Japanese slang/ English ･よろしくニキーwww/Hello!! ･www/ hahaha:-] ･草/hahaha:-] ･草生える/hahaha:-] ･ンゴ/It doesn't make any sense ･○○してクレメンス/Please do ○○ ･○○ハラデイ/Please put up a picture of ○○ ･スレ/thread ･スレ主/OP ･イッチ/OP ･ワイ/I(The first person) ･君/you(Second person) ･お前/you(Second person) ･ニキ/you(Second person) ･○○ニキ/Mr.○○ ･○○ネキ/Ms.○○ ･おんJ/One of the bulletin boards ･さとる/Supervisor of おんJ ･名無し/anonymous
We want to have a friendly relationship with foreign people! We're not used to English ,so we might use wrong words...:-] You guys can use Japanese too!! Use Japanese more and more!! We know what your Japanese grammar means when it is wrong!! Let's do cultural exchange!!
in Japanese "laugh" is 笑, which can be romanized to "wara". in turn people took the initially letter "w" and started using it to express "lol". "w" looks like grass on the ground and eventually it culminated "草"
genres of anime are pretty versatile and each of them are aimed at mainly 2 age age brackets : kids and young adults. anime for kids (Dragon Ball, Ghibli, Doraemon and whatnots)wins generally favorable views, for it's not that sexual and wholesome by and large you know. actually like 50 years ago even this category was belittled and PTA would often bitch about it claiming it's degeneracy. the latter is a different case tho
well Ghibli isn't always categorized in anime for kids, it's rather art and has universal attraction
Robert Green
Interesting, so it seems to be normal but often childish. >cultural exchange Over here (japanese) anime is usually considered to be very weird. Except when it has full localization. (German OP song, German voices, and so on) For example, Pokemon and Digimon is very normal. But when I was 7 years old, my parents said "user, aren't you too old to play Pokemon?"
Also, anything you want to know? View is okay, but reputation fits better I agree
Xavier Sanders
Aren't all young adult animes isekais now?
Bentley Smith
even most of the Japanese grow out of anime by 20 y/o, although they are usually stuck with reading manga tho >Out of curiousity, how much does a chunithm machine cost? just checked it and it costs just 10000 euro, it's out of my loop. >anything i want to know how does Dutch sound like? most likely, but there aren't that many youngsters watching anime in the first place
Carson Nelson
>but there aren't that many youngsters watching anime in the first place Did Abe make them salarymen too?
Nicholas Green
yeah it's more like our social structure tho
Asher Davis
>just checked it and it costs just 10000 euro, it's out of my loop. Thanks, I tried to research it yesterday, but couldn't find it with English search terms. Guess I won't have the chance to play it. >how does Dutch sound like? The language of the Netherlands? Germans usually say "It sounds like drunk German". That's because it has very similar words with the same meaning, but it sounds softer. For example, "I" in German is "Ich" And "I" in Dutch is "Ik" Both of those are kinda pronounced like "いく" with silent "u" I think. It sounds similar, looks similar, and means the same.
When I was a kid, I went to the Netherlands on a holiday. I was able to understand like 50% of what they said because of how similar it is to German, but it sounded funny.
What do you do when you see a new kanji? When you listen to a Japanese speaker, how often do you confuse a word with another word that has the same reading?
Michael Bell
*it's more like our social structure that made them salarymen
Dominic Scott
What does your average Japanese person think of Britain?
