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Meowbrown

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Language learning notebook for polyglots.

愛しい

I came across this one also from isekai office worker’s ED lyrics.

独りじゃない戸惑いを愛しく思う
I cherish this confusion of not being alone

Decided to put this down since saw this word listed under 好き in the vocabulary book I got recently.

意味

可愛くて仕方ない。そばにいたいと思う。「愛おしい」とも。

例文

我が家の猫は素っ気ない。だからこそ、甘えてくる瞬間が愛しい。

練習

娘が「ママ」と呼ぶ時、愛しいです。

私に is usually omitted.

Reference

溜まりに溜まった

This is from the lyrics from isekai office worker

溜まりに溜まった生活は
heavily accumulated, piled up and up

Verb ます stem + に + Same Verb

Repeating the same verb creates the emphasis. Not really used in speech, it is more poetic, so that’s why I saw it used in the lyrics.

  • 溜まりに溜まった: piled up and up
  • 待ちに待った: waited and waited
  • 泣きに泣け: telling someone to cry your heart out (cry and cry!)
  • 泣きに泣けない: want to cry but unable to (beyond tears)
  • 勝ちに勝った: won game after game (overwhelming winning streak)

Reference

hi! I’d love some BL show recs if you’re willing to share.

sure thing! As I’m new to BL (started in July??), so far everything I’ve seen are recommendable since I haven’t watched that many. Also using this as an opportunity to write down how I started watching BL, thanks!

My first BL anime was 異世界の沙汰は社畜次第, I was interested since the title had 社畜 (しゃちく) which is kinda a popular word for jokingly say that you spend too much time working for a company.

And then ユーリ!!! on ICE started their 10th year anniversary event so it is free to watch on YouTube for 30 days. Some people think this is just another sports anime, but I’d categorize it as BL too.

This became the turning point from consuming content to learning, as YouTube started recommending me ボイスコミック, simply put as voice actors reading the manga. This is when I realized I actually don’t need native language subtitles and can still understand the story by listening and reading the manga. Here are the three channels that specifically publish BL ボイスコミック:

From then on, most of what I watch just comes from YouTube recommendations.

Anime:

  • 佐々木と宮野 – kinda funny to see them talking about BL, good for BL education too
  • 黄昏アウトフォーカス – started with the characters trying to make a BL movie
  • 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい (Magic Cherry) – also adapted to real-person show
  • パーフェクトアディクション (Perfect Addiction) – this is like 3 minutes per episode, good material for learning in a sense

Manga:

  • たまらないのは恋なのか – it has a special anime episode, that’s how I knew about it
  • 黄昏アウトフォーカス – there are many titles around it which I don’t remember at the moment
  • パーフェクトアディクション – just wanted to know what would go on further in the story, but this one feels a bit too much for me
  • スモークブルーの雨のち晴れ – this one also has a real-person show

There is another one that I’ve seen a lot of people talking about it, and it’s in my list: Given

Also if anyone has anything to recommend, please let me know too ❤️

YTyping – Song lyrics typing practice

Actually this was the one that I wanted to use cuz the interface is much more cleaner and easy to understand. I just couldn’t find it when I tried Googling for it yesterday.

The other site