Learning Japanese Vol. 2 (20)

1 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/12 03:06

I've decided to start actively learning Japanese again, it's been a year or so since I've last picked up a book on the subject so I'll mostly be trying to relearn what I've forgotten since then. Wish me luck!

2 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/12 05:14

Good luck! I'm starting to learn Japanese again too.
Especially since I'm going there soon.

3 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/12 23:48

I've learned the best way for keeping it on your mind is to completely submerge yourself in Japanese speech. For instance, if you talk to yourself in your head and say "What's that?", instead think to yourself "なんこれ？"
It's good to do this with just about everything, if you don't know how to express in Japanese what you are thinking in your head, then it should make you want to find out how to say it.

4 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/13 00:16

>>3
It's a good habit to get into.
We could use this thread to share resources or tips for learning more effectively.

5 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/13 03:00

>>4
I am going to try to stick to the jlpt site instead of shooting at it randomly as I did last time.
I'm sure you already know of it, but here it is anyway: https://jlptstudy.net/N4/
(beware of ads)

6 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/13 21:50

Something that I've wanted to do is be able to take arbitrary Japanese text and split it up into words. Apparently, someone else wanted the same thing and built it. He even provided a friendly web interface that links these words to definitions.
https://ichi.moe/ (Free Web Interface)
https://github.com/tshatrov/ichiran (Common Lisp Library)

7 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/13 23:00

>https://ichi.moe/
Holy shit, this is exactly what I've needed. I keep on getting slowed down by having to learn noun modifiers and things like that. Thanks you loads, my studying pace shall now be set at warp speed! Banzai!

8 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/13 23:39

It's pretty useful, right? I wanted to be able to take Japanese text I find in the wild and break it down into its parts, so that I can study things that I might actually encounter. I wanted to make my kanji study more practical.

9 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/13 23:43

Perhaps we could learn the old form of writing Japanese which uses all kanji and next to no kana whatsoever, it looks pretty identical to chinese

10 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/15 23:40

I have imagined for a that Japanese and Korean, hard as they are to learn to speak proficiently, are fair compared to learning Arabic, Mandarian, and Cantonese.

11 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/16 02:06

I always thought that learning arabic would be easier, kanji is what makes chinese and japanese so hard.

12 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/16 19:00

afaik spoken arabic isn't standardised at all. It's a different can of worms

13 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/16 21:11

>>12
I suppose the spoken part would be hard since all the Arabic countries have a different version, but I personally would take solace knowing I would only learn a language for online discussion since I don't plan on ever residing anywhere outside the U.S.

14 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/18 04:24

I need to be more consistent about learning Japanese.
I am still at it, I'm making progress, and I will probably not stop my attempt, but I know I'm going far, far, far slower than I should be, to the point where I'm pretty sure some things that I should totally know already aren't sticking.

15 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/18 14:25

>>14
I accidentally took 2 days off in my studies the last few days, to the point where I stopped naturally speaking in my thoughts in Japanese (;´Д｀)

16 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/20 18:32

https://myoji-yurai.net/searchResult.htm?myojiKanji=金玉
It seems there are at least 10 people in Japan with the surname 「金玉」

17 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/21 01:31

>>16
Cursed.

18 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/28 14:21

スパ茶
https://nitter.net/2chbook/status/2016362466670956867

19 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/28 21:45

>>18
He pronounces paypay as peepee

20 Name: Nameless : 2026/01/29 15:54

lol peepee
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