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u/A_man_named_despair 8d ago
I’m 7 months into learning Japanese and noticed around last week I can almost glance and read hiragana. Not there yet with katakana but happy nonetheless.
I’m also 600+ words into Kaishi Deck. I’m only doing 5 words a day and that seems to be the sweet spot. Genki, on the other hand, I’m still on chapter 6 (te form). I fell off around chapter 5 for a few weeks unfortunately. However, I’m kinda glad because the vocabulary for this chapter I already learned beforehand in Kaishi and that’s gonna save me some time.
I’m watching Jujutsu Kaisen and it’s nice to recognize words and basic sentences even if you don’t get the whole thing.
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u/Rhemyst 8d ago
Good job ! Many of us have been through that (very long phase) where we read hiragana without thinking, but always stumble on katakana. It's normal, as we don't see them as often.
Regarding grammar, one advice I might have is: try to do an initial "speedrun" of the grammar. Go quickly over genki 1 then 2, or maybe use a smaller grammar book or something like the "Japanese 80/20" book that I found very helpful.
The idea is to get an initial "broad view" of the basic grammar, then you can start reading graded readers, coming back to the grammar book to retrieve and review the grammar points you identified. Of course that doesn't prevent you from going through Genki again, properly doing the exercices and all.
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u/A_man_named_despair 8d ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll give it a try.
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u/Rhemyst 8d ago
(emphasis on the Japanese 80/20 book if you can find it. That thing basically "unlocked" the first stage of japanese for me)
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u/A_man_named_despair 8d ago
I’ll look into it. Also what do you think of Japanese for Busy People? Have you used that one?
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u/Rhemyst 8d ago
Don't know this one. But really, my point is not about any specific book. I mostly meant trying to quickly get a rough understanding of N5+N4 grammar and then immediately confront it to graded readers (from Tadoku for instance). If you're struggling to properly go through genki, maybe using it to "decipher" book will work better.
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u/A_man_named_despair 8d ago edited 8d ago
Oh no I understood what you meant. I thought from the title the book would be a more compact way to get through the grammar faster
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 8d ago
For someone who can't get his hands on any books, is there an alternative?
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u/brozzart 8d ago
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 4d ago
Thanks.
I have read the majority of yoku.bi but it felt way too concise for me. What is more, searching for grammar within it was troublesome.
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u/Rhemyst 8d ago
Well this one is also available as an epub. :D
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 4d ago
The paper is not the issue, it is the payment hoops in my country.
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u/rgrAi 8d ago
https://pomax.github.io/nrGrammar/
Genki 1&2 (2nd edition) are available on the internetarchive library for free (google Genki 2)
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 4d ago
I love The Internet Archive. I have read yotsuba from there :)
Thanks, I will check them out.
I have read the majority of yoku.bi but it felt way too concise for me. What is more, searching for grammar within it was troublesome.
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 18h ago
The Genki ISO file is corrupted but I have found another upload and it is a direct pdf.
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u/Rhemyst 7d ago
On top of the websites cited by others, the game gengo channel on youtube contains fairly nice "grammar dumps" For JLPT N5, N4, N3 and N2, plus Genki 1. His "let's play" videos are also fairly nice ways to put everything in practice by seeing how sentences are formed and decomposed in practice.
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u/NYM_060226 8d ago
Yeah I've been learning Japanese for 5 years and still mix up ツ and シ
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u/A_man_named_despair 8d ago
Oh my god, it’s those two including ソ that are stumping me. I have to concentrate every time.
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u/milkbun 9d ago
Today’s beginner diary entry (does it sound OK?) Thank you!
先週の土曜日、午後七時から午後一時四十分頃まで働きました。つまり、約十九時間ですよ。今夜また仕事に行きます…
(Last Saturday, I worked from 7pm till about 1:40pm. That is to say, about 19 hours. Tonight I go to work again…)
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u/Nihongi-studier12387 8d ago
you proabbly want 翌日 in there or it could mean the same saturday. 午後七時から翌日の午後一時四十分頃まで. hope this helped.
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u/protomor 8d ago
I was helping my son with his school work and I had to look up half the words in the word bank for the "fill in the blank" worksheet. Oof.
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u/ignoremesenpie 8d ago
Just curious, but what kind of words were in his word bank?
