How I get stuck with conversations

I take classes once a week so it usually starts with my teacher asking:

• では、週末は何をしましたか？
  What did you do on the weekend?
• 何が予定がありますか？
  Do you have anything planned?
• 先週は何をしましたか？
  What did you do last week?

Main reason is 語彙が足りない

語彙 (ごい) が足りない (たりない): Not enough vocabulary

Examples

1. I had a health checkup recently, I know health is 健康 (けんこう) but don’t have the words to say checkup. If I knew the word, it’s just 健康診断 (しんだん) に行きました。It make sense to not know all of the words such as 採血 (さいけつ) or 血液 (けつえき) 検察, but at least I can say something like 血を取られた, but at that time I can’t even remember 血。
2. Saying I need to travel around the end of February, all I can remember is 二月中旬 (ちゅうじゅん) and not have the vocabulary for 下旬 (げじゅん), which is supposed to be a pretty common word when talking about my activities.

Explaining things that’s too hard for me

Recently, I’ve watched 陰の実力者になりたくて (The Eminence in Shadow) and am having trouble to explain what the anime is about. I feel it’s okay-ish for not being able to say it in Japanese because I’m even having a hard time saying it in English.

The main character is actually really strong, but has severe 中二病. He also has a hobby of acting like a background character that you usually see in anime. I tried to explain the “what you see usually” part as: like being the first one to get injured, and stuff like that.

It’s hard for me to explain it clearly, I should’ve focused on how the main character hides his powers and stop there.

cheese-enjoyer9471:

meowbrown:

地震 (じしん) related words

April has been full of earthquakes in Taiwan.

2024 Hualien earthquake – Wikipedia

In the past two days there’s been so many earthquakes 🥺 I wanted to talk to my teacher about it, so here’s the list of words I’ve collected.

Related pronunciations

• 地震 – earthquake
• 自信 – self-confidence
• 自身 – self

Related words

• 震度 (しんど) – seismic intensity
  震度5強 (きょう) の地震があった。
  There was an earthquake with a seismic intensity of strong 5.
• 余震 (よしん) – aftershock
  大きな地震の後に何度も余震が続いた (つずいた)。
  After the big earthquake, there were many aftershocks.
• 断層 (だんそう) – fault (geology)
  その地域 (ちいき) は複数 (ふくすう) の断層が存在 (そんざい) している。
  There are multiple faults in that area.
• 震源地 (しんげんち) – epicenter
  震源地は市 (し) の中心部 (ちゅうしんぶ) 近くにあった。
• マグニチュード – magnitude
  その地震のマグニチュードは7.2だった。
  The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.2.
• 地震計 (じしんけい) – seismometer
  地震計が大きな揺れを検知 (けんち) した。
  The seismometer detected strong shaking.
• 揺れ (ゆれ) – shake
  地震の揺れがとても強かった。
  The shaking from the earthquake was very strong.

Difference between マグニチュード and 震度

マグニチュード: total amount of energy released by the earthquake at its source
震度: how big you felt it in your local area

as someone who was at hualien during the hualien earthquake, this is cool to learn about! taiwan is still experiencing some earthquakes, but not as bad as before. the more you know i guess 😀

The earthquake yesterday seemed to have caused a couple more buildings in Hualien to become slanted 🥺

Earthquake in Hualien causes hotel to tilt│TVBS新聞網

What a coincidence, didn’t expect to see someone staying in Taiwan on tumblr. Hi (BIG WAVE OF WAVES) 👋👋👋👋👋👋

speakingpebbles:

hello!! I’m starting a langblr because I’ve been slacking a bit and need to hold myself accountable lol. so here’s a bit about me!!

– I am currently focusing on learning Bahasa Indonesia 🇮🇩 and that’s about it, because I want to be really good at it one day haha. I love reading and writing so I would love to be able to do those at the same level that I do in English! and of course I want to be able to fluently communicate with my relatives in Indonesia!

– I live in America and I’m half Chinese- Indonesian and half German 🙂

– I am a college student so I don’t have a ton of time to devote to learning

– I love learning though and am trying many new methods to try! Always open to new methods and ideas!

– I’ve been trying to learn on my own for almost a year now and it’s not going too great because I focused too much on Duolingo for a while and don’t really know what I’m doing haha

if anyone else is also learning Indonesian or is able to speak it and is trying to learn english dm me!! I’m no pro, but it could be fun to talk 😀

The blog seems to be on hiatus, but seemingly has a lot of past content I can check out.

Saya merasa tidak ada banyak orang belajar Bahasa Indonesia 😭

wordsinbahasa:

Hi friends!

