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Learned the word 三日坊主（みっかぼうず）today, which basically means someone who starts something but quits quickly, eg they say they're gonna write a novel, get the first two pages written in a day, spend the next day staring at their Scrivener document, and then never touch it again. 坊主 = Buddhist priest, 三日 = 3 days. "3-day priest." Pretty sure we've all been there are some point in our lives 😅
I just met the new teacher at the eikaiwa in my town. He moved here two weeks ago and has goals of improving his Japanese speaking ability. It’s his first time in japan, but he’s been studying for 2.5 years and is already almost at N1 level with his reading and kanji.
It’s always fun to meet people and hear their study story. For him, he went all out with AJATT (all Japanese all the time) and cut out all media in his native English. All movies, TV, YouTube, magazines, novels and video games...only Japanese. Even his phone and laptop settings have been changed to Japanese since the beginning.
He makes flashcards of words he doesn’t know (he currently has 13,000 cards in his Anki deck, which — if you do the math on 2.5 years — is about 15 cards EVERY SINGLE DAY, no breaks. He has been *grinding*)
His main source of immersion is visual novels, so he gets a lot of reading/kanji practice from that, so he does the zero subtitles route for anime and dramas and movies (as opposed to Japanese subtitles) so he can focus on his listening comprehension.
Love talking about this stuff!
Greatest Enemy AU
When one turns seventeen, the name of a person’s soulmate’s greatest enemy appears on one’s wrist. Character A is super excited to receive their enemy’s name, until they realize that the name is their own.
Writing Prompt #42
“A hero? Oh honey, I thought I had taught you better than that. There are no such thing as heroes, as there is no such thing as goodness. What seems heroic to you will always be villainous to someone else. Please remember that.”
Prompt #360
“The King is dead! Long live the Queen!”
Its funny how easily if you're like "whats the japanese word for it" (I forgot the word for "octopus" whilst talking about an octopus character) you can usually just put on the THICKEST Japanese accent and 9/10 they'll understand.
Me when I first started learning Japanese: everyone needs to start learning Japanese its not that hard and its literally the coolest language (second to Norwegian that'll ALWAYS be my favorite)
Me 2 years into learning Japanese: Japanese is honestly not for everyone. Its very easy to get swept up in the wrong sources or just bad time management.
Me 5 years into learning Japanese: everyone needs to start learning Japanese its not that hard and its literally the coolest language (second to Norwegian that'll ALWAYS be my favorite)
I think, more than anything, make a tiktok account. ESPECIALLY if your learning Japanese. Don't interact with ANYTHING that is not made by someone speaking Japanese. Theres a pirated version of the app that lets you see content only made with people whose IP is listed as "Japan".
I feel the short form content makes you really pay attention to whats being spoken and you're not in a perpetual state of "only listening to podcasts about Japanese"
"I try to learn a language but I always end up dropping it and picking it up.." I am 21. I have been learning Norsk since I was 12. The amount of "putting it on the back burner" has happened with this language is amazing. There is nothing wrong with stopping learning a language for any reason and stepping away from it. Will it take longer, yes. But its okay progress is progress.
"when I finish catching up I can decorate this notebook" has unironically been good motivation. I have finished so many lessons just going "all most there!"
So this has actually worked really well that I left some space on the notebook to add more when I complete the next section
My new pet peeve is when I'm with my colleagues who speak less Japanese than me and I'm like "ohh I'm pretty sure this Japanese here says X" and they're like "I can get google translate on my phone and check it for you if you want" bitch no if I wanted to use google translate I'd have got it out my fucking self I know how google lens works jfc do not insult me
I usually use deepl when I fact check myself if my friends aren't on hand. But also if they're defaulting to using google translate instead of asking more questions (how did you get that answer?) they're not learning the language properly.
It's not that they aren't learning the language properly that bothers me (idc honestly, Japanese is hard, some of them aren't planning for being here long-term, some are perfectly happy to just learn enough to get by and not a lick more, it's not my business), my issue is more that they are 1. questioning my ability to use a smartphone myself and 2. doubting my Japanese competence. The reason I'm not using google translate isn't because I'm too stupid to use a smartphone; it's because I don't need it, and I don't need someone else to come in and save me with their silly little slab of pixels
I realized I may have said this wrong. Not "learn Japanese wrong" but moreso misusing a resource (in this case translation software). And in a way, you are also a resource as someone with a higher Japanese level. You're right to feel spited because of people undermining your language ability.
This was so interesting I love yuval
"English is the universal language for a reason"
"I agree" with the British Empire Wikipedia page open had me rolling
My new pet peeve is when I'm with my colleagues who speak less Japanese than me and I'm like "ohh I'm pretty sure this Japanese here says X" and they're like "I can get google translate on my phone and check it for you if you want" bitch no if I wanted to use google translate I'd have got it out my fucking self I know how google lens works jfc do not insult me
I usually use deepl when I fact check myself if my friends aren't on hand. But also if they're defaulting to using google translate instead of asking more questions (how did you get that answer?) they're not learning the language properly.
"when I finish catching up I can decorate this notebook" has unironically been good motivation. I have finished so many lessons just going "all most there!"
Turns out if I like looking at my notes I will study my notes
See so often I go on rabbit holes that would 100% further my language learning if i let it.
二次創作 means derivative work.