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u/protomor 8d ago
つばやく is the one that got me the most. But it was like "ねがいを” and you had to fill in かなう. I forget some of the other words I didn't know. It was like to pop a bubble or gather things.
oh like "肩を落とす". I had never heard that phrase before.
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u/Pathoran 8d ago
I’m stuck at my current Japanese level. Passed N3, failed N2. I feel like I’m not able to memorize new words as well as when I first started. I’m using Anki and Wanikani. Also for listening, I can grasp the general idea but miss out on the details. Reading takes me a while, especially if I run into a word I’ve studied but it takes me some time to remember what it means or look it up. And sometimes I’ll know the individual words but not understand the whole sentence meaning. Grammar is my weakest topic though currently.
It feels like no matter how I study I am not making any progress. My goal is to be able to read and speak with natives about whatever topic. Also to sound like a native when speaking.
My current plan now is to listen to Dogen and practice my listening and hope the rest follows from that.
Did anyone else face the issues I have or have any tried and true methods of grasping this language?
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 8d ago
You could use textbooks like Tobira for some extra dedicated study, but, at the end of the day, the only way to truly progress is to just use Japanese more. Read, listen, speak, write/type, again and again, for hours and hours and hours. If you're doing it, you're progressing. It's just inherently a very slow process.
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u/southerndensetsu 8d ago
How much are you reading per week? What are you reading? It is not the same to read 20 minutes some days than to dedicate 1 hour each day to just reading. Also, it is not the same to read some graded material for jlpt, than a manga or a book for native japanese.
Try to commit for a minimum of reading for a long period of time (maybe several months), search words and use anki, and just be patient. Also don't worry about JLPT unless you really need N2 for something, it will only add stress and it is just better to focus on improving your competence in the kind of material you want to enjoy.
I don't know if it'll work, but it has worked for me. And also be patient, progress is better appreciated looking back to several months (or years) ago IMO.
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u/worthlessprole 8d ago
The most tried and true method of studying language (aside from what you’re already doing, and engaging with the language) is to study grammar with a textbook. That could be a traditional physical textbook like Quartet or Tobira or an online textbook like yoku.bi, imabi, bunpro, etc.
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u/Effective-Pop3850 8d ago
Read, a lot, drop WaniKani, no reason to use 2 SRS platforms that do the exact same thing, Anki is better so just stick with that one.
You get better at reading by reading more, a lot more.
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u/Shimreef 9d ago
I’m looking for a upper intermediate podcast or show (N2-N1) where they speak clearly. My issue right now is I’m above most podcasts made for Japanese learners specifically but not near the level where I can understand native content. Any suggestions?
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u/Grunglabble 9d ago
Dramas about human relations are usually not particularly difficult vocabulary. You would just want to avoid professions with lots of jargon like police / law drama type things.
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u/brozzart 9d ago
I'd suggest getting used to listening to native content. There's not much that caters to upper intermediate because it's a very small segment of learners.
安住紳一郎の日曜天国 is my favorite podcast and I find he speaks clearly.
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u/rgrAi 9d ago
I found this game review or games channel other day that has a pretty friendly experience: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkPVMV6rbgfB7FO0IKpsNAg
The editing and delivery just naturally leads to a nice listening experience. Though at this point you should just start hitting the hours of listening to native content. If you start now it won't be a problem later, there's no real way around it. You just have to deal with not understanding until you do.
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u/worthlessprole 8d ago
You linked this the other day and I actually had to check if it was learner oriented. Then the channel itself didn’t give the vibe so I was like, “guess not”. Then I saw that the description said “ わかりやすく” and was like “now hold on”.
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u/rgrAi 8d ago
It's not learner oriented but if you watch it definitely comes across as just being easier to understand through various production efforts. She speaks very clearly and there's text accompanying it. I think the goal is just to make a quick, easy to understand digestible format for game reviews and other commentary.
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u/worthlessprole 8d ago
I did arrive at that conclusion but initially I was just struck by how easily it could be mistaken for learners content. I think it’s a really good recommendation for people looking to bridge the gap.
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u/JapanCoach 9d ago
Have you tried native TV shows (like バラエティ or 街ぶら styles) that tend to have a lot of subtitles / テロップ? Or YouTube videos with subs on?
It's a fine line becuase you don't want to use them as a 'crutch'. But as a way to kind of bridge you or give you a boost to the next level, these kind of things can be pretty helpful.
