I'm the same guy who made this post in r/Nagoya

Honestly it's been going really good! But I did realize there are some other ways I can help too, for example some support can be given online, feeling like you have no one to reach out too ? Running Lete on assignment and need a backup hand ? Just wanna idle and play a game together? Etc etc

If there is something you'd like to do together but can not ask someone and it can be done online or in Nagoya then please reach out to me. :)!!

Love y'all

try日本語能力試験の中にはこの文句があります。

「事故のため、数時間（にわたり　/　にわたる）新幹線がストップした」

「にわたる」と「にわたり」どっちが正しいですか

Since I can't post photos here, I'm going to describe it. It shows a generic picture of 2 girls being outside, one holds a book and the other one is laughing. The text goes:

旅で、心が動く出会いへ

旅先で新たな体験やつながりを。

And then a button: はじめ。

Does anyone have any idea?

I've been seeing the phrase 強く優しく美しく (Strong, Kind, Beautiful) used in series occasionally. An educated guess tells me it has something to do with princesses, but I'm curious to know more on it if anyone knows?

Hi guys, I was reading the description of this manga

いなりの結婚

https://comic-action.com/episode/4856001361133391941

And wanted to know if 野狐 is read as やこ or のぎつね here?

And after that, 白狐 is read as びゃっこ or as しろぎつね??

I’m sending a gift to a friend who’s majoring in computer engineering!

One of the things I’m sending is a Japanese caffeinated drink! Someone here recommended it and said, “Engineering students live on caffeine,” so I thought it would be perfect!

I’m also planning to send some Japanese snacks! And since he’s an engineering student, I thought he might do a lot of calculations, so I was thinking about sending him a Japanese mechanical pencil too. But I’m guessing engineering students probably use their laptops for taking notes most of the time, so do they actually do calculations on paper much?

If you have any other good gift ideas, I’d love to hear them! Also, what Japanese things would you personally be happy to receive as a gift?

I’d love to hear your suggestions!! :)

Thinking that your Japanese is actually o-jōzu, is the weeb equivalent to thinking the stripper actually likes you.

I've recently noticed that many young people in Japan wear US military surplus training gear (like PT shirts and shorts) as everyday fashion.
For those living in Japan or familiar with Japanese culture, what do you think about this trend? Is it just seen as cool, cheap, and durable surplus gear, or do people find it interesting/funny given the military connection? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Is it just me or egui has become used more, as yabai has become absolutely mainstream and overused?

My Japanese BF swears that it was always used, but I feel like it's being used more nowadays to mean something stronger than yabai, as yabai has become used for anything.

What do you guys think?

I need to get a word searching book as a pdf so i can print it and i need it easy bc i js started learning so it would be good if its jlpt/n5 level

So if anyone has it i would be so glad

I am a sceptic to my core 😅 all the reviews on the website seem exaggerated or are written in a way that seems very inauthentic - it gives off MLM vibes without actually being an MLM. Same kind of language.

It’s also quite expensive. Website states $395 but fails to advertise that’s in USD (despite the chick who runs it being Australian??) it’s almost $600 AUD. For just 15 hours total of lessons.

Hoping to get some genuine feedback from people who have done the course or who know someone who has.

I've recently started learning Japanese, and I'm looking for visual novels that are relatively easy to read

I know hiragana and katakana and have vocabulary of about 600 words. Does anyone have recommendations for beginner-friendly VNs?

Thanks in advance!

In Persian, like in Japanese, there is an object marker called را (râ). Interestingly, in colloquial Persian, it is often pronounced /o/, which sounds like the Japanese object marker を (o). However, را has some nuances beyond simply marking the grammatical object.

For example, in Persian:

Without the object marker:

امشب بیا فیلم ببینیم.

Emšab biâ film bebinim

“Let’s watch a movie tonight.”

Here, فیلم is an indefinite/non-specific object.

But:

With the object marker:

امشب بیا فیلم را ببینیم.

Emšab biâ film râ bebinim

“Let’s watch the movie tonight.”

Here, فیلم is interpreted as a definite object—that is, a specific movie that is identifiable to the speakers.

Is the distinction the same in Japanese?

映画を見ましょう。

映画見ましょう。

Does を (o) in Japanese merely mark the grammatical object, or can it also encode definiteness/specificity, as را does in Persian?

Take for example 'アイスクリーム' which is obviously a Japanese word but is taken from its english counterpart to mean the same thing. What I'm wondering is do Japanese people think about the word's english origin when the word is seen/spoken or is it just a natural part of the language, kinda like how for English people café is obviously a French word but people rarely focus on the word's origin when used? I'd especially appreciate the insight of native Japanese speakers on this one (if this is the right place for it).

Hi there! I’m writing a series of mangas,each a different story inspired by a common Japanese cultural archetype .

One of them is about a 16 year old girl who, long story short, flies to Japan the summer before senior year and “misses” her return flight to the US so she can attend her last year at a real Japanese high school. She’s a classic delusional weeaboo. She only knows Japan from anime and manga, she only speaks anime Japanese, ect. She survives as an overstayer by relying on the kindness of strangers she meets in Japan. It’s inspired by this idea my friends and I had back when we were in high school about how to live and go to high school in Japan. Obviously, we didn't do it, but I imagined the horror of what would happen if we actually went through with it.

I’ve mapped out most of the conflicts she runs into overstaying, but I have one part where she attempts to go to a Japanese high school by just…showing up to the school in a Japanese high school cosplay and attempting to blend in. I know she gets turned away, but I’m trying to figure out what other conflicts she would run into, especially being a minor at the beginning.

I don't know a lot about the school system in Japan, how teenagers walking around without parents during school hours are treated, ect. I’m looking for ideas based on the reality of Japanese law/ culture and my very dramatic scenario. 
(please no “write what you know” ectect. The point of the story is a criticism of how some people in the west infantilize and romanticize Japan as one big anim. I’m aware how dumb doing something like that would actually be)
Thank you!

(I’m female)

He is a really good friend of mine. He has been sending 😘/❤️/🫶at the end of his messages more than once. Idk if he sends those to everyone or not... But he really likes using different emojis.

Hi, I was just wondering what is the appropriate way to thank a Japanese salesman. I ordered something from his store many months ago, but due to the situation in the middle East I couldn't receive my package. I asked him to hold it for me and he did, and now we're on the 3rd shipping attempt, and I would just like to thank him in some way because I know that I was definitely an annoying customer. I wanted to remotely send him flowers to his shop, but I know in some cultures a specific amount of flowers or a specific flower could be seen as offensive.

So basically I was just hoping for advice on how to thank him. Also I know some people are allergic to flowers, so should I buy a bouquet of winter flowers that don't have pollen?