I used to think NHK stuff is boring until my Japanese teacher shared it with me today. They tried to “animenize” some dry topics like environmental topics. I find it quite cringe to watch the actor, but also much more fun if they didn’t do that.
“you open the tin to find a letter, a dusty fountain pen and a pressed leaf.”
This blog is being made to encourage myself to keep up with my language learning endeavours. I suppose its a studyblr? well, its probably going to be more of an online diary. I’m not exactly the studious type, but language learning has slowly been growing into a passion for me. I also want an outlet to try typing in my target language, and maybe make some friends?
Goals for this blog:
document and encourage myself while learning. I kind of want to treat this blog as if I’m talking to an audience, but also I’m really just talking to myself lol.
organize any information i find useful, or want to remember.
update it semi-frequently? don’t expect a content hose or anything. this blog is for me, primarily.
document what I’m immersing in. Primarily using immersion based methods to study, and honestly id like to talk about the experience more than just gas-lighting myself into acquisition lol.
practice some self output. talking in my target language is still far a ways a way, but i still want to get used to flexing that muscle more.
so yeah. if you’d like to talk about language learning with me, please feel free to shoot me an ask or a dm. I’m far from an expert, more just soap-boxing on my own, but I’m always looking for new things to immerse in and love talking about media. 🙂
This is a side-blog, so it stays on topic. Interactions from me will probably go through my main! @lukrio99990
There are so many て form songs on YouTube, but this is the one I learned in class a couple of years ago and I couldn’t find the exact one. So I’m recording it for backup purposes in case my memory fails me.
うつる->って
ぶむぬ->んで
く->いて ぐ->いで
す->して
くる->きって
する->して
例外 (れいがい)→行って
て form songmeowbrown
For る verbs like 食べる, all you do is replace る with て so no need to memorize.
I wonder how everyone else learned their て forms 🤔
Here’s my fake business card (명함) to help with the exercise in the lesson I’m taking:
제이름은 미아우브라운입니다. Myname is meowbrown. 제 직업은 블로거입니다. My job is a blogger. 사무실전화번호는 02-1824-7195입니다. (pronunciation: 공이에 일파리사에 치릴구오임니다. Officephone number is… 핸드폰번호는 010-3379-9154입니다. (pronunciation: 공일공에 삼삼칠구에 구이로사입니다. Mobilenumber is… 이메일은 hello@meowbrown.com입니다. (@ 골뱅이, . 점 pronounced as 쩜) Email is… 주소는 서울시 종로구 광화문로 142입니다. Address is…
Question: Do Koreans really carry over the sound for phone numbers when they speak? I’m wondering whether the teacher is trying to make us practice the carry over pronunciation or is this normal in Korea 🤔 The reason I can’t ask the teacher is because it’s an online course, that’s a difference between having a 1:1 session.
it’s been a while—a bit more than six months!—since i first made an intro post for this blog, and since then, i’ve gained a lot of followers, and my focuses have shifted slightly, so i wanted to make a langblr reintro post to reflect that.
you can call me jiayi (家宜). 2023-2024 is my third year in post-secondary education overall, and my first year working on my bachelor’s degree.
originally, i was an intended combination STEM-humanities major, but due to a variety of reasons, i am now exclusively focusing on humanities. my majors are chinese, middle eastern languages and cultures, and linguistics. i’m also passionate about translation and sexuality studies and asian languages in general, especially turkic and sinitic languages.
i am west asian and speak english, chinese, and turkish as my mother tongues, and i am more or less functionally conversational in german, at around a B1 level. my current language focuses for independent study are kazakh and korean, but i’m also interested in mongolian, vietnamese, shanghainese, and kurmanci.
for my study tools, you can find an ask i answered here that extensively details what programmes, apps, and sites i use to study (slightly out of date currently, but not wildly so). besides that, you can find my collection of resource posts generally under the tag #resources, my chinese-specific posts under #汉语, and answered asks under #inbox.
i’m always open to asks and dms! i want to use this account as a resource for other people with interest in learning languages, and i’d love to make friends 🙂
my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!
as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.
Checked it out and the catalogue is great for Indonesian and German. Not much for Japanese and for Korean it seems to be all in the category of spiritual at the moment.
Today I will be reviewing the Japanese conversation podcast ことのは (Kotonoha) by Yamamo-sensei and Kibi-sensei. They have episodes for all levels, separated by JLPT level N5-N1 and labeled so you can determine which episodes best suit your level or challenge yourself with a higher level.
Do I currently listen to this podcast?: Yes, I like this podcast a lot and listen to it frequently.
General Overview
Good For Levels: Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced
In this series, Yamamo and Kibi, two Japanese language teachers based in Japan, speak on a variety of topics in a conversation style of podcast. The conversation-style format is good for training your ear to listen to questions and responses, and every day banter between two speakers. They talk about Japanese culture and their own personal experiences which gives listeners an insight to the particulars of daily life in Japan.
Length of Episodes ★★★★★
The podcasts are usually around 20-30 minutes long. This is ideal for a commute or when you have some down time. They cover 2-3 subtopics within each topic they pick, so the conversations are very interesting and catch my attention and they don’t seem too short or too long. They plan out each conversation topic carefully and keep it interesting and informative.
Level of Engagement ★★★★★
The conversation format is very engaging because they cover 2-3 subtopics within the main topic and structure the conversation to focus on each point of the topic. They keep the listener engaged with carefully planned-out topics and conversations, and there is obviously a lot of work that goes into their podcast. They match the vocabulary and pace of speaking with the level they are targeting, but even in the higher level podcasts I believe beginners would be able to catch the general flow of the conversation and challenge themselves to understand the content.
Episode Frequency ★★★★★
New podcasts come out once a week, and with the planning that goes into each episode it’s a very good pace. There is also a lot of episodes already produced so you can go through them fairly quickly without running out of material.
Overall ★★★★★
This podcast is designed by two Japanese language teachers to convey information about Japanese culture completely in Japanese. The episodes are labeled by JLPT difficulty and I find the label system to be very accurate. It is a good podcast with which to practice your listening skills for every day conversation and to learn a bit more about Japanese culture.
Thanks for the detailed review, exactly what I’m looking for. I’ll listen to this episode today!
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