🔉 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge (Summer Edition) 🏖

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Jul 26, Tue of Week 5 of Summer 2022

Today’s story is 娘の寿命 ().

Story impression

「あんたは、何才まで生きたいんじゃ？」 – Just choose your age to be written in a notebook! Then, there is no proof that age was lengthen either. (Other than she died at exactly 88 years old.)

「白酒と杯を三つ、 – Yeah, 杯 is just written without a reading guide. It is read さか-ずき〔「さか（酒）つき（坏）」の意〕

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Yesterday, I watched YouTube on Being Japanese documentary with the second Japanese subtitle. ^[1] I picked out Japanese spoken lines, here (with git diff). ^[2]

Then, I took a look at NHK for School, which is sorted by school grades too. (Thanks, Jona-さん) It appears to have Furigana and full transcript, but sometimes it drops Kanji, and not using Furigana. ^[3]

Also, it has only two modes – small (about 1/3 of screen width) and fullscreen. Fixed with VMware. (My actual screen is a large Ultra-Wide HD screen, so I should use make use of the space wisely.)

On Language Reactor, there is already vocabulary lookup (dictionary), but I altered settings a little - no audio, and add external link to https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/all/WORD/m1u/ (Goo exact match).

Extra:

sumomomomomomomomo

I have seen the phrase before; but this is the first time I have heard it being pronounced, also a little longer than I think. This is the first time I searched and found the origin as well. The anime in the search result is distracting.

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1. “Zulu”, for spoken Japanese with Japanese written sub, lol. (and “Japanese” for English and omit Japanese speech.)

   Mostly spoken in English, and Japanese speech is minimal. ↩︎

2. So, I learnt that 帰国子女 isn’t necessary female. ↩︎

3. ひょうたんからコトバ appears to be interesting (and meaningful) for me.

   • I think this ひょうたん is exactly 瓢箪.
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