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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (May 05, 2025)

  • May 5, 2025

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  3. At this point I am unsure how to proceed with regard to vocabulary. I have reached a point on My Anki (around 1.5k words) in which I can’t keep adding new stuff, because I’m always forgetting some words that I already know. Then I learn those again, and two days afterwards I have forgotten another different set of words.

    I know that the brain is capable of learning many more, but I have reached a point in which I’m unsure how to make all the words ones I already know remain fixed on my long term memory

  4. I’ve got a pen and tablet that I normally use for drawing, and I’ve started using it to practice handwriting kanji to help me remember exactly they look like by forcibly repeating the parts and stroke order. My handwriting is poor in English, and I doubt it’s going to end up much better in Japanese. Is there any decent metric to tell if my handwriting is “good enough” to be understood? My current idea is to upload pictures of it to various (automated) image translation websites and seeing how well they can understand it, would that work long term?

  6. [Takuboku Ishikawa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuboku_Ishikawa) wrote bellow tanka. We Japanese learned this in middle school.

    >In the crowd at the train station, I go to listen to the nostalgic dialect of my hometown.

    >ふるさと の なまり なつかし ていしゃば の ひとごみ の なか に そ(*1) を きき に ゆく

    >ふるさと の : of my hometown

    >なまり : the dialect

    >なつかし : nostalgic

    >ていしゃば の : of the train station

    >ひとごみ の なか に : into the crowd

    >そ を : to そ(*1)

    >きき に ゆく: I go to listten

    Question: What does そ(*1) mean?

    Answer: そ(*1) is short for それ(=it) in this sentence. Therefore, そ(*1) means “the nostalgic dialect of my hometown”.

  7. I’m a native Telugu speaker. I want to learn Japanese using Telugu (తెలుగు) to jump start my learning. My target is native level Japanese.

    When I first decided to learn Japanese, I did a youtube search and found one channel where a Telugu *thammudu* explained some similarities between these 2 languages. Majority of vowels and consonants are available in Telugu *Varnamala.* That was really interesting*.* but it was just basics.

    I’ve been searching since many days and could not find any complete resource online. Its disappointing.

    Looking forward to find that guru who has mastered Japanese using Telugu and can help me further. or share their story how they did it.

    I couldn’t post in this community so I have posted on another community with some more findings. If you like a thread to continue this conversation please comment there: [https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/1ken2p7/has_anyone_learned_japanese_language_using_telugu/](https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/1ken2p7/has_anyone_learned_japanese_language_using_telugu/)

    *Arigato gozaimasu*

  8. Smart way to separate out kana-only vocab cards from a core deck?

    I have the Kaishi 1.5k deck in Anki. Based on a few suggestions and my own findings, which is that kana-only vocab is usually for some reason harder than Kanji vocab (probably because I’ve been doing RRTK), I’d like to separate out the Kana-only vocab into another deck.

    How do I do this without manually going through the cards?

    EDIT: Okay I did it by extracting a list of the Kanji in the word field using Kanji grid addon, then told ChatGPT to make a python script to put every kanji in that list in format –

    -word:*Kanji1* -word:*Kanji2* -word:*Kanji3* …..and so on.

    The final search in Anki = “deck:Kaishi 1.5k” -word:*Kanji1* -word:*Kanji2* -word:*Kanji3* …..

    If there was a better way of doing this please do let me know so I can save some time in the future.

  9. Is there any good learning courses specifically for learning conversational Japanese? I want to learn to be able to hold a conversation with someone, and I’m far less concerned about being able to read and write. I visited Japan a while back, and while it was a ton of fun, I wish I knew more than some canned phrases to talk to people there. Does anyone know of any courses focused on speaking?

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