I am learning Japanese since almost 3 years now. It’s a life’s goal of mine to be able to understand the language well.

I sometimes watch anime, I really like music by Ado, and I come across Japanese often.

I don’t really have a concrete reason for having started. A friend of mine learned Japanese in middle school seriously which gave me the idea the first time.

It’s safe to say that it’s a tremendous effort. You need to work on it for many years, especially if you have phases where you can’t or don’t want to learn, or work full time, etc.

If it’s just to watch anime, probably not worth it, unless you’re a total ween maybe. I’m my case, I started learning for the sake of it because it’s kind of fun and I found more interests in Japanese after starting to understand a few things.

Ressource wise, I’d recommend taking a look at the tofu guide to learning Japanese, that covers it much better than I could.

Some more resources that I use and really like:

• Wanikani (for studying the thousands of Kanji and some vocabulary with SRS)
• Bin pro (for studying grammar and how to actually use words with SRS)
• the Genki Textbooks (very well guided lessons, especially for Grammar. This can also be used as a basis for bunpro)
• TokiniAndk videos (Japanese teacher, has many videos going over genki too).

You got to be in it for the long run to be able to see any success.

Ich fucking liebe Sprudel ich trinke den ganzen Tag nichts anderes Sprudel ist so gut ihr habt alle keine Ahnung HAHAHA

I love that app so much. My Amseln and Kohlmeisen are so sweet.

Anarcho capitalists freecities are a horrible idea. Wont take long before you can buy people in there, because the only rule is the golden rule.

I am grateful everyday that cars cannot fly.

Plants on buildings bring some architectural and safety challenges, depending on how large they are. You need to somehow get dirt and water up, and the dirt can be pretty heavy. If something falls down into the ground it could hit someone and injured them. And also, with time, roots could lessen the structural integrity of a building.

I don’t get it

(Pie)feds

Sounds neat

In Bad Kreuznach in RLP? I know that city, it’s pretty empty most of the time. Just to be clear, Döner is a specific category of food, and you will likely find a lot of Dönerläden in Germany.

I mean… Can’t happen if you keep your stuff encrypted like with KeePassXC. Even if someone gets my password database, it’s useless for them since they don’t know how to decrypt it. That’s why I don’t use some online service, though using one of the online services is certainly better than reusing a weak remembered password.

This is just a hack. If you use encryption to store passwords, that becomes just a nuisance.

Nurses and caretaker staff “Pflege” are needed here in Germany too, but not sure how viable the pay is.

ありがとう。

私は質問があります。なぜあなたがフルストップを使わないですか。ドイツ語にはたくさんフルストップがありますから。

I’m studying Japanese for over a year now. I recently had another motivation spike after seeing my favorite singer, Ado, live for the first time and understanding just enough to understand that I don’t really understand. I have been doing mostly kanji and vocabulary practice with Wanikani over the past time, but since about 2 weeks, I’m going strong again with daily studying.

I think I’m currently reaching the tipping point where my sentences start to become meaningful, but still take some time to formalize. Having made it a habit to write a few short sentences in 日本語 is something I would definitely recommend, at any level probably. It helps train the learned stuff and adds an immersion factor that is very fun.

話 and 語 are different kanji though. One is talk and one is language. 語 does not seem to have 「はな」as a reading according to jisho.org

日本人ですか。英語は勉強しますか。場語はドイツ語。二年以上日本語を学勉強しています。難しいですけど、日本語は美しい。英語、頑張ってね。

I hope I didn’t make too many mistakes there! I try to write a few sentences per day lately, and for more complex sentences, I use a translation service (https://deeply.com/) and a dictionary to check. The key to language learning is to do at least a little every (or most) days. It’s kind of amazing that I can use English to learn other languages nowadays.

Ado, first time seeing her live next week.

Explain this

If you want DNS only in your LAN, you need to self host a DNS server and register this domain locally (by putting it in some config file of yours)