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JLPT N1 words for describing people

Some words from Shin Kanzen Master N1 about personalities, relationships and family. Useful for preparing for the JLPT, or just making your descriptions more varied and interesting!

性格 - Personalities

几帳面 - きちょうめん - methodical, meticulous

勤勉 - きんべん - diligent

融通が利く- ゆうずうがきく - flexible, adaptable

冷淡 - れいたん - indifferent, apathetic

(非)社交的 - (ひ)しゃこうてき - (un)sociable

楽観的 - らっかんてき - optimistic

悲観的 - ひかんてき - pessimistic

真摯 - しんし - sincere, earnest

寛容 - かんよう - tolerant

人柄（ひとがら）がにじみ出る - personality shows through

人に対する感情・行動 - Feelings and actions towards people

嫉妬(する) - しっと - (to feel) jealousy, envy

妬む - ねたむ - to envy, be jealous of

労る - いたわる - to be kind to, look after

慕う - したう - to be attached to, adore, look up to

中傷(する) - ちゅうしょう - (to) slander

侮辱(する) - ぶじょく - (to) insult

軽蔑 - けいべつ - disdain, contempt

人間関係 - Relationships

肉親 - にくしん - blood relative

義理 - ぎり - step (relatives)

義父・義母 - ぎふ・ぎぼ - stepfather/stepmother

配偶者 - はいぐうしゃ - spouse

家族ぐるみ - かぞくぐるみ - with one's whole family

来賓 - らいひん - guest

接待(する) - せったい - to entertain (guests)

未練 - ��れん - lingering attachment

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11 June 21—More practice today! I don’t really have much to comment on, honestly. I’m just enjoying myself as I plod along.

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So far everywhere I’ve applied to has turned me down or ghosted me and silently filled the position. A friend was like “my job is hiring and desperately needs people!” It’s a donut shop. If having two degrees and ending up working at a donut shop for minimum wage isn’t the Millennial American experience I don’t know what is. 

(also just to clarify: no shade at the type of shop or people who do this work, but 100% shade at the poverty wages. You charge $17 for a half dozen donuts, fucking pay your people better jfc)

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景色 vs 景観

景色のほうが

よく使われる簡単な言葉です。

自然のながめを言うことが多いです。

ニュアンスは精神的です。

鑑賞の対象となることが多いです。

「田舎の景色」　「ビルで景色が見えない」

「すばらしい景色」　「景色のいい所」

景観のほうが

とくに美しいながめに使われます。

自然と人工(nature and art)に使われます。

ニュアンスは人工的です。

地理学や建築で使います。自然景観と文化景観の2つに分かれました。

「都市の景観美を損ねる」　「アルプスの雄大な景観」

「都市景観」　「景観に配慮した都市計画」

※景色にとてもよく似た言葉に「風景」もありますが自然にも人工にも使うという違いがあります。

True: 「練習風景」　「家庭のほほえましい風景」

False: 「練習景色」　「家庭のほほえましい景色」

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最近Udemyの日本語のN4コースを取っています。最初はこのコースがすぎると思います。だけど、このコースはいいレベルと思います。

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昨日、iTalkiのレゾンがありました。楽しかったです。緊張しかったが、私の先生は優しい人です。面白い話すがありました。iTalkiを使うことがありますか？

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あけましておめでとうございます！！🎊🎆

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Also: don’t stigmatize HIV+ individuals because they all have different circumstances and might’ve  gotten the virus from a variety of sources (sex, occupational, birth, blood transfusions in other countries). 

HIV-related stigma remains a huge barrier to preventing HIV, and is linked to a low level of people testing for HIV. 

The bad news is that Trump is cutting America’s spending on HIV year after year.  He has taken steps to weaken the Affordable Care Act since coming to power.

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What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAz

Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)

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Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

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Here’s something cute

When lockdown happened in the UK it happened very suddenly. At the law firm I work at, our office building emptied overnight when everyone was told to work from home. No time to clear our desks, no time to bring office plants home.

Fast forward three and a half months - everyone assumes that their plants are dead.

But then! An email goes round! It’s turns out that one of our security guards is a florist, and -

-the security team has moved EVERY SINGLE PLANT from all 12 FLOORS of our office building into the cafeteria. It’s been turned into a temporary greenhouse. Cacti and succulents and spider plants and terrariums and potted ferns

AND! Each plant has been INDIVIDUALLY LABELLED by hand with post-it notes with name and desk location so the plants can go home after lockdown ends

To give some indication of the scale of the endeavour:

If you zoom into the centre right photo you can see one of our security team happily waving

The plants are being taken care of tenderly. They get sun and water and are spending happy times with other plant friends

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Her are the first 10 cards I have available from Base Set 2:

Caterpie

Cubone

Exeggcute

Farfetch’d

Gastly

Goldeen

Krabby

Rattata

Rhyhorn

Staryu

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I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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すごいですね！

Project Monsoon  Clever colorful street art that only appears when it rains

After the Superhydrophobic Street Art, which uses a superhydrophobic coating to create designs which appear only in the rain, here is the Project Monsoon, which uses the same concept, this time with hydrochromic painting, which reveals its color only when wet. This amazing and clever project was designed by a Korean team of designers, in collaboration with Pantone, to provide color to the streets of Seoul during the rainy season, while paying tribute to the Korean culture. A brilliant idea! Source: ufunk 

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Please help support farmworkers as they continue to work the fields, breathing in smoke and ash as wildfires rage nearby. They sacrifice so much to be able to provide for their loved ones, often working overtime while receiving no hazard pay, no fair wages, and recently no basic PPE. This is not a new issue. Wildfire season has simply heightened the existing injustices. Please help.

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