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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The ones mentioned in OP seem to be one user that is spreading their questions around multiple accounts, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if they’re posted at a rate that would be fine with a single account, and if they aren’t using more than one account in a particular thread.

    I don’t think they directly interact with each other, but they do upvote each other’s threads. Example

    Cheers for providing a different possible interpretation for those accounts. I didn’t see them comment on their deletions anywhere and as I wrote, my own attempts to reach out to them were only met with immediate deletions. It’s certainly possible that they’re human, even though I slightly lean towards the bot interpretation right now. Unfortunately, it’s just really hard to tell nowadays.
















  • Romaji won’t get you far, as you’ll essentially be illiterate. When you’ve learned Kana and some Kanji, sentences also become way easier to decipher as you’ll see the difference between particles, nouns, conjugations at a glance, whereas it’ll look like a complicated mess in Romaji. Learning Kanji is also super useful, as you’ll be able to have a very good guess at a word’s meaning and pronunciation without having learned that particular word before. I’d say spending a year or so on just learning Kanji really made the biggest difference for my ability to understand Japanese. As a bonus, it’s also a great starting point for learning Chinese. So I agree, if you want to go anywhere beyond learning stuff like “Arigatou Gozaimasu”, you should stop relying on Romaji as soon as possible.