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http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/叭

喇叭

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http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/閻

閻魔

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http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/綯

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http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/冽

皎々冽々

M -> エム
S -> エス

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http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/諡

諡号

かなり早いわね

うわー、おにいちゃんもう帰ったんの？

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Complete newbie here, I decided that since I have PC access at work when I'm on break (and I'm frequently 1 hour early for my shifts) I'm going to put some of that spare time into learning Japanese.

I'm starting with the hiragana and it's hard but I'm starting to speed up. No real dramas yet, but I'd just like to thank OP (and anyone collaborating on it) for the useful references etc. and also the help I'm inevitably going to need once I start actually learning grammar.

Keep up the threads, I look forward to eventually reaching a level where I can participate in discussion, for now I'm just going to keep writing down characters and babbling syllables like an idiot.

You're pretty early. What gives?

>>89438502
>I look forward to eventually reaching a level where I can participate in discussion
Install rikai and post the dumbest thing you can think of in Japanese regardless of if you know how to phrase it, you'll fit in just fine.

>>89438502

I wish I could study at work, but my piece of shit office PC can't display Japanese characters.

>>89438795
I might possibly have to go do something for somebody here shortly.

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>>89438502
いっらしゃいません

>>89438884
やめてください

How many of you here talk like girls when speaking Japanese? Don't try to hide it, I know you exist.

>>89439284

My inner reading voice sounds like a cute animu girl, does that count?

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>>89439284
b-b-but

Where did the comment section in Tae Kim's guide go?

>>89439284
>not speaking rough as fuck
こいつ
>>89439342
>Anime has always been about cute girls, and the industry is healthier than ever and growing thanks to popular shows with moe characters.
It's like he didn't even try.

DJT, you're early.

>>89439449
But he's right. Even Evangelion was one of the only shows not about little girls during its airing season.

>>89439539
> the industry is healthier than ever and growing thanks to popular shows with moe characters

>>89439583
It is. The Japanese use it as an escape from their 18 hour work days.

>>89439583
Did you need read the post he said
>he's right
and he is.

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>>89439615
>>89439632
Good lel guys.

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>>89439720
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-09-23/japan-animation-tv-ranking-september-10-16

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>>89439720
I'd be lying if I said I've watched a show or read a manga in the past 4 years that wasn't about highschool aged girls or under.

>>89438840
彼女！？

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Heeey I've been doin' my Anki, and I like to double check certain words on Jisho since the definitions on Anki can be pretty limiting, but this one is kinda gettin' me.
On Anki it says that どう means "how, what" but when I look it up on Jisho, there's no signs of it meaning that anywhere?
Who should I listen to?

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>>89440030
Both of them are right.

>>89440030
>On Anki
Don't do this, say which deck you're using, Anki is not giving you that information, the deck is.

Your deck is referring to one use of どう, incase you're unaware, I'll be the one to crush your dreams, Japanese has a fuck ton of homonyms, words that are pronounced the same but have completely different meanings, so have fun with that.

http://tap.akitashoten.co.jp/

I figured this would be of some interest to anybody looking for reading material. Akita Shoten opened up a site recently where you can read some original manga for free.

魔法少女サイト is 2edgy4me

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Anyone know how I'm supposed to read this? It looks like オ十る but that doesn't make any sense and isn't in any dictionary I know. I'm pretty sure it's slang of some sort.

How do I type the ウ with dakuten ヴ in Google IME?

>>89440324
vu

>>89440319
オナる

>>89440319
オナる

>>89440397
>>89440404
I swear to god, I thought I tried that. Thanks though.

アメリカ人いる?

>>89440570
うん、おっす。

>>89440237
> Language has a shitton of homonyms.
> Don't use as much kanji as possible for written work.
Fuck you Japan.

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>お兄ちゃま～！
>だれ、このひとたち
｡*†*｡☆ｷｬﾜヾ(*´Д｀*)人(*´Д｀*)ノｲｨ☆｡*†*｡

Which particle wud u fuq

>>89442373
の

>>89437669
>http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/叭
Kind of strange that this is listed as ハツ when らっぱ is pretty much the only word that uses it.

>>89442777
>That huge hole
You can tell she does every guy she can see.
ね on the other hand...

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>>89437609 (OP)
>>89437669
Now that's a rare (or, rather, the only) case of OP kanji that I know. Thanks to Sora no Woto.

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This has me stumped. What does にぎにぎ mean in bubble 86? Jisho only has one result that comes up is "lively;merry" which is にぎにぎしい. Google translate says it is "grip technique" and rikai doesn't give any results.

Words with 腹 are mostly referring to the belly and internal organs while words with 胃 are mostly scientific terms all around digestion, is that right?

>>89444541
Something like that. Lots of metaphorical stuff with 腹 too like 業腹　and 腹黒い. 胃 has stuff like 胃潰瘍

I have finally finished KanjiDamage!
Doesn't feel that great though because anki day finished in the middle of my reps and I had to study remaining few on 'next'(current) day. Oh well, milestone reached. よつばと, prepare yourself, I'm gonna read you this week!

