#btw seahorse in japanese is タツノオトシゴ

[languagelvlup]

love how there's no single correct path to language fluency

when i was teaching English to little kids, we always used vocabulary sets that we thought would appeal to them, so we did colors and sports and numbers (which I think fall into the category of beginner vocab for adults as well) but also things like schoolyard games (rock paper scissors, tag, etc) and aquatic animals.

sure adult learners will study the names a handful of the most common critters, but most standard beginner textbooks don't cover a wide variety of animal names

so anyway I just think it's funny that every child in my class could name like 50 animals in english, but not a single one of the friends I study with (we are all intermediate+) has been able to tell me how to say seahorse in Japanese