My mom has this souvenir from Japan and doesnt remember which side is up... 🤦 ( discuss.tchncs.de )
TIL Japan has something called アメリカンコーヒー, often referred to in English by the unintentionally condescending name "weak coffee".
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相席(あいせき) doesn't exist/is long in English. More words like that, please?
相席(あいせき,) means "sharing a table with someone you don't know (e.g. at a restaurant)" (Takoboto)....
Where to chat with natives?
Where should I go to chat with natives?
I just had a conversation with two Russian people in Japanese.
I met two Russian people who were running a booth at a festival. One greeted me and tried to converse with me in English, but it soon became apparent that that wouldn’t get us very far. So, we switched to Japanese, and made small talk for a few minutes before I made my purchase....
吉 is pronounced き↑ち↓ but 不吉 is ふ↑きつ
吉(き↑ち↓)= Lucky (especially from a fortune)...
A mistake I once made: instead of お城(おしろ)I said お尻(おしり)
In the car on the way to a castle (お城) with my host family’s kids, no less. They thought it was hilarious that I was excited to see the お尻 (butt)....
Whoa the sidebar says how to do furigana
({凸|のの})...
999命士
救急救命士(きゅうきゅうきゅうめいし / paramedic) is one of my favorite Japanese words because it has きゅう three times in a row....
practice... ( lemmy.world )
many mistakes were made
日本語の週刊練習スレッドしようか
こんにちは皆さん! 久しぶりですね。このコミュニティが結構静かで少し復活しようと思っていました。...
The newer season of Bleach chooses very interesting kanjis for the ending poems ( youtu.be )
For example in this episode’s poem:...
Italki experiences?
Has anyone used Italki or a similar platform to aid in their studies?...
The [bird] told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ( sopuli.xyz )
Not a plea for help since I imagine using the word bank allows the text to be accepted. And no, I’m not trying to get it to fail by using 二 instead of ニ. I’m pretty sure the exercise is bugged.
Japanese is harder/easier than other languages in what ways?
I want something to say when my other language-learning friends talk about how hard/easy XYZ language is....
"〇〇だったば、...." is this legitimate?
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11661821...
Cool clock widget that I found ( f-droid.org )
Sharing a small win
I’ve been semi-casually studying Japanese for around 5 years. I currently live in Japan, but since I already have a remote job for an English-speaking software company, I’ve never had an interest in getting a job for a Japanese company, and having a good level of Japanese was really only ever a matter of convenience and...
Contraction: していて becomes してて?
I watched a TV show with Japanese subtitles, and noticed the sentence: “秘密にしててほんとごめん。”...
Couldn't get this wrong because there was only one option ( lemmy.world )
How do I say "stay hydrated" in japanese?
I am designing a tshirt with a friend and we wanted to put some japanese on it. Since my japanese is extremely basic (こんにちは、ミカです) I wanted to ask whether the symbols DeepL gave us mean what we think it means. We want to have a skeleton inside a water bottle and the text should read "stay hydrated" and we got...
花金~
Or 華金? Well, either way: TGIF!
The "dragon-eared" people: 聾者
聾者(ろうしゃ) looks like 龍(たつ・りゅう / dragon)+耳(みみ / ear)then 者(しゃ/person)...