I'm ready to wander into light novels, I think. So say I'm looking for the Monogatari novels. I search "化物語" on nyaa, but can't seem to find any results. Is there a go-to place, or way of getting RAW LNs?

>>89445503
How long did it take you to finish kanjidamage, anon?

>>89445530
It's on nyaa. Search for the author's name instead.

How long of learning kanji should it take you to read the average manga without many issues?

>>89445944
~2.5 months. 57 days studied out of last 80 days.

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> Start with a 90% young correct rate for the first week studying.
> Gradually decreases due to irregular study habits to fucking 65%.
Fuck me. THIS TIME EVERY FUCKING DAY. EVERY. FUCKING. DAY.

I SWEAR.

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なるほど。。。

>>89445530
I've never read them, but from what I've heard the monogatari novels probably aren't the best thing to start with. They're apparently pretty high on the difficulty spectrum among LNs

>>89446411
Infinitely long, because learning kanji alone doesn't teach you japanese.

>>89443460
squeeze

>>89445530
The DJT IRC chan has it on their XDCC bot. #l/a/nguage@irc.rizon.net

>>89446556
I had to sacrifice two days just for reviewing and relearning after week-long break. Shit gets tough when you're unable to study regularly. I'll try my hardest to not neglect a single day from now on seeing how I could have finished KD in less than two months.

Anons, I know we are masters of procrastination but try to do you reps early so that real life won't be able to screw up your plans.

Thanks to the anon who recommended http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ41gr_7WG4 - it kept me going this week.

>>89446689

Have located the torrent thanks to >>89446370
and am beginning to realise this. Unfortunately, googling for simple light novels doesn't turn up much, either. It's just people recommending stuff they have watched anime of, from what I can see. I'm not going near Spice and Wolf. As much as I love it, the vocab would tear me a new one.

And the lists I can find of simple LNs are pitifully small.

>>89447611
> simple LNs
Does such a thing even exist

>>89446972
Thanks.

Did anyone start their reading from the kana only stories? I guess you are supposed to struggle through them without knowing any of the words and just add them to your vocab in anki.

>>89447611
Nisio's works are the only ones to be consistently placed on a different tier (and even then, there often pop up people who claim to have read some and find them not really difficult besides some kanji puns and whatnot). What I'm getting at is that you probably don't need to worry much about difficulty. Just pick something that sounds fun.

Here, have something I googled my way to recently:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/livesinden/archives/50596736.html

Some guy wrote paragraph-long descriptions for tons of LNs and ranked them by how much he liked them. See if you agree with his taste and just pick anything that sounds good. Feel free to google "ラノベ　おすすめ" or something similar for different opinions.

>>89448674
Why would you do that?

>>89448674
Personally, I'm learning N5+N4 vocabulary before adding vocabulary from manga and such. It's just too inefficient otherwise.

>>89447445
That's actually a fantastic idea. For study sessions, have an hour or two playlist up and when it ends take a break for a couple hours.

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I've found that I'm having a harder time remembering kanji without writing them so I put together an anki deck for that purpose. going through my decks and actually studying at that point isn't hard for me and I generally like it, but when it comes time to add new cards I feel stuck and generally it's my least favorite part. Does anyone else have this problem?

>>89450122
Stop being a fagmaster and finish it early and go on to vocab before wasting any more time.

>>89439803
Read Josei dude, it's the best demographic.

>>89450122
It happened to me, but there is no solution to it. When you get into the routine of adding new cards, this feeling will get suppressed. For me, it faded away completely only when I finished my kanji deck completely. I still add kanji there, but very rarely (maybe 1-2 per week) because I am sitting at 2300+ kanji now and I would rather spend this time on vocab

>>89442373
へ

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>>89450294
>finish it early
what? I'm not just studying kanji by itself, the kanji deck is there so I write it down when it pops up. I only did that because I was having trouble distinguishing kanji in my vocab deck. The real problem I'm having now is that adding cards in general feels like a grueling process.

>>89450423
well as I said, it's not just for my kanji deck. adding cards for anything feels so painstaking.

So, my deck gave me the following sentence and translation:

彼女は青い目をしています
She has blue eyes.

Does this make sense? I mean, shouldn't it be 彼女の目は青い or 彼女は青い目を持っています? I get the feeling that する shouldn't be used like this.

>>89450534
>>89450479
Then don't make adding new cards a separate process. My Anki is set up on mixed review, meaning that it will insert new cards in-between reviews, so I am not anxious about new cards at all since I see it just as a part of reviewing

>>89450980
I'm not quite understanding you here. I add new cards to my vocab deck as I see them in my study. If I don't add them then It wont have anything to draw from. If you are referring to a pre-made deck then I'm not sure what deck would really help me there. I dropped core2k as it was showing conjugations of words that I didn't understand before I even knew what the word was.

