Daily Japanese Thread DJT #1842

>>17611467
からして has two meanings, "judging from" and "even". It has to mean "even" here because your own preferences are not something you judge based on external information. (Nonsense: "Judging from the food, I didn't like the restaurant.") It doesn't make sense to say you dislike "even" the food or flavor of a restaurant.

>>17611693
If you have a text with hiragana and just want to change it to katakana for training purposes, here: https://f.lewd.se/LQi6Fi.html
It should convert both ways and leave the unrelated characters alone.

>>17611524
The PDF is actually for a different book with the same name.

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>>17612069
辞めろよ

>>17612201
>telling dekinai-chan to resign from reminding us the truth

the "review forgotten words" custom study is really helpful for me, i do my normal anki on mornings and custom study before sleep for more exercise and it really helps the more difficult words stick

>>17612252
Not everyone is a neet.

>>17612259
>i do my normal anki after school/work and custom study before sleep for more exercise and it really helps the more difficult words stick

was it that difficult

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>>17612183
Really? Thats odd

So I finally experienced some power outages and internet death so I'm downloading the grammar stuff that could be useful. What was the new hotness in grammar? The CoR has "A Handbook of Japanese Grammar Patterns for Teachers and Learners - English version" and another one that goes by "A Handbook of Japanese Grammar". Is that the same stuff or which one is the "good" one?

>>17612460
I think the contents are the same but the latter is J-J only.

Are the Shin Kanzen master textbooks good?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/

Here's a fun article about differences in language efficiency (it's more of a light magazine read than an in depth statistical comparison). Since it's a topic that comes up here every once in a while I think people might enjoy it.

この左翼傾向の寄生虫め

>>17612460
The "A Handbook of Japanese Grammar" PDF in the CoR is not the HJGP. Notice the "Patterns" part is missing from its title. That PDF has a different author and is from a different publisher. It's completely unrelated, just with a deceptively similar title.

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>>17612460
can you torrent or give me a megalink pls senpai

>>17612550
Just fucking search the CoR for Handbook of Japanese Grammar Patterns with your browser's find in page function

I want to learn the basics of Japanese in order to watch my favourite TV shows - most common words and phrases basically. What's the best route for this, so far I laid my hands on Genki 1 and FSI materials and will pick either if I don't find anything better. What do you recommend?

Realistically I sense what kind of commitement it is to learn Jap and since I want to use it only in such narrow way it's pointless for me to learn it very toroughly if I hear 'hontoni' and 'sugoi' most of the time.

>>17612475
>>17612536
Indeed I hadn't noticed the difference in the title so no wonder the other one is presumably J-J. Thank you anons.

>>17612579
PS I know kana pretty well

Is it stupid to keep pushing a deck(s) in anki past 20 cards as a beginner?

>>17612589
if you have these thoughts you'd better slow it down - you'll potentially do more harm than good that way

>>17612579
Watching TV shows requires you to be at a fairly high level. Unlike reading where you decide the pace, with listening the pace is decided for you by the speaker, and it's more difficult to look up whatever you don't understand since you have to figure out what was said for yourself using your listening comprehension skills (which take a lot of practice to develop).

If you think just reading Genki and learning a handful of common words is going to let you watch Japanese TV, you are sorely mistaken.

>>17612589
Yes, but only if you can't handle it. If you just so happen to be able to do 30 new cards a day without wasting tons of time, go for it. Just be aware that any change in the number of new cards per day is going to have a delayed response in terms of new cards so if you cut down on new cards it'll be a bit before the effects show in your review count.

>>17612607
but I was told by everyone that idols shows are kid-tier comprehension-wise

Why 二十歳? Seems awfully specific and somewhat useless.

>>17612635
The same reason we have tooka instead of juunichi and hatsuka instead of nijuunichi.

>>17612627
Kids have years of listening experience.

>>17612653
so what are you suggesting for me to do?

>>17612663
If you want to understand Japanese then what do you think? You gotta learn the language.

>>17612663
Either learn Japanese properly or don't bother. If you're going to half-ass it, you're just wasting your time.

>>17612672
how am I not wasting my time learning whole fucking language to understand basic conversations in a Japanese kid-friendly TV show?

>>17612683
You can't learn kid-japanese.

>>17612663
Watch anime

Lots of anime

>>17612683
>how am I not wasting my time learning whole fucking language to understand basic conversations in a Japanese kid-friendly TV show?
What the fuck is wrong with you
>>>/int/djt

>>17612579
Watch the show and pause it to look up every new word you encounter. If the show has a limited vocab that will be the fastest way to learn that specific vocab.

>>17612891
watch having a bad japanese?

>>17612974
You can literally learn Japanese just by watching anime

Is anyone familiar with the Japanese from Zero video series/books? How good are they?

>>17612989
watch with subtitle or raw ?

>>17613024
English subs

>>17613024
Brazilian Dub

>>17613024
raw/jap subs helped me for listening

げつようびって

ゆうううううつになるかも

Don't forget listening practice

Matsumoto 54th birthday gaki episode
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6095vg

>>17613554
Who was the granny in the end?

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The て form is sometimes used with nothing else to form a command, right?

Also, is this a casual, slangy way of doing things?

>>17613652
Yes.

Casual, not slangy.

>>17612635
20 is not just any age, it's the age of majority for nips.

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＞おねーちゃんが手えふった！
＞とーちゃんもふれ！

That girl waved her hand!
Dad, you wave too!

＞とーちゃん手がはなせないからな俺の分もよつばがふってくれ

Since your dad can't let go [of the wheel], you do my portion of the waving.

Do I have a future career as a translator?
(No really, did I get it right?)

>>17613711
You got it right.

>>17613711
>手え
手ぇ

>>17613715
>>17613717
ありがとう～(ᗒᗨᗕ)

Is there any situation where じゃあ and では aren't interchangeable? (ignoring the fact the latter is more formal)

>>17613711
That girl waved at me!
Dad, you wave too!

Dad can't really let go of the wheel right now. You wave for me.

僕のインタプレテーション

>>17613768
じゃあね

さっそく愛称で呼んでるし、いきなりその質問はないだろ！
"Immediately calling a nickname, suddenly that question slipped out."

What is し doing there?

>>17613820
I wonder if it's just there for emphasis... Mukashi mukashi I remember listening to a Japanese Pod 101 lesson where し was used in that way and the teacher (Naomi-sensei) said that it isn't exactly correct Japanese, but that some young people do use it anyway and that it probably came from the し you use when listing things.
http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=shi

>>17613855
That's what I guessed, but the first clause isn't a "reason" for anything. The speaker just called out "How big are your boobs?" to the new girl introducing herself to the class.

