For those who do, how do you use twitter for immersion? how can you set up a japanese feed? is it easy to interact with people or they will likely laugh at you if you make mistakes?
I say don’t do that, but rather get a language exchange app. I use tandem, and the whole purpose is to speak to someone that speaks the language you want to learn and vice versa. It’s really easy and you don’t need to deal with twitter and it’s problems.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t use Twitter to talk with random people. I use it to follow (1) people I’m interested in, and (2) real-life friends, and the only ones I’ll actually interact with are (2).
Of course, it’s perfectly fine and even a good idea to use it for reading practice. There’s no such thing as setting up “a Japanese feed”. You just follow Japanese people who post in Japanese, and read their posts. That’s it.
I can only say that the official Twitter app’s Google translate is junk and should not be used.
I don’t reply to Japanese speakers often on Twitter, but I occasionally do. You don’t need to set up a new account unless you want it 100% Japanese. If you switch your language/country to Japan in account settings, the algo will start showing you Japanese tweets more often.
I’ve never seen anyone be made fun of on there for having poor language skills. If someone does that, they’re probably just a dick. I will say though that I think it’s slightly less customary to just jump into random people’s replies on the Japanese side of Twitter. You will often see people say 「FF以外失礼します」, which basically means “excuse me for interacting without being a mutual”.
But I’d say Twitter’s probably a good place if you’re looking to start interacting with people in Japanese. Definitely lower stress than a voice chat, video call, or other things that get recommended on Reddit.
I don’t read my Twitter feed in order to learn Japanese. I learn Japanese in order to understand my Twitter feed. 🙂
If you follow Japanese accounts you will see Japanese tweets.
I don’t know if anyone laugh at my Japanese as I can’t hear them. They are probably atleast as likely to laugh at AI translations of my English. 🙂
Someone on WaniKani actually got to Level 60 by being lazy. All he used was TWITTER LOL. I need to find the WaniKani thread when I get home from work.
I have a Japanese twitter, it’s easier to do it if you have Japanese-speaking artists, celebrities, politicians, companies etc. that you want to follow, and commenting on their posts. Or if you have something to share to twitter in Japanese hashtags like art, music, etc.
If you just want to find people to talk with, I would suggest HelloTalk! It’s a bit like Twitter, but it just shows you random posts from people learning English or fellow Japanese learners, plus has some language-learning specific features.
Personally I had a good experience on it, but I’ve heard some people have got creepy DMs and stuff, so take caution like with all social media
You can just do a list of japanese accounts I have a few lists about videogames, anime industry, music, etc.
If you make mistakes japanese people tend to just ignore the tweet because it’s pretty obvious when “gaijin japanese” is used lol
I made it to do basic and complex interactions and have some japanese followers too I normally post about very slice of life topics, food, how do I fix my skateboard, music and a lot of different thing. Japanese are very relaxed in this aspect they just enjoy sharing simple things
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I say don’t do that, but rather get a language exchange app. I use tandem, and the whole purpose is to speak to someone that speaks the language you want to learn and vice versa. It’s really easy and you don’t need to deal with twitter and it’s problems.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t use Twitter to talk with random people. I use it to follow (1) people I’m interested in, and (2) real-life friends, and the only ones I’ll actually interact with are (2).
Of course, it’s perfectly fine and even a good idea to use it for reading practice. There’s no such thing as setting up “a Japanese feed”. You just follow Japanese people who post in Japanese, and read their posts. That’s it.
I can only say that the official Twitter app’s Google translate is junk and should not be used.
I don’t reply to Japanese speakers often on Twitter, but I occasionally do. You don’t need to set up a new account unless you want it 100% Japanese. If you switch your language/country to Japan in account settings, the algo will start showing you Japanese tweets more often.
I’ve never seen anyone be made fun of on there for having poor language skills. If someone does that, they’re probably just a dick. I will say though that I think it’s slightly less customary to just jump into random people’s replies on the Japanese side of Twitter. You will often see people say 「FF以外失礼します」, which basically means “excuse me for interacting without being a mutual”.
But I’d say Twitter’s probably a good place if you’re looking to start interacting with people in Japanese. Definitely lower stress than a voice chat, video call, or other things that get recommended on Reddit.
I don’t read my Twitter feed in order to learn Japanese. I learn Japanese in order to understand my Twitter feed. 🙂
If you follow Japanese accounts you will see Japanese tweets.
I don’t know if anyone laugh at my Japanese as I can’t hear them. They are probably atleast as likely to laugh at AI translations of my English. 🙂
Someone on WaniKani actually got to Level 60 by being lazy. All he used was TWITTER LOL. I need to find the WaniKani thread when I get home from work.
I have a Japanese twitter, it’s easier to do it if you have Japanese-speaking artists, celebrities, politicians, companies etc. that you want to follow, and commenting on their posts. Or if you have something to share to twitter in Japanese hashtags like art, music, etc.
If you just want to find people to talk with, I would suggest HelloTalk! It’s a bit like Twitter, but it just shows you random posts from people learning English or fellow Japanese learners, plus has some language-learning specific features.
Personally I had a good experience on it, but I’ve heard some people have got creepy DMs and stuff, so take caution like with all social media
You can just do a list of japanese accounts I have a few lists about videogames, anime industry, music, etc.
If you make mistakes japanese people tend to just ignore the tweet because it’s pretty obvious when “gaijin japanese” is used lol
I made it to do basic and complex interactions and have some japanese followers too
I normally post about very slice of life topics, food, how do I fix my skateboard, music and a lot of different thing. Japanese are very relaxed in this aspect they just enjoy sharing simple things