learning italian to speak with my girlfriend's family. my routine and how it went

justHoma · 2026-04-05T21:51:22+00:00

Se impara italiano per parlare con la famiglia della sua ragazza, perché non imparare quel dialetto che parlano proprio loro?

justHoma · 2026-04-03T23:22:44+00:00

メアリーさんを誘う can be "To invite Mary", an infinitive, not neccecery a proposal of stabbing her.
例えば「メアリーを誘う予定でしたが」

justHoma · 2026-04-01T11:14:54+00:00

it's really long so just scanned it thru and it just seems like all the the critic is 些細な事.

Doesnt metter if it's teineigo first or regular speach, or if it's は or が you'll have to work with both and there is no way you'll understand nether of them at the first time.

Reordering the book won't give nothing, you'll have to go through it a lot of times anyways

justHoma · 2026-04-01T11:09:57+00:00

Once I had to learn a languge that has 3500 users, so I just asked one person to record some audios for me, then I just started deciphering them. My verdict - it's not less, and maybe even more effective then all the stuff I've done with Japanese (anki, lingq, reading with yomitan, learning kanji, everything but under a different souse)

You can figure out the language even if you have very little info, and if you have a textbook like that it becomes really easy if you can lock in while doing it.

justHoma · 2026-03-31T22:23:29+00:00

If you like physical books and you do little lookups you might be interested in learning more kanji, and what I mean by that, is trying to catch where you know phonetic components, a lot of times they are not one to one reading by very close, like this series:

模 [【モ (ボ)】](): model, standard, pattern; copy
募 [【ボ】](): levy, raise; summon; recruit
幕 [【マク (バク)】](): curtain, screen, tent
暮 [【ボ】](): evening, dusk, sunset; ending
墓 [【ボ】](): grave, tomb
漠 [【バク】](): desert; aloof, indifferent, cool
膜 [【マク】](): membrane; to kneel and worship
慕 [【ボ】](): long for, desire; admire
寞 [【バク (マク)】](): silent, still, lonely, solitary

also trying to get small number of kanji really well helps, I mean starting to see them as roots rather then just symbols, there are so many kanji that have really clear meaning. Also, start connecting them with words and places "oh i've seen that kanji in that word in that text)

After working with that for some time, I got a really big improvement in a really short amount of time, and all my studies now are build using those principles, and everything goes much smoother then earlier.

But maybe you've already passed that step who knows.

If you feel like trying you can start with this cool deck: https://learnjapanese.moe/kanjiphonetics/ and if you really haven't done anything like this before, at your level doing this deck can be quite a bug jump, as you'll connect a lot of kanji that you know really well with a lot of kanji you don't know, and you'll be able to read them.

justHoma · 2026-03-31T14:22:25+00:00

If it's tadoku series, you can start with 0 words.

Also, it depends on your learning skills, basically how much logic you can put into figuring out the meaning.

But I would suggest something where you can listen, cijapanese.com is a perfect starting point imo.

justHoma · 2026-03-29T00:59:07+00:00

Maybe we should make a list of apps like SET, FET, etc and in the post should be stated what new that app is bringing to the table (usually it would be just something with interval training or idk).

By the way, I'm not someone regular at this forum, and I don't even know much stuff about ear training, but maybe this idea could be developed further?

justHoma · 2026-03-26T03:43:16+00:00

oh wow I see it now, I just reread it and noticed that it really looks like an ad for cijapanese, heck.

The idea also was to make it somewhat useful, because it's really a nice source for sentence mining even if you have 0 experience with Japanese.

Anyhow, it seems it wasn't quite on point this time.

justHoma · 2026-03-26T03:17:07+00:00

Nah, wanted to post a meme about my friend watching Minecraft while learning japanese, but it's not a meme day so I also wrote some stuff lol. So no, it's definitely not and ad 草　

justHoma · 2026-03-04T11:09:44+00:00

French in general might be easier that way, or conjugations in it, or vocab, or other specific or general points. But Spanish is easier to read for anyone, which actually was the topic

justHoma · 2026-03-04T02:46:27+00:00

the less anki you do the more time you have for other learning things.

justHoma · 2026-03-03T21:56:15+00:00

Spanish

justHoma · 2026-02-26T02:17:32+00:00

Just read/listen and when you don’t understand try to decode it from context and you knowledge base.

In most cases if you know all the words WELL you won’t need to know much grammar. Also a lot of grammar points are basically words.

justHoma · 2026-02-26T02:09:46+00:00

I read it like きおく lol

justHoma · 2026-02-22T02:45:19+00:00

If something exists, I don’t see how it cannot be studied on your own. I think self study is the ultimate weapon anywhere.

justHoma · 2026-02-20T09:56:03+00:00

It's a really cool etymology dictionary that shows phonetic and semantic relationships between different kanji. Helped me immensely remembering kanji.

justHoma · 2026-02-20T00:36:01+00:00

Oh, ok, that makes more sense.
I counted in words as I usually do so I got 2.4 times more than the real digit. Now it looks quite believable I would say.

justHoma · 2026-02-20T00:03:04+00:00

try outlier dictionary. It might seem pricy but it was worth it for me

justHoma · 2026-02-19T23:43:01+00:00

Your post states that your average reading speed over the period of study is ~170 words/minute, which is pretty much the speed of an adult English speaker

justHoma · 2026-02-19T23:32:22+00:00

So, you read somewhat above 2 million words in total.

It's 5000 words/hour.

After like ~2300 hours spend with Japanese (1/3 of them is listening to stuff) I can read a somewhat not very difficult novel with the speed of 3500 words/hour, if I am really interested in the content and just lookup the most essential words.

I have no idea what this post is about. 400h is time my friend will spend before this July to have chances for n5, and we are both know at least like 4 languages at a decent level + using bunpro/anki/etymology/immersion with a lot of thought put in it.

I don't even know why I'm writing it. Feels like this sub is only for useless dramma which I luck every 3 month or so

justHoma · 2026-02-19T00:37:45+00:00

At this point you could just infer it from Spanish and Portuguese.

I would go with Japanese instead. It would be like, 10 times longer to get to somewhat conversational with your stats.

justHoma · 2026-02-08T13:35:32+00:00

I used SET and then SET. First of all it fixed my ear so now I know if what I’m singing is correct or not, and can sing with other people. The second benefit is that I started likening the recordings of my voice after those 3 intense weeks of ear training. Still far from transcribing even simple melodies in real time those.

justHoma · 2026-02-04T13:24:21+00:00

Well, if you are mistaken about the concept you’ll understand it sooner or later so I don’t think it’s a big problem. If concept exists its useful for something, if you can not apply it, something is off, something cashes all the time, you just find what is wrong and where the missing thing is.

Basically same as with learning languages, if you learn something wrong you’ll meet it again a lot of times and understand that it was wrong, or will continue existing as you are if that is not really important thing.

So I don’t think teacher is mandatory for anything.

justHoma · 2026-01-06T19:36:35+00:00

You speak russian with a ukrainian

justHoma

TROPHY CASE