How to use Free Software to learn Japanese, and more.

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February 08, 2021 — Tatsumoto Ren

Daily Japanese Thread is a friendly place for people learning Japanese through immersion. Join us to make friends, get help, ask questions, contribute to our projects and find countless new learning resources!

You can join us on Telegram or SimpleX chat.

Telegram

Telegram is a messenger with a focus on speed and security. Although Telegram is not ideal it is still better than many proprietary services. To use Telegram on GNU/Linux, install the official desktop client.

Our group

This is the main group for chatting about Japan, the Japanese language, and other things.

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Channel

I post announcements in this channel.

Telegram Channel

SimpleX chat

SimpleX is a private and secure messenger without any user IDs. On GNU/Linux, you can install simplex-desktop-bin from the AUR in order to use SimpleX chat. On Android, install SimpleX Chat from F-Droid.

SimpleX chat

QR code

SimpleX QR

Rules

  1. Speak English. Do not use your Japanese unless you're already fluent. Remember that talking is not practicing. Your time is better spent immersing.
  2. Be ethical. Do not post promotions or spam unrelated to learning Japanese. However, feel free to share with us your learning resources. Be minimally polite, don't troll and don't post porn.
  3. Stay on topic. Try to keep the conversation centered around immersion, software for language learning, Japanese language, the country and its culture. Everything else should be discussed in the room dedicated to off-topic which you'll find after you've joined.
  4. Read the guide. Most questions we get are already answered in our guide. Our members are volunteering their time to help everybody. Try to reduce the amount of reoccurring questions so that everyone has more time to immerse.
  5. No proprietary software. We don't use, support or recommend proprietary software. We use free/libre software because it is naturally more extensible and user-friendly.

Certain rooms may have their own sets of rules.

Questions

If you have a question specifically for me, ping me in the chat by prepending your message with @tatsumoto on Telegram.

Community stickers

To install our community sticker packs, just click on the links below.