Yeah, sometimes I forget (it’s easier to write down the good stuff!) but I try to mention that kind of stuff so it doesn’t seem like I’m just some crazy superhuman doing Japanese all day.
Like 80% of the time, I don’t clear my wanikani reviews on my off days either
Confessions time! I need to do that in my log more, I forget to write about the things I let slide but it’s so important for sanity, nice reminder
Wednesday 4 September
Listened to Sayuri Saying’s 3rd podcast on her trip to Mongolia: “Experiencing Nomadic Life in Mongolia: A Journey Beyond Digital Nomadism #233”
20mins
This is probably all I’ve got time for today.
＊９月４日＊
Listened:
・宝石商リチャード氏の謎鑑定 第５巻「麗しのスピネル」
I’m pretty sure Ayame thought Seigi and Richard were dating, but Seigi remained oblivious as ever lmao
9月5日(木)
Thinking in Japanese Podcast
人はネガティブな期待にも応えようとする
9分22
上級者になってから文法を学ぶのは楽しい
11分
少し歩くだけでも健康になれる
11分
心配事の85%は起こらない
12分
This a very easy to understand podcast. He speaks clearly but very slowly - it would be an excellent podcast for practising shadowing. I’m listening to it to have a change from my usual podcasts, but also because it is easy to hear even with a fair amount of background noise. I sometimes try to listen to Japanese podcasts while I’m in the shower but I find my go-to ones difficult to hear with the shower on. This one is definitely easier to hear in those kind of situations.
Post now amended. Thanks @enbyboiwonder
Is this supposed to be 9 min 22 sec? Because 秒 is seconds. Minutes is 分
ごめん、 ぼんやりしてた見たいなぁ、私 (笑)
9月6日 (金)
Thinking in Japanese Podcast
「何かができない」は「ほかの何かができる」
9分
「JLPT直前対策」1時間で⭐️この動画1本でN3文法が終わる！
前回終わったところから42:50まで
約20分
And that’s probably a wrap for today!
＊９月５日＊
Played:
・ドラクエ・ヒーローズ「闇竜と世界樹の城」(45:07⇒46:32)
・ドラクエＸＩ「過ぎ去りし時を求めて」(00:00⇒05:22)
I’ve completed the main storyline of DQH1! Seems I’ve unlocked a new difficulty level too, though I kinda wanna do all the post-game stuff first—or so I thought, but there’s a huge jump in difficulty, so I’m not getting much of anywhere, and I’d rather not restart so soon, so I’m starting a new game of DQXI instead. It’s been a little over two years since I last played, dang. I got ~58 hrs in on that save file.
I completely forgot this comes with voice dramas. I’ll have to listen to those some other time.
＊９月６日＊
Played:
・ドラクエＸＩ「過ぎ去りし時を求めて」(05:22⇒12:36)
Oh no. I started writing a luminerik fic that’s rooted in canon, and now I wanna start a new game already so I can lift lines from it accurately… Though actually, my biggest concern isn’t that I just started this yesterday, but that I don’t wanna do math.
So I’d forgotten about unlocking new れんけい技 by unlocking new skills and had thought that お宝ハンター was El’s and Camus’s since that’s really the only one I used. Figured out Camus needs ぬすむ for it, but I couldn’t figure out why I still wasn’t unlocking it. Wellp. Turns out El also needs 火炎斬, which I hadn’t gotten because I’d decided to go the broadsword route rather than the usual sword-and-shield route this time around. So that’s rectified. (Love that “頼むぜ、相棒!” And the loot, ofc) (I also love that little “いただき!” that Camus says maybe like a fifth of the time when using ぬすむ)
9月7日(土)
[JLPT直前対策]1時間で⭐️この動画1本でN3文法が終わる！
日本語の森
最後の20分
♪( ´θ｀)ノ
Went hiking with friends this morning. Wasn’t giving anyone a lift so had plenty of podcast listening time:
Thinking in Japanese Podcast
訂正は間違っているかもしれない
(Native speakers can get it wrong when they’re correcting you)
15分
私の流暢な生徒の1人は、アニメのシャドーイングで日本語を覚えた
(Talks about a student of his who learnt to speak natural sounding Japanese by shadowing anime)
10分
どうして子どもは同じ本を何度も読むか
(Talks about the way children like to have the same book read over and over again to them. Suggests that this kind of repetition is a good way of learning when your baseline of knowledge is low)
9分
10,000時間の法則、時間か方法か
(Discusses the “10,000 hours of practice needed to become proficient in something” theory. Is it just a matter of hours or is method also important?)
