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are you learning japanese to play vidya? how's it going? so far im only done with hiragana / katakana and set up anki for vocabulary along with a grammar textbook online

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm guessing this doesn't mean a mmf threesomeand instead is something like your half sibling on your dad's side

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It actually means to make fun of, frick with, or bully someone.
      You can also write it as woman-man-woman, but the only place I've seen that is Monster Girl Quest.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >he doesn't know 嬲
    ngmi

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      should be the opposite, I would pop a boner eveytime I read that

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Too difficult, gave up at kata/hiragana

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    AJATT is not optional

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Then what is.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Autistic.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Doing okay, just started again as a break from school studying. Reset Anki and am slowly working through my old cards. Picked up a few eroge VNs and trying to find something that fits my low skill level.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Awesome as always, its not that difficult honestly, its just time consuming and can be a bit dry at times, just consume the content you want and you will get there eventually

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer 嫐

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    is there an all-in-one website to learn japanese or something I dont want everything scattered in different places

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Some anon posted https://learnjapanese.moe/routine/ which lines up with the path I stumbled upon when I tried to do it all myself. Except it took me about 6 months to figure everything out cause I kept going back and forth. If I started with it and stuck with it I'd be much further than I am now.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Middle school girl sex?
        Yes officer, right here

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Middle school girl sex?
        Yes officer, right here

        >Middle school

        Your reps, bro...

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Chat GPT has memory and context awareness which current MTLs lack and are why machine TLs are bad. Not long before someone makes a GPT MTL texthooker that is "good enough" for most games.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    if nobody cared to translate it then the game is shit

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Almost done with Tae Kim's grammar guide, kinda hard to force myself to study everyday since my discipline is shit. I just got done setting up a texthooker so I'm going to try reading a vn soon.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I reset my WK last week and am almost up to level 3.
    Listened to a Japanese song and managed to recognize a vocab I learned which felt pretty good.
    Can't wait to get filtered by grammar again. Wish there was a WK for grammar.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You don't learn grammar by studying, idiot. You learn it by observing and feeling. I know five different languages and never have I bothered to study grammar for any of them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I know five different languages
        No you don't.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        bullshit, don't lie to me

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm pretty sure you studied grammar and just didn't notice it.
        "Observing and feeling", whatever feeling means here, are a form of study.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I learn grammar, but I don't study it. The same way you wouldn't say that babies study language, they simply learn it through observation and imitation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Oh look, it's a baby!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bunpo and Bunpro (2 different things) are decent.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    All the games I was mad were never brought over to the west ended up sucking. Feels like I wasted my time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The really good games aren't the shit sequels to shit games, they're the games you never even heard of.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    can't you just learn hiragana and katakana and be good enough? do you really HAVE to learn kanji?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Reading Kanji is basically just understanding street signs. You'll get an instinctual feeling for them after a big of studying.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Most words are written in kanji, so you would be essentially illiterate if you didn't learn kanji.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      don't bother if you're not going to learn kanji

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yes
      necessity of kani will become immediately apparent when you try to read full texts entirely in kana, especially when they're unspaced

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        kani necessary ToT

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you're not devoted enough to go balls deep with Japanese then I recommend at least learning katakana since they use a lot of loan words from English you can recognize with it.
      Kanji is absolutely necessary to read Japanese though since some words have the same pronunciation or are made of the same hiragana.

      人工 and 人口 both share a similar reading of じんこう but represent drastically different things for example.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >人工 and 人口 both share a similar reading of じんこう but represent drastically different things for example.
        What moronic language gave birth to this

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Was spoken with multiple dialects before a written language (kanji) was introduced from China.
          Pic shows right to left its transition

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          every language has homophones brainlet

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >set set
          >I eye
          >won one
          >hi high
          etc

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yo, lets get down to games. Someone suggest some games for yochien level japanese.

