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Testing a new sketchbook that wasn’t very good haha;;;. I wish the paper was better on moleskine art-plus sketchbooks. there’s a weird wax on the edges….

PS. I used a toothbrush to flick on the white paint for the stars.

Tools: Windsor & Newton gouache, Talens Japan watercolour. i’m not gonna put the sketchbook cause i definitely do NOT recommend it lol.

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#beauty #art #i love #beautiful #stars

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Sheryl & Alto (Macross Frontier) | Yukicon 2016

( picture by our trusted wizard of photography @suklaasuu )

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My beautiful Puwacchi & Ju-tama

#cosplay #yukicon 3.0 #my photo #puwacchi #kirinokisu #macross frontier

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気 Expressions

気 (き/ki) is a word that means “spirit” or “mood,” but it is used in many different expressions. Here are some of the expressions:

気に入り (ki ni iri) = favorite

気に入る (ki ni iru) = to be pleased with

気にする (ki ni suru) = to mind, worry, care about

気にするな！(ki ni suru na) = Don’t worry about it!

気に掛ける (ki ni kakeru) = to way on one’s mind, to trouble one’s heart

気になる (ki ni naru) = to worry, be anxious, uneasy

気に障る (ki ni sawaru) = to offend

気に座る (ki ni suwaru) = to hurt one’s feelings

気に留める (ki ni tomeru) = to heep in mind, give heed to, pay attention to

気を付ける (ki wo tsukeru) = to be careful, take care

気をつかう (ki wo tsukau) = to pay attention to another’s needs

気を悪くする (ki wo waruku suru) = to take offense at, feel hurt

気を許す (ki wo yurusu) = to let one’s guard down

気を散らす (ki wo chirasu) = to distract a person’s attention

気を取られる (ki wo torareru) = to have one’s attention caught, to be preoccupied with

気を静める (ki wo shizumeru) = to calm feelings, compose oneself

気を配る (ki wo kubaru) = to pay attentnion, be watchful

As you can see, these expressions that use 気 often have to do with one’s feelings or mood (and many of them are very similar). So, I’ll say to everyone today:

みんな、気を付けてください！

Everyone, take care!

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be careful with 気にするな because the な command form can be seen as VERY rude. I’d suggest using softer forms as 心配しないで or 気にしないで for a better alternative

#linguistics #japanese #study material #interesting

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Fine art prints by Missy Dunaway on Etsy

“I’m an emerging artist working with acrylic ink in a Moleskine sketchbook. I travel with a small wooden box of colored inks and brushes, allowing me to paint on the go. My paintings document my travels through the US, Europe, Turkey, and Morocco. In this shop, you will find prints of my sketchbook pages.”

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#amazing #beautiful #too pretty #art #i love

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I made a back panel and burned my thumb in the process :c. Gutta resist on gradient dyed chiffon, rolled hems. It’s stitched onto the blouse! #cosplayprogress #adekan #dyeing #paintonfabric #dye #dyeonfabric #draping #sewing #patternmaking

#no idea what this is but #amazing #cosplay #beautiful

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There are only two ways to watch anime

- Five months without any.

- Three seasons in one sitting.

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Hello

#truths of life #my life #ahahaha

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Peronalized moon phase and star jewelry by gemagenta on Etsy

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#stars #moon #space #jewellery #love #beautiful #I can't

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Tsukimi & Kuranosuke

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Miwako & @puwacchi at Desucon Frostbite 2016

#desucon frostbite #kuragehime #tsukimi kurashita #kuranosuke koibuchi #cosplay

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Kuranosuke & Tsukimi

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Myself and Puwacchi at Desucon Frostbite 2016

#cosplay #kuragehime #desucon frostbite #desucon #tsukimi kurashita

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Explaining various linguistic fields using donuts

Comparative linguistics: Dunkin’ serves these flavors of donut, Krispy Kreme serves these other flavors.

Diachronic linguistics: Donuts are related to apple fritters by way of Dutch settlers in North America.

Sociolinguistics: Boston loves Dunkin’ Donuts because…

Generative linguistics: All donuts consist of the following ingredients…

Psycholinguistics: Donuts stimulate the taste receptors.

Cognitive linguistics: Define “donut.”

Developmental linguistics: Learn to make a donut.

Forensic linguistics: He scrawled “Don” on the floor in grape jelly. Clearly he was killed with a donut.

Computational linguistics: Siri, where can I find donuts?

Prescriptive linguistics: Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to leave. We don’t serve that flavor of donut and we don’t owe you an explanation.

Internet linguistics: Wow. Such donut. Very taste. Wow.

#linguistics #mmm #donuts

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i was telling my sister the thing about how cats that don’t grow up around humans only meow when they’re kittens, but housecats retain the habit of meowing to communicate with humans bc we don’t get the other signals that cats use to communicate, and she was like “so basically cats are always speaking baby language with us. they’re like, let me put this very simply so you’ll understand. basically they’re incredibly condescending”

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I read an article where some expert said that they view us as very large, very stupid kittens.

#cats #life #interesting #not sure how to take this

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Even a cat’s paw will do

猫の手も借りたいねこ　の　て　も　かりたい

This idiom expresses how you need help so badly, you even want to have a cat lend a paw. It’s most similar to the English phrase “I need all the help I can get.”

