Have you done your gaming reps today?

>>716229212 (OP)
N2 vocabulary, N3 grammar.
Can I play vidya now?

>>716229212 (OP)
The last time i read something remotely challenging was a month ago, so not really
>>716229671
Oh man i remember back when i had to spend 100+ hours to finish Steins;Gate because it was one of my first VNs in nipponese.

I gave up. I got filtered by everything after hiragana and katakana. The smug bitch was right, I'll never learn.

Playing Tear Ring Saga

no
but I'm attempting to email my 特定非営利活動団体 about Denpasoft and the related incoming age verification bullshit

>>716229212 (OP)
I'm two thirds through my daily 270 Anki Korean words.

>>716230792
I got filtered by everything after n5 vocab. There are no convenient resources after that point.

>>716229212 (OP)
I'll do them later. It's fun getting better at remembering words or spitballing new words from previous kanji readings/meanings and getting them right, but it feels like the grammar never actually sticks. Forming sentences seems alien at my level and the only time I come across it is when I painstakingly try to grind a VN with textractor & GPT as the only grammar deck I have isn't working for me.

>>716229212 (OP)
I wish. I have come to terms with the fact that I'm never gonna make it. I think I'll get to N2 and stop there currently playing through akatsuki halloween nightmare
>>716230792
sounds like you didn't try very hard
>>716232083
>specific non-profit activist organization
who could it be now?
>>716233025
there are. relying on J-E dictionaries can get you relatively far. for grammar you pick your favorite recourse and read up on it (dictionaries of japanese grammar, a handbook of japanese grammar patterns for teachers and learners, donnna toki dou tsukau nihongo hyougen bukei jiten, nihongokyoshi-net)
if you need help with similar words, there are synonyms dictionaries but they're in nip I think

>>716233719
the best way to form sentences is to make them. find examples in the wild. e.g. for 代わりに
このカメラ、写真がよく撮れる代わりにバッテリー容量が非常に小さい
this camera takes some great pics, but(代わりに on the flipside) its battery life is dogshit
ps: do not confuse with A一方でB

>>716229671
Pretty sure you can play at N5. You vastly overestimate the level needed to play vidya. Unless it's final fantasy. I hear FF will fuck with you.

I went a little hard on Anki. I've temporarily disabled my current sub deck and am just reviewing what I've already seen. Now I have more time for immersion and other things I've been neglecting for time.

>>716234183
I got N5 with barely 20h of total studying and most of that was the night before the exam while drunk. A retarded monkey with a sock sniffing addiction could easily outscore me but I assure you that N5 is nowhere near playing territory. Maybe South of N2 and that's being generous and depends heavily on the game.

>>716233719
Read manga instead if you're just starting out on immersing, it's a zillion times easier for the most part. Most VNs are aimed at adults while a sizable portion of manga (the majority, probably?) is aimed at kids. Videogames with furigana are also a decent option since if it has furigana it's 99% made with retarded kids in mind as well.

>>716234927
I didn't mean N5 as in passing the test, I meant N5 as in
>Linguistic competence required for the JLPT
>One is able to read and understand typical expressions and sentences written in hiragana, katakana, and basic kanji.
I think if you're just studying for the exam you'll have the knowledge to pass the exam but because exams aren't all-encompassing you'll be too specialized. Even at higher levels sometimes. Whereas if you're just learning the language and then evaluating where you'd place, N5 would be enough because you'd have tons of extra miscellaneous crap on top. So it would be enough. Atleast that's what I think, not sure if that's actually sensible.

>>716230792
>I got filtered by everything after hiragana and katakana
then you didn't even try

I finished the 1.5k core deck. Wondering if I should start 6k

>>716236760
Not him, but I remember feeling the exact same way. The realization that you now have thousands of symbols to memorize that are much more complex than the ones you just memorized hits you like a ton of bricks. No matter what, this shit takes time. A shitload of time. I'm now years into learning but I quit multiple times along the way. I think the key to not quitting is immersing ASAP, because as soon as I started doing that it stopped feeling like an endless grind and started being fun. Immersion requires a different kind of brain power than memorizing vocab/kanji though. It's more fun but more difficult early on, I think. Memorizing vocab is comparatively mindless tedium.

>>716237127
>The realization that you now have thousands of symbols to memorize
I'm astounded that anyone would take a crack at the language without knowing that
>that are much more complex than the ones you just memorized
it gets easier as you go, believe me. I see 蔽 in 隠蔽(conspiracy), I think of 弊社(our ruinous company), 貨幣(currency), 一瞥(one cursory look). all because the "big monolithic splotches" share the same big part

Reps? Just fucking read more.

>>716240790
Is that LN good? I've read only books so far and need recs

>>716240790
sure, just give me a sec... no thanks

>>716240995
That depends. Do you like the idea of a shallower, accelerated version of 週クラ that takes 4 volumes to start finding its feet?

Looking rough

>>716229212 (OP)
I tried playing some ps2 and snes games but the kanjis are really hard to read. So I've been looking for HD games with conversation logs but so far I've only found VNs.

Im lazy and lost my motivation. Maybe someday I'll get to play those cool untranslated games, but probably not.

>>716241605
Look for games with furigana, why do you need conversation logs? That's almost exclusively a VN feature, not sure why you would expect that. This random youtuber compiled a handy list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14TKRFvnDmBsgfxCJzkaNKTKmx4qDcsv7QSmfyzIKxQ4
There's probably way more than just this but it's a start.