#just started learning japanese

[adhd-languages]

When someone speaks a foreign language in public and I’m desperately trying not to stare like I’m sorry I’m not racist I just desperately want to hear the different vowel sounds you’re making. sorry.

#also every time I hear a language in public I wanna figure out what it is #and don’t even get me started on if it’s one I recognize #if it’s Japanese I’m like #if they say one of the few words I can understand I go insane #even if they just use particles. and I hear/recognize them. it’s so exciting for me #<-(I’m a nerd and this is what qualifies as fun for me) #but also it’s rude to stare and eavesdrop too much I’m sure #and I don’t want people to feel uncomfortable #Quinn posts #language #langblr #linguistics #language learning #languages #100 #500

[benkyoutobentou]

language learning culture is always watching children’s media in various languages

#benkyou posting #polyglot #langblr #studyblr #language learning #studying #studyinspo #i never watched toooo much childrens shows in japanese but right now my main mandarin study resource is a website made for kids to learn #one of the more advanced stories on the website is a kids version of journey to the west #im so excited to be able to watch that one some day #i do need to start reading (comics) though because im mostly just watching things as immersion in mandarin

[ducktracy]

"posting this because i NEEEEEED this on my blog" is probably going to be the caption for 95% of the Shin-chan stuff i post BUT IT IS NO LESS TRUE BECAUSE OF IT. Masaaki Yuasa is quickly becoming one of my favorite animators and i want to have easy access to ogle at his work at any time. and i hope for you to do the same! so here's his animation for Ending 3 of the show from 1993

#i enjoyed Devilman Crybaby when it was new and REALLY enjoyed Night is Short Walk On Girl but Shin-chan is my first time seeing him actually #animate rather than as a director/affiliated with Science SARU #AND UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH HE IS SO GOOD I'M SO INSPIRED #Shin-chan has just been so fun to get into truly have not felt this passionate about getting into something since i got into LT/golden age #cartoons #a very happy and unexpected hyperfixation of 2024 #and thank you for coming along on this journey with me i know it outwardly doesn't fit my 'brand' of posting BUT ACTUALLY IT DOES BECAUSE #THE GAGS AND ANIMATION ARE SO GOOD AND SPEAK TO ME SO MUCH. aahhhhhhhhhhhhh #i've literally started taking Japanese lessons on Duolingo so i can watch more episodes that aren't subbed #i have a pretty basic knowledge of Japanese since i was once an anime obsessed 8 year old (thank you Leo Ojamajo Doremi is still treasured #in my heart) so i can make out/infer bits and pieces but it would be great to have a greater understanding and also learn how to read #Hiragana. which i've been learning! slowly #i'll probably be posting more OPs and EDs because they are so good so so good #OP 3 is stuck in my head literally all the time #COME ON BABY COME ON BABY tamanegi tabereru #if you for whatever reason are deterred by my Shin posting then my containment center for it is 'csc' so blacklist that #but hopefully you will not!! #csc #vid

[nordic-language-love]

Assortment of random Japanese words I‘ve learned since arriving here without studying

足元（あしもと）- at one’s feet, underfoot (heard over a tannoy announcement at the station warning passengers to take care when boarding the train)

参る（まいる）- to come, to go (humble) (they never say “電車がきます” when the train’s arriving; it’s always “電車が参ります”)

まもなく - soon (humble) (again, they never say “もうすぐ” on the train; it’s always まもなく. To the point where I actually forget もうすぐ and end up saying まもなく to my teacher and she laughs at me)

最高の（さいこうの）- the best (from My Hero Academia, because they say “the best hero” literally all the time, and at first I was like “you want to be a psycho hero? What??”)

残念（ざんねん）- unfortunate, too bad (randomly heard on the radio and recalled I’d looked it up recently, and then heard it again a couple of times in anime)

さすが - as expected of (hear it in My Hero Academia aaaaall the time)

揚げ鶏（あげどり）- Japanese-style fried chicken (I asked the cashier how to pronounce it when I ordered it)

本線（ほんせん）- mainline (I hear this literally every time I use the local trains because it’s the name of the line, but I only just figured out what it means)

鼻水（はなみず）- snot (lit. nose water) (hear this all the time when kids want a tissue. They just come up to me and say “先生。鼻水” and I’m like ok gross just go get a tissue you don’t have to ask me)

おっぱい - boobs (heard in class as I got groped by a five-year-old girl, double-checked the meaning on the way home)

甲虫（かぶとむし）- rhinoceros beetle (they’re on one of the videos we put on for the kids when they’re coming into the class and they all just say “kabutomushi” whenever it comes up on screen)

かぶと - a particular style of traditional Japanese helmet worn by ancient warriors (it’s in one of the pictures I had to use this term where I ask the kids “what can you see?” and every single class someone would point to it saying “kabuto”)

I was actually really confused the first time they said it because Kabuto is the name of a Pokemon (and not one I’d really expect them to know because it’s from the original 150 and hasn’t really featured in more recent generations) but it looks like this:

So I was like. Wtf there’s no Kabuto here, wtf are you on about?

