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Japanese Language Study Logs (Public)
1801

June 12th, 2026

I started looking over the browser implementation of F/SN to find out if this is something I should focus over the reading marathon next week, and I feel like… yeah… it could be doable?

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Especially since it’s in the browser, so you have instant lookups with Yomitan if you go like “おさなしい？ おさない？”

It kind of feels like I’m reading the pages much smoother than I thought it’d go, but of course, since it’s a difficult marathon text, I imagine there might be many moments over the course of reading it when I go like “that one is tough” and they will wear me away over time :thinking:

I wonder what my goal for the marathon should be, I’m almost certainly not reading 12h+ this time around, and the amount of Japanese I consume a day decreased significantly compared to spring, so let’s restart the Japanese machine and find out if I still like the language ^^

Chinese corner

I finished the A1.1 classes! C:

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Our classes, especially today, became very rambly, and we were making a ton of breaks tomorrow - we ended up at lesson three of New Practical Chinese Reader, but I did some self-study afterwards, with reviewing tones with HelloChinese and some with Chinesia. Chinesia appears to be a 100% vibe-coded app, including AI-generated illustrations and very poor speech detection and I’m a bit salty about this, but the speed at which one can acquire new sentences is pretty cool, so I haven’t uninstalled it yet.

Over the course of the class today as the rest of the group was rambling about, me and the second-generation Turkish guy were looking for Anki decks, and we found two - the HSK 1 one and the New Practical Chinese Reader 1

Funnily enough, the lowest certifiable language of Chinese proficiency, HSK 1… consists of only 150 words. Not 150 characters, 150 words, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I know those 150 words already after those two weeks alone…?

Of course, tones, listening, and so on, but with the decks I’ve downloaded…

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…if I end up doing the usual 20 words a day on Anki, I might finish the whole HSK 1 deck before the WaniKani marathon next week? Should I try it? I kind of want to try it…?

And I did sign up for A1.2 with the same group and the same teacher! Though, the follow-up course only starts in 3 weeks, I wonder how much Chinese study will I feel like doing until then ^^

I was looking at the Chinese textbooks in Dussmann today and there’s a lot of them, including German-to-Chinese, which would probably interest me the most ^^

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Part of the problem though is that most of my language study regardless of the language comes from boop booping on the phone and computer, so I don’t know if I should attempt to commit to any if I know I have tools on my devices instead :thinking:

And to celebrate finishing A1.1, I went over to grab a food I learned about today in the classes for the first time! Jian Bing! 煎饼!

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And interestingly enough, I met my friend I haven’t seen in a while in there, we chatted in a bit and he gave me a friend discount, then he took a break and we went off to yapping, so that’s the life section already xddd

But yeah, I FINISHED A1.1 IN CHINESE! Wonder where do I go from here now ^^

Life

So actually it’s a new food court that opened up at the Potsdamer Platz, they also decorated it for the World Cup games, and now that I’ve learned that there’s a Japanese and a Nepali and a few more restaurants in there, I’ll probably become a regular there for a bit ^^

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Also, when I was looking for Chinese textbooks, I found this interesting book xddd

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CANADA MENTIONED :DDDD

…some expressions are definitely more unexpected than the others xddd

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And man, I can only imagine how impossibly long the line for them is going to be on Sunday, I’m glad my friend doesn’t work there xdddd

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I went and saw Disclosure Day today and it’s my type of camp movie - it’s very cheesy, but they had me from the moment the main character started speaking Russian and then Korean out of nowhere, we stan hyperglots ^^

It’s got aliens, it’s got conspiracy theories, it’s got FBI chase scenes, it’s got really cheesy CGI, though the film grain looks like the film was shot on 35mm, so it wins with visuals in that area ^^

Also, is it me, or does Emily Blunt always look like :worried: in every single movie that she stars in? xddd

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Very 80s/2000s movie with 2026 tech, we love those ^^

See you tomorrow!

