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lightfulonion · 1 year

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hello @skijjiki!!! thanks for tagging me friend!!!!

Favorite time of year: every single day that i grace this beautiful planet ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ I unironically love Christmas so much. I love the cold and I love the fact that we can slack for a little bit and I love having an excuse and indulge myself by seeing and meeting with my loved ones. I also love spring! (<- spoken with the privilege of someone who only has mild allergies) And summer when it isn't boiling outside!

Favorite drinks: boba, COFFEE, ginger ale, wine (the semisweet ones and especially semisweet red wine ❤), fresh squeezed orange juice, HOT MILK WITH HONEY and generally whatever has sugar in it

Collect anything?: Littlest Pet Shop!!! When i was in kindergarden there was that one kid that had SACKS of lps and from then on i decided that it was my fate to defeat them... (i just said to my mum to buy me lps whenever she could and i also asked her every christmas to tell santa claus i needed the big packs with them) I also have collections of rocks and shells from different beaches that i went to! Lately i try to collect stickers from cons and such (<-literally has went to one (1) con so far) and chupa-chups cans bc they look pretty 👉👈 (not sponsored)

Favorite fics: OH BOY OH BOY! DO I HAVE THE FICS FOR YOU! I'll try to be brief: 💼 OK NO JOKE, I'll try to be brief: (in no particular order, except for the first one) 1) it's not living (if it's not with you) by brella (hq!!) TOP 1!!! IT DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS FELLAS! Legit, tsukkiyama isnt even my thing but this one ticks all my boxes: desperate lead? check. the grumpy one mellows out for the sunshine one? check. the inherent value of change and becoming better by loving and wanting to express it properly and by that becoming a better person? check. GROUNDHOG DAY AU?? YES PLEASE! It's.. It's very good. Please give it a read if you want. (brella has written many good hq fics btw please check them out!) 2) Work-Related Risk Factors by parkernoir (mp100) Case fic, angsty and probably my favourite mp100 ever! It has Serizawa! It has Tome! It has Reigen trauma! It made me cry my eyes out in agony! I have a very soft spot for this. It has serirei in it but mostly it's gen if i remember correctly? yeah 3) beginners by silvercistern (mp100) fair warning it's about sex and it doesn't have just steamy scenes, it discusses generally sex and stuff. That being said it has ace Reigen in it and it made me cry 👍 4) The Negligible Self by ch_am (mp100) anything and everything by camp is a gift honestly. Angsty generally, full of whump specifically, it makes the soft, tender moments hit better and it's still in progress! Join the fun as i lose my mind with every single update! Yay! (people in the comments in ao3 are also trying to find out what is going on and it's fun) (it has a prequel too which is really good and canon-adjacent) 5) Kintsugi by SpicyChibi (mp100) it took me a week to recover from reading this. mp100 fanwriters have a way of capturing the vulnerability of serirei in a way that physically hurts me. Tender, good, I love them, I love them, I love them. Ongoing and 90,000 words so far. 6) Like A Cheap Suit, You Can Wear Me Out by Vulcanodon (mp100) written like a romantic comedy and made me laugh at every twist and turn of the plot. The last scene is forever ingrained in me and it actually makes me emotional. Case fic again and a very fun one 7) Heart Rate Rapid by Justkeeptrekkin (mp100) teacher au, all the children in one class, ongoing, literally finshed it yesterday, ACE REIGEN BELOVED. (so far no explicit content so don't pay too much mind to the rating, there are discussions of sex but only briefly and on a surface level) I love their banter and the transition from friendship to something more... sigh 8) where the night goes by bigspoonnoya (hq!!) 'the sad gay with the happy ending' tag got to me. I love bittersweet stories with happy endings (can you tell) and this one has kagehina in it.... utterly head over heels for stories where they meet many years later. 9) fake it, make it by zadderlee (hq!!) FAVOURITE KAGEHINA FIC RIGHT THERE! ongoing since good old 2019 but the author has said they are going to continue it at some point! good characterisation, i had forgotten how good it is but i keep getting back to this. 10) That Baby Does Not Belong to You (But It Could) by multifascinate (talkativelock) (hq!!) bokuaka with baby hinata. need i say more. oh, yeah and they are 20-somethings. And in college. the romance aspect is there but it mostly focuses on other things. And i love it.

anyway these are my ao3 recs bone apple teeth (pay attention to the content warnings and the tags. thanks!)

