Nov 18, Fri of Week 8 of Fall 2022
Yesterday, I tried BUSTAFELLOW, since is free to try from the first chapter on Android. Installed first on tablet, then I figured that it is probably better to have fun, than being in full learning mode. I reinstalled on smartphone While I don’t want to look, I am glad that I looked up some Kanji compounds, like 眼窩 or 窪み. Other than gameplay, I also looked at collections and cinematics.
Now, I uninstalled both from smartphone and tablet. Not only that it is not time for this material yet; I don’t want to get addicted to it.
Yesterday, I also tried うたわれるもの on my laptop. Playing a little over 1 hour, reading the story, and I still don’t get to play any game yet… (at least making some choices). The dialogue is rewindable and can replay the audio, but there is no backlog list.
Perhaps the most common and difficult vocabulary is 判る. It’s actually 分かる. There is also 躰, which is actually 体, or 身体 without a leader. This one is quite easy to guess, but not as far as the original form 體. Otherwise, Kanji are full of triangles, and horns becoming fins. Another one is weird 工, being thundered in the middle (e.g. 工夫).
Today, I tried. About 15 minutes later, the real gameplay starts – turn-based RPG. It helps because it’s not fast paced. (At least not turn-based with timer.)
I looked at play time (just like Pokemon of olden days), so as not to overdone myself, and give to study vocabularies and such. It’s now 2 hours.
For read-aloud. The trick is to discipline the ghost.
- かがみの孤城 (上) 71% => 75% (Ch.6 October)
Polling on who wants to end the castle.
Read on smartphone, which would be convenient when I don’t have laptop nor tablet. I usually take my phone everywhere. It also syncs with tablet. I practically never read on laptop.
To-be-remembered vocabularies
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介抱 nursing back to health
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殲滅 looking up is difficult, but I knew some words with the second Kanji. Probably remember as 宝籤’s 抽籤 or 懴悔. Anyway, Aedict helps a lot today. (殲 => (parts) 韭 => (junctures) related Kanji’s)
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慈しむ kindness that reaches living place / settles (居着く). Technically looked up from 慈悲.
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昏睡 coma = just remember the whole vocabulary as sound? Kanji has some vocabularies as 昏迷, and of course 黄昏.
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モドキ -lookalike, like そんなこともドキドキ
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垢抜ける
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勘定 calculate with feelings (感情)
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濁す rub (擦る) twice (二)
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嗜む touch 足し my heart now. The Kanji is also used in 嗜好.
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女将 …mentioned by plantron-さん in advance, where I looked up from, but I only see this now. Yeah, woman head (of a household) is just like a wolf 狼.
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傾げる borrowing 貸し the slope
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競う fighting alongside (沿い) Ki 気
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矜持 holding on to strong self. The vocabulary has Furigana in context.
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憚られる have-あ-couples of hesitations
Forgotten ones
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不意打ち disregarding Furigana, just Kanji shapes, so divide at 不意 and 打ち
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剥製 dismantling (剥ぐ) skin, and removing innards and muscles, thus preserving the animal; i.e. stuffed animal. The verb form is 剥ぐ, but probably also makes the animal whitened 白. Perhaps that the novel prefer a different Kanji form (剝), making it not understood by Google Translate.
Phrases