japanese learning thread

[SrutalBeggs]

Hi guys I am learning it just for fun. I don't ever plan on visiting the country or actually speaking it, I just want to learn to read.

I already know quite a bit (not much tho), but I'll probably put my Japanese learning journey here just to motivate me ig

if there's any japcel or weebs who are fluent are willing to help me in my journey, please feel free to do so

I'm not too sure what to put here tho hmm...

I guess I could attempt to translate hentai manga or some shit, and I'll try to memorize new vocabulary I haven't learnt yet. The main issue I have is grammar, and reading kanji

 

[SilverBullet]

I want to learn soon too. Dont have the motivation outside translating eroges and other hentai games. But i can just use an auto translator

 

[SrutalBeggs]

ok let's start...

so let's start small, this doujin is just 2 pages, the other page doesn't have words so I just did this page

Text bubble 1:

Spoiler

こ、これはハグではなく... その...
(ko, kore wa hagu dewa naku... sono)
This- this is not a hug...um...

simple enough

Text bubble 2:

Spoiler

？？による？？？？です...
Can't read kanji pill is brutal

Let's search it...
接触　（せっしょく/sesshoku） contact
状態確認　（じょうたい　かくにん/joutai kakunin) status check

Have no idea what による is...let's see:

による is a very common Japanese pattern meaning “by / due to / through / based on.”

ok so this is
接触　による　状態確認　です
sesshoku niyoru joutai kakunin desu

So I guess this means
"It's a contact based status check"

Welp...lesson 1 over. Will try again tomorrow. I guess I got unlucky with a doujin with more advanced vocabulary

Vocab learnt:

Kanji	Pronunciation	Meaning
接触	せっしょく	contact (touch)
状態	じょうたい	status/situation/condition
確認	かくにん	check
	による	based on/due to

 

[TooSomething]

Niggawatt?

 

[Abgesang]

Gonna learn japanese so i can be a rice farmer in yamaguchi and leave the west behind me

 

[tbh]

canon event (you quit 3 days in)

 

[Abgesang]

canon event (you quit 3 days in)

Have you tried learning that language before ?

 

[tbh]

Have you tried learning that language before ?

yes its way too hard

 

[Tšuudi]

I would like to learn it too but I have no motivation to do so

 

[Abgesang]

yes its way too hard

probably because you need to learn the kanji

 

[tbh]

probably because you need to learn the kanji

I was on like duolingo and some apps the community recommends and i just realized this aint me

 

[Abgesang]

I was on like duolingo and some apps the community recommends and i just realized this aint me

I looked and there are 2,136 kanji that are essential

 

[tbh]

I looked and there are 2,136 kanji that are essential

over for us westerncels

 

[SrutalBeggs]

canon event (you quit 3 days in)

My record was 1 month. Managed to learn 300 kanji. I felt great ngl

I just hope I can get to another month maybe

 

[GrAYnigger]

Wish I had the capacity to learn this gook language. Would make reading japanese hentai far easier.

 

[Dr. Butane]

I looked and there are 2,136 kanji that are essential

Just remember 2,136 kanji theory

 

[alanmilky]

It will be easier if you know Chinese.

 

[Abgesang]

Just remember 2,136 kanji theory

Honestly its probably a snowball effect if @SrutalBeggs was able to learn the meaning of 300 he can just consume japanese media while learning and sooner or later he will have a good grasp of the written language

 

[bruhwtf]

I'm still struggling to 100% memorize hiragana and katakana

 

[bruhwtf]

i don't even know what some words yet with hiragana lmao

 

[bruhwtf]

Niggawatt?

kono wa nigguh desuka?

 

[bruhwtf]

japanese maxxing

 

[SrutalBeggs]

Honestly its probably a snowball effect if @SrutalBeggs was able to learn the meaning of 300 he can just consume japanese media while learning and sooner or later he will have a good grasp of the written language

I'm still struggling to 100% memorize hiragana and katakana

I really recommend this app if you want to learn kana and kanji

It really helped me a lot when learning it

Ringotan - Learn Japanese Kanji | Free App

Ringotan teaches you how to WRITE Japanese Kanji, not just read them. By combining advanced input detection with industry-standard SRS (spaced repetition) algorithms, Ringotan ensures you learn as fully and quickly as possible.

www.ringotan.com

certified incel approved

 

[St3v3Cel]

Casually withholding my knowledge about excellent Japanese learning resources .

 

[SrutalBeggs]

Casually withholding my knowledge about excellent Japanese learning resources .

S P I L L

 

[St3v3Cel]

S P I L L

Most all people should be able to reach JLPT N1 through information you can find on a website whose domain name starts with the letter "T". There are some other resources beyond that, but they are too kino too share with waifufags I'm afraid.

 

[SrutalBeggs]

Most all people should be able to reach JLPT N1 through information you can find on a website whose domain name starts with the letter "T". There are some other resources beyond that, but they are too kino too share with waifufags I'm afraid.

brutal gatekeeping pill

 

[SrutalBeggs]

Day 2. Another day another page. This one is another 2 page doujin. Just gonna try the first page because it already has a lot of text.

Spoiler: Text 1 - Hoshino

先生
(sensei)
"Sensei~"

Easy enough.

