上下左右 (じょうげさゆう). Means "top, bottom, left, and right". It isn't used very often, but it's useful for talking about web design, which is how I first encountered it.

拘り (こだわり) when used for food. It's easier to translate it as a verb (拘る), which means to be particular about something. 玉子に拘っている can very simply be translated as "We're particular about eggs", but 拘りの玉子サンド is much more difficult to translate. In this usage, it means that lots of care, thought, time, and/or work has been put into getting it right. There are a few translations you could use, but I don't think any one of them had quite the same nuance. Jim Breen dictionaries translate them as "speciality", but I don't think it captures the original meaning at all. You could translate it as "artisanal" or "finest", but that gives it more of a high-end or luxury sounding nuance. "Meticulously crafted" is also close, but that sounds like something very complex or elaborate, whereas the original can be used for simple things.

Try googling food label vocabulary. Here are some I found.

http://www.survivingnjapan.com/2012/04/ultimate-guide-to-reading-food-labels.html?view=flipcard https://cotoacademy.com/japanese-food-label-vocabulary-guide/ https://kokorocares.com/blogs/blog/reading-labels-in-japan-labels-for-fresh-food

There's no evidence that it made them gay. Maybe the demon provided a matchmaking service for closeted medieval queers.

Is it really that bad? I've been living in Asia for 10 years, and although it seems like there are some desperate bottoms in rural areas and smaller cities, it doesn't really feel like things are that easy for tops. There's actually been plenty of times when other tops have wanted me to bottom for them.

Yes. I'm not married, and I'm sometimes shocked at how some men seem to use marriage as an excuse not to learn basic life skills, especially in an age when you can learn almost any non-professional skill for free on YouTube.

My dad always did his fair share of housework, but he rarely cooked. Once I was old enough, I would cook for him whenever my mother was away. During her first trip away after I got my first job, my dad got really drunk because he didn't feel like waiting for me to get home and make him dinner before going out. He was born in the 1940s, so I accept that his generation were raised to see cooking as feminine, but we should have moved on from that.

Both characters have the same meaning in this case, so it probably doesn't matter. I think 花金 is more common.

It's a pointless move, but it helps them in their aim of adopting America's anti-woke culture war rhetoric.

I think trimmed beards can be very attractive, but I'm not going to judge anyone who's clean shaven. I don't have a beard because they don't suit me, so not having one isn't a deal-breaker.

I was once wondering around a neighborhood in Tokyo and passed by a group of friends who were saying goodbye to each other. I heard one of them say "お疲れヤマ". I stopped, wondering if it was some strange kind of slang or regional variation, but she then started laughing and said "お疲れマウンテン".

代々墓 (だいだいばか): An ancestral grave

One of my Japanese teachers pointed out that it's often used in sentences like OO家族代々墓, which makes it sound like " the OO family are massive idiots.

I also thought 五十五 sounded funny when I first learned it, because I thought it was supposed to be pronounced like "go Jew go".

It probably doesn't make any sense noq considering how quickly internet language changes, but I learned the word for ambulance (救急車　きゅうきゅうしゃ) around 15 years ago, and at the time QQ meant crying, and was used to call people emotional crybabies. It reminded of the term "wahmbulance" which people would use when someone is being whiny.

Sorry to nitpick, but there's no way there's only a 5 inch height difference between them. Once again, someone has been caught using Grindr inches.

No, he's just full of shit like most conservative politicians.

The most tragic thing about this is that she isn't even using the word breedable correctly. The traditional meaning of the word, which she is trying to gatekeep, means to produce offspring. Humans breed by procreating with another human to create human children. Vaginas do not breed with other vaginas to create vagina children, so vaginas are not breedable.

Even if you think the slang form of the word breedable this guy used is invalid, he's still breedable as long as he's capable of impregnating someone, even if he has no desire to do so.

There's a karaoke place near me that has free soda and allows you to bring your own alcohol. I brought a bottle of abilla pisco and Angostura bitters so I could turn their gingerale and cola into chilcano and piscola. I also made a strawberry and yuzu macerados (infusion) with the pisco and can't wait until it's ready next week.

手紙 is the direct object. 家 is the place it was sent to, so I suppose that counts as an indirect object. Sentence order for Japanese is very flexible (although the verb must always come last), so I wouldn't worry too much about memorizing any particular order beyond Subject-Object-Verb.

Edit: I took a look at the source you gave, and I think you should probably disregard this sentence pattern. It's clear from the purpose of the lesson that they were purposefully trying to shoehorn から, へ, and に into single sentence. I don't think it sounds particularly natural.

Where do you live? Mapo tofu is relatively common, so you could likely get it in your own country if it has a sizable Chinese population. I wouldn't even call it a specialty of Japan, and I've personally had better ones in other countries.

No son of mine will ever use a namby-pamby Easy Bake Oven. He'll learn to bake using a proper oven like a real man.

Cum dumpsters need representation too.

How did he manage to hide it so well?

東京グルメで世界一周 Foreign cuisine from around the world divided by region and country. More common cuisines like American and Italian are also divided by specialty.

Yes, it means the same as crowdsourced in this case.

