Hey everyone! I’ve been hard at work on my intermediate-to-advanced Japanese learning blog, Goiryoku Club. Thanks to all of you who’ve been following the blog and who subscribed to the e-mail list: I have 40 mailing list subscribers and get about 25 visitors to the blog each day. It’s a great start!
As of tonight, I’ll have written 42 days of blog entries: one per day for about a month and a half. I wanted to share the words here, as a list of articles that you can check out to learn about words.
Here’s the list. The first introductory post is here.
- 愛嬌: Lovable and winsome
- 期せずして: When you least expect it
- 心底: From the bottom of my heart
- 未明: Waking up at oh-dark-thirty
- 見掛け倒し: Looks can be deceiving
- お節介: Nobody invited you, Buttinski
- Week 0 Review
- 毛嫌い: Just can’t stand it
- 労力: Putting in the effort
- こじつけ: That’s a stretch
- 患う: Feeling ill
- 指折り: One of the best
- 画期的: Making breakthroughs
- Week 1 Review
- 努めて: Giving it your best shot
- 横着: What a slacker
- 義務: Doing what ought to be done
- 定着: Settling down
- 殺風景: Stark and dreary
- 成果: The fruit of your labors
- Week 2 Review
- 一目置く: I respect your skills
- 早速: In a jiffy
- 障害: Running into obstacles
- 飢餓: Literally starving
- 曙: The dawn of a new day
- 徹底的: Dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s
- Week 3 Review
- 気安い: Chill vibes
- 何しろ: If you give all your regards, then you’re…
- 遜る: A slice of humble pie
- 凄まじい: Going to extremes
- 気心の知れた: Thick as thieves
- 束の間: Here today, gone tomorrow
- Week 4 Review
- 肩透かし: Taking the wind out of your sails
- 愚痴: Quit your bellyaching
- 試み: Testing, testing…
- 素人: What a noob
- 充実: Feeling fulfilled
- 胸がときめく: Sparks joy
- Week 5 Review
If you enjoy the articles, please keep checking out the blog and subscribe to the mailing list. I’d love to have more people reading what I write, providing feedback, and responding to my posts with questions and sample sentences of your own. あんがとない！！