#japanese #japanese vocab #japanese langblr #learning japanese #there are a lot of other words i learn from those videos where the kids just say the japanese #some of them have already started saying the english instead now #but a lot still say the japaense first #or i'll show them a flashcard and they'll say the japanese bc they don't know the english #or i'll ask them to get me a flashcard as part of a game and they'll shout the japanese to each other #i still suck at grammar but i know my animals and colours and stationery pretty well now!

[dark-side-blog3]

mm sometimes i think my yanderes would take advantage of the fact that I cant do some of the things most people can do with ease like tying their shoes or telling the difference between left and right, or the way i absorb info just to force me into being a baby. Mommy kakyoin would coax me into his lap after heavily drugging me, so I just happily melt into his embrace as he asks me what sound a puppy makes only to be met with a soft whimper of me trying to speak.. or diavolo making me do kindergarten level math in the playpen he keeps in his office for me. -📱

I've been having some trouble with doing tasks most people can do, so it is fun to think about different yanderes making you do baby-level math worksheets, or French vocab sheets and crosswords meant for little kids. Or having those grid papers to write Cantonese and Mandarin, or in your case with mommy Kakyoin, katakana. Why bother teaching you kanji or hiragana? You'll only be confused. And hiragana is more commonly used-- he doesn't need you knowing what common signs and objects actually say. Then you won't feel as lost, should you manage to slip away from his hands for a moment.

Diavolo knows worksheets aren't any fun-- he'd give everything to not have to do them, and still know the people he cares about would be okay. So instead of a little duotang with worksheets for your math, linguistics, or animal noises, Diavolo tries to set up little activities for you to do every day. Little trays with a number of the day, clay in one dish so you can draw the number yourself, roll it on a die, and count it out of marbles. Calling an animal handler to show you the different birds and bugs of the devildom in the throne room (and saving trips to the royal zoo for weeks you've been extra good!).

#I'm wondering what would be more advantageous (by which I mean less helpful) to teach someone in japanese? Katakana? Hiragana? Kanji? #they're ALL used #but some are more grown up than a little kid that still needs Kakyoin for everything #Most old documents are written in katakana. You'd sound so old. Like a little kid that still says “gee willikers batman” #but granted you'd typically mix katakana and hiragana AND kanji in a sentence and coversation #so if he really wanted to nerf you he would only teach you how to spell one way #Kanji is hard to learn (in my opinion just reading this) but if you learn 1000 words you can just suss out what most things say #oh don't get me started on the SLANG #man what a high pressure environment to learn a language... Kak is also such a menace if you lash out or get frustrated #man DEF teaches you the wrong words for things on purpose. #cellphone anon #anon confession #yandere agere #yandere daddy diavolo #yandere mommy kakyoin

[jakuwais]

Translate this sentence:

かっこいいべんごしとやさしいいしゃ

A cool lawyer and a nice doctor

✅ Nicely done!

#i had this on my mentalto do list now i can check it off #i have a 76 day streak so far on Duolingo #clearly on the Japanese course #the reason i started learning is because i bought doujins and my translation apps were Not helping lol #I’ve been wanting to learn jp anyway for years i just kept putting it off #but i kept getting a cool lawyer and nice doctor in my lessons and i was like wow… them… #hypnosis mic #hypmic #hitoya amaguni #jakurai jinguji #hitojaku #my art

[queennai714]

Random hcs I have because I may be cringe but I'm free part 27 (Ninjago)

More platonic oppo (but still mostly Kai centric) because their friendship has infected my brain (strap in, it's a long one)

Ok so this one is kind of a mashup of 3 different headcannons, the Chinese Kai hc, the "oppo are best friends" hc, and the one im gonna talk about here that possessed me to write this in the first place, but hear me out-

(Tbh, this could take place at pretty much any point in the series but I usually imagine it somewhere between seasons 4 and 8)

Just take a second to imagine, Kai peacefully going about his life as his proudly bilingual self, until he realizes: outside of Ignacia, its insanely rare to find someone who speaks Mandarin.

This, in turn, sparks two more revelations: One, that just makes the fact that he was born and raised speaking Mandarin all the more cool, and two, that he would have virtually no chance to use/show off his first language with someone other than Nya or Zane, and he would only ever get to use Ninjargon.

This motivates Kai (desperate to keep his spot as one of the most cultured on the team) to learn THREE more languages, those being French, Italian, and Spanish (as any reasonable person would do)

The only person he ever outright tells is Wu (seeing as he's fluent in like every language ever so he's great to practice with) and he mostly keeps it a secret from the others so that he can keep surprising/impressing them by pulling another random language out of nowhere whenever its needed.

