A Certain 🎃 Ghost-Type 👻 Bidoof's Multi-Language Study Log 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇱

October 12th, 2025

  • 128 reviews on WaniKani
  • 17 lessons on WaniKani
  • 19 reviews on Bunpro
  • 3 stories on Satori Reader
  • Manga: かぐや様は告らせたい第1話
  • Game: 極限脱出 9時間9人9の扉, with texthooker
  • 0.5h of passive listening practice of JELLY JELLY RADIO

there is this long running meme saying that “Linux is free if you don’t value your time”, and yesterday and today I witnessed exactly that happening

did you know I needed to write a 62 line bash script as a launch parameter for Steam to be able to, yes, you didn’t hear this wrong, BE ABLE TO RUN TWO APPLICATIONS AT THE SAME TIME (IN THE SAME PROTON WINEPREFIX)

took me something like 6 hours to get this running, for no other reason than self-hatred and love of the hacker game, but there it is…

one eternity later, I finally have texthooker on Steam Deck :sob:

Also, I tried reading some Kaguya-sama, that on the other hand was a very easy script: mokuro.moe only had the .mokuro files and not the .html files, and Jidoujisho only supports .html files, so 50 lines of Python code later, I had a working .mokuro → .html converter and I was able to read some of it

…and let me tell you, I did NOT expect for the jump in difficulty to be this significant xdd


Every second word you highlight on Mokuro has a rating of being the 30.000-60.000th most popular word in Japanese, and even the words that have meanings and readings you already know use a rare reading and an auxilary meaning to, I was reading this and going like :smirking_face: :smirking_face: :smirking_face: the whole chapter xddd

And yeah, Jelly Jelly Radio, passive listening again, I’m catching some things, but definitely not everything, so it’ll be a little longer ^^


Life

…I woke up at 3pm xddd

That has not happened to me in a while xdddd

But I was able to grab a really late breakfast and wOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT

A VIETNAMESE EGG COFFEE IN BERLIN :DDDD

I caught a Palestinian demo in my district today, for some reason it felt like there were more police officers than the actual protesters, but that’s because the police is everywhere for those. People walking in those parades have pretty mixed feelings about police being present (and almost every one of those I see, I see at least one person being arrested), but hey, maybe they help with security ^^

Also, coolstory, Ritter Sport towers in Germany!
In every bigger German city, at the main station, there is one of those chocolate towers (17 in total?), and you can travel to different cities and see if you can see all of those, last I remember, I saw something like 10, though I deprioritized this adventure from being significant xddd

Anyway, it’s pretty late today too, so I’m jumping off and regular work tomorrow ^^

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October 13th, 2025

  • 143 reviews on WaniKani
  • 15 lessons on WaniKani
  • 9 reviews on Bunpro
  • 3 stories on Satori Reader
  • Manga: かぐや様は告らせたい第2話
  • 1.5h of passive listening practice of JELLY JELLY RADIO
  • Mock N2 exam on Bunpro…

…and I passed the mock!

I was so stressed going into it, because if my score were to be below 50%, I don’t know what I’d do, I’d most likely go into panic mode and start going like “I will never catch up before JLPT” xddd

But big highlight, this was the first time ever writing a JLPT or a mock where I was able to read all of the texts and questions in time - in fact, I finished the final question 10 minutes before time, which had never happened before, not on either N3, not on N4 mocks, but it did happen on N2!

Here are some of the last texts, and:

(N2 exam 3 from Bunpro spoilers)

wow!

Of course, the worst part was grammar, and that wasn’t surprising at all, I feel like I’m vibing through Bunpro and I’ll just have to do grammar crams in flashcard format one day and click through all of the flashcards at least a few times:


this grammar revision in that format alone would probably get my score in the 7x% range, which is what I’d like to go for just to be sure xddd

but yeah, I’m a little bit more confident about my abilities now and Malinkal’s method (just keep reading prose) seems to be extremely useful for this format, so I probably need to find a visual novel with voice acting and just, forget the outside world exists…


Oversharing time

…or should I? I have a feeling I’ve been locking into Japanese a little too much lately and letting the other things in life slip over, because I’m always in the “HEY IF I DO THIS WILL IT MAKE MY JAPANESE BETTER” and then, just, not meeting new people, not going to a work event or something

I blame it on WaniKani getting close to Level 60, N2 exam looming soon, and the fact I need to get my German citizenship in place and I’m not doing it, but I have a feeling I’m the closest away from losing track of the things that matter and mean a lot to me in favor of, be it Japanese, or doing things on a computer to learn Japanese, or just worrying so much that you revenge bedtime procrastinate like crazy (today I’m doing the least in a week and it’s still 2am xddd)


Life

…but no, I’m not losing touch with life completely, today was my favorite season of the year, not “autumn”, because it gets hot in September and moist in November, I meant “today” xdd

On days like those, I get reminded of Life is Strange, which funnily enough, is set exactly a week ago if we consider the calendar, I definitely get this vibe from this BEEAUTIFUL season ^^

Autumn also means that the Berlin Eisbären hockey team is restarting the season and the gift shop and signups for the tickets are open once again!

I went to one of their games two years ago, and the atmosphere at the stadium was simply magnetic ^^

Also, I had a dish today that was called “Singaporean flying noodles”, pretty easy to infer why it was named after Singapore, it was pretty funny xdd

But yeah, let’s just have this season for a bit longer, don’t start the rain yet ^^

Also, tangent, I found a guy on YouTube today who uploaded a video called “The Price of Progress: What Tokyo Looks Like at 8AM” and the main idea is that he bitches about the late stage capitalism and how everything feels mechanical and people never truly live…

…and the video has some amazing shots in the background, and hearing the JR East jingles made me go :blush: and I know that it’s something that becomes really old really fast if you move over, but I hope that even with the ordinary pictures I send sometimes, there are people that go like “huh, that’s so cool”, even if I forgot that those things were supposed to be cool xddd

So yeah, see you tomorrow! ^^

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Take heart, you are winning! This procrastination is just a blip along your path through the stars

Probably by the time you even read this you’ll be on another high like, why is mitrac consoling me :grin:

:collision: chrkrcchhrk :collision:
subliminal. message. incoming.

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That last video hits hard :confused:

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October 14th, 2025

  • 173 reviews on WaniKani
  • 15 lessons on WaniKani
  • 22 reviews on Bunpro
  • 3 stories on Satori Reader
  • Manga: かぐや様は告らせたい第3話
  • 1.5h of passive listening practice of JELLY JELLY RADIO

Ryuunosuke Naruhodo crying in the corner, what is this supposed to mean xddd
The game got translated to “Resolve”, and that’s what the word sounds like in my head, and WaniKani accepts it, so it’ll remain at resolve xddd

But yeah, I was capturing a bit more of Jelly Jelly Radio today, so maybe the stuff is working ^^


Life

me_irl


well there’s no way I’m as pretty as them xddd

But yeah, the single day best season of the year is over, and now it’s back to looking at rain every day until May ^^

I went to the final decoration for the Festival of Lights, the Siegessäule, and it’s as pretty as the others ^^

But since it’s pretty late already, I’ll just wrap it at that and go to sleep, goodnight everyone ^^

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