Please welcome the new face of Words in Bahasa! With the new face, I feel like it’s only fair that I throw out some facts about our brand new logo, here are my favorites:

1. The color purple represents creativity. Words in Bahasa hopes to increase creativity and innovation in helping others learn about Indonesia’s native language: Bahasa Indonesia in various ways.
2. The text outline portrays Batik. Have you ever heard of Batik? It’s one of Indonesia’s national treasures. A hand-crafted cloth, made of wax and love, Batik is very well-known here in Indonesia, and all around the world. As you see in the picture below, crafters would draw various motives such as flowers, leaves, etc. with wax (malam) using a tool we call canting. Most of the time, the center of the drawings will be left hallowed. This then inspires the idea of our logo text.

(picture from Kompas.com)

3. The slogan: “satu, dua, tiga kata”, literally means “one, two, three word” or in French “un, deux, trois mot”. I can bet on my sweet potato chips, that one of our first-ever learning experiences in life (besides ABC’s) is one, two, three (unless you’re a prodigy who might’ve done algebra by 5 years old, kudos to that though!). I was inspired by this, then made the slogan, it defines our time as learners, slowly but surely studying about Bahasa Indonesia with Words in Bahasa.

I hope you guys like the new face! Please send away I can’t wait to share more of the words in Bahasa Indonesia with you here in Words in Bahasa! As always, if you have questions, please do drop them here!

Itu sangat bagus untuk menemukan (temu) blog yang memberikan informasi tentang bahasa Indonesia.

korstudying:

Another word that sounds like Mandarin 技術

https://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?range=all&query=%EA%B8%B0%EC%88%A0

地震 (じしん) related words

April has been full of earthquakes in Taiwan.

2024 Hualien earthquake – Wikipedia

In the past two days there’s been so many earthquakes 🥺 I wanted to talk to my teacher about it, so here’s the list of words I’ve collected.

Related pronunciations

• 地震 – earthquake
• 自信 – self-confidence
• 自身 – self

Related words

• 震度 (しんど) – seismic intensity
  震度5強 (きょう) の地震があった。
  There was an earthquake with a seismic intensity of strong 5.
• 余震 (よしん) – aftershock
  大きな地震の後に何度も余震が続いた (つずいた)。
  After the big earthquake, there were many aftershocks.
• 断層 (だんそう) – fault (geology)
  その地域 (ちいき) は複数 (ふくすう) の断層が存在 (そんざい) している。
  There are multiple faults in that area.
• 震源地 (しんげんち) – epicenter
  震源地は市 (し) の中心部 (ちゅうしんぶ) 近くにあった。
• マグニチュード – magnitude
  その地震のマグニチュードは7.2だった。
  The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.2.
• 地震計 (じしんけい) – seismometer
  地震計が大きな揺れを検知 (けんち) した。
  The seismometer detected strong shaking.
• 揺れ (ゆれ) – shake
  地震の揺れがとても強かった。
  The shaking from the earthquake was very strong.

Difference between マグニチュード and 震度

マグニチュード: total amount of energy released by the earthquake at its source
震度: how big you felt it in your local area

me- prefix for verbs in Indonesian

People can still understand you even if you don’t know this.

Why I’m learning this now

I started Indonesian with conversations and didn’t want to care too much about rules and grammar. Up until now, I’ve randomly add me- when I feel like it 🤣 truth is, people will still understand.

I feel like I’ve been stuck in the same level for some time, so trying to pick up these rules bit by bit.

How is it used

Used for active verbs, indicating an action performed by a subject.

Prefix: root word starts with
(red means the letter is dropped)

• me + m: b, f, p
• me + n: d, j, c, t
• me + ng: vowels, g, h, k
• me + ny: s
• me: everything else

Examples

1. B: beli (buy) – membeli
2. F: fokus (focus) – memfokuskan (make notes on the -kan affix in the future)
3. P: pakai (use) – memakai (note: ‘p’ dropped)
4. D: dengar (hear) – mendengar
5. J: jual (sell) – menjual
6. C: cuci (wash) – mencuci
7. T: tulis (write) – menulis (note: ’t’ dropped)
8. A: ambil (take) – mengambil
9. G: ganti (change) – mengganti
10. H: hafal (memorize) – menghafal (note: more academic word than mengingat)
11. K: kirim (send) – mengirim (note: ‘k’ dropped)
12. S: salin (copy) – menyalin (note: ’s’ dropped)
13. L: lihat (see) – melihat
14. M: minum (drink) – meminum
15. N: nanti (wait) – menanti
16. R: rata (flatten) – merata
17. W: warna (color) – mewarna
18. Y: yakin (assure) – meyakinkan

What’s next

My TODO list:

• -kan affix
• pe- prefix
• ter- prefix
• ber- prefix
• -i affix

masaotheheckindog:

meowbrown:

masaotheheckindog:

Had a lot of vocabularies today

覚ます (さます) – to wake someone up
彼は早く目を覚ます必要があります。
He needs to wake up early.