>>17613820
I think ない here is short for とんでもない*. So it would be listing さっそく愛称で呼んでる and いきなりその質問 as ない.

* https://kotobank.jp/jeword/%E7%84%A1%E3%81%84

>>17613891
>but the first clause isn't a "reason" for anything.
Sorry, I tried to explain that it is purely for emphasis and not related to the reason but I see that the jgram link didn't mention that use -- sorry.
Here you go, Maggie-sensei to the rescue: use #4.
http://maggiesensei.com/2014/07/10/how-to-use-%E3%80%9C%E3%81%97-shi/

>>17613925
I think that's it.

>>17613932
Maggie says that's used to finish a sentence, and し is in the middle, so I don't think that's it.

>>17613820
http://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%97

I feel like I'm learning my mining cards so much better than core that I'm gonna bump up how many I'm doing per day. Anybody else feel this way? I don't know what it is. Maybe because I have more interest in the subject matter at hand, I'm remembering words that relate to it better? Much easier than stuff like 企業, 株, 複雑 etc at any rate.

>>17613820
>その質問はないだろ
>that question slipped out
Is this right?

>>17614035
One of the Rikai definitions of 無い is "unpossessed", so that's what I went with.

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>>17614039
そうですか

How many visual novels do I need to read before I stop needing a dictionary every sentence?

>>17614035
It's not. This is ない as in "Nope. Nuh-uh. Not going to fly."
That question is out of the question. That question is right out. That question is not going to fly. That's a stupid fucking question.

>>17614068
23

>>17614068
the entire nitroplus, light, railsoft catalogues

>>17614033
Core kind of throws you right into the fire and its vocab is definitely more 社会人用. I don't have much of a problem with it but I had a lot of listening under my belt before I really started studying. I struggle with my mine deck more because my reading/writing isn't as good as my listening.

The vocabulary of Japanese is just too large. I tire of it.

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>>17614068
>needing a dictionary every sentence?
Every sentence is probably only 2-3. Thats to completion, every route and not including shorter stuff like hanahira

>>17614137
nominated for the UK blog award 2017! congratulations anon, and good luck!!

How long did it take you guys to be able to read an entire page without having to look anything up? I mean an actual page, not just pages with one word or screaming on it.

>>17614220
Stop asking stupid shit like this

>>17614183
You can get a nomination with just two sentences? I guess less sometimes really is more.

さかなくしょんになりたい

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>>17614220
There's no real answer to that because it depends on what you are reading. If you read the last thread, you'll see that there's an anon with 13k mature words and several dozen LNs under his belt asking the same question about books. I think what matters is to read a lot and read a variety of material. For example, this past week or so I've been reading manga a step above beginner level material. So when I go back to beginner material, I can find pages where I don't have to look anything up like pic related. Sure, it's an easy conversation, but I can be happy in my progress that I can quickly read it. This week I'm going to switch back to reading VNs, and then the week after that I might try out a LN. As long as I keep up an interesting variety of input, I know I will keep progressing.

俺は明日から本気を出す

>>17614285
出たニートの必殺技

>>17614277
It's also good to read different genres. You'll never be able to read that sci-fi series you keep putting off unless you read a bunch of other sci-fi stuff.

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I'm kind of stumped on the 甘え出したらどこまでも甘えてしまう expression here. I'm interpreting it as "If we start depending on each other, we'll become completely indulgent." But the conditional following どこまでも is kind of confusing, any help?

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Why is it so hard to find audio or video of people speaking dialects?

If you listen to local radio shows, all the presenters just speak in the Tokyo dialect. If you search the internet for videos, about all you find is clips of shitty TV shows where dumb assholes from Tokyo go to some rural area and ask people to read words so they can laugh at them when they say them differently. In the rare cases where someone speaks a dialect in an anime or something, most of the time the character isn't very prominent and/or only speaks their dialect on rare occasions (e.g. for about 2 lines when they get flustered before promptly returning to the Yamanote Tokyo dialect).

Where are all the Sean Beans and Michael Caines of Japan?

High schoolers in America like to draw huge dicks.
>アメリカの男子高校生は大きいなちんぽが描くのが好き
Someone please help me correct this my family is dying

>>17614377
if we start depending we will then end up depending forever

>>17614381
https://youtu.be/zXoB3-QHEuo

>>17614381
Have you tried looking for movies? Japanese cinema is incredibly rich, so I'm sure you could find something there.

>>17614398
>Someone please help me correct this my family is dying
どう言う意味？それは正解だよ

>>17614398
you forgot their gender, thats all
but its pretty easy to infer its not girls doing that..

>>17614471
I just wanted to add a small sense of urgency to my post as a joke. Thanks anon.

Anyone know what books in the resources list are good for a beginner? My vocab is at 1.2k currently. I've been reading articles for a few weeks and it's getting less exciting.

>>17614398
を描く

>>17614528
Ah, thanks. I haven't sent it yet, so that helps a bunch.

>>17614456
About all I'm aware of on that front is 1970s yakuza movies where it's apparently common for the yakuza characters to speak in either Kansai or Hiroshima dialect. I'm not aware of any other films where dialects are prominent (I'm sure there must be some, but whether they are any good is another matter), but either way, the odd movie isn't really very substantial.

I was hoping I could find a radio station or a long TV series where you get the opportunity to hear lots of people speaking in dialect, but with every radio station I find all the presenters speak in standard Japanese (i.e. Tokyo Yamanote dialect) and the only TV show I know of which might fit the bill is あまちゃん which takes place in Northern Japan where the Tohoku dialect (which I'm not interested in) is spoken, but only two of the actors in this show are actually from the Tohoku region (and only one of them is from the actual prefecture which the show is set in) and many of the actors are bizarrely from as far away as Kyuushuu.

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Can someone here tell me what those are? Katakana? Hiragana?

>>17614568
Lyria is saying "hooray, hooray!" フレーフレー　katakana.

>>17614583
Nice, thanks very much.

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>>17614559
How is this? I just remember it being mentioned in one of the advanced jpod lessons but I never bothered looking into it.

>>17614568
こーこー

This Japanese cheerleader is pretending to be a bird.

Anyone know a good Firefox fork that works with Rikaisama and most plugins? Pale Moon seemed to work fine but wasn't compatible with plugins like clipboard inserter.

