#renkou

[rigelmejo]

Ok screw it, some 138 hours updates:

Each HP audiobook does get noticeably harder, I can feel the 1000-1500 increase in vocabulary, I'm in HP4 audiobook now and had to listen to the initial 2 hours twice to understand the full main ideas of each scene, and just relistened to hours 3-4 again to pick up some details beyond the main idea (and my picking up details goes from anywhere to "only know 2 people are discussing gambling on which team they think will win and arthur mentions gambling is bad" to "there's girls who look X Y Z dancing in a performance in front of the crowd, the guys are in a trance, X is beside him shouting and commenting on Y." Basically... there's a LOT of words I could learn. I can follow the main idea now that I've relistened to the intro, but I may need to keep doing 2 listens to each section if it stays this hard.

I'm really pleased to say TeaTime Chinese podcast is now understandable! The main idea of all the episodes I'm clicking lately is easy to follow, along with most of the facts he gives - occassionally I am lost for 1-2 sentence details, but mostly I can understand the main detail conveyed in nearly all sentences he says. It's also nice, he does a lot of historical episodes and international news episodes so I can learn about new stuff while I'm listening. Also if it wasn't for his podcast there's no way I'd learn kangyi 抗议 protest and renkou 人口 population and jingji 经济 economy He says a lot of useful words that I think people probably learn if studying for HSK but I just never ended up picking up because they weren't in the novels I was reading much. I started this month with Maomi Chinese podcast just main idea understandable, maybe some details if I relistened. And TeaTime Chinese just main idea understandable if I relistened, few to no details understood. So TeaTime Chinese feeling extremely understandable is a Significant milestone.

Now Mandarin Corner and Dashu Chinese podcasts feel about as hard as TeaTime Chinese felt at the start of the month, I'm grasping the main idea but missing many details about their precise opinions, so I'm hoping by April they'll be easier to understand. Talk to Me in Chinese is so close to understandable... if I relisten to an episode I get the main idea, if I relisten a couple times I can sometimes figure out some of her opinions. I hope Dashu Chinese is closer to how regular people speak - although it IS a learner podcast, so maybe they do speak to purposely be easier to understand. But I'm hoping to work my way up to understanding regular podcasts, like 不明白 podcast I found. Which is extremely clear and on the easy end probably.

Podcasts becoming easier is the easiest way to check my progress. Because listening to people discussing things is what I find the hardest.

I am now able to understand Lazy Chinese's upper intermediate videos, sometimes looking at them (when she uses a bunch of new words for each 1 minute section like when she talked about an actress's life), sometimes just able to listen and follow along. I truly think these lessons are the most useful for making quick mental visual memories to remember words better. But I get bored ToT. These feel the most like lessons, because they ARE lessons - that's the point! To be understandable! And I do understand everything (especially if I'm looking at the video too). But that makes them less challenging and therefore less interesting than everything else I'm engaging with. So I am doing way less of her videos, even though these lessons would be what I'd recommend MOST to other learners who want to improve in the easiest way.

Cartoons for 5-10 are also boring me now mostly. They swing for me between: WOW okay I know less words than I thought (but understand the overall meaning from visual context), to AGH they're talking about such basic stuff I'm bored! Astro Boy is still keeping my attention the most, because it's got some sci fi stuff and I like robots. It reminds me of powerpuff girls and jenny the teenage robot when I was little. But I was also watching a little lion king cartoon with a lion cub and deer friends, and it's just very boring to me, the cute nostalgia of watching something reminding me of my childhood wore off. There are some dubbed anime I found that seem set in England I may try? Out of curiosity.

