Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line
29 points by momentmaker 4 hours ago | 11 comments
1317 3 hours ago
well you have a reasonable enough sales pitch on the homepage but I don't see what youtube videos have to do with it
replyand I put a video in to try and apparently there's a 26 minute wait
1317 3 hours ago
ok so it's meant to be speaking practice, expressing yourself in Japanese, but i go to actually try it and it's just translation exercises based on what the guy in the video said?
replyLike it has a sentence he said in Japanese, in English, and you have to translate it back to Japanese? But the sentence isn't a really a response to anything, it's just something the guy said
I don't get it
ranger_danger 3 hours ago
I just want an easy-to-use offline AI chatbot that I can converse with in Japanese to practice with at native speed.
replyDoes this not exist yet?
traceroute66 45 minutes ago
Isn't it called Mistral Voxtral 3[1]
replyNot that I would trust an AI chatbot with Japanese. Most online text translators can barely cope with Japanese, DeepL is the only one that provides passable results. Its a tricky language.
Its a combination of many things, intonation and delivery, politeness (formality, honorifics etc.) level, word choice, particle choice.
Its known as onnarashii (女らしい) speech.
Its a historical thing which is gradually falling out of use. These days you tend to only mostly find it in situations where the politeness levels are needed/expected (e.g. hospitality industry).
the same goes for many langauges, but you need to learn the same japanese but different form and way its spoken. I had this issue too, luckily a few japanese women helped me OL/dates so I could steer but this is a big issue
Imagine a male, non-native English speaker learning from a group of stay-at-home moms. Deep South, Midwest, take your pick. He's gonna pick up some stuff. Men in the US aren't expected to say "Aw honey," or "Bless yer heart!"