Tenmonkan By Keita Kuroki

365 days of Halloween🎃

In Japanese we don’t say “I’m just going to stay home tonight” we say “今夜は家でゴロゴロしてる (konya wa ie de gorogoro shiteru)” meaning “Tonight I’m just going to roll around at home” and … #same

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Here are some colors, a couple vocab, and grammar! Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. School has been pretty busy. I plan on trying to make daily posts though!

A list of things to practice your listening skills with, and to practice hearing the flow of Japanese, so as to better incorporate that in your own speaking (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

YouTube

LayerQ - gaming channel, speaks clearly.

Mitoku - gaming channel, speaks at a nice pace. I’m currently watching her Breath of the Wild LP!

Roa - gaming channel, speaks really fast, but she’s just so 元気 that it doesn’t matter that she’s hard to follow. I enjoy having her in the background.

Fonimu - plays a lot of JRPGs, but he is very relaxing to listen to, and polite.

日本語の森 - I’m sure you all know this one! Get Japanese explained to you in Japanese. They have dedicated channels for N3, N2, and N1.

Just Duncan - Japanese youtuber, with Japanese subtitles. It’s been a year since he uploaded anything, but I enjoy his sense of humor.

Shows

If you want to use shows for practicing listening, either a) listen with closed eyes, b) turn off subtitles, or c) put on Japanese subtitles.

野武士のグルメ - Samurai Gourmet. I swear, this is the cutest show in the world. Go find it and just feel the warmth of watching a sweet elderly man having lunch.

Japanese Style Originator - a show where the origins of Japanese concepts are explained, and some people have to make some guesses. The game part of it isn’t terrible interesting, and the music they use is obnoxiously loud, but I’ve learned some very interesting things!

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories - as far as I understand this is a live-action adaptation of a manga. I haven’t watched it yet.

Terrace House - Japanese reality show about 6 young people living in a house together.

Little Witch Academia - anime about a witch school. It’s kinda cute.

AJIN: Demi-human - significantly darker anime than the one listed above. This is the only one on the list without any kind of Japanese subs available.

Good Morning Call - drama about two classmates accidentally renting the same apartment. I haven’t seen this, but it looks like it caters to every romance trope in the best way possible.

Keep in mind that availability varies greatly depending on countries! The ones I’ve listed are available on Netflix Denmark, so I’m thinking they are also available in most of Europe and America as well.

Podcasts

ひいきびいき - a super relaxing podcast with hour long episodes feat. two Japanese people just talking about their days and anything and everything. I really like this one.

バイリングアルニュース - Bilingual News. A Japanese-speaking woman and an English-speaking man discuss recent events. This is easier to follow along with, because you have the context very clearly in English.

そのアニ - Discussions about anime entirely in Japanese.

自由なラジオ Light Up! - Politics, society, news, and stuff like that. Difficult Japanese, but there are transcripts, so you can practice reading with them as well!

天使のモーニングコール - A slower paced podcast meant to be relaxing, discussing lifestyle-related topics.

Talk about detail - this awesome Nikon camera replica is made entirely from cardboard! It was crafted by the Etsy artist Martha Crass of C is for Cardboard.

German da-compound words

(english to german)

1. Above that - darüber

2. Through that - dadurch

3. Around that - darum

4. Out of that - daraus

5. With that - damit

6. After that - danach

7. For that - dafür

8. From that - davon

9. Against that - dagegen

10. In that - darin

11. Under that- darunter

12. Next to that - daneben

13. Behind that - dahinter

14. On that - darauf

我田引水

がでんいんすい

Literally: Drawing water for your own rice paddy. Meaning: Doing or saying things for your own benefit.

(via uni-venture)

Learning Japanese Master Post #02.

Here’s a master post for video lessons #51-#100 in the Learning Japanese video series, all view-able for free on YouTube! That’s right, each topic gets its own episode! All arranged in order and linked below. Check out all 200+ video lessons at the official YouTube channel here and the other Master Posts: 1 3

Conjugations of Desu (です) 

Conjugating い-Adjectives 

Conjugating な-Adjectives 

How-to Say “(I/We) want X” and “Do you want X?” (Xがほしいです) 

How-to Say “X wants Y” (Third Person) (XはYをほしがっている) (cont.) 

