/kind/ - Random Acts of Kindness

>>1886
Rip /kind/

No, only the dead post here.

>>1889
>>1891
Hi!

Isn't the first time kind slowed down. Still wondering why it happens now and then.

>>1895
I find that on small boards if someone has a good thread idea then replies from lurkers will usually flow in for a bit. I'm too busy studying to think of anything.

>>1899
what are you studying friend?

i think we all just been busy.

>>1901
Japanese, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here doing it either. It's a long road, but I'm definitely on the right track for now. I think in one year's time I'm probably gonna read most things relatively okay. It does unfortantely take a lot more energy to read now at lower proficiency than something like English where I'm at a native level and can read all day to relax.

>>1904
I stopped studying for a bit. I wish i could read more but im too dyslexic at learning that thing. I want something that actually teaches everything at the same time vocab kanji and grammar. Instead of splitting up to learn 1 by 1 by 1

>>1895
Cause it's summer.

>>1905
You can learn kanji by doing vocab so it's already mostly down to only 2 things in terms of studying, ignoring the most important part being immersion of course.
I know some people shit on them a lot because it costs money and there's tons of great free resources so they're really not necessary, but I've had faster retention from (with third party scripts) speedrunning the wanikani* kanji course with their vocab (you can get their kanji+vocab deck in anki for free online if you don't wanna pay though I don't know when they were last updated). At max speed it takes roughly a bit over a year to learn 2000 kanji and a bunch of vocab as a side-effect. Roughly 40 kanji a week and 125 vocab a week all relating to the kanji if the previous week. It will slow you down if you don't do it right though. I'm sure some grinders can do faster, but with the usual anki decks I had way worse retention and ended up going slower than that.
For grammar I watched some cure dolly videos on youtube to get the absolute basic grammar down then just grabbed a bunch of grammar from bunpro* to get started. I found simply reading TaeKim's to be a lot slower because of lower retention for myself which just made it a headache, but I did read a fair bit of it. Bunpro's not perfect, but it gives a massive list of grammar to practice bit by bit which made reading a lot easier. Every sentence I see on their site I make sure to disable translations and make sure I understand the whole structure and meaning of the sentence myself and not just the single grammar point I'm practicing so I get regular reading practice of everything I know at an steady increasing more difficult level as well as practice for the current grammar point. I haven't tried their vocab, not sure if I even will.

I'll just grind the rest of missing kanji+vocab through sentences I mine from immersion later. That's when you really get to practice all three at the same time anyways.

*p2p/p2w - if it's convenient enough I don't mind paying to make my learning more efficient. I'll need to use mainly anki+immersion when I'm done with these though so I'll end up doing the same things everyone else are for free after a while.

>>1886
Kind board is still alive and well we all are just busy with work (sobs) wish to make something to post on this board still but ah can't think of something i do that fits the theme of here yet.

>>1913
>work
How can you say you love /kind/ if you can't even quit your job?

Well, the topic came to learning Japanese, so I allow myself to ask the obnoxious question that has been asked by many people on many imageboards already.
How to learn that language? My goal is obviously being able to enjoy japanese media without a translation, which means being able to understand it e.g. reading it (visual novels, manga, light novels, japanese Internet) and listening to it (anime, music). I don't care about writing and speaking, but of course I would pick it up as well, if it is necessary or if it can be done without much additional trouble. So far I am capable of nothing, except understanding a few words and simple sentences when watching anime. I watched a few things that has no translation raw, until now I was able to tell what is going and why, but I have to mention that everything of that was slice of life, therefore not a compicated genre/story/world.

>>1918
Read Tai Kim's guide without fretting about understanding everything. Get hiragana/katakana and at least core 2k decks for anki. Get a podcast software, go to podchaser, filter by language and add in it a bunch of podcasts made by natives for natives, listen at every possible time during each day. Then read with a dictionary, there are readers with integrated dictionaries such as lute, LWT, or LingQ if you are willing to pay (worth it in my opinion). If you have any doubt about some grammar point or the meaning of a sentence ask ChatGPT or your AI of choice. Don't bother learning kanji by itself, just pick them up as you learn words. Don't bother mining, the effort is not superior to just immersing more.

>>1919
I'd also advise you to not bother with pitch accent, monolingual transition or whatever, just listen to Japanese as it is spoken and read Japanese as it's written.

>>1919
Two other amazing programs are Yomitan and Textractor (can be configured to feed textbox to Yomitan so you get fast translations without having to look up which kanji it is or typing in the words). Makes reading VNs a breeze when you got the basic grammar down. Yomitan is also nice for reading Japanese on websites in general.
Just shift and hover over words to get a popup translation.

>>1917
isn't working /kind/, though?

>>1918
watching raw anime with tons of story really isn't a good idea. focusing on the scene and songs can help you get a better idea of what's going on, though.
>>1919
podcasts are bleh! raw anime's better for learning spoken japanese.

>>1934
Speech in anime is sparse and dependent on visuals. If you are available to look, reading things that are meant to be read is better. If you are not, then listening to something that is filled with speech is better.

I'm now sure there's at least three of us.

>>1950
It's you, me and the bot they made to astroturf activity here.

>>1951
I'd like to say I'm here, but I only stop by once every couple of months, and don't post every time I do. So, I'm not here.

Ah I really just meant three of us who are studying the same language. I'm sure there's more posters than that, especially people like >>1957 who pop in every now and then.

I'm alive out there, barely making it through, but things are getting better.