Jakwithoutac

Quick tempered pappardelle

I went to Japan for my honeymoon and so did the obligatory ‘learn the basics’ that I try to do before any trip to a new country.

Getting to a polite level so you can order food, find a train station and so on is relatively easy - probably a week’s effort if you really go for it.

Getting to a conversational level is a whole extra jump from there, however. Definitely a bigger leap than the equivalent in Spanish, for example. Based on this, I’d think that getting to a level where you can follow native speakers doing the exaggerated anime over-acting dialogue would be a hell of a slog and a very commendable achievement.

As everyone else is saying, the written language is very hard to learn, especially if you’re new to non-Latin alphabets. Japanese has three of the damned things and they mix and match seemingly at random (to the eye of the uneducated).

Edit: forgot to say - I like Duolingo for ease of access and I also bought a little phrase book.

My opinion: if you have an interest and an excuse, go for it! Learning more is never the wrong answer.

Just fyi, the song is called “No Time For Caution” and it slaps in every possible way

I’ve been bbq-ing since mid January for various events we’ve hosted, but I’d say the first proper British BBQ day was yesterday for where we are.

Now that I’ve invited people over for this proper first-bbq-of-the-year shindig, the sun has decided to go all shy.

So the answers in this post are mostly that people are downvoting the bot because it is often wrong and then others defending it by saying “it’s not wrong it’s just based on American politics”.

If the bot reported from a range of sources that reflect a number of different political perspectives I’m sure it’d be more useful outside of the scope of American politics, and therefore wouldn’t get downvoted.

As far as I’m concerned the vote system is working as intended.

The internet is not American. There are no nations on lemmy ✌️