>>17614658
For now, I'm using Firefox ESR.

>>17614627
I laughed

>>17614658
Firefox 52 ESR for a few more months, Yomichan from then on.
Both clipboard extensions work as WebExtensions, no need to switch there.

>>17614559
Ah, ok. You seem much more advanced than me, but it seemed like a good place to look. If you do find something please post it here

>>17614725
Same here, yomichan finally committed the {glossary-brief} tag
Now it no longer spams useless crap in with the definition, way more than rikai did anyway

>autistic need to be 100% thorough means that I add entirely archaic words to my list of words to learn

This is going to bite me in the ass, isn't it?

>>17614788
By definition, they will be few and you will run out of them pretty fast, so no.
I do wish we had some kind of consesus on what to ignore though, foods maybe, 'special' ways of calling it red or blue
thing is I can never bring myself to toss them away, even if Ill never eat that kinda food myself or understand the people that were 佐幕 or what was going on during 志徳 but i know them when other people talk about it

>>17614725
52 ESR isn't working for me with ClipMon, I'm using 52.0

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>>17614927

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You should be able to read this.

>>17614068
I think I read 50~ before I stopped using a dictionary pretty much at all.

>>17615018
4chan doesnt like those file hosting urls, it will block them as spam

>>17615027

I feel like I'm being unfairly accused of something.

>>17615032
if you had to ballpark it, would you say you ramped it up according to this
http://wiki.wareya.moe/Stats

>>17615027

sorry, can't read chinese

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>>17615040
Have you been studying enough, anon? I hope you haven't been slacking.
>>17615042
Not really. You could say 95% of Japanese overlaps itself in all media - you can find Economic lectures in a random classroom scene in a moege, for example - so even if you read a casual assortment of things there shouldn't be any major problem jumping to harder things. The only thing to watch out for are nukige, those are so focused on sex they provide less opportunity to expand your overall vocabulary, so if you read too many of them then your "progress" will likely be stunted to reflect that.

I think in almost all cases, Japanese difficulty is exaggerated for VNs. Dies Irae is 1% chuuni chants that're hard to comprehend and 99% normal Japanese. You don't really need to focus on reading X hard things to grow, you'll get there naturally. Sole exception being Motherfucking Mareni who's so hard the Japanese themselves literally need to make fan sites to keep up with his vocabulary: http://railseibiya.web.fc2.com/ .

As an extension of that, it's important to remember that even natives can struggle with their own language. Don't use this as too much of a psychological crutch, but it's common for natives of say English to struggle with dense language like pic related. You'll NEVER be able to consume all Japanese without struggle. No VNs will be this hard, though, so don't worry about it too much.

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>>17615080
Thanks, I suspected as much(heavy overlap) but its nice to hear. All im looking forward to is the day I stuggle to mine more than 20 new words on average for the month, and I can finally start catching up on the backlog of unseen.

おなかすいた

たいやきたべたい

>>17615171
きみだけたべたいよ

ホンマボーっとしとるで
ぎょうさん寝たけど足りへんそうや
お腹も痛いし

>>17615080
pic related is written like a fairly standard textbook, so as long as your english proficiency is similar to a high school student, it wouldn't be hard to understand, but hard to passively read because most textbooks have such density of information.

>>17615203
おいしくないよ

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>>17615171
こんばんは、腹ペコさん

>>17615210
あのな関西弁でな
「足りる」という一段動詞の代わりに、「足る」という四段動詞を用いるのが普通
と読んだことがあります
だから普通には、打ち消しは「足りへん」じゃなくて「足らへん」って形をとるんだと思う
見ての通り母語者ではないけどな
それに、「足りる」という一段動詞を使っても、上一段なので普通は「へん」じゃなくて「ひん」をつけるべきであろう
関西弁というのは地域によって違うし「足りへん」も言えるところも無さそうにないが、「足らへん」、「足らん」、「足りひん」の方がよっぽど一般的とも思われるでしょう
ちなみに関西人の前で間違った関西弁を使うと超怒られる・・って聞いたこともあるな

>>17615395
はまちょん

たりひんってつかうよね

>>17615395
さよか、おおきにな～
ちゃんと覚えとくやるで
>ちなみに関西人の前で間違った関西弁を使うと超怒られる・・って聞いたこともあるな
それ知っとるやからうまくなる前に関西人と話しとるとき使わん

>>17615220
>because most textbooks have such density of information
They are also poorly written.

>てかお前さー昨日あの後珍しくミス連発だったじゃん

I've never come across 連発 before and I'm really confused about how it fits in this sentence. I'm struggling to make even an educated guess because my research suggests that 連発 is verbal bombardment (e.g. a small kid bombarding their parents with questions), but this is the first time these characters have spoken since 'yesterday's mistake'.

>>17615395
俺大阪に住んでるねんけど、関西弁で喋ったら、間違っても笑ってくれるでｗ
まあだんだん間違えはせへんやけど

>>17615735

I don't know what kind of research you've been doing, but 連発 doesn't need to be verbal. ミス連発 simply means repeated mistakes/failures. The rest should be clear enough after that.

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>>17615735

For VN script anon. Now with 100% less formatting.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/pcys2d8878y7462/

>>17615779
Thanks, I had one online dictionary tell me it was for verbal repetition and it was the only sentence I could find context for.

>>17615827
Is that Rikaisama? Damn, it's a lot more helpful than mine.

>>17614927
Try installing an old version of Clipboard Inserter:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clipboard-inserter/versions/

0.1.0 should be compatible. You might have to disable automatic updates for it though to stop Firefox from updating it on its own.

>>17615857
he made this page for a reason anon
http://wiki.wareya.moe/Requests

Is there a rule for when [u] is /u/ or /y/ or are they allophones?

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>>17613820

>>17614381
Check the anime for Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san

>>17615032
>I think I read 50~ before I stopped using a dictionary pretty much at all.
I guess I'll get there in 25 years then, considering I'm reading Hanahira for about half a year now.

Perhaps I should just give up now.

>>17616131
>reading Hanahira for about half a year now.
How have you not killed yourself yet? I stopped reading that piece of garbage after the first lunch scene.

>>17616131
Or you could just do anki

>>17613820
Attaching し to the end of verb clauses is a "partial list of reasons"

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In all seriousness, how difficult is Fate/Stay Night? I've read 3 low-level VNs, how much harder is it than say Himawari or Aiyoku no Eustia?

