practice... ( lemmy.world )
many mistakes were made
My mom has this souvenir from Japan and doesnt remember which side is up... 🤦 ( discuss.tchncs.de )
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....
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)....
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)....
凸凹 and 凹凸
I love the visual aspect. They areでこぼこ and おうとつ and mean bumpiness....
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....
吉 is pronounced き↑ち↓ but 不吉 is ふ↑きつ
吉(き↑ち↓)= Lucky (especially from a fortune)...
Japanese pop-up dictionary with pitch accent?
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?
Whoa the sidebar says how to do furigana
({凸|のの})...
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)...
Where to chat with natives?
Where should I go to chat with natives?
The newer season of Bleach chooses very interesting kanjis for the ending poems ( youtu.be )
For example in this episode’s poem:...
"〇〇だったば、...." is this legitimate?
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11661821...
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。”...
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!
Should I be saying the words out loud when doing Anki?
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....
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。...
Are Japanese podcasts good for for helping with learning the language? ( kbin.social )
If so, any recommendations on podcasts to listen to?...
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...
Best dictionaries and Japanese-related APKs for Android?
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....
Oyakodon and its sibling dishes ( discuss.tchncs.de )
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....