Hallaien!🌸

This blog is not active anymore, my Japanese langblr-> kaxysgarden

[kaxysgarden]

フェリーで小旅行⛴

風車が見えますか？

[ibenkoenig]

Please follow my other studyblr/langblr as I’m not using this one anymore:)

[lemon0420]

見上げた先には、チュンが、いっぱい。

[nisha-no-nihongo]

Learn Kanji by radicals instead of by strokes

Kanji is made up of parts called radicals. If you learn by strokes you will sometimes have over 15 strokes. But if you learn the radicals, kanji becomes much more simple. Radicals are like building blocks and you only need 2-4 to put together a kanji. But it is still important to know how to write kanji in proper stroke order.

Check out another radical cheat sheet by TextFugu

[kaladork]

I know this says for Kanji, but from my personal experience learning radicals was super helpful for learning Chinese characters (so, I imagine it would be awesome for learning kanji as well, considering Kanji are from Chinese characters). They can also help by giving clues to the meaning of the symbols (at least in Chinese. My Japanese education has been minimal at best, so I don’t know about how the radicals match up to meaning in Japanese).

[olderthannetfic]

Japanese mostly uses traditional characters as-is, and they have a “Chinese” reading in compound words, so radicals provide a similar level of clue to meaning and clue to sound.

(Yes, there are a few Japanese-original characters, and a few got shifted around a little. 冊 and 本 seem to have swapped which one mostly means “book” and which is a counter for books. But a lot of stuff didn’t shift meaning much.)

I actually learned to analyze characters from a book on Chinese that was a trillion times more helpful than any of the major Japanese textbooks for English speakers. It talks about stroke order and direction in addition to radicals. This sucker right here:

Best book I ever had on the subject!

[bum-ju]

anyways, japanese imperialism is not a thing of the past and still exists today. japanese propaganda is in the little things, and to end it you have to recognize them. stop glorifying the rising sun flag. pay attention to how japanese media treats its korean characters as opposed to the white ones. be on your guard when anyone or anything implies that japan is in any way superior to other asian countries. above all, listen to and support any poc who has been affected by japanese imperialism.

[taison]

i just learned that hiragana was created by women, that is so interesting!

Yeah it was primarily used by women at first! Which actually made it considered a lower form compared to Chinese characters which men with access to “higher education” mainly used. but turns out just plain Chinese characters do not necessarily work well with Japanese as a language because they were originally made for Chinese that is structurally so different. So the texts using all Chinese characters would be really inconsistent in what grammatical and structural rules were deployed. But it still took a while for hiragana to truly become adopted into the language at large in the way it is now. It’s really interesting history to learn about because its REALLY long, extensive, complicated, and of course political, and definitely makes you appreciate how modern written Japanese functions

(Links for extra reading! X, X)

Anyone who has read about or studied this more feel free to add if you any other interesting tidbits

[sheepfroggy]

History of the Welsh language

Welsh is an ancient Celtic language that has been spoken in Britain for many hundreds of years. This may leave you wondering why not all Welsh people speak Welsh. In order to answer this, we have to take a look at the history of Wales and the Welsh language.

Keep reading

[tokidokitokyo]

2021年7月8日　(31日間の8日目)

もう私の机飽きちゃったのかな？(笑)

今週の仕事が忙しくて、家に帰ったら息子と一緒にいたいから、今日は勉強を少しサボってた(^^;)。そういう日もありますね。だから忙しい日常生活に良い勉強方法を見つけたいと思う。忙しい一日の中でも5分だけ勉強出来たらいいと思ってる。言語の勉強は毎日じゃなかったらあんまりうまく進まない。今日は漢字の勉強して、漫画を読んで、そして店で友達のプレゼントを買っちゃった。リラックスのテーマの誕生日プレゼントでナルトの足リラシートを買った。友達はナルトが好きで医療関係の仕事をしてるので疲れてるだろう。なかなかいいプレゼントを見つけたと思う(^^)

This week work has been busy, and when I get home I want to be with my son, so today I kind of slacked off on my studies (^^;). But everyone has those days don't they. So I really want to find a good way to fit in studying in a busy daily life. Even studying for only 5 minutes on a busy day is an accomplishment I think. If you don't study a language daily you won't really progress. Today I studied some kanji, read some manga, and bought a present for my friend at the shops. The theme of the gift is relaxation and the present I bought was Naruto Foot Relaxation Sheets. My friend likes Naruto and works in the healthcare industry, so my friend is probably tired. I think I found a pretty good present (^^)

月刊少女野崎くんの漢字 (Kanji from Gekkan Shojo Nozaki-kun)

