日本語

[latent lynx]

Sounds like u got controlling parents

[abstract mist]

Tbh not really

[latent lynx]

My mistake

[abstract mist]

I don't plan to marry anyway

[latent lynx]

Yk what that’s fine whatever makes u happy

[full mauve]

hi

[latent lynx]

I don’t like thinking about it lollll

[abstract mist]

Hi flx
Do you think I can hold a conversation

[full mauve]

guys im not unemployed anymore woohoo

[abstract mist]

Or am I only good enough to ask directions

[full mauve]

more money to travel to Japan

[abstract mist]

Ayooo congrats

[abstract mist]

Too young for that I see

[latent lynx]

Congratulations

[full mauve]

well i still gotta get my security clearance for the airport cuz ill be working in lounge and duty free prolly

but i already signed my contract at least

[full mauve]

id say u can have a decent convo already

but to be honest i cant really tell cuz we ´never vcd afaik

[abstract mist]

Oh yeah we did not

[full mauve]

あざ～す

[full mauve]

[latent lynx]

Wait I got this

[abstract mist]

||Azasu||

[latent lynx]

😭

[abstract mist]

Short for|| ありがとうございます||

[latent lynx]

I didn’t know the middle character

[abstract mist]

Sa -> za because of the " things

[latent lynx]

🤔

Ic ic

[abstract mist]

I'm gonna be real with you

I learned hiragan with this thing

[full mauve]

imma be real i learned japanese through eroge

[full mauve]

and i dont regret one second

[abstract mist]

This is how I learned hiragana 😭

Because it's so easy how all the letters are grouped

Kanas

[full mauve]

i never used that keyboard

[abstract mist]

Whatever

[full mauve]

even tho its faster

i just cant be bothered to learn it

I barely type JP on mobile anyways

[latent lynx]

Omfg

[abstract mist]

I'm like
"The sa shi su se so are under this key and e is to the right of this"
YEAH

[full mauve]

also

I had to do a 1min japanese vid for my agency to proof I speak japanese

and I got approved lol

for like n1

💀

[full mauve]

💀

[latent lynx]

YAYY

[latent lynx]

N1 that’s the highest right?

[abstract mist]

He made it with AI
Liar!!! I knew you don't actually know Japanese!

[latent lynx]

Ai? Literally me when I was in school taking mandatory French tests

Or the writing on my arm trick

[abstract mist]

Flxible is really good at japanese, better than I can imagine myself in the future

And I learned English up to this level

[latent lynx]

Ur English is rllllllly great

It just clicked for me that u learned it 💀💀

I’m a little slow as u can tell

[full mauve]

ye

[full mauve]

fr

it was weird talking keigo

i had to redo my vid 2 times cuz i slipped tameguchi

[full mauve]

i wish i was

Ive been playing a bit of the eroge that got me into VNs yesterday cuz I never got around to finish that one and holy I'm still missing a lot of vocab

same for english books tho

I tried reading Bakemonogatari LN in english and the vocab was pretty awkward in some parts for me

even German books kill me , I dont know ANY language really well apparently LMAOO

https://tenor.com/view/jack-of-all-trades-chessies-chesapeake-shores-sc-heart-home-gif-22891228

[abstract mist]

それは無理かも
恥ずかしいので

家族も日本語が嫌いし

[full mauve]

家族を罵んだらどう？

＊冗談です。

でも外とかで電話をしたらどう？

[abstract mist]

本気で言ってると思ってた

[full mauve]

それとも友人の家でとか

[full mauve]

いい子だからそんな真似はしないだろうあんたは

ナデナデ

[abstract mist]

いけるそう！

[full mauve]

では電話は楽しみにね😳

僕色々心の準備しなきゃ

[abstract mist]

😊

[full mauve]

一応アイドルだもん

https://tenor.com/view/honkai-star-rail-hsr-hanabi-sparkle-skill-gif-1989274200267628495

[abstract mist]

なんかいやらしいね 聞こえる

[full mauve]

前日日本人の友達と電話した時めっちゃけがされた

悔しい

[abstract mist]

期待はだめだからね！

[full mauve]

大人のドラマを見せつけた。。あいつら未成年の女子高生のにそんな淫らなドラマを見るなんて思ってもなかったな

[full mauve]

僕はアイドルだからそういうドラマはダメだと言って電話を切ったんだ笑笑

[abstract mist]

😳😳😳😳

[abstract mist]

俺は見るけど

[full mauve]

エッチ！＿！＿！＿！

[latent lynx]

👀

[latent lynx]

👀👀👀👀

[latent lynx]

🤸‍♀️

[full mauve]

👀👀👀

怪しい目

なんか怖い

ｗ

[full mauve]

まだまだだろ

準備は

[abstract mist]

@latent lynx by the way, don't bother asking language learning advice from me because I don't know
I studied English for 3 months with a personal tutor to prepare for an English test. After that, I was the top of my class somehow, prob because schools suck at teaching languages. In 2018, I started watching youtube in English, and that was pretty much my only source for learning

[latent lynx]

Oh damn ok

[abstract mist]

If you're to ask advice, you should ping flx

Also you should only ask advice from people whose level you'd be satisfied with

[latent lynx]

👍🏼

[abstract mist]

I'll still give opinions though because there's people who can correct me 💀

[latent lynx]

Noted 🫡

[full mauve]

my study advice is kinda non conventional ngl

but I have a friend who is doing good progress with my advice

[abstract mist]

先輩ごとやめてよ

That
Is not what I wanted to say

Is Google translate wrong

@full mauve

I wanted to say "stop talking like I'm a senpai"

[abstract mist]

Can I use sekai ichi here instead? I think I sound weird

[full mauve]

id say 先輩扱いやめてー

ごと sounds not right to me at least

[abstract mist]

Insert Ryo shocked gif

[full mauve]

yes

世界一遅い

[abstract mist]

https://tenor.com/view/ryo-yamada-bocchi-the-rock-shocked-surprised-gif-8679791242391913174