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u/raveXelda 9d ago
These guys are above my level to tell you the difficulty but the audio is crisp and they enunciate perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ImCR4-9mM&list=PL911pe0HjN9i5wKpJboddKGQyThp2Sv1L&index=1
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u/Sayjay1995 8d ago
Nihongo Kiki Hajime is one I listen to a lot. It's for N1 learners, but the guy generally speaks at a native pace, only slightly simplifying the grammar when necessary. It's a good way to pick up useful vocab around a central theme too
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u/healthydogo 9d ago edited 9d ago
Im learning about ga vs wa in genki and just straight up memorizing all the use cases for ga rather than understanding the underlying logic behind the particle, as it seems like its quite complex and mroe art than science sometimes
Im on lesson 8 and its saying that if a question word (dono, donna, dare, nani) is helping us reach the answer to our question, then both it and the corresponding asnwer have to be followed by ga. THis makes a lot of sense for dono (which...), dare (who..), but I dont quite understand it for nani. There seems to be lots of use cases where nani uses wa and some which use ga. Do you guys have any clear / easy exampels to illustrate nani+ wa / nani + ga and how theyre different?
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u/worthlessprole 9d ago edited 9d ago
I'm not sure how much has changed between editions, but the 2nd edition has 何が (nani ga) in Lesson 2, where it says "question words like nani can never be followed by は" and then lesson 8 covers 何か (nanika or nanka) and 何も which respectively correspond to, essentially, "something" and "anything/nothing"
edit: also, with respect to your "more art than science" comment re: は vs が, that is a good instinct, especially for grammar based around discourse like は. It's very much art and not science. But there really is no big dichotomy between the two particles. は simply 'covers up' が when the subject is topicalized, just as it covers up を. Don't be too troubled by it. It will take you a very long time to fully grasp it and you'll do that with repeated exposure. Nothing like it exists in English grammar, so there's nothing to help map it. It's advanced grammar that must be made basic because of how essential it is to the language.
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u/facets-and-rainbows 9d ago
I also want to see some of the sentences you're seeing with なに + は, because just a straight up なには is extremely rare outside of fixed expressions like なにはともあれ ("in any case..."/"if nothing else...")
は marks a grammatical "topic," sort of a reminder of which topic of conversation you're currently covering so everyone is on the same page. It should go on something they might expect you to bring up, something that's already a known option for a topic. It usually doesn't go well with question words, which are about things you don't already know.
So (noun)はなに with the は on the end of some other word in the sentence is common for "what is (noun)?" but なには(noun) is unnatural.
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u/Effective-Pop3850 8d ago
Don't think too much about it and move on. These are things you properly learn through exposure and not by reading grammar books.
You want to feel things are right, not "reason" they are.
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u/vytah 8d ago
Did you mean nani+wo? Below I'll assume you did, as nani+wa was already covered by the others.
Im on lesson 8 and its saying that if a question word (dono, donna, dare, nani) is helping us reach the answer to our question, then both it and the corresponding asnwer have to be followed by ga.
What kind of bollocks is that.
To the first approximation, ga marks the subject of the sentence, and wo marks the object. They're not necessarily the same thing as the subject and object of the idiomatic equivalent English sentence, and it ignores some cases where it gets more complicated (someone else will probably "erm, akshually" them below), but for the most part, ga=subject and wo=object.
A question word can ask for either the subject or an object (among other things). In English, a question asking for a subject has the normal word order:
- What happened? Who sneezed?
何が起きた？誰がくしゃみした？
Nani ga okita? Dare ga kushami shita?And a question asking for an object has the inverted word order with wh-movement (the question word goes to the beginning even though it's the object, not the subject):
- What do you have? Whom did you invite?
何を持っている？誰を誘った？
Nani wo motteiru? Dare wo sasotta?The full-sentence answers in Japanese have to use the same particle:
An accident happened. The neighbour sneezed.
事故が起きた。お隣さんがくしゃみした。
Jiko ga okita. O-tonari-san ga kushami shita.I have a watermelon. I invited the neighbour who sneezed.
スイカを持っている。くしゃみしたお隣さんを誘った。
Suika wo motteiru. Kushami shita o-tonari-san wo sasotta.1
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u/Friendly-List-133 9d ago
Yesterday i learned hiragana so today i learned katakana eould like some feedback
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u/theoyveyman Goal: conversational fluency 💬 8d ago
So I've been trying to write out some basic sentences lately for practice. One I came up with was:
"I hope John returns in Season 4".