>>17616131
Don't worry, I've spent most of my adult life reading flyable heart

>>17616131
The secret to learning Japanese is to find something so compelling that you wake up eager to read it and need to tear yourself away from it at night. If something bores you for multiple days you should drop it.

>>17616271
its probably difficult to fully grasp without really knowing japanese
nasu is a guy that doesnt really understand a lot of things that he uses in his stories and also tries real hard to sound impressive to 13 year olds which means you lose out if you dont understand where those spots are as well

ことに is the same as にも? how ?

>>17616312
The problem for beginners to reading is that you're guaranteed to ruin the first thing you read (or at least the first half of it) because you'll be spending ages looking up even the most basic words and as a result the scenes won't flow very well.

That's why it's best to start out with something that is compelling to read but not TOO good so you don't spoil a masterpiece by starting with it.

What's the best way to read manga in Japanese on an iPhone? Any apps you recommend?

>>17616342
A better idea is to go through a page or a chapter looking up words and then read it again at a much faster pace

Why are you fuckers recommending VNs or real books to beginners?
LNs are the best. They are short as fuck so you feel like you are moving forward and they have less long-winded plot so you are less bored reading at a glacial pace. What's more if you read them in your browser you get instantaneous lookup thanks to Rikaisama. Not to mention one-click Anki card creation.

>>17616444
We're hoping they'll find it too difficult and give up.

>>17616444
Pretty pictures and porn are a big motivator for people

>>17616444
What's a beginner friendly LN? I started a week ago and Yotsuba as recommended is way too boring to read

>>17616489
ソードアート・オンライン

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I'm about to finish my first VN and while I learned a lot, I still have to look up quite a lot of words.
Now that's fine cause I gradually get better, the next VN should become easier and easier as I go on.

漫画 usually uses rather easy language and many of them have furigana, so that's not too hard to read as well.

But ゲーム seem like a huge wall, something I can only enjoy after I become fairly good at Japanese, with it's often auto advancing text and no way to look up words easily.
Are games easier than the average VN language wise? If I read 2-3 more VNs will I be able to play through a JRPG without having to look up too much stuff?

I just feel so hopeless without a texthooker.

>>17616516
good one

>>17616489
I'm having fun with Goblin Slayer (and I'm just a beginner too). You can use the translation as training wheels, it's pretty faithful (or at least it's more faithful than Spice and Wolf or Kino no Tabi's translations).

>>17616545
Games are the end-game in my opinion. Or at least that's how it was for me.

>>17616545
>I just feel so hopeless without a texthooker.

Use that feeling as your motivation to move forward. You don't want to be a DJT EOP, do you?

>>17616545
I know we're learning Japanese here but there's no reason to type manga and game like that when the rest of your post is written in English.

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>>17616545
Here is a screenshot from an average Japanese game.

Could someone help me nail down the specifics of a sentence?

Someone lost an arm wrestling match and his friend is teasing him by saying that his macho appearance is all for show. The guy replies with:

>三鳥テメー負けたらこいつと俺にジュースおごれ

Is he saying "You bastard, if I lost to this guy then I gotta juice"? I'm getting juicing is a fitness thing.

>>17616545
Games have much more repetitive dialogue, which will help you get acquainted with specialized vocab, but no backlog feature and auto-advancing text might give you some trouble. If you can read simple VNs on auto mode you should be fine.

>>17616588
But it's クール to write like this.

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Are any of you bad enough dudes to explain the difference in using ように and ために？

As far as I can tell, ように deals with things you cannot control (so, mainly intransitive verbs), the negatives and the potential form. ために states a goal and a thing that you're doing to surefire achieve it, ye?

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>>17616598
If (you, he, someone else depending on the context) lose to that chicken, you're buying juice for us both (for you and me).

>>17616604
Not really. At worst you come off as a teenage girl who just crams in random Japanese words into their sentence, at best you're no better than the いきなり文の中にEnglish言葉を足す人だよ。

>>17616569
Goblin slayer looks way too difficult for me, guess I'll stick to Yotsuba for now.

>>17616625
If what you're reading is boring you, you should really push yourself a little harder.

>>17616607
https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1389492573

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>irregular verbs

If I "know" all the grammar in the basic DOJG, where does that put me on the JLPT (as far as grammar goes)? Is that N4 or N3? I don't think I'll take the test but since people talk about it all the time I'm curious about my progress

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>>17616595
forever dekinai

>>17616660
You've had probably thought you were being cute, however I have easily deciphered this.
>目的が意思行為の場合は、次の「ために」を使います。
Seems almost a bit too easy, but ok. I'm also shocked to learn that 出る is actually an intransitive verb.

Doesn't explain negations or things like 忘れない being used with ように。I can kind of get it on my own, because you can't really have any power over whether or not you forget something, but ok.

>>17616619
My bad, I should have specified that 三鳥 is the name of the guy talking shit.

The context is that both the guy talking shit and the guy on the receiving end of the shit have lost their arm wrestling matches. Does this mean that he's basically saying "If anyone else loses to this guy, you have to buy us juice"?

>>17616625
With texthooker it's easy (since a lot of 'grammar' can be understood just based on what Rikaisama says about it). I mean you only need basics (e.g. all of Tae Kim).

>>17616751
If that 三鳥 guy loses, he'll have to buy juice for them both. I think, I can't be sure because they've omitted が here.

よおいしてくる！
Is this an error or is fourleaf-chan too stupid to say ようい with the right hiragana?

Yotsubato vol 2 page 12

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しゃあないな、昨日の食ったタコスのせいで今日は腹がめっちゃ痛かったやけどまた腹減ったしタコスしかないし今日もタコスやな
ケツの穴をちゃんと締めとくで

>>17616775
I've only read 1/3 of tae kim so far, and I don't feel like going much further with grammar at the moment. It's already a lot to take in and I feel like reading an additional 200 pages won't do me any good.

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>>17616882
>200 pages

what's the difference between rikaichan and yomichan? No one ever mentions rikaichan it must suck

>>17616909
The fuck?
Last I tried yomichan (three weeks ago) it sucked pretty hard. So did rikaichan.
Just stick to Rilkaisama (or rather the fork called orikaisama, you can find the xpi on github so it's as easy to install as vanilla).

>>17616924
>Rilkaisama
Rikaisama

>>17616569
Is there a text source or are you reading scanned pdfs?