[full mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/babymetal-intensifies-gif-8379123

[abstract mist]

I didn't know it was possible

[full mauve]

sekai ichi reminds me of this one kotoha song

[abstract mist]

勉強になります

[full mauve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpJAuxpfMs

listen to the first seconds

lol

thats where I first heard it in 2020 i think

songs are so underrated for vocab study

[abstract mist]

Sekai itself reminds me of
https://youtu.be/EuJ6UR_pD5s

[full mauve]

ww

[abstract mist]

I can't understand Russian lyrics let alone Japanese💀
But my sister has successfully learned a lot of English from them, and also rewatching the office without dub

@latent lynx Good luck in your studies don't become illiterate like me 😭

[full mauve]

look up lyrics then and ull start to hear them too trust

i actually made a lot of song translations recently

its kinda fun

[abstract mist]

Fr?

That's like next level English

[full mauve]

but hella difficult

for me its easier to translate jp --> en than jp --> ger actually LMAO

[abstract mist]

I guess if I wanted to improve my English, that's the kind of task I'd need to solve in order to do that

[full mauve]

hmm maybe but it would benefit ur japanese the most id think ?

or did u mean like english --> mother tongue translation ?

[abstract mist]

Yeah that

The latter

[full mauve]

oh hell nah thats boring

japanese song lyrics are way more interesting

usually at least

[abstract mist]

Russian has fun lyrics as well
At least the older poems do

[latent lynx]

Sekai?? … that reminds of

https://tenor.com/view/pjsk-pjsk-anime-project-sekai-project-sekai-anime-wxs-gif-12925347704767205135

[latent lynx]

Thank u 😭

[full mauve]

[abstract mist]

How do I use 改めて

And in what context?

It seems like something you'd tell to a business partner

[full mauve]

you can use it in a business setting ye

[abstract mist]

Is it like, 100% the same as またこんど

[full mauve]

but you can use it normally as well in formal setting like 本日はありがとうございました。後日、改めてご挨拶させていただきます

[full mauve]

no

[abstract mist]

Ok

[abstract mist]

Oh I see

Truly one of the insights

[full mauve]

みんなが迷惑しているので、態度を改めてください。

it can be used as a verb as well

[full mauve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cha0ocLSnlk i want to translate this song but its so difficult fk

[latent lynx]

@full mauve if i don’t know how to speak that formally how far can the foreigner card give me a pass at not learning keigo? 😭🥹

[full mauve]

yea but honestly u dont need to know like business keigo

masu and desu is enough for 99%

and if u slip to informal its no problem

I even talked a bit of informal Japanese to a 64 year old man I met in a bar in Tokyo and he was very understanding , 99% of Japanese respect you just cuz u learn their language lmao

[latent lynx]

Perfect 💀💀

[latent lynx]

YESS FOREIGNER CARD WILL WORK THEN

Wonderful

Also another question.. Will I be able to survive if I learn only like maybe the first 50 most common used kanji in Japan? 😭

[full mauve]

on that note if you ever visit tokyo and are in asakusa you should go eat the miso tonkotsu at 浅草 カツ吉 , the old lady that runs the place was so cute she even gave me some of the sweets that were meant for her grandchildren 😭

[full mauve]

uhm that will be very rough lmao but its a good start

you can survive completely without JP knowledge as well tho

Just get google lens and scan text u dont know

if you speak at least one or two words Japanese tho the people will love you

[latent lynx]

Aw wtf that’s so wholesome

[latent lynx]

Let me guess I’ll get: “ahhh nihongo jouzou!”

[full mauve]

funny game: drink a shot for every nihongo jouzu

💀

[latent lynx]

Oh god I’ll be walking down the streets of Japan absolutely pissed

[full mauve]

I already got nihongo jouzud at the airport at the covid screening...

3 times..

in 10 minutes

[latent lynx]

Pfttttt

HAHAH

[full mauve]

you know youre good at Japanese when ppl stop nihongo jouzing you

[full mauve]

no worries japan is one of the safest places to be in that kinda situation

technically alcohol is only allowed for 20+ tho so gotta be careful

(they literally dont care and never ask for an ID so yea take that as you will 💀 )

[latent lynx]

Im just worried I’ll be arrested for public indecency-
Besides im still underage in my own country so I have NO clue how I am black out drunk

[full mauve]

😂😂

[latent lynx]

I only know that after 15 shots of soju 30 mins later I feel dizzy

[latent lynx]

Oh for me it’s 19

I’ll keep that in mind

So I don’t accidentally drink alcohol while I’m still underage there

[full mauve]

I mean I would never say go drink alc buuut at least trying a japanese beer or one shot of sake is actually not thaaaat bad imo

[full mauve]

damn thats a weird age

in my country its 14/16 depending on how you look at it so I was ready to just pull the "oh I didnt know im foreigner" card if somebody ever asked for my ID lmao

I heard even teens get easy alc in Japan tho cuz they literally got alcohol vending machines for example

in my Hotel there was a beer vending machine next to my room literally and they are almost same price as konbini its so nice

you planning a trip to Japan soon I assume ?

[latent lynx]

damn

[latent lynx]

Hahaha nice

[abstract mist]

@full mauve would you like to vc soon

あと10分で外に出ます

How do I express a range in Japanese?

If I wanted to say 5-10 minutes instead?

