Do you guys know whether using Anki's sync feature (which connects to Ankiweb's servers) will delete notes/cards they don't like? I feel like my immersion/mining deck is missing quite a few cards that had NSFW images in them (words that I got from reading hentai VNs or doujin). I'm pretty sure all of them were tagged with "nsfw" because the card format had the feature to blur tagged NSFW images so that you had to click/tap on them to view them, but none of the notes in my deck have the tag now. Pretty suspicious. Why would all the NSFW cards suddenly get deleted? I can only think that the sync server had some AI monitoring all people who use it to sync and deletes any content it sees as unacceptable.
Flew in to Sapporo. The modern art museum had a Pokemon x Traditional art exhibit, so I cosplayed as a Snorlax, though I did not put on a special outfit
>>50992400 Skinny, act genuinely feminine, and the faceblindness from the racial differences gives an artificial stat boost >>50992406 Ganbatte anon-kun
Does anyone have an issue with Anki displaying the incorrect backside of a card? It plays the correct audio but shows the wrong image / definition sometimes. Its only on desktop
How do you guys prevent yourselves from memorizing the card instead of the kanji itself? Do you write them on a piece of paper multiple times or just try to drill them in your head?
>>50995594 By furigana, do you mean the little emphasis dots placed above そういう関係? Yeah, they could be implying a degree of irony depending on the context.
>>50995687 I really should. I know just about everything there is to know about Japanese. I feel like people like Toromi are there reason everybody sucks. He gatekeeps people with just terrible advice and still pushes old learning methods because that's all he ever had to go off of. He's probably the worst speaker here when you count up all the hours he's spent trying to learn it lol
>>50996119 It's funny how much his method emphasizes listening when reading is far more important for comprehension. Reading is where the actual learning happens and listening is just the sum of what you know and your familiarity recognizing it.
>>50994732 So I've got to read vns yeah? >>50994852 I'm afraid to mess with the coding template in case I fuck up the deck and ruin whatever progress I currently have
I am curious, what is everyone's goal for learning Japanese For me, I had an original goal I completed and now I can't imagine not reading / watching every bit of japanese content in Japanese Are you working towards something irl, is it just for anime and manga for you, do you wanna meet japanese people online, is there untranslated works that interest you just curious
>>50997583 My goal was to go to Japan, Japan :ooo and here I am doing everything I can. Now I've been shown how deficient I truly am at Japanese [before, I was pretending I'm a superman], my goal now is for fluency so I can live here long term. And that will require immersionmaxxing.
>>50997684 Because only you are sad enough to keep bringing up your stupid physical purchases lol >omg guys I bought a manga from Japan >guyyyys I just learn better when it's physical!!!! >let's talk about buying things but in real life guyyyyys lmfao no one cars lil bromi
>>50997583 Being able to read manga/watch anime in the original language with no pozzed tranny localization shit Being able to speak one more language Visiting Japan and being able to move around with little to no issue Being one of the few fluent Japanese speakers in my country, which could and should lead to big job opportunities
>>50997772 Spam? lol >>50997775 There's not many Japanese speakers in any part of the world other than Japan, my dude. According to Ethnologue, it ranks as the 7th least spoken language L2 language in the world. Just below Levantine Arabic lmao
>>50998955 Ever watch Die Hard 3, where Bruce Willis has to wear the sign that says "nigger" on his body? That's a sandwich board. In Japan, they're more like a traveling band.
issue with japanese is that there are many kanji that are domain-specific like if you never drink tea, you are likely to never learn 茶 (which is why in japan students have to learn ALL kanji)
oh i get it you are just a retard who took the "all kanji" literally yeah, no fucking shit kids in japan dont learn literally ALL FUCKING 100,000 kanji in the history of the language that was a hyperbole
(btw i dont know how many total kanji there are, i just threw out 100,000 to make another hyperbole hope you are not retarded enough to take it literally again kek)
I don't know how to help beginners anymore Because when I was a beginner myself I never worried about learning how to learn or establishing proficient systems for learning or whatever I just learned So now that I'm not a beginner anymore I don't remember how a beginner learns
It's a problem for trying to start a new language where I would be a beginner again
And I feel like the reason "learn japanese" grifters are always changing what they think are the best methods is because they also stopped being beginners but are now trying to tailor their messages to beginners while also taking into account what they think is most important now that they're no longer beginners And there's no real reason to listen to them
>slowly getting to know my tutor >she works 2 jobs, tutoring is side gig for her >her main job, she doesnt get a day off, works 7 days a week >but she still poor she says Goddamn. I know Japanese work culture is brutal. Is that normal now..? I hope she gets a day off soon. Ive been ramping up our lessons too, I feel bad.
