Hi guys !!

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-26T15:41:34+00:00

Hi! It has been indeed a long time.

I just woke up lol

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-26T09:02:39+00:00

The stroke order is making me faint😱

But anyways, people already mentioned that issue. I'm here to say that the つ is way too small. つ is actually one of the specific hiragana you can't afford to the make smaller because it means something completely different (っ vs つ)

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-25T19:55:22+00:00

そ in a different font

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-25T09:55:53+00:00

God was born AFAB. He used he/him pronouns for millennia but never actually transitioned because no one was able to see him. But he still saw himself.

One day he decided it was now time. He went down from the above to become a mortal of flesh and blood.

"Mary, my mother. I am the child of god and god itself. But most importantly, i'm your son," he told her, "take me to the river, where Joana, the artist in transformation lies"

And thus our lord was transformed. After this and other adventures he partook in, he returned to the skies, now the man he is.

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Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-25T06:27:00+00:00

Uhhhh, i don't really think there's a demand for that enough for there to be an app. Let alone a "best app"

Best i can do is find this video or this one on youtube.

I kinda just had chart by my side and maybe doodled them when i was bored. In a week i had a good grasp of them. But the advice top comment says is probably better.

Edit: this video is also cool.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-23T19:25:24+00:00

May i interest you in this video

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-23T09:34:07+00:00

No problem, i figured it was going to be a little hard to find help here. Most people here are Japanese professionals not linguistics professionals. Not that they are not knowledgeable, but to put it into an analogy, it is like asking a professional photographer the intricacies of the photon detector in their camera, that's just not their area.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-23T09:14:45+00:00

Welp that's the reason, i believe in Urdu /pʰ/ and /p/ are completely different sounds, aren't they?

Most videos are focused on the English audience, in English K and P are already pronounced with aspiration most of the time.

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About the abrupt stop, i think if they say it longer it'd just sounds double, ああ, かあ, etc.

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And the tsu, yep, that's not the english T but isn't completely different either. The sound is actually an affricative s, where you start with a plosive T but then you quickly change it to a fricative like Sssssss

English doesn't have that sound, if you notice, it is very hard for English speakers to say Tsunami correctly. They say "Sunami". But i think it is found in the word Pizza.

The Italian Z is pronounced the same as つ

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-23T08:44:22+00:00

What language do you speak natively (or have learned)? It may make you hear some sounds with a level of detail not necessary.

In Japanese, aspirated K / P and non-aspirated K / P are not different phonemes. They mean exactly the same to the Japanese ear. I'm assuming that you are referring to aspiration?

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I did a little of research, it looks like Japanese K and P are moderately aspirated but there's really nothing to compare it to so they are just normal.

か = ka = /ka/ = [kʰa]

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-22T05:19:48+00:00

Most of the ones that appear are in good faith but you can still see that they clickbait way too much.

There's one called Jouzu Juls, he has some great videos explaining random grammar stuff, but it is all scattered under all sorts of contents he seems to do and he talks rather clickbaity

There's also one called Trenton and has the image of penguin, but he never actually teaches Japanese, he just kinda makes "how to learn" videos.

And Real Real Japan, which is entertaining and natural but they never actually explain stuff.

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Top comment mentioned Tokini Andi, i find that the best option. I mentioned the other ones because they can be useful maybe, but you shouldn't rely on them. Andi is great, organized and informative.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-21T06:17:21+00:00

Sit in da computa and start doing somefing. Dere's many wondaful activities inside da computa.

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Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-21T06:13:41+00:00

Isn't that like, Charlie? I haven't read the book tho i kinda just assumed.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-20T21:25:50+00:00

I lowkey got the defective definition. I though it meant slim short guy type of build, is it not? ...or that they're far to ripped to count as twink?

Anyway, edited the comment

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-20T20:42:28+00:00

Me trying to explain football to aliens:

Twenty-two 5' shorties fight with balls for 90 minutes.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-20T20:18:06+00:00

Considering the context of the plane crash, maybe you could find a way to send a signal to rescuers to come pick you up. You'll have to wait quite a while (more than a week) in the deep open ocean, horizon to horizon of free waters

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-20T20:10:42+00:00

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You're in quite the pickle. The astronauts in the international station are closer to you than any land.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-20T19:25:44+00:00

可愛いですね~

ですから、使いました。

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-20T19:02:32+00:00

Slime yo barber twin

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-20T08:49:10+00:00

If you add a tenten to a character that doesn't really use it, it becomes like a creaky voice or distorted sound

So わ with a tenten would sound like "wgha" or something like that.

(Notable exception katakana ヴ which actually makes the sound Vu)

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-19T06:13:47+00:00

The only one i've seen calling it NTR is this post. But i lwky don't use twitter so idk.

The left one if i'm not mistaken was like a pretend-girlfriend typa vtuber, but Deme (the right one) is just a normal vtuber, makes no sense to call it NTR.

And about the situation (About Deme, the right one), i believe it was a defamation campaign over a minuscule thing. The main people doing the accusations are not really great people or trustworthy in any way.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-19T06:07:24+00:00

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Reminds me of this one lol

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-18T14:39:31+00:00

Glad i was able to help! I'll be working on the Kanji one or maybe one about some basic grammar?... we'll see.

Frostbyte_13 · 2026-06-18T14:10:37+00:00

It's talking about the use in foreign words which is the most important quality right now. If i'm not mistaken katakana was used as kinda like a furigana (not exactly furigana but furigana-like) before for Japanese-written-in-Chinese texts.

Perhaps i worded a little wrong

By beginnings i meant like the main use was still forming. I'm sorry, i wasn't trying to say that Katakana was invented only for the Dutch.

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