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big masterpost of fun things to do this summer

hi :) i like to make a big list of things i want to do each summer, and i thought i’d share all the resources i collected this year with y'all in case you want to do any of these things too <3

learn a new language. 🦜

i’ve collected a bunch of resources for french, korean, and mandarin so i’ll be making separate posts for those languages. but here’s some of my favourite resources - most of them are based off of krashen’s comprehensible input theory which is why they are fun resources:

french: free grammar lessons and quizzes for all levels, watch french tv, read manga in french, a drive full of french books, a bunch of french culture podcasts, a list of french youtubers

korean: anki grammar decks for all levels, super in depth grammar explanations up to advanced level, a bunch of resources, reddit’s ultimate beginner’s thread, read korean webtoon, talk to me in korean

mandarin: a bunch of anki decks, grammar gamified, reading practice, chinese reading world, mandarin bean grammar points

japanese: core 2000 words anki deck, grammar gamified on renshuu

spanish: language transfer for spanish!

learn to draw. 🎨

this is more just a collection of art related resources. hope they help!

proko’s art library, a bunch of sketching and fundamental tutorials

the complete famous artists course

collection of art books and resources

alphonso dunn’s youtube channel

learn guitar. 🎸

i got a guitar last summer on a whim and have been having a really fun time learning it! here’s the main resource i’ve been using.

learn jazz piano. 🎹

similarly jazz piano is something i’ve wanted to get into for a while + improv. this person’s youtube channel is very cool!

write something and put it out into the world! ✍

i love to write and it took me a while to learn how to submit stuff to journals. hope these help you!

a bunch of resources on how to submit to journals

how to submit to literary magazines by doretta lau

publishing 101

chillsubs, an easy way to find journals to submit to

make your own video games. 🎮

by now if you follow me you know i love to make twine games. here are a couple of cool engines you can use for free!

twine, a text based engine

love

renpy or visual novel resources

bitsy

take a free online course. 🧠

coursera has a lot of options, which i really like. i took Yale’s the science of well being a few years ago and it was great!

make your own music or learn how audio software works. 🎵

audionodes is a cool free browser software that lets you do this without downloading anything!

learn about personal finance. 💵

i feel like it’s hard to devote proper time to learning about personal finance so a lot of us rely on learning as we go, but there are some good resources and tools online that are quick and easy when you have 5-30 min to spare!

PBS Two Cents youtube short vids about personal finance

wealthsimple personal finance 101 (short videos. nicholas braun is in them for some reason)

mint - free budgeting and goals software

edspira - more technical side of finance, accounting, etc youtube channel

#resources #learning tools

tokidokitokyo

More School Words in Japanese

学部　がくぶ　faculty

文学部　ぶんがくぶ　faculty of literature

経済学部　けいざいがくぶ　faculty of economics

法学部　ほうがくぶ　faculty of law

理工学部　りこうがくぶ　faculty of science and engineering

医学部　いがくぶ　faculty of medicine

学科　がっか　department

経済学　けいざいがく　economics

政治学　せいじがく　political science

心理学　しんりがく　psychology

言語学　げんごがく　linguistics

物理学　ぶつりがく　physics

ゼミ　seminar

ゼミを取る　ゼミをとる　to take a seminar

単位　たんい　credits

単位を取る　たんいをとる　to earn credits

講義　こうぎ　lecture

講義を受ける　こうぎをうける　to attend a lecture

補修　ほしゅう　supplementary lesson

補修を受ける　ほしゅうをうける　to attend a supplementary lesson

補講　ほこう　supplementary lecture

補講を受ける　ほこうをうける　to attend a supplementary lecture

〇〇大学の(学部)を受験する。〇〇だいがくの(がくぶ)をじゅけんする。 I will take the (faculty name) entrance examination at 〇〇 University.

(学科)を専攻する。 (がっか)をせんこうする。 I major in (department name).