>>17617090
I bought it. 5 USD ain't much.
https://mega.nz/#F!6t1UyCiQ!5s2Q2igVbyvU7aSh_cs1wQ

>>17617105
Oh and if you wait 5 minutes I can add html version to that folder (Calibre shits itself when dealing with Rakuten epubs).

>>17617110
cont
So some anon had to convert it correctly for me.

>study core 10k
>want a field for the definition in japanese, and hide the translated response

can something be done or do i have to review on a different deck? I'm near halfways done with it.

>>17617126
also ankiweb's repository of decks is a mess. No versioned decks, no updates. It fucking sucks. Also

>This shared item is no longer available.

>>17617126
Read the manual. You can change the card layout as you please.

>>17617105
Thanks, anon

>くそ、いいところで切りやがってぇ～
>Shit, it cut off at the best moment.
How close did I get? I think that's やがる at the end, it threw me off a bit.

What do people mean when they say 覚悟 as a warcry? Are they telling the enemy to 覚悟, are they declaring out their own 覚悟, or are they just musing about 覚悟 in general?

i'm confused I have less words on anki to review every day it's gone 93->82->74 and tomorrow only 52, i don't get it it worries me, shouldn't it show me more because i'm taking 20 new words per day and i'm not a very fast learner

>>17617336
>Are they telling the enemy to 覚悟
I assumed it was this.

>>17616924
How is rikaisama better than rikaichan? Just the anki addict features?

>>17617330
You got it

>>17617394
Frequency information and support for EPWING dictionaries for example

>>17617397
So nothing too useful to bother changing

>>17617394
http://rikaisama.sourceforge.net/
Read about the features and compare them to rikaichan.
Whether any of that is important is up to you. I was too harsh toward rikaichan to be honest. Compared to yomichan it's good.
I don't remember, is there j-j option for rikaichan? If the answer is yes then it should be workable, even if a bit barebones.

How's the latest version of firefox, does it break rikai?

I'm currently on firefox 40 so I thought it might be a good time to update again

>I've been reading 仲間 as ちゅうげん
Fucking kill me.
Because the term was used to refer to samurai's companions it didn't even read wrong.

>read < as く
FUCK

>>17617510
For how long?

ホンマ女の子の腹をしばきたいなぁ
意識を失ってまでしばき続ける～

それやめろ

>>17617529
Just a few days.

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Reminder that you should only make flashcards for specialised and obscure vocabulary which is hard to learn through exposure alone. If you are making and reviewing cards for common words, you are wasting your time.

What do I do if ith is spitting out voiced lines vertically with weird broken spacing between words in steins gate?

>>17617705
I just add anything I want to revisit to anki. Sometimes its an obscure word, sometimes its a simple compound word like 引き出す (I know this one but its just an example).

>>17617705

But that'll waste even more time, card + exposure will always be faster than just exposure in the long run.

>>17617705
is 早漏　a common word?

>>17617705
If it's a simple word it'll take the easy train to maturity in no time.

>>17617490
It works in the latest version

>>17617490
>>17617798
Doesn't work in Nightly though.

>>17617814
It does for me.

>>17617839
sama is sadly no longer updated and is not multiprocess compatible so it only works if you open a non-multiprocess window
You probably mean chan

>>17617849
Yeah, that anon didn't specify. I guess I assume chan when someone says "rikai" in general since that's sort of the vanilla

>>17617705
How's is somebody who's still in the "making flashcards constantly" phase of learning supposed to know which words are common and which ones are specialized?
In fact, merely the act of looking up the word, writing it down, writing its definition etc. is helpful in remembering it.

Every time I try to access the complete collections of LNs on mega it crashes my browser and internet. Is anyone else able to get it to work?

>>17617978
The archives from the library are more complete anyway.
https://djtguide.neocities.org/djtlib_link.txt

>>17617972
Rikaisama has a frequency metric.

What exactly is 国道? Is it just like a normal interstate highway in America, just for Japan?

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>>17618046
is this so hard?

>>17618056
It is. Thanks, anon. I won't do something dumb like this again.

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Does anyone happen to have the 1st volume of the 乃木若葉は勇者である LN in epub/html/pdf format? I was able to find the 2nd volume on baidu, but can only find magazine scans for the first volume. If not, it's not too big of a deal, would just be nice to have everything in the same text format with smaller filesize and the ability to look up words a little faster.

>>17618032
based on novels, not actual japanese

You must become a NEET in order to learn Jaapnese

>>17618101
novels are actual japanese you turbosperg

>>17618127
I'll just stick to Japanese then thanks

>>17617972
If it has the "common word" tag on Jisho.org, you probably don't need a flashcard for it.

>>17618137
wrong. There is a big difference between literature and language

>>17618228
yes that is why i have my audio only deck, with audio on the front, and an audio explanation on the back, so i can learn real japanese

>>17618101
Japanese novels are usually written in Japanese, but putting aside whether novels are your target corpus or not, that's not it's weakness. Most of the inaccuracies you'll find in that metric are a result of parsing errors or optional spellings. Still it's good enough that you should be able to use it with common sense.

>>17615080
Pic related isn't very hard though.

できないでもやりたい

>>17617705
But if I don't stop to make a card, I practically ignore even looking at the kanji and trying to learn it. Rikai made me super lazy.

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>>17618496
ガチムチな人がすき？

>>17618496
おかえり、 Jamal.

>>17618433
Be aware that it's impossible to post any comprehensible English here without SOMEONE calling it easy.

>徒歩数分程度
Google translate is giving me "a few minutes on foot" for this, but i'm having trouble breaking it down into bits. This phrase makes plenty sense in context, but it's also not popping up on jisho, nor is any real combination of these kanji with the exception of 徒歩, which is easy enough. Should I bother trying to make sense of this, or should I just stick it in anki as "expression?"

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>>17618558
...Eh???
徒歩 / 数分 / 程度
What's your problem? Long strings of kanji words pressed into one isn't strange.

>>17618575
Ah, man, I fucked up when I was copying 数分 into Jisho. I swear I tried it several times and didn't get any results, so I must just have somehow fucked up several times in a row. Must be getting too tired. Sorry to bug, anon.

>>17618587
No problem, of course, this is a home for others to help each other. Though, I would perhaps suggest paying a bit more attention, as 数分 even without Jisho should be comprehensible, with 数 being "several / a number of" and 分 being minute(s).

Is there any situation where swapping へ　for に wouldn`t produce the same sentence? I know the reverse doesn't work.

