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Language Adventure

Language Adventure is a stop motion language learning game!

Check out the trailer and the Kickstarter page below!

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4. 日本初 「ダチョウ恐竜」の仲間の新種を発見 福井 勝山

This article was on the featured page and I was very happy because it's about Fukui, where I used to live 😊! They are known for their dinosaurs, which I always loved. Fukui will be connected by shinkansen soon (or perhaps already has?), so please add it to your itinerary if you're traveling Japan! :))

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3.5 AIが生み出す偽情報 ウィズフェイク時代をどう生きるか

Part two of last weeks article. Apparently there is work being done to create AI that detects AI generated images and voices. Pretty wild!

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books in Japanese

I understand that people have enough money to order things from Japan and start reading immediately. I don't have enough money to spend it online. I checked web site you linked for free japanese books but I don't know where to begin. How can I begin? What should I read first? Is there any place with audio that goes with book so I can check my pronunciations to?

Hi! Of course, that's understandable. There's always at least one great free option. In this case, much more than that. You can begin with this site I already shared:

I opened it on Level 0, which is stories with audio for absolute beginners. You'll notice there's level 0 to 5. So you can just go through it from 0 up, depending how fast you learn. Maybe you'll learn faster than you can go through all materials for one level.

There's also this youtube channel, which has stories written in Japanese with furigana above, female narrator, key words in English and illustrations.

I think there's 125 stories in this playlist for N5. These two resources should be more than enough to solidify what you've learnt.

Same channel has a playlist to learn and practice Japanese pronunciation.

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3. AIが生み出す偽情報 ウィズフェイク時代をどう生きるか

This weeks vocabulary. This was a fun article to see how the Japanese language talks about AI and how it's influencing our lives at the moment.

The article was long so I will be doing the second half for next week!

Currently also trying to finally learn Spanish and also Python. So, just small chunks of everything for now.

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Made a Codeblr 😊! Anyone else into languages and/or linguistics also curious about coding or in the dev/software engineering field?

I thought to switch things up since coming back to the stats and getting my masters in Linguistics. It's hard to find teaching jobs that are stable and pay well. My current job is also transitioning towards AI so I thought I might as well get ahead of the game a bit. 🤷‍♀️

I'll have a lot to learn (and tbh it would be great to get my PhD but I want to live life atm lol) and I am hoping to incorporate my background in linguistic with the ideas of raciolinguistics and linguicism and how that influences TTS and speech recognition by AI and modern devices. I think that would be fun. Anyway, please feel free to share resources with me and I will be posting them as well!

Comp Ling Intro

Currently I have decided to start learning more about computational linguistics and transition from my career/background in ESL teaching/Japanese translation. To start, I am currently teaching myself Python. I am using Linkedin Learning to do so for now with this Python from Zero course. Let me know if you tried or what resources you've liked to learn python yourself.

With that, I will try to do my first project of making a simple website.

After that, I want to look into:

Linear Algebra

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Large Language Models My main account is @efurutravel, so I may have followed you from there!

If you want to collab on any projects or something, please let me know.

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Vocabulary for the second part of this article:

2. 【随時更新】ハワイ山火事 55人死亡 “不明者の救助に全力” Pt.1

This article can be accessed from the linked title above. It contains vocabulary for the first section of the article as it's a long article.

I am sure everyone has heard about the horrible fires in Maui. It is incredibly devastating. Here are some resources if you would like to help out from afar:

Food bank

Humane Society

For Children

For Women

Maui Strong Fund

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Spanish Resources

Hello

I am really needing to learn Spanish. Could you share any resources you like/use? You could also link some blogs here you like.

So far I have checked some things out at my local library.

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2. 【随時更新】ハワイ山火事 55人死亡 “不明者の救助に全力” Pt.1

This article can be accessed from the linked title above. It contains vocabulary for the first section of the article as it's a long article.

I am sure everyone has heard about the horrible fires in Maui. It is incredibly devastating. Here are some resources if you would like to help out from afar:

Food bank

Humane Society

For Children

For Women

Maui Strong Fund

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Japanese Idiom　目につく #shorts #japaneselanguage

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米ワーナー・ブラザース メッセージを削除し謝罪

You can check out the article above. Apparently Warner Bros. Japanese branch had to make a complaint about its American branch for insensitive memes over Barbenheimer. I think that's pretty sad they even had to do that.

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Hello. Hi. yeah... Uh.. This was posted 6 months ago. I did all of this for maybe a week. I don't even have the file that I made this schedule on 😂. To be fair, I was working full time and a full time graduate student. It was a lot to juggle... Now, I am graduated, so I should be able to start dedicating more time to this now.