Hunter Smith
>What do you do when you see a new kanji? it happens once in a blue moon as i actually folder pre-1st title of Kanji Aptitude Test, and even if it happened, i could presume what it means by its another attached kanji(kanji compound words) and context. >When you listen to a Japanese speaker, how often do you confuse a word with another word that has the same reading? yeah so-called homophone right? it happens once in a blue moon in this case too, it's all but ignorable i'm deffo sure the Japanese see Britain exactly the same way the Americans do, chap
Level Pre-1 >Pass rate for this level: 19.1% (in 2016-17) >Tests the ability to read and write all 2965 kanji in level 1 of JIS X 0208, with their on readings and kun readings >Requires the ability to use the kanji in sentences and to choose the most appropriate kanji for a given context >Tests special or unusual kanji readings >Tests ateji >Tests knowledge of synonyms and antonyms >Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms >Tests special compound words >Tests complex radicals >Tests kanji unique to the Japanese language (kokuji) >Tests knowledge of abbreviated kanji forms (ryakuji) such as 餠餅, 摑掴 >Tests classical Japanese proverbs and idiomatic expressions :smug:
>i actually folder pre-1st title Rephrase? You mean you got 1st place in a ranking? Is kanji aptitude test a school exam? >so-called homophone right? yes, I didn't know the word. I see, so it's not much of a problem. I've been learning the 2200 most common kanji, but only how to recognize+write them, and one English meaning. (pic related) I'll start a proper learning book next year when I have time to learn the fundamentals of actual usage, so I was wondering about the homophones and kanji.
Are you here to improve your English? Ah that's the exam? I'm not an expert, but it looks harder than JLPT 1, good job
for your reference de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji-Kentei >am i here to improve English well yeah, but above all I'm being knackered these days and this website deviates my strain a bit. heh so you are studying Japanese, how's it going, what are you learning it for?
also admirable endeavor. apropos of it, i have a Lithuanian friend who knows more than 4000 kanji even though he's studied Japanese for only 1 year lmao
Jack Edwards
Well at least our god awful tourists aren’t rich enough to reach you.
ye that's what i meant bloke the Japanese picture brits as subdued blonde people from some public school like Eton.
Sebastian Thomas
ye that's what i meant bloke the Japanese picture brits as subdued blonde people from some public school like Eton.
Daniel Nelson
>de.m.wiki heh It's harder than JLPT then because it's for native speakers, not learners I see you capitalize places/names/languages like "English", so you know about this grammar rule. So I recommend capitalizing "i" too, because "i" is always capitalized. (I think that's the most noticable difference compared to other English speakers)
I tried to learn the 2200 most common kanji, so that I can recognize them when starting to learn Japanese. Just like how in English you first need to learn the alphabet before you learn words, right? I can't actually write any full sentences or compound words yet, but it should make learning them much easier in the future. >how's it going I tried to learn 20 new kanji a day, for 110 days. I finished in 130 days a few weeks ago. It also reviews old ones so that I don't forget them, the app statistics say I reviewed ~ 27400 kanji up to now. >what are you learning it for? A couple reasons: I started learning English like 10 years ago, it's getting boring now so I wanted to learn something new. Japanese is the second-most language I encouter on the computer, like in video games, anime, pictures, and so on. I also think it's cool how different it is to western languages. Just compare kanji to the alphabet, huge difference so it's very interesting.
I'll steal this question What does your average Japanese person think of Germany? Thanks, it did take a lot of dedication to review every day. Does he also know how to use them in sentences? If so, that's really fast
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Christian Brown
AHHHH よく寝た
Noah Jones
it's basically horseshit(all i did is read books) but our miserable English skill can't be attributed only to the education imo 1. Japanese is a totally different language and it's kinda nonsense to expect us to have as good English command as whites have 2. mastering English isn't necessarily a matter of life or death 3. not cucked by the English media (either good or bad) the 3rd augmentation is especially important, people with good English usually spent their infancy and childhood being surrounded by the English media like game tv programs. the effect can't be overestimated enough. yeah Kanji-kentei is aimed at natives after all, i think n1 folders can pass level 2 tho, and as for noncapitalized "i" it's just i can't be arsed lmao >does he know how to use it yeah, he speaks Japanese pretty well. he's also a huge jojofag and seems to be learning a lot from it >What does your average Japanese person think of Germany? industrious, punctual, rational and jokes aren't passable. as you can clearly see Japanese stereotypes towards each European country are highly stylized and it's pretty much a stale answer unfortunately. some dumbasses fall for "le best ally next time without Italy XD" but i can't stand its absolute cringeness
Julian Stewart
which region are you from btw?
