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My ✨Updated✨ Japanese Masterpost

Since I changed my blog name, many of the links on my older masterpost no longer work, and I've posted a lot about kanji (and many diary entries!) since then. So, I decided an updated masterpost was in order!

Below, you'll find many of the same links, just with new blog name (nyahongo) instead of the old one (chokopan). I've also updated the reading practice section, the kanji section, and added a section about the Marugoto material I've already posted (Starter A1 and Elementary A1 levels - I'm still working on Elementary A2 material).

Commonly Used Tags on This Blog

#日記 (Japanese Diary)

#漢字 (Kanji)

#resource

For Beginners

Giant Study Tips masterpost

Kana tips for beginners

Kana Charts: hiragana | katakana

Genki 1

Summary Sheets:

Lesson 1: lesson | kanji sheet

Lesson 2: lesson | kanji sheet

Lesson 3: here and here

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

Lesson 9

Other Genki 1 posts:

Genki 1 grammar point summary

Genki 1 Lesson 12: ～んです

How I study with Genki

How I take notes from Genki

Marugoto

My review of the starter A1 and elementary A1 courses

Starter A1 level: grammar points | writing prompts (part 1, part 2)

Elementary A1 level: grammar points

Grammar Notes

From Lingo Deer: The Particle の | The Verb ある | The Verb いる

Qualifying Nouns with Verbs and Adjectives (Relative Clauses)

Transitive vs. Intransitive Verbs

How I Study Japanese Grammar

Children's Stories & Other Reading Practice

How to make No-bake Cheesecake (feat. Cardcaptor Sakura!)

はらぺこあおむし (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

にじいろさかな (The Rainbow Fish) - part 1 | part 2 | part 3

ぐりとぐら (Guri and Gura) - part 1 | part 2 | part 3

チーズスイートホーム (Chi's Sweet Home), Vol. 1 - Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4

Kanji

How to Use the Sumikko Gurashi Beginner’s Dictionary

How radicals work (and here are some examples using the kanji 時)

Kanken level 10 book information (with English translations, grammar, and vocabulary explanations)

Notes from Eve Kushner's Crazy for Kanji, part 1

Writing practice sheets:

part 1 (using 5 different handwritten fonts) |

part 2 (with different grid/box sizes) |

part 3 (with links to different sheet generators) |

part 4 (a "summary sheet" with all different grid/box sizes) |

part 5 (a customizable tracing sheet with grids)

WaniKani (WK)

How to use WaniKani

WaniKani Study Tips

Writing practice sheets: WK level 1

How to come up with mnemonics

whatagrump

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

enigmaticexplorer

“If you want to break up dialogue to insert an action"—she gesticulated wildly to emphasize her point—"then you use em dashes around the action.”

“You can also break up dialogue by placing the em dash inside the quotation mark, but—” She took a moment to catch her breath. “—you must treat the action like a sentence. It must be capitalized with an end punctation.”

“When humans speak, we often get sidetracked (and share information that may not be all that pertinent, a secret, or something we probably shouldn’t be talking about). Use parenthesis in your dialogue when you want to demonstrate this.”

***

“If you’re writing a long monologue, then it likely needs to be broken into multiple paragraphs. Because one long paragraph of dialogue that takes up an entire page or multiple pages is very hard on the eyes.

“So conclude the previous dialogue paragraph without a quotation mark, and start the next dialogue paragraph with a quotation mark. This shows the reader that the same person is still speaking, without the need for additional action or dialogue tags.”

reblogsbycow

I used to know this stuff 😞

actualbird

good mornings from the nxx group chat

anonymouscms

Ngl Marius would be placed with Vyn if he wants to shit on people

I have returned!

veenia

💗

caydeus

I made a mistake of drinking coffee last night and made this around 2am.

lordoflightning

DHAKFJKDKF IM IN LOVE

saisai-chan

what color are iida’s eyes

ah yes, my favorite game

(the other characters are here for color comparison)

red? red-orange???

wait, black???

pink??? well Tokoyami has red eyes so maybe it’s just an illusion of the light… tho Kiri and Bakugou have more red-orange eyes even tho they both have red eyes too????