I bought a Japanese laptop 2 years ago (which has the kana on the keys for those who wish to use it that way) but I have talked to some of my Japanese friends and not one of them use it that way. (not typing romaji style)

The one exception (and I mentioned in a previous article) is when Japanese people type on their cell phone. As I mentioned, each key corresponds to a consonant sound + the 5 vowel sounds.. Hard to explain.. If I find the other thread, I’ll link it..

tl:dr – just type in romaji, but if you really want to practice, you should be writing with a pen and paper. period.

unfortunately missing, not all the kanji will have furigana. it depends on the system the karaoke box uses. i’ve been put into some crappy situations expecting to see furigana and being completely disheartened when the song came up…

だって パパは そのとき…泣いていたから。

1. What does だって mean?
Basically it comes off as ‘but, but, but….’ In my opinion it’s kind of girly or childish.’

2. What does だってパパはそのとき… mean?
But, papa, you were…

3. What does 泣いていたから mean?
because you were crying…

4. What’s the whole sentence?
But, papa, you were the one crying!

I’m currently living in Japan studying, but not formally at a language school. Actually my coworker who is finishing his contract in October will be starting a language school in January next year.

But regardless, coming to Japan to work or study will drastically improve your Japanese. Especially if you come here with a solid foundation to build on.

ああ、そうと思った。

welcome to my world =(

I bought this damn laptop 2 years ago when I first got to Japan and it has been running Japanese windows ever since.

This topic almost tempted me to change it English… but I’ve come this far, so I might as well keep it…

ATTN: Even NEW Users!

I highly recommend logging into the teamspeak channel. Even if you can only speak in simple sentences or whatever, I still recommend it.

Even for me living in Japan, I have learned that motivation is not a constant. It generally comes in waves. And for me, teamspeak reignited my fire to study a little harder and more diligently. I think this can motivate anyone to try a little harder.

Good luck everyone!

I can agree with what is written above to some degree with everyone and a little of my own opinion… Here goes…

‘To each his own’ right?

I mean the most we can do is recommend to others our own method of doing things, and hope that someone might find it useful.

I, myself, never bothered to use RTK. I found it kind of extra effort to remember the kanji once for meaning (1 kanji – 1 english meaning) and then to learn again for some vocab (one reading) and perhaps another reading (further vocab?). So I skipped on the RTK all together.

I don’t memorize kanji unless I know atleast one vocab word containing it. And even then, I memorize it by using the vocab. This method has been very effective for me in recent months. I have taken to writing practice as a way to commit them to memory and associate them to a vocab word for meaning.

But again, to each their own…

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