Chapter 1 and 2 Start Date: 04 December Next Week: Here [image] 極主夫道・The Way of the Househusband Home Thread Vocabulary List The Way of the Househusband This Sheet is private Please read the editing guidelines before contributing! Useful resources Kans…

On page 15, when I read the word 事務所 (office), I thought there was some other meaning attached to this word as used in the yakuza world but after looking up info, it literally means office. Apparently there are yakuza offices set up all over Japan which operate openly just like a legitimate busines…

I haven’t ever seen one in person, and I don’t really know anything about how it works in real-life, but it’s common in yakuza media for a 組 to have a 事務所, the impressiveness of which roughly corresponds to the group’s importance in the hierarchy. Some examples: This… ad for a comedian being added…

Yeah, that video was kinda funny with the gunshots but it seems like these offices do exist. According to wiki, “The Yakuza repeated their aid after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, with groups opening their offices to refugees and sending dozens of trucks with supplies to affected areas.” …

So I’ve looked through the first chapter and the thing I’m stuggling most with is grammer. When you guys notice an unknown grammer point, how do you figure out what it means? I’m preferably looking for free online sources as that would be the most convenient.

I usually use the Bunpro grammar index as a starting point to figure out what the exact grammar point I’m stuck on is. Their explanations are a bit short though (and at least partly behind a paywall I think), so from there I either check Tae Kim or just google something like for example ‘から grammar’…

If you have questions pertaining to this particular book, it might be helpful to ask some questions here because a lot of the dialogue is not standard Japanese so you might have trouble trying to use the usual sources. We may be able to help “translate” the sentence or phrase from kansai ben to sta…

[image] trout: 食ってんの？食ってるの shortening 〜ているの to 〜てんの is a pretty standard colloquialism

On that note, this thread might be of some use to you. It lists some of the more common contractions that you’ll come across (and likely covers pretty much everything we’ll see here). However, for a (much) larger list of contractions. List of Japanese Contractions | Japanese with Anime (Thanks @D…

@theghostofdenzo @anon99047008 Ah, OK. This kansai ben thing is making me overthink everything. :exploding_head:

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This comment I made over in the ABBC has a number of resources that I use when searching grammar. You can skim past the explanations and just check out the links for yourself, if you like.

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