You will never be Japanese
You will never be Japanese. You have no ancestry, you have no citizenship, you have no skills that would make Japan ever want you. You are a shut-in self-hating white man twisted by delusions of mythical Japanese superiority and exposure to Japanese media into a disgusting mockery of nature’s perfection. All 'validation' you get from other people in this position couldn't be worse in making you believe that spending years of your life learning a globally useless language to a first-grader's level was a worthwhile use of your time, but one can't expect that an individual as pathetic as you will ever know the value of the youth you threw away in doing that. Actual Japanese are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of linguistic evolution have allowed natives to identify frauds from mannerisms and vocabulary alone. Even if your written text of self-hatred and attention begging akin to a stray dog's somehow passes as normal (it won't), any Japanese person will immediately cut all ties when they hear the voice and accent of someone who is not only a basic Japanese speaker at best, but worth no more than garbage in skills, accomplishments, and likeability. You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile and laugh to yourself believing that watching a content creator that you understand 20% of at best is somehow superior than watching your own kind, as you project your disgusting traits onto your entire kind. However, deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight, and you know that. You know that all you do now is have an entirely new linguistic medium in which to be ignored, and not even the exotic trait of being foreign makes up for just how uninteresting of a person you are. Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a Western man is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably Caucasian. This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back. Hate yourself and apologize for being white to some Japanese entity that exists only in your mind while actual Japanese people put in effort to learn English for the valid reason of it being the global language.
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3Hello, I am Mari. I am Japanese.
I sometimes see non-Japanese people use unusual Japanese words.
I asked them, “Where did you learn it?” and they said it was from the anime.
As a Japanese person, I would like to introduce you to some anime that uses proper Japanese language and is good to learn Japanese.
Sazae-san
The speed of conversation is relatively slow and there are no loud sound effects such as battles, so it is very easy to listen to.Doraemon
The language used is daily Japanese. It is easy to listen to the story as it is spoken at a relatively slow pace.Your name
Although it may seem that the characters speak a little fast, but it is spoken at the normal speed of everyday conversation, and they speak proper Japanese.The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
The speed of the narration is quite fast, but since it is usually a conversation between high school students, there are not many strange words used.Hikaru no go
The main character speaks relatively slow and clear Japanese, which makes it easy to understand and imitate.Detective Conan
Since it is a mystery manga, there is a lot of words related to crimes and tricks, but the Japanese spoken by the main character is easy to understand.
Enjoy anime and learning Japanese at the same time!
Which Anime did you watch to learn Japanese?
<Edit> I am sure there are more anime that are good to learn Japanese, but it’s not that I watched a lot of anime, so this list is from anime that I’ve watched!
Hey everybody!
After 107 days of daily reading, I'm finally up to date with yotsubato!, and I gotta say, it's been a pretty fantastic experience.
At first it was a pretty challenging experience. I was still a begginer with less than six months of learning and an extremely basic understanding of casual grammar, so reading some of the odd colloquialisms (like とーちゃん、かも or なんか) threw me off a little for a while. But I still pulled through, and I'm glad I did.
I heard many people say that yotsubato is not a very good manga for begginers, because the words and phrases can be too complicated. To that, I have 2 things to say:
1_ the grammar is tough at times, sure, but it's a perfect opportunity to see applications of it. I started reading tae kim's grammar guide, which I'd initially written off because I felt it was too abstract, and I was so happy to see expressions I'd just learned popping up often. Stuff like とういう、なきゃ/なくちゃ or すぎる were much clearer with so many examples
2_ if the manga is so simple that you're barely struggling with it, then you're not exactly learning much. Sure, I think some understanding of grammar and vocabulary is neccessary, and I found myself occasionally skipping whole sentences if they were too hard, but by looking them up I learned a lot of words and phrases I'd never heard of.
As for the manga itself, I think it's amazing. Fortunately, most of the humor is very easy to understand, so I found myself chuckling frequently. The sheer simplicity of the story felt very comfy to me, so I thouroughly enjoyed reading it.
So, what are everyone's thoughts on this manga?
3There have been many threads lately on how to go from studying and inputting, to outputting. Many of the responses talk about finding a native to talk to, but not enough people are recommending mimicking! Which is disappointing because it's the number one thing you can do (after input of course) to improve your speaking ability MAJORLY, before actually interacting with a native.
Going straight from mostly silent, in-your-head studying, to all of a sudden speaking aloud to a native in real time, is obviously going to be very difficult – because you've never actually trained your mouth to smoothly and reliably speak full, native japanese sentences out loud!