#japanese #japanese vocabulary

helagus

Websites for learning Spanish

(i am only going to add links)

Spanishpod101.com

Webspanish.com

Cervantes.to

Notesinspanish.com

Amautaspanish.com

Lengalia.com

Synergyspanish.com

Spanishdict.com

Studyspanish.com

Ilovelanguages.org

i will keep adding if i find more websites.

These are only sites and not yt channels or social media pages. Also these contain both free and paid sites.

ig: @helagus

#spanish

noodledesk

big masterpost of fun things to do this summer

hi :) i like to make a big list of things i want to do each summer, and i thought i’d share all the resources i collected this year with y'all in case you want to do any of these things too <3

learn a new language. 🦜

french: free grammar lessons and quizzes for all levels, watch french tv, read manga in french, a drive full of french books, a bunch of french culture podcasts, a list of french youtubers

mandarin: a bunch of anki decks, grammar gamified, reading practice, chinese reading world, mandarin bean grammar points

japanese: core 2000 words anki deck, grammar gamified on renshuu

spanish: language transfer for spanish!

learn to draw. 🎨

this is more just a collection of art related resources. hope they help!

proko’s art library, a bunch of sketching and fundamental tutorials

the complete famous artists course

collection of art books and resources

alphonso dunn’s youtube channel

learn guitar. 🎸

i got a guitar last summer on a whim and have been having a really fun time learning it! here’s the main resource i’ve been using.

learn jazz piano. 🎹

similarly jazz piano is something i’ve wanted to get into for a while + improv. this person’s youtube channel is very cool!

write something and put it out into the world! ✍

i love to write and it took me a while to learn how to submit stuff to journals. hope these help you!

a bunch of resources on how to submit to journals

how to submit to literary magazines by doretta lau

publishing 101

chillsubs, an easy way to find journals to submit to

make your own video games. 🎮

by now if you follow me you know i love to make twine games. here are a couple of cool engines you can use for free!

twine, a text based engine

love

renpy or visual novel resources

bitsy

take a free online course. 🧠

coursera has a lot of options, which i really like. i took Yale’s the science of well being a few years ago and it was great!

make your own music or learn how audio software works. 🎵

audionodes is a cool free browser software that lets you do this without downloading anything!

learn about personal finance. 💵

PBS Two Cents youtube short vids about personal finance

wealthsimple personal finance 101 (short videos. nicholas braun is in them for some reason)

mint - free budgeting and goals software

edspira - more technical side of finance, accounting, etc youtube channel

#resources #learning tools #productivity

onigiriforears

Where to begin when reading native novels to work on reading comprehension?

So, you've made it to the point where you'd like to branch out and read some novels and children's books in Japanese? Then you've come to the right place! Let's talk about three helpful publishers (Kodansha, Kadokawa, and Shueisha) that can make reading native materials less daunting!

The Kodansha Aoitori Bunko Books (青い鳥文庫) were created and published by Kodansha with elementary schoolers in mind, so almost all kanji has furigana on it. The text is larger and there's normally a bit more spacing in between it (like our children's chapter books in English). Just like other children's chapter books, there are occasional photos included. Aoitori Readers include both original series as well as some translations of international literature (i.e., Little Women, Murder on the Orient Express, Sherlock Holmes, etc.). There are also some adaptations of other series はたらく細胞 (Cells at Work) Those books have blue around the cover.

The Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko Readers (角川つばさ文庫) operate on the same concept, except the series are normally on a more advanced level. With this in mind, they may use more advanced grammar than the Aoitori series. There are original series, but sometimes books/series for a higher comprehension levels will be adapted into Tsubasa Bunko Readers. This includes popular Japanese novels and series as well as international classics (i.e., Chronicles of Narnia, Pippi Longstocking, Anne of Green Gables, etc.). For adaptations of Japanese novels and series, there will be the "regular" version of the novel and then the Tsubasa Bunko version bc it's the same kanji, same grammar, same words. It'll also supply the furigana for those kanjis and might give little annotations or some photos here and there. For example, the award-winning novel 夜は短し歩けよ乙女 (The Night is Short, Walk on Girl) by 森見登美彦 (Morimi Tomihiko) has both the "regular" publication and the Tsubasa Bunko version. Tsubasa Bunko Readers have green around the cover. Click on the links to get a preview of each version to compare and contrast.

