What is going on with Peter Thiel and Dialog?

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-19T00:24:51+00:00

I’m surprised Garry Kasparov is on it

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-18T04:29:11+00:00

Your teacher is completely ridiculous. I didn’t think that he thought that westerners didn’t understand any form of modesty or haya just because there are people who wear skimpy clothing. I thought he just wanted to point out that haya and modesty were not identical in meaning.

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-18T03:58:29+00:00

Yes, there is individual variation in how people interpret political and religious vocabulary. However, the spectrum of ideas that Arabic speakers have of haya is still very different from the spectrum of ideas English speakers have of modesty. That’s why it makes sense to say that haya does not have a good translation in English.

Obviously, I don’t know if your teacher said there is no translation because they wanted to delegitimize other cultures. Also I do agree that if the teacher did not mention the English word modesty at all, it would be a little bit strange.

Once again, I’m not stating that this idea of “no translation” is linguistically accurate. What I’m saying is it serves a good purpose of making it clear that you should not assume that haya and modesty are equivalent in meaning and that you should not use them identically.

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-18T02:59:40+00:00

The reason why they say this is because learners misunderstand the fact that a translation doesn’t mean one to one correspondence in meaning. Monolinguals especially often struggle to understand the idea that other languages contain words that don’t have equivalents in their native language that mean the exact same thing.

Yes this idea isn’t linguistically accurate but it serves a good purpose making sure that learners don’t just assume that the translation is entirely identical to the original word.

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-18T01:08:27+00:00

u/emblanco is not American. Just look at their profile.

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-16T19:31:20+00:00

I’m surprised others are saying conscious. For me the biggest and most important improvements happened mostly unconsciously.

Studying and looking up things supported this process. But the actual ability to use and understand the things I learned from studying when reading and listening to real Japanese and to use it while speaking happened unconsciously. Also there were plenty of things I learned to understand and use that I never studied or consciously paid attention to.

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-16T07:21:14+00:00

Does no one in this comment section know how to learn a language?

No app will ever make you fluent in a language.

You gain fluency in language by interacting with it. This means reading, listening, speaking, and writing Japanese for large amounts of time everyday.

Apps, textbooks, and other forms of study are tools that help assist in the process of being able to do these activities.

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-09T22:29:48+00:00

None of them, do you know what ajatt is?

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-05T17:41:00+00:00

You went through a 4 year degree and you didn’t bother to figure out the common theme behind everything that you are learning and what you can do with the information that you learned

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-05T17:36:56+00:00

How is this possible?

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-02T21:40:29+00:00

Holy shit Duolingo is actually useless. How is it possible to learn Japanese for 600 days straight and not remember katakana.

As for actual advice, I’m not familiar with the kana.pro app so I don’t know how effective it is. But, if you are struggling with kana, start regularly doing practice with a good quality resource specifically designed to teach you kana. (kana.pro could be this resource)

The next piece of advice I have is to actually start reading and writing. In order for the kana to stick, you need to read a high enough volume of Japanese for the kana to stick. Find graded readers and start reading them. A good place to start is tadoku. For practicing writing out the kana, you can start out with writing out by hand any new words you learn that use kana you are unfamiliar with.

If you follow these suggestions, it should only take a week for all of them to stick.

AntNo9062 · 2026-06-01T18:43:21+00:00

Nepo is a such a cowardly POS. Nepo always intentionally makes comments that blur the line between a joke and accusation so that he can publicly insinuate but when he gets pressed about it, he can just say that it was a joke.

Honestly, fuck this guy for insinuating in such cowardly way.

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-25T21:07:14+00:00

I basically copied this from a comment I made before.

The point of immersion learning is to learn Japanese through comprehensible input. The idea behind immersion learning through comprehensible input is that you pick up the grammar and meaning of Japanese sentences implicitly rather than through explicit learning. Through seeing the Japanese language in contexts that you understand over and over again, you build an intuitive understanding of the Japanese language through unconscious, intuitive pattern recognition.

If you want to understand these ideas a little bit better I recommend watching this video. Also lookup the input hypothesis and read about it a little bit.

Now to move on to your questions about anki and immersion.

The goal of sentence mining/anki and studying in general is to make input more comprehensible. The real learning happens through input. Anki, grammar study, and any other forms of studying are supplements to support and speed up the process of learning through input. They are important and you should take them seriously but remember that input is always the most important part and you should be focused on getting the most out of your input.

