Dreams come true!

Time waits for no one

[thefloatingstone]

Ugh. Let’s talk about something less aggravating and something fun and positive instead.

Every time I see some of the art Ikuko Itō did for a few Sailor Moon episodes my lifespan grows by 5 years. She’s so talented and her art is so gorgeous. Please let’s just look at this for a second;

- An average episode of Sailor Moon.

(cute. Nice to look at. Nice colours. Nice proportions and poses. The example used is Kazuko Tadano)

- An episode of Sailor Moon with Masahiro Ando as animation director.

(good at silly and cartoony expressions but honestly my least favourite animation director and I find these episodes to be really ugly. Sadly, Ando did a LOT of episodes…)

- An episode of Sailor Moon where Ikuko Itō is bringing her all

MY SKIN IS CLEAR! MY GRADES ARE UP!! MY CROPS ARE FLOURISHING!!!

omg just!!! JUST!!!!

How is she so goooooooood????

[supersmashnash-deactivated20190]

👌👍👌👍

[idesofnovember]

She is my fav animator for sure

[misshotaru]

Artist:  은디 on twitter 

[sillustrate]

- Sailor Moon Trainer Cards - Master Post I was so happy to see how well loved the cards were at the Sailor Moon Convention this weekend, and to hear that so many people had seen them online! So here is a master post of all of them, as I hadn’t printed out every set for the convention. I’m not finished the villain/team rocket cards yet, there will be more to come ;) ((For cons, the cards are printed out in a wider format so that they can easily be put on your DS cases!)) To see the cards individually: 🌙 Moon Family Set 💗 Inners Set 💙 Outers Set 🌟 Starlight Set 🌑 Team Metalia Set

[sillustrate]

((I’m editing the starlights Trainer cards, but also I added in Chibi-chibi!))

[susanarodriguesart]

Sailor Moon

[misshotaru]

Artist:  cynthia on dribbble

[magicalcinnamon]

S A I L O R   M O O N   C R Y S T A L

SAILOR SATURN — DEATH RIBBON REVOLUTION!

[mujistudies]

|  sources |

studying japanese resources by @fuckstudy

japanese resources by @gachagachagogo

hiragana chart by @linguajunkie

hiragana matching game by @dolleye

japanese learning cheat sheets by misshoneyvanity

300 basic words by @nihongogogo

onomatopoeic words by @tsunbutt

giant guide to self-teaching japanese by @mikuyami

japanese learning resources + advice by @deskowl

ultimate japanese resource list by @benkyogo

guide to self-studying japanese by @benkyogo

useful japanese learning shit by @4000yearsofexperience

cute doodle cheat sheets by kirakiradoodles

japanese learning resources by @japanese-revision

japanese studying resources by @nihongotime

japanese language learning websites by @saintlydemon

japanese grammar packet by @teijin

language learning masterpost by @z-co​

online japanese textbooks by @moonprincess​

japanese learning resources by hangukdrama

japanese textbooks by hangukdrama

resources by tofugu

resources by gakuu

resources by @nihongokudasai​

best sites for learning japanese by nihongoshark

| dictionaries |

Jisho.org 

Jim Breen’s JDIC

Yamasa Kanji Dictionary 

Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary 

Dictionary of Japanese Grammar

| textbooks |

Textfugu 

Minna no Nihongo 

Genki

Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji 

Tobira

This blog has a ton of pdf files

| grammar |

Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese

Marugoto

The Japanese Page 

Tim’s Takamatsu

Visualising Japanese Grammar 

Nihongo Resources 

Sci Lang Japan FAQ 

JGram

Renshuu

Tatoeba

Learn Japanese with Erin 

Tanos

An Introduction to Japanese - Syntax, Grammar & Language

| vocabulary |

Memrise 

WordReference Forums 

Renshuu

6000 most used words

Large Phrase List 

Japanese Onomatopoeia 

Keigo Cheatsheet 

| kana |

Hiragana 42 

RealKana 

Hiragana & Katakana Shape Comparison 

Tofugu Hiragana Chart

Tofugu Katakana Chart 

Introduction to Japanese Characters

| kanji |

Reviewing the Kanji 

Read the Kanji 

Kanji Radical Stroke Order 

GSCE Picture Kanji Cards 

WaniKani 

Kanji Damage

Kanji Repeater 

Go Kanken 

| tools + apps |

Rikaichan / Rikaikun

Rikai

Hiragana Megane 

Kantango 

Anki

Lang-8

Renshuu.org

Rhinospike 

Skritter

Hi Native

Forvo

FluentU

| reading |

Tokyo International University Reading Tutor 

Hiragana Times

Choko Choko Reading Section 

JLPT Example Questions 

Maggie Sensei 

List of Japanese Audiobooks and Transcripts 

TUFS Learning Resources 

Kotonoha 

Tatoeba 

NHK News

The Great Library 

Famous Stories

Read More Or Die

Macaronics

The Great ChokoChoko Library

Japanese Reading Practice For Beginners

Kodomo Asahi (Kid’s Asahi News)

