Japanese Language

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.

This video by Kotorabo, one of the best YouTube channels about language and etymologies talks about the question we’ve all wondered at some point: why doesn’t Japanese just get rid of Kanji?

Source: twitter.com/ScriptingJapan/…/1673932232036319232

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....

When I encounter a new vocabulary word, it is often useful to see how that word is used in other contexts. Previously, I would use Jisho.org and do a sentence search for the word, but they really only have sentences from tatoeba.org, which are not always the most natural, and sometimes, there just aren’t very many. I’ve...

One trope you’ll see repeated all over anime, manga, novels and even in real life is that of the ボケ (the idiot) and ツッコミ (straight man). Once you know a bit more about its dynamics and some of the more famous 芸人 duos, you start seeing it everywhere....

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....

I thought this was a very interesting vieo about the use of “huh?” or 「はぁ？」 and how many languages around the world have found a quick way to let the other party know that there has been a problem in communication....

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: "...

I don’t know if the mods of /r/LearnJapanese planned on migrating their stuff over to a lemmy instance. They seem to be permanently private as of right now, so I just wanted to link to the internet archive of the subreddit’s language learning resource list....

It wanted to give out a message of freedom, but the mistranslation ended up meaning “we are free of charge”....

There’s a dish in Japan called 親子丼（おやこどん） which is a chicken + eggs rice bowl. 親子（おやこ） can be translated as parent and child, which was a bit disturbing the first time I knew about it....

We’ve been working on a guide to help players on all major GNU/Linux distributions play visual novels for the past few weeks. The main focus is on getting Japanese-only visual novels to work, because they tend to be much quirkier....

Wikipe-tan has been the (cutest) unofficial mascot for Wikipedia since 2006. This manga was posted to PIxiv and Wikipedia in 2010 by Kasuga, where he said this:...

You can now use furigana in your posts via the DenDen Markdown syntax for furigana. If you write the following...

This channel is pretty fun whenever I need something to watch and relax without thinking much about it. It has also helped me realise I make a lot of mistakes when writing by hand which inevitably leads to messier characters. Definitely recommend watching if you’re into this type of stuff.

I’ve been playing japanese games on my steam deck lately and have discovered a useful workflow for looking things up if you’ve got an Android device on hand....

If so, any recommendations on podcasts to listen to?...

It seems like it’s every day that I get advice that is aimed at beginner learners, like how to learn kana, or to pick up Genki or Minna no Nihongo, or use an app like Duolingo or Lingodeer. However, I’m closer to intermediate level (approximately N3, maybe N2), and I’m kind of stumped when it comes to studying....

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