japaneselanguage

"〇〇だったば、...." is this legitimate?

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/11661821...

My mom has this souvenir from Japan and doesnt remember which side is up... 🤦 (discuss.tchncs.de)

A mistake I once made: instead of お城（おしろ）I said お尻（おしり）

In the car on the way to a castle (お城) with my host family’s kids, no less. They thought it was hilarious that I was excited to see the お尻 (butt)....

999命士

救急救命士（きゅうきゅうきゅうめいし / paramedic） is one of my favorite Japanese words because it has きゅう three times in a row....

I just had a conversation with two Russian people in Japanese.

I met two Russian people who were running a booth at a festival. One greeted me and tried to converse with me in English, but it soon became apparent that that wouldn’t get us very far. So, we switched to Japanese, and made small talk for a few minutes before I made my purchase....

The "dragon-eared" people: 聾者

聾者（ろうしゃ） looks like 龍（たつ・りゅう / dragon）＋耳（みみ / ear）then 者（しゃ/person）...

凸凹 and 凹凸

I love the visual aspect. They areでこぼこ and おうとつ and mean bumpiness....

吉 is pronounced き↑ち↓ but 不吉 is ふ↑きつ

吉（き↑ち↓）= Lucky (especially from a fortune)...

practice... (lemmy.world)

many mistakes were made

日本語の週刊練習スレッドしようか

こんにちは皆さん！久しぶりですね。このコミュニティが結構静かで少し復活しようと思っていました。...

New revolutionary open source Japanese input method. (www.youtube.com)

Where to chat with natives?

Where should I go to chat with natives?

Use yourei.jp for better example sentences (yourei.jp)

When I encounter a new vocabulary word, it is often useful to see how that word is used in other contexts. Previously, I would use Jisho.org and do a sentence search for the word, but they really only have sentences from tatoeba.org, which are not always the most natural, and sometimes, there just aren’t very many. I’ve...

Cool clock widget that I found (f-droid.org)

Sharing a small win

I’ve been semi-casually studying Japanese for around 5 years. I currently live in Japan, but since I already have a remote job for an English-speaking software company, I’ve never had an interest in getting a job for a Japanese company, and having a good level of Japanese was really only ever a matter of convenience and...

Contraction: していて becomes してて?

I watched a TV show with Japanese subtitles, and noticed the sentence: “秘密にしててほんとごめん。”...

Understanding manzai and the ボケとツッコミ dynamic is key for Japanese (tvtropes.org)

One trope you’ll see repeated all over anime, manga, novels and even in real life is that of the ボケ (the idiot) and ツッコミ (straight man). Once you know a bit more about its dynamics and some of the more famous 芸人 duos, you start seeing it everywhere....

Oyakodon and its sibling dishes (discuss.tchncs.de)

There’s a dish in Japan called 親子丼（おやこどん） which is a chicken + eggs rice bowl. 親子（おやこ） can be translated as parent and child, which was a bit disturbing the first time I knew about it....