[abstract mist]

Do you like cookiezi

[abstract mist]

Ping if vc mr flx

[full mauve]

あと5分から10分でVCに来るよ or あと5分～10分でVCに来るよ

[abstract mist]

Omg

[full mauve]

I have mechanics exam tmrw so im a bit busy swy

[abstract mist]

Ok

[abstract mist]

Wait flx is 2 years younger than me

[full mauve]

how old r u

[dusky carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/drink-big-cup-sassy-tea-cup-gif-16979903

[full mauve]

btw the intro erik replied to is from january 2022 lol

so I was 17 when I joined here but now im 19

[dusky carbon]

still younger than strawberry lol

[full mauve]

😭

im kouhai

[dusky carbon]

he's 20 or 21 i think

idk

[full mauve]

RIP

[dusky carbon]

am i correct

bro still typing

[full mauve]

LMAO maybe he got some lore to his birthday

[abstract mist]

21っさいです
これから僕が先輩だね

[dusky carbon]

and i am both of your kouhai

[abstract mist]

I'm just not able to voice type rn

[dusky carbon]

oh jp

no wonder that took a bit

yeah i was correct

21

[full mauve]

wow

i feel baby

😭

jk

[dusky carbon]

its ok im baby-er

[full mauve]

are u 2003 or 2002 @abstract mist ?

[abstract mist]

2002

[full mauve]

i still cant get around all the username changes here lol

oh damn then u almost 3 years older ig

https://tenor.com/view/k-on-anime-girl-senpai-chan-uwu-notice-me-senpai-gif-25871123

[dusky carbon]

are you 04 or 05

[abstract mist]

Lol

[full mauve]

💀

[abstract mist]

04

Flx is

[dusky carbon]

ah

[full mauve]

im november 2004

ya

so almost 2005

[abstract mist]

November what day

[full mauve]

barely dodged the noob birth year

[full mauve]

u nov too? im 0th

9th

not 0th

💀

[abstract mist]

I'm 12th

[full mauve]

ayy

[winged walrus]

lmao

[abstract mist]

Happy belated

[dusky carbon]

my guy born on 0th november

[full mauve]

built different

my parents that is

[dusky carbon]

happy very belated birthdays to the both of you

[full mauve]

:3

[full mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-birthday-belated-gif-24596582

[dusky carbon]

yes

thats me

[full mauve]

happy belated bday to you too

[dusky carbon]

thank you

[abstract mist]

Im old

[dusky carbon]

its okay

lux is older

[abstract mist]

Happy belated xapia

[full mauve]

LMAO

dw ure not a boomer if u born in 2000s

my sister is born 96 she a real noob boomer

jk i love boomers

[dusky carbon]

i have a friend that's born in 99 and my entire friend group calls him grandpa and prehistoric

[full mauve]

(just saying this so lux doesnt ban me )

[full mauve]

thats just facts

[dusky carbon]

best part? he barely missed 2000 by a week ish

his birthday is on the 22nd of dec

[full mauve]

lucky man

[dusky carbon]

1999

[full mauve]

if he turns 101 years old he can say he lived through 2 millenia and 3 centuries what a beast

[dusky carbon]

(they're gonna gett back at us one day)

[dusky carbon]

with the way he's gambling his life away in genshin and hsr and getting nothing, its gonna eat at his lifeforce

[full mauve]

I saw ppl on insta being like "where does driftveil city theme come from" and thoughtr im boomer too ngl

[dusky carbon]

but may he live for as long as he can

[dusky carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/toothless-toothless-dragon-lizard-dance-dancing-gif-18147614732076936345

[full mauve]

genshin player = -50 years

poor guy

[dusky carbon]

real

my guy is a genshin dolphin pretty much

[full mauve]

this meme is so lit tho I even saw like US air force posting a meme with driftveil 😭

everybody jamming to this banger i love it

[dusky carbon]

it truly is a banger

[full mauve]

Imma be real i think im a dolphin too cuz I spent like 200 bucks on genshin but I regret it so much

[dusky carbon]

he be doing boy math on those crystal packs

[full mauve]

XDDDDDD

i did boy math in Japan

"hm,m I paid 1000€ for flights so why not go eat out for 50€ its literally a joke compared to the 1000€ I paid already"

[dusky carbon]

burnt out from genshin? realised you spent way too much to not really play it anymore?

[full mauve]

[dusky carbon]

THAT EMOJI 😭

everyone doing boy and girl math in japan

[full mauve]

yes imagine all the good games I couldve bought for 200 bucks instead of spending it on pixels in genshit impact

not even pixels

I spent 100 out of the 200 on hu tao c1

its not even pixels I got

[dusky carbon]

but it was spent on genshoon impek anyway

[full mauve]

😭

[dusky carbon]

im glad i didnt spend anything on genshin

but i did spend a bit on hsr

watch me regret that in 2 years time

hu tao... everyone went 200% for her

[full mauve]

i never spent again after that tho and now I only do railpass in HSR and save all my other money for 2025 japan moment v2

[dusky carbon]

me included

[full mauve]

😭 fr

the tao energy made me go overboard

why did I get spawned at the furthest place away from Japan in the whole world tho holy fk

if I got spawned in like australia or west us flights would be a lot cheaper i bet 😭

[dusky carbon]

i stopped playing after that one banner because i grinded so damn much for her, i just completely stopped playing genshin

[full mauve]

ruan mei banner???

[dusky carbon]

well i did grind a lot for that as well but idk THAT much exploration isnt my thing i guess, genshin has a lot of that

[full mauve]

I only play genshit for story now tbh and imma be real the 4.0 archon quest was amazing so far imo

[full mauve]

LOL same

[dusky carbon]

ive heard a lot of people praise the 4.0 archon quest too, but i dont have time to go back to that yet

[full mauve]

almost ar 60 and dont even got above 50% explored in mondstadt nor full stamina 💀

[dusky carbon]

i am however considering redownloading genshin for lantern rite, then deleting it again

[full mauve]

LMAO

good idea

get the free 10 pull

dip

ez

[dusky carbon]

i was ar60 for a good while before i stopped

[dusky carbon]

its not even for the 10 pull lol i forgot about that actually

i just wanna play the event itself

[full mauve]

damn

I never played any event in genshin for fun

only for jems

[dusky carbon]

its always lantern rite for me because idk chinese yes

[full mauve]

