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How people react when you try to speak their language (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the vocab is where I most feel hopeless. I use an app for learning kanji and it has parts where they build into words and it just feels like I'm missing a ton of cultural context with how some of the words seem so random with the different kanji they string together. It seems more intuitive if you're starting from there, because their words end up so much more related when made up of subwords rather than English where our words do have roots but they are strewn across a bunch of different base languages and evolve individually as sounds from there.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

I pretty much focus entirely on listening since my goal was really to just be able to understand it without using subtitles. Though maybe I should learn to read it better so I can go check out Japanese forums instead of just being able to watch anime in the original language without subtitles... 🤔