he’s only 23??????
Japanese is an incredibly fun and rewarding language (if you’ve ever wanted to learn it for ANY reason, most importantly including the “silly” reasons) but the fearmongering and capitalist intervention involved in the language learning process have given it a reputation as an “impossible task” for English speakers, leading to confusion and dkn learners and weird pessimist attitudes about the whole thing. In this thread I will explain how to effectively learn and retain Japanese. This is a tried, tested and true method; probably 99% of all people who try to learn Japanese give up, but everyone I’ve met who has tried and stuck with this has been at or above N3-N4 after 6 months or less including me
You can teach yourself Japanese for free if you have a little free time every day and a computer
1. Drill yourself on hiragana and katakana. These are the phonetic building blocks of Japanese, think of them as equivalent to english letters. This site is a good resource in general. Once you have a solid grasp on this, DO NOT LINGER HERE; move to step 2. You will master kana later.
2. Download Anki. This is a flashcard service. They have a paid app if you’re willing to invest for it, but if not, they have a mobile website (create an account and sync it with your computer).
This is the deck you’re going to download. Import it to Anki and do this every day. I have learned the hard way (twice) that skipping this is bad. If you become overwhelmed, you can change the number of new cards and reviews by clicking the cog next to the name of the deck!
3. Cure Dolly (Youtube, grammar) + transcript. She has kind of a posh accent, you might want to turn subtitles on. Watch a few videos when you feel like it but most importantly set up 4 and 5 as soon as possible
4. Yomitan (must have) is a browser extension that functions as a pop-up dictionary. you need to install dictionaries for it to work. here are some dictionaries you can use with yomitan and explanations of what they do
5. READ. DO NOT LET YOURSELF GET STUCK BEFORE THIS STEP. JUST READ!!!! Most people who fail to learn Japanese do so because they are afraid of not being ready to move on, which is counterproductive. Just read. When you were a child did you spend years on vocab and grammar before reading? No I bet you did not. Pick something to read and learn what you don’t already know by reading in Japanese.
Jiten.moe has a list of novels and visual novels that you can read on your computer sorted by difficulty. So does jpdb. There’s also this document. There’s also this document. Hey look this website is cool too
For visual novels: download LunaHook. It “hooks” to your VN and allows you to use Yomitan on words you don’t know. Turn off the translation feature, it does nothing to help you learn
For literary texts: ttsu e-reader supports epub and htmlz files.
You can also learn Japanese by watching anime, but it’s a little more convoluted and requires a lot more patience.
For manga, utilize Mangatan, but I don’t recommend this right out the gate because when you’re first learning sentence structure you’ll want something with complete sentences.
Set your computer up for mining vocab before you start reading. Once you finish your kaishi deck, you can drill your mining cards (I didn’t do mine until after finishing kaishi because it was too much).
Most importantly: reading is going to be hard at first. It is going to piss you off. You need to muscle through with this because this is where the bulk of your learning will happen. After a while you will just feel like reading because you love reading! Try not to pick something too hard for your first read, but if you’re interested in the story you might be able to muscle through something a little tougher.
Remember to consult yomitan and cure dolly where needed, that’s what it’s there for. As you can see I am quite normal about the Japanese language, so if you have any other questions or need help with anything else feel free to shoot me an ask and I will get back to you promptly. Japanese is not your enemy and it is not impossible. It is your friend
These are great!! May I also recommend:
Tofugu, particularly their kana guides + quiz
Tadoku readers (free, starts at reading level 0)
Tae Kim's free Japanese grammar course/textbook
Wanikani (GREAT kanji-learning system! A massive chunk is free - trust me, if you manage to make it through all the free content, it will be worth it to continue, and if you can't/don't then you still have a good foundation!)
Lorenzi's Jisho (JP-EN dictionary, can interface with Anki flashcards)
Feb 02 is my bby boy (grown ass man) birthday! So here's some art/expression????/angle practice???
And also me actually posting said baby boy here without any more context lmao hshsshshs
No no, don't bother offering your help to me. Actually I'm totally fine being hyper-independent because I never learned how to ask for help and because I always worry about being a burden to people. But OF COURSE tell me when you need help, I love being supportive and showing my love that way.
FMA Secret Santa!
Hello! I'm Yue and this year I decided to participate in the FMA Secret Santa exchange thing!
Kinda nerve wrecking and I honest to the gods can't remember what I even filled out on the form BUT!!!
My giftee is @littlebear1537!!!
Here's your gift!! Happy Holidays! I hope you have an amazing day and next year is filled with joy, success and the goodest vibes for you!!
Sam and Rio putting up a show for their respective partners!! Celebrating is good and all until someone breaks the table while having a Friendly Arm Wrestling Competition™ I hope you like it!! Thank you to @rene-of-the-blackouts and all the mods for the Gift Exchange Event!! I hope everyone has a good crismis and happy new years! Bye--
None of these drawings have seen the light outside my tablet safe-file-- That might change soon.
Also, most of these are Concepts:tm: and character profiles for the world of AUs that live in my head rent-free.
2026 Resolution:
- Post more art online even if it's scary as fuck and makes me want to die. Or throw up.
Template I used is: Here.
✨My FMA sketches collection….wow I did a lot of work in this 3 months ✨
But I think we need more sillies
Who's Hotter? Kick Ass Women
Who's Hotter?
Shego (Kim Possible)
Sarah Connor (Terminator)
Noi (Dorohedoro)
Revy (Black Lagoon)
Ahsoka (Star Wars)
Black Widow (Marvel)
Yor Forger (Spy x Family)
Olivier Mira Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Sypha Belnades (Castlevania)
Karlach (Baldur's Gate 3)
I miss all of my ocs :'( I have to create shit for them to see them so its my fault but still
waiter waiter..! more oc art that no one will understand except for me please..!
Rewatching fmab for the 134th time. Omg, I love these scenes
having a favorite oc is so embarrassing like hey guys heres a drawing of them. here’s another one. bet you can’t guess what the next drawing is about. here they are again. hey check out this scene i wrote about them. haha drew them again. you won’t believe who i just drew
some oc scribbles rom tonight
Rewatching fmab for the 134th time. Omg, I love these scenes
