December 1 - Day 1
Winter/christmas song
Kanji writing
Origami
Winter/christmas song
I really enjoyed the first winter song today! It’s a very catchy upbeat song. My process:
- Listen to the song and enjoy the beat
- Repeat the song while trying to follow the subtitles on the youtube video
- Repeat following the lyrics with furigana found on a different site
- Finally, listen to it again while reading the English translation
Doing that last bit made me wonder - is this a church song? Nothing against church songs of course. Just very curious. This would be the very first japanese church song I would have ever heard! I also wonder how others prefer to listen to songs now.
Some kanji/vocab learned from WK that I heard correctly/recognized:
- 指 ゆび finger
- 神様 かみさま god
- 星 ほし star
- 声 こえ voice
May or may not list these for every song. Depending on how much time I have.
Kanji writing + Origami
Combining these two cause I took the photo together and couldn’t be bothered to crop.
On kanji writing, I copied your idea @omk3 to include interesting related vocab.
On origami, that was a nice simple envelope to start with! Surprisingly, I could easily follow and learned of course the word for envelope 封筒「ふうとう」. They kept saying something like おりつけます and おりあげます. Turned on closed captions but still couldn’t figure out exactly what they were saying. But I figured out the root at least. 折る「おる」and read the conjugations. I recognized a bunch of other vocab but don’t have enough time to list all of them today.
So… tomorrow I’m travelling for 2 nights, 3 days. I think I can still do it while travelling. But may not write as much notes like today!
I also love this idea of using different pens. But maybe i’ll save it after travelling!
day 2>>