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# Reason to study japanese
I really like how sounds Japanese language. Sometime then I do my routines thinks, I can start talk to myself something japanese words. I try completed sentence, but as can you see i doing it badly. I could have learned the language a long time ago, in my city many courses of japanese, and i have skill for learning. But problem is it, I don’t have motivation.
Anime? No, not for me. Only romantics on 12ep. Life in here? No, still not. I like please, there i live now. Study? Not in the next five years. Work? It’s sounds really, but on condition my works, projects will interesting japanese.
May you share with me thinks of japanese life, with i can understand only with knowledge japanese.
I already know the answer to this question is “no” but just in case, does anybody here know of a 100% reliable Japanese reader?
I mean something like jisho.org, japanese.io, hanabira.org, ichi.moe, nihongodera, yomiwa etc where you can paste japanese and get the reading?
All of the above make mistakes (e.g. wrong furigana reading, wrong parsing or grammar/particles, wrong word detection, sometimes changing the text outright in the case of japanese.io).
So I’m on a quest to find a reliable tool. A lot of tools are out there but none of them are truly flawless, and a lot of them are just terrible or unnecessarily complicated. Like if you can get the basic feature of adding the correct reading above the word right, then sure, you can think of adding extra features. But a lot of these apps cannot get it right yet they add advanced tools like AI-based grammar analysis. I just use jisho.org because it is not less reliable than others and is very simple, coupled with google translation.
Am I the only one frustrated with this plethora of mediocre apps?
Hello all. I’ve been learning Japanese for a while now but am feeling stuck or stagnant. I’ve been wanting to see if watching Japanese movie’s or TV shows with Japanese subtitles on would help, even though I may not completely understand it, it might help with pronunciation, word order, etc.
Also, I have a bit of trouble with properly using adjectives and some sentence structure issues. Does anyone have any good resources that could help with those? Thank you!