What he didn't expect however, was how Zane would react.

Turns out, being a total bookworm and a literal walking computer means that not only does deciphering other languages come easy to Zane, he also absolutely adores studying languages in all their forms. So, when he heard from his friends that the criminal they were supposed to go question didn't know any Ninjargon and that Kai had managed to hold the rather intense interrogation entirely in French, he was beyond delighted. Once he had finished cleaning up after dinner he practically ran to Kai's room to talk, and of course, he immediately insisted Kai do all his explaining in French for the rest of the night.

From that day on, anytime the two of them wanted to have a private conversation and couldn't just pull the other to the side (or, more commonly, if they just randomly felt like it) they would simply start talking in one of the four languages and fall into easy conversation with the other as if they hadn't just simultaneously stopped making sense to anybody else around them.

TL;DR (and the simple seed from which this essay of a hc was born)

Kai talks shit about people to Zane in different languages

#and not sure if i put this in the og chinese kai and nya post but of course he talks shit with Nya in Mandarin #and nya was lowkey jealous for a bit bc gossiping about people in another language was kinda a 'siblings only' thing for them #until Kai started pulling new languages out of nowhere #but she got over that real quick when she realized she could listen/join in anytime they decided to use Mandarin #and kai eventually starts learning Japanese too #cuz he cant cope with the fact that jay knows a language that he doesn't #and cuz he wants to know what jay and okino are always talking about #and cuz he just genuinely wants to learn but he would never tell anybody that (he's just as huge of a language nerd as Zane) #ninjago #ninjago headcanons #random hcs #ninjago kai #ninjago zane #platonic oppositeshipping #fun fact: this behemoth of a brain child was born because i randomly remembered that part in the Brent Miller interview #when Vincent Tong just randomly dropped little bits of Italian here and there

[corvid-language-library]

I really need bilingual Japanese short story books to not have romaji in them ever. The stories are written in hiragana/kanji with furigana and yet vocab lists have romaji. WHY. You're already assuming the reader can read at least hiragana! If they can't even read hiragana they probably aren't ready for short stories! So why include romaji?!?! Furigana is enough!

#ruffled feathers #learning japanese #started reading another one today and i'm so annoyed. WHY. WHY WOULD YOU INCLUDE ROMAJI #there is not logic to it and it's just annoying #absolutely despise romaji with a passion it needs to die #the only place romaji belongs is in languages using latin script where there's no assumption the reader would know japanese #for example i would expect a bbc article written in english to write 'ikigai' and not いきがい. that is reasonable

[joelletwo]

FUCKED UP: i can muddle my way thru reading 80% of hiragana by memory now

#it never occurred to me in like 15 20 years that i could just kjsf actually sit down and start learning japanese. idk #its neat!!!!!!!

[dreamwinged]

good morning everyone :( i am in a Funk really bad and i wanna say it’s school but i know it’s a bit deeper than that. i dunno what to do i just feel weird… i hope everyone is having a good day tho imy guys :’)

#.mei’s chatter ˚༘⋆ ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖ #yk when you wake up and you just feel like you haven’t slept at all #pretty sure i even dreamed abt my problems bc when i woke up they were instantly on my mind #it’s like this sick feeling #ik it’s a lot of stuff combined and the feelings r just manifesting thru smaller stuff but it still sucks so bad #idunno…. what if im not good enough for f/os and i should drop them all and let them Be Free.. #im just not feeling good abt myself i guess. i think im scared to go home tbh #one week til i go home… :( #then i have to get my wisdom teeth out and start my new job and see my friends again who bully me for fun #can’t wait……….. #im going to try to keep learning japanese hopefully that helps me yk #to have a hobby to throw myself into #i don’t know… i guess it’s a plus that i don’t have school again til august #maybe something good will happen in that time. maybe i’ll get better #maybe i need a therapist but aaaahhhh…… scary….. it’s harder now that im older and no one can make me go #i just am unsure that i can be fixed atp i don’t know if i can have a normal life or if i’ll just always be this way #hhhh…. i don’t want to go home at least here i feel somewhat happy

[arcanewebs]

does. anyone else experience the language learning pipeline of like

yeah why not seems kinda fun -> (optional step) the writing system is crazy bro -> damn theres no WAY im gonna remember any of this shit -> genuine interest and fascination with the differences between languages and needing to Know more

and its because of the stupidest reason for starting learning it in the first place