Because cartoons are boring, I keep trying dramas l. And they keep humbling me by reminding be BRAND NEW DRAMAS IVE NEVER SEEN ABOUT MURDER MYSTERIES with accents I am not as familiar with are QUITE COMPLEX, especially with no chinese subtitles to rely on! I understand like 50-80% of the spoken words in dramas if I have no chinese subtitles, and that's drastically less than if I could look at chinese subs, and that increase in difficulty frustrates me so I end up quitting the episode and wanting to turn subs back in. Only romance or daily life dramas would really be good practice anyway, murder mysteries about abstract off screen debates on what the murderer's goal is... not as useful as images dont connect as much to what's said. So aside from Go Ahead, I'm not really watching any dramas specifically for practice.

I am listening to tutu dawang audiobook, and just like when I first read it lol... it's humbling. It's for kids so every word is pretty much important for meaning, so if I don't know a word it really makes it Obvious I have a gap. Whereas HP audiobooks, despite throwing 1000+ new words a book at me, I can guess a decent chunk of word meanings from the surrounding words I do recognize. Thankfully I know most of the words in tutu dawang. Qingtai 青苔 moss/lichen threw me off in listening, and lol I remember it threw me off when I read it 2-3 years ago! Because I had not read moss before that story, and had not read it again after, and so forgot again. For the most part I'm quite pleased with how well I understand the audiobook, although I find it drains my energy trying to focus on it? I think because I DO understand nearly every word so I'm thinking much harder about more explicit things like... like what word they chose to use, what the grammar is of the sentence, trying to clearly grasp Everything. And that makes it end up feeling more draining. Whereas with HP4 they're talking so fast I can't focus on any of those in depth things, only understand or not to the part that's said then move along as they continue talking.

I found Huai Hai Zi audiobook so I may check that out after HP4 for a break... I also have Twilight as an option if a brand new plot is too hard. But I know some chinese learners found Huai Hai Zi quite readable at HSK 5-6, or even HSK4 if they used Readibu or Pleco to look up stuff. So I think like SaYe it may be a good candidate for a brand new audiobook I might be able to understand soon.

I keep throwing myself at SCI audiobook, hoping it's more understandable. Right now I'm not noticing a big difference. But I'm hoping one of these daysss.

[oshi-spam]

Sauce:

Outo no Gakuen ni Kyousei Renkou Sareta Saikyou no Dragon Rider wa Chou ga Tsukuhodo Inakamono

[bunycube]

i sat down to draw smth else entirely but i had so many kourenao feelings i just ended up drawing Them

[cyberpunkboytoy]

Pairing: Ren/Koujaku Rating: G Tags: Ren POV, character study, developing relationship Summary: 

Ren is a part of Aoba's consciousness.

He is restraint, the superego to Aoba's ego and Sly's id. He is an echo of Aoba's thoughts and feelings, separate but still resonating with the whole.

He is also, at the moment, a small Japanese spitz. He can be pet and cuddled and held against Koujaku's chest, tucked into the opening of the man's kimono.

Ren is a dog, so he can feel the steady thump of Koujaku's heart thrumming softly against his back. But because Ren is also Aoba, he knows that the feelings of warmth and affection stirring through him are just another echo, a resonation of what is in Aoba's heart.

[tomorrowusa]

Xi Jinping and his clique are committing genocide in Xinjiang.

The human rights organisation Amnesty International has said China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the north-western region that is home to the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.

In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty called on the UN to investigate, saying China had subjected Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims to mass detention, surveillance, and torture.

Amnesty International’s full report can be read here. (pdf) A summary is linked below.

China: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity

The sheer scale of this attack on the Uyghur people and their culture by the Chinese Communist Party leadership in Beijing is unparalleled in the 21st century.

In addition to the Amnesty report there’s a recent article in the journal Foreign Policy by Adrian Zenz and Erin Rosenberg.

Beijing Plans a Slow Genocide in Xinjiang

Basically, the régime in Beijing wants to reduce the percentage of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang through forced sterilizations, long periods of imprisonment, family separation, and compulsory assimilation. It is also trying to dilute the Uyghur population by intentionally bringing millions of ethnic Han Chinese settlers into Xinjiang – making the Uyghurs a minority in their own land.

