I’m looking to close out my wanikani journey by the end of January and it’s been a great resource. But I gotta say, I’ve gotten a lot of perplexed looks when I use some of the vocab I’ve learned here. I’m living in Japan now and my gf is Japanese and it’s become a pretty routine thing for me to us…

[image] cezarL: think about US or UK films from the same periods: there’s hardly any English in them that sounds “off” to our ears. I think I disagree, actually. They sound normal within their context but would sound very strange if someone on the street spoke like that.

[image] pmarsh: Anyone else run into this? Yes. After getting to a much higher level and looking back, it was very surprising to see how many words seemed innocent at the time actually turned out to be much less common than I anticipated. And also how many of them also have seeming little val…

WaniKani is a kanji-learning website Why are there purely kana words then? これリンゴするノートテレビうんはいもう They are not all that many but why have them at all?

[image] Uglan: WaniKani is a kanji-learning website Why are there purely kana words then? これリンゴするノートテレビうんはいもう They are not all that many but why have them at all? That is a can of worms that maybe would be better left unopened… :innocent:

[image] KJules: I think I disagree, actually. They sound normal within their context but would sound very strange if someone on the street spoke like that. I was thinking more in terms of the vocabulary (and it still being widely used), rather than plucking out whole exchanges and putting the…

Yeah I learned the hard way a lot of it can be replaced by loan words or some other phrase that carries the nuance you’re actually looking for. I don’t have offhand examples because it’s been a minute, but yeah, this is largely why consuming native content or even just other things outside of WK is…

This is definitely a trap you can fall into as certain words in English can have such broad usage, but in Japanese they may have several different words that all have more specific usage but fall under that singular broad word in english. As an example, I had a lesson with my tutor this afternoon a…

[image] pmarsh: But I gotta say, I’ve gotten a lot of perplexed looks when I use some of the vocab I’ve learned here. I’m with LisaVeeta and Jintor that this isn’t (so much) a WK problem, as a context problem. It’s basically assured that anytime I use a word I learned without genuine context …

Routinely laughed at when using wanikani vocabulary words

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