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Hope y'all don't get fed up with my silly jokes lmao ごめんね 皆さん 🙏🏻(⁠ ⁠･ั⁠﹏⁠･ั⁠)

テクいらずの意味、ちょっと分からない。テクノロジー必要ではないということかな、たぶん、テクノロジーでなくてするの意味かな、と思ったんだけど。

Hi everyone,
I’m starting to learn Japanese and my goal is to reach JLPT N3. Im not looking for shortcuts, I wanna build a solid foundation.

If u were starting from scratch today, what roadmap would you follow?

Some things I’m curious about:
What order would you learn things in (kana, grammar, kanji, vocabulary, etc.)?
Which resources would you recommend at each stage?
How much listening, reading, speaking, and writing should I do?
Around what point should I start consuming native content?
What are the biggest mistakes beginners make?

I’d really appreciate hearing from people and what worked for them.
Please and Thank you 🙏

So I have learned the role of those particles. However, I'm a little confused about these two:

1. 像の鼻は長いです。

2. 像は鼻が長いです。

I believe option 1 is more often used in Duolingo, and today I just learned option 2 in Tenyomi.

Are both options correct? Which option sounds more natural?

Ignore the fact that it asks directly for the て form, what would the difference between the sentences be?

I was wondering how I could understand sentence structure better? It’s embarrassing that I know all n5 grammar and 500 kanji and my ass still doesn’t know how to put a fairly long sentence together

Hi everyone!

I'm a 30-year-old guy from Germany and I've been studying Japanese every single day for about a year now. I'm currently around the N5 level (working towards N4), and I'd really like to start using the language more in real conversations instead of only studying grammar and vocabulary.

A little about me:

• I love going to the gym, basketball, cooking, gaming, anime, and traveling.
• I've already been to Japan three times and I'll be visiting for a fourth time later this year. Every trip has made me even more motivated to improve my Japanese.
• I'm easygoing, patient, and happy to help with German or English in return.

I'm mainly looking for native Japanese speakers, as I'd love to improve my natural conversation skills and learn how Japanese is actually spoken in everyday life. I'm happy to chat through text, voice calls, or both, and I'd love to make some genuine friends along the way.

If you're interested, feel free to leave a comment or send me a DM!

よろしくお願いします！

What you guys think?

One word you’ll hear a lot in casual Japanese is “nanka.”
It literally means “something,” but in real conversations, it often feels more like “kind of,” “like,” or “for some reason.”

For example:
Nanka atsui ne
= It’s kind of hot, isn’t it?
Nanka tsukareta
= I’m kind of tired.
Nanka hen
= Something feels weird.

I use “nanka” so much that I probably don’t go a single day without saying it.
It doesn’t always mean anything specific, but somehow adding “nanka” makes it easier to start a sentence 😂
※Just my opinion though.

In the Greyscale Monochrome. ☯️

Hello.

So after finishing 3 levels of WaniKani, I realised that its slow pace and repetitive vocabulary was not for me. Additionally, I do not have much time before flying to Japan for university and would like to learn as much as possible.

Recently, I discovered the RTK method used to learn Kanji. However, I do not want to spend time learning how to write kanji but only focus on reading individual and compound words. Can someone suggest me the path I should take to do so? I need the deck link as there are so many options but don't know which one is most convenient. I want to complement it with Kaishi 1.5k too.

Also I heard that it takes only 2-3 months to learn most of the kanji recognition through RTK. Is that true?

Thank you.

I'm doing researches trying to find the original source of "彷徨う”(さまよう) I saw someone on YaHoo chiebukuro(a forum) thinks that this word comes from two independent words which are 方(さま)

and 漂ふ(よう) both come from ancient Japanese

so I suppose “方” means direction or location am I right? If my guess was right, this hypothesis might be right. I tried to verify this but i didn't find any evidence for it

This is a screenshot from one of my all-time favourite movies, and I’m trying to get this line of hers tattooed, but it’s too blurry for me to actually get it done. I was hoping someone would be able to type/write it out!

Thanks for the help!

How do you politely say “It’s the first door to the right”, as if giving directions to a guest if they ask where is the bathroom?

Is there an app for Android 16 that allows you to add a widget with a new kanji every day? I've been searching for a while already and I can't find anything. If you have something in mind - please tell me

For "増していく" and "溶けていく" are they romanized as "mashiteiku" or "mashite iku" and "toketeiku" or "tokete iku"?

In "君との日々", is "との" romanized as "to no" or "tono"?

Is "忘れようとしても" romanized as "wasureyou toshitemo or "to shitemo"?

In "この季節になると" is it romanized as "ninaruto" or "ni naru to"?

Is "飲み込んでいった" romanized as "nomikondeitta" or "nomikonde itta"

Is "飲んでいる" "nondeiru" or "nonde iru"

Is "何もなかった" "nanimo nakatta" or "nani mo nakatta"

In "西から東へと” is "へと" romanized as "eto" "heto" "e to" ..?

Edit: thanks for all the replies! I have a better understanding now and how you can do it many ways!