      Do you HAVE to get a pc or console or smart phone to play video games?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Playing through Rance 3 and muv-luv at the moment

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    real answer - spend all that time learning mandarin instead
    >chink chang chong!!
    you know im right

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I thought about learning other chink languages but they all sound really ugly

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      will it help me get a job in shanghai, taiwan etc.?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      unironically am planning to learn mandarin after im fluent enough in japanese

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        good luck anon, it will actually help you a lot more than japanese despite that one screencap people post every time someone brings up mandarin

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >mandarin
        Just say Chinese

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          cantonese which is spoken in hong kong is different, and there are some more types

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Exactly, which is why we should silently erase other Chinese languages by signaling Mandarin as the default.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              honestly it would be cool if they just spoke mandarin in all regions

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, hopefully soon we'll all be speaking Mandarin around the world.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It's not just chinese though, racist frick.

            Based posts make sure you say High German when you say you're learning German, Parisian for French and Castillian for Spanish and Kanto Japanese not just Japanese.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              KANTOOO japanese

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I kanto raan japaneez

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              personally, I'm learning New Yorker English

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's not just chinese though, racist frick.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is there a reason why we cant have one jp thread without morons saying to learn something else instead for whatever reason
      i dont care about whats more useful or "better" to learn, i wanna learn fricking nihongo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Exactly, which is why we should silently erase other Chinese languages by signaling Mandarin as the default.

      honestly it would be cool if they just spoke mandarin in all regions

      Yeah, hopefully soon we'll all be speaking Mandarin around the world.

      based posts brothers!

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what are some fun intermediate jp games? i can read easy stuff like flying witch, yotsuba, axanael, articles on https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/ without any trouble, looking for stuff maybe a step above these things in difficulty

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is Duolingo a good way to learn Japanese?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know anyone who has gotten good with duolingo

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        duolingo is terrible for like every language, I started learning my own language there as a joke and the course was terrible

        Ok then how else should I do it? I'm guessing if you actually want to get decent all the worthwhile services you have to pay for, right?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah, im willing to pay if it gets the job done well but I cant seem to find any good website at all

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          first learn hiragana/katakana. This should only take a few days to a week. If you can bother finishing that then you should move on to asking what to do next. Most people get filtered by hiragana.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            well yeah, but WHERE do I learn hiragana/katakana

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I started learning japanese with the tae kim guide years back. It's not perfect but it's better than any paid service apps.
              https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/hiragana

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I used this website for hiragana katakana
              https://realkana.com/

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              i'll give you this one https://realkana.com/study/
              but apart from that, learn to google

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/
              https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/

              It took me 4 days to learn both using this site. Just don't skip the practice sections.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            My memory is bad, especually visual. Still don't remember some vovel sounds, in katakana especially. Reading sometimes involves guessing vovels like in ancient hebrew or egyptian text. Learning japanese on and off since like 2002. As you can imagine, kanji are a shitshow too. Still can read easy-ish stuff.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          use https://learnjapanese.moe/routine/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      duolingo is terrible for like every language, I started learning my own language there as a joke and the course was terrible

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No. Wanikani is a good site but it only teaches you words with kanji. No grammar or kana-only words.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's good for giving you a very very basic and general idea of what the language is like, but when i used it they didn't even fricking teach you katakana and the grammar explanations were practically useless.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Duolingo can help with SOME of the drilling for basic character up to limited kanji, and round out vocabulary and grammar that you don't have, but it's absolutely not viable by itself.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone should learn the language with the things that interest them. If you don't, you will not get far.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The problem is that the stuff im interested in is way too difficult for my baby-tier skill level

