I’m still fairly new at learning Japanese, but I want to order at a ramen restaurant this weekend in Japanese, as our usual waitress there is Japanese. I’m hoping that trying to have a conversation in Japanese will help boost my confidence a little. I’m just not sure if my phrasing is natural or not (granted it’s from google translate, and I wouldn’t put it past them to make it sound robotic)

Here it is in kanji:

子供達で豚骨キッズラーメンを分け合います、野菜抜きで。別のボウルをいただけますか。

私はうどん にします。天ぷらは別のお皿にしてもらえますか

The English pronounce of the kanji:

Kodomodachi de tonkotsu kizzurāmen o wakeaimasu, yasai nuki de. Betsu no bōru o itadakemasu ka.

Watashi wa udon ni shimasu. Tenpura wa betsu no o sara ni shite moraemasu ka?

English translation:

The children will share the Tonkotsu Kids' Ramen—without the vegetables. Could we get an extra bowl?

I'll have the udon. Could I have the tempura served on a separate plate?

Salut à tous,
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Salut à tous,
Ne trouvant pas mon bonheur pour réviser et m'entrainer à bien retenir les hiraganas et Katanas, j'ai créé ce site web perso. Pas de pub , pas de données utilisateurs, juste s'entrainer quand on a quelques minutes devant soit.
https://manasobu.penloup.eu/
si vous voyez des améliorations ? ou suggestions, je prends

This update is mainly a complete overhaul on Jiwami's UI and design, but it also has major vocabulary extraction improvements, proper Settings customization, huge Manga accuracy and speed improvements, and a lot of smaller fixes and optimizations across Jiwami.

Complete UI and design overhaul

Complete overhaul to all the Screens.

Home:

Home screen

Archive:

Archive screen

Settings:

Settings

Result Screen cards show all the definitions for the overview. Recent history is now synced with Archive, and Archive entries open in the full custom screen.

Result:

Result screen

Archived:

Archived screen

Long file names now move to be readable instead of clipping.

Slide

Source rows, text sizes, spacing, icons, and metadata were cleaned up across the whole interface. Window sizes also got improvments and more flexability.

Settings presets and customization

You can now make proper Settings presets for Anime, Manga, Novels, or whatever workflow you want. Give them any name and color you want, select them later, update them, or make a new one from your current Settings. The selected one has its own animated color effect so you can tell what you are using immediately.

https://reddit.com/link/1vs2qyz/video/e2tyhc0y67kh1/player

If you change Settings without using a preset, you can just apply them normally. If you are editing a preset, you can update it. There is also a proper color picker now for presets, pitch accents, and target-word highlighting instead of being locked to a few colors.

More card control

Context furigana can now be shown on the front, back, both, or neither. The target word itself has a separate furigana setting, so you can show furigana for the whole context but hide it only for the mined word, or do the opposite.

ON

Off

Target-word highlighting can now be turned on or off, and you can choose its color. English definitions can now be turned off completely if you rather use the monolingual dictionaries only, or limited from 1 to 10 meanings if you do not want a card filled with too much English.

Vocabulary extraction improvement

Jiwami is now much better at handling dialectal, archaic, variant, and longer chain-heavy forms, with around 32% fewer measured errors.

Speed improvments are also a big part of this update. As i said before, extraction is done mainly with GPU. CPU also works, but it'll always be much slower. In my testing with a 667-line subtitle file, both the GPU and CPU gave the exact same final result: 656 Unique vocabulary.

My RTX 3060 Ti took 2 minutes, while the i5-12600 took 27 minutes, which is around 92% less time on the GPU for the same result. Of course this is one test on my own hardware, so do not take it as a universal number, and better hardware means even faster speeds.

Manga accuracy improvements

Manga text recognition now reaches 100% accuracy across 100 complex-layout Berserk pages. Berserk has very busy layouts, so this was not easy. Most of the text was already correct; the biggest improvements were punctuation and all the small details around it, bringing the number of mistakes down from 312 to 0 across these pages.

Manga speed improvements

The same 100 difficult Berserk pages used to take 28 minutes and 42 seconds. They now take 4 minutes and 48 seconds, which is around 83% less time or almost 6x faster while keeping 100% accuracy across the same pages.

Like always these numbers are from my own PC with these exact 100 pages, so they are not universal. Better hardware will be faster, but the same improvements are there for everyone.

For additional info, see the Jiwami changelog.

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Any recommendations are greatly appreciated!
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I've been using duolingo now for about 900 days, mostly because of a bet ive had with a friend. Now that the bet is over and because of their ai policy I no longer want to use it.
Ive mostly been using it on days that I just didnt have the time or energy to open my book, it was always meant as a maintenance resource anyways.
The new app should also have short lessons and maybe a streak system (i like being able to see my consistency). It would also be nice to have something where i can just input my progress because that was something that really annoyed me about Duolingo, i was almost always a lot of grammar points behind (about 6ish genki chapters) on the app. It would also be nice if it wouldnt progress at the insane crawl that duolingo is, 900 days and i should be N3 or at least N4 territory, but ive only recently finished genki 1 (which should put me at the beginning of N4 material) and as I said before i am on Genki chapter 6 material on duoling (they dont really align though).
Thanks in advance

So far it feels like alien but i feel with enough exposure i might get used to it!!!🥹💕

Its me again! Should've specified...

I wanna learn Hiragana and Katakana.

I'm looking for a website (for now) because I can't afford books ATM. Which I would prefer a free or free trial website to learn both of those things.

Hopefully is beginner friendly, because I do not know ANYTHING, a bit of basics but thats all...

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For those of you who’ve taken a long break, what helped you get back into studying? Did you start from where you left off, review everything, or just jump back in and pick things up as you went?

Would love to hear what worked for you!

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