I want to get better with reading Japanese and looking up kanji, and I think a good way to do that is to look at what actual Japanese people are saying to each other. Movies, news articles, books, etc. don’t always reflect how Japanese is truly spoken or written, after all. And I’m learning Japanese to enjoy Japanese media, yeah, but I also want to talk to Japanese people and sound as natural as possible.
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i’m not sure about reddit… im pretty sure it’s not very popular in japan. you can definitely find a large Japanese community on 2channel or Twitter though
youtube is a good place , since everyone and their dog posts there now it’s pretty easy to find vlogs about people’s lives in Japan.
There is a channel called [JapaneseReaction](https://youtube.com/@japanesereactionchannel) which focuses on the response to anime that has aired , (I’m guessing from 2chan or Twitter)
There are hardly any Japanese on Reddit. (So many items are completed with incorrect information about Japan.)
Even if you search for Japanese on Reddit, many of them seem to be written in Japanese by non-Japanese people who write in Japanese they just learned for the fun of it.
If you want to have an actual exchange with the Japanese, 5ch is by far the best place to go, but there is so much slang that you won’t understand anything. Even if you barely translate it, it is extremely difficult to read its nuance.
How about watching a channel on Youtube that specializes in Japanese expressions?
lol no
forget about reddit
try a place where actual natives post https://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/articles/qa/
and if youre willing to use a vpn try yahoo chiebukuro
I’d say try twitter
You’ll really need to use 2ch/5ch or Twitter if you want an active Japanese userbase
Not a subreddit but Jarmans Channel translates 4chan /a/ board to Japanese for native japanese speakers, they also filter through the bad posts leaving only the good stuff!
https://youtube.com/@kowakunotsuboDX
r/newsokuexp is one that has some users, but it’s news focused and doesn’t have that much activity compared to some other options listed here.
/r/lowlevelaware might be the best you’ll find as far as reddit goes.
At some point I joined the /r/japanese sub. It had no Japanese and mostly people asking extremely basic questions which are a Google search away or asking about language learning, completely ignoring this very sub here.
If you want to banter with real Japanese people, that’s Twitter :D.