Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

jivx.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 86 posts

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#41

Post by narreme »

3371 wrote: post #37
jameshart wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So.. I know many people can read hiragana, but it is a very annoying habit of people who know a bit of Japanese to post un-transliterated Japanese text on an English language forum. For someone who doesn’t know Japanese your post reads ‘IIRC it’s a popular TTS character called ??NOT?FOR??YOU??’ - it communicates no information. Writing ‘a popular TTS character called ずんだもん (zundamon)’ takes you very little time and g…

I did but I removed the English part, not because I assume people can read hiragana, but because I assume people will need to search it up anyway.

fwiw i recognize "zundamon" (and many other romanized japanese names/terms) without needing to look them up, but can not read the japanese

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#43

Post by nsfmc »

philote wrote: post #26
Zababa wrote: post #12

This looks good and I like the idea but I don't get what the "practice" is here?

Yeah I loaded it up and had no idea what to do.

you listen to the audio and try to determine if you can either read or understand the audio. it's repeated twice, once formally and once casually, so good for listening practice, but also good for adding new words/phrases into your vocabulary since some of them might be familiar but maybe reconfigured in a way that you don't normally see in your practice.

this is probably only useful if you've started learning a very small amount of grammar, know hiragana well enough to make furigana useful, and have started memorizing enough kanji/vocab to make 'overheard train chatter' useful. probably, generously, something maybe 3-6 months into your japanese language journey, so not good for bootstrapping.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#44

Post by altairprime »

Keyframe wrote: post #24
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Japan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.

How infantile then

Comparing our culture to others, women in the U.S. are raised to do much the same. Ask anyone woman constantly misgendered for not having a high-pitched woman’s speaking tone (e.g. pacific islanders) and they’ll confirm. Best not throw stones from glass houses.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#47

Post by Zababa »

nsfmc wrote: post #43
philote wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I loaded it up and had no idea what to do.

you listen to the audio and try to determine if you can either read or understand the audio. it's repeated twice, once formally and once casually, so good for listening practice, but also good for adding new words/phrases into your vocabulary since some of them might be familiar but maybe reconfigured in a way that you don't normally see in your practice. this is probably only useful if you've started learning a very…

That makes sense. It seems a bit too slow to be really useful, as in, I feel like you'd want either to replay the audio as much as you want, or you can kind of listen passively/actively to something simple and slow.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#48

Post by redwall_hp »

vlian2088 wrote: post #33
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Japan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.

that's just how their women sound to us. cutesy anime girls are voiced by aunties over 30.

As an addendum: Japanese isn't as all-in on pitch having semantics as Chinese, but pitch is very important. Words have "pitch accent" rather than "stress" the way English has, and overall pitch is strongly politeness-coded.

Speaking higher is politer, and noticeably dropping your pitch is threatening. You probably would pitch-up when speaking to your boss, and people working in shops or restaurants nearly sing welcome/thank you for coming type things.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

#49

Post by socalgal2 »

LastMuel wrote: post #21
worrycue wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Works fine for me on a 17e.

I’m on an 11 Pro. The site works fine. The issue is the audio. It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I’m using is closed. It took a phone reboot to stop playing. I’m not claiming that there’s malicious activity on the part of the site. I just wonder if there is something anomalous about how it plays audio.

It's a bug in WebKit.
Post reply on HN