>>17618521
that wasnt me but thanks for the namedrop

>>17618615
光栄への道

wait i meant 栄光 but whatever

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>tfw you commute to work and study but forget to sync your anki deck and it compounds over 2 days when you get back

I never had a lot of interest in Light Novels compared to manga,but now I might as well give it a try. Can anyone let me know which of these titles are beginner friendly, and which ones might give me a lot of trouble? I can currently read a variety of manga with a dictionary on hand.

Book Girl
Spice and Wolf
Another
Amagi Brilliant Park
Full Metal Panic
Kino no Tabi
人類は衰退しました
Slayers
Oreimo
Overlord
Re:Zero
ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか
キノの旅
Log Horizon
幼女戦記

>>17618989
look there is no friendly japanese media targeted at tweens teenagers and young adults for people who dont know japanese so dont ask and either read something youre more capable of reading or enjoy reading everything looking up every other thing till you die or stop wanting to read that junk

What's the point of including potential forms of verbs in core? It's just a conjugation right?

>「決定は後からでもよろしいですが、一応、ご父兄の方を交えて面接を行わなければいけませんので、とりあえずは、面接を受けるかどうかだけ…」
Context it's talking about a part-time job as a tutor, but I'm a little confused about the ご父兄の方 part, as well as why 面接を受ける is repeated.

>>17618989
Read what you want to read. Look through the first few pages, determine if it's the level you can read, then read it.

>>17618989
Book Girl was okay. It was the first LN I ever read, and so of course I struggled here and there, but mostly it's not too hard. It spoils No Longer Human completely, though, so if you have interest in reading that at some point, don't pick it up.
Kino is about the same level from what I could tell, but I dropped it after its first two chapters were so similar that I was bored to tears.

>>17619130
I'd suggest that you skip the first few pages when gauging difficulty, actually, because first page syndrome. Though there is merit in reading things above your level, in any case. It's all opportunity to grow.

>>17619078
>there is no friendly japanese media targeted at tweens teenagers and young adults for people who dont know japanese
isn't that what nhk news easy is?

Are there any scans of recent issues of まんがタイムきららキャラット floating around?

I'm 3 weeks into Anki and my kanji retention is 10%. I'm on the verge of tears, why can't I learn this?

今夜星を見にゆこう

>>17619148
>skip the first few pages
No, the point is to read the first few pages and get used to the author's style and use of vocabulary.

>>17619168
Time to try another approach then. Get RTK or KKLC or reduce the amount of kanji/day you're learning or start writing more, etc

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>>17619168
It was rough for me at first too, but then I just started remembering things. Maybe you are forcing too many words a day? Post your graphs.

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I'm trying to read the instruction manual for this game Puyo Puyo Sun (pic related). The premise of this little story is that Satan wants to get a nice tan so he uses magic to make the sun really hot. I'm having trouble understanding this sentence:

>雑誌には「南国ツアーガイド」なんてのも載っていたのですが、そこはサタン様のこと、この場にいながらにして小麦色になるのが一番らくちんだと、含み笑いでなにやら怪しいことをはじめました。

Specifically my questions are:

1) The なんてのも in the first clause, I'm not sure how to parse that. My best guess is that the の is acting like a noun like "one" or "thing", so the first part of the sentence would be something like "Although the magazine also advertised things like 'southern country tour guides', ..."

2) The そこはサタン様のこと、. I know what it means on its own, I'm just know sure what it adds to the sentence, or why it can be a comma-delimited clause by itself. I would think that there should at least be some particle after the こと.

3) Which usage of と is being used in ...小麦色になるのが一番らくちんだと、含み笑いで... I don't think it can be "if", since the preceding clause is present tense and the following clause is past tense.

Sorry if I'm missing something basic here, I don't have a lot of practice reading longer sentences yet.

>>17619168
Did you learn your radicals first?

>>17619186
The point is that the first few pages aren't the author's style - first page syndrome is how authors put a ton of extra effort into the first few pages to suck people in and ensure sales or what have you. You get a much more honest look at the writer's style from the middle or early-middle sections of the book.

>>17619168
>>17619168
Use the Heisig method, bro. It doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me. People will probably call me a shill, but I love WaniKani and I think it's absolutely worth the money, it's so convenient having a bunch of mnemonics written for you and learning the kanji at a predefined pace.

>>17619168
Maybe try another software. I exported my cards from anki into another flashcard app with spaced repetition function and it worked better for me.

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>>17619241

>>17619084
I'm not familiar with core but does it include all potential forms or just some?

If only some, perhaps it's for special cases where the conjugation translates into a different English word. Similar to how 覚える translates to learn but 覚えている translates to remember.

>>17619188
I really don't want to use RTK because I want to know how to actually read the kanji, not just their loose English equivalent.

>>17614137
It's really not though. It has fewer words than English.

>>17619288
Is that in total or in typical usage?

>>17619119
For now an interview with the guardians is necessary, so the first thing is whether or not to take the interview.

>>17619295
I don't know. I don't have a source either, I just pulled that out of my ass. I do know that English has a damn lot of words, though.

>>17619284
Well, you do need to change ????????? about the way you're studying since 10% retention is ridiculous.

hello people.
I was told here once that a bunch of Japanese Graded Readers books are torrentable, but I don't know where should I look for them. Could anyone help me or nugde me in the right direction?

>>17619295
I think 97% coverage in Japanese is something like 20k words vs ~10k for English. The last 3% is where English probably outpaces any other language though.

>>17619320
>Could anyone help me or nugde me in the right direction?
The guide

>>17619284
I thought the RTK method was garbage too, until I started using WaniKani which uses the RTK method and I found that it really works.

Ideally, however you're applying the RTK method, you should learn at least one reading and one vocab word along with each kanji. That way, if you see some word in the wild you don't know, say 自覚 or something, and you only recognize one of its kanji, say 自, then you can at least be like "oh, that kanji is in the word 自分", so then you can at least get the 自 part digitized and plug it into jisho.org and hopefully find the other word you're looking for.

However you decide to "learn" the kanji, it's not supposed to teach you everything there is to know about kanji or Japanese, it's just supposed to get you a foothold so you're not completely lost.

>>17619326
last time I checked, it was of no assistance

>>17618496
同性愛者

>>17619326
>>17619354
okay fuck, I was apparently blind
there IS a bunch of those bukks

thanks, I guess

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>>17619329
This is more or less what I've done with my deck. I try to have at least one 音読み and at least one 訓読み, with mouseover definitions and the keyword still accessible through mouseover if I need it. Not the same as doing a full production vocab deck, so it's not like I can magically write all the words I "know" through this deck, but still pretty helpful as a kanji deck while also not relying on the heisig keywords as much.

