>>2981 Learning is suffering

>>2984 I gave up on this after doing it for a few months. I will be hurting myself again soon though as I really want to be able to read moonrunes for vidya. Hopefully attempt 2 has more staying power.

>>3063 Why I've found to be a decent motivator is placing a solid goal on what I want to do with a time limit to accomplish it. For example, one of my goals for learning Japanese this year is to pass the N3 test that will be held in December.

>>3064 n tests are memes

>>3065 How so? >>3064 >set clear goals Yeah I'll give it a go. Might keep me focused instead of getting a bit of everything all at once and burning out.

I need some advise on how to better myself with my Japanese studies. The two big things that I have been doing consistently is going through the Tae Kim grammar guide and memorizing the vocab from it, and watching some of his videos which cover much of the same content of the grammar guide. However, I'm always looking for more of what I can do to improve myself. <I stumbled across his video mentioning "how" to learn Japanese, and one of the things that he mentioned was becoming immersed in Japanese media. I already watch anime with the original JP dub and English subs, however I'm wondering if this is causing any hindrance in my learning abilities. Also, I do have some vidya from Japan (That is listed below), however I was wondering if there is a special way that I should play these to help me, or which titles would better help my studies over others: >Aero Dancing featuring Blue Impulse (DC) >Animal Crossing (N64) >Bomberman (NEs) >Bomberman 2 (NES) >Bujingai (PS2) >Castlevania (NES) >Comic Fantasy Stories (SCD) >Custom Robo (N64) >Daisenryaku Expert: Great Strategy Expert WWII (SNES) >Dead or Alive (Saturn) >Every Extend Ultra (PSP) >Excite Stage '94 (SNES) >F-22 Interceptor (MD) >F-Zero (SNES) >Final Fantasy (NES) >Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (PSP) >Jumping Flash! (PS1) >Lumines (PSP) >Marvel VS Capcom 2 (DC) >Monster Hunter Portable (PSP) >Ninja Gaiden (NES) >Phantasy Star Nova (Vita) >Phantasy Star Portable (PSP) >Ridge Racer (PS1) >R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1) >SD Gundam G Generation-0 (PS1) >Sega GT (DC) >Seventh Cross (DC) >SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 (PSP) >Super Smash Bros. (N64) >Tales of Phantasia (SNES) >Tech Romancer (DC) >Tohshinden (PS1) >Virtua Fighter Remix (Saturn) >Virtua Fighter 3tb (DC) Also, on the subject of vidya, I was thinking about taking the UIs of some of the game consoles I have, and making Anki flash cards of the settings/labels in Japanese and their English equivalents. Would this be useful at all (Since this is related to system functionality), or is it mostly redundant due to other studies? In addition, as far as where to socialize with Japanese speaking people, what are some advised places to go? I know some Anons recommended an app, and I do know about /librejp/ and 2channel, but what are some other places?

What are some shows and audio dramas that Anons would recommend for one to listen to for the purposes of hearing the Japanese language being spoken and coming to understand it phonetically?

I donta speaku englishu

>>3267 How long have you been learning for? Honestly I'd advice to grind out vocab for some time while reading manga, reading is far easier than trying to keep up with a show or a game and if you can read a word then it'll be far easier to hear it and go "ah, I know that one", at least in my experience. Personally, I grinded out the Core6k and been reading manga for a year and a half now. The first 2k words are a pain since you don't understand anything and have to look up everything but after a while it becomes far easier and you can actually move from trying to understand to enjoying what you're reading. >I already watch anime with the original JP dub and English subs I don't think that helps much, you'll read the subs and end up with a jumble of words in your head since you're trying to understand two different languages with different sentence structure at the same time. Why not try watching some anime you've already seen but using JP subs? Check out Animelon and Anidex for subbed anime, they've got some nice material. >Vidya UI Could be good, most settings would be the same across games so it would be useful. All in all, I suggest you just start reading manga with an OCR tool and either make a mining deck yourself or grind out this one (ankiweb.net/shared/info/1237389412) in the meantime, after finishing it just keep going with more material and checking up grammar from time to time, I think it's far better to actually know vocab instead of just memorizing grammar rules, all you really need is to understand the meaning and the grammar will make sense by itself then. I typed all this and then noticed the date, fuck.

>>3351 Check over on >>>/v/880690 or >>>/jp/280 . hopefully I don't fuck up the links >>3596 >spoiler Yeah I've done a few of those myself. Usually still got replies from the original poster too so I still reply when I have something to add.

>>3585 Most of the people coming here dont either.

>>2981 The neocities DJT guide got taken down because the Japs found it and took it down because of copyright. Use this site instead: https://djtguide.github.io/

So, I just picked myself up a sealed copy of a Japanese game for the Saturn, and this price tag was on the case. What does 「お宝市番館」mean?

So this series of posts is going to be a little “weird”. What’s been going on is that for the past few years, I’ve been importing Japanese games with the intention of playing them. As a result of that, I’ve acquired quite a few packages that I figured I could turn around and use for the purposes of of vocabulary and other learning uses rather than throw them away. I have to admit that I’m still relatively inexperienced with the language, so I figured I’d drop photos of those packages here for other Anons to see and to use for their own purposes and to receive some help from those already knowledgeable of the language for understanding them. This first set of images is from an envelope package. The only things I have blurred out at the personal details, the dates, and the barcodes for confidential reasons. Due to the way I opened the package, I took a separate photo of the torn sticker with it’s missing piece. And the last image is of the sticker that wrapped around the package. The fourth image might be pretty cut and dry. Just a brand name on a sealed case. And the Weekly Famitsu sticker was on the plastic for a PS3 game.

>>4291 The ZoE sticker was on my Japanese copy of ZoE HD. And the remaining images are from stuff I’ve bought domestically here in the U.S.. Here are two pop-tab lids from a couple of sake cans that I bought back in December. And the last set of images is for a package of bean paste pastries.

Not sure how helpful this will be for other Anons, but I recently found out about this American "Japanese learning" magazine from the late 80's called Mangajin. It ran for about a decade, before being cancelled in '97: https://infogalactic.com/info/Mangajin How I found out about this is that I nabbed a couple issues at a local bookstore thinking that these would be helpful for personal usage. However it wasn't until tonight that the thought occurred to me of actually looking to see if there are online scans of this magazine for other people to download. And sure enough, there is a website that has scans of all 70 issues: https://juusho.com/mangajin Hope this helps anyone who needs it.