🎃 🦇 October grammar challenge 🦇 🎃

Decided to decorate a lil after all! A lot of the intermediate vol stuff I’m basically just flipping through quickly, like not of new things to say about だが or 分, but will share ones where I feel like I’ve learned something new

Notable ones today were だからと言って and だらけ. Didn’t actually realize だらけ had a lil bit of a negative nuance, like being kind of a hindrance. (I guess I have been thinking it as like ‘riddled with’, which has that same vibe in english, but just not consciously). Anyway an excuse to post 人生は夢だらけ

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This website is pretty great! I’ll keep an eye on it!

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Weehoo some more Quartet and Bunpro

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Day 2!

My Keigo is getting better. A lot of verbs are just お + ます stem + なる or the passive tense. Obviously it’s a bit more complicated than that but it’s not horribly difficult. Just hard to form sentences because I’m kind of relearning basic stuff all over again but in another form.

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Today I followed my lesson plan and finished three genki exercises, for 〜し and for 〜そう. I would have done more, but sadly my hand spontaneously unlearned how to hold a pen :roll_eyes: hopefully hand-writing will be possible again by tomorrow :slight_smile:

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Does your hand hurt or something?

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10月2日(木)

another 30 minutes studying

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yeah, I’ve got troublesome joints :sweat_smile: Nothing to worry about, it just happens occasionally and never takes too long to get better, it’s just kinda frustrating in the moment in happens. (I’m in professional medical care, and already got all the help I need :slight_smile: but thanks for asking :slight_smile: ).

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Ooh, feel better soon!

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This is a life saver challange btw. I was planning to start N4 gram deck (bunpro) on november but this challange… 5x31 = 165 cards, means end of this month, I’ll finish n4 grammer.

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Was very busy today, so I just did 10 reviews and no new cards on bunpro :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Uff, 40% on bunpro. I need to regroup and tackle conjugation again (again). The combination of ichidan/godan and polite forms is destroying me :face_with_peeking_eye:

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総まとめ 第2週3日目

Plus I did a little bit of grammar from the まんがでよくわかる N2 book that I’m going through with my tutor. It’s a nice reinforcement to the rest of the materials I’m using.

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Two ADOBJG entries, やはり and 〜やすい

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Day Two
Recipe: Lucky Lunch – “A special little meal”

総まとめ :closed_book: 第1週5日目

  • 〜ないことはない
  • 〜ないこともない
  • 〜ないではいられない
  • 〜ずにはいられない

Lots of double-negatives today, iterations of “can’t not” / “not that it isn’t”

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On day two, I opted to do a write-up on 〜(さ)せてください:

Not a new one for me, but it’s always nice to revisit grammar I already know.

Home Post

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54 minutes exercises:
(frequency・potential verbs・~し・~そうです・~そうな+ noun・~てみたい・~なら)

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5 more entries today, plus a few n1 practice questions

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  • Finished Quartet chapter 1
  • 3 new Bunpro lessons
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Today I did ten bunpro reviews, including をかねて and ~に~ない, both of which I saw in Fullmetal Alchemist. ~に~ない is pretty straightforward, but をかねて really confused me when reading, and I really have to ponder when it comes up for review. Just like when I learned から all those years ago, I instinctively want to use it backwards.

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