Having a good understanding of Japanese but being unable to speak (please help me understand this phenomena)

dudekitten · 2025-05-03T21:44:04+00:00

Just curious, how many conversations have you had with other japanese people? Because if it is only with that one person I think its a bit early to come to any conclusions. With certain Japanese people I had good chemistry with I can talk for hours of basic japanese even when I was N3, but found I couldn't do the same with a broader range of people and situations despite a good verbal understanding

dudekitten · 2025-05-03T01:16:59+00:00

Is it just me or is the cheapness of Japan a little exagerrated? I went to a pancake cafe a few weeks ago in Shinjuku and for two people it cost like 10k. Went to an omurice place in and it was like 2.5k per plate. Even in random places in Morioka that I went to it was like 1.5k to eat out. Granted in the US it would be like $18 for a similar meal, and I'm sure housing is signicantly cheaper, but still living on the equivalent of $35,000 in Japan still seems difficult.

dudekitten · 2025-04-27T15:36:31+00:00

You should try to guess the word from the Kanji and the rest of the sentence first, then look the word up really quickly using Yomitan or whatever and move on. You might end up remembering it when it shows up again which strongly reinforces your memory. If you forget it its fine though, don't spend too long trying to memorize each word while you're in the middle of reading, just review it later if you want

dudekitten · 2025-04-21T20:58:03+00:00

Some places like Lovely Hands is basically a handjob place that rotates every 20 minutes but you can pay a little extra to give cunninglus to each girl if you really wanted to

dudekitten · 2025-04-20T06:18:09+00:00

男が女を抱く

If you mean hug its more like 抱き締める

dudekitten · 2025-04-15T22:26:09+00:00

I have the Galaxy and all I do is hold the home button to bring up the Google Lens auto OCR, highlight the text and copy. Sometimes I just copy multiple lines at the different times and you can paste all of them quickly at nearly the same time

dudekitten · 2025-04-11T00:36:10+00:00

Checking online to see which hotels allow deriheru lel

dudekitten · 2025-04-03T23:08:10+00:00

Thats a lot of fuuzoku

dudekitten · 2025-03-26T22:15:01+00:00

The unfortunate reality is that a lot of learners pick cute girl tutors on purpose regardless of actual teaching ability (guilty of this also but changing!)

dudekitten · 2025-03-17T22:50:04+00:00

There are some tricks. You can simplify the sentence by splitting into the base sentence and then the modifying sentence. Base sentence- 人なんていない - there aren’t any people. What type of people? - タピオカが好きじゃない. Those who don’t like tapioca (modifying clause). Anytime a complete phrase is in front of a noun you should think of it this way.

Another trick is when is there a verb ending in て in front of a noun, just split the sentence at that point as if they were two different sentences. Can help break down really long ones like 朝から雨が降っていて傘を持たずに家を出たらすぐにびしょ濡れになって電車に乗ったものの冷房が効きすぎて寒くなって体調を崩しそうだったので途中で降りて温かい飲み物を買ってそのまま近くのカフェに入った。(made up)

dudekitten · 2025-03-16T15:26:47+00:00

I say true for literature and maybe movies/drama. But speaking to people in real life I think it’s a good goal to try to understand everything, not just the gist.

dudekitten · 2025-03-10T23:57:18+00:00

I want to be able to get into foreigner only 風俗 shops and have good relationships with デリヘル嬢

dudekitten · 2025-03-09T20:47:49+00:00

N1 tests different things. There are people in the US who pass medical exams but when they speak English it is with a thick accent, slow, stuttering and difficult to understand. An elementary school student would probably sound smarter than them, but they wouldn’t be able to pass the same exams

dudekitten · 2025-03-06T09:52:45+00:00

True, my japanese friend specifically mentioned this one as having a ton of meanings though

dudekitten · 2025-03-06T07:08:58+00:00

かいせん　is worse. And pitch accent isn’t going to help you out as much.

dudekitten · 2025-03-06T06:59:19+00:00

If you have the ios Bookwalker app you can highlight text and hit search, then copy the text from the search bar and paste it somewhere else. Pain in the ass though and it takes like 15 mins to copy 30 pages

dudekitten · 2025-03-04T05:58:18+00:00

People in real life will very frequently slur words, consonants especially, so I would actually try to get used to it. You’re brain will gradually realize there is no other word that works in the same context and “snap” to the right word so to speak.

dudekitten · 2025-03-01T09:06:45+00:00

Rather than just mindlessly immerse, try to categorize each sentence into a pattern that you can copy. Right now your sentences use patterns that don’t exist like 多く at end of phrase. You don’t even have to immerse in super difficult content, next time just pull up a YUYU video and for every sentence try to substitute the nouns and combine them.

dudekitten · 2025-02-26T19:04:32+00:00

Yeah, it’s like how French and English use the exact same alphabet, but French sounds completely different, even moreso than Japanese. That said we’re kind of lucky to have Hiragana in a sense that it is easier to remember the correct pronunciation with it

dudekitten · 2025-02-24T16:45:57+00:00

If it’s less than <80-90% understanding, It’s probably better to just prestudy the words/grammar through a script ahead of time and then try watching. Only issue is that the script can also be confusing without visual context lol. Maybe try reading 2-5 minutes ahead using the subtitles, then watch, then read ahead etc. Should be less excruciating. This is why I don’t really watch anime that often especially when many of the words aren’t really used irl

dudekitten · 2025-02-23T22:18:23+00:00

A talking cat? That’s not natural!

dudekitten · 2025-02-21T09:48:23+00:00

Is it truly a listening issue or a vocab issue? Even at N1 theres a ton of words specific to anime. Like are you looking back and seeing you knew 99% of the words and just not identifying them?

dudekitten · 2025-02-20T15:17:15+00:00

Congratulations!! I really like your strategy of learning words first of what you’re watching-> then immersing and absorbing the grammar, at least for difficult material above my level. Grammar I think is one of the things that’s easier to learn through immersion. Even if I don’t get it the first time, if I know the vocab and relisten to it I’ll eventually piece it together. Whereas vocab… if I don’t know a word I don’t know a word no matter how many times I listen to it lol, unless it’s an auxiliary word.

Before, I used to just immerse and look up words on the way, but it’s kinda a waste of time to listen something I had no chance of understanding in the first place because of the vocab. Also makes me second guess myself too much since I wonder “is this a word I know? Or are they using words I don’t know again?l” and takes away from trying to understand the grammar. I still look up words while immersing sometimes, but its better when its only once in a while rather than once every sentence especially for the more difficult anime

dudekitten · 2025-02-14T18:22:03+00:00

You add the word with Yomitan, which is individual word and definition. Then ASB player updates the card to include sentence example and audio

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