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  1. い-adjectives conjugate themselves — drop い, then くない / かった / くなかった.

    高いです / 高くないです / 高かったです. Irregular いい→よ.

    Short visual:
    youtube.com/watch?v=QewEWLDInU0

    Full lesson:
    bunpou.jepang.org/en/lesson/00

    #日本語 #JapaneseGrammar #JLPT #N5

  2. Slow progress on #wanikani

    Burn rate: 1.93 items/day 📉

    I'm beginning to wonder if I should just stop at this point, haha. I'll let it run until the end of the year, and hopefully the number of remaining items would be < 100 by then.

    Lately I've been using bunpro for vocabulary more heavily, and this seems quite productive since I only add words that I encounter in the books I currently read.

    #日本語

  3. Slow progress on #wanikani

    Burn rate: 1.93 items/day 📉

    I'm beginning to wonder if I should just stop at this point, haha. I'll let it run until the end of the year, and hopefully the number of remaining items would be < 100 by then.

    Lately I've been using bunpro for vocabulary more heavily, and this seems quite productive since I only add words that I encounter in the books I currently read.

    #日本語

  4. しか~ない (shika-nai) = only / nothing but — always with a negative verb.

    水しか飲みません. 1000円しかない. Not the same as だけ.

    Short visual:
    youtube.com/watch?v=6hZXF1rr8jY

    Full lesson:
    bunpou.jepang.org/en/lesson/00

    #日本語 #JapaneseGrammar #JLPT #N5

  5. だけ (dake) = only / just — a neutral limit.

    水だけ飲みます. 見ているだけです. Not the same as しか~ない.

    Short visual:
    youtube.com/watch?v=lxlA7twagEI

    Full lesson:
    bunpou.jepang.org/en/lesson/00

    #日本語 #JapaneseGrammar #JLPT #N5

  6. Finally signed up for the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) for this December!

    Fun note: Only took me about 40 minutes to complete the registration as the site kept crashing from too much traffic.

    If you have any tips, tricks, or study suggestions - I'm all ears!

    #JLPT
    #jlptn4
    #japanese_learning
    #日本語
    #日本

  7. I'm at a point where I am trying to input as much Japanese as possible - including gaming.

    What are some suggestions for games in Japanese and/or Japanese titles I should check out? In terms of systems, I currently have an Ayn Odin w/ emulation, a Switch 2 and Steam on my Fedora machine. I might pick up a used gaming system at BookOff (Japanese 3DS, etc...)

    #Gaming
    #japanese_learning
    #日本語
    #日本語練習

  8. #StartHereSocial Fun Fact #5

    If we exclude English and language-agnostic services, the 12 languages with the most listings (in this case, Mastodon and similar services) are:

    #Deutsch (German)
    #Español (Spanish)
    #Français (French)
    #Nederlands (Dutch)
    #Italiano (Italian)
    #中文 (Chinese)
    #한국어 (Korean)
    #Dansk (Danish)
    #Québécois (Quebec French)
    #Norsk (Norwegian)
    #PortuguêsBrasileiro (Brazilian Portuguese)
    #日本語 (Japanese)

    jaz.co.uk/projects/starthereso

  9. 多様なルーツを表す和語ってないんですかね。。。
    「混血」はネガティブな印象が強いとよく聞きますので避けていますが、「ミックス」や「ルーツ」とかが通じない高齢の方との会話でわかりやすく伝える言葉ってなんでしょうか🤔

    Are there any good JP non-katakana words to explain mixed heritage?
    I know "konketsu" is a thing, but I've never heard it used in a positive way.
    But then, there are older folks who don't understand the loanword uses of "mix(ed)" and "roots," so it makes me wonder if there aren't any good words for conversations with them 🤔

    #ミックス #ミックスルーツ #多様性 #日本語 #MixedRace #MixedHeritage

  10. Word of the Week: 雪だるま(ゆきだるま)
    bit.ly/yukidaruma-jisho

    1月18日は『世界(せかい)雪(ゆき)だるまの日(ひ)』だそうです。(Source: bit.ly/41lrqVy )

    雪だるまを作(つく)ったことがある人(ひと)いますか?

    いたら写真(しゃしん)を見(み)せてくださいね!!

    #jisho #wordoftheweek #japanesedictionary #nihongo #辞書 #日本語 #今週の言葉 #雪だるま

  11. TIL that 行く can be read both as いく and ゆく, with the later typically used as an auxiliary verb in the context of the passage of time. It apparently also has a poetic / literary quality to it.

    Normally you'd use it with a て-form verb, but what I saw didn't use て-form, still don't understand that sense.

    #日本語 #文法