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I don't understand, could you translate it?

Glad to hear you're getting good practice in.

Im stupid, still don't get it >_>

I did but I still don't understand lol

Learning Japanese has made me realize Mario isnt such a nice guy

Reminds me that I got to start reading like this, but my Japanese is still low level. Need to persevere.

What the hell is Keigo?

Is there a reason why someone would use instead of ( ?) A label on an item in my supermarket uses to describe the flavor of wasabi peas, but why wouldn't you use ?

Looks like quite a bit happened in this topic while I was away. A shame I can't get involved, my Kanji is still at an amateur level. Seriously, I need to keep trying with it.

Honestly outside of you won't really see it. If you work in any kind of business in Japan you will see and hear .

https://namakajiri.net/nikki/testing-the-power-of-phonetic-components-in-japanese-kanji/

Could be from

Oh and I missed this but that's not (which is ). Phonetic components work more often in predicting pronunciation in Japanese than modern Chinese, but they're rarely 100%. There is a small list of 100% predictive phonetic components out there. I can try to dig it up and post it.

You will see that word fairly often if you are in Japan. Most often in the form of .

since you said the Japanese was very difficult

There are so many actual Japanese games available I don't know why you would play a game likely machine translated into Japanese instead of English.

I kind of wanted to watch it in theaters but I didn't want to get delta covid, so I decided to just wait until it's available online. I was able to understand the series in Japanese pretty well so expecting the movie to not be much more difficult. I do need to do more listening practice in general, too.

You guys ever heard of Wanikani? I had a book that tried to teach the kanji in a similar way, with mnemonics and wacky stories, but Wanikani is much more modern and engaging. I think the book I was using was pretty old and didnt have as much imagination to it, which is definitely not what you want when the whole point is about creating vivid memories and stories.

Would recommend.

It's not bad, it just has some issues that become more annoying the longer you use it. The first problem is it requires you to manually type in your answers. A lot of people say it's a good thing because it helps strengthen your memory and makes you avoid mistakes, but the few seconds extra time and effort it takes adds up, and once your Enlightened reps start coming in it becomes a pain, possibly even a physical one if you have wrist problems. Having to type in your answers also means you can't just lie back and relax while repping. It also opens up the possibility of typos screwing up a streak, which is something you can only fix with userscripts/addons.

The second problem, and this is a major one, is the inability to suspend cards or mark them as already known. If you have a troublesome word or kanji that you just can't remember no matter how many times you rep it you can't just skip it and learn it some other day. Instead you have to go through the grind of constantly failing it over and over and over again until you finally luck out and remember it, and then you have to repeat the process again the next time it comes up in your queue. This is demoralizing, and your queue fills up with more of these cards as time goes on. In Anki you would just suspend or delete such cards. Not being able to mark cards as known means if you already know a fair number of kanji, WaniKani forces you to waste time on repping cards that you already know (this is especially egregious when it comes to the radical cards), time you could be using to learn new words or immerse in native Japanese content.

This leads to the third problem; you can't skip ahead. If you already know a fair bit of kanji, you might have to waste months waiting for unknown content. You also can't learn words that you might need to know right now (because the word keeps popping up in a book/manga you're reading for instance) but is many WK levels above what you're currently learning.

I could read the first 2 sentences perfectly but had trouble with the last one :<

So I was talking to a Japanese person and they said to me Shouldnt it be otherwise he just said Japanese horse. Right?

but its kinda hard getting the meanings of the sentences down even if I do know what some of the words mean.

I need to buckle down and focus more. I have every intention of reading an hour of VNs a night and maybe watching an hour of anime but I always just end up watching YouTube videos or playing games (in English). Basically, I need to improve my willpower.

When you think you're about to watch some relaxed japanese ukulele beach music, but they suddenly whip out guitars and drums and start shredding

Is there a dictionary online where you can look up a word and it tells you the pronounciation including pitch accent?

I thought the Bakemonogatari author was supposed to be pretty hard? Used a lot of wordplay and such.