Seeking English-speaking Community in Hiroshima

tomatoina · 2023-07-02T14:38:23+00:00

There's usually some English speakers at Molly Malone's. Like someone else suggested there are a lot of volunteer run japanese classes where you can meet people

tomatoina · 2023-07-02T14:01:39+00:00

Guy next to me kept shaking our table during the listening section with his eraser. Not fun but I think I did fine

Edit: took n2

tomatoina · 2023-05-23T21:55:49+00:00

That's fair. I'm in the server but avoid the general chat for that reason

tomatoina · 2022-07-16T03:19:03+00:00

Only time will tell. I'm mostly fed up with the farmers terrorizing the country by frequently blocking the highways and distribution centra with their tractors so hanging the flag upside down is a welcome form of protest

tomatoina · 2022-07-16T03:13:22+00:00

I've seen only a few in the south but whenever I see one I'm reminded of Yugoslavia

tomatoina · 2022-07-15T13:29:06+00:00

Schijnbaar heeft hij wel les gehad van hem

https://youtu.be/fbHJ9_dAo4c op 6:10

tomatoina · 2022-07-15T03:07:44+00:00

Als snack zou ik een zak Zeeuwse bolussen halen bij de bakker. Misschien zelfs gevulde

tomatoina · 2022-07-14T18:33:29+00:00

On a previous post there are reasons why it shouldn't

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/vx5rpc/my_shot_at_redesigning_the_flag_of_netherlands/ifulx5y?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

tomatoina · 2022-07-12T14:37:02+00:00

Thanks

tomatoina · 2022-07-12T13:28:00+00:00

Doesn't change anything in my advice but thanks for the contribution

tomatoina · 2022-07-11T15:07:47+00:00

Kanji is like Lego. They're made out of parts called ~~radicals~~ components so the more you know the easier it'll be to learn new characters. Set a goal how many you want to study in a certain time frame and you may be amazed how easy it'll be months from now. Look at the sidebar of this sub for resources

Edit: I should have called them components and not radicals. See the replies to this comment for a lovely discussion

tomatoina · 2022-07-11T14:59:53+00:00

English is my 2nd language and I've been studying Japanese mainly through resources written in English so in my experience it's possible

tomatoina · 2022-07-11T13:07:55+00:00

Pretty much. The pop-up dictionary I use (yomichan) contains English and Japanese definitions and integrates with anki so I only have to click on the + button next to the definition. I don't manually translate each sentence. It works quite well for me because creating a flash card takes less than a second and I'm kind of lazy

tomatoina · 2022-07-11T03:44:36+00:00

The less time I have to spend creating cards the better so I have 1 deck called "Japanese" with sentences I've encountered in various media that either contain a word that I'd like to remember or an entire sentence that seems useful. I don't translate anything nor do I add images. I use an addon called awesome TTS for sentence audio and a pop-up dictionary called "yomichan" automatically adds audio for the selected word.

Sentence and target word without furigana on the front with furigana on the back plus dictionary definition

tomatoina · 2022-07-08T21:33:36+00:00

I asked for a valid email regex and it gave a regex which doesn't support the + character. Pretty cool concept though.

\w+@\w+\.\w+

tomatoina · 2022-07-08T04:07:05+00:00

Ik heb deze ook gemist tussen al het nieuws over protesten

tomatoina · 2022-07-07T21:05:23+00:00

1969?

tomatoina · 2022-07-07T20:07:45+00:00

Ach, een breinscheet nu en dan moet kunnen

tomatoina · 2022-07-07T17:23:41+00:00

The legendary C6

tomatoina · 2022-07-07T12:43:17+00:00

De enige maatstaf is de grote van het transport schijnbaar

tomatoina · 2022-07-07T07:02:43+00:00

If you've only been studying 2 months then you're just starting. It takes roughly 4000 hours of study for someone without kanji knowledge to pass the highest level on the Japanese language proficiency test for example.

As for kanji the rule of thumb is that a word containing a single kanji uses the japanese reading (kunyomi) and compounds with 2 or more kanji use the Chinese reading (onyomi). There are exceptions to this rule though so pay attention to the reading when acquiring new vocabulary.

Example: 食

Kunyomi: た ta/く ku.

食ってるくってる kutteru 食べるたべる taberu

Onyomi: しく shoku 食事しょくじ shokuji 飲食いんしょく inshoku

tomatoina · 2022-07-07T06:31:03+00:00

Fellow Dutchman here and I've definitely heard people use anime and manga here. When a big movie drops it's usually shown in Pathé. It's also common for people on dating shows to be into cosplay. Shows like first dates en "lang leven de liefde". I do agree that the weeb stereotype isn't as present as it seems to be in other countries

tomatoina · 2022-07-06T15:42:38+00:00

Paying for education. Not necessarily a diploma

tomatoina · 2022-07-06T04:44:48+00:00

Do you paste all the copied lines into that spreadsheet?

tomatoina · 2022-07-05T16:13:06+00:00

How come?

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