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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 18:14:08 UTC Bernie

   You Don’t Have to Study Kanji
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exkXaVYvb68

   But you do... they're just not the first thing you should be spending time on when learning #japanese, and they should be learned in context.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 18:29:37 UTC Bernie

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     Multiple #Japanese friends recommended reading children's manga, which use simple vocabulary and have furigana over most kanji.

     https://www.japanesetease.net/easy-to-read-manga-for-japanese-beginners-vol-01/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 18:38:43 UTC Bernie

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     On my first year in Japan, I tried reading Dragonball, but it was still too hard for me because it uses informal grammar and slang I didn't know.

     Doraemon is probably a better starting point, but I find it too boring.

     #Japanese

   • Srevin Saju (srevinsaju@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 19:50:15 UTC Srevin Saju

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     @codewiz I love doraemon, (i shouldn’t be saying this as a university student)! (at least the anime, i have never tried reading the manga)

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 08:07:24 UTC Bernie

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     • roptat

     @roptat Ah, I've been meaning to read it since a Japanese friend recommended it.

     Sometimes I use Yotsuba stickers in LINE 😄

   • roptat (roptat@framapiaf.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 08:07:26 UTC roptat

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     @codewiz
     I found yotsuba to! to be less boring and easy to read, since it's everyday conversation basically. Yotsuba doesn't use kanji at all when she speaks though, which makes it a little harder to decipher, interestingly :)

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 08:14:36 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc I wish they published manga in html, with text that can be selected and instantly translated by Yomichan / 10ten.

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 08:14:38 UTC Christian Horn

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     @codewiz That's my issue with real literary in Japanese.. needs to be interesting enough to keep me going, but also use enough familiar terms which I already know to not constantly have me lookup things.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 08:25:26 UTC Bernie

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     • Srevin Saju

     @srevinsaju Then you're in luck: there are 1345 manga chapters and 3 anime series, of which the most recent has 1160 episodes. Finding subs in Japanese should be easy, and you'll learn a lot of everyday vocabulary from it.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 08:28:10 UTC Bernie

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     • Srevin Saju

     By the way, YouTube subs work with #Yomichan! I wish the same was true for mpv (but you can easily extract the subs to a .srt using ffmpeg, and then search for the time.

     The older MPlayer could print the subs on stdout, I wonder if there's some way to do it with #mpv or #vlc?
     @srevinsaju #japanese

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 21:49:24 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc I wish someone had the courage to launch a product similar to Google Glass.

     Sluggishness, blurry display and short battery life would no longer be a problem with modern hardware, and natural language models would make up for the limited interface.

     You look at a manga and say: "what does this kanji mean?" or "add furigana"... 😎

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 21:49:27 UTC Christian Horn

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     @codewiz Exactly, looking up something offline/on paper is so much harder than content which is online.
     The kindle epaper readers had an ok lookup already since years (kanji to hiragana, at least), but paper is a different story.