@emb I want to read more. anyone have any recommendations for good physical books for someone who is still a beginner at reading Japanese?

are the “Learn Japanese Through Haiku” books any good?

no manga or VNs please

#JapaneseLanguage #LanguageLearning

@emb @MastKalandar what’s the advantage of using piefed? I don’t know much about it

@Grail my question is, did you have to remove all your hair from down there before surgery? and can you still grow hair there now?

@darklamer @osloengelen English has a term that’s sort of the opposite of that, “Irish twin.” Means a kid born less than a year after their previous sibling. Comes from the time when Irish-American immigrants were known for having lots of kids.

@ascend it’s easier for me to do when I squeeze my eyes shut and yawn. I don’t know why

@lasta what language?

@emb I need to study more. I also made a new rule for myself that I’m not allowed to buy any more Japanese manga/books until I’ve read the stuff I have.

@arxaseus what are you using to study Irish?

@emb yes but I’ll take another look

@emb I’ve been reading lots in my mother tongue, English, and I wish I could read so easily in Japanese… I need to find some good books for beginners. And by that I mean regular reading, not manga. I do have manga I want to read too but it’s different…

@recursive_recursion fish wife! looks cool

@emb I was having technical problems with anki but I think it’s mostly fixed now… I downloaded this deck for Japanese

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782

#anki #LanguageLearning

@Lazycog I’m reading the Cure Dolly transcript.

https://kellenok.github.io/cure-script/

@arxaseus thanks!

@Lazycog one of my resolutions for 2026 is to learn and practice Esperanto and Japanese, so that will be my focus. I’m trying to find easy things to read in both languages.

Esperanto seems fairly easy to pick up but it’s difficult to find interesting things to read- at least for a beginner like myself. Japanese, on the other hand, has a steep learning curve but lots of books I want to read. I have some manga I imported a while ago and while I enjoy looking at the art, it would be nice to read it properly! No one else has bothered to translate them so this is my only option.

@emb thanks for sharing!

@emb I want to use a little bit of Esperanto and Japanese every day.

@Lazycog it’s easy to find lemmy communities on mastodon but following them is somewhat clunky… there’s no way to follow a lemmy and see just the original threads without replies. that’s probably why

@Lazycog I decided to set aside some time to study Spanish, but I haven’t done much yet.

@StarvingMartist there’s a short stop-motion anime called My Little Goat that’s very visceral-looking and gross, it’s about a wolf trying to eat goat kids and I think it’s meant as a metaphor for csa? I don’t remember it super well because I only watched it once and that was more than enough for me… I don’t know what you consider “scary” but it was super disturbing.

Funny thing is, the guy who made it later made Pui Pui Molcar.