FlockOfCats, 22 days ago to random

Let’s see what’s trending on the pronunciation dictionary Forvo

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haruka, 24 days ago to random

I have a hard time understanding speech not because I have bad hearing, but my mind is slow to comprehend what I heard. I need subtitles because my mind processes text better than speech.

Isn’t it also weird that I also need to hear myself speaking to remember what I said?

FlockOfCats, 25 days ago to Japan

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haruka, 1 month ago to random

If Tokyo has less rails, more roads of at least 6 lanes, more tall buildings and less of the small ones, less up to date with interior architecture, it would look like…

Wait, isn’t that basically what Nagoya is?

haruka, 1 month ago to random

There are surprising amount of commonly used kanji that are not on the 常用漢字 (standard kanji) list.

Some examples include: 萌, 鷹, 飴, 喋, 絆, 嘘

haruka, 2 months ago to random

【和英訳】
※画像はイメージです

❌ Image is image
⭕️ Image is for illustration purposes

haruka, 2 months ago to random Japanese

:famichiki: 10円値上げ

😞

haruka, 2 months ago to random

The dreaded thought of going back into the working world…

haruka, 2 months ago to random

I wonder how anyone would know about the Famichiki discord server? :bongo_cat:

haruka, 2 months ago to random

Narita Airport being quite far from the centre of Tokyo appears to be an anomaly among most airports of major cities around the world. Price per km is also amongst the highest, relative to cost of living in Japan.

Combine that with visitors that don’t do their research, with Americans defaulting to taxis due to the US generally having terrible public transport, you get this…

(Post from: https://x.com/esherifftv/status/1777127480471757307)

FlockOfCats, 2 months ago to random

I don’t know why this is, but young people are dumb, old people are dumb, and for some reason, only people my years old get things right 🤔

haruka, 2 months ago to random

The Yakumo limited express train connecting Okayama to cities in the Chuugoku region facing the Sea of Japan.

It uses the very old 381 series, running since 1982 during the Japanese National Railway era.

JR West seems to like having all of their old trains in this region, as even the local trains in that runs on the route are old too.

haruka, 2 months ago to random

Testing this recent iOS feature of picking a subject in an image
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haruka, 3 months ago to random

Yesterday marked 13 years since the Great Tohoku Earthquake.

I went to Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture last month to see the scale of damage.

Even though it was 13 years on, it's still very apparent from the vegetation and infrastructure to mark the affected area, and it is huge.

The area is dotted with photos showing what the place you are at before the tsunami.

haruka, 3 months ago to random

Looks like there’s meaning behind the katakana used as serial numbers seen at the side of JR trains.

ク – has a driving cab
モ – has motor attached
ネ – sleeping car (ie. Sunrise Seto/Izumo)
イ – first class (idk, trains like Train Suite Shikishima?)
ロ – second class (green car)
ハ – third class (regular car)

The last three makes sense if you think of kana arranged in the Iroha order.

Two katakana are commonly used, but using 4 is also possible.

haruka, 3 months ago to random

Leap years happen every 4 years, but not if the year is dividable by 100, unless the year is also dividable by 400.

That meant the years 1900 and 2100 are not leap years as they can be divided by 100, but 2000 was a leap year because it can be divided by 400.

FlockOfCats, 3 months ago to random

Around the turn of the century, when Napster came onto the scene….

haruka, 3 months ago to random

Oh, the Haruka express would bring me to Tenouji (southern Osaka city) without me needing to get off at Umeda and through the crowded subway.

haruka, 3 months ago to random

Oh yeah. The cat back home kept driving me nuts with behaviour I don’t understand.

Meowing loudly at 4am? Nudging me to do something only to ignore when I gave it what I thought it wanted?