I'm planning to visit Japan within the next five years, and I want to learn Japanese in the meantime so I don't look and feel like a complete idiot there. But my biggest problem is learning and retaining the Japanese alphabet. For those of you familiar enough with the language, how did you manage it?
Hiragana - Learn Japanese
It's an app in the Google play store by Legendarya.
There's another one for katakana. It drills in 3 different ways. If you're talking about Kanji and not the kana, I think it's easiest to learn using radicals rather than trying to remember each kanji individually.
Thank you, I'll try that!
learning the kana is really easy, it can be done in a day if you work hard enough. my suggestion is to the hiragana/katakana symbol like 30 or so times and also write the sound it makes. make sure to read various texts - ensure that the kanji has furigana to begin with. read them out loud as well so you get a feeling for how to pronounce the characters as most of them are a lot further from English or the romaji as you think they are (ら(ra) - a mix of L and R, ふ(fu) - a mix of F and H). i personally recommend this website - https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-lessons/fairy-tales-and-short-stories-with-easy-japanese/
there are a few hiragana that look very similar, れ、ね、わ。な、た。ぬ、め、あ。etc etc. if you feel the need to learn the difference, you can write them down next to each other and take your time learning the different strokes.
the most important part of retaining what youve learnt is putting it to use. make sure to consistently read and write in japanese (you can find manga on the site i recommended). write your friends names in katakana for them, write sentences in katakana, learn japanese ONLY using the 2 kanas - thats very important. eventually you wont need consistent practice and it will come very easily, katakana will be the hardest to retain.
as for kanji, its hard, theres no getting around that. keep reading and reading and reading, learn the strokes (or just general strokes), write it down, learn both the kunyomi and onyomi readings, learn to use it in a sentence, the variations of it etc etc. make sure you learn a few each day or week sarting with the most important ones like 私、木、土、木、金、火、日、月 etc etc.
have fun!!! if you have anymore questions feel free to message me
Thank you so much! I'll definitely incorporate this into my studying!
I'm looking for this yaoi: the uke is already married and the seme is his friend and has loved the uke since high school. The seme disappears all of a sudden and the uke keeps searching for him. The uke's friends all know the seme and they know why he's avoiding the uke, but they don't tell the uke. In the end, when the seme and uke are about to have sex, their female friend interrupts them and yells at them because this means the uke is having an affair.
Another scene I remember is that the uke and two of his friends (who are dating) go to the beach and those two just straight up start having sex in public, for which they are arrested for.
Yes, it is! Thank you so much!
you`re welcome^^
Already asked this but looking for more recs! Any yaoi mangas with a yakuza uke and normal working seme? Kind of like Honto Yajuu and Koi Made Hyakurin (I think it was called).
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/grant_my_wish/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/boku_no_shiru_anata_no_hanashi/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/zettai_unmei_houteishiki/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/ikoku_irokoi_romantan/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/never_let_go/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_4th_guard/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/kakugo_wo_kimete/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/warudakumi_ni_mo_hana_wa_furu/ it's a sequel to Koi Made...
I've read most of these already but thank you both anyways!
The-soon-to be-seme is yakuza as well. But former cop. Not ordinary job. Uke has many partners even if he has feeling for the-soon-to be-seme :D
Any yaoi manga with a yakuza uke and normal working seme? Kind of like Honto Yajuu? Thanks to anyone who can help!
Thank you for the recommendation! It was super cute!
Did anyone else's profile get messed up when Mangago changed its URL to .me?
Mine is no problem. There're even more facilities in the list.
Hmm... that's weird because I've lost almost all the mangas under my "read" and "reading" tabs and my Hisoka avatar is no longer there. Even if I want to upload an avatar, it won't let me.
lost most of my list as well.
I'm looking for this yaoi manga where the seme lived right under the uke and his twin brother. The uke's twin brother had a lover who kept mixing the twins up. Because of that, he kept coming on to the uke instead and the uke always hit him and made a huge racket, resulting in the seme going up to the uke's apartment room to complain. The seme learns about the uke's situation and offers to let the uke stay in his house while his brother's lover is there. The twin brother also has his own story, too, I believe. It turns out he was in love with his twin brother all along, but didn't make a move because he thought his brother was straight. He later ends up with a colleague from work. I asked this same exact question a looooonnngggg time ago but I forgot the title yet again. Big thanks to whoever can help me out!
If you get the answer message me the title too because that sounds really interesting!
Yes! It's this one! Thank you so much!
I'm looking for this yaoi manga where the seme lived right under the uke and his twin brother. The uke's twin brother had a lover who kept mixing the twins up. Because of that, he kept coming on to the uke instead and the uke always hit him and made a huge racket, resulting in the seme going up to the uke's apartment room to complain. The seme learns about the uke's situation and offers to let the uke stay in his house while his brother's lover is there. The twin brother also has his own story, too, I believe. It turns out he was in love with his twin brother all along, but didn't make a move because he thought his brother was straight. He later ends up with a colleague from work. I asked this same exact question a looooonnngggg time ago but I forgot the title yet again. Big thanks to whoever can help me out!
Any shounen ai or yaoi recs about raising a child?
well that one http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/tadaima_okaeri/ but its a omegaverse
maybe there is something in my list that appeals to you http://www.mangago.zone/home/mangalist/273771/
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/koishite_daddy/
I already read Tadaima, Okaeri and I love it! I'll definitely check out your list! Thank you!
Thank you! I don't think I've read this one yet!
I've got a list, if you're interested. It's not just shounen ai, though, so just look for the the "shounen ai" tags or a rainbow emoji in the descriptions.
My personal favorites are Koisuru Barairo Tenchou and Yozora no Sumikko de. Chapter 6 of Sessa Takuma! is definitely a good one about childcare.
Ooooh, yay! I'll check it out, thanks!