1802

Haven’t read enough early-mid 20th century English books then! I’d put the odds over 50% it’s mentioned in e.g. Narnia. Replaced first by breast pocket then by shirt pocket (though also replaced by the fact that even on mens clothing it’s usually more decorative than a functional pocket these days)

1803

Ooh nice point, I wonder if it’s one of those words I speed over and don’t think about, and then out of context it just feels so weird.

1804

June 13th, 2026

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Frequency: 2310th most popular character, JPDBv2: 51965th most popular word in Japanese, how fun ^^

Also, today on a bike I finally went back to listening things and Jelly Jelly Radio! As usual, understanding a lot of phatic expressions and bouncing from one another, the actual substance is harder to decouple, but I did hear from a podcast submission about a cool board game for worker placement economic style from Japan, called National Economy

It seems like in this game you need to prioritize what cards make what resources, and when I was listening to this I kept comparing it to the farming mode of Ball x Pit, how cute C:

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And one more…

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Chinese corner

The Anki cards are a bit harder than I thought they’d be, the characters aren’t that difficult to know the meanings for, but the tones don’t come as easily as the meanings for me, yet.

Also, this is definitely not an A1 sentence xddd

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I wonder how are HSK levels distributed, because some of the words I’m doing I’m just seeing for the first time, while still thinking that there have been a lot of words I’ve learned I haven’t seen yet :thinking:

And I went to a cinema with a friend! A really weird film called The Furious!

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With a Japanese director, inspired by Hong Kong fight films, with a deaf Chinese protagonist and his Chinese daughter, shot in Thailand, and it’s shot mostly in English, but also in Mandarin and Tagalog - the expressions in Chinese were mostly by children, so they were overexaggerating tones, which made something like 走！easier to tell apart ^^

It’s definitely a bit out of my comfort zone, but it was a part of the Creepy Crypt in the Rollberg cinema today and we got to rate it at the end and it seems…

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…that the Berlin audience liked the film a bit more than me and my friend did xddd
It was still fun ^^

Life

OH FRICK OH NO SHES GOT EATEN xdddd

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Met up with a friend for some Afghan food, for now, Arabic is not in my linguistic priorities, but they definitely make great food C:

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We saw The Furious together as a part of the Creepy Crypt programming and yeah, in the right cinema, you’re never in the wrong movie ^^

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Also, World Cup, I wonder how did they manage to coordinate that flag with their neighbors, I wonder if two of the floors are Turkish there xddd

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And yep, Kottbusser GOOOOOOOOOOO-

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OOOOOOOOOOAL C:

see you tomorrow ^^

1805

You’ve got to see the sister movie called The Fast so you can understand their crossover sequel series: The fast and the furio- at this point in speaking I’m violently restrained by the cinema police for questioning at an undisclosed secondary location

Arabic, Egyptian specifically is going to have to solo my priority list starting in a couple months. I want to do a trip to Egypt but without wasting several thousands of America dollars on a tour agency inflating their prices so being able to sort of get by in that language is about to become essential to me.

If you can learn enough characters to get by in Japanese and Chinese, Arabic cannot be that hard to do a small detour for if/when interested. It’s a phonetic language even. Big issue is that it’s a dozen smaller languages in a trench coat so Levantine and Egyptian and Moroccan are kind of mutually intelligible to a native but there’s bigger differences than the dialects of Spanish.

1806

Laugh all you will, but there’s one coming next year, it will probably be terrible, but I can’t wait for the crossover of F.A.S.T and The Furious ^^

That I know, plus one of my good friends is studying Arabic and she’s currently C1, going to some Arabic book clubs and scaring other people by speaking Arabic as a British woman so casually, so I could always try to Sprachcafe from her ^^

She’s studying Egyptian Arabic, but some of it apparently carries over to the Palestinian films we watch at the Arabic Film Festivals, so I’m curious what the difference there is ^^

But for now though, I really feel like I should get good at languages rather than learning more languages, I still have two queued up really high, but I’m not acting on them yet. Let’s keep using German and gently park Japanese at JLPT N2/B2 and let Chinese fizzle away when the time comes and then take it from there ^^

