Learn Japanese

A blog to help learn conversational Japanese. I am also a learning and I feel that we can learn together! Personal blog thehoekage send ask there.

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Learn Japanese grammar point: ばかり

This is an excerpt from JTest4You’s N4 Grammar Ebook.

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This is your god

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なんです？

べっどにはいりたい？

しようりょうは ひとばん ニボシ ごひきです

Huh? Do you want to use this bed? OK, I'll allow you if you give me five dried anchovies for a day.

[thehoekage]

I am officially a law school graduate.

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[learnjp]

when did the Japanese start eating eggs? a long たまご.

[thehoekage]

Picture this, life and everything is the same, but animal crossing music plays in the background like it does in the game

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Source 

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THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII

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No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up. And, during this time, icons we usually associate with the whole kawaii industry (like the characters from Sanrio) came to life too.

And what many people don’t realize is that this subculture was born as a way for young girls to express themselves in their own way. And it was also used as something against the adult life and the traditional culture, often seen as dull and boring and oppressive. By embracing cuteness, these young girls (and adult women, after a while) were showing non-conformation with the current standards.

So yep. Kawaii is important, and it all started with cute, simple handwritting a few hearts and cat faces in some girls’ school notebooks <3

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!!!!!

NO OK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!

This is also how the kawaii fashions started! Girls began dressing in cute and off beat styles for themsleves, they were criticized by adult figures telling them “you’ll never find a husband if you dress that way!” to which they began to reply “Good!”

All the Japanese subcultures and fashions that evolved out of this became a rebellion to tradition and the starch gender roles and expectations the adults were forcing on the younger generations. As early as the 70s and still to this day you’ll see an emphasis on child-like fashion and themes in more kawaii styles and the dismissal of the male gaze with styles like lolita (a lot of western people assume lolita is somehow sexual due to the name of the fashion, but ask any Japanese lolita and they will tell you that men hate the style and find it unattractive which is sometimes a large reason they gravitate towards the style - they can express their femininity and individuality while remaining independent and without the pressure to appeal to men)

Its so so so important to understand the hyper cute and ‘odd’ fashions of Japanese girls carry such a huge message of feminism and reclaiming of their own lives.   

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so are you telling me that Japan’s punk phase was really the kawaii phase

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Kawaii is so goth

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Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace

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I did not know this but I love this form of feminism! 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

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Which is why you get bands like BABYMETAL, which toured with Judas Priest for a while, looking like this:

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Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace

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Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

ASL University

Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

Arabic

Arabic for Global Exchange (in the drop-down menu)

Intro to Arabic

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Arabe (taught in French)

Catalan

Intro to Catalan Language & Society

Intro to Catalan Sign Language

Chinese

Beginner

Basic Chinese I. II, III, IV , V

Basic Mandarin Chinese I & II

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters

Chinese for HSK 1

Chinese for HSK 2

Chinese for HSK 3 I & II

HSK Level 1

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese for Business

More Chinese for Beginners

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Chino Básico (Taught in Spanish)

Intermediate

Chinese Stories

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

Online Courses here

Resources Here

Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Immigrants

Finnish for Medical Professionals

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Basic French Skills

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Diploma in French

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

French in Action

French Language Studies I, II, III

French: Ouverture

Intermediate & Advanced

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout 

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Vivre en France - A2

Vivre en France - B1

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in English)

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in Dutch)

German

Beginner

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Conversational German I, II, III, IV

Deutsch im Blick

Diploma in German

German at Work

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

Intermediate

German: Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Landschaftliche Vielfalt

Gwich’in

Introduction to Gwich’in Language

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Teach Me Hebrew

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Introduction to Irish

Irish 101

Irish 102

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Italian for Beginners 1 , 2, 3 , 4 , 5, 6 

Intermediate & Advanced

AP Italian Language and Culture

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

Letteratura italiana

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Sing and Learn Japanese

Tufs JpLang

Kazakh

A1-B2 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Introduction to Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian

Norwegian on the Web

Portuguese

Curso de Português para Estrangeiros 

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Advanced

Reading Master and Margarita

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Siberia: Russian for Foreigners

Spanish

Beginner

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Beginner’s Spanish: Food & Drink

Introduction to Spanish

Restaurants and Dining Out

Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Spanish Vocabulary

Intermediate

Spanish: Ciudades con Historia

Spanish: Espacios Públicos

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Swedish

Intro to Swedish

Swedish Made Easy 1, 2, & 3

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Ukrainian Language for Beginners

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Last updated: April 1, 2018

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This is awesome. Wish there were links for BSL - but so great all these other options!

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thank you for following me I have nothing to offer

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Assassination of JFK 1967

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Me, insulting someone in my first language: you absolute Buffon, you incompetent fool, hell shivers at your unpleasantness and god turns his back on you.

Me, trying to insult someone in a language I’m learning: you..you are bad. Not nice.

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A list of useful "other verbs"

try practicing conjugating them, using what you just learned.

遊ぶ　あそぶ　asobu = play 行く　いく　iku = go 泳ぐ　およぐ　oyogu= swim 歩く　あるく　aruku＝ walk 言う　いう　iu= say 思う　おもう　omou = think 送る　おくる　okuru = send 押す　おす　osu= push 終わる　おわる　owaru= end 売る　うる　uru= sell 聞く　きく　kiku = listen 切る　きる　kiru= cut 書く　かく　kaku= write 勝つ　かつ　katsu= win 買う　かう　kau＝ buy 返す　かえす　kaesu=　return 転ぶ　ころぶ　korobu= fall down 頑張る　ganbaru= hang on 入る　はいる hairu　＝ enter 消す　けす kesu＝erase, turn off 混む　こむ komu＝ be crowded 死ぬ　しぬ　shinu=die 探す　さがす　sagasu= search, look for 咲く　さく　saku= bloom 着く　つく　tsuku= arrive 違う　ちがう　chigau=be different 取る　とる　toru= take 撮る　とる　toru= shoot, film 通る　とおる　tooru= go through 使う　つかう　tsukau= use 作る　つくる　tsukuru= make 飲む　のむ　nomu= drink 泣く　なく　naku= cry 習う　ならう　narau= learn 乗る のる　noru= ride 走る　はしる　hashiru= run 運ぶ　はこぶ　hakobu= carry 待つ　まつ　matsu= wait 曲がる　まがる　magaru= turn もらう　morau= be given 回る　まわる　mawaru= turn around 読む　よむ　yomu＝　read 笑う　わらう　warau= laugh わかる　wakaru= understand

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Ichidan verbs:

Ichidan verbs

These verbs are very simple, and aren’t nearly as hard as the other verbs we went over.

The way to recognize these verbs is that they end in –Iru or –Eru. The worst thing about these is that some verbs look like -ichidan verbs but are actually -ru verbs. There is no way to know for sure which ones these are you just have to be careful.

To make the masu form all you have to do is drop the –Ru and add masu. It’s that simple.

Examples:

Taberu ( to eat)- Tabemasu

Neru (to sleep)- Nemasu

Deru (to go out)- Demasu

Miru ( to watch, to look)- Mimasu

Kiru ( to put on)- Kimasu

Shinjiru (to believe)- shinjimasu

See pretty easy! Study Hard!

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watashi dont care.

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Dou demo ii= I don’t care