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The easiest way to master Japanese is to wait until it’s English
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は & が
Stage 1: How are these different?
Stage 2: Oh this is easy, は is used with です, and が with verbs
Stage 3: Ah ok は is for contrast, が for emphasis, simple
Stage 4: Right now I get it, が points to what comes before it, は to what comes after
Stage 5: Korean looks fun
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Useful Japanese phrase #72
よろしく
Pronunciation: yo-ro-shi-ku
Meaning: no one knows what it means
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The trick to speaking Japanese as well as your native language is to suck at your native language
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Japanese textbooks often teach students to reply to ‘nihongo ojōzu desu ne’ with ‘mada mada desu’, but the proper response is actually ‘ohashi mo tsukaemasu yo’
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Hiraganaiseasiertoreadthankanjisowhyisnteverythingjusthiraganaalready
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Black hole in Japanese is 無限空間重力点 (point of infinite spatial gravity)
jk it's burakku hooru
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Breaking: no new coronavirus cases in Japan since release of Final Fantasy VII demo
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力夕力ナ (katakana) seems much easier than 漢字 (kanji) until you realize I wrote three of the four above katakana with kanji and that it’s all just big mess
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Grading @TheAn1meMan's perfect Japanese
#日本語
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Short (incomplete) list of useful Japanese resources
1. The Genki series
2. Minna No Nihongo
3. Oxford’s Take Off in Japanese
4. JapanesePod101
5. Hentai
6. Pimsleur’s Japanese
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In Japanese ‘tai’ (鯛) means ‘red-snapper fish’ and ‘yaki’ (焼き) means ‘cooked’. This, of course, is why ‘tai-yaki’ means ‘azuki bean paste cake’ wait what
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My Japanese is perfect unless
-I’m sleep deprived
-I’m on the phone
-I’ve had coffee
-I’m talking to my boss
-Other foreigners are around
-I haven’t had alcohol
-It’s a Wednesday
-There’s a chance of rain
-Native speakers are listening
-I’m awake
Other than that though
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N5: わかった
N4: はい、分かりました
N3: 了解しました
N2: 承知致しました
N1: オッケーです*
*オッケーです = わかった
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In Japanese there are many ways to say yes but all of them mean no
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The four steps to learning kanji
1. Memorize proper stroke order
2. Drill the fundamental radicals
3. Enroll in a two-month shodō class
4. Move to Japan and forget how to write everything except 日本, 東京, and four of the five kanji in your address
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Whenever I go to a Japanese Starbucks I order aisu kōhī. Not because iced coffee is my favorite beverage, but because I don’t have the courage to try and say naitoro kōrudoburyū mūsu dāku kyarameru without a Japanese chaperone
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The secret to passing the JLPT is to stop studying Japanese and instead study for the JLPT
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white guy shocks japanese people with perfect japanese
Japanese teacher