HSR events are a lot more fun for me cuz they combat based often times

[dusky carbon]

it feels nice to celebrate it in a game

on top of family

and because hoyo is from china they nail the feeling just right

[full mauve]

ah yea sounds wholesome and chill if u have a connection with it

[dusky carbon]

agreed, hsr events are more fun imo

[full mauve]

I liked the hu tao rap from last year

💀

[dusky carbon]

lantern rite is just for the feels

like the last cutscene always nearly gets me in tears lmao

i have exams right smack in the middle of chinese new year this year, so i especially want genshin to fill in that gap if i have to opt out from celebrating to study

but we'll see

[full mauve]

😭

[dusky carbon]

because i dont think hsr would do something like lantern rite

[full mauve]

exams always have the worst timing

[dusky carbon]

doesnt fit the lore of xianzhou as well as it does in liyue

[full mauve]

true

liyue based as hell

[dusky carbon]

covid fucked us all over, if covid didnt happen i wouldve finished my exams by now

[full mauve]

almost made me start learning chinese

[dusky carbon]

really? damn

you know flx

now that i think about it

chinese shouldnt be that hard for you

like now that i really think it through

[full mauve]

ya

[dusky carbon]

you know enough japanese for kanji to not hurt you that much, and imo chinese has less grammar patterns than japanese. the only tricky part is just learning even more characters than you already know about, and the difference between what a character means in jp vs cn

[full mauve]

well I also like the sound of mandarin a lot, havent looked into cantonese that much tho

[dusky carbon]

overall it shouldnt be that much of a problem for you at least imo

i struggle with it, but i surely cant say the same for you

[full mauve]

yea idk if my brain could handle thinking : oh ok im chinese mode rn so i gotta read it cchinese and not japanese

[dusky carbon]

lol completely understandable, its normal

[full mauve]

like the fact that they both use kanji seems like more of a challenge lmao

maybe im just wrong tho and its actually really beneficial

[dusky carbon]

9/10 of the people in my jp class are chinese, and we like reading kanji we dont know in chinese and that confuses my sensei lmao

[dusky carbon]

it IS beneficial, if you know enough that is

korean, japanese and chinese all either use or have used the same writing system at some point in time, so people who recognise those characters basically have somewhat of a small head start when it comes to the other language

you may not be able to pronounce it in that language, but at least you already know what that character means

[full mauve]

its funny trying to guess chinese sentence meanings just through kanji knowledge ngl

[dusky carbon]

whenever you and strawberry text in here, there's bound to be a lot of stuff i dont understand, so i just switch over to chinese mode and then suddenly understand half of what yall are talking about

[dusky carbon]

it definitely is funny

[full mauve]

i only know like half the kanji in that sentence tho OOF

[dusky carbon]

taiwan chinese is gonna be easier for you than normal mandarin though

normal mandarin uses simplified characters, while hong kong chinese and taiwanese chinese still use the traditional ones

kanji is traditional

so that would be easier for you

[dusky carbon]

from the little japanese that i know, you probably understand the quote on quote tougher words in this sentence

the rest are simple stuff like pronouns and particles

[full mauve]

我　現在是在　北　最有名的景

i didnt know kanji for taipei is different in chinese and jp wowies

[dusky carbon]

are those the ones that you know? or the ones you dont know

[full mauve]

ohhh

but dont they have the XXL kanjis too in taiwan

[full mauve]

the ones i know, I dont know the rest

[dusky carbon]

i just realised we're in the jp channel and have been going severely off topic and back on topic for the entire convo

[full mauve]

big brain

XD

[dusky carbon]

right, my guess was right then

[full mauve]

i didnt even notice

LOL

[dusky carbon]

wdym XXL lmao

[full mauve]

like a lot of strokes

[dusky carbon]

oh

they definitely do

some i dont even understand

because thats too many strokes of difference from mandarin

[full mauve]

[dusky carbon]

anyway one useful thing to know is that 的 is equivalent to "no“ in jp (i dont have jp keyboard here)

but you use it the same way as "no"

[full mauve]

It sounds like a fun idea to try to study it

[dusky carbon]

i meann

its all up to you

[full mauve]

ah yea so its basically 有名的景 = 有名の光景 i guess ?

[dusky carbon]

yeah

you ming, yuumei, there's bound to be words that will sound similar to how you pronounce it in jp as well

[full mauve]

good that 有名 is same kanji in both lmao

[dusky carbon]

yep

and both mean famous

i never knew the kanji for yuumei till recently, and when i found out it made so much more sense lmao

[full mauve]

it feels like I understand why chinese natives pass n1 so fast now lol

they just cheating

[dusky carbon]

LMAO

we kinda are

i still suck at jp and cn but i cannot deny the fact that we do lowkey cheat

if we forget how to write something in hiragana, we just write it in the mandarin characters that we know and its usually correct

[full mauve]

idk any good resources for Chinese though , gotta do some research

[full mauve]

💀

[dusky carbon]

well uh me neither i cant help you on that one

i had 6 years of my life in a chinese primary school and that was it

i dont speak mandarin at home

or at least rarely

because my parents dont understand it

as much as i have forgotten a lot of things, im surprised at how much is still intact when i try to read jp lol

[full mauve]

we have a lot of Chinese exchange students maybe I should just go to them and show them some 中国語　勉強　良？？

💀

[full mauve]

aa rip but at least u got to practice in 学校

[dusky carbon]

ok the thing with benkyou is that in chinese it just means uh like uhhh to be reluctant? hesitate? sorta

idk why there was such a disconnect for that word

[full mauve]

I know a few ppl on dc that I have contact with who are chinese but they from HK and speak cantonese apparently

D:

[full mauve]

oh damn

then is 学 better?

