First of all, let's stop with the real japs bullshit. Everyone that's japanese is a real jap, weeb or not. That kind of buzzword doesn't matter, what matters is even if the jap weebs are a minority and you won't see them very often unless you hang out around them, learning dialects, memes and all that kind of stuff is also important to understanding the language and the people even just a bit more than before. Not learning something just because the normie japs don't say it is fucking retarded, you're just giving yourself excuses to not learn more about the language.
I never disagreed with any of these statements. The only part I disagreed with is your characterization that Japanese people are bigger weebs then us combined.
I'm a weeb, as I'm sure everyone learning this language is, and I get most of my exposure through anime and manga. I'm definitely learning that side of the culture too. But you should temper your expectations if you ever plan on visiting or living there. Outside of Akihabara, overt weebiness is looked down as it is outside any space that isn't anime centric.
Adrian Smith
So do you think knowing phrases like below would benefit your life in some degree? >さくらたん(*´д`*)ハァハァ >逝ってヨシ! I don’t think so..
>overt weebiness is looked down Do I look like the kind of person that cares what others think about me? >temper your expectations I'm not going down the sinking ship of depression with you. Definitely >さくらたん(*´д`*)ハァハァ Pretty selfexplanatory >逝ってヨシ! Had to look this up, I'm going to say it's useful to me just to spite you.
Kayden Miller
>learning dialects, memes and all that kind of stuff is also important to understanding the language and the people true, words like "unironically" "autistic" which are uniquely seen here definitely enriched my descriptive expression a lot
Elijah Watson
Unironically, both of those are used pretty much everywhere.
Aaron Howard
unironically? if so it's autistic
Carter Thompson
I can think of some rare cases where you would say unironically outside of Jow Forums. If ironically was used in the previous sentence but the next sentence had nothing ironic about it, putting unironically in there would make sense. Autistic can be said when the illness is mentioned.
Sebastian Turner
I don't see anything depressing about having realistic expectations of what Japan is if you ever visit. Quite the opposite, I'd say that knowing what you are getting yourself into will lead to having a much better time.
And you may think it sounds cool and individualistic to say that you don't care about what other people think about you, but it really is important in succeeding in life. Other people's opinions will affect your ability to get jobs and promotions, to gain friends and make connections, and to establish a long term relationship with someone. It sucks because you feel that you aren't being true to yourself, but quite frankly, life doesn't give a damn about what you think. You've gotta play societies stupid game to get anywhere. Anyways, my break is almost over so I gotta get back to work, so good luck with your studies.
Grayson Barnes
Imagine being this much of a cuck
Aaron James
You are just putting some hiragana into Chinese quotes.
Sorry for the newb question, but in what contexts would it be appropriate to use the です/ます form during a one-on-one conversation?
Hunter Bell
Same as with English: if you're not sure, use politeness/be formal.
Connor Hernandez
糖質なんじゃね?
Levi Nguyen
formal context (cashier, post office whatever) other speaker has higher social position (your teacher for example) you don't know the other speaker other speaker is obviously older than you if younger, other speaker has reached a certain "respectable" minimum age
Charles James
双丘^^
Justin Young
You are a fucking gaijin. You could start with だ/-る and hardly anyone would beat an eye.
です/-ます is what is usually appropriate, though. Even among college students that meet for the first time. It's really not all that casual from the start like in the West.
How to maximize my nihongo learning results with relatively low time spent? I have to minimize the time spent on learning since I'm very busy currently.
What would you do? I thought about anki with vocab for max 20min anki with kanji for writing 10min reading 30 min
Perhaps its a slow, cumbersome method of communication that is quickly fading in the digital age, being kept on life support by irritating cunts wailing 'aesthetic!'
Carson Lee
You are not wrong, but how else are you remembering complex kanji?
I'm already learning Japanese for 2 years and while I know simple low stroke kanji by heart I still mix up the more complex kanji on a daily basis.
Juan Jenkins
Because they've skipped it and your method is always better than everyone else's.
If you have just one hour a day, though, I would also embark on the "do your reps and keep reading" line of thought. You can reduce your new kanji to maybe 5 a day and keep learning them slowly, but that'll take over a year, I feel like it's way more productive to blast through them all and them keep them as reps, not new content.
William Rodriguez
I don't think about them as individual kanji, just words. I learn the word reading as a whole, and only bother to look at the kanji when I confuse it for a different word. I look at them separately to identify the difference, then move on.