i finally know what some of these places and languages look like in japanese... don’t ask why it’s taken so long for me to look these up. i’m also unsure of some of my transcriptions... but i’ll save that for my langblr in a few weeks.
7 juillet 19 | by the time this posts, i should have passed the 10 hour mark for my japanese studies for this month! my writing has a lot of room for improvement, but i’m having fun with it. writing kanji out by hand feels artistic to me. in a few weeks, it’ll be the one year anniversary of this blog; it doesn’t feel like it’s been so long at all. 🍒
this textbook has been lying on one of my chairs for week: forgotten. my language bujo would probably be full from notes alone. i’m still undecided about paying for a kanji garden subscription and i’m taking a break from netflix for a while, so this will help me out a lot.
listening to : go away by mukai taichi
summer language challenge update:
officially hit 51 hours of Japanese studying yesterday, so this is a quick recap of my work until now!
I studied 167 kanji last month [a steady supply from the anki deck i’m using plus kanji n5 lists]. A good chunk of those were N4 level so I have a head start on that, haha. I think I have at least a dozen kanji lists in my language bujo now, going back to the beginning of May. I didn’t figure out what I wanted to do my layouts until mid-June, so everything is scrambled around.
Also, I’m in the midst of eating my hat because, while I hated JPN 1.0 from Duolingo, the second one is actually much better for me. There are still illogical hiragana choices in the sentences when the kanji is available, so that slows me down when I’m tired, but Duo does give me a good chance to practice some sentences [and they are simple enough that I’m not worried they sound unnatural].
a shameless plug here for the page that helped me crack word order [and the difference between は and が].
my actively used resource folder is getting a bit lengthy, so i’ll make a post for that towards the end of July [probably on my new langblr--which you’ll hear about soon].
and finally, yesterday, I wrote my first paragraph in Japanese. it took me about 30 minutes, but it was fun. :-]
y’all this little app Bunpo is cute ... i like the grammar tidbits [I think it goes into N4 as well]. reminds me of eggbun for Korean, actually. now to apply them..
27 juin 19 |
finished all N5 kanji a few days ago ! it was slower going because i picked up a lot more N4 and N1 kanji than I was supposed to, but at least I have a head start on more uncommon words. my favorite kanji would be 電, because it only has one reading [that i’ve come across], and it looks cool lol. 💫
trying to go back through rilakkuma and figure out how much i can actually recognize...
i have about 20 kanji remaining until i learn all of the N5 list, so hopefully i can knock those out by the end of this week. ✨
15 juin 19 | last weekend i wrote down some verbs and nouns that i use often [or represent me]. at this point i’ve been on and off with japanese since march, and as much fun as it is to study a new language, i still feel like a deer in headlights. i’m over halfway done with my fifty study hours for this month, and should be finishing up in about a week, so i’m really excited to look back at my progress! maybe next month i’ll be able to write in japanese..
a slice of strawberry lemon cake + sino-japanese and native japanese numbers
ran through the N5 list last week to make sure I at least know what’s necessary for A1-1...and found out the majority of kanji I already know is beyond N5 lol!
the sun came out after i finished my linguistics notes on rendaku this morning 🍃
not to speak too soon, BUT i’ve figured out how to structure sentences in japanese. stormy evenings can be so en-LIGHTNING⚡️💡
finally starting to fill this book out ! i think i’m up to 80 kanji, which is pretty cool. i might try to make it an even 100 before the fifty hours are up for this month. been checking out grammar here and there too, and working with sentences, but man, speaking is a bit difficult for me. what helps me in other languages is that they are not syllabary-based, so words tend to sound different from each other. they’re all blurring together in japanese, and i’m still confusing a lot of katakana for each other. i think this is why i have so much fun learning kanji over anything else.
mai 17 ‘19 : trying to grasp the difference between i-adjectives and na-adjectives. if i remember correctly, you have to add な before the noun you’re describing with na-adjectives, but i-adjectives are freeform. oh! and looked at state-of-being rules too.
mai 15 ‘19 : kinda doing nva for japanese as well, but using just the kanji. up to 70ish after two weeks, so i think that’s a good place to pause and spend the next two weeks focusing on putting these kanji together and getting some grammar and phrases in.
studying language isolates is fascinating to me. sometimes I find myself mesmerized as I read through grammar pages and pick up new vocabulary. language isolates seem to have no rhyme or reason, but yet they must have been connected to something, at some point, right? that linguistic mystery is enjoyable.