#teaching in japanese

[ryllen]

eepy 🐲

ryumimi & half dragon sebek AU

#twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst mc #malleus draconia #dragon is ryu in japanese #this turns into au #fanart #instead of being too weak he is now afraid of being too powerful and destructive #malleus is so plain without the horns #somehow i imagine s ilver is still a human #now he is called a monster for being too powerful instead of being pointed at for being too weak #hm to imagine maybe his mother fled not long after his birth bcs it would be too dangerous for her to stay at the human village #and so no one really teaches him how to control his power #maybe he only reads from books his grandfather somehow have about dragons

[ppeuppeuppeu]

im soft i just love bts footages

wait did they say PSYCHO or something in japanese somebody pls clarify

edit: they were saying 'SAIKO!' which means 'Super!' or 'The best!' in japanese

thank you to this lovely friend who clarified 💖

#one piece #one piece live action #opla #one piece netflix #mackenyu #iñaki godoy #taz skylar #luffy #zoro #sanji #MY CUTIES YEAH #iñaki and macken going 'PSYCHO'!!! #taz looking at them fondly #im okay yeah #THEY WERE SAYING 'SAIKO' which means THE BEST in japanese #macken teaching iñaki japanese makes me soft

[3-aem]

drawing yuta tn and i kinda wanna rewatch jjk0…

the stsg breakup story…though i guess it was more like if u divorced ur ex…from life

#yuta kwording kenny like: how many times do i have to teach u this lesson old man #he got particular beef with that body #i wish i could draw smol faces #but my brush is no good #oh the hot lawyer man is also back like fkkk yes #he would get along so well with nanami #i believe in!!! hot lawyer man!!!!! #hit sukuna with a law book!!!! make him write the japanese vers of the lsat!!! lets go!!!!! #srry #jjk spoilers #i forgor

[bananafishdepression]

Never forget how Ibe taught Ash some Osaka dialect phrases and made him belive it's just normal Japanese 😭

#and yk that scene when eiji teaches ash japanese #and ash said those phrases so proudly #I WANNA KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN EIJIS HEAD IN THAT MOMENT SGSGSGGSGS #banana fish #asheiji #ash lynx #eiji okumura #ash x eiji #gay #lgbt #banana fish the stage #bananafish #anime #eislan

[sugashook]

commission ♕

#ofmd #blackbeard #illustration #art #drawing #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #ed teach #edward teach #our flag means death fanart #digital art #ed ofmd #ofmd ed #commission #jfashion #japanese fashion #fashion illustration

[pacifistcowboy]

silver learning japanese while he’s in the future and not telling espio until he knows how to speak at least a full sentence so he can somewhat talk to him in his first language

when silver finally says something in japanese espio is stunned and flattered and smitten and immediately offers to help teach him the rest of the language. they now do a lesson at least once every time silver comes to the present.

#i believe silver’s the type to not let anyone know he’s trying to do something until he’s good at it #i also believe silver finds readin’ difficult so trying to learn a language was probably a struggle but he’s a determined n focused fella #probably took him a year to get as far as formulating a sentence in japanese #n even then it was probably completely grammatically incorrect but espio got what he was tryna say and the effort alone was so touching #i also think espio’s the type to teach people things as like a form of bonding #i think like if someone shows interest in a thing he’s really into or good at he’ll immediately be like “i can teach you if you’d like” #idk why #i just think he’s like that #silver the hedgehog #espio the chameleon #espilver

[liquidstar]

it must have been so confusing tutoring subaru from a lugnican perspective, like, how the hell do you invent an entire syllabary all on your own and still be completely fucking illiterate

#re:zero #they dont know its japanese... #BUT in one of the side stories subaru does explain that its from ''his village'' to ram and teaches it to her #which is a fun reversal on their tutoring dynamic esp bc ofc ram is a better student. but also seeing their interactions is so fun #i love their bickering friendship. they trust each other more than anything but also cant not insult each other for 2 seconds #BUT THEYRE BOTH IN ON THE BIT! they both know its jokes #but whats actually the MOST interesting part of that story is how at the end ram says she RECOGNIZES those symbols from somewhere #and that still hasnt been addressed in the main story #maybe its dots we're supposed to connect on our own somehow but #WHERE AND WHEN would ram have encountered symbols from earth just in general?? how??? #shes literally just some girl. who is the reincarnation of a god. but is mostly just some girl #i have theories but none have been proven as far as i can tell #fucking mystery

[untilsfe]

Usagi and Leo first kiss

December 12, the best day of Leo's life.

