I wonder if I should try using that site to help me learn Nihongo
Sure if you want to end up sounding like a deranged asshole when trying to speak Japanese with others. You'll end up being a walking copy of the worst of 4chan thinking it's normal language or not as edgy as it really is.
Even when reading english imageboards I have no idea what they are talking about 90% of the time due to all the slang and them not providing any context whatsoever, you can imagine how useful japanese imageboards are.
Is 2chan as filled with bot-like buzzwords as modern 4chan? I feel soory for those japanese trying to learn english through 4chan.
Imagine the looks a foreign person would get if they were using 4chan slang in normal conversation without knowing what it was
No, you won't learn Japanese by browsing Japanese message boards or watching anime you actually have to study, and it takes forever. Just leave the Japs alone they have their culture we have our own.
Actually talking with foreigners is a great way to learn language, though it's hard to find people as patient as your parents, and your parents only talk their native language. I recommend reading visual novels to study language, textractor + rikaichamp are great tools to read things. I recommend you play Baldr Sky if you don't have a vn in sight.
>>7 Wtf lol shut up... stop calling everyone you don't agree with a nazi...
I google translated a couple of threads on the shogi board. Nearly every thread devolves into wanting to fuck the female players. I guess if you want to seem really horny it'll do you well.
They got priorities right, I guess. What else is there to do with female shogi players other than making more of them?
I think it's important to learn slang but not as a starting point in learning a language. You should also at least know the meaning of the words before usage.
>>7
How the hell do you invoke Godwin's Law without the argument even starting?
Probably not. You probably want to learn the language in its legitimate use before its slang-informal use.
どうでも出来ないわ。日本語はおそらく時間かかて最後でやめる
lernu esperanton, gejaĉo
Esperanto is a false prophet.
If you're going to learn an international language, it must be Volapuk.
I can't think of a worse place to learn a language than a slang-heavy website that's mostly text with very little context to help you figure out words you're unfamiliar with.
2chan is about as dead as 4chan. The nijiura boards are just 2D porn dump threads with a lot of posters just submitting images with no text. Some of the more discussion orientated boards are about as active as a small altchan. Other than whatever it is otakus are tapping too, you won’t learn anything from that site.
>>24
But 4chan isn't dead. It's the most popular imageboard and most active.
Futaba has never been a chatty site. The whole purpose of an imageboard in Japanese net culture was to share high quality images. Serious talk was for discussion boards, which in English we call textboards. Hence the many posts that are just images with no text. It’s always been that way. Futaba is less active today than it’s heyday and most of the users are old anyway. That’s because Twitter and other American platforms have successfully colonized the Japanese internet and neither Futaba nor 2channel/5channel can compete.
>>25
4chan is a zombie site. It’s very active, but high quantity is combined with extremely low quality. The majority of threads on most boards are one or two line bait posts designed to provoke an argument. There’s a surplus of useless generals so fast they are basically chatrooms. The place is crawling with lame Twitter memes, reposting of the same old templates and is filled with deranged right wingers and actual normalfags. It’s becoming less and less of a Futaba clone dedicated to otaku culture and just unfiltered Twitter/Reddit dedicated to racism and culture wars bullshit. You’ll get called a tranny for posting anime or using Linux. In that sense, it’s a spiritually dead site.
I don't know if you people are just bullshitting or not, but may, which is the main Futaba board, is everything but dead and image dump threads there have always been the absolute minority (or on the rest of the site really, except for a few particular boards).