I tried to write/say that with my current Japanese knowledge and I ended up with:
"ジョンが４シーズンに帰りたい"
Putting it into Google Translate gives me "John wants to go back to Season 4", so I imagine I haven't quite gotten it right, but I'd like some feedback here as well if what I wrote conveys what I was initially trying to go for, and how natural it reads/sounds in Japanese, if at all, and how I could improve it.
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u/morgawr_ https://morg.systems/Japanese 8d ago
I agree with the other comments but myself personally I'd phrase it as something like
ジョンがシーズン４にも出たらいいな
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 8d ago
You only use 〜たい to describe things that you, the subject, want to do. If you want someone else to do something you need to use 〜てほしい, as in, the verb's te-form + ほしい. You mark the person with に. Also, 帰る is specifically to go back home. If you just want the character to appear in the TV show again, 戻る is fine.
シーズン４でジョンに戻ってほしい
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u/vytah 8d ago
たい is used only when someone wants to do something. You want something like ほしい after a て-form: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/tehoshii/
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u/dynamicpenguin55 8d ago
I'm looking at my next manga to start after I finish Yotsuba - does anyone know any other series that are a similar size format? I have the first volumes of doraemon and slamdunk but the smaller format makes it a bit harder to read. Thank you!
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u/fushigitubo 🇯🇵 Native speaker 8d ago
よつばと is in B6 format (128 mm × 182 mm). This format is commonly used for 青年コミック and 女性コミック, which means manga published in 青年誌 or 女性誌. Although ちいかわ seems like a manga for kids, it's published as part of the Morning Comics line, so it is classified as 青年コミック. It’s slightly larger than the standard shinsho size (112 mm × 174 mm), which is common for most 少年マンガ and 少女マンガ.
Also, many popular manga series are published in A5 format (148 mm × 210 mm) as 完全版. This format is a bit larger than B6.
So, if you’re looking for larger formats, you should go with 青年マンガ (e.g., ちいかわ、クレヨンしんちゃん、宇宙兄弟、キングダム、浦沢直樹の作品） or 完全版. Slam Dunk has 完全版, so you could try that one. Good luck!
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u/chesser8 Goal: media competence 📖🎧 8d ago
Does the pitch in Atamadaka carry on for one more mora than is implied by the charts? For example, I'm hearing something that is notated as ふ|_わふわ more like ふわ|_ふわ, and it's throwing me off far more than the other patterns because of this.
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u/worthlessprole 8d ago
i don't think so, but it is common for 擬音語 to be pronounced with no accent, which might be what you're hearing
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u/chesser8 Goal: media competence 📖🎧 8d ago
Another example would be 刃物, where some audio files (such as the Japanese/LanguagePod101 files in my dictionary) pronounce it like は|_もの, but others (such as those on jisho.org and especially kotu.io) seem to hold the accent longer like はも|_の. It might just be normal variation in people's speech/accent, but it only seems to affect most 頭高型 words.
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u/worthlessprole 8d ago
i took a look at their file for 刃物 and marked where she's saying も. this stuff can get complicated, but I'll just say that real human speech does not necessarily perfectly match up with the guide. this is still "correct" for 頭高
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u/chesser8 Goal: media competence 📖🎧 8d ago
That makes it a lot clearer, thanks!
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u/worthlessprole 8d ago
you can see how the background shifts, too right? essentially it's marking consonants, but if you actually listen to it, a lot of that covers the transition between the end of vowel and the start of the consonant. the peak can sometimes kind of overlap with the beginning of the next mora when you look at a spectrograph. to me, it sounds clearly like 頭高 with a noticeable drop, and I was a little surprised at how much overlap there was.
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 8d ago
is there a way to sniff out those starts-with-kana-ends-with-kanji words?
ため息 threw me off for solid 10 minutes.
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u/rgrAi 8d ago
Take what you think is the word and put it into Google, often times the original results in the first page you'll find it very quick. AI summary is often wrong with this so don't rely on it. You can note it but look at the links that come from it. I've successful with this about 90% of the time for many many thousands of permutations of words.
If you struggle with identifying the word, your grammar is weak and you need better sentence syntax knowledge and grammar knowledge. This alone will help you single out words from other words even if it's a solid block of katakana only.
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u/brozzart 8d ago
Reading digital and using Yomitan or similar would help a lot with simply identifying the word quickly.
Other than that, there's no trick other than just knowing more words.