12分
外向的、内向的、そして流暢さ
(Discusses how being an extrovert as opposed to being an introvert can make it easier to speak more like a native speaker)
13分
ネイティブスピーカーでも学ぶことがたくさんある
(Recounts his recent experience reading Natsume Soseki and having to continually reach for the dictionary to look up words he didn’t know even though he is a Japanese native speaker)
8分
本好きの下剋上 Vol.4 end (10:42-11:43/11:43). I’ve only knew how to write 側仕え just now. (But meaning understanding wasn’t off.)
Daily brief x2
YUYU, the latest episode
特殊の日本文化
本好きの下剋上 Vol.5 (0-0:27/12:18)
るろうに剣心 S2E30
本好きの下剋上 Vol.5 (0:27-1:19/12:18)
Orientalism and China (JP sub with er)
History of Taiwan
9月8日(日)
Finished listening to the hour-long 50 JLPT3 grammar points review, so am now going to work my way through the short JLPT short grammar tutorials starting with #1 (だらけ、おかげで、せいで)
Also listened to some Thinking in Japanese Podcasts
今していることに注目する
(Talks about how most people do more than one thing at once with the result of a decrease in overall performance of the tasks they’re doing - so true, I was listening to the podcast while driving which probably isn’t the best road safety practice as I have to actively listen to Japanese in order to comprehend 
Learnt the katakana word マルチタスクwhich I initially had trouble recognising as “multitask”)
9分
かんたんに記憶力を上げる方法
(Apparently studies show that just by doing physical exercise you can improve your memory - I wonder if he is talking only about aerobic exercise as the beneficial exercises he lists are skipping, running, cycling & fast walking)
7分
「何かができない」は「ほかの何かができる」
(Even if you can’t do something, you can certainly do other things. Gives an example of someone who couldn’t walk until he was 4, but by a young age had read an enormous amount of books, including those aimed at adults)
9分
＊９月７日＊
Played:
・ドラクエＸＩ「過ぎ去りし時を求めて」(12:36⇒19:59)
You know you’re overleveled when a monster jumps out of its hiding place as you pass by only to immediately turn around and flee lmao
I don’t even do it on purpose; it just happens, especially when I’m trying to pinch a specific item. (Probably also didn’t hurt that I’d already given Camus Metal Wing by the time I started getting a bunch of metal slimes showing up in Samadhi. A lot more were defeated than ran off. I’m currently working on getting him Dual Wield—and then a second boomerang. At least I think he can dual wield those too. Well, I am primarily playing him as a knife-user, so it’s not like it won’t be useful.)
＊９月８日＊
Played:
・ドラクエＸＩ「過ぎ去りし時を求めて」(19:59⇒25:25)
Oh no, I knew Toriyama Akira had passed recently, but I didn’t know Sugiyama Kouichi had, too. I was searching for the DQXI bestiary on the wiki and saw there was a page for DQXII, which is still in development, and that made mention of it. Apparently it was back in 2021, so it’s old news, but. I’m sad now. I might not have found DQ until I was a young teen, but his music has still been a pretty big part of my life/childhood.
Watched 日本語の森 JLPT N3 文法 #2/36
について
に関して
約5分
YUYUの日本語Podcast #302
日本の昔のカレンダー
「和風月名」を勉強しよう！
約30分
Thinking in Japanese
脳は生き方によって変わる
7分
日本人はいつから長生き？
8分
選択が多い方が幸せ？
10分
わたしたちはイディオムが好き
10分
改善はおわらない
9分
Those sound super interesting, by the way, thanks for putting more info in the earlier entries, I’ll check it out!
Meant to put more info in the last post but just got busy. The podcast is interesting & slow enough to shadow if you’re so inclined.
Watched JLPT N3 文法 #3/36
っぽい
ように
ような
約7分
Listened to Sayuri Saying’s latest podcast which is a conversation between her and YUYU on the power of smiling #234
約25
Watched the latest Spice and Wolf episode
Thinking in Japanese
シンプルに説明でできないなら、あなたはそれをよくわかっていない (expressing the view that an inability to explain something in simple words reflects a lack of understanding. Listening to this, I thought of how good teachers always have this skill)
7分