[dusky carbon]

HK people suck as much at mandarin as i do

[dusky carbon]

yep

[full mauve]

💀💀

[dusky carbon]

you either get a mainlander or taiwanese to practice with

HK people are not it trust me

[full mauve]

i mean it makes sense when u look at the kanji meanings individually

[dusky carbon]

canto is one of the few dialects that can use the chinese writing system

the rest dont fit

[full mauve]

🤣

[dusky carbon]

thats why the entire HK can speak canto and still use the same writing system

[full mauve]

they so nice tho

[dusky carbon]

NO FR

they homies

HK people will never turn their back on you

[full mauve]

this one guy I barely have contact with anymore still likes all my insta stories

he a homie

[dusky carbon]

but yeah uh not great for learning mandarin, good for learning canto

[full mauve]

😭

[dusky carbon]

wonderful

true homie

[dusky carbon]

at least out of all the dialects, canto is pretty useful to learn

[full mauve]

also he likes all the reels I send to him , if I was gay id definetly have a crush on him

[dusky carbon]

that escalated quickly

[full mauve]

it sounds like canto is the chinese kansaiben ??

[dusky carbon]

but real

not quite

within china itself, id say no, but globally speaking sorta

china has way too many other dialects for canto to be a chinese kansaiben

china is just huge shit's difficult

[full mauve]

yea ok china is a BIT biggert

🤣

[dusky carbon]

but go to places like HK, here (malaysia), singapore and being able to speak canto will save. your. ass.

(i dont know any canto)

[full mauve]

💀

[dusky carbon]

(my ass is not being saved)

the dialect that my family speaks is hokkien

[full mauve]

I rlly wanna go to singapore ngl

[dusky carbon]

hokkien is the dialect that the taiwanese speak

[full mauve]

we have scoot flights directly from berlin so its cheap lmao

its the only long haul flight from berlin almost XD

[dusky carbon]

oh nice

sg aint that bad, its just really tiny

[full mauve]

ah nice so u basically traditional chinese pro

[dusky carbon]

well uh sorta maybe not really

pronunciation of kanji is more similar to hokkien than mandarin yes, but there's still a lot that i dont know

reason being the hokkien here has been mixed up with other local languages so its no longer in its "purest" form

anyway worst case scenario people in sg have great english we're very tourist friendly

dont even bother trying to learn our language

we'll just talk to you in english

[full mauve]

ohh that sounds crazy complicated to learn

[full mauve]

LMAO

same in Germany tbh

[dusky carbon]

no need to learn that 💀 its like learning broken english there's no point to it

in the city, most people speak canto

and canto is fairly untouched

unlike hokkien

[dusky carbon]

🤝

[full mauve]

I thought Chinese is a good idea to learn cuz it also gives me the ablity to do some trips to china without perma google translating lmao

[dusky carbon]

it is

depends on where you go to tho

[full mauve]

I wouldnt have enjoyed Japan nearly as much if I spoke no JP so I bet its similar in China

[dusky carbon]

if you happen to visit a spot that barely uses mandarin, you're probably gonna be better at mandarin than they are

if you visit beijing

well

[full mauve]

🤣

[dusky carbon]

life's over

[full mauve]

Why

[dusky carbon]

first of all

[full mauve]

is it cuz of my social credit

[dusky carbon]

thick accent

[full mauve]

im sorry for all the china jokes ive made

😭

[dusky carbon]

not that hard to listen to, but still a thick accent nonetheless

they're one huge ass city that speaks the most proper mandarin that you'll ever hear in your entire life

so uhm

slightly scary

but you're a foreigner so you'll most likely be appreciated

if i go there and attempt to speak mandarin to them

im gonna get laughed at

👍

but go to somewhere like shanghai

they'll bow down to you

[full mauve]

is there a nihongo joouzu in chinese too= ?

LMAO

[dusky carbon]

:OMG YOUR MANDARIN IS SO GOOD" but you've only just said the most simple sentence you know to them

[dusky carbon]

yeah kinda but not everyone uses that one phrase like how nihongo joozu is used

they could say stuff like 好厉害 which basically just means "you're very good! (at something)"

often used to describe something that requires skill

like languages, sport etc

[full mauve]

💀💀💀

[dusky carbon]

just average shanghai moment

[full mauve]

I still have trauma from japan 💀 but its rlly wholesome ngl

[dusky carbon]

they do know mandarin tho, some prefer to use it, some prefer to stick with shanghainese

[dusky carbon]

trauma? how so

[full mauve]

thats good I think learning manadrin would be coolest option then

but traditional chinese also sounds very appealing

[dusky carbon]

if i were you id just learn traditional chinese

[full mauve]

after landing in jp I got jouzud 5 times in 15 minutes during immigration etc

💀

[dusky carbon]

everything sounds the same it just helps you read better

[full mauve]

ohh

i ddint know they sound the same

[dusky carbon]

nice

[dusky carbon]

oh they do

its exactly the same

the only changes made was the way the characters were written

too many damn goddamned strokes

so china was like

fuck this shit

[full mauve]

honestly its wholesome but gets annoying very quick LMAO

[dusky carbon]

we're making it easier

[full mauve]

[dusky carbon]

fair enough, thats understandable

[dusky carbon]

thank god i was born after the change was made

(i still struggle with mandarin anyway)

still out of everyone in the server

you hold the most potential to learn mandarin

[full mauve]

maybe ill start 中国語 after my exams

first i need to survive though 💀

[dusky carbon]

may you survive

also gl with your exams

[full mauve]

arigathanks

kochira koso

[dusky carbon]

[latent lynx]

I do like cookies

Why would I name myself after a food if I didn’t like it

[abstract mist]

Do you know cookiezi

[latent lynx]

Huh

[abstract mist]

It's uhhh
Osu top player

[latent lynx]

I don’t play osu

[merry ember]

chocomint: 17,959.50pp (#44 KR3)

Accuracy: 99.42% • Level: 105.95
Playcount: 63,549 (1570 hrs)
• Medals: 61
Peak rank: #1 (<t:1496793600:d>)

Joined osu! 2009-06-17 12:03:54 (14 years ago)

[latent lynx]

I have no idea what this means

[abstract mist]

They say he was the best player of all time

[latent lynx]

That’s great? 😭

Again I don’t play osu

[cursive dock]

[abstract mist]

Arigathank gozaimuchta

[abstract mist]

So what exactly is とんでもない?

