#target language

[nenelonomh]

español resources

- better than duolingo lesson platform; exam style questions - tongue twisters in spanish - best spanish homepage (it has everything) - spanish tutors - quite costly - translation of 'silly phrases' - basic spanish 1 - basic spanish 2 - basic spanish 3 - coffee break spanish (youtube) -foreign service institute basic spanish - foreign service institute programmatic spanish -foreign service institute headstart for spain - foreign service institute headstart for latin america

[onigiriforears]

Seitokai Book Club Master List

Hi!

Sometimes, life gets the best of me and I'm not able to make my usual announcement post on here about what the current Seitokai book club read is. However, I do actually update it on the master Google Doc (links to associated vocab lists included), my Natively profile, and on the Seitokai instagram. These include the books from the start of the club in 2022 until present day.

If you're not particularly interested in the vocab lists or you hate accessing Google Docs bc it takes up Google Drive space, you can also see it on THIS NATIVELY LIST.

Or if you're thinking "ALL OF THOSE OPTIONS SUCK, I'M NOT LEAVING TUMBLR!," fair enough, I can't argue with that. You can always DM me, send an ask, or even @tokidokitokyo might make a post about it as well.

[weather-phenomenon]

i love the term target language like yh i'm going to get (fluent in) you (:

[german-enthusiast]

what is your target language? :)

Spanish and French!

I know a good deal of french but am quite at that intermediate plateau of i can understand fine enough with enough time but producing writing or speaking?? hahahahelp but in August I'll probably be spending a couple weeks immersing myself in the south of France!

Spanish I just started out and am struggling to find the time for. I have a venezuelan friend who's helping me but I'm at that weird struggle of "i know lots of and about romance languages and can understand a bunch but barely have any vocab or grammar to produce with" :')

[lameravigliadoro]

my langblr introduction! hallo!!

age : 22 yo stress ball

name : klara (you can call me klar)

pronouns : she/them

my target language during the 2023 summer : german

languages i know : italian (advanced), chinese (beginner to intermediate, french (native), english (fluent) (i hope)

centres of interest : linguistics, politics, impressionism, arts and crafts, cinema, queer history

i'll post my german journey as much as possible. i'm going to live for at last one year in germany, so i need to get back to german and get better at german. like a lot of french high schoolers, i studied german as part of the compulsory course but did not actually enjoy it nor did i learn anything from it. so the main goal here is to reunite with my inner teenager and make peace with them ⁀➷

what i like to do when studying languages is journaling/writting in TL, revising lists of vocab and going through the grammar points one by one.

then, i'll look for podcasts in german and youtubers, radio broadcasts, free online newspapers and TV series so that i can practice my listening comprehension.

anyway, don't hesitate to interact, and if we share a common TL/language, get in touch, i love to make friends and getting to know more abt this world <33 also i don't wanna let my italian die, quindi raga, parlami in italiano!

see you soon! a presto, tschüss!ˏˋ°•*⁀➷

[studying-roxas]

Finding resources for learning modern Greek is annoyingly difficult. I could ask my mom's friend to help me learn since Greek is her first language, but I'd rather have resources to work off of

[beneath-thestyx]

heya!

I'm a Brazilian who's trying to learn German and obviously talking to ppl in that language will help so

does anyone who speaks German wants to be my friend and also give me some tips? 👀

[asluffyy]

Ciao !! We’re finally on day 4! I had time today at work and I asked myself what my vocabulary list should be about ? So I searched for themes, the one that came first was “things in my room”. I find it very interesting to list everything that was in my room but finally I decided, the first, more obvious, was… Hotel lexical field !!! I am now working for 4 months in a hotel with people I love and I think this was actually a good everyday idea for proper communication with customers. I actually believe this is a good idea for people who want to book rooms, even if there is a problem with something, you will always have these words next to you. My native language is French and I know a lot of people are learning it so I decided to do a three version of this vocabulary; one in Italian, one in English and also one in French. if you think i made mistakes or if you think we can say anything else for some words, don't hesitate to say it ! <3

🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷

L’albergo - Hotel - L’hôtel

Il bagno - Bath/bathroom - salle de bain

La doccia - Shower - La douche

Il parkeggio - Parking - Le parking

Il frigobar - Minibar - Le minibar

La camera singola - Single room - La chambre simple

(we actually often using these english words in french)

La doppia - Twin - La double/Chambre avec deux lits simples

La camera matrimoniale - Double room - La chambre double

La coperta - Blanket - La couverture

Il letto - Bed - Le lit

Il cuscino - pillow - Le coussin

Il portacenere - Ashtray - Le cendrier

La sedia - Chair - La chaise

L’armadio - Wardrobe - L’armoire

La lampada - Lamp - La lampe

La vaglia - Suitcase - La valise

L’asciugacapelli - Hairdryer - Le sèche-cheveux

La saponetta - Bar of soap - La savonnette

Il sapone - Soap - Le savon

Il tavolo - Table - La table

La carta igienica - Toilet paper - Le papier toilettes

L’asciugamano - Towel - La serviette

Il termosifone - Radiator - Le radiateur

La lavatrice - Washing machine - La machine à laver

Il televisore - Television - La télévision

La campana - Countryside - La campagne

L’aria condizionata - Air-conditioning - L’air conditionné

Il quartiere - quarter/district - Le quartier

La colazione - Breakfast - Le petit déjeuner

Il garage - Garage - Le garage

La vacanza - Holiday - Les vacances

If you love this, I will try to make it again for other subjects !

[acrowseye]

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

[lexaprolexicon]

Working on creating an Anki deck for my Korean studies at the moment instead of working on my actual class homework. I just don't feel like creating a marketing budget at the moment and writing a six page paper. It's due tonight, but I trust my ability to do it this afternoon all in one go. 🫶🏻

[nenelonomh]

en españa

[onigiriforears]

Sept. 2024 Seitokai NOVEL Book Club | 君は月夜に光り輝く

Starting in Sept. 2024, the Seitokai Book Club is splitting into two (2)--a manga book club and a novel book club. We've decided to do this to better service our members.

After a tough vote and a tie-breaker, our inaugural Japanese Novel read for Sept. 2024 is 君は月夜に光り輝く. This book follows two classmates, one of which is diagnosed with a terminal illness that causes her skin to glow under the moonlight. She glows brighter as her time of death nears. This book has currently been graded at an upper intermediate/N2 level on Natively.

Come join us in the discord server! We can't wait to see you.

Get some more info below:

What if I've never read a book in Japanese yet? I'm not confident in my skills. That's fine! Not only do we ALWAYS have a group vocab sheet that we collectively (and anonymously) add to, but we have ongoing discussions about whatever book we're reading. That means you're free to ask questions, send screenshots, rant about a character or anything like that. You'll definitely find me asking about certain grammar points or if using a particular set of kanji for a word changes the nuance in a particular sentence.

What's the goal of your bookclub? Well, we're interested in fostering confidence in reading in your target language without feeling that you have no one to turn to. Our server has people of all levels of fluency, meaning that there's always someone who can answer your question. And if we can't, we have people we can reach out to ask. We won't leave you hanging!

You don't seem to choose books I'm interested in--how can I change that? Well, we take suggestions and vote as a bookclub for what we'll be reading next. If your book doesn't win the first time you submit it, try try again! A lot of our books have been suggested more than once before finally winning. Don't be discouraged! And now that we have two Japanese book clubs, you don't have to worry about your novel suggestions competing against manga suggestions.

I can't afford a copy of the book. Message me on here, discord, or instagram. Or send a message in the bookclub channel of the server saying that you need a copy. Someone will help. We're aware that Japanese learning resources are not available or readily accessible in multiple areas around the world. We all want to help each other thrive at meet out target language goals.

More questions that I didn't answer here? Message me on here, discord, or instagram! Or @tokidokitokyo!