#me personally i only started french because i didnt want to do spanish or german #and we had to take a language #now look at me. ap student gonna take the exam in less than two months #did one course for asl because i needed to fill a credit and it seemed easy enough to do online #and i was so interested by deaf culture and i was having sm fun with learning signs #but i never continued it for?? some reason?? #i didnt take japanese any further than hiragana and some katakana but it was fun learning the writing system #not that i remember more than maybe 30% of it #and now im trying to learn ukrainian on duolingo and other outside sources #partially just bc i was curious #but now im like. very entranced by it #i have a google doc vocab list and everything #its very fun for me :) even if i dont use it in everyday life and if i drop it after a week #its also so fun to speak #I NEED TO. SHUTUP omfg #tldr languages are sk cool.. to Me.. i should take a linguistics class sometime…

[nyahida]

aether and lumine who dont remember their first language of their homeworld anymore. who, if they heard it, i guess they would be able to understand in general, but if they tried to say anything theyd struggle - its been so many centuries, so many worlds, and words of other languages, all mixing, have taken its place.

but who could remember something set like a poem or better, a song, maybe. with all the lyrics as a whole naturally coming back with the melody still. tunes they sang as children, or a lullaby they fell asleep to.

maybe sometimes singing it absentmindedly to themselves as theyre doing something.

maybe sometimes singing it to the wind so it carries the melody to the other.

#genshin impact #aether #lumine #twins #just thimking about Languages (as i usually do) and fluency and losing it #and the one singer who is the last frontier between me and entirely forgetting a language #and randomly remembering lyrics to songs i dont even Like but heard too much #(and also the fucked up inverse case where i remember a lot of lyrics in japanese Before i started learning it except now i understand) #(but that one is irrelevant) #also that one time i learned a piece of the lorelei to get a prize #while NOT SPEAKING GERMAN . #i digress

[benkyoutobentou]

Why are you learning your target language(s)? Wrong answers only

#I’m learning Japanese so that I can ride the trains #benkyou posting #memes #langblr #polyglot #language learning #studyblr #languages #studyinspo #also friendly reminder that theres no bad reason to start learning a language #i just thought this would be fun #even if you only want to learn a language to watch tv or listen to music #youre still learning a language and thats so amazing!!! #but anyways its all about the trains for me

[mewwile]

Considering checking out Dungeon Meshi due to a recent post of yours. Maybe the manga too. Are you interested in sharing advice/opinions about the best way to get started?

Oooh yes! I'd say personally the best way is to start with the anime on Netflix (or by whatever Alternative Sites because fuck Netflix, tho I don't know any atm), which (the first season) ends on Thursday. Theyve done some cool stuff with some scenes that make them more impactful, and didn't have to cut too much out! Afterwards, I use (with adblockers ofc) mangadex as a website to read the manga. The names will be really weird at first and the genders of some later characters are obscure (ryoko kui loves unusual names that are a bit hard for translators to understand, and the official English translation took a while to be made and cement proper full names though eventually the scanlations line up) but it's such a good read!

#dungeon meshi #as someone who has learned a bit about japanese #i can only imagine how hard it was to romanize ma-ru-shi-ru. marshill was one interpretation iirc #and they had farlyn thorden instead of falin touden which is understandable because laius/laios is such an odd more western name #so theyd be like ah ok so an unusual spelling of fa-rin since ryoko kui has a lot of more western names #nope. just falin. #this is all conjecture tbh i cant translate i just know a bit about japanese romanization rules to understand what a nightmare it was #anyways ITS GOOD PLEASE TRY IT! ITS GOT A SLOW START BUT ITS A FANTASY EPIC FOR THE AGES LIKE BY GOD

[transboysgetknives]

should I start learning another language? yes. am I already learning 7? yes. will I be able to learn them with upcoming exams and no free time? no. will I try anyway? yes.

#help I just started korean and greek #im already learning french spanish catalan japanese dutch and latin #languages #fun #great #not

[unityrain24]

does anyone know any epic (gender nuetral) k names. bc i miss having the letter k in my name and so i was going to make one of my middle names start with (or at least have) k but i can't think of any so it just a plain k and my name basically looks like this now:

[rock] K. [plant] [not just a noun but it has "rain" as part of it]

#at one point thought about doing a japanese name/word bc i'm learning japanese and really enjoy it but it's just feel too wierd bc im. #not japanese. #tried looking at icelandic k names/words once but i'm not really familiar w/ icelandic so was just skimming through but none really stuck : #thought of making it “kweldii” after the language i was creating #but seeing as how it all got wiped with my ipad and i haven't been able to recover from that #it'd be wierd bc a) it was never finished so naming myself after a nonexistent language would be strange #and b) it'd make me sad :( bc then hearing/seeing that name would remind me of what i lost #also yes i want two middle names #also yes i am changing my last name. #i actually wanted to change all my names even before i started questioning my gender (mainly bc of bad religious + family ties) #the gender funky was just added to it #but no you don't get to hear them. #only like. 2-3 people on this website do. #<-and two of those i am related to. from real life. #unityrain.txt #trans #name change #queer #they/she #<- thass me baby