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Japanese listening ability
N5: Stranger giving directions
N4: Karaoke with friends
N3: Visit from the NHK man
N2: Businesses meeting
N1: University lecture on Meiji-era geopolitics
N0: Basic conversation with drunk old man in rural Japan
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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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I’m triggered twitter.com/TacticianDaru/…
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In Japanese there are many ways to say yes but all of them mean no
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“iT’s nOt pOSsiBLe to LeARn jaPaNesE frOm aNiMe!1!!”
hate to say it but this is true
one must also use manga and hentai
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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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When you're fluent but also stupid
#日本語
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Japanese things I don't yet fully understand
#日本語
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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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The easiest way to master Japanese is to wait until it’s English
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RT if you always read 中田 as tanaka like you just did
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These Japanese synonyms are so useful
#日本語
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After living in Japan for almost ten years, I can now say with conviction—
Saitama didn't become One Punch Man by doing 100 pushups, 100 crunches, 100 squats, and running 10 kilos a day.
He became One Punch Man by not using his AC during the Japanese summer.
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It’s easy to say sports in Japanese
basketball is basukettobōru
football is futtobōru
soccer is sakkā
tennis is tenisu
golf is gorufu
and baseball is yakyū wait what’s up with baseball
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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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The trick to speaking Japanese as well as your native language is to suck at your native language
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STOP CALLING FOREIGNERS GAIJIN
STOP CALLING FOREIGNERS GAIJIN
STOP CALLING FOREIGNERS GAIJIN
STOP CALLING FOREIGNERS GAIJIN
STOP CALLING FOREIGNERS GAIJIN
The correct term is weeb
Japanese teacher