Vocabulary
Total New Words: 20
Favorite new word: 捨て 去る to abandon (ship)
It was hard to pick a good word, but I decided to go with something that wasn’t death, destruction, or demon related today
Notes
We’re still in the welcome to the game fluff but this paragraph had so many fun new words that I didn’t have as boring a time as usual. All in all it was a good day!
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Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
I ended up running out of i+1 context sentences already OTL I switched to the grammar examples for now, but I’m gonna have to go ham on finding more for all this vocab so I can switch back soon. It’s easy to find sentences, but hard to find i+1 for these guys at my level. Morphman says I only know 470 words so it’s unsurprising. Also man what a low number, but that’s what I get for being too lazy to manually put words in the known file
The BF and I watched Tower of God and I went down a rabbit hole looking into Kenjiro Tsuda (the japanese va for Lero Ro). …I’m probably gonna get distracted looking for stuff he’s in to add to my sentence banks
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 46
Favorite new word: 不思議 wonderful; marvelous; strange; incredible; amazing; curious; miraculous; mysterious
I used to like Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play as a kid so I saw this and was like wait a minute… But it’s written ふしぎ遊戯 so I don’t get to have that sweet sweet I “know” that Kanji now feeling.
I also really like this little dude 的 It’s like -ish and I’ve already started to recognize it sentences now. A cool and useful little dude.
Notes
Today’s paragraph was a doozy! I didn’t have anything else to do today so I just went for it, but man I’m glad it’s over. With this push though I finished the next page! This one took a lot less time, but it had way fewer paragraphs and I was able to stick with the paragraph a day pace. Today is the day with the most words, but it also had the most sentences and they weren’t short ones either.
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Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
Some vocab example sentences showed up when I did Anki today, so going ham worked It was still mostly grammar examples though so I need to keep the ham going for a while still.
Oh I was also goofing around with my spreadsheet and grabbed all the unique kanji. I’ve only got pages 4-8 in there so stuff like frequency and wanikani level reading ability aren’t quite correct, but it’s cool to see even now! I think whenever I finish this project I’ll revisit it when I get to certain readability milestones. I’ll have to see how far along I can get in Wanikani in the meantime before I set those.
I bought this series on DVD a while back, but haven’t watched it yet. I know absolutely nothing about the series, so I have no idea what to expect when I get around to watching it =D
It’s been a long time since I watched it and back then I was a big weeb in time when it was kinda hard to get my hands on anime, so as long as it wasn’t terrible I liked it. I can’t comment on how good it is because of that lol. From what I remember it’s pretty much what you’d expect from a 90s shoujo isekai.
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 13
Favorite new word: 上記 above-mentioned; above-named; above
I also thought 出す was interesting. I had only every seen it used for stuff like taking out the trash and was a little confused seeing it today. Words are rarely as simple as textbooks make them out to be it seems.
Notes
Today was really easy so I ended up doing three paragraphs. It’s getting a lot easier as we go into the stuff I know really well. I should be able to figure out more stuff from context! I’m excited.
Weekly Wrap-up
This week ended up being a lot of work. I’m amazed I was able to keep the pace. I ended up “learning” 147 new words and broke down 38 sentences. As expected, the number of sentences I can do at a time has started to slowly go up. Vocab has been all over the place, but hopefully by the end it’s trending downward.
Other Stuff
Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
Boy I sure let Bunpro reviews stack up. I don’t know how useful the SRS part of the website is for me, but I really like the rest of it. I think I’ll go ahead and pay when my month is over in a few days even if I don’t use the SRS that much.
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 4
Favorite new word: 未満 less than; insufficient
Apparently 位 is also a counter for ghosts??? Japan pls OTL I’m begging you to have less counters
Notes
An easy easy day! Perfect for a Sunday. Oh and apparently I’ve done 100 sentences so far! Based on the pages so far there’s probably around 1500? So yeah - still gonna be a long long way to go.
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Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
I also did this week’s reading for レンタルおにいちゃん and started an anki project for it. I’m not sure how useful throwing all the sentences into anki is, but I might as well. If I decide to continue doing it I might clean it up and throw it into the thread. Or I might just leave it ugly! Who knows.
Oh I’m also gonna try and remember to post how many “words” Morphman thinks I know at the end of each day. Here it is today!
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 10
Favorite new word: 攻撃 attack; assault; raid; onslaught; offensive
Hello I’d like to call the police because 撃 is a crime of a kanji. I’m not looking forward to level 28 with stuff like this
Notes
There were a bunch of easy paragraphs in a row so I just did all of them. This is another bit I tend to skip in rules books because I know how rolling dice works thank you. It makes for really easy reading in japanese though. I have no idea what some of these words are, but I can guess that probably means add, etc.
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Koohi
Here’s today’s Morphman status
I decided to add a wanikani vocab deck to anki so i could get those words marked off as known without having to add stuff manually (and get another opportunity to review them because why not ). We’ll see the fruits of that in 20 some odd days apparently.
Speaking of Anki, I’ve put all the sentences from Rental Big Brother up to this week’s reading. I wasn’t sure if the effort for all of this was worth it, but typing it all up, grabbing context panels, double checking I copied everything correctly, etc has been a pretty good way to study it all. I think I’ll try to do my other book club stuff too. Or maybe I’m just saying that because it’s a good way to procrastinate for bunpro
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 10
Favorite new word: 大がかり large-scale
I’ve never seen this word but it wasn’t hard to guess it was probably something big
Notes
Hm surprisingly I didn’t get to this paragraph until really late in the day. I usually do it as soon as I finish morning wanikani reviews. There wasn’t anything particularly difficult about today’s so it’s kinda weird I pushed it off for so long.
