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Ryan Barnes
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Jonathan Ortiz
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Josiah Clark
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Asher Foster
I'm watching Uchuu Kyoudai with jap subs, after finishing the jlpt5 and 4 anki decks
Dominic Sanchez
I've been using Kanji Study to start from zero and I'm already at 55 hiragana almost fully memorized after three days. When I'm able to do the test and score it perfectly, I'll move into katakana and when I'm done with that, I'll start grinding Anki. I read on the last thread that Anki Damage is a good deck to use, right?
I also have Tae Kim but I'm saving that for later.
Jonathan Perry
>leaving grammar for later
>straight to anki instead of reading stuff
Never gonna make it
Gavin Cook
But grammar is easy isn't it?
Mason Brooks
Why do weeaboos want to learn japanese? Is it solely to watch anime/ play japanese games? I know they're not actually going out and using it in the real world.
Isaiah Smith
Grammar is easy as shit. Basically, you need to know
は、が、を、に、へ、だ、and various verb tenses and you're practically able to understand the basics of most sentences.
Hunter Long
Because why not?
Sebastian Foster
It's fun to learn new languages and I've always wanted to translate loli doujinshi.
Christopher Perry
Isn't anki word memorization? I want to focus on memorizing and identifying words before moving into grammar. Just did my repeats in Kanji Study and I got 54 of 56 strokes right so I'm happy, I'm starting with the M now.
>Is it solely to watch anime/ play japanese games?
Yes. But on the bigger spectrum, learning a third language can open a lot of opportunities for me. And me as a native spanish speaker, the reason why I learned english since young was to play games in english and it now helps me on a professional level, so I'm planning to do the same with japanese at some point.
Asher Wright
Degenerate
David Johnson
Yes. I can't imagine learning a language to fucking speak it, how much of a casual can you be?
Eli Clark
I'm a degenerate that can read at a loli's reading-level, yes.
Isaiah Barnes
Not really. The real problem though, is that vocabulary resources will probably teach you retarded shit like 分かる meaning "understand", and then give you an example sentence like この本が分かりません and tell you it means "I don't understand this book". And if you don't know the grammar you won't understand why this is bullshit and you'll never actually learn.
Thomas Clark
i get practice reading what jap artists on twitter post
Joshua Cruz
nuh-uh
I plan to talk to lolicon artists at Comiket one day
Mason Allen
>The real problem though, is that vocabulary resources will probably teach you retarded shit like 分かる meaning "understand", and then give you an example sentence like この本が分かりません and tell you it means "I don't understand this book". And if you don't know the grammar you won't understand why this is bullshit and you'll never actually learn.
literally me
whats wrong with that sentence?
Jeremiah Hughes
i already learnt english and now wanted to learn another but i dont give a fuck about eurocuck languages
Nolan Butler
yab
Xavier Baker
So why don't nips just use hiragana with spaces, again? The more I think about it the more inefficiently retarded kanj seems, but probably I'm the retard. Is it really "muh tradition" and "muh homophones" even though they can understand each other while speaking?
Nicholas King
Comiket is a lot of fun but Jesus Christ I can only imagine the smell of summer Comiket on day 3. Winter Comiket's much nicer since it's colder, but regardless you'll be nut-to-butt with a bunch of people. Also bring a small foldable chair to sit in and come really, really early on the last day of Comiket. Also bring a cheap bag to store/hide your loli smut in.
Justin Thompson
heh
Hunter Cook
Because Japan has a metric ass-ton of words that have the same sound and it'd be too confusing guessing what the word is based on context clues.
Elijah Fisher
you can hold off on katakana for a few weeks. i started about 3 months ago and it's going shockingly smoothly already. I'd start reading tae kim right away, just blast thru it and see what sticks. people probably poo poo textbooks in the modern internet age but I've been steadily going thru genki to keep me grounded in the basics. in my beginners opinion, I'd say aggressively tackling kanji is a great way to open your mind up for vocabulary. i started wanikani day one. I do it everyday and ive just hit lv15 this morning. it has its flaws but as far as aggressively drilling kanji into you, its amazing.
i have enough vocab now that I find myself thinking something in english and then being able to construct the same thought in japanese. once you have a grasp on basic conjunctions and a nice pool of vocabulary, it gets really fun.
Thomas Sanders
cocky japs, if english is so simple then why can't they speak it?
Angel Wood
Same thing that goes for Japs when it comes to english.
Justin Hall
where do you get anime with japanese subs?
Asher Diaz
how do they understand each other when they talk? do they always have to clarify what they mean?
Parker Brooks
>wanikani
This one?
Andrew Taylor
I'm on day 39 of Pimsleur and have Genki coming in the mail. Moving onto kanji soon too once I have advanced Katakana memorized
Feeling really good lads.
Aiden Watson
Yes. That's a 3rd party app that will give you WaniKani access if you put in your key
Ethan Taylor
>taking you more than a month to learn katakana
Never gonna make it.
Xavier Jenkins
Huh, that does look like the wanikani interface but what's up with that name?
Carter Howard
I've been learning Hiragana and currently learning Katakana. I'm not looking forward to learning 2000 fucking Kanji symbols.
How the fuck do you
1. read kanji quickly when it's being flashed on screen like in a sign or a subtitle, those aren't exactly simplistic letters
2. find out what a kanji means, it's not like you can type in the word in google like with western alphabets, you'd need to know the actual symbol from a gallery of like 5000
Brody Hughes
nani?!
Colton Wood
I only started katakana a week ago and Hiragana the week before that. I'm at a reasonable pace.
Sebastian Peterson
Nothing is wrong with that sentence, if you were to translate it to English that would be how you do it. But you're not translating, you're learning. 分かる does not mean "understand". It would mean something more like "become clear" or "be understandable". You do not 分かる something, something 分かるs in relation to you. The book 分かるs, meaning the book "does understandable".
この本が分かりません
There is no "I" or "me" in this sentence. Only the book, which is marked by the が logical particle and thus the actor of the sentence, and the action the book is doing, which is the (polite) negative of 分かる, to be not-understandable.
The book does not-understandable (to me, to the speaker, this is implicit).
A lot of verbs do not have direct equivalents in English, because in English you would not "do" them but "be" them. You'll have to accept this difference and embrace it.
Dylan Young
The only European languages that matter are English and Spanish really