Spoiler: Text 2 - Sensei

あっホシノ！
(A' Hoshino!)
"Ah, it's Hoshino!"

Below is his inner dialogue:
うわ　今日の？？めっちゃ可愛い

Can't read the ？？
let's search...
格好　かっこう　(kakkou) -> style (appearance)

I've heard it in anime before I just didn't know what the Kanji looked like. New vocab acquired.

So the correct translation is "Wow, her style is cute today" (Uwa, kyou no kakkou mecha kawaii)

Spoiler: Text 3 - Hoshino

Part A:
今年もバレンタインチョコ持ってきたよ〜
(Kotosi mo barentain choko mottekita yo~)
"I've brought valentine's chocolate this year too~"

Brutal. I will never have this as an ugly subhuman incel . Unironically in tears right now .

Part B:
欲しい?
(hoshii?)
"Do you want it?"

II had learnt this before but I had forgotten it, so I had to search it up.

Spoiler: Text 4 - Sensei

Part A:
やったーっ　ありがとうホシノ〜！！
(Yatta, arigatou Hoshino~!!)
"Yay, thanks Hoshino~!!"

Part B:
超嬉しい⋯
(Chou ureshii...)
"I'm so happy..."

Had never seen these Kanji before, but from countless hours watching anime, I could kinda guess that's what he said and blindly typed it into the IME, and I was correct! 超嬉しい！

Spoiler: Text 5 - Hoshino

…とっていい…よ
(...totte ii...yo)
"...it's alright to take...it"

While there is no Kanji here, it was kinda hard for me to parse, had no idea what the fuck was she trying to say originally. I love context heavy languages!

Since Japanese doesn't often explicitly use pronouns, you have to infer who is referring to who. In this case, the sentence was literally "take... good" WTF????

I guess I should have realized the よ at the back implies that she is allowing Sensei to do something, and she was referring to taking the chocolate.

Spoiler: Text 6 - Info box (have no idea what are these called)

最近は　こうやって　好きな人に　チョコを　？すのが　？？に　なっている…と　ノノミに　聞いた

Super long sentences like these are the bane of my existence. Completely didn't understand it at all.

Firstly, let's figure out what those Kanji are.
渡す　わたす(watasu) -> hand over
主流　しゅりゅう(shuryuu) -> main stream/main current (of river)

So the sentence in full:
最近は　こうやって　好きな人にチョコを渡すのが主流になっている…とノノミに聞いた
(Saikin wa, kouyatte, sukina hito ni choko wo watasu no ga shuryuu ni natte iru...to Nonomi ni kiita)

I can read it now, but I still have no fucking clue what is it trying to say. GPT time!

It gave me a breakdown for me; here's the main parts I had issues with:

こう(like this) やって(doing it this way)

チョコを渡すのが -> I knew it meant something about giving chocolate, but the 「のが」 at the end made it into something like "the act of giving chocolate"

主流になっている -> something becoming mainstream. I guess this was directly translated from English into Japanese? Not sure. Because I was wondering what does a river have to do with chocolates

…と -> quotation marker. Marks previous words as quotes. Learnt this before in a grammar lesson, but I am not used to having the quotation marker at the back so I had trouble. English is like, "Elliot said, 'I am the supreme gentleman'". The "said" (which marks quotations) is placed at the front.

…とノノミに聞いた -> Since I figured out what the previous one means, I immediately realized what this one is supposed to be. "I heard from Nonomi that ..."

Full translation:
"I heard from Nonomi that, recently, giving chocolate to your those who you like, like this, has become common"

The way Japanese is completely backwards from Engish breaks my brain. Over for forwardcels.

That's it for today. Tomorrow again I guess.

Damn. I wish I was chad so I get chocolate for valentines from cute girls. Instead I'm stuck translating doujin as cope

Vocab learnt

Kanji	Pronunciation	Meaning
格好	かっこう	style (appearance)
欲しい	ほしい	want
超	ちょう	super [adverb]
嬉しい	うれしい	happy
渡す	わたす	hand over
主流	しゅりゅう	mainstream

 

[foid Slayer လ]

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ok let's start...

so let's start small, this doujin is just 2 pages, the other page doesn't have words so I just did this page

Text bubble 1:

Spoiler

こ、これはハグではなく... その...
(ko, kore wa hagu dewa naku... sono)
This- this is not a hug...um...

simple enough

Text bubble 2:

Spoiler

？？による？？？？です...
Can't read kanji pill is brutal

Let's search it...
接触　（せっしょく/sesshoku） contact
状態確認　（じょうたい　かくにん/joutai kakunin) status check

Have no idea what による is...let's see:


ok so this is
接触　による　状態確認　です
sesshoku niyoru joutai kakunin desu

So I guess this means
"It's a contact based status check"

Welp...lesson 1 over. Will try again tomorrow. I guess I got unlucky with a doujin with more advanced vocabulary

Vocab learnt:

Kanji	Pronunciation	Meaning
接触	せっしょく	contact (touch)
状態	じょうたい	status/situation/condition
確認	かくにん	check
	による	based on/due to

Damn seeing you do it also makes me want to do it