Another surprise is that this is the first time I’ve had to decide if I should put words in my Anki deck that I know, but don’t know the kanji for. I decided against it in the end - I’ll let wanikani handle kanji.
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Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
Here’s today’s Morphman status (567)
It feels like I’m just blasting through Anki. It’s kinda nice to not quit it after a couple weeks for once. Maybe it’s the decks or maybe I’m just more motivated this time. Who knows!
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 25
Favorite new word: 手先 underling; stooge; tool; pawn; minion
Notes
Very very tired of studying Japanese by the time I got to today’s paragraph. I gotta admit I was really lazy today. Just looked up words and didn’t really bother trying to figure out how the sentences work.
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Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
I made a subs2srs deck for Kantaro - The Sweet Tooth Salaryman. It was a bigger pain in butt than it should have been. In the end it got done though and that’s probably part of why I was so tired of studying today. I didnt want to look at a screen anymore but ugh here’s more screen.
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 7
Favorite new word: 授かる to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
Notes
And with these sentences we’ve finished another page!
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Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
I leveled up on Wanikani! It wasn’t till late in the evening though I decided to go ahead and do the radicals since I’ll be awake in 4 hours. I don’t imagine I’ll remember many in the morning though.
I did some more bunpro today and decided to finally read the faq. I’m starting to get how things work. Ghost reviews were something I didn’t ralize was happening but now I’m glad I know!
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 11
Favorite new word: 乾き物 dry snacks (e.g. crackers, nuts, dried squid, esp. to go with drinks)
Notes
Got this done first thing today and was a little thrown off by what felt like a left turn in topics. I realized this must have come from a text box off to the side and didn’t mark it in my docs. I’ll have to remember to do so in the future so poor tired morning me doesn’t get confused again o7
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Koohi
I’m posting this really early today because I’m not sure how my evening will be. I didn’t get much done but I hope I don’t have too much fun later and forget to do the rest
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 20
Favorite new word: 幽霊 ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
Notes
Lots of sentences but I managed to get it done. I learned zu form is a thing today. That’s interesting
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Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
Busy busy weekend. I didn’t end up doing anything after I posted yesterday and I pretty much only did Wanikani and this paragraph. I hope to get back into the swing of things tomorrow.
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 4
Favorite new word: おしゃべり chattering; talk; idle talk; chat; chitchat; gossip
Notes
A pretty short paragraph today! I thought about continuing on but I’m glad for a bit of a break.
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Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
I read this week’s レンタルおにいちゃん and おじさまと猫. Just some extensive reading but I’ll probably break these pages down and add them to Anki tomorrow. I’m a little tired of SRS today after catching up on all the reviews that piled up in Anki this weekend. Apparently I did 260 cards in 40ish minutes so go me. Here’s today’s Morphman stats (657)
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 2
Favorite new word: 詳細 details; particulars; specifics
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Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
I added chapter 3 of おじさまと猫 to Anki. I finally learned the shortcuts for switching between language inputs and from katakana to hiragana, etc. That made things go a lot faster today! Speaking of Anki, here’s today’s Morphman stats. (659)
I lost a bit of studying to Tony Hawk 1 and 2 and that’s probably gonna continue to be the case now that it’s finished installing and I have access to more than just the tutorial As long as I make sure to keep up with Wanikani and I do my daily sentence it’s all good Anki too would be nice, but eh let’s be realistic.
I got my Bunpro reviews to zero boyos! Time to celebrate. And do more reviews in an hour
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 34
Favorite new word: 飛躍 leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic)
Notes
Today was a whole heap of fun. There were lots of fun words, sentences about mechanics so I actually liked what I was trying to understand, and the grammar was so easy! I also thought it was kinda neat to read “definitions” so I got a lot of vocab that’s similar.
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Wanikani
Anki
Bunpro
Koohi
Torii
I’ve got all my context sentences, the source sentences, and grammar example sentences bundled together in a filtered deck in Anki and today one of my source sentences showed up!!! That was really exciting!!! I knew most of it even before I turned on the furigana so that was really really cool. It feels like progress
Here’s the morphman stats for today (676)
Today I also found this blog about classical Japanese that seems pretty cool. It goes on my to do list because I definitely don’t have time to get into that right now.
I also decided to try out Torii since I recently noticed a bunch of words that I’ve been putting into Anki are words with Kanji I know but don’t get taught on wanikani. Idk if Torii will have them, but I’m gonna downgrade the number of new Anki cards a day and try out Wanikani mode on Torii for a bit.
Vocabulary
Total New Words: 9
Favorite new word: 力持ち muscleman; strong man
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Bunpro
Koohi
Today I had a free day so I decided to go hard on grammar. I left Bunpro off vacation mode for the whole day and man it sure is relentless. I know it’s my fault that it’s crazy right now, but I keep coming across new grammar and going well it’d probably be good to put that in the srs since I’m studying it anyway. It’s not like I go out of my way to do new lessons! I just need to keep up with the reviews. Eventually it’ll be less of an ordeal. At least I’ve got a system for dealing with large chunks of reviews that’s working really well. I feel like I live on Bunpro though and can’t wait to get this under control.
Also I almost forgot. I had decided to try out Torii and when I went on it today I just couldn’t be bothered. I think I won’t be able to handle another SRS until I at least get Bunpro managed, but even then I’m not sure.