The Shueisha Mirai Bunko Books also operates the same. There are adaptations of manga series (like Kaguya-sama: Love is War and Demon Slayer) as well as original series. Mirai Bunko Readers have orange around the cover.

If you're worried about attempting to read any of these on your own, come suggest some of them for us to read together at the Seitokai Bookclub! (And even if it doesn't get selected immediately, someone might be interested in being a reading buddy with you :D).

Happy reading!

#books #reading material

onigiriforears

N5 Grammar | から・だから

Come join us on discord: https://discord.gg/vpuf7XHmyj

#japanese #n5 grammar

tokidokitokyo

The Senses in Japanese

感覚　かんかく　sense

感じる　かんじる　to sense, to feel

五感　ごかん　the five senses

触覚　しょっかく　sense of touch

感触　かんしょく　touch

触る　さわる　to touch

視覚　しかく　sense of sight

視力　しりょく　sight

見る　みる　to see

聴覚　ちょうかく　sense of hearing

聴力　ちょうりょく　hearing

聞く　きく　to hear

嗅覚　きゅうかく　sense of smell

匂い　におい　smell

嗅ぐ　かぐ　to smell

味覚　みかく　sense of taste

味　あじ　taste

味わう　あじわう　to taste

八識　はっしき　eight consciousnesses (the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism

#japanese #vocab

tokidokitokyo

Japanese Last Names

Last names in Japanese are important because it is more common to refer to someone by their family name than their given name. It is estimated that there are nearly 300,000 different surnames currently in use in Japan.

In Japanese, the family name comes before the given name, and the title (Mr./Mrs./Ms., Dr., etc.) comes after both of these names.

Example: 田中太郎先生・たなかたろうせんせい・Tanaka Tarō-sensei・Dr. Taro Tanaka Where Tanaka is the surname, Taro is the given name, and sensei is the title of Dr.

Surnames occur with varying frequency in different regions and certain surnames can be primarily associated with certain regions. Japanese last names are generally written in kanji. Two characters usually make up the most common last names, but one character or three characters are also typical.

名字　みょうじ　myouji　last name, surname, family name

名前　なまえ　namae　name, first name

History of Last Names

Family names were used variously for nobles and samurai throughout history, but for the general population they were usually prohibited from using a family name (with a few exceptions) until 1870 (during the Meiji period). When commoners were finally legally allowed to have last names in a bid towards modernization, many people changed family names that had been passed down from their ancestors to ones they liked better and others simply made up new last names. Some people took names from historically famous families even if there were no blood ties. Read about the extensive history of last names HERE.

Interestingly, legally, women and men had to keep their respective last names after marriage due to a law passed in 1876. However, another law was passed in 1898 that legally required women and men to have the same last name (either party's last name, just the same one). Currently, women in Japan (especially professionals) are petitioning for the right to retain their own last name after marriage, which the 1898 law prohibits.

Common Last Names

While it's impossible to memorize all 300,000 or so Japanese surnames, a ranking of the most common family names is available in Japanese HERE (you can choose by the whole country [全国] or by prefecture, and the ranking lists surnames by increments of 500, then click to display by using the 表示 button). This list only goes up to rank 39,520 so there are a considerable amount of last names missing. The most common family names have over 1 million people sharing the name, while the names around rank 39,520 have only about 60 people estimated to share the name.