Chinese researchers have argued the “foundation for solving Xinjiang’s counterterrorism” is “to solve the human problem.” Specifically, this requires “diluting … the proportion of ethnic populations” by increasing the Han population share and reducing the shares of populations with “negative energy,” such as religious and traditionally minded Uyghurs. This process of targeted ethnic dilution, first proposed by Xi during his visit to Xinjiang in 2014, is referred to as “population embedding.” A consistent theme in the discourse around this “human problem” is the eugenics-based concept of “population quality” (or “renkou suzhi”), a long-standing concept in Chinese Communist Party thought where Uyghurs are considered to be inherently “low quality” as a minority ethnic group.

To boost Han population shares, Beijing has to induce millions of Han to move to southern Xinjiang. By 2022, it plans to settle 300,000 Han people there. However, the south is also Xinjiang’s most ecologically fragile region. 

The Chinese Communist leadership is using chillingly Orwellian language to describe its “slow genocide” in Xinjiang.

Dr. Zenz in a paper (available here), soon to appear in Central Asian Survey, refers to some of these Orwellian gems from the architects of the genocide against the Uyghurs.

zero birth control violation incidents – wéifǎ shēngyù líng fāshēng – 违法生育零发生

optimizing the ethnic population structure – yōuhuà mínzú rénkǒu jiégòu – 优化民族人口结构 

population embedding – rénkǒu qiànrù – 人口嵌入

change the population structure and layout, [and] end the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group – gǎibiàn rénkǒu jiégòu bùjú jiéshù wéiwú'ěr zú yīzú dú dà de júmiàn – 改变人口结构布局, 结束维吾尔族一族独大的局面

Those have more sinister meanings than their actual wording implies. Before the 1940s, “final solution” was also a rather innocent expression.

The sad part is that most Muslim majority countries have remained silent about the persecution and genocide of their co-religionists in Xinjiang. China is using its economic influence to silence them. It’s largely Muslims in Western countries who have spoken out on behalf of endangered Uyghur Muslims.

US Muslim groups accuse OIC of abetting China’s Uighur ‘genocide’

So we’re in an unusual situation where the US government is defending the rights of Muslims while the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is implicitly praising China for its treatment of Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps.

[T]he group headquartered in Saudi Arabia has not voiced alarm over China’s western region of Xinjiang, where rights groups say that more than a million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims are being held in camps as part of an effort to stamp out Islamic customs and forcibly integrate the community.

In a March 2019 resolution, the OIC said it “commends the efforts of the People’s Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens” after a delegation visited.

Making excuses for genocide does not stop it. Crimes against humanity cannot be an issue one can equivocate on.

[suiyoubis]

sweet john — missing you [ tianyuehan — shizong renkou ]

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

...technology, under capitalism, is always used to solve the problems of capital, not humanity. And despite the romance of a mechanical conspiracy, the machines themselves aren’t behind it. They, like us, are yoked to the cold logic of capital, forced to smooth all impediments to its compounding expansion. There is no Skynet, aside from the Stock Index. And there’s no man-machine Übermensch sent back to save us. Steam engines didn’t save us. Electricity didn’t save us. The atom didn’t save us. The Internet didn’t save us. Today Rifkin and Li Keqiang may talk about 3-D printing, solar energy, and the zero-marginal cost society, but, if history is any indication, the glass palace is followed by machine guns and trenches brimming with dead. It’s easy to imagine, because the pieces are already there: a TED talk where some smug new oligarch whispers about “population optimization” or renkou suzhi (人口素质, “population quality”) into his tiny headset as hi-def Prezi slides hiss behind him, adorned with pictures of 3-D printed, solar-powered concentration camps.

Phil Neel, The Great Wheel

[okumenffs]

WHAT IS YOUR TOTAL WORD COUNT ON AO3?  

As of November 14th, it's 375'249 words total, apparently.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU WRITE? 

A bit every week; it's random tho, sometimes I write a whole lot, sometimes I barely write at all.

