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Love Begins
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
todays bird
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Janaina Medeiros
DEAR READER
Show & Tell
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🍇FRUITS🍓
果物 「くだもの」／과일
🍉 スイカ／수박
🍊オレンジ／오렌지
🍋 レモン／레몬
🍌 バナナ／바나나
🍈 メロン／멜론
🍍 パイナップル／파인애플.
🥭 マンゴー／망고
🥑 アボカド／아보카도
🥝 キウイ／키위
🍒 サクランボ／버찌
🍅 トマト／토마토
🥥 ココナッツ／코코넛
🍎 りんご／사과
🍇 ぶどう／포도
🍑 もも／복숭아
🍐ペア／배
🍓 苺 「いちご」／딸기
Pineapple can also be 鳳梨 「ほうり」
And (European) pear is 洋梨 「ようなし。」
BOOK OFFでこの韓国語の本を見つけました。題名は 「できる韓国語」 です。これから、日本語で韓国語を勉強しようと思っています。
learning japanese is just: *forgets kanji reading* *doesn’t know if は or が* *tries and fails to read names* *misuses (in)transitive verbs* *changes to polite speech at the last second* *hates katakana words* *mistakes hanzi for kanji*
So it's already been a month and a half since I moved to Tokyo and I'm happy as shit. I met new friends from all over the world, i get to speak all the languages I know everyday, and I'm studying Japanese at a great language school.
The only problem is that I'm missing Italian pizza way too much ☹
Can't believe I'm moving to Japan to study Japanese in 3 days oh my god I'm so excited
me: *understands the title of a youtube video in a target language*
me: omg I’m totally gonna understand everything in this video
me: *understands nothing*
le 17 septembre ⋮ le labyrinthe ⋮ maze
接辞の漢字：仕事 (せつじのかんじ：しごと） Kanji as affixes: activities/work (or, how to make a new word by sticking a kanji at the end of another: jobs edition)
〜者 (しゃ)
医者 (いしゃ) → doctor
記者 (きしゃ) → reporter
学者 (がくしゃ) → scholar
研究者 (けんきゅうしゃ) → researcher
教育者 (きょういくしゃ) → educator
〜手 (しゅ)
歌手 (かしゅ) → singer
投手 (とうしゅ) → pitcher
選手 (せんしゅ) → player
運転手 (うんてんしゅ) → driver
〜員 (いん)
議員 (ぎいん) → member of an assembly
駅員 (えきいん ) → station employee
店員 (てんいん) → salesperson (shop’s employee)
船員 (せんいん) → sailor
会社員 (かいしゃいん) → company employee
銀行員 (ぎんこういん) → bank clerk
図書館員 (としょかんいん) → librarian
〜家 (か)
画家 (がか) → painter
小説家 (しょうせつか) → novelist
政治家 (せいじか) → politician
音楽家 (おんがくか) → musician
写真家 (しゃしんか) → photographer
〜屋 (や)
本屋 (ほんや) → bookshop
米屋 (こめや) → rice store
花屋 (はなや) → flower shop
肉屋 (にくや) → butcher
魚屋 (さかなや) → fish shop
酒屋 (さかや) → liquor shop
薬屋 (くすりや) → drugstore
写真屋 (しゃしんや) → photo shop
〜業 (ぎょう)
工業 (こうぎょう) → industry
商業 (しょうぎょう) → commerce
農業 (のうぎょう) → agriculture
林業 (りんぎょう) → forestry
漁業 (ぎょぎょう) → fishery
観光業 (かんこうぎょう) → tourism industry
サービス業 (サービスぎょう) → service industry
Japanese Geography
Hi! Today I will be talking about the geography of Japan. Let’s get started!
An Island Nation
Japan is considered an archipelago, which is a cluster of islands. It covers a land area of 377,930 square kilometres. Its capital is Tokyo, the most populated city with a population of roughly 37,135,000 people. The country has four main islands where most of its population resides:
北海道 (Hokkaido)
本州 (Honshu)
四国 (Shikoku)
九州 (Kyushu)
In addition to these four large islands, there are over 4000 other smaller islands! The island nation lies between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan. Neighbouring Japan are Siberian Russia (north), China (south), and North and South Korea (south).