Both of them went skating on the frozen lake in Central Park. Of course, Leo tried to make a move. Got caught out of guard, as always. Ùwú

This part felt out of place, however, I still liked it. Take it as a bonus:

I'm being honest. It took me a lot of time to actually plan this because I wanted it to be cute, to have emotion, and I didn't even knew where to start!!!

Also, I never had a stablished Headcanon for this. I mean, you can throw me what you got and I'll reach out to it. I like to have options~

So, yeah, this is one in the sea of probably better ideas, but heaven knows I tried!!

#I'm getting better at drawing them #Yass #Little dance of victory in the distance #Usagi's been teaching Leo Japanese by the way #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #saverottmnt #rottmnt #my art #rise of the tmnt #katanashipping #leo x usagi #Usagi Miyamoto #Leonardo hamato #First Kiss #rise season 3 #unpause rise of the tmnt #leosagi

[ougougougoug]

😅👉🏽

this is a haiku that uses just two symbols.

so, let me explain:

(while editing this post i found out that a few emojis i use are not supported on certain browsers. clearly im being silenced.

if you paste them in discord, then they should display, otherwise, suffer?)

haikus are simple, but have a rigid structure, which is why they’re fun. just five syllables, then seven, then five again, arranged in three lines.

what I think is fun is what I like to call a ‘minimal haiku,' which is where you try to use as few symbols as possible to write all three lines of a haiku. so, for example, we start with numbers.

7 is so cool everybody likes 7 7 is funky

in this haiku here, although '7' is only one symbol, it counts as two syllables, because that's how it's pronounced. so, obviously, we can just kind of run with that, right?

so here is the smallest haiku i think you can make using numbers in this way.

here is the haiku:

77 707 77

"seventy seven seven hundred and seven seventy seven"

this haiku uses (fittingly) seven symbols, but it kind of sucks. we're playing fast and loose with what we're calling a haiku, but it would still be nice if the minimal haikus we wrote kind of, at least, sort of made sense, i think.

so here's the smallest haiku i have written so far using only numbers and letters.

alright, here is the haiku:

33 x 3 funny 700x 69 ha ha

"thirty three times three funny seven hundred times sixty nine ha ha"

its not exactly high art, but it's technically comprehensible as a series of words that express a full thought, and that's good enough.

obviously, you can go further than this, and the next logical step is ascii. I don't think there's any ascii symbols that can be pronounced as seven syllables, but there are a few that can do five.

so here's the smallest haiku i could make using just ascii symbols:

) :) !

"close parentheses colon, close parentheses exclamation mark"

wow! just four symbols, which tell the relatable story of a guy who wakes up and sees that he's slept through his alarm. (it conveys this thought pictorially, but it does convey a thought.)

of course, we can go further.

our next stop is emojis.

now, one thing that's problematic about these is that not everyone might agree on how they should be pronounced, but i say we just play with this, and use whatever makes our haikus work, because, well, it's more fun that way.

so, here's a fun haiku:

🌑 🌓 🌕

"new moon emoji first quarter moon emoji full moon emoji"

wow! just three symbols.

here's a haiku about a working class trans girl:

🧑‍🏭 👩‍🏭 ⚧️

"factory worker woman factory worker transgender symbol"

so, we've managed to make some haikus with just three symbols. but i think we can go smaller.

ive been limiting myself to writing haikus with three visible lines when written down, but you can't do that with just two symbols. so we're just gonna forget about that from this point on.

