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金曜日、ご月の㏰、

新しいジャルナが書きています。これは私の日本語の勉強がレコドですよ。

えっと、名前はデバリシ　です。絵画はとっても大好きですよ。絵画と日本語は私の身元。電話はばんごおが言わない ハハ。

今日が レコドがこれまでの。

またね。

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Relatively simple composition for today :)

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My powerful Patreoneers requested this contest between my Tarnished and the eponymous protagonist of John Sekiro: Double Dark Demise.

Please note that while the claims of Sekiro's parrying ability were exaggerated for comedic effect, some of the things John Sekiro can actually parry ingame include: a dragon, lightning, farts, ghosts, fire and ghost fire.

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Bro got tired of serving a 12 yr old . Cant blame him

Sekiro's resting existential malaise face never gets old to me. yeah this guys so so tired and has the hardest job ever he was raised by mean geriatric assassins and he kills 500 people every morning before breakfast (and his breakfast is a handful of loose uncooked rice and a single persimmon)

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Question:

Is there a way I can see the cards that I have studied until now , in an anki deck?

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[Japanese→English] @panmaumau Tweet — Color Coded Translation

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何も知らない生き物の顔

なにもしらないいきもののかお

The face of a living thing that doesn’t know anything.

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Please correct me if I made a mistake

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🪵May 6th, 2024 log :

Practiced and reviewed my go to anki deck.

The deck I use is called the Core 2k/6k optimized japanese vocabulary deck.

So far , I can recognize a fair amount of words when I try to watch something with Japanese subtitles on.

My reading has also gotten a bit quicker as compared to last week and Im able to recognize most of the Kanjis from these kinds of example sentences.

Still have to complete my grammar lesson for today from Nihongoal 's youtube channel

またね👋

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🧅Intro...

Hey everyone, welcome to my tumblr page where I document my learning process for art, design and language learning.

🎯My Current Goals:

🎨 Improving my rendering and composition skills by using more and more references from master artists from the 1800s

🍥 Keeping in touch with all the current trends and concepts in design

🇯🇵 Learning my first 2000 vocab from the anki core 2k/6k deck and learning essential grammar on the side. Immersing in japanese content to further increase my overall understanding of the language.

🌱 What I post:

Progress checks

Art studies and illustrations

Fascinating culture facts about the language Im learning [Japanese]

Design trends I found fascinating and tried to repliacate

Memes too hehe

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🎏Immersion, its quirks, and tips for language learning this way!

its the 5th of May, so happy children's day! 🎏 I got a question in one of my posts asking for some advice on immersion learning! i thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about immersion in general, my current study(?) routine and perhaps give some useful advice! As the name suggests, Immersion language learning is done primarily by consuming media in your target language. Immersion can seem super intimidating to us learners, mostly cause we can't understand most of the stuff available to us. But! its not impossible to start out using immersion right out of the gate. i think people tend to get scared or go "I'll immerse when i get better at my TL!" But the truth of the matter is, your not going to get used to, or better at your target language unless you consume actual content. (in my opinion.)

Honestly, a lot of immersion learning is being able to tolerate that i probably wont understand everything right away. I will someday, but for now i have to be comfortable with not understanding a lot. which is okay! So, what is my current study routine?

right now, my routine consists of:

doing vocabulary cards on Anki from a premade anki deck.

playing about an hour of Animal crossing everyday

watching 1 - 3 episodes of an anime

watching Youtube videos

weekly (ish) grammar done by reading Imabi, and watching Cure Dolly videos on Youtube.

The bread and butter of my routine is learning vocab, and occasional grammar studies. I'm using the core2k/6k deck. which as the name implies, is an optimized vocab deck that contains the most common 6k JP vocabulary. i currently take 5 new vocab cards a day, and try to get my reviews in everyday. my anki deck has contributed a lot to me being able to immerse so early in my language journey. learning and then reviewing new words everyday lets me recognize words in my immersion. As time has gone on, i can recognize more and more words, and even some words I haven't encountered yet in my deck. Immersion, while still uncomfortable, (especially with complex media) is the other side of the coin. i try to spend double the time i spend on anki, immersing. Mostly because i enjoy what I'm immersing in, but also because i get more out of it the more time i spend immersing.

"that's all well and good Lucky, but what advice would you give to someone who wants to learn this way?"

Well! first of all, and this is very important:

Be comfortable with ambiguity. you may not be able to understand some, or maybe most of the thing you are immersing in. that's okay! Your brain is already looking for patterns to see in your TL, and is growing more accustomed to it. I got a lot of headaches in the beginning, i still do actually. but i know that's my brain working hard! (take a break if you get a headache!!)

Second, and probably just as important:

Follow your interests. make immersion fun! whats the point of immersing if its torturous?! I'm a lot more likely to continue immersing in something if i actually enjoy it. there are a lot of easier anime to immerse in, but if I'm not having fun, I'm not going to learn anything. you should do the same! even if its too difficult to understand. I'm currently watching someone on YouTube play a dating sim, and even though its waaaay above my skill level, I'm really enjoying myself watching it! I've even recognized some words i know. whole sentences, even.

Third:

Be Consistent! This is probably advice you've already heard, but it bears repeating! even if you do something small like listening to a song in your TL, that's immersion babyy :) consistency is key, above all.

Lastly: Track your Immersion. a problem with immersion is it can feel like you are going nowhere. tracking how much time you spend doing an activity, (watching videos, reading, etc) is a great way to make immersion more tangible. lots of people reccomend toggl, but i personally use polylogger. its built with language learners in mind, and is stupidly easy to use. i also keep personal logs in an online diary, as well as here on my blog to measure my progress. it helps!

alright, i think thats everything i have to say for now! if you've made it to the end of this long post, hello! and thank you <3 hope you've had a good day so far! I will leave you with some links to more reading on the subject under the cut, they go into more detail than i have here.

take care for now! またね！

this article by Refold about tolerating ambiguity:

The Moe ways guide to immersion:

Making the leap to Immersion, Video by Cure Dolly:

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Reading guides like these are so effective and useful

Let's read kana!

Let's read kana from this pincushion from Daiso!

マグネット　ピンクッション

magune(t)to pinku(s)shyon

Magnetic Pincushion

マグネット　付き　で　便利！

magune(t)to tsuki de benri！

It's convenient with a magnet！

手芸

手 Shu (hand) 芸 gei (technique, art)

Handicraft