Japanese

  • 暦 – grove of trees trying to push out of the cliff every single day in the year
  • 燥 – goods made of wood (paper) held over a fire to parch them – thus making it crinkly like parchment
  • 末 – tree has reached the extremity of its growth (and starts drooping down)

  • 完 – “par factum” from the foundations at the beginning to the roof at the end
  • 量 – quantity of time in the new day and distance

Mainly got my RTK tracker page up an running at https://infuerno.neocities.org – will publishing using GitHub workflow action.

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Longest lesson so far, but I do seem to remember most of them. Studied the first 17 yesterday and the next 17 today.

I also fleshed out my new site on neocities.org to show progress so far as well as predicted progress to the end of year. Have to update it manually which is a bit of a pain.

Watched and read some of Cure Dolly. Also found another good site with similar but a bit more detailed progression through how to study: https://learnjapanese.moe/

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Zipped through all of this lesson, all kanji seemed fairly familiar. Been reading more about the immersive approach which is a bit hardcore, but makes sense. Found Cure Dolly's grammar videos and should probably watch those.

Main aim for the year

Keep going with RTK and try to finish all 2200 (6th edition) – 313 days left in the year, with 133 done and 2067 left to do = avg 6.6 a day

Additional aims for the year

  • Read Tae Kim or equivalent
  • Finish JLPT Tango N5 and N4 Anki decks

#heisig #curedolly #jlpttango

Set up Anki last night according to Tatsumoto's instructions to have vim like keyboard shortcuts and avoid “ease hell”.

Watched a video from Matt (Refold) re the JP1K deck, but sounds like if I just study the Tango N5 deck this is pretty much the same anyway.

  • 直 – straightaway
  • 真 – the eye of a needle is a tool which can be used to point to true north
  • 左 – the left – the side of the dark arts

Found a useful site with recommendations for the immersion method: https://tatsumoto.neocities.org (and created a neocities site while I'm at it, why not – wonder what on earth that old geocities site I created looked like, can't remember it at all.)

  • 頑 – in the beginning, the two heads cain and Abel disagreeing and too stubborn to compromise
  • 的 – white bird painted on a ladle for a bull's eye for for target practice – tweet

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Finished the second half of lesson 3 yesterday and just finished the reviews today (must have forgotten them). Also did some reviews and learning on JALUP and listed to the first 4 of Beginner Series 1 on JPod101. Checked out Glossika, which may also be worth a look (much cheaper than JALUP, which looks pretty good but is fairly astonomical).

  • 只 – the only one of its kind, pacman with a huge mouth and little animal legs
  • 貼 – post a bill – clams with fortune cookie bits of paper sticking out of their mouths, posted on a board at the front of a Chinese restaurant
  • 頁 – almost always used as a primitive (head) and always on the RHS

#heisig #jalup #jpod

  • ` a drop of – think of it as a significant drop e.g. arsenic in mother-in-law's coffee
  • 旧 olden times – good old days
  • Another stroke order rule: when single stroke runs vertically through a character it is written last

Studied: 35-44

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  • Stomach. Brains ... Flesh.

Need to merge all stories from “klokwork” account to “infuerno” account.

Downloaded the Todai Easy Japanese app and paid for a lifetime subscription to get rid of the annoying ads, as well as downloading the Bunpo app and completed the first section in the NLPT 5 series.

Signed up for a free account for japanesepod101, I click on some URL in the source code and they've blocked my IP address which is a bit annoying, but using the VPN I've managed to get details and links to the audio files for some of the first few series – I want to listen to them in the order they were created and the first beginner series they did with 3 episodes coming out every week was good.

Studied: 16-34

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  • General stroke order is: north to south, west to east, north-west to south-east
  • 七 and 十 both have horizontal strokes written first
  • 九 has the downward stroke first
  • 田 follows the rules and has the downward stroke of the inner cross first

Studied: 1-15

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