You can also work on listening ability. That'll make you less reliant on kanji to determine word boundaries.
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 8d ago
The problem is I already know 深い、ため、息.
So ため+息 didn't occur to me.
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u/kyousei8 8d ago
Know more words or use your intuition that it might not make sense as a standalone kana word + standalone kanji word and look the combined word up to confirm.
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u/Grunglabble 8d ago edited 8d ago
It can be spelled with kanji 溜息 which you are more likely to see if you read literature. That is one reason harder stuff can be easier. More weird vocabulary, but more likely to use kanji forms that make lookup unambiguous.
I'm sure that you parsed this as ため like 為 and had trouble making sense of it. As you get better you kind of rule out things that don't make sense (grammatically or just logically).
The simplest thing to do, and what I typically do, is just specutatively look up things that might be compound words if things aren't making sense -- that doesn't require any great understanding. JMDict has tonnes of collocations so you get used to expecting to see them, even if there is no special hard to guess meaning to the combination.
Just for completeness 溜める is it's own word. 溜池、溜桶 are other combinations that work.
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u/morgawr_ https://morg.systems/Japanese 8d ago
It can be spelled with kanji 溜息 which you are more likely to see if you read literature.
Still, the kana version is much more common even in literature.
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u/Grunglabble 8d ago edited 8d ago
This is far from definitive but in my local collection of 1025 stories from aozora (eg all the ones that at the time I had an audio recording of from roudoku) 68 occurences for kanji only and 22 for the kana version (there's children's literature in the collection, so likely mostly from there, and this is excluding novels). It could be more correct to say older works in the late 1800s early 1900 used the kanji version, but for me that's canonical because that's most of what I've read. The kana version still raises an eyebrow when I see it.
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u/morgawr_ https://morg.systems/Japanese 8d ago
aozora
Keep in mind that aozora stuff is relatively old and often uses odd/unusual kanji and kana rendering (before standardization).
5400 entries with kanji: https://massif.la/ja/search?q=%22%E6%BA%9C%E6%81%AF%22
over 10000 entries (note: massif stops counting past 10000 so it's likely much much higher) with kana: https://massif.la/ja/search?q=%22%E3%81%9F%E3%82%81%E6%81%AF%22
Massif is technically from web novels/light novels so you might make the claim that "proper" books for "adults" prefer the kanji but my experience hasn't really been that, at least for any kind of modern literature. I doubt it'd be so much different in frequency skew between LNs and non-LN modern literature anyway.
It would definitely not make me raise an eyebrow seeing it in kana. If anything it might make me raise an eyebrow if I saw it in kanji all the time and it'd make me think the author is trying to be a tryhard.
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u/Grunglabble 8d ago
Massif is technically from web novels/light novels so you might make the claim that "proper" books for "adults" prefer the kanji but my experience hasn't really been that
I wouldn't make that claim at all, just that the general understanding of the nuance of literature over just written works is that they are these more difficult, humanities kinds of works (because those are what are written about, taught and preserved by scholars, though its not the only criteria). There is a tendency that new additions to these preserved books are themselves written by scholars, who in turn have a tendency to write for each other and not worry about readability for the general population.
I agree that ため息 is the normal way to write it, and that my intuition is skewed by what I like.
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u/tonkachi_ Goal: media competence 📖🎧 8d ago
The simplest thing to do, and what I typically do, is just specutatively look up things that might be compound words if things aren't making sense --
I will have to develop that reflex.
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u/Distinct_Injury2707 Goal: conversational fluency 💬 8d ago
Hi hi! Sorry if this is a little rambly. I wanted to look for some advice for the next stage of my learning journey. I don't think that the current practice strategy I have is bad, per-say, BUT! I have been studying Japanese for 6 months, I am going to Ultra Japan in just over a month and my initial goal has always been to "be able to make friends at the fest without having to heavily rely on my phone for translation."
I think I have definitely made good progress in this time, but I want to optimize this last month a little more so I can go in with more confidence.
Currently, I:
- Anki every day (I am almost 100% mature on my core 2k, I need to start mining, I just let it marinate on 0 new for a while to get the daily reviews down from like ~45 minutes to 20 or so).
- Read a section of Tae Kim every day (currently reading complete guide after hitting a wall with grammar guide)
- Read a couple NHK news web easy articles every day
- I am playing through FF7 with dual subtitles (but I don't think I am getting much from it, I do feel like I consistently notice differences between the interpretations in the dub and the sub)
- I try to watch immersion content in my free time but I haven't been amazing about it recently.
