There is something strangely relaxing about watching someone shop for frozen spaghetti in a Japanese supermarket 😄

I like Taka's daily life channel for listening practice (allthough I wish there was an option to turn off the burned-in English subtitles, I'm using a sheet of paper to cover the bottom half of my display)

https://youtu.be/j8CN95ODekQ?si=_HnvZU530qzbX6ci&t=121

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Learn Natural Japanese from My Daily Life in Japan | JPN/ENG Subtitles #vlog

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I always thought 腹が立つ was really weirdly funny (literally it means "the belly stands up", but the actual meaning is to get angry, or pissed off).

There's a few more 腹 uses in this article 😁

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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2017/03/06/language/belly-nice-nasty-many-uses-hara-japanese/

Belly nice — and nasty: the many uses of 'hara' in Japanese

Introduce a wide range of phrases using the noun u8179 (u306fu3089, belly).

The Japan Times

#LearningJapanese question:

I started reading Japanese books (and I much prefer physical books), and I'm wondering how people deal with finding kanji they don't yet know. Without knowing how they sound, I can't easily look them up - I use the Takoboto dictionary app, and this lets you manually write kanji, but with more complex ones that's very timeconsuming.

Ideally I'd like something that lets me point my phone camera at a kanji (or word containing one or more kanjis), and look it up that way.

I know I can use things like Google Translate with my phone camera, but that translates everything it sees, and I then have to dig around to find the original word/kanji I'm interested in.

Are there any (Android) apps I'm not aware of that would help with this, or any other tips? ありがとうございます!

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https://yomitan.wiki/ is SO USEFUL for learning japanese.... it tells you about inflections and explains them when you click on them, and also has an audio function!

10ten reader is awesome, but yomitan is leagues above even if it is a little more complicated to setup.

dunno if it's useful to anyone else but I discovered it last week and it's been significantly useful already.

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Got stumped once again by a katakana word: ハードル  

(although, to be fair, it's not as bad as ナレッジ)

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What is the Japanese cheesecake yoghurt trend? - BBC Bitesize

It's got two ingredients and it's taken over TikTok

BBC Bitesize

I made it halfway through #WaniKani 🙌 🇯🇵

Just another few years and I'll get to the end. I just have to live long enough. And I already know what 地獄 means. 😂

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Even Duo’s weighing in on current affairs…

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Curious word of the day:

一回り年上 - twelve years older  

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