These two always get me:相手助手
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 September 2021 02:05 (four years ago)
会社 and 社会 is driving me nuts, I can never remember which one is which
This one is an easy one for me as I’m often looking for the name and address of a sale brewery in the side of the bottle and anchoring to 株式会社 is the easiest way. 社会 is just the other one.
On the other hand, 相手 and 助手 are infuriatingly close. Inevitably I always do better if I can anchor to something outside of the flash cards.
Recently I have been struggling with
仲良し仲が良い
which are infuriatingly close in meaning but definitely not the same.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:18 (four years ago)
This related word gets mixed in too:仲良く
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 September 2021 11:38 (four years ago)
Just mixed up these two 専寺
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 September 2021 11:55 (four years ago)
Sound is back on Tsurukame.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 September 2021 18:32 (four years ago)
Thing that I am starting to get straight:The short and long pronunciation of the first kanji here:世界世紀世辞Thing that still gives me grief:All the different nuances of meaning as well as whether to rendaku or not for words that start with 大
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 September 2021 21:15 (four years ago)
I thought I was getting a feel for when to rendaku until I came to 早口, my brain really thinks this should be guchi dammit
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 5 September 2021 00:38 (four years ago)
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 01:04 (four years ago)
Wikipedia article quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku#Examples
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 01:29 (four years ago)
Sorry, linked in the middle instead of the top.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 01:30 (four years ago)
Both readings are correct for 早口, and you certainly hear both said. There’s a lot of regional and personal variation in rendaku in any case.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Sunday, 5 September 2021 01:35 (four years ago)
Ah, yeah, so they are, thanks. Me, I can never quite remember the meaning of this one:早速
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 01:51 (four years ago)
Basically stuff that means something like recently, soon, nearby, just now right away etc. always gets jumbled up in my head.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 01:53 (four years ago)
Right now my recent rendaku issues center on a particular kanji that is already voiced材vs a lookalike with similar pronunciation that does have a rendaku and non-rendaku version財
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 02:04 (four years ago)
Anyway I feel kind of good that I aware of and know how to type the special rendaku kana ぢ and づ as in 鼻血(はなぢ) . Can’t think of a word for the other one, actually.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 02:57 (four years ago)
早まって喜ぶな。
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 03:02 (four years ago)
^From Clozemaster, which I highly recommend.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 03:03 (four years ago)
Have been forging ahead on Duolingo but it just got insanely hard. I was on the level Memories and The Arts 1And just got to Weather 2 and Lawbut the sentences are just too long at this point
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 22:08 (four years ago)
So probably should just stick to Clozemaster
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 September 2021 22:22 (four years ago)
These three, but getting close:神禅福
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 20:22 (four years ago)
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 21:51 (four years ago)
These two:温湯
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 02:25 (four years ago)
村材
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:20 (four years ago)
I finally came up with a system to get it thru my thick skull lol会社 kaisha - begins with a k sound, company社会 shakai - begins with an s sound, society
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:24 (four years ago)
That’s pretty good actually. I have something like that for another, hopefully will post soon.
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:28 (four years ago)
Sitting here at level 20 going on 21 with a thousand reviews.
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 September 2021 12:07 (four years ago)
A thousand years I’ve been imprisoned in this bottle studying wanikani!
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 September 2021 12:39 (four years ago)
The Wanikani guys really like The Dictionary of Japanese Grammar, all three volumes, but I don’t know if I can buy too many physical volumes these days and the ebook seems suspect.
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 September 2021 21:18 (four years ago)
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 September 2021 18:32 (four years ago)
Sometimes a pair like this can confuse me:時期期待
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 13:36 (four years ago)
So I just started to dip into Japanese in anticipation of a trip (that is now very likely postponed) and because it intersting and came across "80/20 Japanese" which to my very novice eyes seems pretty good? anyone else have experience with this?
― gbx, Friday, 17 September 2021 16:29 (four years ago)
Not me, sorry.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 16:39 (four years ago)
i found this particularly (ha ha) helpful: https://8020japanese.com/japanese-sentence-structure/
― gbx, Friday, 17 September 2021 17:07 (four years ago)
if you can get past the voice and creepiness, the first couple of videos here finally made japanese sentence structure click for me: hxxps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 17 September 2021 17:52 (four years ago)
particularly the insight that every japanese sentence has a subject marked with が, whether explicit or implied by the context
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 17 September 2021 17:54 (four years ago)
急行列車
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 September 2021 14:20 (four years ago)
私はあれを知らない
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:46 (four years ago)
https://onomatoproject.com/
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 September 2021 22:25 (four years ago)
会議議会but this pair seems a little easier, famous last words
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 September 2021 13:10 (four years ago)
せっかくの苦労もあだになった。
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:05 (four years ago)
Getting used to the terminal の
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 00:53 (four years ago)
齢Has a slightly different stylization that was throwing me off
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 September 2021 15:53 (four years ago)
I have…a very big backlog of Wanikani reviews.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 September 2021 21:50 (four years ago)
These two域識
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 September 2021 23:21 (four years ago)
Don’t look that similar but they also rhyme.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 September 2021 23:22 (four years ago)
I splurged for Kodansha learners pack bundle of apps and it does seem kind of useful.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 October 2021 14:24 (four years ago)
weird that a bunch of radicals I got today only appear in exactly one kanji.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:19 (four years ago)
Oh but then those kanji may have multiple vocabulary words
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:21 (four years ago)
These:案委
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 October 2021 01:12 (four years ago)
i learned this word today 「お尻」
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:55 (four years ago)