漢検ワーゲンを呼んで下さい！

日本語を学うのは本当に危ないですよ！！ｗｗｗ🥲

[tacoroach]

🌊Great (Vapor)wave 🌊😎

[kankenwagen]

Thank you to the amazing Ambur (@tacoroach) for allowing me to use her cool interpretation of the Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏) by 葛飾 北斎 (Katsushika Hokusai) as an icon. I love it! Check out their other work!

[buried-in-stardust]

Writing 順風順水順財神 with two brushes: "Wishing everything (life, work, making money) goes well".

The inscription on the left is the year (丙午; 2026), season (春月; spring), and OP's username (其人書者). The year is written using the 60-year cycle calendar 干支 (gan1zhi1), so it could refer to 2026, 1966, etc.

[kankenwagen]

[unusual]

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

[unusual]

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

[yuureigrrl]

熊 👈🏻 this is the Japanese Kanji for Bear.

猫👈🏻 this is the Japanese Kanji for Cat

Both of them together 熊猫 is Bear Cat.

Guess what 熊猫 (Bear Cat) means, I haven’t stopped laughing since.

[chouhatsumimi]

Katakana quiz: シック

Can you guess what this is in English?

Hint below the cut!

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One more hint: this word wasn't originally English, either.

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Answer: "chic"

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Bonus katakana!

マッチポンプ: 'match pump', = "stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution"

(from English [UK...?], lighting a match and then putting it out with a water pump)

[apas-95]

[goodplan-ipromise]

[daily-hyosatsu]

An archaic variant today! The surname 國岡 is read Kunioka, and it belongs to only about 190 people, BUT, with a simpler kanji, 国岡 belongs to about 1400.

國 means country, nation, or state. It's read くに or コク. The radicals are 囗 enclosure, 戈 halberd, and 口 mouth (if two of those look indistinguishable, that's okay).

国 has the same meanings and readings as 國. They are relatively interchangeable, but 國 is used almost exclusively in proper nouns. The other difference is the radicals inside 囗 enclosure, which are 王 king, and 丶 dot.

岡 means mount, hill, or knoll. It’s read おか or コウ. It also has an enclosure radical, 冂 the upside-down box, as well as 山 mountain. Which you can remember because a hill is a mountain small enough to fit under a box.

[hamusuke-japanese-learning]

I have collected the four most basic Japanese verbs.

[warau-okami]

Allergies

アレルギー: allergy (ger: Allergie)

アトピー: atopic; predisposition toward allergies

アレルギー症状/アレルギーしょうじょう [アレルギーしょうじょう] allergy symptoms

ナッツアレルギー: nut allergy

食物アレルギー[しょくもつアレルギー]food allergy

ペニシリンアレルギー: penicillin allergy

アレルフリー: allergy-free

[daisukoth]

wait what-

The achievement for listening to GLaDOS, and going into her trap is called "Good Girl" in the (brazilian) portuguese version...

[minecraft]

I'm at a :.|:; for words.

[shodaisatellite]

[soaplily119]

i love knowing how to read katakana in japanese because while my reading level may be that of a kindergartener in it, its still fun to read something and be like omg i know what that says!

even if its like chocolate cake and it says it in english right next to the japanese

[apollosbirthdayplaylist]

米津玄師/ Kenshi Yonezu announced his sixth album 'Lost Corner' to be released August 21st!

[kankenwagen]

I've been training my whole life for this

[clannfearrunt]

I love yokai so much

[robotlyra]

THIS IS IT, THE BEST CRYPTID

[vedajuno]

Emperor of Kyoto: We have a thief! Which one of you ate my breakfast before it arrived?!

Servant Who Definitely Ate All The Emperor’s Breakfast: Oh you’ve never heard of the Breakfast Bird??