Favorite video games: i am an awful gamer but generally the story-based ones intrigue me and the ones that are fun to play together with friends! Disco elysium, Ace attorney, Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros and animal crossing!

i tag @livingonyoghurtandspite @horson @raph-red-fan and whoever wants to do this ✌ ( cough please give me fic recs i beg cough)

#there is this one kyouhaba bakery-patisserie (?) au fic that i think about ALL the time and again by bigspoonnoya and #the courtship ritual of the hercules beetle by kittebasu (chanyeol) GOD THIS ONE IS SO SO GOOD BEST IWAOI FIC #but i didnt want to take too much space lol #i tried SO HARD. SO. HARD. to make it to 10 and no more #anyway i failed lmao #please tell me if i need to put this under a read more #get tagged #onion talks #:]#i am so normal and cool about my interests cant you tell #most of my fic recs are romcoms bc i am weak and these make me weaker #LOVE YOU CICADA WISH YOU A WONDERFUL DAY #this will probably be posted on january so i wish everyone a very beautiful 2023 and a very smooth transition to life after the holidays #this post is so long i am so sorry #i should have recced some ml fics too... darn it...#i havent read any tmnt fics which is???? idk why this happened #probably because i turn to fanfics for romance mostly since i am kinda picky on the gen ones? idk idk #this was an excuse for me to talk about my favourite fics actually #i am sorry for being annoying but i am not sorry for my wonderful taste in fictious literary content 😔#also if i didnt tag you please feel free to write your own faves and then tag me #i never know who to tag in these things and i dont want anyone to feel some kind of obligation to reply #i try to treat it as a 'free pass'#you can use it if you feel like it #if you read this so far mwah mwah a kiss on your little head

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rigelmejo · 2 years

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1. Started Ingenuity of the Househusband in all Japanese, so audio and subs. Cause I've been meaning to check it out ToT

A. I can follow the plot since it's just people doing daily life stuff with mentions of gangster past. So I don't need vocab to follow the main idea.

B. It's funny to me that the Kanji words I find easier to guess, and the words I hear and get the urge to look up turned out to be steamed murashi and tight shikkari. Words I didn't need to learn to follow the plot shdjdjd. Serious now, the words I'm clearly lacking understanding of that are most critical are helper and descriptor words. Like yoriyori (than more), kono Kara (after this - which @a-whump-muffin just taught me). Phrases like that are all kana, seem quite common so I should understand them and follow them, and I know almost none of them. ;-; I wonder if there's a category label for them so I could look up some kind of wordlist to glance over in prep for seeing them.

C. It is clear I know a decent number of common words. Because when I DO see a basic sentence like "stone o sharpen" I can guess sharpen from that. When I see "ii mono da" good thing. "Drippo shita" with katakana so i know its drip as a "do this" drip as a verb. "Soshite matsu" and wait (I know those words lol). So there's these basic beginner level type sentences scattered around that I fully understand, but then others I am doing a lot more guessing for what words mean.

2. Still watching the Final Fantasy X let's play with japanese audio and subs. The words u gave me @a-whump-muffin help so much ;-;. They made a lot of basics way clearer like konokara and onaji and I had forgotten some of the verbs you sent so seeing them helped remind me.

A. Just like with the show above, I can follow the plot fine without word lookup. I KNOW the story lol. I know most lines from memory. While I get the urge to look up some words cause it's frustrating me I can't figure out the meanings, I do not need the meanings to follow the main idea of the plot.

B. Like the show above, it's very funny to me how some is completely understandable to me like "fire" "you're here" "something interesting" "Yuna believes him" "we called it sin" "dont cry" "you cried" where I actually know all the words or knew them at some point and recognize them again as a sentence now. But then other sentences I know I'm only comprehending the overall gist of because I am guessing some Kanji meanings, relying on the verb conjugation, guessing based on the English scene I remember.

3. As we know I never stick to plans as much as I do what seems interesting at the time. And sometimes, like a fun challenge. And so like. Of course it is no surprise that while I WAS listening to Glossika Japanese, as soon as I tried to follow japanese in a video and MANAGED it? I got a bit excited and wanted to just go do that! Even though it's harder, less structured, less organized, and glossika is guaranteed to drill some couple thousand words into my head.

I'm still going to keep trying glossika japanese. But I'm also impatient and if I CAN manage to comprehend enough japanese to follow something? I'm going to keep trying to do it lol. And see if I get better at it.

Which leads me to:

4. Experiment: Try extensive immersion in Japanese, where I can comprehend the main idea without word lookups, and see if ny japanese improves!

