Seigyo

"他人の不幸で今日も飯がうまい" - The misfortune of others makes today's food tasty? I kinda love that.

Honestly it's been super refreshing! The last Pokemon game I finished was Y. I'd taken a stab at a lot of the ones since and I just didn't have the same drive I did as a kid. But ZA has been a lot of fun!

That was what got me learning Photoshop, tbh. Made so many signatures. And those thin little bar things you'd stack up that were like "dog lover" or whatever you wanted to throw out there. Hell, I did DeviantArt profile commissions too. How the Internet has changed since then!

Ngl I thought you meant Silksong got a new update and I was scrambling

For the internet to go out on Saturday morning and come back up on Sunday night is really such a cruel fate...

Can confirm, these are accurate translations.

A screenshot showing image results from 9 years ago on Pinterest, and 11 years ago on Facebook.

This has been around on the internet for at least 11 years. There's even a watermark in the corner. No.

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私の日本語勉強理由は未来で日本に住みたい。日本語の知識はまだ足りない、進むことは難しい、けど進むことは必要。私の夢は高い。ずっと頑張る。

The cover of the first volume of 異世界から来た魔族、拾いました。 うっかりもらった莫大な魔力で、ダンジョンのある暮らしを満喫します。

And that's my second LN finished, with a little over 13 hours spent reading 異世界から来た魔族、拾いました。 うっかりもらった莫大な魔力で、ダンジョンのある暮らしを満喫します。

Definitely not fast, and I still don't get all the little intricacies, but it definitely gets easier as you go along!

(For a visual representation of where to grab your results data from)

- , you can select Site Settings, and then under Save/Load Exercise Score Data, hit load, and select the text file you just made.

It sucks that he was required to take these down, because as far as resources for the textbooks, this is definitely one of the best.

If you want to preserve your data, at least on Firefox, you can load the old page (now 404) press F12 for developer settings, navigate to the Storage tab, Local Storage, click the URL, and copy the text from "Results" to a text file on your PC. Then when you open index.html from your download -

To those who were using the Genki Study Resources site as an accompaniment to the book, you might know they had a DMCA request and had to take the Third Edition version down.

You can still download it for offline use from a previous commit:
github.com/SethClydesda...

Just hit Code, Download ZIP

Yup! Even if it feels like you're not making progress, you definitely are. If it feels like you're hitting your head against the wall, find something else to read. You'll find that when you go back, things suddenly click a lot easier.

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I also started playing Kingdom Hearts in Japanese too. Surprisingly, a lot of the language is pretty straightforward. The only thing is any text that self-closes is WAY too quick for me. Also, fun fact, Final Mix is English dubbed in Japanese. Only the original release was JP dubbed (ﾟДﾟ*)ﾉ

And the "delinquent speech" is always fun to read!

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Man, this last month has felt stupid hectic cuz of work, but since things slowed down in the last week or so, I jumped back into manga, and just zoomed through the first 3 volumes of 薫る花は凛と咲く. It's kinda refreshing how it handles relationships as straightforward as it does.

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Today, I finished my first LN in Japanese. At the start, it was a struggle to get through half a chapter in one sitting. By the end, I was finishing two chapters in a sitting. Overall I spent a little over 14 hours on it! くま　クマ　熊　ベアー isn't anything over the top or outrageous, but I enjoyed it!

I also realized I should have clarified Lelouch, but Suzaku also. Both are heavy hitting moments (⁠´⁠；⁠ω⁠；⁠｀⁠)

This is a series I still rewatch year after year. And especially with me paying attention to the Japanese audio instead of the English subs, I'm still getting hit by bits and pieces that catch me off guard.

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Code Geass R1 spoilers ahead:

Man, I'm almost finished with S1, rewatching with Japanese subs. A lot of the language still goes over my head, with so much geopolitical jargon. But the scene where he says goodbye to Euphy hits so much harder without the English subtitle barrier, fuuuu.

Two things for me, variety, and tracking my immersion hours. The former is me flipping between manga, LNs, anime, YouTube. The latter is because seeing number go up is fun. The end goal of eventually moving to Japan also helps!

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Man, I've been reading an LN and they use 格好(かっこう), meaning appearance, a lot. Just had the shower thought for the phrase "かっこういい", turns out it is "格好いい", so like, good looking, looking good, to mean "cool".

The post-game screen for Haste, showing -2147483648 KM traveled, and a highest speed of 2098896128 M/S reached

I think I've beat Haste. There's no more speed I can get. I broke through the skybox and just kept going.

Oh hey, I can keep up reading the text messages in Yuru Camp now 👀

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And this month with a day to spare, I've finished volume 3 of NEW GAME. It's definitely getting easier, though my focus has shifted more to listening. I'd say my biggest change lately has been my ability to "tolerate ambiguity" as people put it. With that, I've been able to push myself much more!

Any source for that? I'm not seeing anything here on bsky or on Reddit in regards to that. Your last comment recommending him is one of the few things that shows up searching him on here lol

Went through security at DFW, and the scanner lit up bright red on my crotch, so they asked me to step aside for a pat down. Guess I was packing too much heat for the TSA

I JUST realized, after I completely dropped Duo. Duo teaches you that "midnight" is "ごぜんれいじ" in Japanese. It doesn't teach you (as far as I saw) that it's "午前零時" which is literally "zero o'clock in the morning".

Duo never taught me "zero". Lmao.