I don't want to make a separate thread about it, so I suppose here would be the most appropriate place. I'm applying to the METI internship, and I was wondering if anyone has had experience applying/being interviewed? Seems like it's mainly university students, so maybe my 35 year old ass with professional experience in the civil engineering industry has a shot?
Preply. I highly recommend. Having a tutor has greatly improved my learning. And talking to her is the highlight of my week. Just look around for a tutor that matches your budget, schedule a call, bang. You are probably have wake early for the time zone, but its worth it to get one from the source. My tutor in particular i really like cause she will narrate her thoughts in English/Japanese, so i get a peak into her thoughts process. I also like asking her cultural questions or language particulars
>>51000092 The best reading material is the material that you're interested in enough to struggle through the early learning phase. For me this was VNs because I love VNs. I initially collected scans of easy manga to practice with, but I wasn't interested enough in them to actually bother so I wasn't getting much studying done at the time.
>>51000164 Yeah as long as you enjoy moege it's a great place to start as far as difficulty. And since VNs generally have lots of voice acting, reading alongside the voice can be really helpful for practice.
>>51000783 AHAHAHA I AM THE DJT MASTER >>51000786 You're just too obvious anytime you write. You're always acting like a tard and shilling dolly vids because that's what your dekinai ass used kek
i dont like the zelda formula of doing specific thing at specific part of map to access linear and restrictive dungeons with very simple combat and baby puzzles
>>51001360 Oh no, I am definitely sure that was YOU my friend. That was a real Toromi thing to do. Just an embarrassing mistake that I caught you on because I actually know Japanese lmfao
>>51001364 you lied about that not being you on the vr thread so.. kek unless you post a vocaroo with a clearly different voice i'm not buying it toromi
My least favorite thing about Japanese is how every sentence seems to be a completely original creation unrelated to how every other sentence is made, for example I've been studying for 7 months and have hundreds of hours of immersion and this is the first time I'm seeing ぐらい used like this, and it doesn't even make intuitive sense >残業 かしら 電話 ぐらい して くれて も いい のに
>>51001560 くらい, when referring to the bare minimum, is actually pretty common, and you might have even already seen it, depending on how much content you've watched. For instance, Yato says it to Yukine in Noragami >お茶汲むくらいの気を利かす Dotta says it in Sentenced to Be a Hero >僕にだって良心ぐらいあるんです The problem is that there are just a lot of words, and there's really no getting around the fact that you have to learn them all. For instance, the guy that replied to you twice >>51001574>>51001583 didn't even know what ～まい meant. He thought it was just a fancy way of saying ～ない because he had never actually read enough Japanese to understand it properly. This kind of thing happens all the time, even among supposedly more experienced learners like him lol
>>51001609 >For instance, Yato says it to Yukine in Noragami >>お茶汲むくらいの気を利かす >Dotta says it in Sentenced to Be a Hero >>僕にだって良心ぐらいあるんです those your cards?
>>51001665 you mined other parts of those sentences and just searched くらい and ぐらい in anki or you used qms anime search tool or something similar nobody is remembering random throwaway n5 lines otherwise
>>51001677 just saying theres no way you would remember those lines naturally theres nothing memorable about them unless you mined them or learned something from them
>>51001687 I have an excellent memory, which is one of the reasons why I'm so good at this language. I have an incredible ability to recall information and grammatical forms, even in pretty random sentences. Why do you think I'm able to correct you so often? kek
>>51001743 I don't think an LLM could've corrected you on the nangumi thing. That was raw experience. Admittedly, it's also pretty basic knowledge if you live in the country like I do, but that just goes to show how low your level of Japanese is to have never heard that expression lol
>>51001715 Literally every single living creature was created through sex. Liking sex and masturbation isnt even a question of morality. Unless you're a Chr*stian.
>>51001781 I don't think AI was that good when you did that clip and it definitely wouldn't have been good enough to catch the pronunciation mistake. Nope, that was all done with the ol' human ear and raw JP knowledge that comes from being a god at the language. It's such a bad mistake that I think it's worth bringing up forever kek
>>51001796 Religion doesnt equal morality. Next you'll turn a blind eye to all the priests and youth pastors diddling kids while pretending it's the LGBT who are predators. Very moral of you.
