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N1 vocabulary of the day ・今日のN1語彙

(Literary vocabulary from a presentation I did this week)

❁著名　（ちょめい）：famous, prominent, eminent 　著名な作家

❁輩出する　（はいしゅつする）：to produce (people)　日本は著名な作家を数多く輩出してきた。

❁執筆する　（しっぴつする）：to write , to author

❁受賞者　（じゅしょうしゃ）：award winner

❁盛ん　（さかん）：flourishing 日本の文学は今も盛んだ。

❁隆盛　（りゅうせい)：flourishing, thriving

❁省く　（はぶく）：to omit 　この二行を省いてください。

❁劇作家　（げきさっか）：playwright

❁脚本家　（きゃくほんか）: screenwriter

❁映画化する　（えいがかする）：to adapt (a book) to a film この有名な小説は今年映画化された。

❁評論家　（ひょうろんか）：critic

japanwords

偶然 (gū-zen) "coincidence"

A calligraphy commission for a friend who very much believes in fate.

If you would like to commission a unique Japanese calligraphy work, feel free to check out my website to take a look at the options and prices.

hidewaku

森の散歩道…ハルジオンにトラフシジミ

cosmonautroger

baelthazar

Because flipbooks

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unibas

ちょっと出掛けてきますね。 #世之介日記 #cat

what-even-is-thiss

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

cloacatak

This (studying in Chile for a year) is more or less how I realized my two PhD-having, tenured professor expat parents raised me to speak the most disrespectful and swearword-riddled version of Spanish possible (with plenty of ancient slang I didn't know was slang thrown in). It was like: