Hi there! I'm looking for a place to get advice for studying Japanese, and this is the only community that comes up for me. I understand that's not the point of this place, but you seem to know about "other communities dedicated to those subjects". Would you be willing to point me toward those?
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Learnjapanese will probably be geared towards that specific niche as it becomes more active. Right now, most of that content is found on Reddit or other independent forums, unfortunately
Personally, I’m thinking since this is the most active Japanese community on Lemmy, we might open a pinned thread or FAQ where we gather several study materials, methods and documentation.
I don’t want to keep that content completely away from here, because we’ve all been (or are currently) studying Japanese, and documentation is a natural part of that.
But it’s tricky because the more you allow that content on here, the easier it is for it to completely take over the community, leading to never ending threads about which method is quicker or slower, min-maxing the learning process, countless threads about “anki”, “immersion” and other topics that end up obscuring discussion about the Japanese language.
I'm mostly looking for advice working with Anki. The LearnJapanese subreddit seemed to have quite a bit of expertise setting up unique Anki stuff but that's kind of a niche within a niche.
I'll see if those other communities have any input first. Thanks!
Would it be an option to make a community for the purpose of studio technics and link to it in the sidebar? And in the study you link to here. With a small description explaining the focus of each?
I think [email protected] is fairly active and focuses on that specific aspect of Japanese learning. Maybe that might work?
I have some resources to share if that's what you're looking for. But given that I am still a beginner, I don't know how much of my advice is going to be useful. I can still point you to some resources that have helped me.
I know two other communities that might interest you, here they are:
https://lemmy.ml/c/learnjapanese
https://lemmy.ml/c/japanese247
That being said, they don't seem to be very active to me yet.
If you're looking for a guide to learning Japanese, I would personally recommend http://learnjapanese.moe/resources/.
It has a lot of great resources listed. The author of this website strongly encourages learning through immersion and not using "traditional learning material," such as the Genki books. I personally still find value in these books. But even if you don't agree with the author on his techniques, I still think you can find some great advice through the posts on his blog, especially on the "resources" page. They also have a Discord server, if that's what you're looking for.
The r/learnJapanese wiki on Reddit also has some helpful information. Here is a link to the archived version of it: http://web.archive.org/web/20230611093411/https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/wiki/index/.
I am not sure if I've answered your question, but I still hope this can be helpful to someone.
I might make a post here with a list of tools and resources that have helped me get started. My understanding is that a post like that would be allowed here, is that right?
I just found this community and am really enjoying your Road to JLPT posts. Please keep them coming.
Yay! Thank you so much! I'm really hoping we can get a good place going for more language-oriented discussion. I'm also thinking of creating a weekly chat thread where people will be able to practice, and more advanced users or natives will help them with their Japanese.
That weekly chat thread sounds awesome, I'd definitely make good use of it.
I didn't know we have native Japanese on Lemmy. It's awesome!
Oh no, I’m not a native speaker. But I am an N1 and have been a professional Japanese translator and interpreter for years. I worked translating anime for major streaming services for a while, and also worked as a live interpreter for Japanese artists at music festivals and stuff, until the pandemic basically destroyed that lol.
There is a (presumably) native Japanese instance somewhere though. I’m not following anything from it, but it’s there.
Oh, I was looking for a native Japanese instance but couldn't find one. Mind sharing some pointers?
Are memes and jokes allowed?
Yes! At least for now. We might need to moderate that to some days of the week if it gets too overwhelming, but they’re perfectly fine for now!
Cool, thanks! Or we could make another community specifically for memes and jokes.
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