#learning-japanese — Public Fediverse posts

For #LearningJapanese I have an #anki deck full of Heisig's #Kanji meanings - showing the keyword so I have to draw the Kanji. I've been using it for literally years, and I still mess it up a lot.

It occurred to me that maybe I keep making mistakes because my deck is one-sided, so I decided to get a second deck that shows me the Kanji and forces me to identify the keyword.

Unfortunately, the second deck is from a later edition of the book, often with different keywords 🤦

Finally got my certificate for passing the Japanese Language Proficiency Test for the N4 level in December. Now I passed N5 and N4 with a year between them but N3 will not be that easy, or that fast.

#JLPT #JLPTN4 #learningjapanese #japanese

I usually think Japanese is a more poetic, or at least more complex, language than English or German (the only two languages I'm fluent in), but sometimes you find it's the other way around.

I came across 盗作 (tōsaku) today, meaning "plagiarism", and realised that I can't think of a native single English or German word for this, only the Latin-derived term.

盗作 on the other hand is nicely simple - 盗 means "steal" and 作 means "make" or "production", so 盗作 is stealing what someone has made or produced. Related, the 作 kanji is also used in 作家 (sakka), meaning "author". I like these terms because they're easy to remember. 😊

BTW, there is another tōsaku, but written with different characters (倒錯), meaning "perversion" - but this, as they say, is a story for another day. 😅

#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する

I always thought 腹が立つ was really weirdly funny (literally it means "the belly stands up", but the actual meaning is to get angry, or pissed off).

There's a few more 腹 uses in this article 😁

#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2017/03/06/language/belly-nice-nasty-many-uses-hara-japanese/

#LearningJapanese question:

I started reading Japanese books (and I much prefer physical books), and I'm wondering how people deal with finding kanji they don't yet know. Without knowing how they sound, I can't easily look them up - I use the Takoboto dictionary app, and this lets you manually write kanji, but with more complex ones that's very timeconsuming.

Ideally I'd like something that lets me point my phone camera at a kanji (or word containing one or more kanjis), and look it up that way.

I know I can use things like Google Translate with my phone camera, but that translates everything it sees, and I then have to dig around to find the original word/kanji I'm interested in.

Are there any (Android) apps I'm not aware of that would help with this, or any other tips? ありがとうございます！

#日本語 #日本語を勉強する
#Japanese

https://yomitan.wiki/ is SO USEFUL for learning japanese.... it tells you about inflections and explains them when you click on them, and also has an audio function!

10ten reader is awesome, but yomitan is leagues above even if it is a little more complicated to setup.

dunno if it's useful to anyone else but I discovered it last week and it's been significantly useful already.

#LearningJapanese #Dictionary #BrowserExtensions #BrowserExtension #Tool #日本語習う #imatotalnewbatjapanesepleasedontbeoffended

Got stumped once again by a katakana word: ハードル :neofox_think:

(although, to be fair, it's not as bad as ナレッジ)

#LearningJapanese #日本語

What is the Japanese cheesecake yoghurt trend?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmxsmbk

#Japanese #English #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #Japan #JapaneseCulture

I made it halfway through #WaniKani 🙌 🇯🇵

Just another few years and I'll get to the end. I just have to live long enough. And I already know what 地獄 means. 😂

#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する

Curious word of the day:

一回り年上 - twelve years older :neofox_book_owo:

#Japanese #LearningJapanese

Paid $5 and got Wagotabi (PlayStore and its on App store too) today and it's just super fantastic!
Thanks @farah !
Between WaniKani on web that I've started 12 days ago and this plus maybe a bit of Busuu to keep mixing it up and revision and maybe some new lessons I hope I can keep this up! I watched ½ the 1st episode of Shirokuma Cafe with English subtitles. Should repeat watch more of that (it's hilarious)

#LearningJapanese

cc @noplasticshower

https://beige.party/@farah/115863021563359786

#learningJapanese I use an #Anki deck for vocabulary and noticed that I seem to learn words more quickly if I encounter them somewhere else than if the program randomly feeds me one.

So I set Anki's words per day to "0" and instead manually activate words whenever I read them in a manga and have to look them up. I think that's going to work better?

For Japanese learners: a survey on how you feel about loan words. https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLMbbVG5eHDbQkS

#Japanese #LearningJapanese

フーディー

❌ foodie :neofox_nom_burger:
⭕ hoodie :neofox_comfy_happy:

#TIL #LearningJapanese

Why Japanese is far easier to learn than English, with one ‘notable’ exception

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/japanese-easier-than-english-with-one-exception

are Japanese people online writing プンオー instead of オープン now?

(writing “open” (as in a store’s grand opening) with the syallables reversed, like “peno”.)

if i don’t stay on top of this, the language is gonna turn into cockney rhyming slang while i’m not looking.

#japanese #japaneseLanguage #日本語 #learningJapanese

Shortened katakana words in Japanese are just the worst (but kind of fun, once you know them).

I came across スクショ today... So I think "sukusho", what on earth could that be? Turns out it's short for スクリーンショット (sukuriinoshotto, screen shot). 🤪

#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する

You think you know a kanji, and suddenly you get hit with a reading you haven't come across before :neofox_book_owo:

This time it's 合 in 合戦 (かっせん)

#LearningJapanese #kanji

🍡 Mochi Invaders 🍡 is now on the App Store
https://xenodium.com/mochi-invaders-now-on-the-app-store

#japanese #learningjapanese #learnjapanese #hiragana #katakana #kana #language #learning #ios #spritekit #iphone #indiedev #indie #swift #swiftui #spritekit

More tweaks to my invaders-like game experience, so I can practice reading hiragana (and now katakana).

It is now known as 🍡 Mochi Invaders 🍡 and submitted to the App Store for review 🤞

#japanese #learningjapanese #learnjapanese #hiragana #katakana #kana #language #learning #ios #spritekit #iphone #indiedev #indie

Updates to my invaders-like game experience, so I can practice reading hiragana (and now katakana).

#japanese #learningjapanese #learnjapanese #hiragana #katakana #kana #language #learning #ios #spritekit #iphone

Experimenting/building a space invaders-like game experience, so I can practice reading hiragana
#japanese #learningjapanese #learnjapanese #hiragana #katakana #kana #language #learning #ios #spritekit #iphone

Level 27 🙌 🇯🇵
#WaniKani #LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する

勉強 (べんきょう) になりました :neofox_laptop_notice:

https://youtu.be/1f9yNwJlOa0

#日本語 #ルビ #LearningJapanese