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This would only be a problem if you truly spend months going through a basic grammar guide.
if you want to shill something at least make sure it's good
oh wait, then you wouldn't have to shill it
クソ豚じゃん
乙
フィンランド語を分かりません
>を
Found this thread and I'm starting to study again today lads. I've done both Genki textbooks in the past but have forgotten most of it.
みんな、今日も勉強頑張れ!
頑張りんさい、おにいさん!
The stars have aligned
現金があればなんでも出来る!
高利貸しかよ
Hello, /djt/.
I was reading a news story about how a guy ran over an old lady with a car painted with a Love Live character:
yomiuri.co.jp
Most of the first paragraph is straightforward:
>人気アニメキャラクターを描いた車を運転中に歩行者の女性を転倒させ逃走したとして、静岡県警沼津署は13日、茨城県つくば市、会社員の男(23)を自動車運転死傷行為処罰法違反(過失運転致傷)と道交法違反(ひき逃げ)の疑いで緊急逮捕した。
Which would roughly translate to:
A car with a popular character painted on it ran over a woman and escaped. The police division of Numazu in the Shizuoka prefectural police, in the thirteenth, arrested a company man (23) without warrant under the suspicion of violating the "Order for Enforcement of the Act on Punishment of Acts Inflicting Death or Injury on Others by Driving a Motor Vehicle" (inflicting injury by mistake while driving) and the "Road Traffic Act" (hit-and-run) in the city of Tsukuba, prefecture of Ibaraki.
Now that is fine, but I'm not entirely clear on what the next sentence means.
>同署は男の認否を明らかにしていない。
I'm like 70% sure it means: "The police station hasn't disclosed if the man has admitted to the crime or not". But I'd still like confirmation on that one, 認否 is pretty ambiguous in this context.
> mention something = shilling
I didn't recommend Sakubi, I just said it worked for me.
Nah, you're the shill for it, you make it too obvious mate
うん - yes
ううん - no
How?
>男の(罪状の)認否を明らかにしていない
>still confusing, though..(two "の")
You did it perfectly.
The subject of "認否"(nominalization of 認否する) is "男(容疑者)".
Pitch
Mm-hmm up pitch is yes
Mm-hm down pitch is no
(At least in American English)
Same idea
>同署は男の認否を明らかにしていない。
>"The police station hasn't disclosed if the man has admitted to the crime or not".
Your understanding looks perfect for me. 認否 means "to admit or not" literally, but in the context about crime, it usually means "to admit one's guilty or not."
Yeah, that's more or less what I imagined, that sentence would not make sense otherwise.
Thanks!
P.S.
茨城県つくば市 is 会社員の男(23)'s address, not the place the accident happened.
それにしてもわざわざキャラの名前まで報道する必要あるのか…?
Yeah, it makes sense. I wasn't sure why the police station of Numazu would act on Tsukuba.
I'm playing Dragon Quest 5 right now because eceleb Tim Rogers says that was how he got fluent and after searching google forドラクエ セリフ discovered this site that not only has seemingly all DQ game text, but also a novelized summary for 5. These summaries are fantastic to read right after you play, excellent beginner level stuff to be had here if anyone else is or has played DQ5.
ラブライバーって怖いなw
2 hours until interview
I've been watching so many videos about pizzas that I'm probably half Italian now
頑張って、ファイト!
Do you have an audio sample of that contraction?
Doing 200 cards a day on anki.
How long before I burn out?
3 days
Tomorrow
>人気アニメキャラクターを描いた車を運転中に歩行者の女性を転倒させ逃走した
Talk about putting the 痛 in 痛車。
When you quit doing Anki for the summer and come back with 3.8k cards due.
Well, you're here looking for (you)s so you've probably already given up
this glossary is very useful
dic.nicovideo.jp
I thought 200 were pretty average around here
youtu.be
Please hire me!
Thoughts on Pimsleur? Thinking about listening to it during work. Not paying all that money for it though.
gas moepigs
as far as I remember you don't really learn that much, but it's okay/pretty chill if you got nothing better to do anyway
Yeah. Was more interested to have basic listening practice and phrases.
Another reason im@sfriends are better
Hi, how do you pronounce the 経 in 5年経? Are there any websites out there that can read sentences out for you? I don't trust Google Translate.
You are probably parsing the sentence wrong. I bet it's 5年 and then some conjugation of the verb 経つ, like 経って.
>put itazuraneko's entire grammar base onto my kindle
>synced anki onto my phone
Who /commutestudy/ here? My body is ready. Phoneanki is so much more comfy than desktop, finally I can roll around on the floor while I study.
Is there anything more humiliating than being killed by a shit taste fag? If the car had Kino or Horo painted on, I'd consider it an honor to be killed by it.
