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כשאני שוכח מילה תמיד יש לי שיר שיש לו המילה שרציתי אותה. אני רק צריך לחשוב עליו ואז הוא נותן לי את המילה!

אני אוהב להקשיב למוזיקה בעברית ואז יש לי הרבה שירים ללמוד מהם מילים!

אתמול שכחתי את המילה מבין אבל רק הייתי צריך לחשוב על השיר העברית החדשה!

שפה קשה

העברית החדשה

אני לא מבין את המבטא

וחשבתי: אה אני זוכר! דבר אליי עברית בבקשה חחח

ואם אני שוכח את המילה מחפש, יש לי הרבה שירים שאומרים מחפש את התשובה.

לפעמים כשאני לומד מילה חדשה אני יודע מיד לאיזה שיר יש את המילה הזאת... לפעמים זה לא בדיוק נכון. שמעתי גם אצליח וחשבתי שזה היה גם מצליח ואז חשבתי שזאת המילה שלמדתי. אבל לא למדתי אותה. עכשיו אני יודע שהיא אותו הפועל אבל הן לא אותה מילה... אני לא יודע על מה אני מדבר. אני באמת צריך לישון.

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יש בדואו הרבה פעלים של פיעל. יותר מארבעים וחמש פעלים! אבל למרות כל הפעלים שהוא כן מלמד הוא לא מלמד "מלמד" ואני שונא אותו. הוא אפילו מלמד "מגלה" וזה נכון אני כן מגלה את הפעלים החשובים כי הוא לא מלמד אותם!!!

אני שונא את דואו.

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‮שלום! קוראים לי מס ואני לומד עברית מדואו הינשוף. ארבע מאות וארבעים ימים עכשיו! אבל הוא לא מספיק כי באמת הוא לא רוצה שאני לומד, הוא רוצה שאני לא עוזב. אז, אני פה ללמוד יותר טוב! וגם אני צופה באווטאר בעברית ואני חושב שזה עוזר לי גם. אבל אין לי כתוביות. אני לא תמיד יודע מה הם אומרים, אבל זה בסדר. אני לא תמיד יודע מה אני אומר גם.

לילה טוב!

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Bringing this back to challenge myself to coherently speak Hebrew, after this post English will be forbidden on this blog. toki pona is allowed if needed or if I just feel like speaking it instead. Time to be understood by very few people!

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op I have several questions about your Japanese but most importantly why are you not using the honorific お when speaking to a stranger???? like お名前は何ですか is literally what every Japanese course I’ve taken has made me memorize exactly? To the point that I immediately heard something was off when you said it??

I feel like I’m missing a joke here but I don’t know any other languages

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おはよう！寝なかった！:( Morning! I didn't sleep! :(

Anyway, now that that's dealt with, time to move my Japanese rambling Discord statuses to this tumblr instead :P

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ここにマースエンダー歯がいません。誰ですか？ There is no Maws Enderteeth here. Who is that?

Anyway, now that that's dealt with, time to move my Japanese rambling Discord statuses to this tumblr instead :P

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Anyway, now that that's dealt with, time to move my Japanese rambling Discord statuses to this tumblr instead :P

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Ew, I still haven't changed the name of this one? My name is Maws! Y'know, a name not derived from anything to my knowledge antisemitic.

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The online Japanese course that no one talks about

Okay so I’m not a langblr and I never plan to be. However. What I do know from following a ton of them is that no one talks about Minato.

Now you may be thinking, ‘What’s Minato?’. It’s a website that was recommended to me by a Japanese Studies university professor for learning Japanse at home.

It’s literally the best resource out there and it’s free (funded by the Japanese government). You can choose between self-study and tutor support-led courses.

There are courses in Hiragana, Katakana, and the general language (from levels A1 to A2), and you can download a certificate and study record after completion of a course.

Here’s the link. Or if you want to type it: https://minato-jf.jp

Go. Learn some actual Japanese.

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Latin is now available my dudes!!!

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This post is 6 years old, and Duolingo now offers a Japanese course. It’s free and fun practice, but unless you’re constantly reading the comments, it doesn’t explain nearly enough to be used on its own!

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar

A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar

Read Real Japanese Fiction

GENKI: Integrated Elementary Japanese I and II [beginners]

An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese

Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow

Tobira (Gateway to advanced Japanese)

TextFugu [an online textbook]

Heisig’s Remembering Kanji

Basic Kanji Book Vol.1

Kanji in Context

Shadowing: Let’s Speak Japanese! (Beginner to Intermediate Level)

Japanese The Manga Way

Making Out in Japanese [for informal/vulgar language]

Minimum Essential Politeness: Japanese Honorific

Online and Phone Dictionaries:

ALC (I use this everyday) →Expression encyclopaedia

Goo dictionary

Weblio

WWWJDIC (with audio clips) + for Android phones (incl. handwriting)

JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)

JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)

Idiomatic Expressions

Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]

Counters dictionary

Hovering dictionaries:  →Rikaikun for Chrome →Rikaichan for Firefox →Floating Dictionary for Mac

Current Affairs dictionary

Tangorin

Imiwa? (a dictionary for the iPhone)

Tagaini Jisho (downloadable for Windows, Mac and Linux)

Nihongodict (also an app. for iPhone and Android phones)

For kanji.

Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)

Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)

A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters

Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)

Handwritten kanji search

WaniKani (reviewed and explained here)

Online reading:

Hukumusume Fairytales

竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)

吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)

Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT

TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)

Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]

Blue Sky Library (public domain books, explained here)

Manga.

Free online manga

Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)

Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

Japanese pronunciation guide

Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table

Topics for Language Exchanges.

Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)

Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)

My Language Exchange [to find a language partner]

Japanese Kana (Chrome app)

Listening:

“Real World” Japanese

My Kikitori

Reading & Writing practice:

Lang-8

Japan-Guide [for getting Japanese penpals]

Read, Write, Learn: Macaronics

原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)

Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

iTalki [similar to Lang-8]

手書きブログ (Blogging by hand)

ChatPad (Japanese chatroom site)

Real Kana practice

News:

NewsWeb Easy

NHK News (audio news with speed controls)

Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts and radio:

JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)

TBS Radio’s Junk

TOKYO FM

CSRA fm(+ App for Android)

JIN Radio (bilingual)

Radio dramas

Medicine in Times of Tears

My Home, My Life

The Infirmary for 17-year-olds

YouTube:

Afternoon Hirusagari

Jet Daisuke

バイリンガール英会話

Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Real Japanese Studio

Japancast

Tofugu

Japanese Let’s Play gamers

サイエンスチャネル

TheWannabeBC

Gaijin Goombah

Genki Lessons

Japanese sign language.

Heartful Power Hideo

Shuwa Island

TV:

Japanese subtitles for anime

KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)

風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)

映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

Kanji-a-Day

Holy crap Japanese

Nihongo ga Suki

Jumpstart Japanese

Nihongolog

Japanese Idioms

Nadine Nihongo

That Japan Addict

ChilliMuffin

Japanese through Fandom

F-Yeah Native Japanese

J-Vocab of the Day

ぶらりめし [Japanese only]

Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]

Kumako365jp

Japanese Revision (my blog for intermediates)

Those who are studying in Japan

My Japan Travels (Yokohama National University)

Mechakuchajan (Osaka University)

Hola-Itza (Meiji Gakuin)

The Disaster Chronicles (Toyo University) [wordpress]

Welcome to Moonside (University of Kitakyushu)

2012 - 2013 exchange students

Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)

Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)

Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)

Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)

Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)

Yeonhwa Japan (Chuo University)

Mago Mago (Ritsumeikan University)

Marta in Japan (Waseda University)

Working as part of the JET Programme

A Girl in Japan

Ramandab in Sapporo-shi

Ikemasu

Boukendan desu

Blogging:

Yaplog

Ameba

Learning websites:

JapaneseClass.jp

The Japanese Page

JapanesePod101

Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese

Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)

Maggie Sensei

Tofugu

All Japanese All The Time

Japanese Level Up

Learning Japanese with Lingualift

JPLang

Yes Japan!

Marugoto: Japanese Language & Culture

Other resources:

Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning

JLPT Resources

Top 100 learning resources via Lingualift

Anki (flashcards for your computer, phone and online) →Yomichan (plug-in for Anki)

Common things said by cashiers

Quizlet (flashcards)

DJT and Okra’s pastebins (lots of resources and textbooks for download, etc)

Japanese.Livejournal (including tips on using IME)

Human Japanese (for PC and phones, excl. Linux)

Study Groups

Help with Japanese via StackExchange

I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

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I really wish I had a Japanese speaking friend I could ask some questions because reading linguistic articles on Wikipedia is so hard to navigate, especially when I don’t know half of the grammatical terms, and trying to decipher Google translate is difficult since there is no explanation at all and I can’t even be sure it’s correct.

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猫と勉強します！かのじょも学生です！

I study with a cat! She is also a student!

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Insects in Japanese

昆虫 [こんちゅう] - insect 虫 [むし] - bug 蜘蛛 [くも] - spider 蟻 [あり] - ant 白蟻 [しろあり] - termite 蝿 [はえ] - fly 蛆 [うじ] - maggot 蛍 [ほたる] - firefly 天道虫 [てんとうむし] - ladybug 蝶々 [ちょうちょう] - butterfly 毛虫 (hairy)、芋虫 (hairless)  [けむし、い���むし ] - caterpillar 蛾 [が] - moth 飛蝗 (green)、蝗 (brown) [ば���た、いなご] - grasshopper 甲虫 [こうちゅう] - beetle 兜虫 [かぶとむし] - Japanese rhinoceros beetle 蝉 [せみ] - cicada 蜻蛉 [とんぼ] - dragonfly 蜚蠊 [ごきぶり]  - cockroach 蚊 [か] - mosquito 蜂 [はち] - bee, wasp 虻 [あぶ] - horsefly 蚤 [のみ] - flea 壁蝨 [だに] - tick, mite 油虫 [あぶらむし] - aphid 蜈蚣 [むかで] - centipede 蝸牛 [かたつ��り] - snail 蚯蚓 [みみず] - worm 

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Oops I forgot to speak English

"What will I eat?!!!!!"

何を食べますか！！！！！

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何を食べますか！！！！！