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夢を叶えるのために、一生懸命頑張ります！  learning → japanese

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selfish ☾ moon

Sustainable slow fashion nightwear brand, with the mission to spread self love.

hello! after years and years I made my own brand and the online shop is open now! I worked on it a lot, while working and trying to have a normal life here in Japan...that's also why I wasn't around lately.

Selfish moon ☾ is a brand created with the purpose to share the message of inner beauty, gender equality and body positivity, excluding all stereotypes. It is not just a clothing brand but also a community, movement and lifestyle brand. The idea is that even when you are at home you should wear pretty clothes and take care of yourself for yourself. self love is not selfish!

If you followed me for some years you might know what I went through especially here in Japan. It wasn't easy and this brand is like a "rebirth" for me. As the mission of the brand I, myself, started considering myself more, accepting myself, loving myself and respecting myself.

I hope you will like selfish moon, the first collection is just a taste of what I am going to do next! I have a lot of projects in mind, so I will be so happy if you follow me in this journey c:

instagram: @ selfishmoonx

love you, Silvia. ♡

[demecchi]

3rd September, birthday color. characteristic: a literary girl dreaming of utopia color language: perception, kindness, motivation to create a trend in Japan right now

[demecchi]

I started an Instagram where I would show my life in Japan and my path into achieving my goals. If you want to keep following me also during the daily life follow me on shubsx

Thank you 💙

[shubsx]

I would like to find the motivation to start studying Japanese grammar and kanji again. I mean I live in Japan and I just speak Japanese so I'm practicing it but I want to be more precise.

Anyway I'm going to open a lifestyle blog so I will include some Japan stuffs too. Do you have requests? Questions? Let me know in the comments or leave me an ask! ♡˖꒰ᵕ༚ᵕ⑅꒱

[pai-seh]

DAY 3:

罠

Kunyomi: わな, あみ Onyomi: ビン, ミン Meaning: trap, snare

words/expressions:

罠をかける (わな をかける) - to set a trap 罠に掛かる (わなにかかる) - to be caught in a trap 罠猟 (わなりょう) - animal trapping; hunting with traps

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New books always gets me excited

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5 Japanese Words and Phrases for Today

授かる（さずかる）- to be rewarded with, to receive

盃事・杯事（さかずきごと）-  a pledge made over winecups; exchange of nuptial cups

琴線（きんせん）- heartstrings; koto string

縁（えん）- destiny (mysterious force binding people together), bond, connection 

灯火（ともしび）- light, lamp, torch 

[shubsx]

I finished Japanese school in September and I'm actually not studying at all Japanese, but living in Japan (husband and friends are all Japanese) makes me talk just in Japanese so I practice every day.

In any case if you have any questions, feel free to ask me c:

[shubsx]

久しぶりー！big news about my Japanese skill? I got the N2 (*´∀人) I didn't imagine to be able to get it, also because I didn't study so much 💦

[shubsx]

Help me (｡ŏ﹏ŏ) on Monday I have a kanji test, today and tomorrow, since I need to survive in Japan, I work from 2pm to 10pm but I start preparing at 1pm and I come back home at 11pm. When I'm at home I have to eat, take a shower and sleep, when can I study??? I didn't know that there would have been a test... I even don't know if I have energy to survive until Monday since I go to school and work almost everyday 💦

[shubsx]

A really small mistake 💦 just because 済 has the すみ reading I couldn't remember if the verb has it too or not.

Anyway the test has the 読み方 and the 書き方, I didn't make any error on the writing part ✨

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Honorific Prefixes

The explanation that is generally given is that words of native Japanese origin take お as the honorific prefix whereas words of Chinese origin will take ご 

Another phrasing is that words read with their kun’yomi (Japanese readings) take お and words read with their On’yomi (Chinese readings) take ご

Both of these can be written in kanji as 御 however outside of Keigo お is practically never seen in kanji, and ご is maybe only a 50/50 chance of the kanji being used.

That said, there are a few additional notes that get left out.

お　is commonly used for day-to-day words, い adjectives, and most foods (except for ご飯) regardless of origin

ご   is commonly used for more abstract concepts and most な adjectives

While you may sometimes see people attach these prefixes to loan words it’s considered incorrect to do so. 

Many “exceptions” are created by these additional notes.

Some Chinese origin words that commonly take お

お茶　「おちゃ」 Tea

お元気　「おげんき」 Lively, healthy

お勉強　「おべんきょう」 Study

お電話　「おでんわ」 Phone, Phone call

お食事　「おしょくじ」Meal

お化粧　「おけしょう」 Make-up

お野菜　「おやさい」 Vegetables

お綺麗　「おきれい」 Beautiful

Some Japanese origin words that commonly take ご

ごゆっくり　leisurely

ごもっとも　most, extemely

ご親切　「ごしんせつ」Kind, friendly

ご盛ん　「ごさかん」 Popular

Also some words can be used with either of the prefixes:

返事　「へんじ」 Reply

都合　「つごう」 Circumstance

利息　「りそく」 Interest (financial)

通知　「つうち」 Notification, notice

会計　「かいけい」 Account

受験　「じゅけん」 Entrance exam

年賀　「ねんが」 New year’s greetings

祝儀　「しゅうぎ」 Celebration

病気　「びょうき」 Illness

Required Honorifics

While some more masculine speech forms are more forgiving of this, there are several words in which the honorific has become accepted as part of the word and should be kept even in casual speech. The more common examples are:

お金 「おかね」 Money

お茶　「おちゃ」 Tea

お辞儀　「おじぎ」 bowing

ご飯  「ごはん」(as well as compound words using ご飯 ) Meal, cooked rice

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You’ll also see お on お願いします 「おねがいします」！

[shubsx]

Hey! This might be a bit of an odd question, but you aren’t by any chance a KCP student, are you?

Hey, no sorry! I'm from another school c:

[shubsx]

学校が始まったよ！今日から中級1。

先生と学生はだいぶ新しいから、ちょっと緊張してますけど、本当に頑張りたい！レベルとスピードは高くなったから、難しい(TдT)

明日からアルバイトも始まる💦更に、JLPTのために自分で勉強しなきゃ！6月末まですごく忙しそうε≡≡ﾍ( ´Д`)ﾉ助けて！

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JLPT N2: I can do it

I've started studying for the JLPT N2, you might think that I'm late but I don't care, I know my abilities and even if the last days I will understand I can't pass it, I'll do my best!

Anyway I'm studying one unit of grammar, kanji everyday. After that I study 3 pages of vocabulary - too many? No, my technique will help me - and then I do as many reading units as I like, I enjoy reading! In the evening I revise all the parts studied doing exercises.

I hope I can keep this routine until I have the exam. But of course I will go to the Japanese school too!

Last month I'm going to buy some sample tests book so I can focus on them. Meanwhile I do something "lighter" revising watching videos about the JLPT N2.

[shubsx]

Yesterday I bought this book to prepare for the N2. I watched a bunch of video for the JLPT N2 and I liked this one. One month before I might buy a sample tests book to focus on the same type of questions.

I don't know what to do with the kanji 💦 buy a book or just follow the ones that the school gives us + the vocabulary book I bought before. Do you have any suggestions? c:

[demecchi]

Help me to reach my fashion goal in Japan!

Hello, I'm Silvia an Italian girl who loves fashion since she was a little girl. I started drawing my clothes and in the years this little passion became my goal. But besides this, my dream was to go and work in Japan, because I was fascinated by the culture and of course the fashion. Step by s...