Yahoo! Kids Japanese Papercraft

Read Manga Online

Chunichi Kid’s News

Real World Japanese

Japanese Class News Reading 

ECIS インタネット放送局

| listening |

Erin’s Challenge!

RhinoSpike

NHK Easy News 

KeyHole TV 

NHK WORLD TV

Documentaries About Japan You Can Watch For Free

Studying with J-Drama 

Nihongo de Kurasou 

Stream Japanese TV Online 

Beb & Alex Podcast

どぉ～でもいいNEWS

坂本真綾 from everywhere 

恋愛心理学知りたい！

相手の気持ち

NHKラジオニュース 

* The ones in bold are my faves

* But I advise you to watch LearningJapanese!! Like this guy literally taught me from Kana to Intermediate Grammar, which has been a very good improvement

[kadstudies]

The best one for grammar tho is Imabi. Goes from beginner to advanced and even covers Classical Japanese if you’re into that. I use it almost as much as my dictionaries of Japanese Grammar.

Also Jisho.org is terrible. It frequently will give outdated or incorrect definitions ESPECIALLY E -> J. All my professors say they can tell if a student used Jisho because they will have weird archaic vocab words in there. Use Weblio or even ALC.

[hpmatsuri-blog]

Fukumura Mizuki, 2017, Hatachi

[fukuchans]

17th Generation H!P Kenshuusei - The most successful generation

[sewitches]

泣きそう

[haropro-confessions]

Duu’s graduation. Transferred members. Country Girls “disbandment”. Rio’s kicked out. Tsubaki getting good songs. And we are still in the middle of 2017.            

[sewitches]

rough year

[boom-hello-project]

[boom-hello-project]

[sewitches]

💜

[tofugu]

The Mindset of Japanese Arguments

Start an argument with a Japanese person and you'll most likely be confused into a stalemate. Unless you read this.

Recently there has been a lot of talk about the Japanese education system on Tofugu. One thing to note is that communication, rhetoric, and argumentation are not taught as extensively in Japanese schools and universities as they are in the West. This tends to be one reason Japanese students want to study abroad. Western rhetoric sprung out of a long history of Greek and Roman philosophers like Plato, Socrates, and Cicero, who spent a lot of time arguing about arguments. Japan doesn’t really have a comparable rhetorical tradition. Their tradition evolved, like many East-Asian writing styles, from poetry and theater.

The Western standard argumentative style that most of us are sick of from high school—explicitly stated main idea in the first paragraph, and everything else in support of that idea—was traditionally used to give a direct voice of democracy and dissent. Early Greek and Roman orators were infatuated with the idea of individual voices challenging the status quo, something the traditionally-minded Japan was never very keen on. Western rhetoric tends to stress the importance of the individual speaker, but the Japanese, historically, have favored the group mentality. In fact Western argumentative styles can be sometimes seen as offensively direct or arrogant to practitioners of East-Asian writing traditions.

Read more!

[nihongogogo]

This was honestly so helpful in me understanding both conversational issues with my fiance when we talked about opposing sides of an issue, and why when writing in English essays written by Japanese people learning English often seem to meander a little too much.

[spanishsecondlanguage]

WordBrewery is great for improving your vocabulary.  It gives you a random sentence at either beginner, intermediate, advanced or master level, and you can make lists of words or sentences that you’d like to learn.   It includes the following languages:

Spanish

English

Chinese

Arabic

Portuguese

Russian

Japanese

German

French

Italian

Polish

Ukrainian

Korean

Serbian (Latin)

Serbian (Cryillic)

Hungarian

Greek

Swedish

Norwegian

[pound66]

Dマガで一番笑ったよこやんのポテンシャル #morningmusume17 #横山玲奈

This wonderful child💕

[arbitrarygreay]

Being Oda is suffering

(and that’s hilarious)

[sewitches]

Oda:D always

[lainevierge]

Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, if first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.

Lauren Collins, Love In Translation from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016 (via mesogeios)