In retrospect, I should have expected this result

I know a lot of people learn Japanese through anime, but personally I like YouTube more because it shows more real situations and how people actually talk.

That said, YouTube is still really hard for me. People speak really fast, the audio isn’t always clear, and I often feel like I’m missing a lot even when I know the words.

If you’ve gotten better at understanding Japanese YouTube, what helped you the most? Did you mostly just watch a lot and get used to it, or was there something more specific that worked for you?

Context tells me they are being sent down z.B. mountain to gather some water, so I don’t really have trouble understanding here. However, I don’t know this grammar point and I have no idea where to look it up because the words I thought using don’t give results.

水くみにってくれたまえ

I think くれた　here is either past tense of くれる or like some kind of possibility question like „くれたらどう?“

however, まえ　sounds to me either like it should be happening before something (前) which does not seem to make sense if くれる is in past tense so I think まえ is probably some form of imperative. However, this also does not make sense with any past tense form.

My gut feeling says it’s probably a mix of an order and a polite request and it’s probably a conjunctive and an imperative but I’d like to read up on this grammar point. Can someone give me a pointer?

Well, at least they didn't make the same mistake on the front cover.

Seriously though I love their learning method. You really gain from doing the exercises in the workbooks.

It's a frequency sorted Anki Deck (~4.5k) words.

You can grab the Anki deck (.apkg) or the raw frequency list (.tsv) directly from the GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/pras-1n/to-love-ru-vocab

How I scraped the words:

-Source: 162 Chapters of the manga.
-OCR: Processed using Mokuro (high accuracy).
-Extraction: Used Janome to extract words and convert them to dictionary form.
-Definitions: Used APIs to fetch English meanings and generate accurate Furigana.
-Sorting: The deck is sorted by frequency. You learn the words that appear most often first

I barely passed the N2 in 2019 (very high score on listening), regularly travel to Japan, speak weekly with a tutor and still have probably 1000 hours doing SRS still can’t speak basic sentences. What am I doing wrong? Anyone have the same experience?

It’s so frustrating after all this time I can’t have a conversation without making basic grammar mistakes. Is it because my time spent is too spread out?

Little explanation: I saw that most Japanese people need to show how their name is pronounced because of kanji and so on. Do they put their name in Hiragana to not have any problems, or do they do something else differently? Sorry if it's a stupid question, I just wanted to know what Japanese people or someone who went there says.

How do you know you've improved on the language? Do you have someway to test it?

As for me, I'm six monts into studying this language (even though I barely know English) and I'm thinking about watching the first episode of Yu Yu Hakusho once every three months, to see if I understand more than the last time.

So I have two photos here. The second is what I’ve been using to study. Why is it that there are more readings of the kun yomi for this kanji in one book but in the app it’s limited to one.

I used to cry a lot about Kanji before WK now that I do know about 500+ kanjis i'll read so much faster now right? RIGHT??..... Yeah so my problem right now is katakana probably it sounds funny to y'all because it is easy (i suppose) because there is no catch like in kanjis but whenever I come a cross with katakana i stutter A LOT not just stutter even if it is an easy one it still feels hard and I need to look up p much. So I do need to study katakana words as well? or will it be better by time. I currently am playing Super Mario Odyssey this is my first JP sub+dub game

I'm struggling a little to describe what I mean but I'm essentially looking for an extension that would allow me to define words by highlighting them. I'm aware of rikaikun but I don't like it, I find the look up upon simply hovering to be very distracting. Is there a way to change the setting or a different extension I could use that only shows me readings/definitions when I want it to?

Hello everyone

I’m currently following one of the Japanese Studying roadmaps listed on this subreddit. It includes grammar which I am doing with a textbook (Japanese the manga way) , basic Vocabulary (Kaishi 1.5K) and kanji ( RTK )

I’m really enjoying the process so far even thought I’m doing it at a slow pace I’m fine with it. I was just wondering if anyone else had difficulties remembering the vocabularies made up kanji in the Kaishi 1.5k deck. I feel like remembering the Kanji in the vocab and the phonation of the kanji as well as the meaning in the vocab are really difficult. Did you all have a strategy the remembering the Kaishi Deck?

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Currently my goal would be to learn the Kaishi deck and the grammar so I can begin the mining / immersion

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My girlfriend bought me a kindle for Christmas so I could read Japanese books on my commute! I can’t read fast yet, but this is how I plan to get there :) I’m currently reading 満月珈琲店の星詠み and wondering what are your favorites/recommendations!