June 14th, 2026

  • 30 reviews on WaniKani
  • 29 reviews on Bunpro
  • 2 lessons on Bunpro
  • 11 min of Kanji Learner’s Course
  • Manga: 気になってる人は男じゃなかった第４巻

Woo, first time in a while where I read the whole volume in a single day ^^

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I bought the limited edition of this one when I was in Japan, it comes with a special artcard - this was one of the very first mangas I finished volumes of, so it’s a bit fitting to use it to return to the flow before the marathon ^^

There is a time skip in this volume and the artstyle slightly changes after the time skip, which I found interesting, but I found the plot a little less gripping than the other volumes, it’s as if now that the relationship feels pretty secure, the manga has to take the angle of “what if girls but [different environment]” with every next chapter and it gets a little stale for me, I hope that it’ll pick up eventually ^^

The slang is still killing me and I used Google Translate on a few panels to understand what is this dialogue referring to, but aside from occasional eye rolling at an expression i’ve never seen before, it was pretty manageable!

So hey, GREEN YURI HYPE TRAIN :DDDDD

Also, loved this sentence! 出不精 sounds like a useful phrase and I know a few people who fit it pretty neatly~

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Chinese corner

Hello Chinese (just reviews), Chinesia (one new lesson) and Anki cards.

So most of the time when you see a character that also is a kanji, you go like “i dont know, かん?”, and then bam, yes, it’s exactly that, even with the tone that I have in my head xddd

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But it’s definitely a false friend and more times it’s an incorrect than a correct one, for example the very next card I had a

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AND ITS JUST TINGLING AND YOU’RE JUST LIKE “PLEASE LET ME SAY IT LET ME SAY IT”
and it’s good that i don’t get to say it because it’s a completely wrong intuition xddd
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Life

It’s almost summer now!

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…which you wouldn’t have known looking at the weather outside. We’ve had a monsoon-like torrential rain today and the temperatures of like, 15 degrees xddd

I should be careful though, because the temperature will more than double in less than a week :upside_down_face:

World Cup Panini stickers? Now get ready for…
TOUR DE FRANCE!!

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though, the only things I keep hearing about this sport is the corruption and people doing performance enhancing things xddd

Because of the rain and the German game today, the city was pretty empty today, and even if people were out, they were going to a bar or a pub, but hey, makes up for good pictures ^^

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Also, I saw the biggest Freestyle soft drink machine so far, and in case you were curious what are the most popular selections of the soft drinks in Germany, make it those few! A few of them, like Mezzo Mix or Lift, I’ve never seen outside of Germany, and if I were to tier them, Mezzo Mix is its own weird thing you have to try out to make up your mind (~Cola mixed with ~Fanta) and Lift is like an apple lemonade?

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Oh and also, somebody is doing a study on 2000s nostalgia, I’m definitely strongly relate to the feeling of being stuck in those decades, so I took the survey, if anyone else is interested, go for it! C:

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And yeah, Bidoof’s Film Club, it feels like I go to a cinema every day now!

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I saw Obsession today and it was REALLY GOOD

Act 1 was borderline impossible to relate to and made me hate the protagonist so much and it only kept on digging more in that direction afterwards, amazing xdd

The things that the filmmakers did with the camera movements, shadows and lights, specific selections of aperture for people to exit and join the frame in the focus range, amazing ;_;

Apparently the budget for the film was only $750k and it looked better than almost every film that I’ve seen this year? The actors really put their best performances out in this movie, I felt this visceral seething through my teeth looking at some of the scenes, and then laughed at intentionally funny scary scenes, this movie reminds me why I love horror films so much and it really made me put up a grin on my face after it was over C:

Not a spoiler!

Backrooms to go!

See you tomorrow! C:

1807

To answer the English question on the poster: yeah, sometimes quite a bit. Of course, it’s probably just because the 00s were my preteen/teenage years and lots of people are nostalgic for their younger days. But I do miss the days of everyone and everything not being online.

Also, slap bracelets. Those were fun.

1808

Most common words are amongst the most obvious, though for the 2nd, it’s more of Japanese being weird, imo. (Should have felt like 先輩, and doesn’t say a thing about 教 nor 師.)

