jakwithoutac

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• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to Japan for my honeymoon and so did the obligatory ‘learn the basics’ that I try to do before any trip to a new country.

  Getting to a polite level so you can order food, find a train station and so on is relatively easy - probably a week’s effort if you really go for it.

  Getting to a conversational level is a whole extra jump from there, however. Definitely a bigger leap than the equivalent in Spanish, for example. Based on this, I’d think that getting to a level where you can follow native speakers doing the exaggerated anime over-acting dialogue would be a hell of a slog and a very commendable achievement.

  As everyone else is saying, the written language is very hard to learn, especially if you’re new to non-Latin alphabets. Japanese has three of the damned things and they mix and match seemingly at random (to the eye of the uneducated).

  My opinion: if you have an interest and an excuse, go for it! Learning more is never the wrong answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swords suck, spears are a way more effective weapon⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was incredibly nerdy and I loved every second of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When I make my own pizza I use the spare sauce as a dip. Bit of olive oil and fresh basil over the whole thing makes the crust pretty much as nice as the rest.

  Also for the stuffed I think you have to do more of a burrito roll type thing so that the edge is trapped by the weight of the stuffing.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally I’d whole heartedly agree, but to be accused of anything even close to CSAM means he is likely one of:

  • guilty, and not smart enough to hide it
  • innocent, and incredibly stupid (considering his position in media)
  • the victim of a very dark Wile E. Cayote frame up job

  Guess we’ll all find out soon enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh ffs is anybody on TV not a paedo?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dartmoor wild camping to resume after appeal win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  My word, some good news! Hopefully the extension happens and all my country-boy dreams can come true