日本語は話せます 🇯🇵

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

上手の手から水が漏れる

HI DERE. Trying to restart my wanikani after pretty much a year layoff. Think I have an approach that might work.

timely revive since this friday will mark 1 year of anki daily flashcards without missing a day. i'm very happy with my progress and i think my approach of focusing on reading and just getting japanese text in front of my eyes is working great.

at this point, while reading manga i could probably only translate 50% of what i read, but feel like i understand the gist of 90% of the text. playing games is a lot lower since there aren't picture cues for nearly every sentence, but it's coming slowly but surely.

as for speaking.... yeah i can't really do that but i've definitely picked up the pronunciation of a whole lot of kanji just from doing the flashcards.

皆さん、お疲れ様です〜、頑張れ！！

Cool. What deck(s) do you use?

i use the core6k deck + a deck of katakana words

Cool.

Found something weird about the etymology of 馬鹿 (ばか)

なんですか？

Supposedly some transliteration from Sanskrit?

直

this is weird. I was trying to type a different kanji

直

Again. Shows up okay but after I post

It’s because of Chinese, which doesn’t have the L shape on the left.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B4

Still going on the Wanikani restart. Have a mountain of reviews it will take me many months to get through.

Try not to look at it all after a certain hour at night. Also tinker with the review order preferences.