>>89450943
する is used for certain features, such as 顔をする or 味がする.

>>89451310

>I dropped core2k as it was showing conjugations of words that I didn't understand before I even knew what the word was.

That's just example sentences, you don't have to worry about being able to read them.

>>89451310
Ah, I see, you are correct, I was using a pre-made deck. Can you show me an example of the trouble you are talking about? I am using core2k/6k deck that is pretty amazing. The only thing I had to tweak was to make it show kanji on front and english on the back instead of the opposite, but it was literally a couple of clicks

>>89451513

Thanks.

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>>89451583
well the first example that comes to mind was the example sentence "please start the test". I'm somewhat slow when It comes to studying grammar so when I saw that I was a little lost.

>>89451752
>>89451513
>>89450943
The most basic way to say it would probably just be 彼女は目が青い though.

>>89451310

Let me see if I get this straight. Is your problem is that you think it's too troublesome to add new words to your self-made deck?

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>>89451864
I see, it is your deck's fault because it does not show the word by itself. Mine shows the word and the sentence on the front (though I removed pictures because it kinda spoils). I think I know your deck and I think I know how to fix it. For comparison, here is how mine looks

>>89452000
I feel that it takes too long and it's the part I hate most about studying. I still do it but I find myself procrastinating and not doing it as often as I need to by a long shot.

>>89452111
Adding words to your deck is a great time to review the word itself and take the time to look it up in a dictionary. I find it's far more beneficial than the wholesale grinding of premade decks many people do in this thread.

>>89452111

Try storing all of the words in a text file as you do your reps, then at the and make all of the cards at once.

Does anyone have an image featuring all the jouyou kanji (preferably sorted by grade)? (Not that one with the face in it.) I don't see it in the links of OP's post.

>>89452111
So you add all cards manually one by one? Why not use Rikaichan/sama and Anki import? My deck's has like 7000 words that I've added by letting Rikaichan and Anki take care of pretty much everything for me.

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>>89451864
>>89452100
And here is how to fix it. Try to copy the stuff on the left into your setup and you will be fine (make a backup just in case). You can find it if you click "cards" on your screenshot

>>89452111
Tangorin has a feature that lets you register words you look up into a list that you can import as an Anki deck. It shaves off a lot of time for my deck building.

>>89452216
Not an image, but here you go. Sorted by grade and everything http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_j%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji

>>89452246
that works? I tried it but it was just unresponsive and I had heard it was a feature that wasn't set up completely yet.
>>89452100>>89452253
taking a look at that now.
>>89452213
I don't quite follow. "doing my reps" is studying from my deck, or are you saying using a different deck and then taking the words from there.

>>89452350
I see, I'll look into that as well.

>>89452449

>I don't quite follow. "doing my reps" is studying from my deck, or are you saying using a different deck and then taking the words from there.

It's studying from your deck. From what I understand you're being troubled because you have to stop while studying it to make new cards. If you leave all of that work for the end it fixes your problem right?

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>>89452449
I'm not talking about the auto-import feature Rikaisama has. I've heard some people here use it, but I'm talking about the feature Rikaichan and Rikaisama have that allows you to save an entry to a text file by simply pressing a button. After you've done that, you can have Anki process the whole text file automatically for you and produce notes.

>>89452646
Why would you be making new cards while studying old cards? New vocab comes from reading.

>>89452723
not him, but really? And how do you think he is supposed to reinforce the new vocab that came from reading? Obviously by making a new card and adding it to the deck

>>89452710
>q3config
surely not quake 3?

>>89453069
Yup, Q3. I play QL for the most part, but some of the Q3 mods caught my attention, so I was setting up a config.

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>>89452253
this is what I got, I feel I may have done something wrong.

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>>89453176
A little outdated, I believe this is considered the more accepted guide.

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>>89453251
This one is good too, my friend used it.

>>89452646
if I work on creating new cards before or after studying for the day I still have to do it eventually and that's the part I dislike. I'm going to look into
>>89452710
so I can hopefully cut down some of the work though.

>>89453242
That means you probably got a different deck, and thus different note types with fields of different names than the screenshot that guy posted. You'll have to check the field names yourself and put it inside the curly braces.

>>89453251

I like the other one better. This one is too stupid for anybody to take it seriously.

Best one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flBMpY7ZNX8

>>89453176
i like how this is reasonable enough to not appear to be a troll at first glance

>>89453242
Sorry, then it is just a shitty deck you are working with, even though it has the exact same sample sentences mine does. Here is the guide on how to set up the deck and the link to the deck itself http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=5322 . I strongly advice you to try this one, imo the best one I found. Links to sounds and images are there too

>>89453176
Vocab means words, i thought kanji were words

>>89453489
kanji are symbols that make up words. One word can easily be made by more than one kanji

>>89453407
Despite him acting like a retard, that's solid advice.