My favorite less-common one is 闻 / 聞. You know, 新闻 / 新聞, though 闻到 is something different. The etymology is also unexpected.

1809

Congratulations :partying_face: :partying_face: I feel like the journey is only starting :heart:

Wow, I didn’t expect Bunpro to call me out like that :scream: I’ll pretend I didn’t see it :face_in_clouds:

My Answer, which summarizes how I feel when I remember the old days and how I feel when I remember that we’re living in the current time. I’ll let you guess which is which :cherry_blossom:

1810

Quabli rice spotted!!! Did you like it?

1811

A very interesting question…
On one hand, I have improved a lot since then. For one thing, back then I didn’t even yet realize that I’m actually a cat! trunky_rolling

On the other hand, I do miss those times – both on the personal level (both my parents were still alive) and on the global level (back then I wouldn’t have thought it possible for our world to come to the state it is now)…

1812

I have a bit of a hot take when it comes to moving back in time…
…and that is that I can no longer recognize the world as it was prior to the year 2021-2022?

This study log is some of the best evidence of me only being able to benefit from the systems and structures built after the pandemic, and the connections I build with people and adventures that I have have this special aroma of intentionality that prior to the pandemic would’ve probably been not taken as seriously.

I have a feeling it’d both in some ways be easier and in a lot of ways harder to live in 2018 than it is in 2026 - remote work, remote language courses, more people being available online and on specific services, all the online websites built since then, all the services launched since then, card terminals everywhere, easier access to global online shopping, nostalgia is an adorable thing to have and everyone thinks back to when the things were easier, but I have a feeling that it’s never been easier to be intentional and do and achieve specific things than it is right now. So give me a Nintendo DS, I’ll gladly play Nintendogs and then complain why doesn’t this version have cats and then need to wait until 2011 comes for cats to finally be added :sob:

But I do admit I’m extremely privileged to be an earlier adopter of the internet to be able to understand the rules of the online world so that now I can focus on the real life adventures instead.

I LOVE RICE DISHES :DDDD

June 15th, 2026

So, confession time! I don’t know how to engage with short form content. xdddd

Yes, sometimes YouTube gives me a YouTube short, that for some reason is 3 minutes long and has a lot of interesting concepts which are basically a regular video but vertical, but inspired by the fact that China has its own internet and I knew of Xiaohongshu, I put up a few clips on it just to realize I don’t know Chinese and that might be one of the hardest methods of learning for now xddd

So I tried the second best thing and I decided to open an incognito window and run a VPN to Japan to try to set up a TikTok profile.

First thought… Some of the people that use Japanese VPN come from Brazil, as I’ve been getting a lot of Japanese and Portugese recommendations at first xddd

It took me about 20 minutes to consistently start getting Japanese clips and lives and…

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I’m genuinely wondering what is the appeal of this live and what should I actually be excited about xddd

As the time went on, I started bouncing a lot from clips of, eee, people eating food. And people making faces. And people feeding other people food.

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xdddd

I tried feeding my algortithm with specific phrases, like 大阪謎解き or コミック百合姫 or ぽこ あ ポケモン, but it doesn’t seem like it was swaying the algorithm that much and I was bombarded of clips of idols, people going to school, people using public transit, and finally, after like 50 minutes, I arrived at Japanese brainrot as well!

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…but as I kept going, I genuinely don’t feel like I was having fun and most of the time I was confused about why would somebody like a picture of somebody jumping from one leg to the other and smiling at the camera xddd

It might have healing properties or something, but it just doesn’t work on me, I feel xdd

So after a while of pressing “not interested” to remove the brazilian and english clips, I arrived at this one

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…and I was like “okay, this is it, I made it, I’m A2 in English” :sob:

I rate today’s Japanese TikTok adventure as “I’m such a boomer”/10 xdddd

(that was also Chinese corner and I keep on doing my streaks in Anki and I found a way to use Hello Chinese further, so I’m doing Hello Chinese further :relieved_face: :folded_hands:)

Life

So today I had a banger one-in-a-lifetime adventure, because of how slow the Bauarbeiten go in Berlin xddd

A NEW LINE OF S-BAHN IN BERLIN GOT OPEN!
First and last one in this decade, the next extensions will probably take until 2032 at least ^^

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It’s the S15 line from Hauptbahnhof to Gesundbrunnen that has exactly three stops, and conveniently enough, the third stop is Wedding, close to where I live C:

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It’s this dashed line over here on the map!

