:sparkles: Note: You can now add your own calendar, if you so wish, to the third post of this thread for easy access There’s already an advent calendar tradition here on WK that goes back years. It’s all about uploading pet photos, and while it’s a lovely idea, I thought it’d be interesting to have another one that’s more focused on Japanese, since we’re all Japanese learners here. Sort of like a mini challenge for the first 24 days of December, leading up to Christmas. It doesn’t need to be hard, just related to Japanese and easy to keep up for 24 days. Ideas so far Starting from Dec 1 and for every day until Dec 24: Study a grammar point a day Read a short story a day (maybe holiday related?) Read a sample of a random new book per day (and discover new things to read) Translate a sentence (out of a book?) a day Read about a different prefecture/city/area of Japan every day Listen to a different Japanese song every day (maybe holiday related?) Read about a different Japanese tradition every day (Christmas or otherwise) Find one instance of interesting onomatopoeia every day Read about and practice writing a kanji per day (stroke number could correspond to day of the month for extra fun) I think the last one is my favourite one so far. I checked and there are two kanji with 23 and two with 24 strokes, so it’s perfectly doable. None with 25, but that will be Christmas day anyway. Would anyone like to participate? Do you have any other ideas to suggest? There’s no reason we should only do one idea either, and maybe everyone could do their own thing and post about it. That could be a lot of fun to read about, I think. Are you interested in a Japanese-focused Advent Calendar? Would you participate? poll If you’re interested, would you do your own challenge for every day of December until the 24th, or would you just visit to see what others upload? poll Thoughts and ideas welcome! :christmas_tree: :jp:

Tanuki! If I had noticed it was ten strokes I’d definitely had chosen it! I’m sure that it’s no coincidence that both Oni and Tanuki have the same number of strokes. :thinking: I also absolutely love the fact that there are opportunities to mention tanuki in newspapers. :joy:

Today’s reading was 散歩生活 by 中原中也. I read along with this 朗読. I’m not sure when it was written, but the author died in 1937 and it feels very ~1920s to me and at one point a silent film star is mentioned. It wasn’t really my style. It reminded me a little of 太宰’s drifting / mood based stories, except this came off as rather pretentious and the writing style wasn’t as enjoyable.

Dec11 Kanji in Ascending Stroke Order Strokes:11 鹿 Kun: しか、か On: ロク Words of the day: 馴鹿となかい (reindeer), 馬ば鹿か馬ば鹿かしい (absurd, ridiculous, foolish), 紅葉もみじに鹿しか (match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sika deer and maple leaves (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) 鹿 means deer, so it’s a very Christmassy word, I thought. It’s a Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4. It’s JLPT level N1 and WK level 36. Here’s a video of Japanese Calligrapher Takumi writing it along with 馬: [Japanese Kanji Lesson | This Kanji is often used but cannot be explained to most Japanese] Here’s the stroke order: [image] And variations: [鹿」の書き方 - 漢字の正しい書き順(筆順)]

December 11 Kanji writing Origami Song Mystery book reading Kanji writing [image] Origami [image]

Dec 10 :christmas_tree: Apparently 9 strokes is the limit of my paintbrush, time to start writing bigger I guess :joy: Day 8 [20221211_024506] Day 9 [20221211_024545] Day 10 [20221211_024617] Replies [image] alygator: Anyway, your kanji writing of 初 is so beautiful! It can’t be the first time you’ve written it! I wish i could write that expression in japanese but my japanese is so basic, I can only say 初めてですか。 Thank you! It’s my first time writing this one but I have learned to write some kanji before (although I forgot anything more complicated than 三 :joy:) Just want to say, your kanji are really beautiful too, the spacing on the strokes is so consistent :flushed:

:spiral_calendar: :christmas_tree: Japanese Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 11 :christmas_tree: :spiral_calendar: December 11th Today’s Kanji: 鹿 Kun’yomi: しか, か On’yomi: ロク Meaning: deer :fountain_pen: Kanji writing Kanji writing practice [Kanji_writing_calendar_Dec 11] The deer was just too fitting for an advent calendar, so I chose to write it as well. :smiling_face:

Day 11 Winter song Kanji writing Origami Kanji writing [20221211_220205] Words of interest: 馬鹿よけ「ばかよけ」foolproof 鹿の子「かのこ」cloth dyed in a dappled pattern; pattern of white spots, dapples; mochi containing red bean paste; fawn Origami [20221211_220234] New vocab: 糊「のり」paste, glue 物指「ものさし」ruler - learned the two kanji separately and surprised to know combining them means this! 測る「はかる」to measure >

:u7981: Advent of Ascending Kanji - Day 11 :secret: Eleven stroke kanji: 船 [Handwriting] Ship; boat Kun: ふね; ふな- On: セン Practice [Practice] It’s hard to try and keep all the radicals that make up bigger kanji contained neatly, mine keep drifting away from each other.

Today I read 凍雨と雨氷 by 寺田寅彦, along with this 朗読. It was published in 大正１０, or 1935. I had to look up a lot of weather related words, but it was actually very easy aside from that. I barely noticed it being old aside from 我邦 being used for 我が国. I don’t really recommend it, it’s basically just a guy talking about different types of cold weather precipitation. Probably one of the more fitting works for the advent challenge, though, I suppose. Great word: 蝙蝠傘こうもりがさ - a western style umbrella. I suspect this is an old fashioned word, but I love the visual. I googled the term and got this fun picture [image]

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