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A beginner's guide to basic #Japanese verb conjugation (1/2)
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A grammar-focused beginner's guide to differentiating は and が in #Japanese (1/2)
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A simple/beginner's guide to the particles を, に, and で in #Japanese
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Tired of cringe "Japanese is hard lol" memes so I'm creating my own overly positive cringe "Japanese is great" memes to be the change I want to see in the world.
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Fantasy is when all the weapon names are written in long strings of kanji.
Sci-fi is when all the weapon names are written in long strings of katakana.
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Share the worst Japanese learning meme you've ever seen I'll start
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Been practicing my kanji with Adam recently but he's really critical and it's killing my motivation
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Do you like learning about the Japanese writing system? Wow, me too! If you are looking to unpack the crazy history behind it, there are two key authors you should know: 今野真二（こんのしんじ）and 笹原宏之（ささはらひろゆき）.
Here's a brief introduction to their books:
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One of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my entire life was microwave tea. It truly was a 茶レンジ
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I've studied Japanese for over a decade. In doing so, I've learned ancient wisdom through the language.
New ways of being, in words that cannot be translated, but are deeply intertwined with a unique culture. One we can all learn from.
A thread.
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I love the "Japan has one culture" take. It's just amazing. Multiple civil wars, a massive number of dialects and subcultures, and the concept of a single Japanese language and/or way of writing is less than 200 years old, but it's all one single united entity. Great stuff. twitter.com/OneRadChee/sta…
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If they ever make a JLPT N-0 the reading section should just be the menu from a soba restaurant.
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Happy to announce that I've completed my #Japanese slang dictionary, summarizing all of the words I've covered so far in my monthly reviews.
Hope people find this to be a useful resource. It is live at the link below:
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/liv…
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I love lots of memes about Japanese but stuff like this is awful, beyond just that these all have distinct translations in English too. When the point or "humor" is just "lol hard language" it feels like the intent is just discouragement, which is the last thing learners need.
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Slowly working on something (hopefully) cool
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The best kanji are kanji where they just slapped the same kanji on three times. 蟲, 森, 轟, all genius. Fantastic design, no notes.
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After exhaustive research, I am happy to present the kanji alignment chart
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Teaching Japanese in 2022 is so hard. You try to introduce basic stuff like これは私のリンゴです and someone suddenly asks about a cat-samurai manga where they say こりゃ俺様の林檎でこざニャンる instead and by the time you unpack everything there's three days till the midterm
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Schrodinger's kanji is where a character exists simultaneously in two possible readings until an act of reading that may or may not occur.
Sociolinguist @Macquarie_Uni @LanguagesMQ. @Brutalinguist co-host. Studies #Japanese script, media, language, and #metal. #日本語 の文字や #メタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.