直接 (ちょくせつ) – direct, directly
彼は直接社長に報告しました。
He reported directly to the president.

爆発 (ばくはつ) – explosion
彼女は昨日の爆発で亡くなった。
She passed away in yesterday’s explosion.

詰まる (つまる) – to be clogged, to be blocked
流しの排水管が詰まっている。
The sink drain is clogged.

放す (はなす) – to release, to let go
鳥を空に放した。
They released the bird into the sky.

我慢 (がまん) – patience, endurance
彼女は痛みを我慢した。
She endured the pain.

戦う (たたかう) – to fight, to battle
彼は正義のために戦う。
He fights for justice.

拝む (おがむ) – to pray, to worship
彼女は毎日神社で拝む。
She prays at the shrine every day.

虹色 (にじいろ) – rainbow-colored
空には美しい虹色が広がっていた。
A beautiful rainbow color spread across the sky.

山門 (さんもん) – the main gate of a temple
古い寺の山門は立派だった。
The old temple’s main gate was magnificent.

wow, thank you for transcribing them and giving examples!

I’m putting this particular vocabulary deck together myself based on things I’m encountering in my daily life, songs I like, as well as vocabularies from my grammar deck, so it’s great to see more examples using them.

That’s what initially drawn me to this post because I have a feeling this is where the vocabulary is coming from 🥳

masaotheheckindog:

Had a lot of vocabularies today

覚ます (さます) – to wake someone up
彼は早く目を覚ます必要があります。
He needs to wake up early.

直接 (ちょくせつ) – direct, directly
彼は直接社長に報告しました。
He reported directly to the president.

爆発 (ばくはつ) – explosion
彼女は昨日の爆発で亡くなった。
She passed away in yesterday’s explosion.

詰まる (つまる) – to be clogged, to be blocked
流しの排水管が詰まっている。
The sink drain is clogged.

放す (はなす) – to release, to let go
鳥を空に放した。
They released the bird into the sky.

我慢 (がまん) – patience, endurance
彼女は痛みを我慢した。
She endured the pain.

戦う (たたかう) – to fight, to battle
彼は正義のために戦う。
He fights for justice.

拝む (おがむ) – to pray, to worship
彼女は毎日神社で拝む。
She prays at the shrine every day.

虹色 (にじいろ) – rainbow-colored
空には美しい虹色が広がっていた。
A beautiful rainbow color spread across the sky.

山門 (さんもん) – the main gate of a temple
古い寺の山門は立派だった。
The old temple’s main gate was magnificent.

helenstudies:

Welcome to my Studyblr! ✨

I’ve been here since 2014 but well, I never got around to actually introducing myself, I guess? Here I go.

• My name is Helen (They/Them).
• 24 year old Queer INFP Capricorn in Myanmar.
• What am I learning? Well, a lot of things but mostly languages, literature, and psychology.
• I am a native Burmese speaker but I also speak other languages! English (C2), Korean (TOPIK 6) Mandarin Chinese (HSK5) and Japanese (JLPT N3) respectively. I try to keep my certifications up to date but covid made it really difficult.
• I’m working towards a Diploma in Pali.
• I am also learning Spanish, Russian, Latin, ASL etc and absolutely getting my ass kicked by them.
• I’m a freelance translator, writer, tarot reader, astrologist, language study guide, language instructor and a bookseller by trade!
• I don’t do all of those at once. I just sort of… rotate them if that makes sense. 2 at a time, 3 at a time etc.
• I am very hardworking but I also have neck arthritis (Cervical Spondylosis), ADHD and Social Anxiety so it’s a struggle.
• I also have tons of hobbies. I like reading books, writing reviews, journaling and writing fan fictions etc so I’m all over the place.
• I have a lot of stray cats that I’ve adopted so you’ll get to see them obstructing my studies as well!
• My life’s not very glamorous. I’m in Myanmar. With the wars going on, there ain’t a lot to glamorize either. But I’m trying my best to hang on and also help others hang on. So you’ll see me talking about free consultations and free lectures and humanitarian aid stuff etc.
• I run a weekly book club called “HAIYUU” with my friend! HAIYUU stands for 俳友 which is Haiku friends and it’s so fun!
• I also run a paid telegram channel for tarot/oracle readings with my Haiyuu co-host as well as other friends
• I’m taking it one day at a time.

That’s pretty much all of it! I hope y’all have a fun time looking at my posts.

A lot of languages going on here!