I'm curious what's your guys' process for finding and downloading JAV? Mostly just out of curiosity but maybe I'll (or someone else) learn something idk. Been at this for awhile and below is my process.
Right now I just look through new releases/categories on Javlibrary (with a tampermonkey script that embeds video thumbnails below cover) then when I find something I want I run the code through a multi search extension (this saves a ridiculous amount of time) that searches the code I put in the search bar on Nyaa/ExoticaZ/ClearJAV/Maxjav/Fast4k.link/Simpcity/retroJAV/btdig. I then flip through the tabs trying to see which site has it available in highest quality. Typically MaxJAV does have the highest quality rip but a lot of stuff is expired and the admin is working to re-up stuff. btdig is the best for pre-2018 releases that are impossible to find that haven't been riddled with watermarks and re-encoded to a blurry mess.
If the highest qual can be found on: >Nyaa/btdig Download magnets instantly through pikpak premium. Can download dead stuff with 0 seeds because of how it caches content. If I get something with 0 seeds I always put it in my qbittorent and re-seed for a bit to help the poors. >Maxjav/Fast4k/Javlibrary comments Use a debrid service to download the (rapidgator/tezfiles/nitroflare/extmatrix) links. Fakirdebrid (ran by some Turkish guy, looks sketchy but its great, use Privacy card if you are scared of payment) has the best coverage but certain sites will be unavailable on/off for few days/weeks at a time. Debrid-Link also works good. Maxjav tezfiles links dont work on either recently, not sure why. >ExoticaZ/ClearJAV Torrent and Seed normally >Simpcity Just download lol
If I end up keeping something locally I re-encode to H265. I can chop filesize down by like 30-40% and using VideoCompareGUI to see the side by side view there's (almost) no distinguishable quality drop off.
Honestly wish I wasn't a quality snob and could just be a stream chad.
My immersion has been erotic ASMR for years now. I can understand a roleplay story and read hentai without problems, but can't read a news article. I'm not joking.
This is classic dying-thread 4chan drama. The original poster (OP) is basically saying "well, the thread's finally dead, no one's coming anymore," in a somewhat pretentious way. The two replies immediately jump on him, accusing him of samefagging (posting as multiple anonymous users to keep the thread artificially alive). The second reply is especially funny because it calls out the OP's writing style — specifically that when he tries to sound smart or literary by using fancy words ("画餅" = gabei, meaning "pipe dream" or "futile effort"), it comes off as stiff and unnatural. That's a very Japanese way of negging someone: attacking their language ability as a proxy for calling them a tryhard or a fraud. Overall, it's low-stakes, petty, and very typical anonymous board culture: people sniffing out samefags and roasting them for it. The irony is that even these callouts are probably keeping the dead thread on life support for a little longer.
画餅（がべい） is a real idiom, but it usually means something like: "something that looks good in theory but has no practical value" or "an unattainable ideal." In the sentence: このスレの生命を無理に引きのばそうとするのも結局画餅になるだろう it feels a little forced because the connection isn't especially natural. A native writer might more readily say: 無駄だろう 徒労に終わるだろう 焼け石に水だろう 延命しても意味がないだろう 画餅になる isn't impossible here, but it has a "I wanted a fancy idiom" feeling. Likewise 生命 is what makes me raise an eyebrow more than 画餅. For a thread, people usually talk about: スレの寿命 スレの勢い スレの存続 スレを延命する Calling it スレの生命 isn't wrong, but it sounds oddly literal and literary. Native speakers often personify threads, but 寿命 is the conventional word. Compare: このスレの寿命を無理に延ばそうとしても... which sounds much more natural. So if I had to pinpoint what feels off, it isn't really the grammar. It's that several elevated expressions are being stacked together: 訪ねて来る者 スレの生命 引きのばそうとする 画餅になる Each one is individually defensible, but together they give the impression of someone reaching for a lofty register instead of writing naturally. That's why a reader might get the sense of "trying too hard" even if they can't point to a grammatical error.
