Figured other people trying to learn Japense outside of Duolingo should have these.
>when I was learning Japanese
If you are native English speaker, get the Genki textbook series. It’s good.
Some links:
>https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/learn/kana (start with this!)
>https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
>https://www.imabi.net/
>https://jisho.org (dictionary). Alternative: http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C
>https://kanji.sljfaq.org/draw.html (look up kanji by drawing it)
>https://www.tofugu.com
>https://www.youtube.com/@JapanesePod101
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Diku_kanji (this is reasonable order to learn the kanji)
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kanji_radicals_by_stroke_count
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_j%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Japanese
The best way to learn kana (hiragana + katakana) and kanji is to also write them on paper by hand (print out some practice sheets/drill sheets. Use Searx to find them.). Follow the correct stroke order (very important, not just nitpicking). Be sure to learn both hiragana and katakana before you start learning kanji! You can find out the correct stroke order for kana here (or from some other place): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Table_hiragana.svg + https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Table_katakana.svg Avoid rōmaji (even as beginner!). Write sentences in kana on paper (and later start adding kanji characters). Kana and kanji character should be much larger than western/Latin characters. I recommend you buy notebook that has squares. Use about 4x4 (or even 6x6) squares for 1 (!) character when you are learning them. Try to get the proportions right. If you make a mistake, don’t correct it. Instead start writing the character again (from the beginning). You may want to use Anki but don’t overuse it. It’s best to also start reading (Yotsuba to! is good first manga) and remember to practice writing as well.
Pro Tip: If you use GNU Emacs, you can use M-x
set-input-method
to change the input method to Japanese (start with japanese{-hiragana,-katakana}.
Pro Tip:
You can add Japanese keyboard to your Android keyboard (gboard).
Go Settings –> System –> Languages & input –> Virtual keyboard (under Keyboards heading) –> Gboard –> Languages –> “add keyboard”. Then just find Japanese. (you get Japanese style emoticons/kaomoji as bonus). You can switch the keyboard by pressing and holding spacebar or by pressing the dedicated button for switching the language.
While you are on the Gboard settings, be sure to disable the telemetry (IIRC, it’s under advanced settings)
People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
just because Crowley sauntered vaguely downwards it does not mean it wasn't painful nor devastating.
Crowley seeing the last rays of Her love as the gates of heaven shut, hell dragging him down despite his protest is the type of angst I live for. I liked the idea of the angels getting dragged down to hell, hence this. I made a version of this years ago while bored, which wasn't as good, so I'm glad I got a chance to make a better version.
Being amazed by yourself is one thing, but when you read your own work and get immersed enough that when you get to the end and think, “wow that was good, wonder when the next part is coming out” and then realise you actually have to write it yourself -
devastating.
The moment when you forgot that you wrote something and you read it again and it's actually so good. Like, wow, that person who wrote this is a good writer.
You know what completely broke me in the last episode? Crowley putting his sunglasses on back in the bookshop, him closing up and hurting. Argh, I cried like a baby
Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3
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