The electronic systems and the trains worked pretty well, to the point where from today on it felt on all three of the stations as if the line has been here all along, all the maps and stickers have been updated and it just felt, fun!

But there’s a good reason for that, the opening kept getting delayed for 9 YEARS because they needed to make sure that everything was right. In the 2030s the line will keep on getting extended with new stops, but that’s a story for a different decade ^^

But what made it really fun is that since today was the opening day, everyone was excited, from train drivers that were honking at people waving at them, through lads and ladettes standing at the edges of the platform and taking pictures and recording videos of the train passing by, to even the staff when asked about the train at the counter!

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In order to facilitate the new line, both the Wedding and Gesundbrunnen stations already had enough track and capacity to support the line, but the ones at the central station needed to be built from scratch, and they’re an extension (platform 22) of the tracks, they’ve built a huge liminal space to support the new line!

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And yeah, together with a few other strangers, we took off at every station (a grand total of three), drove the whole line back and forth and had a really nice time together ^^

One woman had an analog camera with a really long lens and she was taking pictures to make them look immediately nostalgic ^^

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So yeah, I wish there were less delays and NIMBYs here, but S15, I’m so happy it worked out in the end ^^

And in Dussmann, three days ago, a new Olivia Rodrigo album came out!
Some of the songs in her new album sound very indie folk for some reason, and I’m not used to her sounding like this, the cure is probably my favorite track from the album ^^

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It’s nice that there’s so much happening in the world recently ^^

See you tomorrow! C:

1813

Ok, you got me there. The fact that I live in a world where I can buy as many JP manga and books as I want digitally with a US credit card and no VPN and have access to an endless amount of LEGAL anime is amazing to me. That would be nearly unthinkable in 2009! I have a lot more thoughts about the past, nostalgia, and living in the 2020s, but I’ve dwelled on this for far too long.

Anyway! I was going to ask if you learned anything during your visit to Japanese TikTok, but I’m guessing not. I sometimes watch things online and all I get is this feeling of “Yeah, I am not the intended audience.”

I wonder if that’s because of the Japanese population in Brazil? I know it’s small, but just enough to get Portuguese clips mixed in?

1814

A hug

and a Sakura

:cherry_blossom:

I appreciate your insight and hot take :heart: It’s always interesting to see different opinions and takes :heart:

“The past is there to learn from it, not to live in it” is a quote I once told someone and a thing I’d like to remind myself of from time to time :heart: (The quote manifested itself back then when I was a bit wise. Nowadays, I can barely figure out what 1+1 equals in my mind). Hence, I’d lie to leave this quote here as it seems befitting :heart: (along with a special Sakura, of course :cherry_blossom:)

I truly hope this doesn’t become a permanent category :rofl:

No wonder you love Berlin :rofl: They made a whole S-line just for you :rofl:

Hope you’ll have interesting adventures with it :heart:

1815

It’s ok, you can join us in the old folks home.

1816

Can’t say no to a game of bingo, just theme it after 呪術廻戦 or 進撃の巨人 and I’ll pretend I don’t dislike those intellectual properties xddd

How much value at least the Japanese side of TikTok is placing on youth and being at school? I don’t think it’s something that surprises me after learning Japanese for so long already, but almost every single recommendation I’ve been getting was from people, mostly women, ages 15-20, or at least looking like them :thinking:

Also, how much value they place in food? Preparing, eating, feeding other people, I don’t know, one hour doesn’t look like a representative sample ^^

If anything, I probably would connect it like “didn’t click not interested in anime” → “isn’t disinterested in AMV” → “Oi, eu sou o Goku!” → “BRASIL MENCIONADO :brazil::brazil::brazil::brazil:” :sob: xddd

June 16th, 2026

Finished the first Emiya block of the F/SN VN!

