I can’t help but to think most of the apps out there teach you how to speak in a very robotic tone. Now, I don’t mean I don’t want to use complex and sophisticated grammar, as a nerd I absolutely do and I do that in English a lot just because that’s who I am as a person, I definitely would like to learn college-level Japanese as well as common slang, both well known, foreverproof idioms, as well as the common, recent slang as it comes out, I want to be extremely robust in my Japanese knowledge, both *extremely* “book smart and street smart”, however, what I am referring to when I say robotic, is the TONE. You know how in English, you will hear that robotic tone sometimes set up for a specific thing? Like, it could be some computer software, or it could be, idk, the damn bus terminal saying what bus is coming, or just whatever AI is set up for service design at whatever venue or whatever. THAT is what I’m talking about. The voice-mail box standard gretting is another example “The number you have reached is not available right now’. Stuff like that. The robot voice. I don’t want to sound like that, but in Japanese. What apps or websites can I use to learn Japanese to sound casual (and again, I don’t necessarily mean a lack of formal, but I just want the ability to switch between ” *more* casual” and more formal, JUST like we do in English, I’m just saying I don’t want the robot tone
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Girlfriends.
My Japanese was okay, then I dated and lived with a girl for a year who had zero interest in English and would constantly talk and text my head off. My Japanese ability skyrocketed that year.
All the apps are for beginners, and need to teach basic stuff first. That’s why they all sound a bit robotic. You need to learn what you’re leaving it out before you can leave it out. Once you have some understanding of Japanese, it becomes easier to learn slang from actual Japanese people or even from youtube.
that’s something you learn over time