DO YOU HAVE A ROUTINE FOR WRITING? 

Sitting in the laundry room and writing. Also I like sitting in my couch when I write. I have a particular youtube playlist for when I write, unless I'm in the mood for something specific.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE KINKS/TROPES/PAIRING? 

Generally obscure pairings (and/or canons). Some of my favorite pairings are curretly Ed/Lui (Meine Liebe), Finral/Nozel & Yami/Will (Black Clover), Feitan/Chrollo (Hunter x Hunter), Abiriga/Nurcan, Gralat/Zaganos/Beyazit (Shoukoku no Altair) in various constellations, Obi/Izana (Akagami no Shirayukihime), Hoozuki/Gon (Hoozuki no Reitetsu), Qifrey/Orugio (Tongari Boushi no Atelier)...among others. There's a lot. I have not written things for far too few of the ships that I like.

I enjoy crossovers but I've written far too little of it this far too. The same goes for darkfics. I like some angst, and I like AUs. I don't know what particular favorite kinks or tropes I have though. Hmmm... I want to write more hanahaki at some point? Canon divergence and established relationships seems not uncommon. Hurt/comfort and angst as well, to a point.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE FIC OF YOURS? 

I have a few different ones that I particularly like but if I were to choose one I think it might be my Zaganos/Beyazit fic Hold Me in the Darkest of Nights. For something less hurt/comfort and a bit cuter, I think it might be the Matt/Lotor (Voltron) fic Cloud Mountain.

YOUR FIC WITH THE MOST KUDOS? 

Family of Fanalis & RenKou's. Which's got 102 kudos at the moment. I need to update it, I think I have a few wips somewhere I think.

ANYTHING YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOUR WRITING? 

Sometimes everything. Oftentimes most things. Writing is difficult, sometimes I just want to throw my computer across the room because of it. It's more like "sometimes I like it pretty much".

But I am bad at conversations, I generally have to rewrite them several times and I never know if they flow right. I don't exactly do a lot of conversation IRL so I don't have much reference material to go on, it's books and TV and I don't know if conversation works the way they do in fiction IRL. So I guess that might be the thing I like the least?

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Population education hanging chart by chineseposters.net

<br><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br>Designer: Jiangsu jiaoyu xueyuan, Jiangsusheng dianhua jiaoyuguan (eds) (江苏教育学院，江苏省电化教育馆)

1980s, late Population education hanging chart Renkou jiaoyu gua tu (人口教育挂图) Call nr.: BG E13/600 (Landsberger collection)

More? See: chineseposters.net/themes/population-policy.php

Interesting.

[learnjapanesebod]

「Learn Japanese」 Need-to-Know Vocabulary to Watch One Piece #754 without Subtitles!

Welcome to Anime Vocabulary, our #WatchAnimeWithoutSubtitlesChallenge series! Each of these videos covers an individual episode of an anime series and presents a list of the stand-out vocabulary terms used in the episode that you need to know in order to understand the dialogue (in terms of vocabulary, at least, knowing grammar of course is another substantial part of the equation). So, take some time to study the vocabulary list presented at the beginning of the video and then continue onto the flash-card-style video quiz for a preliminary memory practice before you dive into the true test of watching the actual episode for the first time (or re-watch it) and try to recognize the words as they are spoken at a natural conversational pace! Follow along as we cover various anime series on an episode-by-episode basis, and even sometimes top off our entire coverage with two additional segments: the ten most common words used in an entire series of anime and all vocabulary terms used in an entire series of anime! Last but not least, leave a comment below or on any of our other social channels and let us know which one of your favorite anime series you’d like us to cover next!

https://quizlet.com/182647873/one-piece-754-vocabulary-list-watchanimewithoutsubtitles-challenge-flash-cards/

