let me explain, I recently remembered a post where someone asked for help to understand a sentence, I don't remember what it said, but I do remember the comments and most of them were from people complaining because they were talking in a very informal way between friends and it's like "and you talk like royalty with your friends I guess" So back to the question, do you feel more formal in japanese? I'm not saying if you talk, because you do, you need to understand how formality works in japanese, but I'm referring to this case, which is a casual conversation between friends that you don't pa ..read more

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I've been doing this for a few years now (have around 11,000-12,000 flashcards), and I'm convinced it has the following benefits: less leeches in anki very consistently short review times overall increasing vocab retention rates This method takes some extra effort and won't be for everyone. This isn't really a tutorial on anki so I assume you already have that running (or some similar program). Overall Steps When you do anki, have notepad or something similar open if you get a card wrong once, that's fine, keep going. But, if you get any particular card wrong more than once, wri ..read more

As I was reading my manga I came across this type of pattern. Doesn't come up often but when it does I feel useless and can't decipher it properly without translations. There was a similar pattern but I forgot where I saw it or what it said but can you give me some insight into this? Some examples too please ?? submitted by /u/Null_sense [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I'm making this post to hopefully help someone, since the process is actually stupidly simple. Many tutorials involve pirating anime episodes, but with this process you can use official streams. Step 1) Download chrome extension "asbplayer" https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/asbplayer-language-learni/hkledmpjpaehamkiehglnbelcpdflcab?hl=en-US&utm_source=ext_sidebar Step 2) Download subtitles file from kitsunekko. Step 3) Open that anime from Crunchyroll etc. Step 4) Press Ctrl+Shift+F and select the subtitles file. You can easily customize the appearance of the subtitles with the asb ..read more

Assignment is to write about a prefecture, and what we want to do. Main goal is たりたりする, and たい forms. I used a couple unfamiliar kanji, and there’s a bit of experimental grammar parts that I haven’t been taught in class yet. Particularly concerned about the sentence towards the middle about a host family. Not anything super experimental, but more complex than I’ve been taught. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Kitchen_Film1904 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

https://i.imgur.com/tGMGLhi.png You can clearly see that I properly installed japanese yet when I switch to japanese mode it still types in english, I even tried switching to the last version for compatibility... submitted by /u/Shippou5 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

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Hey guys, I'm working on memorising my speech for a Japanese speech contest I'm attending and I've noticed a couple of particles that are bothering me. I have actually run the speech past my (native) Japanese teacher and he said it was good to go, but I wonder whether he just missed it and I only noticed it later, so I hadn't asked about this specifically in our lesson. The sentences that are bothering me are these: 日本語能力試験Ｎ２レベルの単語では、ある言葉があります。 留寿都の地域でＫＦＣがないのもかまわなかったんです。 Should I replace those with に(は)? Also, what's a good synonym for 素晴らしい when describing a place? Like in the sentence: "It ..read more

So I recently finished a period of kanji study (RTK, so keyword -> kanji only) and want to go on to just reading, no more flashcards, because flashcards suck. For now I'm using Satori Reader and NHK Web Easy with Yomitan for pop-up definitions and readings, looking up anything I'm not fairly confident about. Meanings seem to be going in okay, but readings seem to be going in very slowly. I try and remember them enough to read the sentence back in my head (so long as it's not too long/too many new words; I know a few common words from previous study so beginner material will often only have ..read more