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,) means "sharing a table with someone you don't know (e.g. at a restaurant)" (Takoboto)....
Where should I go to chat with natives?
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(き↑ち↓)= Lucky (especially from a fortune)...
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)....
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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....
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。...
Has anyone used Italki or a similar platform to aid in their studies?...
I want something to say when my other language-learning friends talk about how hard/easy XYZ language is....
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11661821...
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...
I watched a TV show with Japanese subtitles, and noticed the sentence: “秘密にしててほんとごめん。”...
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...
Or 華金? Well, either way: TGIF!
聾者(ろうしゃ) looks like 龍(たつ・りゅう / dragon)+耳(みみ / ear)then 者(しゃ/person)...
I’ve been doing it since day one, but I fear that if I don’t do it carefully enough, it might cripple my accent later on....
I just switched to Android after being a very long time iOS user and I’m somewhat at a loss at the best apps and must-haves of Japanese content, dictionaries and similar stuff....
Mine was at the beginning to be able to read Visual Novels, but now is more than that, I like to learn more and there are few sensations like understanding new “symbols” as words.
Hi, I use Rikaichan/Rikaikun at the moment but I'm not sure how to turn on pitch accent if it has it. Does anyone use a pop-up dictionary that has pitch accent, by any chance?
I love the visual aspect. They areでこぼこ and おうとつ and mean bumpiness....
I’ve gotten into reading Japanese books a lot more recently, and I prefer e-books as their built-in dictionaries are a god-send for foreign language learners....
I’m currently learning with Duolingo and even though I can read, I’ve realized I never know which syllable should be accented....
When I mean learning I do not mean translating big sentences or something like that, I mean things like: “Is this japanese sentence correctly written? 雲の日が好きです” In this example it answered: "...