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People on Internet need to learn what loanwords are. I'm begging you all to look it up. People are not mispronouncing words from other languages when using them in english sentences, adapting words to fit with your language phonemes is normal, it's not disrespectful, the same word when put in an other language will be pronounced differently, it work like that with every languages. The only cases where it can be disrespectful is with names.

#languages #loan words

werewolf-cuddles

Male positivity does not detract from female positivity

Reblog if you agree

serotonin-simp

addition: if you need to bring down another gender, you’re clearly suffering from self-confidence issues

tokidokitokyo

16 and 23?

Thank you for the ask!

Langblr asks

16. Vocab word you are struggling with right now:

If I had a nickel for every vocabulary word I was struggling with I would be so rich...

But at the current moment (other than every word I read more than once in a novel) I would say I am struggling with body parts:

腕　うで　arm

肘　ひじ　elbow

膝　ひざ　knee

The kanji for these always throw me off...

23. How did you get into languages?

I grew up speaking only English, but many people around me spoke Spanish. I knew that foreign languages existed and that other people spoke them, but I didn't have the opportunity to learn a second language until I was in elementary school, where I took French over one summer.

I loved learning this new language and I was fascinated by the different words and how to put together the puzzle of the language as I learnt more. I was also fascinated with learning more about the culture of the people who spoke the language, and I think that understanding that communication could occur in a different language really interested me from that point. I didn't continue with French, but I think that that was my starting point for being exposed to learning foreign languages.

mosswall

"English doesn't really have any equivalent whatsoever to Japanese honorifics, so we just completely leave them out of our subtitles because there's no way that our English-speaking audience could possibly grasp their significance in explaining these character's relationship with each other"

There is a character named Robert Thomson.

At work, he's known as Robert by his coworkers and Thomson by his boss. At home, the people in his neighborhood call him Rob. His parents, spouse, and closest friends call him Robbie. His best friend from childhood calls him Robbie and also sometimes calls him Roberto. The children in his neighborhood call him Mr. Rob but when he does volunteer work at the library the kids there call him Mr. Thomson. Children in the wild who don't know him personally call him sir. When he goes to anywhere with reception, he's typically addressed as Thomson.

So explain to me again why English speaking audiences can't grasp that those kids are calling that woman Oneechan because she's a young adult woman that they aren't personally acquainted with, and more importantly why you chose to localize that to her given name and not the equivalent of "Miss" or even "Miss Given Name"? Because if your goal is to replicate the experience that the original Japanese audience would have with those characters, you're failing spectacularly. Because now not only do you have a bunch of kids going around calling adults by their given names when in the original language they're calling them a cultural equivalent to Miss or Mister, but your insistence on removing all honorifics and just using names means that there's no absolutely zero difference in the way a person is addressed by the people closest to them and total strangers. Which is not only wildly inaccurate to how the Japanese audience would experience that, it's not even that accurate to English, either.

gsirvitor

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disgruntled-neighborhood-wife

Stop dehumanizing.

disgruntled-neighborhood-wife

I mean it. Stop putting quotes around the word people when describing those who are bad or evil. Stop calling them "things." You're letting them off the hook. People do wicked things; that doesn't make them less of a person, because people are indeed capable of wickedness.

miss-nerd-alert

It doesn’t matter what political party, religion, ethnicity, nationality, age, or gender you are, you NEED to be able to acknowledge the humanity of those around you. Yes, even the people you don’t like. Yes, even the people you disagree with. Yes, even the people you would literally rather chew broken glass than spend time with.

We’re all people. We’re all the same on that basic, fundamental level. Even when we have absolutely nothing else in common, we have that.

個性強めの住民達によるドラマのような爆笑ゲーム！トモダチコレクション新生活【3DS】#5

※荒らし防止のためにチャット欄は登録者限定モードにしています。😭（ちょっとこの仕様で様子見てみます）こんばんは、せなくまです🧸トモコレ#5です🌈前回ちゃちゃみんが夫婦になり住宅街にお家がたちました💛”他にも前回交流しきれていない新たな住民さんがいるのでその子達との交流もめっちゃ楽

#tomodachi life #トモダチコレクション新生活 #せなくまチャンネル #japanese #日本語 #日本語で聞く #listening practice #listening comprehension #comprehensible input #immersion #video games #ゲーム #実況 #実況プレイ #videos

ポケモンたちと夢のスローライフ！#1【ぽこあポケモン】

たたたたたのしみすぎ21時まで待ちきれないので前倒します!ごめん＼🎈チャンネル登録・高評価ありがとう🎈／・配信と関係のない発言や視聴者さん同士の過度な会話はお控えください・同じ内容のコメントの連投はお控えください・迷惑をおかけしたくないため、当チャンネルをほかの場所で上げないでく

#japanese #日本語 #せなくまチャンネル #ポケモン #pokemon #pokemon pokopia #ぽこあポケモン #日本語で聞く #listening practice #listening comprehension #comprehensible input #immersion #video games #ゲーム #実況 #実況プレイ #videos

JP vs EN | 151 Pokemon from Gen1 Name Comparison!

