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UntouchedWagons, in Gomennasai, baka
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I feel like putting in some effort to learn greetings and how to address people would help significantly when visiting Japan.

FUCKRedditMods,

Based on anime I know that if you don’t want to sound like a cringey weeb, the two best ways to greet people are “kisama” and/or “teme”

Contramuffin,

Ah yes. In addition, it’s only polite to refer to yourself as “ore,” and a true gentleman will also refer to everyone with the -chan suffix.

FUCKRedditMods,

Actually “ore-sama”

Gabu,

Also, adding “o-” before a word makes it more respectful, e.g. “oisogashī”, “ohada”, “omae”.

littlecolt,

Refer to yourself as “waga” and make sure you use the proper honorifics by ending every sentence with “kono yarou”

littlecolt,

Don’t forget “an’ta” - be sure to omit the a in the middle. It’s how all the cool and non cringe kids talk.

Chariotwheel,

Just act like an ass and tell people you're American. Works best if you're not American.

captainlezbian,

-in Tokyo

“Speak English! We kicked your asses for a reason!”

Works best if you’re obviously not American

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

Maybe be Japanese before trying it.

captainlezbian,

You could also be German or Italian

yoo, in Gomennasai, baka

If you watched every episode with simultaneous Japanese and English captions, you technically could. Just need to focus on memorizing things and writing things down, as well as deciphering grammar.

mrbubblesort,
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Yeah, you would learn some things, but you'd end up speaking like cringy middle schooler. Business and daily life conversations are significantly different from anime and manga ones.

captainlezbian,

Yeah imagine if someone learned all their English from American cartoons. Not American media, just cartoons. They’d speak weird

Gabu,

Most american cartoons are made for children and young adults at most. Anime doesn’t really have this limitation (more akin to e.g. Bojack Horseman/ Rick and Morty, but could also be a serious drama)

captainlezbian,

Yeah but also if someone learned English from stuff like the Simpsons, futurama, family guy, etc they’d absolutely still sound weird in their word choices, but also in their understanding of our culture. And yeah bojack and Rick and Morty would do it too. Hell you could even throw some stuff like breaking bad in there and they’d still struggle.

Gabu,

You’d be surprised to know, then, that’s exactly how a large number of ESL speakers learn your language.

davel, (edited ) in Warp NaCLs
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Initiate sauce separation.

AgentOrangesicle, in Will it happen ?
@AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world avatar

What’s the next geometric shape for icons, though? Everyone made square icons before they evolved into circles. I think hexagons are the future.

fiat_lux, in She helps when I cook.

You are all adorable.

asteriskeverything,

I had an annoying day and this really cheered me up!

david, in Oi bruv, squeak squeak innit?

I am British and I love this.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

u startin m8? u startin? me cousin’ll bang u out m8 raaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzz m8 quicktime quicktime

(hello from Manchester! 👋)

ShitOnABrick,
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

YOU WOT M8 ILL FOOKIN BASH YEUR HEAD IN M8 FOOKIN FUMMIN

Lifebandit666,

Ow do?

rockSlayer, in She helps when I cook.

My cat likes to watch me prep, she’s only interested in smelling after we’re done cooking. We’ve started to look for her approval lol it’s her highest mark if she licks her lips

Nepenthe,
@Nepenthe@kbin.social avatar

I used to have one that did that. He was aching to get on the counter and the first time he actually succeeded, I was terrified he was about to burn himself.

Nope. He just wanted to watch me cook. Sat very politely the whole time. It became a thing. Never even asked me for any of it. He just wanted to spend time with me. I miss him.

pete_the_cat,

RIP good doggo

AFallingAnvil,
@AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca avatar

Or catto

pete_the_cat,

Human recommended, dog approved.

NegativeLookBehind, in Gomennasai, baka
@NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social avatar

Where’s the shitty pube neck beard?

littlecolt,

On my neck, ffs. It’s even in the name.

Smoregoose, in Gomennasai, baka

I mean, you probably could eventually to some extent… definitely not enough to have a conversation, but you might be able to vaguely understand someone saying something to you.

A_Toasty_Strudel,
@A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world avatar

This is accurate as it describes my current situation.

bdonvr, (edited )

There’s a method of language learning - comprehensible input - that is basically this.

Though you need to start by watching/listening things you can actually understand. So start with Peppa Pig level, where they use basic vocabulary, repeat often, and use many visual aids, then work up to content for adults.

Trouble is finding enough learner level content to watch (without going insane). You need many hundreds of hours of content that you understand 90-95% of.

But even if you start with content way too advanced you’d be surprised what many hundreds of hours of listening to a language can do. Not efficient or recommended, but if they’re ACTIVELY listening to the sounds of the language they could pick up a lot of meaning over such large amounts of time.

FUCKRedditMods,

I’m to the point where I can tell when some things are poorly translated in the subs—i.e. how they could better be translated to english to convey their original meaning. And if I close my eyes I can definitely understand bits and pieces of the conversation. Anime re-uses lots of phrases and expressions, and some words are very distinctive or even happen to sound like an english counterpart of similar meaning. So I’ve learned a good amount of them from sheer repetitive exposure.

Honto ni!

Rolder,

It certainly helps that they use a large number of English loan words. Now the true hard mode is probably learning Japanese as a non-english speaker

GardenVarietyAnxiety, in She helps when I cook.

All the time! My dogs, too

MrScottyTay, in What an evolution 🙄😒

The new logo would be fine if still had even just semblance of a fox head on it

baronvonj, in Warp NaCLs
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

Open a channel to the Crystaline Entity.

eleefece, in This good
@eleefece@lemmy.world avatar
Darkmuch,

Ha! You fool! Time for these hacker skills

Computer, rotate image 90 degrees!

eleefece,
@eleefece@lemmy.world avatar
Pantherina, in Will it happen ?

But softwarewise, what the heck is Firefox Focus?

I just tried it and it has no Addon support thus no adblock, why would anyone use that?

radioactiveradio,

To focus on the ads

khannie,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll answer because I use it all the time…

It’s the default browser on my phone so all link clicks in apps (like the one I’m using now) get a fresh, zero cookie session which reduces tracking. I read or watch, hit back, session and cookies destroyed, off I go on my merry way.

If I want to open a link on a site that I want to be logged in on then I long press and open it in normal Firefox.

I do have ad blockers on my router too though.

n0clue,

You can just set a shortcut for private browsing and set a flag in nightly to always be private.

porcupine, in Choose your vehicle

Giant trucks may maximize traffic fatalities and carbon emissions, but bicycles make me feel guilty, so it’s impossible to say which is worse.

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