On one hand, it's a compliment. Like とんでもないチカラ

But also you can use it to reply to a compliment like

-田中さんいい穴していますね
-いやいやとんでもないです

In this example it's closer to "it's not worth mentioning", and is very humble

Please explain

[full mauve]

well there is two meanings it can have

exactly like you explained already

one is an expression thats humble and the other is an i adjective

[abstract mist]

@full mauve is test ok

[dusky carbon]

does this mean to receive teachings?

i put that into google and didnt quite get it 💀

also ignore all the furigana

[abstract mist]

It means I will teach

Or someone will teach

いろいろ means "various things"

くれる means "to give"
It's super simplified though, you can learn the details from this video
https://youtu.be/HqQhBWcBuDA

教えてくれますmeans "will give by telling" or "is telling me". Depending on the context, it can mean "to teach" as well

[dusky carbon]

wait so it means that (this person) gave teachings?

[dusky carbon]

i see

[abstract mist]

Future form

[dusky carbon]

wait i just realized i didnt even take a picture of the full sentence im so stupid

[abstract mist]

Or the current state

[dusky carbon]

right

gimme a sec lemme finish eating lunch and go get the paper again

[abstract mist]

Furigana is very helpful because I can't read yet 😭

[dusky carbon]

sometimes i forget that

i usually dont write furigana, but my sensei specifically requested for us to do that today

[abstract mist]

I'm an odd case yeah
People also forget I'm left headed

Left handed

[dusky carbon]

ooo

veronika lore

[abstract mist]

I will learn how to read I promise

[dusky carbon]

you'll be completely fine im sure

wait lemme

thats the whole sentence

[abstract mist]

Because I have interest in Japanese culture

Miho san is

Japanese culture various things will tell me about

Miho san will tell me about Japanese culture because I'm interested in Japanese culture

[dusky carbon]

so in this sentence pattern its miho san giving teachings to "me"

[abstract mist]

Yeah

[dusky carbon]

"i" am receiving the teachings, but the way its worded in this sentence is miho san giving the teachings to "me"

okay got it

[abstract mist]

That's not exactly how くれますworks but you can understand it seems

[dusky carbon]

im just gonna go watch the video now

[abstract mist]

While at it, you can also learnもらう
https://youtu.be/hUY0--Pdl3I?si=aLEyjGjRLXkQWR3j

30 min video though idk if you have time

It works similarly to くれる/あげる but in the opposite direction. I.e you receive something

[abstract mist]

I just realized it's not Japanese culture

Why did you not correct me

日本文means japanese sentence

[dusky carbon]

ive learnt about もらう before actually, and in my textbook that was paired with あげる

[dusky carbon]

no no it is

the か wasnt in kanji

文化 is what its supposed to be

and that means culture

日本文化

[abstract mist]

You can say
みほさんに教えてもらいます

Same thing, but "I will receive teachings from the"

[dusky carbon]

yeah thats definitely something im more familiar with

[abstract mist]

I already forgot the rules for those

I just use them 💀

The most inefficient way to learn Japanese

[dusky carbon]

if it works it works

[abstract mist]

In English, I'm missing some basic words as well, because sources are biased. I used "bartering chip" in #💯︱counting which is super cool but also I learned that ankles and feet are different things, or what an insole is

If you are not interested in shoes, you will not encounter this word on YouTube

[dusky carbon]

i dont remember what an insole is ngl 💀

also your ankles are a part of your feet technically

honestly depends on where you draw the line at foot

[hearty socket]

Foot starts at the joint

[abstract mist]

Wow you're learning Japanese too

[hearty socket]

I was

Too annoying at some point for ne

So It died out

I know kana somewhat and can read a tiny amount of kanji

[abstract mist]

WHY
Such a fun language

[hearty socket]

Too hard

[abstract mist]

Yeah I should try the actual hard part of the language before saying that it's easy

地図に騙されました😭😭😭

[abstract mist]

Is there a pdf/epub reader that shows furigana

[full mauve]

Japanese is cooool fr

I "studied" (played eroge) for like 5hrs again yesterday was a lot of fun

[full mauve]

If its a PDF it should show furigana right

[abstract mist]

Idk never reas pdfs anyway, such a disgusting format for reading

[full mauve]

Indeed

I always used epub

[cursive dock]

can you read this
ばかみたい

[full mauve]

But now I just use cmoa cuz I actually buy books

Japanese books are so cheap its crazy and cmoa often has sales as well

[abstract mist]

||だめだね
だめよ
だめなのよ||

[cursive dock]

||||

[dusky carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/kiryu-yakuza-bakamitai-dame-dame-dane-gif-17523422

[hearty socket]

yep

[full mauve]

馬鹿三田井

駄目打余

[abstract mist]

Does anyone else think that ぶちこんでいる is a very cute word

I know it has multiple meanings, but the one that stuck to me is "to hit"

It awfully sounds like an onomatopoeia

Like "bam!"

But in Japan it's buchikon!!

Well not really

[abstract mist]

@full mauve vc

Time zones?