(as a quick little aside, i said before that, using just numbers,

77 707 77

was the best i could do, but if you ignore how it is written down,

77777

"seventy seven thousand seven hundred and seventy seven"

is a haiku in just one number. anyways, back to emojis)

😵‍💫 🤢

this is a haiku. let me explain to you why.

most emojis are single unicode characters. but some of them are secretly just combinations of two other emojis with a symbol called a 'zero width joiner' between them, which means, although they're displayed as just one symbol, you can break them up into three. here's the wiki page for 'face with spiral eyes', which lists the three unicode symbols that make up the emoji. with that knowledge, you can pronounce this fun haiku as:

"face with crossed out eyes zero width joiner, dizzy nauseated face"

which is a haiku about a person who's sick and might just frow up.

one common type of emoji sequence is for modifying the skin tone of certain emojis. for these, we won't think about what the zero width joiner is doing (in fact, i think some, but not all, of these don't even have one? it's unclear to me, but all the more reason to ignore them.) what we'll do instead is just use the 'CLDR Short Name', which you can find listed here and here on unicode.org. These are about as official as you can get with emoji names, and will cover the emojis i'll be using for the last haikus.

so let's look back at the haiku at the top of this post, shown again:

😅👉🏽

"grinning face with sweat backhand index pointing right medium skin tone"

this takes advantage of the skin colour of the pointing emoji.

so that's another haiku that uses just two symbols, which depicts an anxious person doing finger guns (perhaps they're anxious because they spilled some yellow paint on their face. who knows. like any great artist, my works are up to interpretation.) so this leaves us all asking...

is it possible?

we've done two symbol haikus, but what about...

one?

any emoji which shows a person can be modified both by skin colour and by gender. if there is more than one person in an emoji, then each person can be given their own modifiers.

This means it's just a matter of going through the list of emojis and hoping that you can find one that works.

and, well that's just what i did:

👨🏾‍❤️‍👨🏽

couple with heart: man, man, medium-dark skin tone, medium skin tone

this is the smallest haiku possible to write. it's just a single symbol.

and it's two gay men. a wonderful queer couple. and i think that's great.

#(technically haikus are not really this simple but the point of this post is not to teach you about real Japanese poetry #but to play with language #and the ‘haikubot-style haiku’ is an easy and already well known structure that I can use for that. aight? anyways.) #haiku #long post #this tag is here so that the tags can be a haiku

[zhooniyaa-waagosh]

Me, first learning kana: Wow I love how straightforward Japanese pronunciation is, it's really nice to not have to wonder how things are pronounced.

Me, learning kanji: oh what the fuck actually

Me, now learning about the types of keigo and how they affect conjugation and pronunciation:

#did you know that there's levels of formality to japanese speech? #which don't just determine the words you use and your tone of voice but also the conjugation and pronunciation! #basic words like ''eat'' dound entirely different based on who you're speaking to! #the standard formality levels are polite (keigo) - casual - rude #and keigo has four (or five depending on who you ask) subtypes! with varying levels of formality and unique pronounciations! #and those types are standard formal (what language lessons start out by teaching) #elevating the other person's status (when talking about someone who is a higher social rank than you) #humbling yourself (when talking about yourself to or in comparison to someone who is a higher social rank than you) #and humbling yourself (when there isn't really anyone who is a higher social rank than you but you want to sound polite and not braggy) #and depending on who you ask there's also a ''beautifying'' one where you add specific sounds to words to make them sound prettier #like saying お寿司 (o-sushi) instead of just 寿司 #there are pronunciations and phrases that are completely unique to each kind of speaking style #and many of them are irregular and have to be memorized individually #i am going to fucking die #日本語の学生 #japanese langblr #langblr

[thistledropkick]

While everyone was posting about the Tokyo Sports Awards, Okada was focused on a much more important award.

"Today 23:45 TV Asahi "Cream Nantara" Miniskirt Track and Field 2023 Winter Event

By the way, here's the MVP trophy I won last year! Please watch it!"

(The trophy reads "Miniskirt Track and Field 2022 MVP 5/19/2022")

Here's a promotional photo from the event, from a tweet where Okada asks "Will it rain panty-flashing?"