Here are the top 10 most common Japanese surnames according to the ranking site:

佐藤　さとう　Satō

鈴木　すずき　Suzuki

高橋　たかはし　Takahashi

田中　たなか　Tanaka

伊藤　いとう　Itō

渡辺　わたなべ　Watanabe

山本　やまもと　Yamamoto

中村　なかむら　Nakamura

小林　こばやし　Kobayashi

加藤　かとう　Katō

#recs #japanese #names

zatsugaku-deactivated20230825

包　・漢字検定7級

ホウ

つつむ

くるむ

包装　「ほうそう」　packing, wrapping

包丁　「ほうちょう」　kitchen knife

小包　「こづつみ」　parcel, package

包む　「つつむ」　to bundle, to wrap up, to hide

内包　「ないほう」　connotation, intension

包む　「くるむ」　to wrap up, to cover with

#japanese vocab #japanese

tofugu

There are a lot of Japanese counters out there. Which ones do you have to learn? How do you learn them? Start here in our counters guide, then move on to one of our (many) other counters articles.

Whether written or spoken, most languages use the concept of counters. In English, for example, rather than “two dirts,” you would use the phrase “two mounds (or piles) of dirt.” “Pile” and “mound” are counters. Similarly, you’d refer to “three pieces of chalk” rather than “three chalks.” In this case, “pieces” is the counter.

The same concept holds true in Japanese. For example, if you’re counting long cylindrical things, you would do so using 本 (ほん). One of those long things would be １本 (いっぽん); ten would be １０本 (じゅっぽん). But what if you’re counting something flat? Rather than 本, you’d use 枚 (まい). To count three rugs, you would say ３枚 (さんまい).

Japanese has many counters like these—to students of the language, it sometimes feels as if there are a million of them. But don’t worry! According to Ida Asako’s counter book 日本の助数詞に親しむ, the actual number of counters is only in the 500s. So easy! 😳

Your Tofugu pals have gone ahead and edited this down to 350 common Japanese counters you ought to know. If that’s still too many, you’ll be relieved to know that we broke that article up into various sections depending on how useful each counter is. You can probably live your life only knowing two counters (that’s right, two), though we’d recommend learning at least the first nineteen or so.

That’s not what this article is about, though. Instead, its goal is to help you learn four things about Japanese counters:

What they are

How to use them

Rules about which numbering system(s) to use

Grammatical aspects of using counters in Japanese

If you’re already aware of these types of rules and simply want to learn about individual counters, our big list of Japanese Counters can help you. That’s where we really get into counters like 本 (ほん), 枚 (まい), 台 (だい), 匹 (ひき), and many more.

Read more!

#japanese

nanami-kentos-deactivated202403

This might be a good time to make a list for people venturing into Japanese fandom, especially shipping fandom. I think Japanese fans are some of the more peaceful (that I’ve seen) because they have clear set warnings, and they don’t go shaming people for their likes and dislikes. They utilize keywords and filtering.

Reproduction/reposting not allowed. Most use English too so, no excuses for this one.

注意

“Warning” or “be careful of…”

ネタバレ

“Spoilers”

成人済 /腐

They post 18+ themes. 腐 is the kanji for rot (decay). At times it’s shipper腐, as shipping wasn’t always seen as a good thing. I can’t speak for current times if this has eased up or not since I don’t look at Japanese fandom in meta so I’ll have to leave it as that.

メイン

Literally, “main” ship.

左右固定

This person is SET in their ships, they don’t want the names swapped. For example, if they ship 虎伏 itafushi and they don’t say anything else, then they don’t ship 伏虎 fushiita. Time to remember these words!!

左　hidari left for the seme/top

右　migi right for the uke/bottom

kanji受 or kanji右（right)

The name of the character is one they prefer ships where they’re the uke/bottom. For example, 七受 is uke/bottom Nanami, and they may or may not specify the ships. 七右 is the same exact thing. So for this you can expect 灰七、五七、猪七、虎七　etc.

Sometimes it’s combined like: 七受固定. In terms of Nanami, they only consume/create content where Nanami is an uke.

