This blog is for chronicling the progression of my skill in the Japanese language. I started serious Japanese study on February 18th 2009 and have studied everyday since. My ultimate goal is near-native level fluency.
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 great meal.”
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 teams like Gaki no Tsukai sometimes even cook their own bizarre foods for the laughs. Below are some of the sentences I added to my SRS today.
毎週土曜日の野菜市
まいしゅう どようび の やさいいち = The vegetable market which occurs every week on Saturday.
肉と野菜を煮込んだ。
にく と やさい を にこんだ。 ＝ (I) cooked/boiled the meat and vegetables together.
色が美しくないが味は美味しかった。
いろ が うつくしく ない が、 あじ は おいしかった。 ＝ the color wasn’t beautiful but the taste was delicious
Every so often I’ll be throwing some of the SRS sentences or phrases I’m using for my 10,000 sentences project on this blog. You are free to use them. Each entry comes from native Japanese sources as to use authentic language. I won’t be breaking down each word or using romaji. I recommend using rikaichan to understand the various words quickly.
でも本物のコウモリ、怖いなぁ。
でも ほんもの の こうもり、 こわい なぁ。。。 ＝ ”But a real bat….that’s scary huh….”
電池を使い切った
でんち を つかいきった ＝ ”(I) used up the battery”
後悔するでしょう
こうかい する でしょう？ ＝ (you’ll) probably regret it huh…”
I used to have a language learning blog a few years back but it fell out of use. However, since I’ve become pretty serious about reaching fluency in Japanese, I thought it would be a good idea to have a place besides just twitter to chart my progress.
I’m using the 10,000 sentence method of language learning and I’m about 1850 sentences into it. At this point, I feel I’m at about an intermediate level in Japanese.
