Well, I finally reached 2000 SRS sentences. It’s been a lot of work to get this far and this is just the beginning. Still an estimated 8000 more sentences to go until I reach some sort of fluency in Japanese. I can see myself going beyond that mark so I can discuss advanced topics on [...]
雑草のごとくたくましい ざっそう の ごとく たくましい ＝ ”tough like a weed. ” *note “gotoku” acts as “like; the same as” here. 今日の呟き きょう の つぶやき ＝ ”Today’s mutterings.” Sort of like a twitter post. I see people use this title for some of their youtube ramblings in japanese. They mostly just spell it out in hiragana, but I like to at first learn it in [...]
Here are a few SRS sentences I’ve added in the last couple of days. Once again, I focused on sentences with Japanese food vocabulary within them. 押し寿司を作った おしずし を つくった ＝ I made sushi-rice 鯛とヒラメの姿造り タイ と ヒラメ の すがたづくり ＝ sea bream and flounder whole-fish sashimi 魚肉ソーセージを買った ぎょにく ソーセージ を かった ＝ I bought some fish meat sausage. ごちそうさまでした = Phrase said after meals. Basically means “thanks for a [...]
While mining sentences today, I focused a lot on cooking and food vocabulary. In the Japanese media there tends to be a lot of shows that focus on cooking food and especially on tasting foods where emphatic resounding おいしいs and うまいs can be heard. They’ll often have Japanese celebrities tasting foods on these shows. Comedy [...]