…though I wonder, when you have a name dictionary, how often do fictional characters make a name so popular that it gets added to the dictionary so that people would know how to read it?

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I wonder if an effect similar to Malwina, a name almost unheard of in Poland until a Brazilian drama called Escrava Isaura came along and then parents started naming their kids in Poland "Malwina"s to reflect the popularity of the show :sob: xddd

Anyway, it wasn’t an awfully difficult block today and made me convinced that for the marathon this weekend I’ll probably be reading F/SN, but man, I’m genuinely thinking of skipping the introduction at the church by 言峰綺礼 because none of the times I read it did I enjoy it, even though it would be good language study ^^

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So which one do we go with now?

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Life

I went to my first Shut Up & Write today!

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They’re a series of meetups in many cities, also in many places in Berlin, where the structure is similar, you get to introduce yourself to new people, then someone puts on a timer and you feel like other people stare at you while attempting to write something. It feels a bit nicer to write if you have accountability partners, and if you arrive at a block, you can try to explain why you hit a block with a specific person and then realize that there was no block in the first place and you just looked the wrong way ^^

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There were two writing blocks today and I was able to channel some of my words on a Google Docs document, so the pressure from the others worked! I estimate I might be halfway through my first draft of a story I wanted to write, so maybe tomorrow? Going to a writers’ meetup tomorrow too, yes, on a wednesday, weird summer timings :sob:

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And speaking of cultures in Berlin, I ran this whole wall with Google Lens and translated each sentence to understand it and then I went to the kebab person and I was like “ah yeah the ‘Aşık olmak tehlikeli ve yasaktır’, definitely relate to that one” xddd

And the guy was like “HOW DO YOU KNOW TURKISH D:::” and then I needed to unfortunately break it down to him that I don’t :sob: xddd

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And five months later, finally worked up my courage to go to Heart of Code again! Today was just an unstructured meeting and different people were doing different things. One person was moving from her Frontend position to a Backend one and brought a huge book on backend fundamentals, another one was interested in starting her journey with LLMs and was doing a self-paced course on programatically calling gpt-oss-120m, which has been pretty cool. Another one was doing her university homework, so hey, it doesn’t seem there’s any strict requirements there xdd

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But I did manage to practice a bit of my German there, even though the technical German is just 40% German words and 60% loan terms from English, so that was a little awkward ^^

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Pretty refreshing day though!

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oh and by the way, WARSZAWA WSPOMNIANA :DDDD

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See you tomorrow ^^

1817

桜の手伝なければいけない :pleading_face:

1818

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it’s more fun if it’s interactive xddd

June 17th, 2026

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Aaand another block finished ^^

New words on WaniKani and I’m genuinely surprised that this word hasn’t been in the database before. Hasn’t it? It looks very, very familiar, or at least I know what it means by heart xdd

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Also, in the Kanji Learner’s Course today, I find the word 血迷う very adorable, it’s like “to lose your mind”? ^^

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I like the translation that has been attached to the sentence, it’s different than the sum of its parts as usual, but I know that if I were translating that sentence, I’d make use of 血迷う to make the sentence feel funnier ^^

And yeah, what’s the deal with that sentence, I’m not that big into puppies, wtf? xddd

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And still doing Hello Chinese and Anki cards in the background for Chinese.

Life

It’s really late, so a quick one

I’ve taken an English language proficiency test! a agi-DAAD one, I needed it for some paperwork and it only was testing the proficiency between the A1 and C1 level, and I was disappointed, because the positioning test on their website could classify you anywhere between A1 and C2.

But when I received my certificate, it was the sweetest thing, because the examiner took a special note on my exam to involve this comment xddd

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i’m certified C2 :DDDD
i mean, i didnt doubt it, but should i hang it on the wall now? xddd

Anyway, I went to the Writers’ meetup today and kept on iterating my story for a bit…

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I bought the first zine, my story might be in the second one, ETA, October-ish?

