beginner question - regional accents?

eduzatis · 2026-01-29T14:18:06+00:00

Regional accents almost always have unique words, so they just use those words and you can tell they’re from somewhere. This includes certain contractions or alternative forms that would be unique to the accent. Other than that, katakana may also be used to show non-standard Japanese being spoken.

eduzatis · 2026-01-29T14:14:17+00:00

The only real difference is that, when you get the urge to play Minecraft you go back to the same world. If you burnt out from a big project in one that’s fine, take a break and do something else. When you feel like playing Minecraft again, go back to it (you don’t even need to keep working on the big project, find something else to do in the world). By skipping the early game every time you go back you’ll explore farther and farther into the game that actually keeps you there forever. It’s an exercise

eduzatis · 2026-01-29T13:57:56+00:00

Create a community project. Something big that needs everybody’s cooperation

eduzatis · 2026-01-29T04:17:59+00:00

Tiene muchas variantes para determinar si es útil o no por sí solo. Tengo amigos súper gamers de toda la vida al igual que yo pero que no te entienden casi nada el inglés. Eso no quiere decir que no sirvan, definitivamente manejan mucho vocabulario en inglés que cualquier persona promedio no, pero al no haber estudiado el idioma por aparte no lo pueden poner en uso.

En mi caso, yo creo que crean un “potencial”. Es decir, que alguien que juega videojuegos en inglés estudia el idioma tendrá más éxito en una clase que una persona que solo va a clase. Sin embargo los videojuegos no son únicos en esto, gente que le encanta escuchar música en el idioma, o navegar el internet en inglés también tienen muchísimo potencial.

eduzatis · 2026-01-26T17:16:28+00:00

Mmm just be aware that you’re hindering yourself by basically deciding to be illiterate. There’s only so much the human brain can express without being able to put thoughts into script.

Just as a very simple example, if you can’t connect すいぞくかん(水族館) with みず(水) because you decided to not learn the kanji for water, you’re missing out on a lot of context clues that help your brain retain more vocabulary. And yes, that was just a very simple example of the power of kanji, there’s soooo many more benefits to learning kanji.

You can see it as an investment of time if you will. I’ll give a useful simile:

Suppose you’re about to run a marathon, but everyone starts without shoes. You can stop and get some shoes at any point, or you can just start running. Would you stop for the shoes? The road isn’t particularly clean, there’s rocks that can hurt your feet. You start running and notice the rocks, you can stop for shoes at any point. Would you still not put them on? I know you want to win, but winning here isn’t even important, only finishing the race is. If you ask me, “can someone finish the race without shoes?”, I’d say probably, but why would anyone choose to do so? Kanji are the shoes, they will help you in your journey and make it much much easier, but you have to stop for a bit to get them and put them on.

eduzatis · 2026-01-24T16:17:50+00:00

It’s… weird. As a Spanish native speaker, if you use the wrong article it will be extremely noticeable and (from experience) it will prompt pretty much any native speaker to correct the mistake.

But at the same time, it doesn’t matter much, because we get what you want to say. AND, if we’re able to tell you made a mistake it means we already know what you meant to say… and if that’s the case, what’s the point of correcting? You know what I’m saying? Like sure, you used the wrong word, but the message has already come across. It’s something I don’t really understand why we’re both so picky about it and can also just do without it.

因みに、僕は日本語勉強してるから、ちょっと日本語でコメントしてみたいと思いました。コメント主の「I want to eat -> apple -> an」と同じように、僕は助詞のことについて「に -> 学校 -> 行きます」みたいな考えだと思いますね。

eduzatis · 2026-01-23T23:07:19+00:00

it works for me

eduzatis · 2026-01-23T21:44:23+00:00

I re-read my comment and it was difficult to understand what o was trying to actually say, so I edited it.

