日本語は話せます 🇯🇵

My Reverse Duolingo Tree approach has been useful but tedious and laborious

轍鮒

鳩が豆鉄砲を食ったよう

盆と正月が一緒に来たよう, 盆と正月が一緒に来た様

深淵に臨むが如し

Wonder who else if anyone will jump on the LingoDeer bandwagon today

So mildly curious why the beginning of ヶ月 is pronounced “ka” and not “ke”

Also interesting that 図 has two ON readings

Can’t actually find such a character in a Chinese dictionary. Do find the inside, 斗 dǒu, which seems to represent The Big Dipper.

Simplified Chinese “map” is 图, pronounced tú, with old complicated character being 圖. So perhaps another case of different simplification.

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】

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】

So far so good with LingoDeer Japanese 2

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.

You mean Bunpro?

no bunpro

bunko I hadn't heard of, looks interesting

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

Bunpro?

That is a Bunpro sentence, yes.

Learning about the use of 方 and より in comparatives

Duolingo just told me
君ならできる

頑張ってください

Ha, thanks. It tells me that too

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

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.

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.

井の中の蛙大海を知らず

猿も木から落ちる

ナイス！

The Duolingo Japanese course from English is so-so, but the Progress Quiz is actually quite challenging.

Okay, the Manabi app for learning to read Kanji now allows you to click and search in your dictionary apps

彼は私に泳ぐよう強要した。

Can’t figure out quite how the よう works here.

I’m not sure the よう is necessary, where did the sentence come from?

Duolingo Reverse Tree

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.

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.

Duolingo just significantly upgraded their Japanese course, wondering if this addresses any of our concerns, tend to doubt it.

There do seem to be a lot more kanji in the lessons, I’ll give them that

I took a peak and it didn’t look any different. Not going to waste my time on it.

Yes, I figured you were too far along for it to be of use to you.

Also, they have been doing A/B testing so maybe you still have the old tree.

The new Norwegian tree has been in A/B testing for a a few weeks but I still see only the old tree.

https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9688/volitional-%E3%81%A8-verb

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
 
expression
have to do, must, should, ought to

See also ないわけにはいかない

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.

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。

I finally learned/looked up how to type づ