And contrary to what seems to be the popular assumption, there's no reason to wait until you're in front of a native conversation partner to practice that.
Most of the work of speaking is just getting your brain to make the connection between meaningful, native sounding Japanese, and the muscle memory of your own mouth. Developing the reflexive muscle memory to say the correct things. And you can totally do that on your own.
All you need to do is get a YouTube video where a native is speaking naturally like this one , pick any sentence you hear and can understand, for example the one at 0:53 where she's talking about the potatoes (I transcribed, pretty certain its accurate if not someone correct me):
ポテトが2種類選べて、マッシュドポテトか普通のポテトがあるんですけどいつも私普通のフライドポテト頼むんですけど今日はちょっと挑戦してマッシュドポテトにしてみたいと思います。
break that up how ever small you need to, and repeat the audio however much you need to to be able to say the individual parts accurately, like:
ポテトが2種類選べて、(pause here and say this one part over and over until you can say it smoothly at the speed and pronunciation she did, then move onto the next part & do the same)
マッシュドポテトか普通のポテトがあるんですけど (again, say just this part 2, 3 or however many times it takes you till you can say it smoothly, then move on to the next piece)
いつも私普通のフライドポテト頼むんですけど (same for this)
etc, and just do that until you're able to say the entire sentence smoothly in one go, the same way she did.
If you train yourself to do this process with various sources of native audio for just 15 to 30 minutes a day, in a few weeks you'll get SO much better at speaking full, accurate native-like sentences on demand (even long ones like this). In fact you’ll probably start to see major improvement in a few days! You won't have to spend your precious, limited time with a native speaker on just trying to get to the point where you can speak full sentences without stumbling, because you'll already be able to do that from your own practice.
So instead you can focus your conversation time on getting better specifically at the back & forth flow of spontaneous conversation, using 相槌 correctly, and expressing your own thoughts accurately. Conversations with natives will go much better and feel more productive because you'll already have a strong foundation, which is the muscle memory of smooth, native-like speech patterns internalized from all that practice mimicking natives!
*note, you'd probably want to use videos and audios of male native speakers if you're a male. as well as using whatever subject material interests you :)
Hello, I'm Mari, I am Japanese.
The other day, I posted "10 Japanese words that Japanese people like" and I suggested that if you want to get a Japanese tattoo, why don't you choose one of these?
A lot of people seemed to love my idea.(No, Actually, it seems to be the horrible idea.)
So, this time, I made a list of 50 Japanese four-character kanji idioms(四字熟語). They are all cool kanji. I've written the meanings in both English and Japanese. These are my favorite ones. You can see another 47 kanji idioms on →.[https://sakuratips.com/2021/05/16/four-character-idioms/](https://sakuratips.com/2021/05/16/four-character-idioms/)
花鳥風月（かちょうふうげつ）
：the beauties of nature森羅万象（しんらばんしょう）
：all (the whole of) creation、the universe、all nature英姿颯爽(えいしさっそう)
：looks magnificent and splendid, brave and crisp.
Which one is your favorite? If you want to get a Japanese tattoo, which one would you like? (instead of ありがとう tattoo)
Let me know your favorite!
I’m literally two weeks into my journey at age 31 and just wow. If I had half the tools available (and any of the diligence I have now) I might actually have learned a language in high school.
Is this specific to Japanese, or are all language communities this thorough these days? Currently clicking through dialogue on animelon to practice hirigana sight reading, but I’ve also begrudgingly faced my technophobia and figured out what the heck discord even is (joined the Japanese MIA discord), setup Anki (again, as an old why is everything so daunting at first??), and setup the language learning extension for chrome (next I suppose I’ll figure out what and how to VPN for Netflix, yes?). Ok yeah I’m not like old old, but this stuff is above and beyond my personal skill level 😅
I’m just very excited by all these amazing tools considering I started at “I’ll try Japanese on duolingo, I wonder what Reddit has to say”. Thank you so much for this community!
I get that けど and が placed at the end of sentences are supposed to soften the tone of an abrupt sentence but I don't really know what is considered abrupt in Japanese.
Maybe give certain occations where a sentence can sound abrupt or where が and けど could be used at the end of a sentence?
Let's have a light hearted discussion today about the above topic!
For me, it comes from the anime Kakushigoto. A man named Kakushi Goto who draws lewd manga for a living (kaku shigoto) and wants to keep it a secret (kakushigoto) from his daughter.
What are some of yours?
It's filled with puns, dialects and a lot of pop culture or historical references. The best part is the subs on Crunchyroll go out of their way to explain many of these references so you're absorbing the culture at the same time.
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