Geographical Features
Japan is a very mountainous country- in fact ⅘ of the country is mountain. Japan’s major mountain range, the Japanese Alps, runs down the centre of 本州 (Honshu). Its highest peak, Mount Fuji, measures a whopping 3,776 metres. Mount Fuji is considered an active volcano, however, it has remained dormant since its last eruption in 1707. Mount Fuji is only one of 200 volcanoes in Japan, 60 of which are considered active. Japan also is considered very earthquake prone, as three of Earth’s tectonic plates meet nearby and often move against each other. This causes over 1,000 earthquakes each year.
Regions and Prefectures
Japan has eight regions; 北海道 (Hokkaido), 東北 (Tohoku), 関東 (Kanto), 中部 (Chubu), 関西 (Kansai), 中国 (Chugoku), 四国 (Shikoku), 九州‐沖縄 (Kyushu-Okinawa). Within these regions, Japan is divided into 47 prefectures; 43 proper prefectures, 2 urban prefectures, a circuit, and a metropolis. While the idea of 47 prefectures to remember seems daunting at first, it becomes a lot easier if you just memorise the exceptions (urban, circuit, and metropolis). The prefectures are written and said in a certain format:
Metropolis Prefecture: PLACE + 都 (to) → 東京 (Tokyo)
Circuit Prefecture: PLACE → 北海道 (Hokkaido)
Urban Prefectures: PLACE + 府 (fu) → 大阪 (Osaka), 京都 (Kyoto)
Proper Prefectures: PLACE + 県 (ken) → everything else
The prefectures that are in each region:
Hokkaido; 1) Hokkaido
Tohoku; 1) Aomori, 2) Iwate, 3) Miyagi, 4) Akita, 5) Yamagata, 6) Fukushima
Kanto; 1) Ibaraki, 2) Tochigi, 3) Gunma, 4) Saitama, 5) Chiba, 6) Tokyo, 7) Kanagawa
Chubu; 1) Niigata, 2) Toyama, 3) Ishikawa, 4) Fukui, 5) Yamanashi, 6) Nagano, 7) Gifu, 8) Shizuoka, 9) Aichi
Kansai; 1) Mie, 2) Shiga, 3) Kyoto, 4) Osaka, 5) Hyogo, 6) Nara, 7) Wakayama
Chugoku; 1) Tottori, 2) Shimane, 3) Okayama, 4) Hiroshima, 5) Yamaguchi
Shikoku; 1) Tokushima, 2) Kagawa, 3) Ehime, 4) Kochi
Kyushu-Okinawa; 1) Fukuoka, 2) Saga, 3) Nagasaki, 4) Kumamoto, 5) Oita, 6) Miyazaki, 7) Kagoshima, 8) Okinawa
I’m a polyglot, I can cry in 4 languages
crylingual
you know how theres an official government office of preserving the french language? my life mission is to found a counter-organization to that, formally devoted to degrading and destroying the french language by any available means of psychological and cultural warfare
I found the funniest reply to this
前 (まえ) ＆ 後 (あと) ‐
Can be translated as before, in front of, behind, after. Some example notes, using it to express doing something before/ after another action, and the difference between that and how it’s different to てから!
when I’m stressed I like to focus on vocab, here’s a drawing I did today to learn names for different digits in Japanese (also the wrist, because I like how it’s literally your hand-neck)
小指【こゆび】little finger
薬指【くすりゆび】ring finger (lit. medicine finger)
中指【なかゆび】middle finger
人差し指【ひとさしゆび】index finger (lit. distinguishing-people finger)
親指【おやゆび】thumb (lit. parent finger)
手首【てくび】wrist (lit. hand-neck)
Source
THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII
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.
so are you telling me that Japan’s punk phase was really the kawaii phase
Kawaii is so goth
Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace
I did not know this but I love this form of feminism!
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
Which is why you get bands like BABYMETAL, which toured with Judas Priest for a while, looking like this:
Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace
You have quite a few languages under your belt-- well done! How do you find time to work on them? I had to cut back on several languages for lack of time.
Thanks! I have to admit that's really difficult to keep practicing all of them but I'm doing my best! I studied English and Spanish at university while I started studying the others on my own when I had some free time. I'm moving to Japan soon to study Japanese and I hope I'll still have enough time to at least revise what I know about the other languages. I always try to incorporate languages in my everyday activities (listening to music, watching movies, reading newspapers...) and I try to talk to native speakers as much as I can.
So many languages so little brain