Somewhere casual as I'll be alone. I'll probably just be eating and going unless they also have decent drinks. I know plenty of places in Ameyokocho will be open, but there really isn't anything there that I couldn't get in Aichi, so I'm more interested in non-Japanese. As I stumbled upon the South Indian restaurant last year, I suspect there might be some other foreign-staffed restaurants that don't close as their families aren't in Japan, so I thought I'd ask on the off chance that anyone knows about any others.

Andra looks nice. I'll probably check it out when I'm in Ueno.

Also, does anyone know any good sites for finding restaurants that aren't user generated? I find Gurunavi and Tabelog overwhelming, and also lacking in detail for individual restaurants. Is there anywhere with more detailed and curated content. I like bento.com despite it's design language being stuck in the early 2000s. Is there anything like that but in Japanese and more extensive?

Yes, it's gay to be concerned about what kind of world you're leaving to your children and grandchildren. /s

Can't I have a decently sized kitchen and a gay sex room?

When I had sex ed in the late 90's, I was shown videos with real (but obviously non-sexualized) nudity. I don't remember there being any controversy about that at all, and I went to a Christian school (Anglican).

It's still what I'd consider late summer here in Aichi, but it's getting there. It's 25 right now, which is still enough for me to break into a sweat, but far from unbearable.

I personally had one or two issues with the video you used. I'm not sure they were being literal when they said は means "as for". は doesn't have any meaning, it has a function. Translating it this way can help people understand how は works within the sentence, but I've also seen it confuse people too. I once saw a post from someone who said 私は難しい incorrectly thinking it meant "It's difficult for me."

Some of the things you mentioned also weren't accurate.

a) Generally speaking, cats are liked [猫が好きだ] b) As for me, cats are liked (-> I like cats) [私は猫が好きだ]

Sentence B is correct. Sentence A however is just sentence B with the subject/topic omitted. You'll have to infer the it from the context, but it will be "I" in most cases. I don't think there will be any context in which it will be understood as cats being generally liked by everyone.

a) Generally speaking, as for cats, everything about cats is liked. [猫は好きだ] c) As for me, as for cats, everything about cats is liked. (-> I like cats) [私は猫は好きだ]

There are a few issues here that are a little misleading. は好き can be used like this, but in my experience of looking at sentence from native Japanese speakers, it's mostly only used in the following three ways:

1. Comparisons, for example 私は猫は好きですが、犬は好きではありません (I like cats, but I don't like dogs.)
2. Together with a conjunction like ですが、ですけど、でも, for example 私は猫は好きですが、飼ったことはありません (I do like cats, but I've never had one.)
3. Together with になる, for example 私は猫は好きになれませんでした (I wasn't able to become a cat lover.)

Number 2 and 3 can be replaced with が, but は is preferred for number 1.

私は猫が好き also doesn't quite mean you like everything about cats. It's the same as saying you like cats in English, you're making a general statement without specificially identifying what you like about them. I like everything about cats is closer to 猫の事が好きです or 猫の全てが好きです.

I'm no expert on this, but in addition to the other factors people mentioned, I would say that people in Japan seem to pay a lot more attention to high school sports. The Koshien Stadium and the high school baseball tournaments name after it are very famous. I'm not even interested in sports, but I know about them and often notice friends talking about them online. I know absolutely nothing about the college baseball tournaments or where they're held.

Weak has a very negative tone to it. Using weak to describe food or drink is rarely, if ever, used in a positive way.

As I mentioned in my other comment, I assumed they were the same, but several sites said they were different things. "American coffee" is a weak brewed coffee, and Caffe Americano (アメリカノ) is a diluted espresso, which is actually stronger than most brewed coffees, at least in terms of caffeine content. Japan has アメリカノ too, and in my experience it's much more common.

It appears to be somewhat common. When looking it up, I found several sites like this one that explained how to say アメリカンコーヒー in English.

I thought maybe it was supposed to say Americano, but it's not the same. There's an explanation here. It's made from light roasted beans, and they say it most likely got it's name from Americans in post-war Japan brewing coffee with lots of water or diluting it further before drinking.

I'm not American, but the name sounds a little judgemental to me.

Thanks. How about conjugated verbs and adjectives? Google play's dictionary only recognizes then if they're in dictionary form.

For Google Play, the integrated dictionary doesn't recognize any word that has furigana on all of the books I've read, so I don't think it's an issue with individual books. It also can't recognize conjugated verbs or adjectives, so it would be great if there are any other platforms that can.

Can the dictionary recognize words that use furigana? That's my main concern as I don't use machine translation.

I prefer the live action TV series, but the Sukeban Deka series is great. It's about a high school girl who works as an undercover agent for a branch of the police that investigates crimes that take place at schools that regular cops aren't allowed to investigate. Unfortunately, very little of the franchise has been officially released in a English. ADV released the OVA in the 90's. The 2000's movie reboot got a release too, but that was the worst version IMO.

I'm a cis gay man into eurobeat. There are some trans people I know of on the scene. There's Jessa Stebbins/Kendra Blast in America, and DJ Satomi in Japan.

I think this song about Egg superstars is also relevent to your post.