#hihi #japanese #interesting #linguistics

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Resources for learning Japanese - my recommendations

Seeing lists of resources is always cool, so have some of my recommendations. This is the list of things (websites, apps) I’m using or I had been using in the past and that I can really recommend. It doesn’t include textbooks or random Japanese sites I use for practicing my reading, because it was getting way too big. It’s not an entry level list (although I think some of these will be helpful for people new to Japanese, too), so I skipped the stuff for learning kana. I hope at least some of those will be helpful to you! VOCABULARY Memrise – yeah, I know, everybody knows memrise by now, but I honestly can’t recommend it enough. My favorite Japanese course at the moment is Core Japanese Vocabulary - I like it, because unlike many other courses, it doesn’t have separate levels for hiragana and kanji (those are kinda pointless, in my opinion, making you type the same thing twice as often) and I like the way the words are organized. There’s a lot of basic words that I already know, but the ignore function is there for a reason.

I also enjoyed 2136 Joyo Kanji by Grade - the course I used to learn the meaning of all the joyo kanji. I’m a bit hesistant recommending it, because it only has English meanings and no example words – but for me it was really great, because just recognizing general meaning of the character greatly improved my reading comprehension. It’s not a method for everybody - you can try for yourself and see if it’s something you wanna do.

Iknow – this one is not free (the only non-free resource on this list) and I was wary of it, because with Japanese, there is a lot of paid apps/websites that offer basic things you can easily get for free elsewhere… But I found a promo code for 3 free months on there, gave it a shot and I’m absolutely in love. It’s similar to Memrise, only it has official courses made by staff and they have example sentences for every word, read by professional Japanese voice actors, as well as sentence making exercises and several different ways to check if you know the words you’re studying. I can honestly recommend it.

Renshuu - Renshuu is not only a vocab site, it also has grammar explanations, a language forum (which seems to have more newbies than native or very advanced users, so be careful while reading other people’s Japanese) and games/discussion prompts, so it’s pretty cool. I think it’s best for the vocab, though. It has many, many lists, some for JLPT, some using vocab from textbooks. There’s also a custom list creator and it’s really easy to use.

Kanji Sempai – a really nice vocab app, it shows you words and then quizzes you on them. The name is a bit misleading, because it doesn’t focus on kanji all that much, but it’s a solid vocab app.

Kotoba chan – a simple vocab quiz app with example sentences (that sometimes show sentences with the homophones of the words they were supposed to show, but oh well), very easy to use.

DICTIONARIES

www.jisho.org – Simple and great, jisho has been my friend since I’ve started learning Japanese. They have a lot of entries, not only words, but also idioms, they have a special section for kanji and example sentences, too. They are also better (although not perfect) than many other dictionaries when it comes to slang.

http://vvlexicon.ninjal.ac.jp/db/ - a pretty awesome dictionary of compound verbs. It has a Japanese-English version (and also Chinese-English and Korean-English), but I feel it works best as a monolingual dictionary. Just reading the definitions and figuring out what those compound words mean make for a nice reading practice, I think.

http://kotowaza-allguide.com/ - a monolingual dictionary of Japanese proverbs, really fun and informational.

Rikaichan – it’s a pop-up dictionary for Mozilla Firefox (it has versions for other browsers, too, but I haven’t tested those) that shows you the meaning of the word when you hover your mouse over it, as well as the furigana. It’s really, really helpful. Some people say that it’s easy for something like that to become a crutch and I see their point, but I think it’s good for me, as it keeps me from getting discouraged while reading longer texts. Definitely my favorite resource ever.

LISTENING

Delvin Language - this one isn’t really for advanced students (after a placement test I was starting from the most advanced level, and my listening skills leave MUCH to be desired – and I still find some of what I get to be too easy), but it’s a nice practice, since it uses clips from Japanese drama/anime or informative youtube videos about Japan. It’s both listening comprehension practice and a way to acquire new vocabulary.

Nihongo no mori – it’s an absolutely amazing youtube channel ran by very lovely native Japanese speakers. I put this in the listening category, but those videos are about grammar and vocab, so watching them helps in so many ways. I’m watching the N3 and N2 stuff, but I know they also have some videos for beginners and N1 students.

KANJI

Anki Aniki – it’s an iOS app for learning kanji. It’ll show you a set number of kanji every day, along with their meaning and possible readings, and then quiz you on it. I find it pretty helpful, even though there are no example words and I usually don’t like the idea of learning the readings without any context – but as a supplement to learning kanji in a more conservative way it’s pretty good.

GRAMMAR

Jgram- it’s kind of a grammar wiki. Many, many entries, with a lot of example sentences (some of their translations to English are really weird sometimes, but most of it is perfectly fine).

Maggie Sensei – a site that is not only absolutely adorable, but also very helpful. It has detailed explanations, many example sentences and a lot of lessons available. A lot of cute doggie pictures, too.

Japanese test 4 you- this site has a lot of information about grammar for all JLPT levels, with many example sentences and also all kinds of tests (grammar, listening, vocab, kanji). I’ve just found it recently, but it’s already proven really useful to me.

#for studying #some day in the distant future #japanese