挑戦　ちょうせん　challenge, attempt, try

攻略　こうりゅく　conquest; defeating (an opponent); attacking (a problem) strategically

追い詰める　おいつめる　to track down, to chase after

意欲的　いよくてき　ambitious, motivated

躊躇　ちゅうちょ　hesitation, indecision

[jeonchemstudy-closed]

recently i saw a post on my dash compiling study music, so i decided to make one of my own! here are some of my favorite playlists on youtube to listen to while i’m working, hope you enjoy!

japanese music

japanese jazz when driving on a warm night

do you like some japanese jazz fusion?

japanese songs i think you should listen to at least once

japanese pop/rock songs to cheer you up! bc studies are hard (help me pls)

calm japanese song to forget all the chaos now 

japanese city pop mixtape vol. 11- seaside city

japanese pop/rock songs to cheer you up during quarantine

summer side | smooth 80′s japanese funk 

🌻 9:00am : shiny morning time (indie/jazz)

japanese blues/jazz while floating towards the surface

korean music

korean r&b mix

loona; energetic, upbeat bops

chill/study kpop playlist

bts late night study playlist 2020

bts playlist to study//sleep//chill 2020

listening to a chill bts playlist in your car on a rainy night

seventeen chill playlist

playlist created and curated by seventeen themselves

red velvet soft & chill playlist

iu’s best songs

songs that make me feel like i’m in a high-teen romance kdrama

･ﾟ☆✧ soft n’ chill ♡ | kpop playlist

classical music

a playlist for a 19th century villain scheming against his enemies

your pianist roommate may have made a pact with the devil, but you are too afraid to ask 

dark academia slightly obscure playlist

dark academia classical music but its only ballades

a playlist to you feel inside of ‘pride and prejudice’ while you’re waiting for your Mr. Darcy

a playlist of beethoven proving he’s an immortal god

that’s why tchaikovsky is the best composer

hope y’all enjoy some of these finds, and feel free to add your favorite study music in the notes so that people who need them can find something new to listen to! 

[soph-jpn]

Japanese Langblr Introduction

Hello! My name is Soph ☺️ Welcome to my langblr! <3

Quick Introduction:

- 21 years old 🦥

- Junior in college 🦭

- Self studying basic Japanese 🕵️‍♀️

- fluent in english and tagalog. + A2 level in Spanish 💼

this is actually my sideblog! my main studyblr is @acaemia but I created this because I wanted all my content in one separate space.

I tried learning Japanese back in 2017 because I went on a very brief exchange. I didn’t continue it but I recently got the urge to study it again so here I am!

Goals:

- to treat the language learning journey as a relaxing activity free from any pressure.

- respectfully immerse myself in another culture and in turn help me develop a more open-minded brain.

- study everyday but no time (for now). As long as I review each day it is okay for now.

- find fellow langblrs/ japanese langblrs so I can surround myself with language learners and watch them thrive <3

Blog Content

- daily log on progress + my own photos

- videos of me recapping what I learned (very open to correction if anyone would watch and notice mistakes)

- resources and visual reblogs

I’m excited to keep studying Japanese! This is a language I’m picking up on my own and it’s refreshing because I’m doing it out of want and not need.

My biggest why is doing this because I trust that I can do it. So what if Japanese can only be used so much around the world? It’s still a language and I want to learn it.

Anime is also a factor (LOL) it really improved my mental health dearly. I know someday I’ll be able to see a random sentence or scene and be able to read it. I just want to learn and beat my anxiety. Thanks for reading! We got this <3 :)

[studentlifeproblems]

[studying-nando]

thursday 1st july, 2021

happy july everyone!! recently i've been revising my chinese vocabulary, working on some physics material and continuing on with my maths work🌱 also i've been watching Loki, and it has been a trip lmao

🎶: if only, raveena

[coto524]

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

[saethwr-blog]

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

[coto524]

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

[coto524]

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

[sithofren-blog]

(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)

[tiocfaidharlulz]

drag them, wales!

[lizimajig]

Go Wales

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:

W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.

We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.

[systlin]

Welsh is, in addition, one of the oldest surviving indo-European languages. It dates back as far as 4,000 years and is one of the few surviving Celtic languages. 

[ceruleancynic]

HELL YES WELSH.

[dottewa-deactivated20200728]

In English, y is sometimes a vowel and sometimes not. This makes far less sense than “w is a vowel,” because the letter belongs to one thing.

In Spanish, l is a consonant and ll is a different consonant and a single letter. This is exactly the same as Welsh using ll as a single letter.

The fact these are seen as strange even though there’s very, very simple parallels everyone who speaks two of the most common languages in the world, with a very very high overlap between casual phrase usages, is entirely propaganda meant to destroy people’s interests in relearning their culture as it’s being systematically repressed and destroyed. And it’s working. Because we can’t be bothered to think, “w is a vowel, just like y except it’s always”.