Hope to see you there! Server | Studygram | Server Instagram

You might see some familiar names from tumblr in the server 😉🤗 We don't bite and you can watch in live time as we scream in agony over book characters, obscure kanji, and plot holes in any given book that we're reading.

[studyaxis]

...and we've passed!

The scores could have been better, of course.

For the JLPT N4, the pass criteria is the same as N5: A minimum score of 38/120 in Language Knowledge & Reading, a minimum score of 19/60 in Listening, and a total of 90/180 to pass the level.

Consider the minimum scores, it is good to have scored what I have, and I will pay closer attention to Vocab/Grammar for N3. My reading speed is still very slow, so I am going to be focusing on improving both speed and vocabulary. If anyone can recommend any books/manga to start it, I'll be very thankful.

I'm very excited to prepare for N3 now, because I've gotten a really good idea about how to approach this test and how to prepare for it in a test space.

I started this year setting passing N4 as a goal, and I am genuinely happy to have achieved it. Learning Japanese is my favorite thing to do now. It will be okay if I don't pass my N3 in one go in 2025, but I would still like to try my very best and of course — have so much fun doing it.

And here I conclude my N4 journey. Thank you for following it!

‧₊˚✧ Notes on the JLPT N4 2024

I think I did okay. I got all my kanji right except for one, so all the kanji revision did come in handy. I struggled a little with the listening part, but I still have hope that i got some of it correct.

I wanted to write my N4 even though I saw and heard a lot of people's opinions of it being useless, because I like academic validation, and also to see if I could take on N3 studying on my own. I'm aiming to write my N3 next year and writing my N4 this year has given me an idea about how it's going to be.

As usual, consistency is key: I tried to do some amount of Japanese a day, whether it was reading manga or studying one or two kanji or even just doing a single lesson on Duolingo, but it kept the language in my mind. I'd read the lyrics to the j-pop songs I listen to because it made it easier for me to recognize those words in other places. Similarly with anime, I tried to focus on understanding the exchange rather than read the subtitle, and only go to the sub when I couldn't understand the context at all.

I will be making posts on the Kanji and grammar points I learnt and try my best to do N3 as well next year! This journey has been fun, and Japanese is really such a challenging and wonderful language.

Fingers crossed about passing this one!

[starry-songs-canvas]

All Plans Fly Out the Window

There’ve been quite a few long lost twins Damian and Danny meeting at galas, right? All very cute, happy, relaxed, etc.. Well what if we add a little twist?

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Vlad Masters.

A very suspicious figure that only in the last few years rose to wealth and power from almost thin air. Companies that were doing decent simply handing over the keys. No court has ever been able to prove foul play, all judges siding with Masters even when counter mind control measures were in place.

Any evidence or stories implicating Masters were either retracted or removed with great speed.

Bruce did not want another Lex Luther to deal with, and yet he first needs evidence. All of his computers were tightly secured with little connection to the Internet, and the ones that were refusing to be hacked. (“It’s almost as if it’s… alive, B.”)

Therefore, while risky, a more hands-on approach was needed.

Tim and Bruce were to stay in the spotlight, keep Masters eyes on them. While Damian would sneak away and snoop under the pretense of, “being bored”.

However, all of this went out the window when Masters introduced his godson, Daniel Fenton who when shaking their hands said in the League of Assassins dialect in a pleasant tone,

“What the **** are you doing here?”

[bsideheart]

honestly i am not liking the trend of using “fagdyke boygirl genderfreak” as almost derogatory descriptive terms for a queer person you think is annoying. like has everyone just forgotten that bigender people who actually identify with those terms exist, or are you just trying to think of the labels that you think signify edginess and queerphobia against others in the community? idk something about it doesn’t seem quite right

[blindbisexualgoose]

That moment when you’ve stayed up until 3 am and just read the most earth shattering, heartbreaking, sob worthy chapter of a fanfic and have to wake up in a few hours and do things and carry on like your entire fucking worldview hasn’t been reshaped by a stranger’s writing about two fictional gay dudes