Afraid to talk to strangers in Japanese – UPDATE
A follow up to this post I made earlier this week. I appreciate all the responses and words…
Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (August 01, 2025)
This thread is for all the simple questions (what does that mean?) and minor posts that don't need…
Weekly Thread: Meme Friday! This weekend you can share your memes, funny videos etc while this post is stickied (August 01, 2025)
Happy Friday! Every Friday, share your memes! Your funny videos! Have some Fun! Posts don't need to be…
Looking for a new book/manga release site that is publisher agnostic. Resources
Any good sites that track book and/or manga releases? Want to widen my reading for improved vocabulary and…
1. Tips for transition from Japanese From Zero to Tobira? 2. How to study Tobira with a partner?
Title basically, but not really asking for myself. I've gone through most of quartet 1 with a teacher,…
Intermediate and advanced learners: how did you maintain your motivation when you started learning Japanese?
Hey everyone, I've been going through and learning Japanese as a hobby for the past 6ish months and…
Advice for JLPT learners (N3 Specific)
It is important to study the previous JLPT exams. I’ve included 2 photos. One from a previous N3…
Good vtubers for sentence mining?
Annoyingly, chrome keeps removing Nordvpn from itself so now Im left with only YT to sentence mine from.…
Mindset prep for Japanese language evaluation with recruiter? (N2 hopefully soon, already conversational level)
Hi everyone, I was wondering if I could ask for some thoughts on how you approach language evaluations…
Nominalization Question
スポーツをするのと、みるのとどっちが好きですか スポーツをする方が見るより楽しいですか Why are we nominalizing to play (スポーツをする) and to watch (見る) in the first example but…
Grammar help
スポーツしたり、ゲームしたりしたい. In the sentence I thought at the end it will be したりする. Can someone explain the difference?…
Anyone got a trick for memorizing words that don’t use any kanji?
Studying for the N2 right now and, while my vocab knowledge is overall one of my stronger points,…