盆と正月が一緒に来たよう, 盆と正月が一緒に来た様
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:12 (seven years ago)
深淵に臨むが如し
Wonder who else if anyone will jump on the LingoDeer bandwagon today
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 21:12 (seven years ago)
So mildly curious why the beginning of ヶ月 is pronounced “ka” and not “ke”
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 13:20 (seven years ago)
Also interesting that 図 has two ON readings
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 14:54 (seven years ago)
Can’t actually find such a character in a Chinese dictionary. Do find the inside, 斗 dǒu, which seems to represent The Big Dipper.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:24 (seven years ago)
Simplified Chinese “map” is 图, pronounced tú, with old complicated character being 圖. So perhaps another case of different simplification.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:45 (seven years ago)
Ah, and now I see same words with both the new and old kanji written out in the entry ずかい【図解, 圖解】And, even betterふと【不図, 不斗, 不圖】
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 19:52 (seven years ago)
Just learned ないといけない【ないと行けない, 無いといけない, 無いと行けない】
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:47 (seven years ago)
So far so good with LingoDeer Japanese 2
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:41 (seven years ago)
I'm doing that in my spare moments but most of my time available is spent omg WaniKani and Bunpro. It's locking in grammar and vocab like nothing before.
I can bust out a
毎日漢字を勉強したら、漫画を読むことが出来る。日本語はペラペラになるといいです。
no sweat.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:02 (seven years ago)
You mean Bunpro?
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:19 (seven years ago)
no bunpro
bunko I hadn't heard of, looks interesting
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:40 (seven years ago)
bunpo
Parsing sentences like this
食べたことのない甘さがあるクッキーをつくってみたい。
Is really hard on paper, but doing it whilst listening is really hard. It feels like the hook of the sentence is right at the end
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:24 (seven years ago)
Bunpro?
― What is Blecchism ? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:50 (seven years ago)
That is a Bunpro sentence, yes.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 7 December 2018 01:15 (seven years ago)
Learning about the use of 方 and より in comparatives
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2018 21:24 (seven years ago)
Duolingo just told me君ならできる
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2018 22:55 (seven years ago)
頑張ってください
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:44 (seven years ago)
Ha, thanks. It tells me that too
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:56 (seven years ago)
It’s all so simple.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf/page1-1754px-AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf.jpg
I have a laminated copy of this in my work bag
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 14 December 2018 23:05 (seven years ago)
Heh, that looks pretty good.So have been using three dictionaries apps extensively recently: imiwa?, Japanese and Midori. Perhaps I will organize my thoughts at some point and post about how they measure up to each other.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:11 (seven years ago)
Just printed that out. Very interesting but some of it is hard to read, such as the green humble and honorific box on the back.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:42 (seven years ago)
井の中の蛙大海を知らず
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 12:53 (seven years ago)
猿も木から落ちる
ナイス！
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:41 (seven years ago)
The Duolingo Japanese course from English is so-so, but the Progress Quiz is actually quite challenging.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:37 (seven years ago)
Okay, the Manabi app for learning to read Kanji now allows you to click and search in your dictionary apps
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:17 (seven years ago)
彼は私に泳ぐよう強要した。Can’t figure out quite how the よう works here.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 19:47 (seven years ago)
I’m not sure the よう is necessary, where did the sentence come from?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:10 (seven years ago)
Duolingo Reverse Tree
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:12 (seven years ago)
English for Japanese speakers
それは私にはありえません。Translated as:It is not possible for me.Can’t quite parse this one either, same source.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:53 (seven years ago)
On the first one it could be a really bad mis writing I of the volitional 泳ごう。 making it ‘He made me want to go swimming’ which seems a bit weird, but ok could work.
That last one you posted I just don’t know. I do get the sense that some of the less popular corners of Duolingo don’t get proofed very well. There’s a quite a few errors in the later levels of LingoDeer as well.
My reading is coming along by leaps and bounds I can recognise 750 kanji and I’m starting to do pretty well with teenage novels and manga.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 8 April 2019 02:26 (seven years ago)
Duolingo just significantly upgraded their Japanese course, wondering if this addresses any of our concerns, tend to doubt it.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:53 (seven years ago)
There do seem to be a lot more kanji in the lessons, I’ll give them that
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 20:44 (seven years ago)
I took a peak and it didn’t look any different. Not going to waste my time on it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:12 (seven years ago)
Yes, I figured you were too far along for it to be of use to you.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:33 (seven years ago)
Also, they have been doing A/B testing so maybe you still have the old tree.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:45 (seven years ago)
The new Norwegian tree has been in A/B testing for a a few weeks but I still see only the old tree.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:50 (seven years ago)
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9688/volitional-%E3%81%A8-verb
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:01 (seven years ago)
なければならない, なければなりません, なければいけない, なければいけません, ねばならぬ, ねばならない, ねばなりません, なければならぬ, なけばならない expressionhave to do, must, should, ought to
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2019 11:50 (seven years ago)
See also ないわけにはいかない
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:05 (seven years ago)
火のないところに煙は立たず。There is no smoke without fire.Il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 July 2019 00:05 (six years ago)
色々言語を勉強する代わりに日本語を勉強に集中するべきです。
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 1 July 2019 04:52 (six years ago)
I finally learned/looked up how to type づ
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:11 (six years ago)
It’s just “du”
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:13 (six years ago)
Also the little ヶ which is used for some counters and is pronounced “ka” every time I’ve seen it, such as in ヶ月, is typed “ke” like it’s big brother ケ.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:10 (six years ago)
Aargh “its”
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:11 (six years ago)