“VERBAL NOUN ＋ に(行く/来る)” as “Going/coming to do VERBAL NOUN” 

Using adjectives as adverbs 

How-to say “try to do VERB” (VERB て-Form ＋ みる) 

How-to say “in order to VERB/for the sake of VERBing” (VERB Dictionary Form + ために) 

Potential Form (Verb Conjugation) 

て- Form VERB + いる as “has VERB-ed” (Resultant State) 

X ので Y as “Because X, Y” 

How-to say “VERB while VERBING” with Pre-ますForm VERB + ながら + VERB 

How-to use しまう to emphasize finality of an action (て-Form + しまう) 

How-to say “to VERB2 without doing VERB1” (Negative ない-Form VERB1 + で + VERB2) 

How-to say “it is (easy/hard) to do VERB” with Pre-ます-Form VERB + (やすい/にくい) 

The たり-Form - たり-Form V1 + たり-Form V2 + する (Do VERB1, VERB2, and other such things) 

The て-Form as “and” (CLAUSE1 + て + CLAUSE 2 as “CLAUSE1 and CLAUSE2”) 

X までに as “by the time of X” 

How-to say “become (ADJECTIVE/NOUN)” with (ADJECTIVE/NOUN) + なる 

How-to say “make X (ADJECTIVE/NOUN)” with X を (ADJECTIVE/NOUN) + する 

How-to say “Before CLAUSE1, CLAUSE2” (Dictionary Form C1 + 前に + C2) 

How-to say “After CLAUSE1, CLAUSE2” (た-Form C1 + 後で + C2) 

How-to say “do nothing but VERB” (て-Form VERB + ばかりいる) 

How-to say “VERB nothing but NOUN” (NOUN + ばかり + VERB) 

How-to say “start VERBing” (Pre-ます-Form VERB + 始める) 

How-to say “finish VERBing” (Pre-ます-Form VERB + 終わる) 

(Dictionary/Negative-ない)-Form VERB + ようにする as “make an effort (to/not to) VERB” 

(Dictionary/Potential/Negative-ない)-Form VERB + ようになる as “it has become that” 

How-to say “I think that” (Plain-Form + と思う） 

Volitional Form (Verb Conjugation)

Plain Form + かも知れない as “(may/might/possibly) be _”

(Pre-ます-Form VERB/Stem-Form ADJECTIVE) + すぎる as “(VERB too much/too ADJECTIVE)” 

Volitional-Form VERB + と思う as “I think I will VERB” 

“A (is/isn’t) as ADJ as B” - AはB(と同じぐらい ADJ/ ほど Negative-Form ADJ) 

Plain-Form A + のに + B as “Even though A, B” 

AてからB as “After A, B” 

Plain-Form + でしょう as “probably ___” 

How-to say “should do VERB/it’s best to do VERB” (た-Form VERB + 方がいい） 

How-to say “should not do VERB/it’s best to not do VERB” (ない-Form VERB + 方がいい） 

Conditional ば-Form (Verb Conjugation + Adjective and Noun Conjugation) 

ば-Form CLAUSE1 + CLAUSE2 as “If CLAUSE1, CLAUSE2” 

Negative ば-Form （なければ） CLAUSE1 + CLAUSE2 as “If not CLAUSE1, CLAUSE2” 

たら-Form: C1たらC2 as “After C1, C2” or “If C1, C2” (pt. 1 of 2) 

たら-Form: C1たらC2 as “After C1, C2” or “If C1, C2” (pt. 2 of 2) 

(Pre-ます-Form VERB/Stem-Form ADJ) + そう（です/だ）as “it looks like ____” (pt. 1 of 2) 

(Pre-ます-Form VERB/Stem-Form ADJ) + そう（です/だ）as “it looks like ____” (pt. 2 of 2) 

Plain-Form CLAUSE + (そう/だ) as “heard that ___” 

て-Form VERB + おく as “to do VERB ahead of time” 

How-to ask/allow/deny permission to do something (て-Form VERB + もいいですか） 

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I’ve been preparing for the JLPT N5 myself, so I thought I’d make a little list of some of the resources I’ve found!

websites

Nihongo Ichiban N5 Study Material

JLPT Website:

Self Evaluation List

Sample Questions

japanesetest4you JLPT N5 Resources

JLPT Boot Camp

Mock Test

JLPT Study Page (a bit of an older page, but still a good study resource)

Memrise

JLPT N5 Vocab 

JLPT N5 Readings

books

Official JLPT Reference Books

Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese Characters (4th Edition)

Compact Japanese Dictionary

Read Japanese Kanji Today

apps (android)

Kanji Study

Obenkyo

Duolingo

Write Japanese: Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana

Tinycards by Duolingo: Fun & Free Flashcards

こんな感じ。