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[Jeminani]

My first year of med school was pretty rough. Now I am having a summer break till August so FINALLY some time to study Japanese as much as I want. Yaasss. Can’t wait to level up. Finally.

[Saida]

@krysta84

Cure Dolly actually uses the terms ‘self-move’ (for intransitive type verbs) and ‘other-move’ (for transitive type verbs)

Since those are literally the Japanese terms for (in)transitive. 自動詞 and 他動詞. You’ll learn those on WK as well at some point after you learn 詞.

Edit: You’ll also see 他 and 自 as part of verb information in J-J dictionaries.

[Redglare]

@Saida

You’ll learn those on WK as well at some point after you learn 詞.

I checked and found the kanji on level 19

Looking at the vocab list for 詞 made me so excited; I’ll finally learn words like Adjective, Noun, and 歌詞. Hopefully, learning the vocab for “transitive” and “intransitive” will help a bit when I try to categorize the verbs correctly I can’t wait until I reach lvl 19. Just a few more weeks x3

[krysta84]

I use the same kanji to indicate which is which when I write down the vocabulary lessons.
I figured she didn’t pull those terms out of thin air.

[anon50133195]

[anon9242278]

@anon50133195

[Nenad]

Not a WaniKani screenshot, but I didn’t know where else to put it. But, WaniKani helped me accomplish this, though? In any case, I feel so smug now. Even though I’m no way advanced. I’m like, only 25% done with N3 grammar on BunPro.

[xxllua]

Twomorrow’s review pile may be a bit two much…

[Saida]

Hahaha I thought you had a typo while the image was still loading

[Mecha_Ivan]

[StudentHaruka]

@krysta84

It’s probably easier to stop thinking about transitive or intransitive and more thinking of is this verb relating to myself or something else.

Since I’m not a linguist, I don’t particularly care whether the label is “transitive” or “other-move”, I just needed a name to refer to the category. The point is, if the verb “relates to something else”, the WK meaning should always accept the form with spelling out “something”.

Anyway, thanks for the pointer to Cure Dolly. I watched a few lessons and it seems to be very good material. I like its focus on simplicity. (It goes a bit overboard on bashing textbooks, but some of it is fully justified. Luckily I started on Tae Kim so I avoided the conjugation nightmare some textbooks inflict. Or NHK for that matter - conjugation songs, anyone?)

[mangopore]

I type good.

[Redglare]

gdoo tpyeing

[anon50133195]

I just installed this script that tells you how many days consecutively you’ve done your reviews and I have to say I’m really proud of myself. Hope I’ll continue this way.

[Artimdal]

What website is that? Looks like a great way to practice in a “real” situation without going off the deep end with Japanese-only websites.

[Nenad]

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[amelturtle]

sorry to rez a very old reply, but one day i’m gonna ask kouichi if I can make this exact picture as a back patch for my biker jacket.

[amelturtle]

yep, size matters

[Swyn]

How many times… I don’t know but way too many xD (not talking about the size matter thing )

[Yhrite]

Around 3 months and some on and off procrastinating later, I finally did it!
The previously 1300 vocab lesson 怪獣 is defeated!
The only lessons I have left now are the level 27 kanji I need to finish to get me to 28.

I’m going to Japn (Tokyo) for the second time this November so I’m excited to see how much kanji and vocab I’ll be able to jam in before then. It will be fun to compare how much I can read in contrast to my last trip (November 2018).

頑張ろう！