I guess I will still aim for N1, however, now that I am not living in Japan anymore, I am kind of mostly hoping to just keep up with my Japanese and not lose it and still be able to use it in some way.

It's been pretty sad to not be able to use or hear it regularly anymore. At the moment, my main goal is to just grow my habit of studying language again. I also need to learn Spanish ASAP ;((.

I'm back :3

Hello~! I've been on hiatus for a bit over a year now. A lot has changed and I am almost graduated with my masters. But, I want to get back into studying Japanese (and French) again. I will review first via memrise. This is the schedule I have for my decks so far. This is the first deck (N2 Vocab) I'll be starting with if anyone else would like to do it together!

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vocab from kiki’s delivery service, pt. 1(-ish)

“wait,” i hear you say, “weren’t you reading kiki’s delivery service like [REDACTED] years ag—” MAYBE I WAS! ANYWAYS!!

nouns:

水（みず）たまり = puddle, pool of water

時計台（とけいだい） = clock tower

日時計（ひどけい） = sundial

お辞儀（じぎ） = bow, bowing

すそわけ = sharing with others what has been given to you

おしゃぶり = pacifier

お得意（とくい）さん = regular customer, valued customer

おかみさん = missus

煙突（えんとつ）掃除（そうじ） = chimney sweeping

芝居（しばい） = play, drama

薄着（うすぎ） = lightly dressed

厚着（あつぎ） = warmly dressed, heavily dressed

片目（かため） = one eye, one of one’s eyes

出窓（でまど） = bay window

verbs:

すます = to look unconcerned, feign indifference; to look prim

企む（たくらむ） = to plan, scheme (cf. 企てる!)

しょげ返る（かえる） = to be dejected, lose heart

思い込む（おもいこむ） = to be convinced, under the impression that

寄りかかる（よりかかる） = to lean against; to rely on

しがみつく = to cling

adjectives:

物足りない（ものたりない） = unsatisfied, disappointed

甲高い（かんだかい） = high-pitched, shrill

ヘンテコな = strange, weird

adverbs/onomatopoeiae:

耳元（みみもと）で = close to the ear

かしこ = over yonder, you-know-where

しょんぼり = downhearted

expressions:

気（き）を取られる（とられる） = to have one’s attention caught, be preoccupied with

持ちつ持たれつ（もちつもたれつ） = give-and-take

ただじゃおかない = you’ll pay for this; keep your mouth shut

あごをしゃくる = to jerk one’s chin, nod toward

愛嬌（あいきょう）を振り撒く（ふりまく） = to make oneself pleasant to everybody, make things pleasant

鼻（はな）を鳴らす（ならす） = to snort, sniff

目（め）を伏せる（ふせる） = to cast one’s eyes down

寝息（ねいき）を立てる（たてる） = to breathe while sleeping

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So as a continuation of this post I made in frustration about how anglo-centric most “must-read” book lists are, I went and found a few lists with a focus on non-English speaking authors (sorted by number of books listed):

8 Must-Read Foreign Books Translated Into English (Babbel)

The non-western books that every student should read (The Guardian)

10 best translated fiction (Independent - has suggestions regarding editions + prices)

49 Incredible Books From 49 Different Countries (Huffpost - has amazon links to all the books, which is great to find the editions but please please please support your local bookstores!!!!)

100 Must-Read Classics in Translation (BookRead - Amazon links again. Most bookstores will offer to order books for you if they don’t have them, please utilise their services and support local shops whenever possible!)

All these lists have reviews and feature books from a wide range of countries. I haven’t read every single review but I browsed the lists to make sure they wouldn’t all just name the same books and they don’t!!

I hope you’ll find inspiring new reads on those lists! :)

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I'm back :3

Hello~! I've been on hiatus for a bit over a year now. A lot has changed and I am almost graduated with my masters. But, I want to get back into studying Japanese (and French) again. I will review first via memrise. This is the schedule I have for my decks so far. This is the first deck (N2 Vocab) I'll be starting with if anyone else would like to do it together!

#learn japanese #japanese #japanese study #japanese studyblr #japanese langblr #memrise #efurutravel

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Langblr Reactivation Challenge

Hello everyone! As you may know I've created this challenge to help revive the langblr community. It's a three week challenge designed to get you back into learning languages and (hopefully) give you ideas on how to study and share your knowledge of them. It is completely optional to do, but try to reblog other people's posts if you aren't participating.

The challenge is designed to be done daily, however if you miss a day, you can go back and do it later or continue from where you left off. I do encourage you to do your best to keep up with the challenge though. Tag your posts with #langblr reactivation challenge so that others can find your posts.

If you have any questions, please send me an ask or a message and I'll do my best to answer it.