[kyraneko]

Making fun of something for being hard to learn when you haven’t even tried to learn it and thus have no idea how hard or easy it is to learn, is the pinnacle of laziness as assholery.

Make fun of English instead; most everybody knows it and the mockery is much more deserved.

[stammsternenstaub]

I was going to add this in the tags, but actually I won’t.

The violent suppression of Welsh in schools lasted until about the 70s, by which time it had done so much cultural damage that we’re still unpicking it literally here on tumblr dot com in 2019.  If you’ve ever laughed at Welsh for how it looks or sounds, or whether or not its native speakers can actually speak it, you’re literally participating in that damage splash zone. 

The specific method for suppressing Welsh in schools was a wooden sign called a “Welsh Not”, used in the 18th - 20th centuries, until about the 1940s.  If a child was heard speaking Welsh (or reported to a teacher for speaking Welsh by another child) then they would wear this sign around their neck, humiliating them for speaking their native language.  This sign would be transferred from them if another child was heard (or reported for) speaking Welsh.  At the end of the day, the child wearing the Welsh Not was beaten.  This, as you can imagine, fosters an environment of shame and isolation, and destroys any natural solidarity between Welsh children in schools as it literally encourages them to turn on each other to avoid corporal punishment.

(Fun “imperialism is awful” fact, this method was so effective that Japan adopted it (in the form of a “dialect card”) in order to violently suppress the Ryukyuan languages, which has left most of them critically endangered.)

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2021年6月26日

- studied for my English exam

- got a new plant

- did a quick bujo outline(?)for july

Apparently the Arabian Jasmine's flowers live for a few days only then it turns brown and wither, because of lack of water or too much water, so it's a little risky.

[somuchtostudysolittletime]

27/6/21 // 16.13

Went for brunch this morning and town was so pretty!! I did some shopping and bought loads of stuff I didn’t need whoops - now to try and force myself to pack even though I really do not want to because I’m not feeling great

[juliamccartney]

today is a good day to remember that german is not an inherently angry language

[alvsstudies]

My casual Japanese handwriting

[rendakud]

|ʘ‿ʘ)╯  いらっしゃいませ!  (Irasshaimase).   Welcome! - Said in stores/restaurants to a customer. ご注文、よろしいでしょうか？(Gochūmon, yoroshī deshouka?) Would you like to order?

なにかのみものはいかがですか？(Nanika nomimonowa ikagadesuka?) Would you like something to drink? How are your katakana skills? Need practice? Well if you like coffee, it’s time to brush up on it.  (⊙_⊙) ☆ ★ ━━━━━━━ ★ ☆ 喫茶店 (きっさてん) Cafe コーヒー Coffee メニュー Menu スターバックス Starbucks (often shortened to スタバ ) 

ホットコーヒー Hot coffee アイスコーヒー  Iced coffee       アイコ (abbreviation) エスプレッソ Espresso ラテ  Latte カフェオレ Café au lait フラペチーノ Frappuccino モカ Mocha チャイ Chai カプチーノ Cappuccino カフェ アメリカーノ Cafe Americano マキアート Macchiato エス Small エム Medium エル Large ショート Short   トール Tall グランデ Grande べんティ Venti ソイ Soy 豆乳 (とうにゅう) Soy milk 低脂肪乳 (ていしぼうにゅう) Low-fat milk 無脂肪乳 (むしぼうにゅう) Fat-free milk ホイップクリーム Whip cream フォームミルク Foamed milk ソース Sauce シロップ Syrup クリーム Cream さとう Sugar

チョコレート Chocolate バニラ  Vanilla キャラメル Caramel 抹茶 (まっちゃ) Matcha シナモン Cinnamon ヘーゼルナッツ Hazelnut アーモンド Almond ☆ ★ ━━━━━━━ ★ ☆ ( ˘▽˘)っ♨   Can you read it? 

▶  キャラメル マキアート  ▶  マンゴー パッション ティー フラペチーノ ▶  さくら ブロッサム クリーム ラテ ☆ ★ ━━━━━━━ ★ ☆ Extra phrases: エスプレッソショットのついか。 Add an espresso shot. コーヒーおかわり Coffee refill. ホットコーヒーをひとつください。One hot coffee, please.       ~おねがいします is a more polite way to say please than ください。 トールソイチャイ ティー ラテおねがいします。Tall soy chai tea latte, please. コーヒーにはミルクとさとうをください。I would like milk and sugar for my coffee, please. (S,M,L)  サイズをください 。I’ll have a small/medium/grande/etc, please. ☆ ★ ━━━━━━━ ★ ☆ ♨o(>_<)o♨ . .

[aaoposts]

This is the best thing for me, working in a cafe at the moment