Off-Topic@Heyuri

>how are you learning /did you learn japanese?
i was lurking japanese websites and seeing what i could read/learn some phrases using a dictionary, mainly just for fun

i learned basics, then i did immerse
if i cant figure something out for long i look it up, same as i did with learning english
now i can watch videos of yandere kiritan kamikakushing me and demanding marriage and threatening if i deny

Far from "having lernt", but I just read Tae Kim grammar guide, then I was ready to read eroge with lots of word lookups.

People who want to learn Japanese disgust me. A useless language unless you want to be some foreign monkey working a garbage tech job for the rest of your life. Suggesting you take a step back and spend those 5 or how many years it takes to learn Japanese and put it into something valuable.

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teh art of just learning something is useful regardless what it is. For example, wanna put a spycamera on your shoe to get those amazing upskirts? Get to your desk and study!!

I do lots of different things
I read some news articles in Japanese, I listen to my favourite vtuber, I write kanjis by hand, I attend Japanese classes in university, I bought private lessons to speak with a native, I use WaniKani for SRS when I'm pissing, I play video games in Japanese. And other things too

Doing only a single thing is very bad! For me anyways. I get burnt out easily doing the same things over and over, it gets very boring, it makes me lose track of why I want to learn Japanese, and it doesn't work that well anyway...

The textbooks my university use are Minna no Nihongo, Kanji Master, and probably some other things. Don't really like them, but they do the job combined with everything else

>>126893
im legally recognized as fluent in english but i never spoke it in real life

>>126893
There's nothing more valuable than the amount of fun you have before you die, and the japs produce the best entertainment in the world. Some of that entertainment may never be properly translated to english unless AI gets good enough to do it, in which case learning japanese may very well be a big waste of time unless you plan to marry a japanese girl or something.

Reading in English will never be as fun as reading in Japanese. The "tones" that make speech cute or formal etc don't exist in English, so I believe it will always be worth it

>>126898
youtube tutorials and anki is more than enough i think

i fear talking to people, even less fond of paying quite a lot for simply talking
i fear looking like a moron that loves everything japanese so i wouldnt dare attend any classes
i bought no extra book to learn english when i was still monolingual, need for external paid materials designed for n00bs makes me feel inferior and incapable so i never buy language books

once you have a firm grip of medium (n00b) grammar and some vocabulary you can boost it by simply forcing neural connections as you listen and try making sentences but it is an active rather than passive activity and requires time and not intelligence
tiring

I have decided to go with the brute force and ignorance approach of using subs2srs.

I don't have corresponding Japanese subs for the vast majority of shows I've watched, which is why I didn't bother before, but I decided that even a bad solution is better than me giving up and not doing anything.
I've been marking up cards with notes and grammar as I go along.

Probably not the best way to go about it, but honestly, I just need something that feels like I'll be able to progress with, and being able to attempt to understand a single episode of an anime cleanly is a very manageable goal.


Even if the subs are wrong, you can just like, edit the card, and even if you don't know enough to know that the subs are wrong... eventually you will.

>being able to attempt to understand a single episode of an anime cleanly is a very manageable goal
I tried this with a 3 minute episode and gave up which proves that it's not manageable at all

>>126930
How did you go about it, and what anime?
Like, if we're in that 3 minute range, I'd probably go nuts if I tried to do it on Teekyuu instead of Precure starting out, every single sentence is spoken at Mach 6.

>>126936
Ichigo Mashimaro episode 0 with word cards, maybe it wasn't the best choice to start with because it has so many uncommon words like oxygen and spacesuit. If I ever try again maybe I should try sentence cards and something easier like Wataten which is rated as one of the easiest on JPDB. The real challenge is grammar though and I haven't found any fun way (not reading) to learn it. Cure Dolly's videos are the best I've found but it sounds like she has mouth cancer or something and videos with bright white backgrounds are an eyesore, though I could just turn the screen's brightness way down.

Learning a skill theoretically counts as "training", which means people in this thread are no longer NEETs, just NEEs (knees lol)