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hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to i'm getting into videoball now by hollyhoppet
also this game actually rules lol
hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Moonside in i'm playing dragon quest v in japanese by hollyhoppet
My Japanese self-education has been disorganized and spotty lol (thanks ADHD).
Before I started going "I should learn Japanese" in earnest i had probably watched anime for like five years. This helped a bit but English subtitles can be a crutch that prevent you from really diving into learning. Looking stuff you hear up to see what it actually means helps, but full immersion helps more (more on that later). Learning the language as spoken also helps with learning the alphabet.
I started what I'd call actual "study" with duolingo. Duolingo was actually pretty great for helping with the basics! There came a point though where I felt like I was starting to hit a wall, and something about the app/site just wasn't doing it for me anymore. Supplementing Duolingo with other resources gave me a bit more mileage (I'd highly recommend "All About Particles" by Naoko Chino as a reference), but yeah eventually I stopped using it.
Now, I've started a multi-pronged approach focused on immersion. I'm finding it really effective. I guess if it works for a baby it can work for an adult, albeit slower haha.
I'm starting with watching anime or shows I'm familiar with without English subtitles. The point isn't trying to understand everything, but to focus on what you can and pause and look things up when I'm really curious about something. Slice-of-life stuff is particularly good because it contains the most "normal" talking aside from the stuff like anime girls yelling "eeeeeeh!?!?" An added benefit of this approach is it helps a fair bit with making sure your accent is good.
Daily, I'm using the popular Tango N5 (and some day N4) flash cards in Anki. Anki superb free flash card program.
I'm also starting to play games I'm familiar with in japanese. Right now I'm playing Earthbound and Dragon Quest V. Earthbound is actually pretty nice because it contains almost no Kanji. Itoi designed the game so his daughter could play it. For the alphabets I have printouts of hiragana and katakana when I forget any characters. I also keep a text file of notes for each game in the same folder I put the (100% legally acquired) ROM of the game in. This usually includes a table of translated menus in both the english and japanese, and unfmailiar kanji I come across. Tabs are very helpful in this. This is also good practice for using the japanese ime.
The games are very slow going. I've barely gotten through the intro in either, but it still feels very enriching. I also speak pretty much every word aloud as I'm reading it. This helps reinforce both speaking accent and alphabet familiarity for me.
To figure out unfamiliar kanji, I use a OCR screen capture program called "Text Grabber." It's $3.00 on the windows store and absolutely worth the price. You need to make sure you're set to the japanese IME in windows before capturing though. For Kanji that it can't read (no OCR is perfect), jisho.org has a great find-by-radicals tool. And a good find-by-drawing tool. And is just a good dictionary in general.
I'll also start digging into a visual novel at some point, but none have really grabbed my attention.
Anyway that's about where I'm at now. Good luck if you decide to start diving in!
Moonside wrote
Reply to i'm playing dragon quest v in japanese by hollyhoppet
What's your Japanese learning history been like? I've been thinking of whether to learn German or Japanese next and my main worry with the latter is its writing system, but, I mean, here you are working on it.
I do not worry about getting to the end of literacy if I pursue Japanese, like reading novels and such, but whether I can conceive a route to get there that has some rewards on its own. With French its pretty simple: read a couple pages in a novel and get to progress in story in a daily session, noticing it's getting easier and faster on a monthly basis and so on. I'm kind of wondering how I would set up my routine and when I could realistically expect to have fun playing a game or reading manga in Japanese.
devtesla wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in i'm playing dragon quest v in japanese by hollyhoppet
a good call
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in i'm playing dragon quest v in japanese by hollyhoppet
but yeah i do really want it to be five because it's basically my favorite dragon quest
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in i'm playing dragon quest v in japanese by hollyhoppet
V doesn't at the very least but i'm managing ok without it thanks to jisho's kanji lookup-by-radicals tool
devtesla wrote
Reply to i'm playing dragon quest v in japanese by hollyhoppet
Dragon Quest games have furigana, right? Pretty good for learning
toasthaste wrote
Reply to ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
I watched 5 (what a trip lmao) and next up is 6. after I finish the thing I'm obviously gonna go back and watch all the ones I skipped
Caribou wrote
Reply to ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
The segment where he talks about the crunch he went through making his videos and the health problems he acquired because of it hurts to hear. Just a couple of days ago he got into some mild twitter drama where people trashed on him for saying this was the hardest job he has ever had. harder than working in fast food and customer service.
idk, those qrts from people who had no clue who this guy was completely shitting on him kinda fucked me up lol
toasthaste wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
N
NINE
I SEE
devtesla OP wrote
Reply to comment by toasthaste in ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
lol at the end he links a playlist with seven other videos that add an additional 9 hours
toasthaste wrote
Reply to ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
oh wow only an hour long??? surprising restraint from our boy timothy
devtesla OP wrote
Reply to comment by Moonside in ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
I heard part 1 is good but I don't want to think about Discourse lol
Moonside wrote
Reply to ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
Intro, Citizen Keanu (part 1), Season of Trash (part 6), End segment. It's going to be a pretty good week, apparently.
devtesla OP wrote
Reply to ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 by devtesla
I'm watch part 6 first and then 5
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to Deus Ex - Lay D Denton Project - A bomb! by devtesla
i've been waiting for this
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in more like delete rune 😏 by hollyhoppet
more like blundertale 😏
devtesla wrote
Reply to more like delete rune 😏 by hollyhoppet
the download server crashed at launch so basically
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in i got deathloop by hollyhoppet
or an "i'm a dad" shootmans protagonist lol
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to i got deathloop by hollyhoppet
also the protagonist rules. his voice actor does a great performance and it's refreshing to not have a silent protagonist for once
voxpoplar wrote
Reply to anyone play deathloop yet by hollyhoppet
It's been getting incredibly good reviews. I have next week off work and I didn't plan to spend it playing Deathloop but I might spend it playing Deathloop.
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by neku in anyone play deathloop yet by hollyhoppet
i'm going to do this
neku wrote
Reply to anyone play deathloop yet by hollyhoppet
do you think if people get into this game they'll start abbreviating it as thloop
hey man wanna play some thloop after school
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in anyone play deathloop yet by hollyhoppet
the only problem i've seen is people are mad about the denuvo drm lol
devtesla wrote
Reply to i'm getting into videoball now by hollyhoppet
he name his own game the game of the decade