[dawn basin]

[abstract mist]

Noooooo
I'm bus already

In 20 min I'll be walk

[abstract mist]

I drop

[hearty socket]

When you asked it was 8am

[abstract mist]

Well
Ok

Would you like to vc

[hearty socket]

School

[abstract mist]

Ok

[hearty socket]

Ask me again in 115m

[abstract mist]

Schoolboy

[hearty socket]

I'm an adult

[abstract mist]

Schoolboy!!! 😭

[full mauve]

Kinda

9 am for me lol

I just woke up now tho (1.50pm)💀

[hearty socket]

Bro hast du heute frei oder was

Du Arsch

[full mauve]

Not rlly

I have klaushurenphase so I gotta study for my exam on monday technically speaking

[dusky carbon]

love how nihongo channel is like international channel

[full mauve]

And till then I got no uni

[hearty socket]

Schwänzer

[full mauve]

Nihongo channel just too good

[full mauve]

💀💀

wdym😭

[dusky carbon]

real

[hearty socket]

Иди нахуй

[full mauve]

I only got two exams left next monday and wednesday and then im 暇 for almost 2 months😏

[abstract mist]

Wow you used Russian before me

[hearty socket]

Nice for you

[dusky carbon]

we love holidays

[hearty socket]

хаха

[full mauve]

to be fair its not rlly holidays its just "time of no lectures" according to my uni

So I should be preparing for next semester etc

But im here waking up at 2 pm so yea....

だめだね

[hearty socket]

That's when I woke up in holidays

For hell's sake

[full mauve]

😭

睡眠リズムが狂っているよね僕は

昨日午前６時に起きたのに午前３時まで数学をしてしまうなんてダメ人間でーす

I forgor I even owned oshi no ko manga volumes

I left so much at my 実家😭

[dusky carbon]

im sorry what you woke up at 6am and did math until 3am

did i read that right

are you ok

what lead you to such terrible decisions

too much math make brain sad it no good

[hearty socket]

Sounds like you

Mrs"I study 8 hours a day"

[full mauve]

Nah I didnt do it the whole day tbh

I just had like 5 friends who needed help with math problems for some reason yesterday

💀

[full mauve]

[hearty socket]

Can you guys stop anime protagonisting

[full mauve]

LMAO

If I was an anime protagonist id be a very unlucky one without plot armor💀

[dusky carbon]

i hate waking up at 6am

[hearty socket]

You guys be like
I study 30 hours a day
I can't socialise
I have online friends
I don't have anything else to do other than study

[dusky carbon]

i havent done that in a while (meaning im going to do it soon)

[dusky carbon]

thank god

math for the whole day is crazy

[dusky carbon]

i have honkai star rail 🥰

[full mauve]

Facs except for 30hrs part

I have Airbus A350

[hearty socket]

You know what
You know fucking what?
I declare @full mauve @dusky carbon as married bow
You guys are literally the same

[dusky carbon]

if i were the same as flx my sensei wouldnt be worried about me not getting an A for japanese

[hearty socket]

I call it

Flxapia

[dusky carbon]

[full mauve]

Yo imagine I was asian then maybe I could actually pull 11 hrs of math 🤯

(definetly not just skill issue on my part💀)

[hearty socket]

If you were Asian you'd be a disappointment even further

You'd be a Bsian

[full mauve]

Somehow thats doesnt have a good ring to it

What about xapible

[full mauve]

WTFF

Id be A+++sian excuse me

I finished my 90min exam yesterday in 20 minutes

[hearty socket]

Do you know what's the difference between us
You're flexible
I'm Erik
That means you'd be an FSIAN, and I'd be an Esian, that means I'm better than you in every way

[full mauve]

(we did have the solutions cuz the prof is an angel tho so yea..)

[full mauve]

Yo wait im adrian so id be asian HOLY SHIT

I CAN BECOME ASIAN

[hearty socket]

Arschdrian

[full mauve]

ITS WHITE DOABLE

[full mauve]

💀💀💀

My friends rather call me Arschvrid

Cuz ppl always mistake my name for Arvid

[hearty socket]

???

[full mauve]

Yea bro

Ppl are stupid sometimes

[hearty socket]

Bitte wat

[full mauve]

Idk how Arvid and Adrian are similar

[hearty socket]

Arvid isn't even a name

[full mauve]

Actually im about to eat 朝ご飯

[full mauve]

It is wtf😭

[hearty socket]

I will commit sudoku

[dusky carbon]

breakfast my ass isnt it kike oast noon

[hearty socket]

Once every 200billion people

[dusky carbon]

trust me no one voluntarily does 11 hrs of math

if we're doing it, we're forced to

what is this shitty ahh blessing rng

[dusky carbon]

sounds better

[dusky carbon]

ok maybe erik was right we are similar in some ways

[dusky carbon]

what

[full mauve]

poor arvids I know will be hurt :(

[full mauve]

true it was more like brunch tbh

[hearty socket]

Tell them to cry

[full mauve]

I just had noodles with korean x2 spicy fire noodle sauce so good

🚒

(i dont feel my mouth anymore)

[full mauve]

ok i will if I ever meet them again

I kinda lost contact with over half of the ppl I had contact with during school times

RIP

[hearty socket]

So about that no social life

[full mauve]

fr

the social life I have i exchanging meme reels on insta

[dusky carbon]

wait which brand

[full mauve]

im introverted as fuck tho so i dont like to have like too much activities anyways

[full mauve]

samyang

this is the best the korean cuisine has to offer

(lets ignore korean bbq etc)

[dusky carbon]

based

samyang was revolutionary

[full mauve]

when I found out about them I was like 🤯

[dusky carbon]

life changed for the better

[full mauve]

I remember I first tried them in korea and almost vomitted cuz I had 0 spice tolerance and then I had an anime shounen thought that I should just build up spice tolerance till I can beat those fucking noodles which I managed to do after a while luckily

now Im just addicted to them w

[dusky carbon]

dont overdo it tho

its good that you have spice tolerance now yes but your stomach isnt your mouth

dont wanna risk stomach ulcers for good food that happens to be really spicy

[full mauve]

hmmm true

its so convenient that spicy food makes you full quicker as well tho

[dusky carbon]

too many people here have had stomach problems from eating spicy food

[full mauve]

[dusky carbon]

not worth all those medical bills 😔

[full mauve]

YOU HAVE TO PAY!?