>>17619171
いいですね。きっと満天の星空だ。

>>17619309
>?????????
Are (???) a wizard?
>>17619329
Yeh, breh, let's learn 成就. Sweet. Ok, now what's the new word I encountered here...
>じょうちょう？
>成長
Yeah! じょうちょう. じょうるほど! I got it! This is so cool. I'm sure glad I memorized readings while learning kanji, guys.

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What's going on here?

>>17619440
Is it not possible to change Anonymous to 名無し with css?

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>pic related uses 僕
I thought that was just for wusses like you guys told me, what happened?

>>17618550
Does it have to be something like this, then?

>That the gentiles should be inheritors also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise that is in Christ, by the means of the gospel, whereof I am made a minister, by the gift of the grace of God given unto me, through the working of his power. Unto me the least of all saints is this grace given, that I should preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God which made all things through Jesus Christ, to the intent, that now unto the rulers and powers in heaven might be known by the congregation the manifold wisdom of God, according to that eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesu our Lord, by whom we are bold to draw near in that trust, which we have by faith on him.

>>17619483
Guys who use 僕 are really hot, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

>>17619457
Yeah but learning CSS takes more effort than changing a line in the 4chan X settings...

>>17619457
>content
>css
He edited the DOM.

Back when djt was on /a/, an anon made an ichi.moe kanji deck. It had like 25k cards or something. Lost it when something happened to my computer
Might anyone have it still?

I'm thinking of doing heisig/kanjidamage/whatever through vocabulary. Every time I come across a new word, I'll look up the radicals and mnemonic and try to learn them that way instead of through flash cards.

Has anyone tried this with any luck?

>>17619625
Those systems are designed to be done in a specific order. It probably won't work out very well.

>>17619625
learning radicals is a waste of time, you'll pick it up automatically through vocab

おはようおにいちゃん

へっどせっと

こわれた

あたらしいのほしい

>>17619634
Learning radicals gives you more mnemonic power. I didn't learn them at first, but I'm glad I did.

>>17619666
Mnemonics seem kinda silly to me, Remembering a phrase for every word you want to know instead of just remembering the word seems like extra work, but whatever works for you.

>>17619676
I don't really use phrases as much as mental images, and only for words I struggle with. For example I remember I would always mix up the two right hand radicals in 線 so I pictured a horizon line with clouds over water, problem solved.

>>17619666
What resources did you use to learn radicals?

>>17619676

A good mnemonic/visualization isn't something you have to actively remember, seeing the word or kanji will remind you of it and it merely acts as a backup in case you can't otherwise remember the meaning. A safety net of sorts.

>>17619703
>線
"Line" sense from 糸, phonetic value from 泉 works for me.

>>17619641
>へっどせっとこわれた
どうして、古い？

>>17619729
なんか音ならない

これほしい
https://www.amazon.co.jp/audio-technica-MONITORING-%E5%AF%86%E9%96%89%E5%9E%8B%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%98%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%9B%E3%83%B3-ATH-S100-BBL/dp/B00FFKJ29U/

>>17619703
I don't know if you do this already but writing kanji really helps you with recognizing the parts of a kanji, like you could just picture 線　as 糸　白　and 水　even shit with a crazy number of strokes like 鬱　is easy to recall from memory if you write enough, even if all you do is look at vocab without worrying about radicals eventually you'll easily be able to tell stuff apart　like 装　製 　or 勢　熱　without any effort at all

>>17619721
I think most people learn 線 before 泉. Either way the placement of 水 and 白 is arbitrary. A mnemonic is easier than trying to brute force it imo.

>>17619737

I suspect anon uses mental images to save time though, whereas repeatedly writing kanji until you get them specifically takes time.

"If you do it long enough you'll eventually get good at it" applies to every aspect of studying, but there's pretty much always a better way to go about it.

>>17619752
I don'r repeatedly write them, I wrote them every time I saw a word while doing anki, that's once for words I had seen and 3 for one's that were new every day, I still write them because I enjoy being able to do it, but at this point I can pretty easily recall how any kanji I've previously seen looks

you certainly don't need to write them 50 times over and over every day though

but again, whatever works for you.

>>17619600
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/831167744

>>17619748
I had learned very early how to write 温泉, so it was a natural mnemonic by the time I got to 線.

>>17618989
>人類は衰退しました
From what I've heard, this (along with other works by the same author) is pretty advanced level stuff.

>>17619818
Ah, thank you

>>17620000
And 線 is a mnemonic for 泉 in my case. Kanji are easy once you have the framework in place to make connections like that, but they're considerably harder if you're just trying to memorize a bunch of lines that don't have any meaning to you yet.

>>17619818
>This deck's purpose is to increase your reading skills.
Is that a good beginner deck for reading? I'm currently using Core 2k/6k and KKLC for vocabulary. I got too much free time so I simply added another deck because anon in here recommended it instead of increasing the number of cards per day in Core2k/6k.

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What's the correct way to pronounce words with んい (e.g. 雰囲気, 戦意) in them?

I hear some speakers say the sound in words spelt this way as something like "nyi", and others seem to convert the "ん" sound into just a very indistinct, nasally sound (kind of like how some speakers do with the が sound), and others still seem to just say it like "ん・い". I don't think I've ever heard it said as に though.

>>17620274
The claims about increasing your reading skills are pure nonsense considering there isn't a single sentence in the entire deck. It won't increase your reading skills, it will just reduce your dictionary use. There's a big difference between learning a bunch of words out of context in Anki and being good at reading/listening.

>I got too much free time so I simply added another deck
Delete it and use that time to read and listen instead. It will benefit you far more.

>>17611847
Thank you for your feedback. I was thinking on the line of "judging the food (they serve) I don't like it". But it was said in past tense and I didn't put attention to that.

>>17620368
>"What's the correct way to say these syllables?"
>Lists all the ways native speakers pronounce them

What's the problem?

>>17620447
Maybe I should've been more specific. What's the Standard Japanese way of saying them?

I assume some of the ways I've heard are how they're said by speakers of certain dialects, but not how they're supposed to be said in Standard Japanese. I want to know what the "proper" way of saying them is.

>>17620379
Guess I'll just use Core 2k/6k from now on while using the rest of my time to read and listen, thanks.

