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Japanese never stops being full of surprises. 😁
I was wondering about ロコミ (rokomi) today, meaning word-of-mouth, but these days mostly "online review".
It turns out it's a (deliberate) mis-spelling of 口コミ (kuchikomi), with the same meaning, except 口コミ actually makes sense (the kanji 口 means mouth, and the katakana コミ is short for communication).No idea how this came to be, but language (and slang) is endlessly fascinating and exasperating in equal measures... 🤷
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#WaniKani レベル三十三 / Level 33 ✅ 🎌
#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する -
#WaniKani レベル三十三 / Level 33 ✅ 🎌
#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する -
🕹️🚂 Oh wow, a digital train set where you can pretend to learn Japanese while a virtual Tokyo politely ignores you. It's like #Duolingo and #Minecraft had a baby, but with fewer dragons and more #kanji you won't remember. 🎮🎌
https://jivx.com/densha #digitaltrainset #learningjapanese #virtualtokyo #HackerNews #ngated -
🕹️🚂 Oh wow, a digital train set where you can pretend to learn Japanese while a virtual Tokyo politely ignores you. It's like #Duolingo and #Minecraft had a baby, but with fewer dragons and more #kanji you won't remember. 🎮🎌
https://jivx.com/densha #digitaltrainset #learningjapanese #virtualtokyo #HackerNews #ngated -
Been learning Japanese and kanji for the past month or so via Mango and WaniKani. Started off the right way, learning all of hiragana and katakana via Anki before I did anything else.
Japanese is kind of hard, but kanji are hard. It's incredible to me that there's an entire country and culture where basic literacy requires you to learn thousands of characters, each of which have multiple pronunciations and often multiple meanings.
#Japanese #LearningJapanese #Mango #MangoApp #WaniKani #Anki
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Been learning Japanese and kanji for the past month or so via Mango and WaniKani. Started off the right way, learning all of hiragana and katakana via Anki before I did anything else.
Japanese is kind of hard, but kanji are hard. It's incredible to me that there's an entire country and culture where basic literacy requires you to learn thousands of characters, each of which have multiple pronunciations and often multiple meanings.
#Japanese #LearningJapanese #Mango #MangoApp #WaniKani #Anki
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#Writing, #Knitting, #LearningJapanese, #Taekwondo... I have too many hobbies, yet I don't want to give up on any of them. This has prompted me to consider what I want from each of these activities and where my priorities actually lie.
I will share more in my #newsletter post for July.
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#Writing, #Knitting, #LearningJapanese, #Taekwondo... I have too many hobbies, yet I don't want to give up on any of them. This has prompted me to consider what I want from each of these activities and where my priorities actually lie.
I will share more in my #newsletter post for July.
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#Japanese #LanguageLearning #pronunciation #voice #learningJapanese
So I started taking speaking lessons for Japanese. A teacher is helping me with my voice, pronunciation and intonation.
It turns out that I've been speaking with "an english like voice" the whole time. I use my voice box too much, and I should have been using my breath more.
Normal speech in Japanese is something between speaking (all voice) and a whisper (all breath).
On top of that, my tongue was in the wrong position the whole time. It should have been further to the back, almost touching the back of my throat.
When I put it in the right place and speak, the teacher says I sound a lot better but it feels super unnatural to do. I'm just not used to speaking from that position.
I think I need to just get used to it, almost closing the throat with the tongue means the air vibrates more in the mouth and that compensates for the voice box doing less work.
Next goals are:
- Getting used to speaking from the right position
- Learning to hear the difference in my speech
- Learning to hear it in other speech (there's like a vibratey buzzy quality in english that is largely absent in Japanese) -
#Japanese #LanguageLearning #pronunciation #voice #learningJapanese
So I started taking speaking lessons for Japanese. A teacher is helping me with my voice, pronunciation and intonation.
It turns out that I've been speaking with "an english like voice" the whole time. I use my voice box too much, and I should have been using my breath more.
Normal speech in Japanese is something between speaking (all voice) and a whisper (all breath).
On top of that, my tongue was in the wrong position the whole time. It should have been further to the back, almost touching the back of my throat.
When I put it in the right place and speak, the teacher says I sound a lot better but it feels super unnatural to do. I'm just not used to speaking from that position.
I think I need to just get used to it, almost closing the throat with the tongue means the air vibrates more in the mouth and that compensates for the voice box doing less work.
Next goals are:
- Getting used to speaking from the right position
- Learning to hear the difference in my speech
- Learning to hear it in other speech (there's like a vibratey buzzy quality in english that is largely absent in Japanese) -
A little WaniKani in-joke 😁
#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する
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Watching the latest episode of 田鎖ブラザーズ (Tagusari Bros.), I noticed I'm finally picking up the different levels of polite speech I struggled with for so long (I still do, but it's a start 😅).
When one detective asks a medical examiner if she can talk to him for a moment, she asks 少しお話しいただけますか。 Later on, another detective asks a 19-year old the same question, but this time it's ちょと話せるか。
I take it as a good sign that I'm noticing these subtleties now (although I'm sure Japanese people do not consider them subtleties 😉).
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Doodle
Dodo in che senso stai imparndo il giapponese?
#doodle #japanese #イラスト #learningjapanese -
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 🤦
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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 🤦
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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.
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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.
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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. 😅
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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. 😅
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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 😁
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2017/03/06/language/belly-nice-nasty-many-uses-hara-japanese/
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#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！
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#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！
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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)
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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. 😂
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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) -
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 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?
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CW: Spoilers for 君の膵臓を食べたい
I am listening to the audiobook right now.
Still near the beginning
One thing, if she's terminally ill why is she still going to school? Is it just to keep her secret?
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CW: Spoilers for 君の膵臓を食べたい
I am listening to the audiobook right now.
Still near the beginning
One thing, if she's terminally ill why is she still going to school? Is it just to keep her secret?
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For Japanese learners: a survey on how you feel about loan words. https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLMbbVG5eHDbQkS
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For Japanese learners: a survey on how you feel about loan words. https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLMbbVG5eHDbQkS
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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
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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.
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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). 🤪
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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). 🤪
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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)
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🍡 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
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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
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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
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Experimenting/building a space invaders-like game experience, so I can practice reading hiragana
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TIL that 探す and 捜す both read さがす and both mean "to search", but 探すmeans searching for something you want, and 捜す means searching for something you lost. 🤯
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I learnt the term 親展 (confidential, as in "confidential document") on WaniKani the other day, and today was the first time I could use it in an email to a colleague in our Tokyo office. 😅