wtf

[dusky carbon]

yeah

[full mauve]

damn thats fked u p

I feel bad for all people going into debt cuz of missing health care 😭

[abstract mist]

that's my wife

[full mauve]

sir

I must inform you ||I think your wife is dead|| oshi no ko spoiler

[abstract mist]

I read the translations

Of the mango

Because I'm not a nerd and am not interested in Japanese

(actually I'm sad I can't read them)

[full mauve]

W

[dusky carbon]

dont rmb if public hospitals are free or much cheaper but most people go to private hospitals and end up paying a shit ton

you simply have to wait too long for government hospitals

[full mauve]

i can ship u volume 1 and 2 if u pay for shipping 💀

[dusky carbon]

so people who cant afford to wait just have to pay

[full mauve]

oooof thats sad

[dusky carbon]

it is what it is

[full mauve]

money money money

must be funny

ok sorri that song just never left my head since primary school 💀

[dusky carbon]

very understandable

[abstract mist]

that's like 50 euros

[full mauve]

Nahhh , like 18.50€ tho 💀

[abstract mist]

[full mauve]

i checked dhl fr

[abstract mist]

no way

But I don't have the money

[full mauve]

😭

[abstract mist]

Actually I do but I would rather not spend it on anything

I need to get a job already

[full mauve]

誕生日はいつ？

[abstract mist]

11th gatsu 12 nichi

I don't have japanese kb on my pasokon

I removed it to work, but adding it again takes like 30 minutes to download all the IME files

Why not just store them, I wonder

Time to start a rant on #💾︱tech

[full mauve]

LOL

[abstract mist]

@full mauve wanna vc while I eat colorless borscht

[hearty socket]

you dont need to

you pay in cat videos

[full mauve]

「はい、私の都合です。そして先輩は優しいので、こういう時は付き合ってくれるのです』

「なんだそりゃ」

『知ってますか？　人間って優しいと他人に言われたら、本当に優しくなれるんですよ』

「そうか、じゃあ俺は人間じゃないみたいだ。じゃあな」

XDD

[abstract mist]

俺は人間を捨てるのだ

[abstract mist]

@full mauve

自分のこと名前で呼んでもいいのですか

[full mauve]

in jp ye

[abstract mist]

先日見た アニメで綾崎レミという女子高生がそう言っている

珍しい だから最初から おかしいと思ってた

[full mauve]

it only happens in like either a business setting to shorten sentences or usually by JK who try to seem cute

so not that often ig

[abstract mist]

実はあの子は一番可愛かった

[full mauve]

yo are you my wifes boyfriend

wow

netorare

[abstract mist]

思い作ったけど、どう思う？

[full mauve]

wat

that msg is eons old

💀

[abstract mist]

「は」は言いなくてもいいけど

「が」は言えないといけない

それでわかる

[full mauve]

kinda yes but no ig

ga = compare = wa subject normal

[abstract mist]

Maybe I should listen to more Japanese until I just understand it intuitively rather than linguistically...

[full mauve]

~~実はあの子は一番可愛かった ~~ 実はあの子が一番可愛かった sounds better cuz u compare her to all the other kids there

idk if wa also works technically or not

im not grammar pro but ga just sounds better here imo

[abstract mist]

I wanted to ga at first wtf 😭

[full mauve]

also true but with wa and ga it cant hurt to think about it

imo at least

it helped me a lot

[abstract mist]

That's why I looked for the aeons old message

[full mauve]

私があなたを守りますから = I (not anybody else) will protect you
私はあなたを守りますから = I will protect you

its like you are saying I will protect you compared to I will protect you

[abstract mist]

Ha!!!! Can I ask a question
Unrelated though

[full mauve]

ya

[abstract mist]

Does Japanese even have 3rd person pronouns

Aside from "the man", "the woman", and "the kid"

[full mauve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2SnqEELuIM

[abstract mist]

Wow
Japanese

[full mauve]

this helped me a lot

[abstract mist]

This guy looks asian

[full mauve]

he is japanese ye

and he explains it in easy Japanese

[abstract mist]

I look asian too wwww

[abstract mist]

THAT'S THE WAY

Everyone should do that

[full mauve]

hot

[full mauve]

fr

[abstract mist]

Uhhh I don't look Chinese, Japanese, or Korean though

[full mauve]

its ok still hot

[abstract mist]

Kazakh people can look like different nationalities or even European, but I ended up looking Indian

[full mauve]

Yooo

do u have fluffy hair

[abstract mist]

No not reallt

Had to look in the mirror to figure out

[full mauve]

lol

i know a nepalese dude who lives in japan and he had rlly fluffy hair

I thought all people from there had fluffy hair 😭

僕みたいなはげた髪より余程いいんだけど

yo u look exactly like my russian friend

[abstract mist]

No way

[abstract mist]

Male pattern baldness at 18?

[full mauve]

I think his grand parents are from kazach or eastern russia + north korea

he is mr worldwide

[full mauve]

at 17

💀

speedrunning life

[abstract mist]

Can I see if that's okay with him

[full mauve]

lemme see if i can find pic

[abstract mist]

It's only okay if it's a picture he himself posted on a public place

Or if he consents

[full mauve]

bad quali cuz i had to crop away his gf

💀

[abstract mist]

Lol
I didn't see :(

[full mauve]

wait

i send again

[abstract mist]

Ok

I'm here

No way

That
Is not me at all

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WHAT

ok maybe I think that cuz I barely see people looking like this lol

I thought all Japanese look the same at first too

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Nah dude I swear you look at a Kazakh people picture and it looks like an international convention

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A

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show me pic

im curious

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Do you have recommendations for a nichijou book

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nichijou book ?

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I'll find one rw

Rq

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Slice of life ?

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Yeah

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義妹生活 is mostly SoL ig

or 隣の天使さまにいつの間にかダメ人間にされていた件

or if you like an university setting moreカノジョに浮気されていた俺が、小悪魔な後輩に懐かれています

also I found a way to read books in browser with yomichan