Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (April 18, 2025)
This thread is for all simple questions, beginner questions, and comments that don't need their own post. Welcome…
A fun way to study Japanese for beginners
I recently got into Blue Prince, a looping roguelike puzzle game that requires you to take notes in…
[PSA] Monokakido Dictionaries (MacOS/iOS/iPad OS) yearly sale Resources
Hello, fellow Japanese learners. It's that time of the year again: Monokakido are discounting their dictionaries offering for…
Follow-up on “づ”: what about ぢ?
A while back, someone asked me to think of words containing ぢ. This was harder than I expected.…
Do you know more 2 kanji 熟語/漢語 words that mean (almost) the same when spelled backwards?
This post is really just for the fun of playing with the language a bit! Basically, I have…
Weekly Thread: Victory Thursday!
Happy Thursday! Every Thursday, come here to share your progress! Get to a high level in Wanikani? Complete…
Is doing both Core 2k/6k and Kaishi 1.5k counterintuitive? (Anki question)
Title, feels like they're almost like extension of one another, surprisingly I found Kaishi 1.5k to be quite…
I realized that I depend too much on written language to understand stuff. Over the last few days I’ve been listening to podcasts. I ran into this short from サクラ大戦 and I attempted to listen to it multiple times and tried to make a transcript. This is how it went. What are those words I can’t grasp?
My attempted transcript: さくら 「だ··· ごめんなさい。」 すみれ 「さくらさん、人の着物 something 踏みつけてなんて失礼じゃありませんこと。」 さくら 「すみません。」 すみれ 「全く、これらから田舎臭い人嫌ですわ。そうやってお下品で。さあ、もう一度始めから行くわよ。」 さくら 「ごめんあそばせ。」 すみれ 「このガキ！さくらさん、口出って分からない人…
Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (April 17, 2025)
This thread is for all simple questions, beginner questions, and comments that don't need their own post. Welcome…
Windows Insiders begins rolling out their built-in OCR. This is useful so I wanna share it
Currently only available for Canary and Dev Channels by cnydox
Learning Japanese outside of Japan sometimes just sucks
I just really wanted to read this book series and lo and behold. It's a series of very…
Thoughts on my conjugation practice sheet?
Made this spreadsheet to practice conjugating verbs in the basic tenses and forms. It's not meant to cover…