I'm wondering where this extra stroke came from in the kanji for cicada that I have highlighted and would like an explanation since it doesn't match up with the kanji radicals on kanshudo

https://www.kanshudo.com/word/%E8%9D%89/1387080?oq=%E8%9D%89

わなしは　にほんじんです Here は is read as wa instead of its usual ha Can somebody explain this?

I want to say "If it was 〇〇, then... ", is "〇〇だったば、..." the right clause?

At break with coworkers today, I mentioned learning Japanese since a bit over a year now. I was then asked to say something in Japanese, but I couldn't really think of anything good.

On my way home, I formulated a little something that I could say the next time I get asked:

「今月に桜が綺麗です。」

Do any of you have such default sentences, and if so, what are they?

Edit: Wikipedia has the following as an example:

「太陽が東の空に昇る。」

I'm wondering if これとこれ would work to say "this and this" in Japanese

I’m looking for anything out there that could help me navigate grocery stores in Japan? Maybe an Anki deck for food labels with proper kanji? I’ll be there for a period of time later this year and while my conversational skills are okay, I don’t know that I could grocery shop! I’ve got Genki 1 and 2 and some vocab cards for various ingredients, but they’re mostly hiragana or basic kanji like 肉 or 魚 or ご飯. Is there anything else I could get? Books, YouTube channels, anything that would help prepare me to buy ingredients would be appreciated!

For additional context it is from the anime 「のんのんびより」

I remember kanji by first tracing them a certain amount of times with my finger usually around 5 times

Then I'll remember it by remembering a visualisation of drawing of drawing the kanji step by step instead of trying to visualise or think of the whole kanji at once

Mentally it feels like I use less mental bandwidth remembering kanji this way so my mind doesn't get stuck

This might not work for everyone but I'm sharing it in hopes it will help some people

I'm not sure of the grammatical order in this scentence

I have learned about" Sentence topic, Time, Location, Subject, Indirect object, Direct object, Verb"

"学校から私に家へ手紙を送った"

Is "家へ手紙を" describing a direct object or is it something else ?"

I haven't learned all the kanji yet in the scentence and only know some of them

This scentence is from the sakubi grammer guide: https://sakubi.neocities.org/#moving

I can read and make scentences in japanese provided I know the words and particle usage but it gets complicated for me once more than one subject or object or verb is used in a scentence

I'd also like to know how to order indirect objects in scentences

I have tried looking online but haven't found any useful google results on this so far

Website with free resources for studying Japanese. It only has content for A1-A2 levels but is still quite good.

What is the difference between

「」

and

『』

i.e. single-line and double-line quote marks?

Hi,

I'm currently learning and memorising hiragana at a pace that is comfortable for me after recently starting to learn japense but I'd like to know of a good online resources to learn about Japanese vocabulary in the future once I'm at that stage in learning Japanese

I'd prefer that online resource to be free

Im not familiar with what best way works with me so i figured i try the trial run.

The lessons consisted of communicating with someone from Japan on a one lesson a week for 4 weeks. Sessons was about 30 min.

-Lessons were mostly meet and greet -Learning how to say various forms of nouns in a formal manner.

• using follow up questions as in which item -Counting and using different single digit numbers to form large numbers.

Its definitley some great feedback to learn as you go with responses from the teacher one in one over a zoom call.

• after the trial i was offered to continue through a plan but i stopped as I honestly couldnt afford another expense. If i do continue it id like to see how far self taught goes and maybe learning through a group class of some sort.

Mind you after classes i would go over the lessons on my own for about half hour a day. Consistency is pretty much the nature of the beast. I limited to 30 min because if i get to bored im not learning nothing.

Do i recommend 1v1 via online tutor, yes(if its in your budget) though find out if they will be giving you work material and the slides or a reference of what was learned in class. Im sure i wasnt given anything since it was a trial. I was typing it as the lesson was going on. Its real good for beginners and good to use to brush up since you are talking to someone who lives the language in that country.

Did all of the /r/learnjapanese users just migrate to Discord and call it a day?

I've been learning Japanese for a few years now, my reading is pretty good but my listening is terrible. I've been actively trying to watch more Japanese content but I'm not a huge fan of anime. So I've been getting into Japanese dramas. I've found some good ones from just randomly browsing Japanese netflix but I've found it hard to find recommendations. Anyone have any suggestions of something I need to watch?

Cure dolly materials are good but some people has issues with the pitched up voice, so I found a way to pitch it down using a combination of virtual audio and a daw; any will work but for this guide I'll explain it using reaper and blackhole on osx, as easily available for anyone and they exist on other os as well and setup is similar for them.

Disclaimer: Reaper is not free but has a 60 day trial and you can buy it later if you desire, it will show nag screen to remind you (or use another daw, if you do I assume you know how to route audio and pitch down audio in your daw); black hole has a donation box on their site.

Requirements: 0) homebrew: follow the "install homebrew" command you find at brew.sh

1. install blackhole driver Open a terminal and type each line followed by return:

brew install blackhole-2ch

sudo launchctl kickstart -kp system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod

2. Install reaper daw from reaper.fm/download.php

Now you're ready:

• Press cmd+space and type system settings, press enter
• select "Sound" on the left menu
• Under output & input select blackhole 2ch (all your system audio is redirect to blackhole this way, so you should hear silence now until next steps)
• open reaper (either via cmd+space or click on launchpad/reaper)

It will ask to configure your audio:

• Click on "Allow use of different input and output device" -at the top you' ve input device, from the dropdown option select "blackhole 2c" -On output select "macbook pro speaker" or your usual device on your mac -press ok.

Now you're seeing a very empty reaper, right click on the left side area below the icons and insert new track.

Click on the red circle, this allow now to hear sounds again.

Click on the fx button, search for "pitch", from the fx listed select "VST: ReaPitch" with a double click, now here the first horizontal slider say shift(full range) just click on the right side of the slider in the textbox that has "semitones" next to it and write -6

Now if you start a cure dolly video, it will be pitched down, and it should solve the issue some people have with it.

You can add some more filters to make it better, or use a different value for pitchx but I think this is already enough for most people.

When you finish just remember to go to system settings/sound and restore your output to your speaker (of course if you're using headphones select headphones)

That's it, I hope the people that couldn't follow now can with this trick.

Happy learning!