リバ注意

”Be aware of reversals.“ This person doesn’t mind their pairing swapped. For example, 七伊七リば注意 means they interact with both NanaIji/IjiNana.

FRBご自由に

Like the English FUB free. “Free to follow, remove, block”

本誌派

This person is a fan comic artist aka a doujinshi. They usually sell their works on BOOTH.

The plus sign is like the AO3 ampersand (&) and signals a platonic relationship. For example, 五伊地＋七

→　←　（feelings)

Probably my most favorite internet slang because I can spam the arrows to show how much love is going in which direction. Maybe you’ve seen it, where character maps are made and arrows point between two characters and there’s a note for what their relationship is.

For example, I love 五 → → → →（ ← ← ← ） ← 七　which is me signaling I like tsundere Nanami. Sometimes it’s one sided, 五伊地←七 where I’d read this as Gojou/Ijichi and Nanami likes Ijichi. Of course, it depends on context.

付き合ってない (not dating)

Not really a warning, at least in English, but tsukiattenai is a common theme. The artist/writer might be setting the pairing up to look like they’re a romantic pair, but nope, they’re not dating. Usually see it with one-shot fanart, but since it helps clarify the creator’s intentions, I added it.

Anyway, that’s not all, but all I can think of in one sitting. You can add, correct, etc. I see many fans asking the internet void for translations of many things and while I’d love to help, imagine the madness of that… the time and energy… so hopefully this helps some.

#fandom vocab

isshonihongo

Godan Verb or Ichidan Verb?

Hey everyone, I have a quick post that I wanted to make because of something that occurred to me the other day.

【3 Groups】

So first, some basic review. Japanese verbs all end in one of the following nine Hiragana characters: う、く、す、つ、ぬ、む、る、ぐ or ぶ. When it comes to attaching endings, there are 3 ways to group verbs:

1) ごだん（五段）Verbs

2) いちだん（一段）Verbs

3) Irregular Verbs (there are only two of them: する and くる)

As you can see in the chart above, it’s pretty easy to tell if a verb belongs to the 五段 group or not. The problem is when the verb ends in －る. How do you know if it belongs to the 五段 group or the 一段 group. Well, in this post I have a tip that might help!

【The Verb Stem】

Before we get to the trick, let’s review the verb stem. This is the part of the verb that never changes. It carries the meaning of the verb. Here are 8 verbs that end in -る with their stems highlighted:

降りる = to get off / to exit a vehicle

折る = to break (something)

回る = to go around

足りる = to be lacking (something)

上がる = to go up / to rise (by itself)

借りる = to borrow something

懲りる = to learn by experience / to learn a lesson

終わる = to finish / to end (by itself)

———————————————–

When you attach endings to verbs (in order to show things like past tense, volition, commands, etc.) you change the hiragana that comes after the stem; the stem itself will always be the same. This is where my trick comes in…

【The ます Ending】

Basically the trick is, listen for / look at the ます form of the verb. There are only 4 commonly-used 一段 verbs where the polite form ends in ｰります！From the 8 verbs I listed above, can you figure out which 4 are 一段 verbs?

The answers are:

降りる、足りる、借りる and 懲りる.

Do you notice something about those 4 verbs?

The key is that the り is part of their stems. For all other verbs, if the polite form ends in ｰります、that り is a connector that is only needed by 五段 verbs (ending in る) !

降ります comes from【降り】る, which is 一段.

足ります comes from【足り】る, which is 一段.

借ります comes from【借り】る, which is 一段.

懲ります comes from【懲り】る, which is 一段.

BUT

折ります comes from【折】る, which is 五段.

【Conclusion】

So there you have it. Keep in mind that this trick is intended for when you are having Japanese conversation. It’s very easy to go from positive polite form to negative polite form and vice versa (降ります ⬅️➡️降りません) . The difficult part is when you might have to switch between polite and normal form. (Does 降ります change to 降りた or 降りった？？)

If you are studying by yourself, any good dictionary will tell you whether any given verb is 一段 or 五段. I hope this trick helps you as you study and pick up more and more Japanese verbs. Let me know if this was helpful in the comments or by giving it a like and /or a reblog. Stay safe and see you next post!

