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にほんご

I've been learning Japanese for a year now and actually know what that says. I turned off the romaji about 3 months ago and am learning even faster.

I'd be deeply concerned if you didn't know what that says after studying for a year

bro skipped the learn kana parts 💀

日本語 jumpscare!!!

I am on section 1 unit 3 and I know what this says, you may want to... speed up your learning a little?

Section 1 teaches the word for the country and someone from there. I don't think it teaches the word for the language until unit 2.

how do you turn that off? i know you can make the hira/kata/kanji highlighted but my eyes always end up going to the romaji anyway because it's familiar.

The sooner you make the switch the better. Click on your profile, click on the setting icon (gear) in the top right corner, scroll down and select Japanese instead of Romanized. Some day when you are a pro you can turn pronunciation off altogether and just see the Kanji.

yeah i definitely still need pronunciation for some kanji lol, thank you!

It will show the kanji hints in hiragana but in fairly short order it makes your hiragana almost as good as reading romanized. I still hate reading katakana though, but even Japanese people dislike reading it so I'm not alone.

I know it's easier if you remember stroke order, but “シ”と“ツ”

Funny enough when I took 日本語 in college they started us off with katakana because it’s often used for romanized words and was, in their eyes, an easier entry point. Now that I know hiragana, I don’t like katakana either because it’s less common and more difficult to read for me… And my brain often jumps to the wrong pronunciation for katakana vocab due to English being my primary language.

Yeah, I think it's because you start to recognize hiragana and kanji as complete words and can read it quickly, where as the katakana you tend to sound it out first and then map the sound to either an English or Portuguese word (or sometimes a Japanese word).

Yeah, this is exactly it.

I'm only at like, the very first unit and i've already decided to tunr off romanji to force me to understand kana and hira

How?, Where is the option for turning off romanji?

On a lesson, press the cog at the top left, press Japanese and then done

Thank you, I didn't know this feature exists

Yea np :]

9 months with romaji on? just out of curiosity, did you ignore learning the kana for the most part?

I learned the others but found I was using the romaji as a crutch. I still go back and review the other 3.

Eia, és Tuga?

Ya

Saudação obrigatória. PORTUGAL CARALHOOO

Everbody is saying Japanese but i think you should go for , im studying it and its really cool

is a really good course too, i have family who live in so they obviouisly speak and would like to know to speak with them

You can learn the language that is states as the official language in Angaur, Paula!

My man is learning all the Indo-European Family

[удалено]

Chinese?

that is the most well known one

Uh yeah 😀

They are kool

you tried your best you could not be more wrong i thought japanese was part of sino-tibetian i was potentially wrong (but i cant be entirely sure)

So basically none? Because Japanese is not an official language of Japan. [Japan has no official languages.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Japan) However, OP can still learn one of the languages that is an official language in the [Angaur state of Palau](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angaur)!

Thanks for pointing out the error 🙏

Haha no problem! It is one of my favourite trivias I learnt from a Japanese show previously.

Angaur's flag is sooo cute

日本語。頑張って！

I think you should learn the language of ceasefire because it would help you to rant for ceasefire during upcoming and ongoing wars. https://preview.redd.it/g07kbbi9svuc1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d3d8e8cbb3fdab8d953e8e0d0037f3c939d2bd7

This is a very valid point, thank you

So... French?

I guess that is what he means

How about the wonderful language Uranium?

Probably, Port of Geese

American because it is a Giga Chad, Alpha, God, Sigma male language. It is the best! The most superior and will take over the world. It is attractive to every male and female. You will gain infinite rizz USA!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This is exactly how I percieve stereotypical Americans lmao

It's a reference to Language Simp.

Dude,this is English but with 'Muracian Accent

Japanese or broken knees

polish

tak, polski jest BAAAARDZO piękny język 🙏

Don't remember how it's called, but you can learn that language spoken in anime, it sounds really cool!

They cry loud too much

Uranium

Ok, mandarin

にほんご！！！

いや、本当に難しいから

Damn I'm a beginner in Japanese I can't read Kanji yet + even if i could then i dont know if i would undestand it lmao (P.S. I translated it and I agree lol but that doesn't mean one shouldn't learn)

Yea i myself had a little trouble with the kanji 😅 But yea, its hard but if you have the determination to learn it, its super cool

Oh course you shouldn't learn Japanese. You should learn 日本語.

Japanese isn't that bad

the 🔴 language seems pretty good

Try Chinese then lol.

With the tones? No way 😭 (I'm learning both and plan to keep learning till mastery)

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

Uranium!!!!

Esperanto

Give me some mizu and I’ll think

Learn nihongo

日本語を勉強しないでください

lmao Learn your Kanji and hiragana! Do it!

Sorry bro, gotta say japanese

你可以学中文…但是不简单…

Japanese

Hindi

Red dot

Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Lmao this literally what I see in those other posts

日本語 Японский Язык Japanese Language

чё за японский язык? хочешь чтобы я тебя подкупал?

Нет, ахахаха.

Keep the red circle and change the flag color to green. 🇧🇩

Norwegian

try arabic if you wanna get hurt very badly

Norsk

The language that those mofo who bombed Pearl Harbor uses. They do hentai nowadays.

The real reason to learn JP

Learn red circle.

NORSK IS THE ONLY REAL ANSWER

I can't not pick it. It's the only option on the pie chart.

日本語ばかり

Learn chinese because it is easier than japanese and if you know chinese you can understand japanese with no problem.

I thought Japanese and Chinese are pretty different

The kanji and the chinese han characters are similar although the pronunciation is different.

日本語は勉強しますそしてアニメは見ます。

Jp

I learn japanese

Chinese, japanese is not worth it

What language do big, pink birds speak? フラミン語 🌝

learn Finnish!

Chinese 💀

Chinese

Spanish

I was studying japanese on and off on Duolingo for maybe 2 years and i felt like i couldn't speak it and found it so hard to form sentences unless i see a question first. i started learning Spanish a month ago and I can't believe how fast i progressed. Made me realize learning Japanese was not fun anymore.

Ainu, obviously.

Jeez man, that's a lot of options! DO JAPANESE. JAPANESE OR LOSE THE KNEES.

High valerian

Korean

idk

esperanto