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japanese langblr + games, anime, and cute things 2019から日本に住んでいる！JLPTN2合格した<3

[bot]

[animentality]

[thrivinghigh]

cotton candy skies

[gaymolegaming]

I wish irl grinding was as fun as in videogames tbh. Like yeah i need to go to work a thousand times but after that i have enough materials to buy a house. But alas, houses arent real

[nobeerreviews]

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

-- Jandy Nelson

[bogreader]

language learning is easy you just learn words... and then you keep learning more words... and even more words... and then maybe in 10 years you'll be somewhere

[languagelvlup]

[languagelvlup]

In April, I was visiting my hometown and a friend invited me to her wedding in Korea this autumn.

Today, a friend emailed me and invited me to her wedding in Korea this winter.

I can’t believe this. I’m so happy to be invited but…can I swing two international trips so close together??

とりあえず韓国語勉強しようかなw

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[oceanslde]

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[daily-qifrey]

pikmin witches!! 🌿🌼

[languagelvlup]

friend invited me to go to the 5sos concert with her in November…it’s a lottery, like most concerts in Japan, so idk if i will actually get to go, but it would be fun! I haven’t been to a concert (of a famous artist) in Japan yet

[languagelvlup]

green

[moonshinemagpie]

The thing that took me years to consciously grasp is that the collocations for English and Japanese are very different even when it comes to basic words you learn as a beginner. You're taught that ureshii means "happy," which is sort of true, but you can actually only use it when you felt happy as the result of something, so it's really more like "gladdened." We're taught that 人 means "person," which is true, but depending on context we might need to use 名 or 方 or 者 or 員 or 人間, ningen, which again we're taught means "human," but you actually use ningen in a variety of contexts where using "human" in English would sound hilarious.

And basically every single word in Japanese is like this forever, in a way incomparable to any germanic or romance languages English speakers might learn.

So in short my advice is don't bother, join a bowling team, go spelunking, throw a birthday party, take a nap.

[hidewaku]

川沿いの散歩道…鬼百合にアゲハ

[mxjackparker]

One of the (lower-ranked but still important!) reasons I think people should learn a second language if they are monolingual is to viscerally understand the frustration that comes with trying to explain yourself in a language you don't speak well and are learning, and so they know that broken spoken language doesn't mean anything about someone's level of intelligence or interiority.