[HN Gopher] Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons
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       Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons
        
       Author : agnishom
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2025-06-14 05:38 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (kellenok.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (kellenok.github.io)
        
       | greybox wrote:
       | I'm so glad someone is taking these forward. Her videos were a
       | god send when I started out learning this language. Besides the
       | sometimes strange rants about text-books, her videos are top
       | notch.
       | 
       | This looks like it took a lot of effort to transcribe with all
       | her helpful graphics too.
       | 
       | Thank you for doing this!
       | 
       | R.I.P Cure Dolly
        
       | amiga386 wrote:
       | > da = the one-way equals sign
       | 
       | What on earth did I just read?
       | 
       | https://i.imgur.com/Z6OUVSp.png
        
       | Macha wrote:
       | I found Cure Dolly's guide very helpful as a launching point for
       | Japanese. Just don't take her "all you need" marketing too
       | seriously, it is more an introductory level than a complete
       | guide.
        
       | wyager wrote:
       | I did some digging into the identity behind the Cure Dolly
       | character after finding the videos quite helpful. There is what I
       | recall being a fairly credible trail of evidence that the
       | proprietor is formerly associated with the Silver Sisterhood, AKA
       | the "Lesbian Spanking Cult", which has popped up on HN a number
       | of times due to their involvement in the early text adventure
       | video game industry.
        
         | joshdavham wrote:
         | Could you provide some sources for this? I'm worried that this
         | could be considered as spreading rumors.
        
           | userbinator wrote:
           | This is what I could find from a few minutes of searching,
           | although it's not really much evidence either way:
           | https://pastebin.com/eHtG45pf
           | 
           | I have no skin in this game, but I wouldn't be surprised that
           | someone with a brilliant mind would also have, to put it
           | bluntly, "a bunch of weird shit."
        
       | joshdavham wrote:
       | For people not in the loop, Cure Dolly was a youtuber who taught
       | basic Japanese grammar lessons using a digital avatar. She had
       | (and continues to have) a cult-like following (in a good way)
       | among a section of the online Japanese learning community. She
       | was also ill at the time and eventually passed away.
        
       | happa wrote:
       | Another great source is https://imabi.org/
        
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