>>17620368
がんばってまねしてね

いろんな

ん

のいいかたが

あるとおもうよ

>>17620450
Wouldn't it be useful to know them all?
It seems like a detail you'd just pick up from context over time well enough. Small things like that, figuring out the minutiae of where words and phrases fall on the axis of standardized/unstandardized, are moreso things that you do when you're in the "mostly fluent and rounding out the edges" stage.

How long have you guys been at it? Is it worth starting now?

>>17620509
>con't

And I mean, if you're talking to people in Tokyo or whatever and you're saying some Kansai shit, people will probably find it endearing or interesting more than anything. They won't apply whatever stigma's attached to socially disadvantageous dialects to you. By the time you get to the point where anything's expected of you, like at the time when someone miiiiiiiight mistake you for a native speaker over the phone or something, you'll already know just from having years of experience.

>>17620577
Isn't that something you have to ask yourself? I started 6 days ago and it's pretty rough but that decade of watching anime is helping with vocabulary a ton.

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What do you do to avoid JP study burn-out, DJT? How do you relax through the endless consecutive hours of grinding?

>>17620577

A couple of years, on and off. Time passes pretty fast at the end of the day though.

And I mean, I guess neural networks or someshit will eventually reach perfectly accurate translations but even that'll only get you so far, so if you're interested in it now then you oughta start now. You must look into your own heart to find whether it's worth it or not.

>>17620729

If you have to "grind" for several consecutive hours in the first place, you've gone and fucked up somewhere along the way.

>>17620735
>I guess neural networks or someshit will eventually reach perfectly accurate translations
They come as far as they can, google translate is using them
its still not that great, they don't understand they just pattern match
and forget about jokes, references and innuendo

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>>17620577
i started anki about 2 weeks after real kana so not quite 2 years
>Is it worth starting now?
of course, the guide is still there and so is japan

buy more figures

>>17620577
Learning a language is always worth it, assuming you have interest.
You have to be realistic though, that's the key. I think you'll notice that these threads seem like a revolving door, lots and lots of people talking about how they're just starting out, and a small group able to offer expert advice, even on a forum exclusively for mass weabooitry.

Japanese is generally regarded as being on the highest level of difficulty for English speakers, along with Arabic and Chinese. It's on the complete opposite side of the topological spectrum from English, and Kanji is a whole nother level of mother fuckery, you don't even know.

Still, it's far, far from impossible to learn. Tons of goony ass people with brains running on Mountain Dew and Fritos have managed to do it, why can't you?

Keep in mind a couple of things:

1: Learning a language is a very front-loaded task. The beginning is the hardest, which is one reason so many people give up after a week or so. Things get smoother the further you go, but with Japanese it does take a while (compared to, say, French or Spanish) to really get rolling.

2: You HAVE to be persistant. Your brain is a lot pickier about what it chooses to store than you might think. You'll spend hours with your nose buried in material, going over words over and over and over, only to completely forget most of it the next day. People on here use Anki, a spaced repetition system, which is what you need. You have to keep your new vocabulary fresh by going over it at well spaced intervals time and time again You have to trick your brain into believing that what you're feeding it is important enough to keep. I cannot stress enough how vital this is.

3: No matter what, you won't be fluent for years, and you'll never be a native speaker. It will take ages to get to a pont where you can even vaguely understand Japanese written or spoken, and many times that to even approach fluency. To reach a truly advanced stage you'll almost definitely have to actually be in Japan, at some point. It would take years upon years of being surrounded by Japanese text and speech at all times, and thousands of hours of conversation and listening, to reach a level approaching a native. You'll also never be able to confidently translate English into Japanese (at least enough to make it a job), since that requires an innate understanding of the language that only someone who learned it as a child has. There are limits.


4: This requires quiet a bit of free time. I'd say an hour a day at least, though it's more important that you get at least some in multiple times a day.

>>17620825
Not him but I'll save this picture for motivation. Are you using Core2k?

>>17620839
Excuse me, typological.

>>17620825

>591 daily average after 2 years

So have you added the entire language to Anki or is your retention percentage just super low?

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>>17620857
I finished core 2/6k within year 1, even with dropping down the new cards per day to only 15 for a good chunk of that.
Its now just mining, of which ive passed 8k for a total of 14k in the deck. 8k ish matures total
Started reading pretty late into core, maybe 1k matures. yotsuba was good though, especially with the reading pack

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>>17620910
I add everything and anything, and while my retention isn't that great, its been dropping since i donated some blood
but it will average back to above 80% i guess

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>>17620768
>Not using your brain power to blaze through JP study until you become fatigued.
>Not being a mental masochist with Japanese.
>Says I've fucked up.

>>17620839
I don't believe it's impossible to learn to translate English into Japanese. It's just a fucking language, there's no mysterious special power you need to be born into to use it.

>>17621044
You need UG which is basically a superpower.

>>17621089
おもろいことはおもろいって訳やな

>>17620577
I learned the hiragana in 2002

>>17621113

So how are the katakana coming along?

>>17621044
You can learn to do it relatively well, but you'd never, ever be able to do professional work.

There are distinct and stark differences between first language speakers and L2.

>>17621274
>but you'd never, ever be able to do professional work.
But the opposite is somehow not true and the Japanese are qualified to translate from English?

しかし、屋根やねに火ひがついていることがわかったため、１２０ｍぐらい先さきでまた止とまって、乗のっていた３００人にんぐらいを降おろしました。

What does the ため mean in this sentence? I understand what is going on, but I wouldnt know which word to translate it into or why its being used.

>>17621274
>>17621300
So you're saying the professional world demands native level in the target language rather than the source language? That doesn't make sense to me. Surely more mistakes would be made in misunderstanding the source than in communicating the same message to the translation, since you can always adjust the latter to your own level.

>>17621300
Yes, Japanese people can translate from English to Japanese, not from Japanese to English.

You can translate from Japanese to English, but not the reverse, at least in any serious capacity.

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>>17620913
So you only used core 2k/6k the first year? I'm currently using standard 20 per day and started reading Yotsuba yesterday with the reading pack.

>>17621363
So how exactly do people go about getting jobs like interpretation?

>>17621343
Ultimately large companies prefer someone who is native bilingual if possible, but otherwise it's always better to translate into your own language.

I know I know duolingo is shit for Japanese but I'm still curious just to see it. When I log in to check it out though it tells me it's only 67% developed and I can't access it. How are all these other people trying it out? Beta testers?

>>17621274
Do you believe that because Japanese is so different from English or are you talking about languages in general?