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It’s important to learn Japanese pitch-accent in order to differentiate between common words. For example, HAshi is ‘chopsticks’ but haSHI is ‘bridge’, and KUmo is ‘clouds’ but KUmo is ‘spider’ so chotto those are literally the exact same
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Today someone got really mad and called me 前, but they put an honorific お in front, so I know they still respect me
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The みんな variants:
みんな means everyone
みなさん means ladies and gentlemen
みんなさん means I'm a foreigner
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These Japanese phrases are so hard to say
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looks – 0/10
creativity – 0/10
health – 0/10
empathy – 0/10
intelligence – 0/10
trustworthiness – 0/10
social skills – 0/10
patience – 0/10
humour – 0/10
optimism – 0/10
memory – 0/10
Japanese – jōzu twitter.com/Maydaysann/sta…
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Seriously thinking about going for N1 this year
Just need to get past シ and ツ
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Foreigner: In order to master Japanese, I will memorize all 2,136 jōyō kanji by the end of 2020
Japan:
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Things I wish I knew before coming to Japan
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Walking to a konbini to pay for something you ordered online isn’t konbiniento
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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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When a weeb arrives at Narita Airport
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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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Thinking about becoming a translator. Recently failed N4 but an old lady in the elevator said I was jōzu so
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How to pronounce Japan, Japanese, and Japanese people
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Demon Slayer is a great anime for learning Japanese
if you plan on slaying demons
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Not trying to brag about my Japanese abilities but I can understand 95% of hentai without subtitles
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When you play the foreigner card too hard
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