I'll put the prompts under a read more so this post isn't ridiculously long. Good luck to everyone participating! Remember the best way to promote the langblr revival is by reblogging other people's work.

Week 1

Day 1: Create an introduction post about yourself. What's your name? What languages are you studying? What languages do you hope to study? What do you hope you'll get out of this challenge? Add whatever else you’d like to your introduction post!

Day 2: Write a list of goals you have for your target languages. Make both long term and short term goals. An overall goal could be to have the ability to talk with native speakers with ease and a smaller goal would be to finally learn that difficult grammar point that's been plaguing you for ages. How will you achieve them?

Day 3: Create a list or a Mindmap of vocabulary topics. Start with a broad topic and narrow down to more specific topics. An example could be bedroom - furniture - closet - clothes or travelling - languages - study words - school supplies. Keep a hold of this because you'll use it later to create vocab to study. Some broad topics to start with: house, school, work, travelling, friends and family, nature, city. Feel free to use these or think of your own. Share your mindmap so others can get some ideas if they need it. Here are some mind map creation tools (x) (x) (x).

Day 4: Create a vocab list for one of the topics you created yesterday, if you want to make more, feel free to make as many as you like! Share your list and reblog other people's lists. And most importantly, make sure you study these words!

Day 5: Find a video in your target language and watch it as many times as you need to in order to understand it. Make a post about the video. What was it about? Did you like the video? Was it difficult to understand? Make sure you link the video. Try to write your answers in your target language, but if you can’t that’s okay!

Day 6: Look up 3 idioms in your target language and explain what they mean and how you use them in a sentence (with an example!).

Day 7: Send asks to other langblrs (bonus points if it's in a shared target language!) asking them about whatever (for example, ask how their day was, ask questions about their target languages, or share some of your thoughts with them). If you receive one, answer it! You can ask more than one person and it can be on or off anon.

Week 2

Day 1: Over the next week, create a playlist/playlists of songs in your target language(s), they can either have a specific mood or genre or they can be a collection of songs you've discovered. When you feel like you're done with your playlist, share it so others can find some new songs. If you already have a playlist, you can add songs to it and update it.

Day 2: Write an explanation on a grammar rule in your target language (such as verb tenses, exceptions, word order, etc). Include sentences to show how and when it is used.

Day 3: Either make a vocab list or find a vocab list you like and make sentences using those words. You can make them as long or as short as you like. This is a good way to contextualise vocab words and learn them in context. Share your sentences and highlight the vocab word.

Day 4: Record yourself reading an article, short story, or passage (basically anything written in your target language). Listen to it and see if you can point out any areas you can improve with your speaking and any areas that you're doing well. You can post your recording if you wish.

Day 5: Post at least 2 songs that you like in your target language. Make sure you add a link to them so people can go listen to them.

Day 6: Share a study tip you have. This can range from how you organize your notes to playlists that help you study to apps you use to review. Just something that you find makes studying easier (and more fun).

Day 7: Share with everyone some langblrs you enjoy seeing on your dash, try to put at least 5 people (and make sure you @ them!).

Week 3

Day 1: Remember that playlist you made/are making? Take a song you really like and make a vocab list of words you don't understand, learned from the song, or recognize but don't quite remember. Post so others can see and link the song. If you have extra time and/or want a bit more of a challenge, translate the song as well, either into English or another language.

Day 2: Write about a festival or holiday that is celebrated in a country that speaks your target language. This can be either something you’ve celebrated yourself, have wanted to participate in, or have never heard of before. You can write this in any language you’d like.

Day 3: Make another vocab list from the list you made at the beginning of the challenge. If you are learning two or more languages, make the vocab list in 3 languages (meaning for example: French, German, and English or Japanese, Arabic, and Ukrainian).

Day 4: Find a recipe written in your target language and translate it into your native language (or another language of your choice) or find a recipe in your native language and translate it into your target language. Bonus points if you actually make it (share pictures if you do)!

Day 5: Create a collection of resources you use to study/learn your target language. Add links to them if possible so others can also use them.

Day 6: Create a post explaining a grammar rule that you had/are having difficulties learning. If you’re currently having difficulties, do your best to explain and ask others to help you understand it better. Include example sentences in your explanation.

Day 7: How do you feel at the end of this challenge? Did you meet any goals while doing this? Do you feel more confident in your language abilities? Where do you think you'll go from here? Answer these questions either in your native language or your target language.

Hopefully you guys enjoy/enjoyed this challenge. After you've completed the challenge, I encourage you to continue your studies in your target languages and support others in theirs.

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Currently job and apartment hunting 😌😌😌 Will return when things settle down a bit.

Feel free to PM comment or ask any content or lessons or books you’d like me to cover next.

Happy studying🤓📚

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