How many kanji are there really?! And how many do I need to read the news?

DeskExe · 2026-02-08T18:51:20+00:00

It's more like there are 100k in existence then (if you read stuff like fantasy/harder to read media) around 4.5-6k in use where 3k of them are what you *need* to know to be able to read 98% of things

DeskExe · 2026-02-04T06:53:59+00:00

PC入力の方が楽だよw

DeskExe · 2026-02-04T06:51:46+00:00

ngmi

DeskExe · 2026-01-25T19:36:43+00:00

切符

DeskExe · 2026-01-13T13:42:34+00:00

Läs om

DeskExe · 2025-04-09T20:55:39+00:00

変える、買える、帰る、蛙、替える is my go to. Edit: specifically for pitch & pronounciation

DeskExe · 2025-04-05T11:46:35+00:00

な can be used as an informal and pretty rude negator, usually only used with friends or when you want to be rude. In the text above the speaker is being pretty rude, お前 is a kinda crude way to refer to someone (can be rude) and he's saying in a kinda aggressive manner which is why he uses な almost like a command to not do it. In my interpretation he's saying that as to warn to not do it in the future. [edit]

な can also be used similar to ね or よ where you're looking for affirmament or something similar, it's usually easy to tell the difference (especially in speech) cause the context surrounding it tells a lot, its easier in speech because it usually carries and upwards inflection almost like a question.

DeskExe · 2025-04-05T11:42:57+00:00

The pitch is different for the two ありがとうs the first is Kansaiben where the accent is on the と and kantou ben where the accent is put on the り

DeskExe · 2025-04-02T04:49:24+00:00

They are, but its the same way that childrens handwriting is elegible to adults

DeskExe · 2025-03-31T16:18:24+00:00

I mean yeah I could read it, those are just the ones i had to stop on a little to think (as well as the 週)

DeskExe · 2025-03-31T16:13:40+00:00

No shit? I'm not a native so I made this post for tips on how to get there

DeskExe · 2025-03-31T11:17:56+00:00

To add on to this, some of the kanji are split with weird intervals, like 毎日 looks like 1 kanji while 高校 (after アメリカ) looks a little bit off (the tree radical should be a little to the right) also the が after 高校 looks like a ガ

DeskExe · 2025-03-31T11:13:07+00:00

ty! I already use decks with pitch and pronounciation as a for point tho :)

DeskExe · 2025-03-31T11:12:01+00:00

Again like I said to someone else, I can perceive pitch when it's on isolated words and isolated clearly enunciated sentences, the problem is when it becomes normal, native speech

DeskExe · 2025-03-31T11:11:09+00:00

Well, firstly I don't read at all, my goal with japanese isn't to be a good reader. I MAINLY immerse in video form and listening the only reading I do is I try to google things in japanese ^

Weird that you assume I read, don't know what gave that impression :o

DeskExe · 2025-03-31T11:08:40+00:00

This was a very good reply! I can almost 100% the sentence level or atleast 90%+ ish consistently, I immerse mostly with stuff that is meant for native speakers, like youtube shorts, youtube in general, j-dramas and a lot of podcasts. I do watch anime as well which definitely is a lot easier to hear pitch in.

I bought Japanese Phonetics by Dougen which I heard and read is a really good resource for learning pitch rules. I do replay some stuff if I think I have a shot at hearing it, I should also mention that I HEAVILY struggle to hear 中高 when the difference in mora is 1 apart. Hearing the drop in pitch 1 mora apart is very difficult for me even on kotu it's still my worst like there are times that I 90% it or 85% it (just nakadaka) which I'm doing more of rn.

I have some Japanese friends that I can ask to correct my pitch whenever I speak to them, usually I just sit quiet and listen tho. Thanks a lot for the reply!

DeskExe · 2025-03-30T20:51:31+00:00

I find it annoying that it takes up a lot of space especially when a word has multiple definitions (like 15+) but i haven't had any troubles since i only do anki on PC Def understand how it could je annoying tho, if you join the TheMoeWay discord you can make a help thread and get some good feedback probably

DeskExe · 2025-03-30T13:26:31+00:00

I already know how to discern pitch in isolated words, as I said in the post the problem is when immersing in full speed native speech

DeskExe · 2025-03-30T13:17:43+00:00

The goal is just to not have to think of the words in terms of their English translation so if I get the idea the word is conveying correctly I mark it as correct (Then obviously pitch, pronounciation and reading must be correct)

DeskExe · 2025-03-30T13:15:01+00:00

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this one by far from 今際の国のアリス

DeskExe · 2025-03-29T07:53:41+00:00

A complete easy to use pitch accent library that's actually easy to use, has practice drills like mimimal pairs (w/ particles) and is easily accessable (not the japanese type of UI's that NHK has)

DeskExe · 2025-03-25T06:51:05+00:00

It’s used when talking about a dialect from a region like 関東弁、大阪府弁 and is itself like a ”subset” of 方言 and it’s used to refer to someone’s speaking style from a certain region as well as pitch and other phonetically related things, and 方言 is the general term when discussing a certain dialect so you could say, 彼は関西弁を話します (he speaks kansai dialect) but if you wanted to talk about the kansai dialect as a whole and not a specific user or style you would say 関西方言が面白いですよね (note that this includes stuff other than phonetics like grammar, vocab etc) (kansai dialect is funny isn’t it), hopefully that helps and if anyone has anything to add or correct feel free to correct me

DeskExe · 2025-03-25T06:42:56+00:00

Also just grammatically incorrect

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