#njpw #okada kazuchika #kazuchika okada #my translation #“Cream Nantara” is a variety show but I can't tell you much about it #Miniskirt Track and Field is exactly what it sounds like #I watched some of this and I've gotta admit Okada looks very cute in a miniskirt #Shoutout to Taichi's twitter account for teaching me the Japanese word for panty flashing btw #I never expected that vocab word to be useful while reading pro-wrestling tweets again and yet

[dark-side-blog3]

mm sometimes i think my yanderes would take advantage of the fact that I cant do some of the things most people can do with ease like tying their shoes or telling the difference between left and right, or the way i absorb info just to force me into being a baby. Mommy kakyoin would coax me into his lap after heavily drugging me, so I just happily melt into his embrace as he asks me what sound a puppy makes only to be met with a soft whimper of me trying to speak.. or diavolo making me do kindergarten level math in the playpen he keeps in his office for me. -📱

I've been having some trouble with doing tasks most people can do, so it is fun to think about different yanderes making you do baby-level math worksheets, or French vocab sheets and crosswords meant for little kids. Or having those grid papers to write Cantonese and Mandarin, or in your case with mommy Kakyoin, katakana. Why bother teaching you kanji or hiragana? You'll only be confused. And hiragana is more commonly used-- he doesn't need you knowing what common signs and objects actually say. Then you won't feel as lost, should you manage to slip away from his hands for a moment.

Diavolo knows worksheets aren't any fun-- he'd give everything to not have to do them, and still know the people he cares about would be okay. So instead of a little duotang with worksheets for your math, linguistics, or animal noises, Diavolo tries to set up little activities for you to do every day. Little trays with a number of the day, clay in one dish so you can draw the number yourself, roll it on a die, and count it out of marbles. Calling an animal handler to show you the different birds and bugs of the devildom in the throne room (and saving trips to the royal zoo for weeks you've been extra good!).

#I'm wondering what would be more advantageous (by which I mean less helpful) to teach someone in japanese? Katakana? Hiragana? Kanji? #they're ALL used #but some are more grown up than a little kid that still needs Kakyoin for everything #Most old documents are written in katakana. You'd sound so old. Like a little kid that still says “gee willikers batman” #but granted you'd typically mix katakana and hiragana AND kanji in a sentence and coversation #so if he really wanted to nerf you he would only teach you how to spell one way #Kanji is hard to learn (in my opinion just reading this) but if you learn 1000 words you can just suss out what most things say #oh don't get me started on the SLANG #man what a high pressure environment to learn a language... Kak is also such a menace if you lash out or get frustrated #man DEF teaches you the wrong words for things on purpose. #cellphone anon #anon confession #yandere agere #yandere daddy diavolo #yandere mommy kakyoin

[eldritch-thrumming]

i saw that review on letterboxd of all the rhetorical questions for barbie and like… the more i think abt it, the more i’m certain that the review’s author fundamentally misunderstood the film. barbie land is not a utopia in the way that adults would think abt a utopia, like the author seems to imply… barbie land is canonically shaped by little girls playing with their dolls. that’s why we see a supreme court. thats why there are nobel prizes and authors and lawyers (also because that’s how the toys are marketed… would there be a mermaid in ur utopia??? there would be in mine!). that’s why barbie and ken don’t necessarily know what a boyfriend and girlfriend are “meant” to do (not to mention that the author’s assumption that sex is fundamental to a romantic relationship is problematic at best). that’s why barbie is indifferent to ken (i personally had the life size barbie and my sister had the barbie dream house—we had the working woman barbie game, i had the genie barbie gameboy game, we had countless barbie dolls; we didn’t own a single ken doll lol). barbie land is a world created by and for little girls as they play with their dolls (she says in a comment on the original post “don’t little girls play with their dolls in a sexual way?” and yeah, sure, some do. but i didn’t and i’m sure there are others who didn’t… just like there are some girls who completely mutilated their own dolls and made them into horrifying creatures)… that’s why stereotypical barbie starts having an existential crisis—because a grown woman begins to play with her doll again and starts reshaping barbie land… we, as the audience, are meant to understand this as an outlier to how barbie land is canonically created. the author also calls ken “crass” and “slovenly”… maybe after he builds the patriarchy in barbie land he becomes “crass” but i wouldn’t call him slovenly at any point in the film (i suppose this is just semantics tho).

