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AI is the new thing, so one had better get on board. Furthermore, it's good at composing poetry; it lied to me about a French poem I was...

This podcast just has referred to a "distinct Tokushima accent". We certainly have a bouquet of accents here in the US, and I spea...

This computer doesn't know a certain thing we say in Tea. I'm glad. It's been years, for me, but I know it.

日本語 for me always has been academic—I've been too afraid to speak as a person, beyond the ritual words of 茶道—but yesterday I walked rand...

Thinking of evenings, 夕べ yuube  and 夕方 yuugata  and 晩 ban . I wonder whether 夕べ is related to 浜辺 hamabe , with べ meaning the edge of the thi...

I've written this and then lost it, and I'll forget and won't write it again, so. For the JLPT N3, please pay attention to - ren...

Personal experience of it: N3. Wasn't going to go, because I felt unprepared; went anyway. Train as advised didn't match Sunday sche...

Just taking a moment to freak out. JLPT is this Sunday. My N3 book arrived, and it seems to expect me to understand and speak Japanese. If t...

Wondering about the etymology of this. Wiktionary says it derives from とにかくに, which it seems we can read as とに、かくに to ni, kaku ni , roughly...

The JLPT is on the 4th! I'm scrambling; one never knows quite what to study, and experience tells me that uncertainty on even one elemen...

That's the word I was trying to remember: momoshiki . Momoshiki no oomiyabito ha itoma are. The people of the palace. I've been thin...

I've wanted to write a poem on my forearm; it seems to me that tanzaku are exactly proportioned for it, 1x6, tho probably for writing ne...

Duolingo. (Just hit a 365-day streak, tyvm!) I put in も— あなたを永遠にも愛します 。 Duo wants 永遠にあなたを愛します, but is も so wrong, when we mean forever? Eve...

I've received a gorgeous card with a golden dragonfly and am remembering a haiku from 書道 lessons—蛍 is a firefly, vs a dragonfly, but any...

To be thought on. A friend has bought a formerly owned book on Buddhist tsewa —very roughly, tenderness/compassion, or openness, of the hea...

Recently I've been thinking about compassion and, surprisingly, about boddhisatvas; Buddhism isn't a thing I think about much at all...

A thing to try, in the interest of trying things, is translating questions for this app Trivia Crack. Veamos cómo va: In The Lion King , why...

As I now am committed to JLPT N3 and really need kanji work, I'm paying more attention to radicals. (I find that often I know kanji more...

This is why I find studying with translations so unsatisfying. This likes to translate 深刻 shinkoku as “serious”; fine. But the kanji actual...

Faulty though my memory be, it seems to have no problem recalling 過労 karou , overwork that leads to illness or death. The first kanji genera...

The “suffering passive”, I gather. The 例文 was “He was not granted a pension”, so I tried 彼には年金が与えられなかった。But, This is not about just the fact...

Pilot attempts at lanterns. Got out all my materials; very happy to see my brushes again. First attempt 魂; everything about them off, propor...

I haven't been able to get to the o-Bon festival at 松風荘 this evening, so I think I'll make lanterns for my windows. We need 季語 kig...