日本語を勉強しているうさぎ

Ashley's ongoing attempts to learn Japanese. You know, for funsies.

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i just learned that むしあつい isn't written 虫暑い. I'm a little disappointed, because that does describe summer pretty well. I can't deny that 蒸し might be more applicable to Japanese summers though

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another thing learning vocabulary makes you very aware of is how many different words languages have for 'money that you pay for a thing.' Cost, price, payment, fee, toll, commission, charge, fare, surcharge, fine, expense, brokerage…

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寿司 on the other hand I will never remember because every time I see it I immediately respond with 'what the fuck is a longevity director??'

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once I finish this current book (soon-ish) and go back to finish watanare, I really wanna try reading something that doesn't feature school-aged teenagers, because my vocab is really getting overloaded with school words. 放課後, 部活, 登校, 塾, 担任, 幼稚園...

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some day I wanna figure out what in the hell my brain's criteria for memorability are. 崩壊, a pretty common, broadly-applicable word that uses really obvious kanji for its meaning and uses pretty common pronunciations of them? I've failed to remember it probably 8 times at this point. 放課後, a word with no relevance to me that I could easily go my entire life without saying? I fully memorized it after seeing it one time

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雨はすっかり上がっていて

i forgot it can be used in that sense and spent a few seconds going 'that's not usually the direction that rain goes'

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as somebody who already struggles to work out when it's my turn to talk and when I need to shut up and let somebody else speak in English, I feel like the first time I encounter aizuchi I'm gonna be vibrating with frustration within about 30 seconds

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practicing Japanese with a chatbot to get some experience at back-and-forth exchanges before I waste somebody's time with actual conversational practice, and it immediately went "hey, your grammar's not bad, but your word choice and stuff is kinda unnatural like you learned how to talk from books or something, what's up with that?" bitch that's how I am in English too. i'll use 'antediluvian' in a casual conversation i don't give a fuck

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on the other hand sometimes it criticizes me for saying things like 超美味しい when something like とても美味しい is way more common in conversation. it was tastier than that, asshole. that's why I said it that way.

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小首

1) that isn't part of your neck

2) it's bigger than your neck actually, so if anything it's a 大首

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決まりが悪い

Kimahri? the guy from Final Fantasy 10? I don't think he was that bad

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分かりやすいくらいに心臓が高鳴る。

yeah i'm always saying that after i exercise. 'wow' i say, 'my heartbeat is really comprehensible right now'

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じゃない is the most treacherous sentence ending in speech, because about 70% of the time there's an implied か, but that other 30% of the time? watch out.

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i am delighted

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徐々に is a common phrase meaning 'within Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'

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bitch

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i feel like about 50% of the new words I encounter are variations on 'very', 'generally', 'course/route/way/path', 'inferior/poorly-made', 'precisely', or 'suddenly'

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slowly going insane every time I'm reminded that the verb for 'to be contained in an object' is 入る, not 入れる, so I keep reading sentences along the lines of 'a doughnut that jelly has entered'