Yeah, I realised that too, which means that the script is actually usable for me, even though I’m probably not even good enough to pass the N5 vocabulary wise 
I have asked a Japanese friend of mine and he says you’re right but he also added that 気が付かなかったよ would sound more natural and given it only contains simple kanji I think I’ll use it.
Thanks for pointing this out !
Talking about simple (or rather frequent lol) kanji: I forgot to mention it, but I really like how you slowly stop using furigana for kanji that appear very frequently in the TWC!
One day I might write an essay about the beauty of learning Japanese through Japanese, but today shall not be that day. I used to be more vocal about it, but convincing people to give up their bilingual comfort is hard. Going monolingual requires a lot of upfront effort for benefits that don’t seem very tangible, so writing a convincing essay will take some serious work 
Though I’m half convinced it’s not really about the monolingual studies themselves, but that people don’t want to give up their bilingual resources. Perhaps what’s really needed is a monolingual WaniKani 
Nowadays I just try to stay away from the topic, because people that never gave monolingual studies an honest try voicing their opinion on the topic is a major pet peeve of mine
(I’ve seen some really wild statements on here from people that never went monolingual themselves, seriously traumatized. It’s almost as bad as the pitch accent discussions 
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Great, now do the same thing for Japanese 
I shall bear this dishonor 
I went monolingual at an N4’ish level, what do you mean too early 
(Though I used a premade deck designed for an early monolingual transition, which made it comparatively easy 
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can mean inside but also : “one’s home” which I think is a better translation here.
You don’t have to convince me, I’m already convinced! I’ll just have to get better to switch completely to monolingual studies, but I love the idea of it!
Bahaha, I’m not even N5 vocab wise
If I took the N5 today, I’d most likely fail because of vocab lol
Thanks for telling me! I knew that you meant a house, but I didn’t know that it can be translated like that as well.
Btw, I’ll try to translate a normal NHK article over the next few days, just to see if I could handle reading them already. Because of Yomitan, vocab won’t be a problem now, but I’m interested to see how hard the articles are grammar wise.
Also, since @GrumpyPanda said that he learned N2 and N1 through immersion, I guess I can give it a try, as I’m almost halfway through N3.
I’m not so sure. You only need 80 out of 180 points for a pass on the N5, I feel like you might already be able to make it 
You just earned +5 respect, stranger on the internet
I learned about shadowing from JApaneseLevelUP (“jalup”). It was interesting to me that he was a lawyer teaching himself Japanese. The guy seemed awesome 
I went the traditional “going through English” route, and while reading is pretty good, conversing could be 1000x better by now! grumble
I had a hard time finding N+1 material (not knowing Anki). I’m more than ready for 100% Japanese material, now.
Oh, I thought I’d need 120 for some reason Well, in that case, I might be able to pass it (I’d assume only barely, tho lol)
I have a lot of good teachers (basically every single person in this thread) 
Japanese is the language with the most rapidly receding goalposts.
Big news, folks! Remember @Myria mentioning iKnow? Well, I just got an entire year free for it just like that, which means I can try that out as well haha
Congratulations! 
Thanks! It’s kinda crazy to think about it: Someone mentions it and I get a free coupon the same day lol
I am but a mere lurker but I wanna say thank you for making this study log! It’s so fun and inspiring to follow your progress as well as everyones 日本語 wisdoms aah 
That is very good news!
The Core 2000 deck from iKnow has great quality audio with full sentences, which is very useful for shadowing practice if you want to improve your pronunciation while learning the basic vocabulary.
No need to thank me, I really enjoy this myself (especially everyone’s 日本語 wisdoms)!
I originally didn’t plan to do speaking practice yet, but if I already get an opportunity like this, I guess I should take it lol, so that’s nice!
Time for another two chapters from the TWC!
岩で作った小屋 (9 / 19)
リサは丘の上にある岩で作った小屋に父親と住んでいました。
(Lisa:) パパは怪我をしていて、動けないの。
(Markus:) 何が起こったんだ？
(Lisa:) 3日前、洞窟への道で狼に噛まれたの。それで寝込んでいるのよ。
(Celestina:) なるほど。
Lisa lived with her father in a cabin that was built on the crag on top of the hill.
(Lisa:) My father is injuried and can’t move.
(Markus:) What happened?
(Lisa:) He was biten by a wolf three days ago on the way to the cave. Therefor, he is lying in the bed.
(Celestina:) I see.
青白い顔の男 (10 / 19)
小屋の中には弱って青白い顔をしたリサの父親が横になっていました。
(Celestina:) 怪我を見ましょうか？
(Lisa:) うん、右足が悪いみたい。
(Celestina:) うん…うん…なるほど。
(Lisa:) パパを助けてくれる？
(Celestina:) わかったわ。薬を用意しましょう。
Inside the cabin, Lisa’s father, who had a pale and weak face, was lying and resting.
(Celestina:) Should I look at the injury?
(Lisa:) Yes. His right foot appears to be bad.
(Celestina:) Yes… yes… I see.
(Lisa:) Can you help my father?
(Celestina:) I found out. I’ll prepare a medicine.
Btw, when I did the kanji lesson for 狼, I only had to learn the reading, as I already knew the meaning from the TWC! 
I already had 狼 last level, but I just remembered it because the kanji got used again here 
This bit ‘岩で作った小屋’ means a cabin made of stones.
丘の上にある qualifies 小屋 not 岩 if you see what I mean. I understand your confusion.
A great example of me messing up basic grammar 
It looks like I confused the location marking usage of で with the usage that shows what has been used to do something (in this case: building the cabin with stones)
So, the whole expression, “丘の上にある岩で作った小屋”, would mean “a cabin that was built with stones on top of the hill”?