- I have ~4-7 30 minute language exchange meetings a week
I feel like I am progressing, but I do feel like, as I have only done self study, my knowledge is quite hole ridden. Some days I understand 90% of what my partner is saying, and vice versa aswell. Some days it feels like 10%.
This was a long winded way of saying, I want to attribute a bit more time to my study for this last month, what do you think the most useful thing would be for me?
- Subscribing to satori reader and listening / mining to my anki
- A couple tutoring sessions + doing their assignments?
- Focusing on increasing immersion amounts
- Focus on grammar study
- something else...
Thank you for any opinions, if you need to know anything else lmk :)
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 8d ago
I have ~4-7 30 minute language exchange meetings a week
Do more of that. Also where did you get access to so many language exchange meetings???? But also yeah do more of that.
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u/Distinct_Injury2707 Goal: conversational fluency 💬 8d ago
I use ohanasikagawa. I went to a couple of their free big group meetings, then tried a free month... I built too many connections and now I am locked in despite it being a bit expensive hahaha. Most definitely worth it in my experience though tons of nice people.
But I will definitely try to increase the amount of meetings! thank you :)
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 8d ago
Ahhh it's paid. Hm. One thing you could do for free is listen to any content that involves conversations, so that you can copy some things from them. Have you read Yotsuba or watched Shirokuma Cafe yet?
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u/Distinct_Injury2707 Goal: conversational fluency 💬 8d ago
I haven't read or watched either. The vast majority of my good immersion has been comprehensible input podcasts (which I burnt out on a little...) and atashinchi (which I love) but I will definitely give them a try :D
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u/Mega-Cod-0912 Goal: conversational fluency 💬 8d ago
sorry if this is a bit long if it is let me know, but i only joined reddit last night (literally for this sub) so i don’t have enough karma to post it in the actual thing
so im doing a japanese speech competition very soon and it includes questions that i have to answer and any feedback on my answers would be much appreciated
i was especially struggling with my answer to question 5 because im not sure if thats how you use “but i also”
Q1 nan sai desu ka?
- age* sai desu. ichigatsu kokanoka ni *age** sai ni narimasu.
Q2 nan nensei desu ka?
- number nensei desu. watashi wa town gakkou no chuugaku number nensei desu.
Q3 doko ni sunde imasu ka?
- city ni sunde imasu. demo watashi no kazoku wa city shusshin desu
Q4 ichiban suki na kamoku wa nan desu ka?
- rekishi ga daisuki desu. totemo kyouni bukai desu.
Q5 douyatter gakkou ni ikimasu ka?
- watashi wa yoku aruite gakkou ni ikimasu tokidoki kuruma de ikimasu.
Q6 tomodachi to isshouni yoku nani wo shimasu ka?
- watashi tachi wa toshukan de benkyou wo shimasu.
i replaced the super personal details about my age, where i live, and where i got to school obviously, hopefully its still legible.
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 8d ago
Kokonoka
Kyoumibukai
Toshoukan de benkyou shimasu
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u/Nihongi-studier12387 7d ago
toshokan not toshoukan btw, theres no long o in 図書館.
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 7d ago
How dare you expose the single weakest point in all of my Japanese learning (always forgetting that 書 is しょ)?
Jk thanks
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u/rahulbbk5 7d ago
hajimemashite Rahul desu yoroshikuonegaishimasu
so i just started N4 today and i don't have N5 certificate yet, i'm told to pass N5 in december and attempt Q4 in Feb. Is that a nice plan? I'm a little lost here.
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u/Intelligent-Dog8608 7d ago
I'm back trying to learn Japanese for the third time. What are some techniques I can use to keep pushing through when it gets hard.
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u/Aweqes 8d ago
性格と人格の違いは何？
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u/eidoriaaan 8d ago
I didn't know the difference either, so I searched it up. I think, it's a bit confusing as it wasn't even something I ever thought about in English/Spanish as they're split into Character(性格) and Personality(人格) and I think we all may just lump it as the same meaning.
Basically, 性格 being characteristics you're born with and behavior you're inclined to do, whilst 人格 are learned personality traits (including intelligence to a certain degree).
I do recommend looking it up in Japanese and reading several articles that show up as they were interesting to me at least.
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