Vocabulary List: 侠客 (きょうかく/kyoukaku) - 'self-styled humanitarian, chivalrous person, persons acting under the pretence of chivalry who formed gangs and engaged in gambling' 侵入者 (しんにゅうしゃ/shin'nyuusha) - 'intruder, invader, trespasser, raider' 動物 (どうぶつ/doubutsu) - 'animal' 記憶 (きおく/kioku) - 'memory, recollection, remembrance, storage' 爪痕 (つめあと/tsumeato) - 'fingernail mark, scratch, scar, ravages, after-effects' 噴火 (ふんか/funka) - 'eruption' 侵入 (しんにゅう/shin'nyuu) - 'invasion, incursion, raid, aggression, intrusion, trespass, penetration' 容赦 (ようしゃ/yousha) - 'pardon, forgiveness, mercy, leniency, going easy (on someone)' 左折 (させつ/sasetsu) - 'turning to the left, left turn' 動揺 (どうよう/douyou) - 'shaking, trembling, pitching, rolling, oscillation, disturbance, unrest, agitation, excitement, commotion, turmoil, discomposure, feeling shaken' 誘導 (ゆうどう/yuudou) - 'guidance, leading, induction, introduction, incitement, inducement' 生息 (せいそく/seisoku) - 'inhabiting, living' 手段 (しゅだん/shudan) - 'means, way, measure' 連行 (れんこう/renkou) - 'taking (a suspect to the police), dragging (someone) away' 航海士 (こうかいし/koukaishi) - 'mate, navigation officer' 当人 (とうにん/tounin) - 'the one concerned, the said person' 電気 (でんき/denki) - 'electricity, (electric) light'

*The vocabulary list provided above is likely a shortened version. You can download the full-length vocabulary list file (with example sentences from the episode) that can also be imported into flash-card, studying applications such as Anki on our official website here!

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[doodleturtle]

HI IM LOSER TRASH BUT UGH THEYRE SO PRECIOUS I LOVE RENKOU

ALSO THANK YOU FOR 101 FOLLOWERS GUYS!!!

[okumenffs]

Family of Fanalis & RenKou’s. (Gen; 17,415 words, ongoing) [ AO3 | DW ] Fandom: Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Couple: Mu Alexius/Ren Kouen, Masrur/Sinbad, Rohroh/Sharrkan, Yamato Takeruhiko/Ren Hakuei Characters: Mu Alexius, Ren Kouen, Muron Alexius, Rohroh, Razol, Ren Kougyoku, Ren Kouha, Ren Koumei, Judal, Yaqut, Rohroh’s little sister, Morgiana, Masrur, Sinbad, Ja’far, Sharrkan, Narmes Titi, Armakan Amun-Ra, Sheba, Ri Seishuu, Ren Hakuei, Nanaumi, Yamato Takeruhiko Additional Tags: To become mature; more ships to be added; Modern au; domestic; family; fluff Chapters: 17/?

Mu and Kouen are big brothers, married, and they live with their younger siblings. With a family as hige as theirs, chaos is to be expected.

Marry me. (Teen; 431 words) [ AO3 | DW ] Fandom: Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Couple: Mu Alexius/Ren Kouen Characters: Mu Alexius, Ren Kouen Additional Tags: Modern au, marriage Chapters: 1/1

They had stumbled upon the chapel by accident as they were exploring the big city.

It’s nice to meet you (too) (Teen; 3,927 words) [ AO3 | DW1 | DW2 ] Fandom: Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Couple: Mu Alexius/Ren Kouen Characters: Mu Alexius, Ren Kouen, Fanalis Additional Tags: Pre-ship; modern au; undercover, underage drinking, clubbing, hangovers, sleepovers Chapters: 2/2

In which Mu firsts meets Kouen, and Kouen first meets Mu.

[lurrlonde]

kouren for the thirsty becAUse

bonus

[makeela]

GIVE KOUREN A ROUTE 2K14 IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME THAT THIS OCCURS also they must have a double date with kouao. that is the most important part

[cutoutthepoetry]

old habits die hard