NoneOfUrBusiness

@NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually hear occasional similarities between Japanese and Cantonese. For example: "world" is "世界", "Sai Gai" in Cantonese, and its "Sekai" in Japanese.

  Wow, that's a lot closer than the Mandarin Shi Jie. Anyway that's one of those Sino-Japanese words; they're kind of like the English equivalent of French loanwords so there's a whole lot of them. Also I guess I have to take back my "it won't help you with listening" bit if Sino-Japanese words are that close to their Cantonese counterparts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Minor nitpick: While Chinese fluency will put you in a marginally better position when learning Japanese compared to a monolingual English speaker, it's really nothing significant. Doesn't really go into the same category as Korean, which is indeed very similar to Japanese. Additionally the only famous language that substantially helps with Japanese learning is Korean, with an honorable mention going to Turkish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For which there are two systems, one of which stops at ten, and the other is highly irregular in its forms.

  I think you mean Wago and Kango counting, in which case Kango isn't irregular at all. There are sound changes, but they almost all follow a handful of basic rules. Wago is plenty irregular, but it also stops at ten and is only used for a handful of things.

  And don't get me started on the calendar.

  The calendar? Their months are literally just firstmonth, secondmonth, thirdmonth, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My weeb ass: My time has come.

  I did it, and for the record my native language has absolutely nothing in common with Japanese. I started with Duolingo and kept at it until I could power through easy manga, at which point and I started doing that. The good news is that if you can power through the early bits, your entertainment (assuming it's in Japanese) will supplement and eventually replace Here are the things I think I did right:

  1. Be willing to invest serious time into studying and/or consuming comprehensible material (also known as immersion). At what point it becomes "not worth it" is up to you, but I'd aim for at least an hour a day.

  2. Watch anime often and attempt to understand what you're hearing (this is separate from studying). You'll fail most of the time at first, but this keeps your ear open so you improve your listening without doing much if any extra work. It also helps you keep track of your progress, since the better you get the more you'll understand. I took a half-year break and when I came back I found my Japanese had improved at least in part because I was watching anime in the interim.

  3. Don't fall for the studying trap. At some point, and probably earlier than you expect, you'll have to drop actual studying material and focus your efforts on immersion. I started by reading a manga called Yotsubato after getting to conditoinals on Duolingo, but really any manga with furigana works. If you find something other than manga you like better then go for that, but you need something and it needs to at least keep you on your toes language-wise and still be ultimately comprehensible. Humans learn language by recognizing patterns within copious volumes of content, not by rationally analyzing those patterns; that latter stuff is for linguists.

  4. Keep challenging yourself. It's easy to think you're not ready to advance to the next level, but you should accept that the transition will be painful anyway and often try your hand at more advanced material (meaning immersion material here, as I said don't bother with advanced studying material). In my case, I thought my Japanese was plateauing after sticking with one thing for too long, but after I read my first light novel I improved ridiculously fast. We're talking serious improvement in a matter of weeks here. You're likely to underestimate the level of material you can digest, so you should take that into account when making decisions.

  Note regarding your native language: I speak basic Chinese and Chinese and Japanese are different enough that you'll be almost no better than an English native speaker when it comes to fundamentally understanding the language. However, the writing system and the prevalence of Sino-Japanese words mean that you'll have a leg up in guessing the meaning of words you don't know when reading, especially after you learn to reverse engineer character simplifications. For example, you'll see something like 解説 and be like "oh that's just 解说." At least coming from the other direction this is super convenient, but it's obviously no substitute for actually learning the language and it won't help you at all when it comes to listening. You also get the joy of seeing exactly how the Japanese butchered Chinese words, so... uh... good luck. You'll have fun with 样/様. So to directly answer your questions:

  YMMV, but I don't think it's hard at all. With the benefit of hindsight, it's no more or less difficult than English.

  If you can commit then no, but obviously yes if you give up in three weeks.

  This isn't as important a decision as you'd expect, but Duolingo will do fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Great Vowel Shift. English writing was sensible in the early 14th century around the time of Chaucer, but then shit got out of whack speaking-wise and the writing system was never adjusted to reconcile the difference. So you can blame the Black Death I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, us Eastern weebs do it too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything about the language is needlessly complicated.

  I mean, there is no language that isn't needlessly complicated. At least Japanese doesn't have gendered nouns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They become evil monsters.

  Most, sure, but far from all. The list of historical benevolent dictators isn't very long, but it's not short either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When asking a question like this, it's good form to edit the answer into the OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you're legally obligated to give me half your earnings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If people on the top rail are equally spaced at a distance d from each other, then you'd need to go a distance nd to kill the nth person. For any number n, nd is just a number, so it'll never be infinity. Meanwhile the number of real numbers between 0 and 1 is infinite (for example you have 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, etc), so running a distance d will kill an infinite number of people. Think of it like this: The people on the top are blocks, so walking a finite distance you only step on a finite number of blocks. Meanwhile the people on the bottom are infinitely thin sheets. To even have a thickness you need an infinite number of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, maybe they're infinitely thin people, in which case you can have one for every real number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Practical application in math tends to be like three degrees of separation and half a century removed from the math at play. In this case, all of modern mathematics is based on set theory, so it's more that this stuff allows us to do other, more practically useful math while knowing what we're talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It's 0. I mean someone has to be the first, but betting on any particular person to be the first will necessarily be a losing bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I like to stir fry mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fulius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say it slowly.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tones is the word, and while Chinese tones are hard they're just part of the pronunciation of a word rather than anything context dependent. The English equivalent would be the stressed syllable in a word, and yes every language has something like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  then that's from there

  I mean, that's not what the word "from" means, otherwise curry would be American food and that aside from not making sense would make the OP a lot less interesting to consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that's (part of) Oceania.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think it's usually associated with the country, but you will find a good amount of Egyptian stuff in a Middle Eastern restaurant, such as falafel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sure, but it's not from those places, which is the point of the OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Korea is doing a lot to keep C viable.

  I mean, even if you don't include China and Japan C also gets to call dibs over places like the Balkans and Caucasus (notably including Armenia), and on top of that it gets Italy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay first we gotta see what each region actually has. I'm gonna only count countries where a significant fraction of the area is included (so no including Italy in D or A or France in H). With that in mind,
  A: French, Germany, British Isles.
  B: Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia.
  C: Balkans, some Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, northern half of Central Asia, Caucasus, Turkey if we're being generous, China, Japan and (North) Korea.
  D: Middle East (sans Egypt), Indian Peninsula, China, Southeast Asia and East Asia
  E: Some Arabian Peninsula, eastern North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa
  F: Most of South America, western North Africa, West Africa
  G: Some South America, Central America, USAmerica, Spain
  H: Spain and USAmerica

  Some are obviously stronger than others stares at D and G, but wow this is more even than I expected. A gets hard carried by France, B gets Italy and Eastern Europe, C gets (some of) that and also Armenia and East Asia, E gets hard carried by Egypt (sorry for the whole rest of Africa, y'all need better PR), F is the birthplace of the potato and while H is just a subset of G it's a pretty decent one. Without further ado, here's my tier list:

  S: D, G, C
  A: A, B, E, F
  B: H

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  E and A are A tier.

  A is obvious, but why E?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.

  But then that's food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or likes French and/or Spanish food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, what does D have other than Asian goodness?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  White Protestants and Mormons do, outside those it's not nearly as clear-cut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the Democrats' 27% was bad, but holy fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So sexy.