#japanese #日本語 #pokemon #ポケモン #video games #ゲーム #kazuki #videos #Youtube

nihongoseito

today's random (and yet somehow romance-themed?) vocab

nouns:

修羅場（しゅらば） = fighting scene, scene of carnage/bloodshed; difficulties (in romance) (colloquialism)

カマトト = feigning ignorance, pretense of naïveté

スパダリ = ideal man, eligible bachelor (wasei-eigo)

〜狂（きょう） = ~ enthusiast, ~-head

ご褒美（ほうび） = prize, reward

セイム（性夢） = wet dream (may be censored)

物言い（ものいい） = manner of speaking

verbs:

掻き乱す（かきみだす） = to disturb, upset, ruffle, mess up

煽る（あおる） = to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to instigate, incite, agitate

勿体ぶる（もったいぶる） = to put on airs, be self-important, stand on dignity

がっつく = to be greedy, devour greedily

すっぽ抜ける（ぬける） = to slip out (e.g., from one's fingers)

adjectives:

後ろめたい（うしろめたい） = guilty (feeling, conscience, look, etc.)

気配り（きくばり）上手（じょうず）な = (good at being) thoughtful, considerate of others

adverbs/onomatopoeiae:

こってり = thickly, heavily, richly

expressions:

気（き）のない = half-hearted, dispirited, indifferent

似た（にた）もの夫婦（ふうふ） = married couple with similar dispositions; like husband, like wife

大口（おおぐち）を叩く（たたく） = to talk a big game, boast, exaggerate

#japanese #日本語 #vocabulary #単語 #nouns #名詞 #verbs #動詞 #adjectives #い adjectives #な adjectives #形容詞 #adverbs #副詞

meowbrown

バッチリ vs. ぴったり

I was trying to use 見てもらえる and 見かける in my diary today, as I recently just had a note on 見かける.

I was curious if I used it correctly so I asked AI for feedback and then checked with my Japanese teacher.

For my use of 見てもらえる, the feedback was 一番ぴったりです。

For 見かける, the feedback was 「見かけた（noticed/spotted）」と言うのは、過去形でバッチリです！

So I was curious what was the difference between バッチリ and ぴったり

ぴったり: Used when a word "fits" a situation perfectly. It’s all about the match.

バッチリ: Used when you "nailed it." My grammar was correct, so the result was spot on.

ぴったり is about alignment, バッチリ is about success/outcome.

ぴったり is also very common when talking about whether a physical size or space fits, for example:

この靴は私にぴったりです。 These shoes fit me perfectly.

#japanese #日本語 #grammar #文法

nihongoseito

tonight's random vocab

nouns:

伸び代（のびしろ） = room for growth, potential, promise

煩悩（ぼんのう） = worldly desires, evil passions, appetites of the flesh

早（はや）とちり = jumping to a wrong conclusion

控え（ひかえ） = reserve, spare, backup

断裂（だんれつ） = snapping apart

朗報（ろうほう） = good news, glad tidings

腫れ物（はれもの）扱い（あつかい） = walking on eggshells (around someone), treating (someone) with great caution (so as not to anger or upset them)

verbs:

意気込む（いきごむ） = to be enthusiastic (about), intent (on)

断つ（たつ） = to abstain (from), give up

かがむ = to stoop, lean over; to crouch, squat

expressions:

とて = even if, even though (literary)

〜臭（しょう） = smelling of ~; smacking of ~, hinting of ~

身（み）を引く（ひく） = to resign, abandon, step away (from)

#japanese #日本語 #vocabulary #単語 #nouns #名詞 #verbs #動詞

tackytumbleson

OH how SATISFYING to see a word like 外交 in a sentence, think "hmmm ive never seen this word before but it must be pronounced がいこう and mean diplomacy right?" and be CORRECT

and the more you know the language the more often this happens!!!!!!!

【Part１】Resident Evil RE2 / バイオハザードRE2