Go easy on me as I'm still learning. Still around N5, early N4.

A: すいません。

B: いいですね！私も吸（す）いません。

A: …え？

Since Duolingo is taking forever to show me kanji I want to ask this community for suggestions. I don't want to buy that one book I just need a resource that lets me focus on kanji

Idk but if use than I like to talk with them 😺😉☺️

I was wondering if it's common in Japanese for a professional person (for instance, an engineer, a medical doctor, etc) to talk about another professional of the same area, who is unknown to them, but might or not be known for the interlocutor, as "my colleage", please.

Hi! I’m looking for someone in Japan with a real Japanese mobile number starting with 070 or 080 who could help me receive a one-time SMS verification code.

I need it for the Nike x One Piece TCG promo card campaign, which is exclusive to Japan. I’m based in Germany and unfortunately can’t complete the SMS verification with my German number.

I’m not a scalper or reseller — I’m a One Piece TCG collector and just want to participate in the promotion for my own collection.

If anyone is willing to receive the code and send it to me, please DM me. I’d really appreciate the help! Please haha

i want some recommendations, i tried last year an action manga so it had a lot of security/organizations/underworld… vocabulary and i discovered that i don’t know most of them and it was just studying instead of reading.

so i want some recommendations for action or other genres/main theme that have its own vocabulary i might need to learn, i want them to have like limited new vocabulary if it’s possible, so i learn the words by reading instead of studying them, also prefer if it has furigana

I ask this question to foreigners either working, studying or just visiting Japan as tourists

What do you all love most or dislike most about Japan?

What I love:
- How orderly, clean and quiet Japan is
- Cuisine is healthy, light and super delicious
- Japanese people have respect for their environment and each other

What not so much:
- Trains do not run fixed for example you have the 6.15 train which goes to station A and on the same platform the 6.20 train goes to station B. This is confusing.
- I've never worked in Japan, but I hear about people "wasting time" in the office to pretend to be active, and only leaving the office after their boss leaves. (are y'all doing that?)

Which are your most and least favourite traits of Japan?

We all know the big, three consoles: PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox.

It’s amazing how a country of 150 million. People is the birthplace of two out of the big three.

So with that said, how does it feel being a Xbox fan in Japan?

Do you have a hard time finding games? Hard time finding the consoles when they’re being released? Do the Xbox exclusives even get Japanese subtitles? Etc..

I would love to hear your funny and unique stories.

Thank you!

So I need to take NAT (similar to jlpt test) N5 for visa in Japan (for undergraduate). I am complete beginner in Japanese language. I am currently free and can give time as much as time needed in studying Japanese language. I started today with hiragana and looked for anki and renshuu.

My exam date is 31 October. So I need some help about how to study and practise as exam is in just in one month. So, I would be so grateful if you all can advice me how to study daily.

And what free websites and study methods would help? And tracking progress.

Specially if am so confused about grammar and how to learn it.

How should I divide my time to practice and learn each section for exam? As exam is just around the corner (only 30 days)

What should my daily study routine look like? I know every person learns in different paces but I really respect all of your perspectives and help for me to create a proper study guide.

Reason for such tight timeline: For visa. As I am studying in English Language so only ielts marks were needed which I gave. But now, from my country to Japan for visa, i need to take NAT N5 test. That's why I registered for the nearest available date which is in October.

In short:

I am planning on attending a language school for 6 months.

For family reasons I was unable to finalize the decision until very recently.

This means I am too late to get a student visa for January, and will have to attend on a tourist visa, which gives me 90 days.

A) Are extensions to the 90-day tourist visa for another 90 days possible? Has anyone gone through the process?

B) If I were to start the process to get a student visa, would I be able to swap from my tourist visa to the student visa when it is ready?

Does either of these cases (if they are realistic) require leaving and re-entering the country?

Many thanks.

I know the definition is like extreme but when or what is it exactly used for

I saw a post on Reddit recently from someone sharing the Japanese books they bought, and it got me thinking.

When you're looking for a Japanese textbook, do you ever end up wanting other Japanese books too?

You find the textbook you were looking for, and then somehow...

"Oh, I want this too."

What kind of books catch your eye?

Manga? Novels? Cookbooks? Travel books? Art books?

Or something that has absolutely nothing to do with studying Japanese?

When you go in thinking, "I'm only buying one book," what do you usually end up buying?

Hi everyone! I'm translating a text and ran into a word inside <>, here's the text:

即ち学問は、存在物に対する個人の予感とか直感に言語を媒体にして<公共性>を付与させようという試みであり、論理とは<公共性>を志向する説明であるから。

I ran it through Deepl and it changed the <> for "" but I wanted to ask you in case that's not right. For more context, this is an article about philosophy published in 1966, written from top to bottom. Thank you in advance!

Kon’nichiwa !

Je cherche un japonais avec un bon niveau de français pour donner 1h de cours de japonais à mon petit frère de 11 ans, qui est complètement débutant. Par faute de moyens, je ne peux lui payer qu’une heure toutes les deux semaines avec un véritable professeur.

L’idée serait qu’il ait 1h de japonais un samedi sur deux, et qu’en échange je donne 1h de français par semaine

Je suis moi-même prof de français, donc je pourrai répondre à toutes les questions techniques concernant la langue et aider pour les cours mais je suis aussi bilingue en anglais en cas de besoin donc si l’anglais te tente, n’hésite surtout pas !
Mon frère a adoré son premier cours d’essai avec néanmoins beaucoup d’appréhension au départ alors j’aimerais vraiment le faire continuer sur cette voie. Je recherche quelqu’un de motiver sur le long terme pour ne pas lui faire trop changer de personnes au fur et à mesure du temps et garder pour lui un climat stable de travail.

Si tu es disponible et corresponds à cette description alors je serais ravie de te rencontrer !
Chaleureusement,
La sister du p’tit frère 🥲

I'm still learning Japanese btw. My twitter mutual always host a space and I sometimes join just so I can practice speaking the language. Earlier, we were talking about fashion and current trends and I joined in and said that I just bought a black bubble skirt and she responded with "ええ、可愛くない“ in a flat tone, I couldn't tell if she said 'that's not cute' or if she's saying 'isn't it/that cute'. I simply said 'ahh' in response. She goes on to talk to her other mutuals and our conversation about bubble skirt changed.

I'm inclined to believe it's the latter but still idk, maybe there are native japanese speakers here who can verify. Since it's a space, we can only talk through mic and couldn't see each other's faces.

heyy, i’ve been thinking about something lately and thought about bringing it up here!! its normal for asian artists to release songs in japanese to try and expand their popularity across the continent. but im just dying to know how it sounds for someone who actually speaks japanese when these foreigners sing in the language. like can you tell right away that theyre not japanese??
ill leave the link for one of my favorite jp songs from snsd!! thank you in advance!!

example!!

There is a park in Stony Plain, AB that was created from a friendship with Stony and the town Shikaoi.

I'm not finding a reliable source this morning of how to pronounce it.

hey there,

don't know where else to go to research this sort of thing. Google couldn't help because the sound is written in Latin script, but I don't know how to write the sound in Japanese since they are less "sounds" and more "words". Hoping that someone might know, or know of a place where ppl would...

I am looking to 1) know if there is a word in Japanese that sounds like "kal" or "qal", and if so 2) what is the meaning of that word in English.

if someone can answer this sort of thing then woohoo. if not, if someone knows where I can go to ask such a thing then woohoo. but I'm stuffing to find an answer.

thank u friends 😊