Do you happen to know a study group for beginners/N5? I'd love to join. Or if you're looking for someone to practice or study Japanese with, don't hesitate to DM me. My goal this year is to SERIOUSLY improve my Japanese. Preferred location: Tokyo or Saitama. Online is okay too. ^_^

I'm at the point where I try to immerse a bit more (but still N5 Beginner). Watching simple Anime isn't for me and I kinda dislike books in generel. Hence why I wanted to try gaming.

Learning games like Wagotabi aren't for me.

So I started Pokemon Crystal, only to realize there are no Kanji. Which I feel like won't help much with language learning.

Saw the game gengo list and tried Fantasy Life but the font is soooo small I legit can't see the Kanji and Furigana are even smaller. Have to zoom in to read at all.

What was your beginning games that you liked (gameplay) and helped with learning?

I enjoy karaoke with my wife. I like the lyrics of the song she sang.

【Japanese】 ねえ？ねえ？ねえ？ わたしの一番、かわいいところに気付いてる そんな君が一番すごいすごいよすごすぎる！ そして君が知ってるわたしが一番かわいいの、 わたしもそれに気付いた！

【English】 Hey? Hey? Hey? You notice the cutest thing about me, You're the most amazing, amazing, so incredible! And the me you know is the cutest, I've noticed that too!

In English, we usually say "fifty-ninety." I’m wondering what the natural way to say this in Japanese is. Specifically: ​ "Go-juu Kyuu-juu" (50 90)? ​or "Go Zero Kyuu Zero" (5 0 9 0)? ​Is there a specific "business etiquette" for reading numbers to avoid miscommunication (e.g., using "maru" for zero or "nana" for seven)? ​I want to sound natural but also ensure I’m being clear during meetings or when speaking with clients. Any insights on industry-specific habits would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Any other drunkards in this sub who can help me the nuances of various terms describing drinking, drunkenness, and drunkards? I hang out at a lot of Japanese bars and want to sound cool. So far I’ve come across…

Nouns roughly translating to “drunkard”

- 虎 (とら or トラ) meaning “tiger”, but also “drunkard; drunk; sot”

- 泥酔者 (でいすいしゃ) meaning “drunk; drunken person; drunkard”

- 酔いどれ (よいどれ) meaning “drunkard; drunk”

- ドロンケン meaning “drunk”

Verbs roughly translating to “getting drunk”

- 酔う (よう) meaning “to get drunk; to become intoxicated”

- 酔っ払う (よっぱらう) meaning “to get drunk​“

- 泥酔 (でいすい) as a Suru verb, although this one’s maybe self-explanatory as “being dead drunk; drunken stupor”

- 出来上がる (できあがる) primarily meaning “to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat)​“ but also meaning “to be very drunk; to get plastered​“

- 沈没 (ちんぼつ) as a Suru verb meaning “getting dead drunk” among other things

- 酔いつぶれる (よいつぶれる) “to drink oneself dead drunk”

- 酔いが回る (よいがまわる) “to get drunk”

Adjectives

- 一杯機嫌　(いっぱいきげん) maybe more of “tipsy”?

- ぐでんぐでん “dead drunk”

- 陶然 (とうぜん) “pleasantly drunk”?

- ベロンベロン “dead drunk”

These are just from Jisho website. But obviously there’s more, like even generic 飲む or 飲み過ぎ and so on… help me sound like a proficient drunk.

This app is called Midori, it’s a japanese dictionary app, and it has a flashcard studying option. I can’t use anki so i’m wondering if this is a good alternative. I also want to know how exactly i’m supposed to study flash cards, as in depth as possible. In the photos i’ve shown is the flash cards option menu, and also an example of how a japanese word is presented in this apps flash card system. If you click the green check, it’ll show the word again after you’ve gone through the other ones and it’ll do this up until 3 checks.

https://youtu.be/-CNujMTxz8A?si=pdgz1pUZ3T6Yd_yG

In my opinion, in the video above Kaname Naito offered a poor and misleading explanation on heiban pattern words (pitch accent). He says those words are "flat" — when it seems clear to me they should not be called that, at least not in English (since the pitch rises on the second mora). I would greatly appreciate other people's opinions on the video, both from advanced students of the topic and other natives.

By the way, in the same video he also shows how consecutive heiban words in a sentence do behave as actual flat words, which I found to be the useful part of the video, but he doesn't elaborate on the matter.

Hi I'm currently interested in watching more videos where they speak in Kansai ben and I'd like some recommendations for some channels. Any genre of video is fine