also, please stop saying that barbie land is a reversal of the real world. it isn’t, even if that may have been the filmmakers intentions. again, barbie is indifferent to ken. she does not abuse him, she does not treat him like he exists to service her by cooking or cleaning or providing other favors for her… barbie does not oppress ken in the way that men oppress women in the real world (we have no idea if he owns property or where he lives and she doesn’t seem to particularly care—extremely different from the fact that women couldn’t have their own bank accounts or credit cards, get a mortgage on their own or divorce their husbands through no fault divorce until the second half of the 20th century in the us… within a lot of our mothers and grandmothers lifetimes!!!!) and it is a complete disservice to conflate or equate the two. we actually see barbie drawing clear boundaries around her time and space in regards to ken—this is not a reversal of misogyny as women and girls experience it in the real world, by any stretch of the imagination.

is the film perfect or revolutionary or radical? of course not. it was produced by major studios and corporations in hollywood. of course the barbie movie is a fucking commercial for barbie, like… to expect anything different is just extremely dumb on your part if u saw the trailer, saw the marketing, saw the interviews, bought a ticket, and sat ur ass in the theater, like be fuckin serious. but don’t do women and girls a disservice by discrediting the world and thoughts and ideas it could open up for them by seeing themselves be taken seriously on screen in a major summer blockbuster with stupid fucking questions because u want to feel superior to everyone else because YOU and ONLY YOU see through the capitalist marketing of lipstick pop girlboss feminism (especially when juxtaposed with the way the female characters are treated in oppenheimer, which we cannot help but compare to the barbie film with the viral marketing of barbenheimer).

#i had to block a bunch of people so their barbie takes would stop showing up in my for you tab lol #i just wanna read steddie fanfic and reblog cute barbie gifs not see ur lame ass takes abt how barbie is evidence that both patriarchies #AND matriarchies are bad #there is not a society on earth where women treat men the way women have treated women for millennia… even the matriarchies smh #the way men have treated women*** literal smh!!!! #barbie spoilers #tagging this as barbie spoilers but not using the barbie tag bevause i don’t want to get into all that tbh #i’m just frustrated… esp as someone who teaches film #every time a female led film comes out we have to have these same convos over and over #let’s talk abt how oppenheimer glorifies the atomic bomb and doesn’t acknowledge the indigenous populations that the bomb was tested on!!!! #let’s talk abt how oppenheimer doesn’t even acknowledge the japanese experience of the bomb!!!! bevause oppenheimer is the real victim #let’s talk abt how christopher nolan repeatedly uses the trope of mentally ill suffering crazy woman to propel his male protagonists story!! #he’s just so sad :( that he killed thousands of ppl :( #anyways i’m over it lol #ok wait making this non rebloggable bevaude i don’t wanna argue w anyone i literally jus wanna say my piece into a void 🙏

[phykoha]

if I make another tmnt iteration instead of (mutated rat) Splinter being Japanese for some reason he's just gonna be a new yorker because that just makes sense like why is he Japanese he's a new york rat...

#blah blah blah #“He's japanese so it makes sense that he teaches the turtles to be ninjas” please be quiet #make him a new yorker you cowards #accent and everything

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… being totally nice for sure

#dailydegurechaff #youjo senki #the saga of tanya the evil #tanya von degurechaff #that text is supposed to say 'eat shit' however i do not speak japanese so there is a potential chance it doesnt lol. i googled it but ykno #anyway. stream chat teaching me bad words last night made me remember the idea of tanya just swearing at people w/o them having a clue #another example of tanya never doing anything wrong in her life ever shes perfect

[nerosdayinanime]

bunny boy

#neros art tag #sabito #kny sabito #hybrid au #this au was originally a reskin of a tss au i never did anything with #i made a lil doodle of giyuu a long time ago- before i made this sideblog i think- hes so cute snuggled up in his winter clothes<3 #redrawing that next #sakonji's not actually a hybrid but hes sympathetic to them and regularly takes in orphans to teach them how to use firearms and swords to #defend themselves- he had to flee when he found sabito though because they started trying to kill him for helping them #now they travel around a wide path through the japanese countryside/mountains to evade detection #they actively hunt down any hunters in areas they visit tho. they meet giyuu after killing a hunter trying to get in his house #kny au #the song gave me the vibe of helpless complaining about knowing their place but turning it around and defending themself while continuing #to act helpless. idk. sabito