Meanwhile I'm just winning and this thread can't die because everybody wants to keep talking to me. I'm like the most popular person here. I think there was a trash thread or something but nobody must care about that if they keep coming back here to get owned by me. Tsumari in other words I win katsu desu
dont know if ive ever seen 画餅 outside of kanken 2 study but 絵に描いた餅 is rather common and feels a lot more natural to use in normal japanese not that it would fix his post because the expression itself does not fit what hes trying to say
>>51003416 In most cases, it serves as a gloss for the word's meaning, especially for foreign words. Pic related is a good example of that. The word they used was "automail" (a portmantaeu of "automatic" and "mail"), but the intended meaning is 機械鎧 ("mechanical armor"). Sometimes this is also used with native Japanese words to add an implied nuance. In most cases (though not always), the top word was what was actually said in-universe. >>51003500 Absolutely terrible answer, Fakeshit LFMAO
asked gemini to make a tampermonkey script to quickly hide posts by shift + lmb'ing a post and it worked beautifully ai is making rapid advances in anti-mlenko tech
I wanna listen to more naturally spoken Japanese and less perfect anime sentences But I don’t really have any ideas of what to watch that’s interesting so does anyone have suggestions
I’m surprised people ITT haven’t realized yet that they’re a psyop The point of these threads is the click the links in OP then go away You’re supposed to be chased away by the annoying faggots so that you go learn Japanese instead
>>51003962 Your OP links do the exact opposite. Most of the advice is either wrong or outdated and ends up producing dekinais like you. I'm the only success story because I realized early on how bad you all were. This is why I always win lmao
>>51004138 flash them on the first date so they know what they're working with. if it's small they'll be disturbed and you'll know they weren't the one.
The Japanese as a culture are disorganized and unprofessional. You go to Japan expecting a high tech wonderland, but the streets are dirty and everywhere there is trash and homeless. It is no different than LA.
>>51004810 huge difference is drugs, in North America the west coast cities are full of insane druggies, in Japan if anyone gets out of line being disorderly in public there will be 10 policemen on them to haul them away
I much prefer the hardline Japanese way to be honest, sick of the freaks terrorizing normal people and stealing and vandalizing here
>>51005184 already saw it. he already made the exact same video once before at least a year ago. people didn't agree with him then and they don't agree with him now. the comparison is flawed not least because english is a retarded language.
amazing how japanese have mastered the art of slutshaming whores dont get tattoos but still have asias biggest porn industry now if only amateurs would stop wearing face masks
>>51005201 sad thing is they lump together any kind of nudity with full on porn, if a beautiful girl wanted to do some topless modelling she can't because only JAV girls do that, it is ridiculous
Don't you get bored of spamming inane shit here all day?
I really can't even picture what someone like you must be like IRL. The idea that you even exist is hard enough to believe. Don't you ever wonder what you're doing with your life?
>reading one LN >found kanji letter I didn't know >tried to use handwrite on google translate, it kept referring to different kanji >tried to search based on radical, couldn't found anything >realized it's traditional chinese letter instead of JP kanji What in the absolute fuck? Who's to blame, the editor or the author?
>wondered why it happened >found a youtube video, turns out it's about whether the OS or software is set to specific JP locale or not Yeah that checks out. They're outsourcing it huh?
>>51002708 i was like 13 when i played ff13 in english and im an esl and it was fine in fact i still think it's a pretty decent game that got a lot of unjustified hate
>>51007451 which final fantasy 13 did u play. there was 3 of them. (they all sucked btw u were just 13 and got ur first video game so anything was gonna be good to u.)
>>51007514 i played all of them but 13-2 and lightning returns much later when i was an adult and nah i already played video games when i was 6 and by the time i was 13 i've played a dozen games and classics so i was generally able to tell what a fun game was and what wasn't
my father was cheap and hacked all our consoles (ps1, 2, 3 and xbox 360) so i got all games for free and on demand
>>51007770 nigga why ask when you already know it is funny though theres tons of things you cant really learn without being in japan especially with food words
it it worth it reading manga if im stopping every minute to look up kanji for every single panel? it seems like good practice but awfully slow and may ruin the pacing of reading the story.
>>51009878 yeah, same here, I lose interest after a few days of trying this, and keep telling myself I should get back to it, but it is so tedious it gets me wondering whether I should bother at all with this language
>>51010729 it gets tiring and it feels like you aren't making much progress though, and you definitely aren't enjoying the story when you have to do this
How good is Genki alone for learning the basics of the writing systems and grammar? I'm fine looking words up, I'll probably do most of my reading on an ereader anyway
>>51011067 Pretty bad. Its grammar explanations are brief, and its exercises (particularly the way it expects you to answer its questions) are unintuitive. I'm sure in the 70s it was a game-changer, but now it's woefully outdated.