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irascible-iridescent

果物 [kudamono] fruit

果て [hate] end, edge

果てる [hateru] ended, died

果たす [hatasu] do something, to accomplish

巣 [su] nest, rookery, breeding place, hive, den, (spider's) web

卵巣 [ransō] ovary

臭い [kusai] stinking, smelly

防臭剤 [bōshūzai] deodorant

臭気 [shūki] bad smell

体臭 [taishū] body odor, a distinguishing feature of your personal nature

果 - 巣 - 臭

fairycosmos

hey man i noticed you were locked outside of your own life and you haven’t been able to get back in

nihongoseito

あのさ、人生の鍵をナカに置いて行っちゃって締め出されててもう戻れなくなっちゃってるみたいなんだけど

rigelmejo

Japanese Youtubers Rec Lists

All linked from this reddit post made by redditor AdrixG.

My List (a ton of youtubers are on this list)

Some lists by other users linked on that post:

Japanese Media Recommendation List

Migaku's Spreadsheet

Podcast collection (also has learners podcasts)

Livakivi My 15 Favorite Japanese YouTubers For Learning Japanese

rinmatsuokas

agent-mcsweetheart

i saw a post earlier today and now i can’t find it but someone was like the only reason i get through studying is by saying “let’s go steal a grade” where they just imagine they’re doing research for a leverage con and they have to know all the information to pull it off successfully. I’m at my internship rn and i found the original score for the og show and redemption and let me tell you i have never been more productive

qqchurch

nihongo-ni-hon-yaku

that is ayase’s drawn-and-quartered anus in the profile pic /j

themysteriousmurasamecastle

sorcery-and-socialism

dogpuppy

rinmatsuokas

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

k-misc

sinscream

EVERYBODY!!!! WE LIVE!!! GAY PEOPLE ARE REALLLLLLLLLLLL

honestlyhardmilkshake

Every "new language learning technique that will change your life" just boils down to "Did you know that if you learn/practice the language you're learning you will get better at it?"

uovoc

brands usually try to choose transliterated names that have nice poetic connotations, like Google (谷歌/guge/"valley song"), but not all brands will bother to come up with a transliteration, so they get auto-assigned one by The Public, which doesn't care about PR and also has a sense of humor, and thus the official unofficial names include:

Trader Joe's - 缺德舅/quede jiu/"rotten uncle"

Whole Foods - 猴父子/hou fuzi/"monkey father and son"

Costco - 抠死抠/kousikou/"stingy as hell"

sladeofyaupon

Let the honorable mention go to Facebook - 非死不可 / fēi sǐ bù kě/ "absolutely must die"

im-mender

tumblr is officially transliterated as 汤博乐/tāngbólè, a phono-semantic matching with 博 from 博客 for blog and 乐 for enjoyment. but it's also popularly called 汤不热/tāng bù rè/"the soup is not hot"