There's a lot of people who swear by immersion in Japanese from the beginner level, but often even when they're not even following the main idea unless looking up words as needed, or using it to hear some of what they've studied and otherwise get used to the language. So if they're doing it for something below a certain understanding level, I'm not sure if they're doing immersion the same way I usually am. Now if they are mainly grasping the main idea by watching something they know rhe plot of like Pokémon or peppa pig that they can follow, then that is similar to me. But I don't know exactly how immersion is supposed to help you improve at the beginner stage. I don't know if you need to be intermediate to pick up vocab from simply extensively reading/watching, I don't know if I am beginner or intermediate. So it's an experiment to see what happens if I try to do extensive watching immersion.

Extensive, because I don't plan to look up more than a few words per watch session, and anything I can guess from Kanji or context vaguely I'm just going to go with my guess. I'm too lazy to look up all the unknown words. And if I can follow the main plot without word lookup (which I can) then I don't need to look up any keywords to follow the main idea. So any words I feel like looking up would seem like important ones I'd like to know and can't seem to figure out as fast as I'd like (usually hiragana words, or Kanji I just cant catch the pronunciation of). Basically though: let's see how much I learn from context. If it works, it should be significantly more than just the few words I'll be looking up.

I did this in chinese. About 6 months to 8 months in I watched shows until I got decent enough to comprehend with only some keyword lookup. Then I watched 15 eps, after the first 5 I stopped looking up words. After that, the next few shows I watched in chinese I didn't look any words up unless i just felt curious about a word (Killer and Healer, Word of Honor, Humans, Ice Fantasy Destiny). I overall did not do word lookup most of the time because i followed the plot and most lines, and was lazy lol. And each show I understood more % total words. Word of Honor was the most brutal because I somehow followed the plot with no word lookup but was focusing very hard. Then on rewatches kept picking up new words. GYADL was hard when I started because I knew so few words but was following the gist, but now in hindsight it's easier now and was a great easier show to start with. Humans this past summer took focus to read/listen fast enough, but I knew most words. The few unknowns were words like android or words clear from context. By halfway through it was not taking much extra mental effort to watch. My overall knowledge of the vocab was high by then. Now I did a LOT of reading in addition to show progression lol. So reading probably upped my vocab a lot, making the shows easier over time. But also I do know the first year watching shows, before I could read much, the 15 eps of GYADL definitely improved my vocab and reading ability just from watching. From watching extensively and just picking up stuff from context over time. So I could pick stuff up from context watching chinese. Slower than reading when it comes to vocab pick up for me, but watching still did provide the same benefit if I could follow the main idea without a dictionary.

So I'm wondering if it will work for japanese too. Considering chinese had hanzi which helped with figuring out a lot of new words, and then recognizing them quickly (versus kana spelling in japanese). On the other hand tho, a lot of words in Japanese I'm guessing from that hanzi knowledge I have and that's certainly helping me recognize words like

最後の Saigo no - finally, 了解 ryookai Roger that (like I understand/I got it).

I expect at worst I pick only small amounts of new vocabulary up. And get to actually do stuff in Japanese I've always wanted to! Which is very motivating!!!

And best case? I pick up some new words and grammar and Future japanese engagement of content I understand more. The funnest studying to me is just Doing in the language what I wanted to do anyway, so that's the dream if that works out and it does get gradually easier as I just do it more.

5. I am tempted to turn Nier Automata voice to Japanese. I'm not sure how much I'll hear though. I tend to just hear the words I know and not the rest.

6. I still think my plan of audio basis of vocab before visual reading skill is probably... going to be easier on me long term. Not even because Kanji are hard (which was the reading issue back when I first started lol), but because I see them and don't recall the Japanese pronunciations. I recall the Chinese ones. And I am concerned I'll learn new words in reading but be unable to remember their Chinese pronunciation. Whereas if I learn the words in audio or reading with audio (like subtitles in videos, L R Method etc) then I will hopefully pick up the pronunciation while I'm learning the word. However - even just subs aren't working ideally, I read the subs much better than I hear the Japanese audio of the new words. So I'm still sort of learning new words I can't remember the pronunciation of, just watching videos with subs. But I imagine my listening is too weak and actual vocab known too low (without Kanji to help me) to comprehend new info enough to LEARN new words, from listening alone.

That said, I listened to about an hour of ffx audio and I could follow it fine. I don't think I picked up any new words tho, I think I was just able to rely on prior knowledge of the scenes in English. So I'm unsure if audio only immersion would be enough to learn new words. Might be part of the immersion experiment though.

But yeah I tried reading Njer Automata A Long Story Short and I could read it a bit? Which was very cool! But I was pausing constantly to look up words because I do NOT know the pronunciations and know my mental chinese pronunciation is wrong.

#rant #march #progress #study plan #march progress #march study plan

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