#tobira

[holespoles]

Tobira

"What illuminated the farthest reaches of the night were the flickering lights of drowned souls."

とびら「夜の果てを照らすのは、溺れた光たちの瞬きだった。」

[erbezdiez]

I got nostalgic from drawing all those RPG Maker Horror protagonist so I drew Mariko my beloved

[kirishimasmom]

Killua & Gon - Tobira (with English and Romaji Lyrics)

[nihongoriver]

I’m still alive and studying! I’ve just been super focused on studying for school, which is not very “aesthetic” or pretty, so I’ve been a bit quiet on Insta & Tumblr. Last night I got back to Japanese studying with a review session, copying my Tobira notes into my new notebook!

[yetanotherjapaneseblog]

The many cases of ように part 2

The many cases of ように part 2!  Part one is here!

ようになる

This phrase means to become or it will be. It indicates a gradual change over time. When used with a negative verb, it can mean not Verb any more.

The phrase Vないようになる is very similar to Vなくなる. However,  Vないようになる means that the change happened over a longer period of time or a bit more gradual. Both do mean the same thing at the base level: not Verb any more.

Compare this with last week’s post of  ようにする (to try to ) :

- 日本語を上手になったいるので、アニメをみるようにする。 VS

- 毎日日本語を勉強しているので、日本語を上手に話すようになる。

Ex:　タバコが悪いだから、吸わないようになった。

Ex：お茶が好きながお茶を見つけないから、飲まなくなった。

Verb-non-pastように

This phrase is used to state either a purpose, or used to state a way something is to be done. 

Meaning: so that ~ or in such a way that ~.

Verb represents a state which is beyond the control of the subject of Y.  

X ように Y implies consequence X will happen due to action Y.

EX: 日本語が上手になる ように 毎日勉強している。

EX: 運転するように、運転免許に合格 する。

思う ように ~ ない

This phrase means something is not in accord with speaker's/writer's (subject's) wishes or desires.

Meaning: not ~ as one wishes

EX: 予定 が思うように'と住まないですから、とても困っている。

[antony-studies]

01/03/2019 Today we started reading Tobira’s chapter 11,  “日本の輸入の歴史”, Japan’s history of importation. It’s tightly packed chapter full of information about Japan’s history, and it explains how a lot of the things we now consider to be the essential parts of Japanese culture were actually originally imported to Japan from other countries, such as the kanji characters, tempura, and tea.

[ironkorby]

Not sure if I should go back to my college text book to relearn all of the stuff I forgot or if I should just move on to jlpt materials

[welovelanguages]

Tobira: a gateway to advanced Japanese

This book is a really good one! I'd say it's for those whose level is from N3 on.

This book focuses on reading exercises from where you learn cultural and grammatical stuff.

Each lesson has a topic, some excercises to get you writing about that same topic, the main reading, a vocabulary list from that reading, some other smaller readings, more writing exercises, some pair work and grammar notes.

The only thing I don't like is the pair work cause I have no one to do that with. If you're self-studying that's not gonna be cool, but you can still go through the book and learn a lot of new things and most of the exercises can be done alone.

I really recommend this book! Here are some extra photos of it.