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corvid-language-library · 5 months ago

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Start the morning reviewing kanji I often forget. Get frustrated because I just cannot remember 福（ふく=blessing, fortune, luck, health) and there's only one word on my N3 vocab list containing that kanji. "Why do I even have to learn this for N3 when there's only one word with it anyway?" I grumble. "I've never even seen the word 幸福 used in context!"

Watch Kiriko's Crime Diary and she sees a display of strawberry daifuku in the supermarket underneath the sign: いちご大福, which she reads aloud. Suddenly I have no trouble remembering the kanji or the meaning.

And this is why we do fun things that are meaningful to us personally when we learn a language and don't just look at word lists/flash cards!

#nutcracker nihongo #langblr #language blog #learning languages #japanese langblr #learning japanese #jlpt journal #progress report #like i've seen the word 大福 plenty of times but it's often also written in romaji #or i can just look at the product which is infinitely more useful when you have no idea what daifuku even means beyond 'some kind of sweet'#so my brain never clocked the second kanji #but! now i know!#i saw lemon daifuku in family mart last night might have to go grab some to treat myself in celebration #oh also Fukushima (the city + prefecture) is 福島 which basically means 'wealth/fortune island' in case you didn't know!

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