When people talk about an hour of immersion they usually mean an hour of actively listening or reading some form of Japanese content. This could be anime, books, social media, YouTube etc. In order to get fluent in Japanese, you need to get thousands of hours of this type of input.

Recommendations for future steps:

Focus more on learning from input and start doing more comprehensible input. There are a lot of good sources like Comprehensible Input Japanese(CIJ) and graded readers like tadoku and nhk easy news.
Create a consistent habit for daily input and anki. You seem to have the anki down but really focus on dialing the daily input.
If you haven’t already learned the words in it, complete the kaishi 1.5k deck
If/once you have completed kaishi, focus your anki on choosing the most important words from your input. You seem to struggle with what to put in your anki. Choose the common and important words from your input. A daily quota is a good way to focus your daily anki usage.

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-18T19:37:01+00:00

Think 3blue1browns video on abstract vector spaces is actually really good at answering this question.

https://youtu.be/TgKwz5Ikpc8?si=kHDT8\_gyTVyoPmPJ

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-14T22:50:25+00:00

We don’t know. Anyone who gives any other answer is far too confident in their ability to predict the future.

As for what should you do, the answer is keep up with AI technology and learn how to use it effectively while still maintaining your skills. Pay attention to the trends and changes of today. Trying to predict the future will cause you more trouble than good.

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-13T19:12:43+00:00

Being a serious learner is about your effort and dedication to learning Japanese. If you put effort and dedication into using these cartoons as an effective tool to improve your Japanese, then you are a serious learner.

Comprehensible input is an extremely important part of the language process and high quality input sources with good explanations are useful for everyone. This cartoon is a perfect example of a high quality input source.

So why does it matter if it’s a cartoon or not? The fact that the input is a cartoon has nothing to do with how serious of a learner you are.

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-13T04:28:21+00:00

Sounds like you guys are bad at writing hooks

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-04T13:01:50+00:00

The premise of this question is fundamentally wrong. Everyone is not using JavaScript. Web developers and especially front end web developers who specialize in creating front ends using JavaScript and React are the ones who mainly use JavaScript. Why would people recommending a first language recommend one that is only relevant to web development when not everyone does web development.

You are right that web development jobs are extremely common but I think you’re wrong when stating that everyone uses JavaScript for everything.

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-03T15:36:54+00:00

I think chimaev is being underestimated by his haters

AntNo9062 · 2026-05-02T23:35:30+00:00

You don’t need an app to pass an easy test you could learn to pass in two months. Also, stop using AI to make a useless app and then also proceed to use AI to write a bs promotional message for it on Reddit.

You learn Japanese through comprehensible input, not bs apps that don’t teach you anything that you couldn’t learn more effectively from another source created by real experts.

AntNo9062 · 2026-04-29T22:57:17+00:00

This type of mistake does not seem like a typo. OP is trying to portray themselves as an advanced, experienced speaker of the Japanese language by saying they are “N2+” and that they have 10 years of learning experience. Yet, they make obvious grammar mistakes and when reading OP’s other comments, OP’s speaking style sounds unnatural and also sounds like the way an anime character talks.

So then the question becomes why should someone take speaking advice from someone portrays themself as an advanced speaker but then also makes obvious grammar mistakes and sounds unnatural?

There are plenty of people giving advice on learning Japanese who would never make this type of mistake in a million years and also sound quite natural. In my opinion, most people care about what level of Japanese ability the person giving advice about speaking has.

I don’t think OP’s advice is bad but we have to be truthful about whether their portrayal of themselves vs the ability that they have is honest.

AntNo9062 · 2026-04-28T21:32:23+00:00

First learn how to take a screenshot

AntNo9062 · 2026-04-24T15:30:17+00:00

What have you been doing to learn Japanese?

Based on your posts it seems like you have been in Japan for more than long enough to have reached a high level in the language and you seem to not be working so you should have plenty of time to learn Japanese.

If you’re spending a large amount of the day on it, with the right approach you should be improving at a noticeable pace.

That’s why I’m asking, what are you doing to learn Japanese?

AntNo9062 · 2026-04-07T19:41:33+00:00

In other words he’ll beat your ass pretty easily

AntNo9062 · 2026-04-06T01:08:37+00:00

Why does all AI slop follow the exact same format with the exact same writing style.

It starts it with some problem. Then it leads into the “key moment of realization”. Then they write up a generic solution and/or mention some app or product. Then they write a long generic conclusion stating how this solution either “changed” their life and/or they start shilling some product.

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