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Useful Japanese phrase #76
エプステイン氏は自殺しなかった
Pronunciation: Epusutein-shi wa jisatsu shinakatta
Meaning: Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself
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Things I wish I knew before coming to Japan
#日本語
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Japan is a magical place but it gets a lot less magical when you translate common words
sushi -> raw fish and rice
tatami -> straw mat
bentō -> sack lunch
origami -> folded paper
matcha -> ground-up tea leaves
hentai -> lewdy toons
ok hentai is pretty magical either way
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Useful Japanese sentence #43:
日本語の勉強、諦める。
日本語 = Japanese
の勉強 = Studies
諦める = Give up
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Dear Japan elitists: Japan is becoming more international. The language is evolving. The people are developing new values and tastes. DEAL WITH IT wait natto McFlurry no take it back
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What do you mean ‘rasengan’ and ‘akatsuki’ aren’t on the JLPT
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A kanji’s meaning can often be determined by its individual parts. For example, boulder (岩) is mountain-stone, sound (音) is stand-day, and learn (習) is feather-white wait half of these don’t make any sense
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This one took me a while to figure out
#日本語
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good luck to everyone taking the JLPT today
I promise when it’s over you can start studying Japanese again
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Kanji often have two readings
For example, white (白) is read as しろ in the isolated 白い, but はく in compounds like 白米
Likewise, hair (髪) is read as かみ in isolation, but はつ within words
Thus, 白 and 髪 put together are read as はくはつ
But also しらが good luck
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japanese to chinese dictionaries be like
日本 → 日本
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im not like those others weebs
ive read Norwegian Wood
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really happy skateboarding is now an official olympic sport but while we’re adding things may I also suggest surviving the Japanese summer
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Stay inside you idiots
I’m going to yoyogi hanami and want to get a good spot
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never actually taken the JLPT so I can’t say for sure but the other day I rewatched the naruto pain fight and understood I wanna say like 3/4 of it so I guess that puts me at N2 maybe N1
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know 126 million people who would disagree
Japanese teacher