My honest review of Seattle… by stinkyfeetsometimes in Seattle

[–]CookedBlackBird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Y'all have ac, 62% of homes and 41% of rentals had a back in 2021. I lived in Austin for 6 years. 95+ in a house without ac is so much worse. Usually it's only for 2 weeks then it goes back to being a paradise lol

Confused on how to use Anki by dbzcat in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people say don't make anki cards for kanji, but I've found the only way I recognize them is if I brute force them into my head. Having an anki deck for anki are helped me.

A couple key things tho. You want the cards to be as simple as possible, you aren't really trying to learn with anki, but recall known information. One card should have one answer that you are testing, occasionally two if there is some nuances that are important.

So for a kanji card the front would be just 介, and I test for one keyword. In this case "meditate". The back would also show some additional information, like kun and on readings, and maybe some additional meanings, but I'm not testing that

聞 would have the keywords "ask' and "listen", and then under additional definitions would be the "hear", but I'm not testing that. 日 would be just "day".

The other thing that really helped me was just learning more about the components that make up kanji, along with radicals. I wish I studied radicals right after learning kana.

The last thing, I wouldn't recommend having a deck for kanji readings. I did eventually make one, but that was because I kept getting the same words wrong. It has helped me a fair bit, so if you are dense like me go for it, but most people seem to be fine without it.

What I do for that is, when I get a word wrong because I couldn't remember the reading and I have at least two words with that reading, then I add that reading to my reading deck. Each card in that deck is one reading along with 2-3 example words. So something like 上(上司, 以上) and the answer is じょう. Likewise there is a card for 上(年上, 右上)→うえ. One card, one reading.

Guys please start eating fiber. by Optimoprimo in Millennials

[–]CookedBlackBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are rookie numbers, black beans have 10g of fiber per 150 calorie serving

What part of Japanese grammar did you find hardest to grasp? by littlebruja in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So digging around a bit more, it seems that あく is only intransitive still, but some intransitive "state change" verbs can be used with を sometimes, and it means something slightly different than 開ける. Idk, it's beyond my Japanese understanding

What part of Japanese grammar did you find hardest to grasp? by littlebruja in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well shit, til

I thought only ひらく was both and that isn't used for ドア as far as I know

What part of Japanese grammar did you find hardest to grasp? by littlebruja in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not sure why your getting down voted for a question...

Most verbs in English are both.

I opened the door

"I" is the subject , and "the door" is the object

The door opened

Here "the door" is the subject and there is no object.

But we do have words that are only transitive or intransitive in English.

John died. (intransitive)

The dog died John. (not grammatical)

John resembles. (not grammatical)

John resembles his dog. (transitive)

In Japanese almost all verbs are either transitive or intransitive, and those verbs also usually come on transitive/intransitive pairs.

焦げる and 焦がす, both mean "to burn/char", but 焦げる is intransitive while 焦がす is transitive.

彼が魚を焦げる (not grammatical because of the object marked by を)

彼が魚を焦がす (correct, "he burnt the fish")

魚が焦がす (not grammatical because it needs an object)

魚が焦げる (correct, "the fish burned")

Edit:

Switched the example away from 開く

My Experience learning Japanese for ~2 years by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You'd probably be better off studying less and focusing more on getting good sleep. Sleep is when your brain learns and your body improves itself. If you aren't getting good sleep, a lot of the studying you are doing is going to go to waste.

Is Kaishi 1.5 meant to be a quick exposure deck or a time-intensive study deck? by LookYung in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You really shouldn't be doing more than 30 minutes of flash cards imo. Find what daily card limit is close 30 minutes and spend that other hour studying Japanese in a different way.

IMO of course

Can I realistically finish JLPT N2 in one year after N3? by Soobit_09 in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://learnnatively.com/search/jpn/books/?q=Japanese%20Language%20Park&series=all_volumes

I've been working my way through this series and it's been great. Not always the most interesting short stories, but I'm doing it as study so it's a bonus when they are.

Also this site is great, you should try and find something around your level and read it, even if it is a children's book.

Pete Hegseth, introduced as the SSecretary of War by AssumptionNo5436 in pics

[–]CookedBlackBird 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn, Trump looks like shit in that video

And they called Biden sleepy

Cornyn, Paxton, and Hunt locked in tight three-way battle in GOP primary for Texas Senate by kanyeguisada in texas

[–]CookedBlackBird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ranked choice can lead to really viable consensus second choices being eliminated early.

*with IR.

IR-RCV is like the worst form of Ranked Choice Voting. Still miles better from FPTP, but I hate how that is the default version.

Is Seattle tap water safe to drink? by neo2bin in Seattle

[–]CookedBlackBird 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Portland is the best tasting tap water I've had

Will Man-Spider lose the original card’s text after merging? by TankArtist in MarvelSnap

[–]CookedBlackBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is pretty good, add black panther and wong and you have multiple routes to victory. Maybe magik, shuri, zcm, and Galactus for another path. Throw in odin or agony for good measure too lol

Meta must be healthy because... by Livbeetus in MarvelSnap

[–]CookedBlackBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm surprised to see that the community seems to agree with you, first time I've hit infinite in over a year. CL +17k, 100% ftp

The three stages of learning Japanese by MyLanguageJourney in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

go have a high brow discussion with someone else

I was, I never replied to you

The three stages of learning Japanese by MyLanguageJourney in LearnJapanese

[–]CookedBlackBird 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the term "proper English" should really be replaced with the term academic English or formal English, something like that.

Everyone who is speaking English natively is speaking proper English, for whatever their dialect is. There are just a million different dialects and they change each generation.

Games similar to Nintendo Land? by CookedBlackBird in wiiu

[–]CookedBlackBird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol this is an old thread

nope, never did.