Gogo Nihongo

Well I’ve just spent way too much time on this and oh god I just cannot get proportions, sizing, and angles right on some of these

I finally sent back my first reply in Japanese on Slowly! It took me around 3-4 hours to write this because a. I’m a beginner and b. I’m inefficent to my core :)

I look forward to seeing what they reply with

I love myself some MUJI pens. Because they’re so thin they’re great for writing kanji especially since I’m such an incapable idiot with that. It’s also a Japanese brand so ties in with the theme y’know.

Aside from the normal pens I also have a brush pen, which would be great if I was capable of attempting some Japanese calligraphy, and a fancy ass fountain pen, which again would be great if I was capable of attempting some English calligraphy. But hey, the forethought is there

Here’s the letter I’ve sent out to some people who speak Japanese on Slowly (a pen pal app that takes longer to send letters the further away the recipient is - it sounds annoying but it’s worth it! I’ll do a full post on it at some point) It reads:

Hello!

I’m learning Japanese and am going to be studying it at university this September. I want to make a friend who will write to me in Japanese so I can practice. We can talk about anything, I don’t mind! First, I saw the ‘Record yourself for 30 days’ challenge on the app Hello Talk, so I could send you the transcript of what I say for each day. Please correct any mistakes, especially if I’m overly formal or informal, because I find that aspect difficult. It might take me a long time to reply, it’s hard to make my sentences grammatically correct, I’m sorry!

I look forward to speaking to you soon

Claire

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Some more pages of verb practice sentences :)

These are for the potential form and conditional form respectively

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