Kevin Bailey
Well I suppose That type of person is more likely to visit Japan than our ‘chavs’
Benjamin Reed
Hopefully I can do decently in another 6 months as well. I'm also studying engineering, so I don't have as much time for studying Japanese as I wish I had. But I can usually get an hour a day in. >industrious, punctual, rational and jokes aren't passable. Well that sounds pretty positive, nice. From an international view, I'd say that's pretty accurate. Joke are fine, but we don't laugh at them as easily I think. The region is "Rhineland-Palatinate", when you enter this on google images, I think it's pretty accurate. They look like the area around me. City I'm in is "Koblenz". Again google images gives some good pics. (see attached) The building style here is a mix between old traditional style, and new modern style buildings. We have an area in our city that is dedicated to only having old buildings. Many castles and fortresses around that tourists love to visit. It has about 100k inhabitants, so it's not as big as other cities, but still big enough to be important. It's much cleaner and more comfortable than the big cities like Berlin and Köln/Cologne.
It’s kind of pidgin, communication of “businessmen” here chiefly depends on English loan words which is pronounced in Japanese manner, and have quite a bit obscure meanings. We are taught by non-natives who have , for most of them at least, never got occasions to be taught by native as well and we have upheld that system since 1870 or so.
Adrian Morales
I'm chuffed to hear that pal, i've got no brit friends in Japan tho that's exactly the same ay as my Lithuanian friend is doing. so at which level are you going to learn Japanese eventually? >Koblenz >notable people from the city >Mettelnich >d'Estaing wtf? your city has such famous historic characters lmao did it not suffer from bombardment as most of German cities did?
Jaxon Allen
that bay is literally "die Eck der Deutschland"
Luke Barnes
>so at which level are you going to learn Japanese eventually? You mean what I'm aiming for? I want to be able to casually understand things that I come across without trying too hard. Maybe chat on 2ch. If I could understand media like games and anime, then that would be pretty cool, but it's not my main goal. >did it not suffer from bombardment as most of German cities did? I don't know much about history, but I think Koblenz got almost completely flattened during WW2, Hiroshima-style. But they did a really good job rebuilding it and making it inhabitable again. We get an evacuation order every year or so though, because they found another WW2 bomb and want to defuse it safely. If you give me a few minutes, I can find the same location and angle of this picture here on google maps, and show before/after comparison
Yep, we call it "Das deutsche Eck" (The German corner). Popular tourist attraction, it's where the 2 big rivers "Rhine" and "Mosel" flow together and become one. If you look at this pic the right one is the rhine, the left one the mosel. Rhine river is very long and goes through a large part of Germany, so we use it for transportation and tourist ships between cities.
>Maybe chat on 2ch that's a pretty reachable level, i think it necessitates only a couple of years >destruction of Koblenz auch too bad both your country and my country got obliterated to the ground, but i do respect your country's restoration actually, especially Nuernberg almost makes me cry. i hope one day Dresden will standen aus Ruinen auf too >der Deutsche Ecke this soubriquet gives me an impression Koblenz is Somalia of Germany. i think there are some people French heritage in the town as it's right next door to France? is there any influence from it? oh so this is today's Koblenz
I moved to this city when I was very young, so I don't really share its history. I still feel like it's my home though and find it impressive how well they rebuilt it. I'm not sure about French influence, but many signs are German, English and French. Because the French refuse to learn English kek Did you learn some German? Which city are you from, got some cool pics and facts?
>Did you learn some German? ja ich habe Deutsch lernen aber mein parlance ist Sheisse, ich kann Franzoesisch besser als deine Sprache sprechen lmao mit einem Woerterbuch kann ich schweren Buechen in Deutsch lesen tho ich bin geborn und wohne in Tokio it's not that bad as i live outside the center but i feel like it's high time i moved out of this metropolis
Where did you learn those? In your spare time? What do you like and dislike about Tokyo? Is it an expensive tourist place?
Gavin Foster
>Where did you learn those? In your spare time? uni, one year >What do you like and dislike about Tokyo? pro >convenient >convenient >convenient con >a tad soulless >always feels like heimatlos as it's different from what i think is true Japan (like Kyoto) >Is it an expensive tourist place? no, people often ramble about how expensive Japan is but at least it's more or less the same as some developed European country
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