>Clean night sky
>Beautiful stars and half moon
>Nice pizzeria
>2 cats on the way
>Pizza training tomorrow at 12 that's probably impossible to fail with me being half italian now
Nights like these make me wish I wasn't so salty 24/7 こんちきしょー
You sure you don't mean 5年後 (gonengo)?
That 経 does not make sense unless as part of another word, I think.
Sorry for asking, is anyone familiar with the Marugoto textbook series?
I signed up for a JPN course my university is offering and this is the text book we'll be using.
Haven't really found a whole lot about it online so I thought I'd try my luck on here. Mostly looking for opinions and how does it compare to other more well known books like Genki, Busy People or others.
You got scammed, learn alone or learn never
That's pretty cool, thanks man.
Can any grammarbros help me understand this sentence? Was this person not expecting to interview Yuuta's girlfriend, or was he not expecting much when he heard he was interviewing Yuuta's girlfriend?
Honestly, when I heard Yuuta's girlfriend would come for an interview I wasn't looking forward to it, but
Thanks spainbro. How about this one? What's かば?
Probably the te form of jisho.org
Forgot the most important park
Bomba de Janeiro (instrumental) was playing on the bus I took
Based yurobros. I was guessing カバー
so your interview went well i reckon.
Yeah I guess, not much to talk about and I'll just have to prove myself in the kitchen for the next 1-2 weeks instead.
If you have to ask, a month at most.
Do not play bad japanese remixes in public transportation you dumbass.
I don't think you understando mio amico, the bus drivers in here are free to play whatever they want on the radio and samba de janeiro happened to be playing. I'd never play music in public.
Wrong thread faggot
>that same fucking card for the n-fucking-bazillionth time
>finally manage to remember it
>gets promoted to mature over a period of 2 weeks
>1 month later
>forgot it again
>back to square one
DEJA VU
I'VE JUST BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE
what word?
meh I'm bored and someone might like it, they certainly make better listening practice than many pop songs
The 4 of my "I should just set this as a leech but I'm too stubborn and stupid" (over 100 reps) cards are:
削減
省略
住所
期待
>削減
lol I'm always at risk of reading that one as しょうめつ for whatever reason
>住所
it's funny how many people mention that one, I also hate that fucker even though I've read it a million times already and learned it several years ago
I made the decision to just have those words be suspended. Was wasting too much time that I could spend reading. Funnily enough, many of them just come to me when reading.
>hip hop
おはよう
喜べ
I'm into nip hop but most of that isn't very good
How many cards do you guys do per day?
The general rule of thumb is: 10 times the number of new cards. So for me it's 200.
I'm happy for you, Polanon. Hope things keep getting better for you.
おやすみ
>俺は日本語を勉強する
It is 広島弁、desu senpai.
I could find a specific audio sample but there are commercial radio stations you can listen to online to get an idea.
chupea.fm
hfm.jp
Listening to a bit of the top link earlier, the hosts mix in the regional dialect fairly often.
>could find
couldn't find*
20 at first, then 25, quickly got overrun then dropped it to 15, saw I could finish core6k within a year if I upped it back to 20, kept it at 20 while still mining
20 new at first. Then shifted it to 10 and also disabled automatic suspension. Have been doing that for about 6 months. I've recently reenabled suspension now that I'm reading. I might try to climb up to 20, but I really don't want to spend more than 30 minutes to an hour a day on Anki alone.
QUICK HELP help me remember a japanese word, it starts with 敏 is read as something like binnyou and means "delicate" as in it's a delicate, awkward or sensitive topic the person does not feel comfortable talking about. Any help is appreciated.
My first guess would be 微妙 but it doesn't start with 敏. Maybe 敏感?
It's 微妙 thanks!
この会話微妙だね
微妙な会話だね、これ
眇眇な馬鹿だね、こいつら。
>眇眇
久しぶりに見た、この言葉
眇眇たる馬鹿
「赳赳たる武夫」のほうがよかったのに…
疎放な黄口だね、あたし。
>沙耶が白く細い手を差し伸べる。僕は壊れ物を扱うように――それこそ、ひとひらの雪を溶け崩さないよう手に乗せるような心地で、彼女と掌を重ね合わせた。
I'm kinda confused on the stuff between それこそ~心地で sentence and afterwords. 心地 is describing what the situation feels like to them right? Does it translate to something like "As if gently catching a snowflake, I placed her hand on top of mine"?
Yes. "Indeed, with the feeling like I was putting a single snowflake in my hand so as to not let it melt."
Translation:
>And then, in the manner of one handling something exceedingly fragile—as though her hand were but a tiny snowflake, that might melt away into nothing in my palm—I reached out to meet her grasp.
So it doesn't necessitate that they "caught" their hand. Just the grasp being ever so gentle? I guess I got confused as they later on said:
>沙耶はゆっくりと指を曲げて、僕の指に優しく絡めてきた
i can't speak or read jap. i have been interested in living in japan somehow though. is it worth it? maybe as an english teacher?