Rice & Peace,

– AL (アル)

👋🏾

#verbs #grammar

languagebraindump

Verb + ところ

(picture 1)

I’m about to eat. Verb plain form + ところです。

(picture 2)

I just ate.　Verb simple past form + ところです。

(picture 3)

I’m eating. Verb ている＋ところです。 It adds a little nuance of in the midst of

languagebraindump

ている vs. ているところ

実は「～ている」も「～ているところだ」もどちらも進行を表す意味なのですが、「～ている」はただ単に動作の進行を表すのに対し、「～ているところだ」は上の例文のように「ちょっと待ってください」というニュアンスが含まれています。

In fact, both “~teiru” and “~teiru tokoro” express progress, but “~teiru” simply expresses the progress of an action, while “~teirutokoro” contains a nuance of “please wait a moment.”

Can you help me?

I’m eating (implied: please wait a moment until I’m finished)

languagebraindump

中ちゅう(+ nouns)

Source: Maggie Sensei

6) in the middle of some activity, while doing ~ , to be doing something now

*勉強中 = benkyouchuu = to be studying, in the middle of studying

Ex. 今、勉強中なので静かにして下さい。

= Ima, benkyouchuu nanode shizuka ni shite kudasai.

= I am studying now so please be quiet.

*仕事中 = shigotochuu = in the middle of working

Ex. 仕事中は携帯に出られません。

= Shigotochuu wa keitai ni deraremasen.

= I can’t answer my cell phone when I am working.

#japanese #grammar

negativefeedback-teen

Research Tips 💡💡💡

#research tips #google

nihongo-ejiten

かたち・形・katachi

さんかく・三角・sankaku

まる・丸・maru

しかく・四角・shikaku

ながしかく・長四角・nagashikaku

ハートがた・ハート形・haatogata

ほしがた・星形・hoshigata

#shapes #japanese vocab #vocabulary list

zatsugaku-deactivated20230825

一上一下　「いちじょういちげ」　up and down

一言一行　「いちげんいっこう」　every word and act; just a word or an act

三三五五　「さんさんごご」　in groups of twos and threes; in small groups

四六時中　「しろくじちゅう」　around the clock; day and night

天上天下　「てんじょうてんげ」　the whole world; throughout heaven and earth

一字千金　「いちじせんきん」　word of great value

十中八九　「じっちゅうはっく」　in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability

三日天下　「みっかてんか」　short-lived rule; being in power only for a brief period

五分五分　「ごぶごぶ」　as likely as not; 50-50; even match; tie

#chinese #vocab list

adito-lang

11. 「差別は許されない」はダメ?

What is an issue queer speakers of your TL are currently facing? Share an article or two with us, and sum them up.

I read an NHK article titled 「差別は許されない」はダメ？ (No way to ”discrimination is unacceptable”?) about the failure of Japan’s government this week to pass a law to promote “LGBT understanding”.

blue - noun | red - verb | green - adjective

差別 discrimination

許されない unacceptable

「差別は許されない」 “discrimination is unacceptable”

性的マイノリティ sexual minorities

〜を促進する to advance, to promote, to facilitate

法案 bill, proposed law

〜を書き加える to add (ex. words)

この一言が書き加えられたこと the addition of these words

自民党 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

意見 opinion

まとまる to converge, to come together

意見がまとまらず without agreeing on

国会 Diet

見送る to postpone, to shelve

性的指向 sexual orientation

〜を否定する to renounce, to negate

五輪憲章 Olympic Charter

成立 passage (ex. of a bill)

〜を成立される to pass, to enact (ex. a law)

〜が目されている to be presumed, to be expected

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#japanese #vocab #japanese vocab #vocab list

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