日本語は話せます 🇯🇵

Have been forging ahead on Duolingo but it just got insanely hard.

I was on the level
Memories and The Arts 1
And just got to
Weather 2 and Law
but the sentences are just too long at this point

So probably should just stick to Clozemaster

These three, but getting close:
神
禅
福

I thought I was getting a feel for when to rendaku until I came to 早口, my brain really thinks this should be guchi dammit

These two:
温
湯

村
材

I finally came up with a system to get it thru my thick skull lol
会社 kaisha - begins with a k sound, company
社会 shakai - begins with an s sound, society

That’s pretty good actually. I have something like that for another, hopefully will post soon.

Sitting here at level 20 going on 21 with a thousand reviews.

A thousand years I’ve been imprisoned in this bottle studying wanikani!

The Wanikani guys really like The Dictionary of Japanese Grammar, all three volumes, but I don’t know if I can buy too many physical volumes these days and the ebook seems suspect.

I finally came up with a system to get it thru my thick skull lol
会社 kaisha - begins with a k sound, company
社会 shakai - begins with an s sound, society

Sometimes a pair like this can confuse me:
時期
期待

So I just started to dip into Japanese in anticipation of a trip (that is now very likely postponed) and because it intersting and came across "80/20 Japanese" which to my very novice eyes seems pretty good? anyone else have experience with this?

Not me, sorry.

i found this particularly (ha ha) helpful: https://8020japanese.com/japanese-sentence-structure/

if you can get past the voice and creepiness, the first couple of videos here finally made japanese sentence structure click for me: hxxps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj

particularly the insight that every japanese sentence has a subject marked with が, whether explicit or implied by the context

急行列車

私はあれを知らない

https://onomatoproject.com/

会議
議会
but this pair seems a little easier, famous last words

せっかくの苦労もあだになった。

Getting used to the terminal の

齢
Has a slightly different stylization that was throwing me off

I have…a very big backlog of Wanikani reviews.

These two
域
識

Don’t look that similar but they also rhyme.

I splurged for Kodansha learners pack bundle of apps and it does seem kind of useful.

weird that a bunch of radicals I got today only appear in exactly one kanji.

Oh but then those kanji may have multiple vocabulary words

These:
案
委

i learned this word today 「お尻」

it's always a fun moment when you get to learn a word that has been adopted into English from Japanese and see what the kanji that make it up are - drawing letter = emoji, of course it's a letter that's also a drawing!

seems like the person behind Cure Dolly has died, RIP
https://www.patreon.com/posts/r-i-p-cure-dolly-57100247

the person who i'm pretty sure is behind the account was posting on their facebook on the day the patreon post got put up so i think the android sensei is just being retired. bummer though, i had grown quite fond of her quirks

Do people really do Wanikani and never bother with the vocab? I just don’t see the point of that at all.

Anyway, today they added a new kanji to my level!
https://community.wanikani.com/t/wanikani-content-additions-ongoing-from-april-29-2021/51058

Wanikani sale almost over. (Guess I am in for the long haul now)

Still a day or so left.

wish I could afford it.
took a couple of weeks off over xmas and now have 668 reviews. welp.

as many kanjis as i've learned i can't for the life of me read a single handwritten or "handwritten font" one

i'm thinking of writing an anki plugin to randomly cycle the font for my cards between gothic, mincho, and handwritten

I could sort of start to recognize most of them except the most outside one on Wanikani.

i assume knowing how to write makes reading handwriting easier, thats obviously the big thing missing from the wanikani approach

True, but writing properly is even more work. Had I but world enough and time etc.

There are plugins for Wanikani and it’s apps to cycle through fonts.

Armed Banana by far the hardest font on Wanikani to recognize. Just put it back into rotation, we’ll see. Easy enough to click and see the regular font.

Took it back off, still too hard.

haha yeah I hacked together an Anki plugin and quickly took armed banana out of the rotation. might set up a separate deck of my mature cards to practice with that font though