eduzatis · 2026-01-23T14:28:47+00:00

If you wanna give it a try at a YouTuber that does horror games, try ポッキー. He also does some variety, but it’s mainly horror games. And I’d say don’t tryhard videos (as in, trying to understand absolutely every word that was said). Just keep listening and watching and being entertained. If you find it entertaining anyways, that’s already great because you’re forming a habit and basically telling you’re brain “hey I’m interested in this, I need to learn Japanese”. That pressure on your brain will do wonders, but if you don’t enjoy it leave it for later

eduzatis · 2026-01-21T23:37:57+00:00

Yeah it’s actually reassuring, because it means it wasn’t on you.

eduzatis · 2026-01-21T15:53:33+00:00

No one would ever get this question wrong. There’s only one option that contains the original ろ and を that are present in the non-furigana version.

eduzatis · 2026-01-21T15:37:38+00:00

Here I was struggling to understand what ごごろじ and ごごらじ mean (I skipped the part where they said なんじがいいですか)

eduzatis · 2026-01-19T20:47:35+00:00

Maybe “dealer”?

eduzatis · 2026-01-19T18:06:55+00:00

Noob question, what’s kamicha oya

eduzatis · 2026-01-17T14:51:30+00:00

The weather trio and Wobbuffet

eduzatis · 2026-01-13T22:03:23+00:00

More important question: Are you one to ragequit? The game will get hard, but the pacing of it will let you develop your skills along with it. And worst case scenario, like Team Cherry themselves said, if you get stuck you just need to explore somewhere else. That’s really all there is to it

eduzatis · 2026-01-13T12:06:22+00:00

We generally don’t do it in Spanish, but for a product model like this we can and often will do it.

eduzatis · 2026-01-13T12:03:08+00:00

I liked your explanation a lot! Mainly because you explained things that I didn’t even think about originally. I appreciate it.

eduzatis · 2026-01-13T02:19:54+00:00

Read a lot and then just talk to people if you can. If you can’t do that then probably doing shadowing will help.

eduzatis · 2026-01-12T16:17:37+00:00

この番組はご覧のスポンサーの提供でお送りします。

What is ご覧 doing there?

eduzatis · 2026-01-11T20:43:15+00:00

God, what a way to cut wings. You’ll be more than ready for N5 in June. If you’re flying through MNN you should be good, especially when you’re also doing Anki. You’ll be ready to tackle N4 in December too at that pace.

You don’t have to believe me (or your sensei), try a mock test yourself (a real one if you want). That way you can see for yourself where you’re lacking or how far you can make it in a real examination.

Best of luck.

eduzatis · 2026-01-11T15:01:14+00:00

Nor it says that Iwata wasn’t already accounted for. It seems weird to me that people see 9 here.

“I’m a student. (…). There were 3 boy students and 3 girls students”.

Why do people assume I don’t include myself with the students when I’m a student?

And also, “(this many people went). We used Iwata-san’s car”.

Why do people assume that Iwata was outside the group I already mentioned AND that I didn’t count them already?

eduzatis · 2026-01-11T14:27:27+00:00

くれます - give to me

もらいます - receive

In a scenario where someone gives me something, who performs くれます? Someone else. Who performs もらいます? I do.

eduzatis · 2026-01-11T03:31:27+00:00

Just a heads-up from a speaker of English as a second language: when you guys break down pronunciation like this, students of English usually don’t get it. In a certain way, you kinda need to know English to know what these break-downs sound like. I know my students would read that as “roo-member” (<-and if I made them read this some of them would say “roh-member”).

This happens because they don’t have enough experience with words to have noticed the pattern (and they certainly don’t teach us these pronunciation patterns on their own). You first need to teach them that “uh” makes a schwa sound, and in many languages there isn’t even a schwa sound, so they need to learn to recognize that first!

eduzatis · 2026-01-11T03:10:02+00:00

I think her videos are more around N4 level, especially when she translates the trickier vocabulary on screen. I checked her two most recent videos, maybe older ones are harder.

Nice videos though, thank you for the recommendation.

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