Thank you for being with us for so long! 
Come to think of it, my account is turning a decade this year as well 
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Ah…TIME
it plays a long game, and before you know itいつの間にか, it defeats us all…
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I feel out of practice 
Can’t remember if I mentioned before, but I’m left handed. Writing Kanji in the correct stroke order and direction is sometimes a challenge.
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TIL 憧れる can mean “To long for”, “To yearn for” and “To be attracted by”.
I THOUGHT IT ONLY MEANT “TO ADMIRE” AND I HAVE BEEN USING IT. (So I have been speaking Japanese conversationally for the past… shall we say 15 years or so. But I have been fairly illiterate for that whole time too.)
Thank god my memory is so bad I can’t remember any specific use cases to be horribly embarrassed by.
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Oh no! This made me laugh. Hopefully you haven’t told anyone that you yearn for them lately! 
Your handwritten kanji are so neat by the way, I’m quite jealous!
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Writing quickly is the key to being able to decipher other people’s handwriting LoL
Years ago, I ended up copying out the better part of Kiki’s Delivery Service from Vertical writing in the paper copy of my book to Horizontal writing on scratch paper, so I could more legibly write in my translation notes in English…
I got to where I could copy out 1 page from the bunko book in 10 minutes onto 1 page of 8.5 X 11 copy paper!
Nb, laughing about quizzical looks trailing in the wake of a conversation where you 憧れ’d something…
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Thank you!!
Luckily it really does mean “to admire” but you know, how could I have known it was “admire… yearningly”
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Woah, nice!! That’s speedy.
Hopefully whatever context of the conversations saved me from coming across as “I yearn for” hahaha… it really does also mean “admire”!
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I MADE IT TO LEVEL 30, Woo!!! Nearly half way there!!
貧(poor) very very important Kanji here. Soon I’ll learn 貧乏(poor) 
With all this kanji practice recently
- I read Kinou Nani Tabeta volume 25, and I felt myself being able to read more easily than before
- I read (and translated) the last chapter of Famiresu Iko.
Truly, it’s starting to pay off! Maybe I’ll be totally able to read manga volumes by the end of this year!
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Congrats, nice going!! 
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Thank you!!
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Unrelated sorta-study update but.
I went to the Super Junior concert in Saitama today, and I could basically understand all the spoken Japanese! by the translator!
By the members themselves sometimes I couldn’t 
And sometimes I could read the Japanese subs before the next sentence 
2026, let’s aim to be literate!
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