After it, went to the queer book club and we still yapped until midnight, as per usual xddd
One new person in the group talked about having IVF and the joys of having become a parent, and how proud they were and how it made them reflect on their gender, that was super adorable C:

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SO CAN I GO OR CAN I NOT GO???

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Also, how sweet is that churros place C:

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See you tomorrow! ^^

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Here’s a short banger for you about learning German on Instagram

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Favorite genre of content, self-aware linguistic jokes from people who try to turn study into something artistic and aspirational to strive for ^^

June 18th, 2026

this game is absolutely GIGANTIC, and i’m really hoping that if i go through the marathon, it’ll help me carve at least the few days

I was testing a setup with Android Edge, Yomitan, my tablet in Dex mode to fullscreen it today, a stopwatch running in the background, and it looked like almost a native experience, which was fun to experience, plus, THE BRIDGE.

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AAAA C:

Another block cleared though, I timeds this one and it was about 16 minutes on a stopwatch? I wonder how will it translate to Saturday. I’m marathoning on Saturday this time ^^

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Other linguistic interest

Part of the reason why I’m not pushing hard for Japanese right now is that i’ve forgotten how to enjoy multiple hours of consuming Japanese in a day my current level of Japanese has unlocked so many interesting sidequests that have been consuming me, and I have three fun things I saw today ^^

First up, I found a video explaining how and why is Vietnamese difficult, and, IT’S REALLY INTERESTING :eyes:

the big tl;dr is that while Chinese tones already exist in English and you just need to remember to pronounce them right, Vietnamese tones might not, and it’s not just producing them that’s difficult, it’s also listening to them is really hard, and for Vietnamese native speakers, a different area of their brain is responsible for listening to pitch changes than for the Westerners :eyes:

Also, there is a lot of variety of Vietnamese language among the speakers and not everyone understands everyone :eyes:

So although I liked my time in Vietnam and it was fun, I’m probably not going to pick it as the next language xdd

On the note of tones though, singing in Chinese is so interesting when you have to keep the tones, so in the spirit of Deltarune Chapter 5 (never letting go of the theory):

I was so fixated on the subtitles and I kept looking and trying them apart the whole time when I was looking at them xdd

And a third one…
…uh oh.

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I’m gonna devote significantly less effort to this one than Chinese and Japanese, but it’s been a series of fortunate/unfortunate consequences that have led me to FINDING A REMOTE FINNISH KOREAN LANGUAGE CENTER DOING REMOTE CLASSES 200KM AWAY FROM HELSINKI
just five days, starting next Monday ^^

Life

Today was the premiere of Backrooms in Berlin! I managed to see it, and of course that ladder is important ^^

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I saw on one of the Letterboxd videos that the director was inspired by Portal 2 the video game, aND YOU CAN DEFINITELY TELL, aside from the word of mouth, I don’t think I’ve experienced any Backrooms video, so this was a trippy experience to see it today, I’m glad I saw it, my head is with Obsession though ^^

Also, lmao, this mural looks like it belongs and doesn’t belong at the same time xdd

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I was invited by a few friends to a Biergarden in the east of the city today for a Thursday drag show! It was my first time attending drag in person ^^

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The queens were really putting in their best efforts and had a lot of confidence that was electrifying to watch, we clapped and stomped and shouted to make noise ^^

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One of the queens had a performance where she brought an actual cake and was sharing the cake with people as she kept dancing, absolute slay, it was very summery and very tasty xddd

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And my friends that I went to the show with have been even more hyper and energetic than I was and listening to them infodumping and being excited about their performances made me a bit envious of being able to replicate this amount of energy expressed, it was such a cool performance C:

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But yeah, one of the longest days of the year tonight ^^

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And for this pride month, there really aren’t that many pride flags anywhere, but there was one in Rewe for some reason, where the World Cup would’ve been xddd
We stan and I’m very happy, but my theory is that they were trying to hang a German flag for the World Cup and some people are really scared of what German flag symbolized, so they took the pride flag instead, oh well xdddd

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Either way, see you tomorrow!