Learn Japanese

2022-08-08 07:32:45 I'd recommend reading this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10bRzVblKVOsQJjTc2PIi1Gbj_LrsJCkMkh0SutXCZdI/edit#, it's quite comprehensive, the article linked in there as "Zipf's law" is particularly interesting (to me), I want to get good enough at Japanese to be able to understand native speakers, in both "normal" and "nonstandard" speech, to understand anime and manga, but not necessarily than the most difficult dialects, like regional dialects, and understanding how much more difficult it is to do that than to simply be able to hold a conversation is very important Open / Comment

2022-06-16 03:35:34 this is from Episode 1 of ヲタクに恋は難しい [Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii] "Love is Hard for Otaku", around 00:19:27 in the episode Open / Comment

2022-06-16 03:31:34 それな！

means something like "that's it!" Open / Comment

2022-06-16 03:30:44 I want to learn a little bit of video editing, just enough to make clips, not to get a job doing that, so I wanted to add some clips with words or phrases, something like this Open / Comment

2022-04-28 03:08:38 the bot is going to be down, there have been some issues with the server where it's hosted Open / Comment

2022-04-26 02:06:13 I will be unemployed soon (I won't be in financial distress though), so I'll see if I can start posting again, though I won't promise any set schedule Open / Comment

2021-03-01 08:53:26 some verbs don't mean that someone is currently performing an action, for example 結婚する [けっこんする] "to marry" in its ている (結婚している [けっこんしている]) form means "I am married" or "he/she is married"

this is also the case with 生きる [いきる], which means "to live", and 生きている [いきている] means "I'm alive", rather than "I'm living" Open / Comment

2021-03-01 08:36:42 くれ can be substituted for ください when making a "desperate plea", or just being close to the person (or trying to "close the distance")

for example

in Overlord Season 2, Zaryus proposes to Crusch by saying

結婚してくれ [けっこんしてくれ] "marry me"

without くれ it would be "get married" but くれ makes it a personal request, it's not just "get married" but "get married [to me]" Open / Comment

2021-03-01 08:31:28 when using this ている form, you can omit the い and it's still understandable, for example, in KonoSuba, episode 3, around minute 17:45, Kazuma says

喜んでる？ [よろこんでる？] "she's enjoying it?" when seeing his party member enjoying getting hit by cabbages Open / Comment

2021-03-01 08:27:28 the ている/ています thing works for other verbs as well

for example, in Goblin Slayer, episode 3, around minute 12:25

the Priestess says: そんな、せめて決める前に相談とか [そんな、せめてきめるまえにそうだんとか]
which means something like "that's not fair, at least, before deciding, please consult" or "that's not fair, you should consult (me) before making a decision"

Goblin Slayer responds: しているだろ
which means "I'm doing it now", this could be more explicit adding 今 [いま], as in 今、してるだろ, but it should still be clear

だろ is "the informal to the point of almost being rude" version of でしょう which means something like "isn't it" or "am I not", by itself it doesn't mean anything, but it's similar to ね (as in いい天気ですね [いいてんきですね])

for example 好きだろ [すきだろ] means "you like, don't you?" it could be "you like her, don't you?" or "you like it, don't you?" depending on the subject of the conversation Open / Comment