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A lot of people here recommend learnjapanese.moe but that method for me feels like a bad shortcut and wont give you a solid foundation. It basically comes down to reading visual novels with a translator extension and hope you learn through repetition and osmosis. It's for the people who want to jump right in without putting in actual work.
    -Get the Genki textbooks and workbooks. They're the best beginner textbooks.
    TokiniAndy has a great YouTube channel with lessons to self teach using the books. He has a patreon too which isnt necessary but has a lot of extra help for the exercises and pronunciations with his japanese wife.
    -Wanikani worked best for kanji for me personally. There are other methods like Kanji Learner's Course but that's mostly brute force memorization with a notebook instead of an app.
    -intermediate level is Tobira or Quartet textbooks. TokiniAndy has videos on these as well. At this point you'll be able to read a good enough chunk that you can easily look up what you dont know yet, which will be a lot until you have enough vocab down.
    -grammar resources will the mentioned textbooks, Tae Kim, bunpo, and bunpro.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      To me it comes down to time & dedication. I agree that if you have a lot of free time and are a serious student then using the textbooks is a million times better long term. But I'm a lazy shit and don't see myself getting through multiple textbooks without seeing some sort of progress, so having the moe guide works better for me since like you said I get to jump into it and see results. All that said I do plan to go back and use some of the resources that you mentioned once I'm done with school.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Been playing Dragon Quest 11 and reading every single line of text there is. It's taking me a fair while (currently at 190 hrs) but I am making noticeable progress.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      how hard is it? never played a dragon quest game before, is it moron friendly in its vocabulary?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Grammar is N4 to N3, I'd say, but mostly the former. Overall relatively simple sentence structures. There's a lot of vocab you won't know unless you've played other fantasy games in Japanese before, which was the case for me. But a lot of those specific words appear more than once, so you'll memorize them after a while, there's few words which only appear once, which is nice. There's furigana and spaces between individual sentence parts, so that makes reading relatively simple. No voice acting for the majority of dialogue, which is a bummer.
        Keep in mind, the first 100 hours of my playtime where on the PC version with the Japanese fan patch, which at the time didn't have furigana, so my playtime is vastly inflated by me having to look up every single kanji I didn't know. So someone on the same skill level as I, who played with the updated fan patch or with the Japanese Switch version from the beginning on, would probably be done by now.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I also recommend buying a kanji poster as motivation. You'll quickly see your knowledge expanding and they wont feel so overwhelming and daunting. It's a great tracking tool.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Children can learn them however

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          japanese / chinese children are built different

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No they just spend all their time learning them

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just get a jap gf to translate for you

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      she looks chinese though

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    am 32 and i just passed the N3 test. I wasted 2 years of my life for this, i want my time back.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      this is why you dont waste time on a dead language

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i thought i was going to be able to get a job from home.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >dead language
        brainlet cope

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          chinese is the future

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bro you only learn this language for the JRPGs and fetish hentai games

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thinking of getting back into this. Is Tae Kim and Core2k still the best way?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      read

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >read 1 line
        >spend 99% of the time deciphering shit
        I absolute hate this muh read meme.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          works on my machine

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lot of niche words depending on the genre you play (like fantasy) which are useless outside of the save file. Over-emotional/Larp dialogue like in anime or JRPG is obviously not going to get you a job outside of English Teacher. It’ll take a month the translate past the tutorial if there isn’t furigana. Better to learn through manga until like N3 level (~8y/o nip) then switch to Novels imo. Don’t worry about speaking Japanese btw their population is old and deaf

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Event fantasy games will teach you a lot of normal Jap vocab.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >the kanji for '' noisy '' is just 3x kanjis for '' woman ''

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it is actually "firehead"

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >kanji for "little" looks like an adult man and two e-girls lying in bed together

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >the kanji for "homosexual" looks like (You)

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    木 林 森 𣛧 𣡕 𣡽

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They can't keep getting away with it!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >𣛧 𣡕 𣡽
      >japanese

      Also 樹木

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is my favorite kanji.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I swear to god if that's a real kanji

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, I learned hiragana and katakana and I'm currently on WK level 3. Kanji is a bit of a slog because of all the special cases for the pronounciation but I'm pushing through. Still not sure how and when to start doing grammar though.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No but I want to try again someday, still want to play Uncharted Waters Gaiden/Daikoukai Jidai

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Tell me about your anki reps, guy in his late 20s who thinks he's gonna make it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      At lest I don't moderate an imageboard L M A O!!!

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