january 2026 artdump (yes its mostly huntbunny)

Can't believe how high quality these free resources are!

Last updated: 2025-01-05

コース

Minato

Free high-quality interactive self-guided courses. It also has live courses (I haven't tried it yet).

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TUFS Language Modules

From Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

The English version currently only has the pronunciation and dialog modules, so I'm studying the Traditional Chinese version.

Features

Vocabulary list by topics (Chinese)

Dialog

Pronunciation guide

辞書

Kakimashou

Features

Stroke order

Tone

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Jisho

Super clean interface

Features

Tone

Has JLPT tags

Lots of sentence examples

アプリ

Miraa

The Miraa app makes it easy to listen and repeat (the shadowing/echoing technique).

It has a paid version, but I find the free version to be good enough

Features

Can directly paste links from YouTube

Can ask AI for an explanation of words/sentences you don't understand

Has search built in to search for podcasts in Japanese

renshuu

Also available as a web app

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Google - Text-to-Speech AI

Useful for reading out my transcripts. It already sounds much more natural than I do, so I can import it to Miraa and shadow my writings.

10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)

This is a Chrome extension that I use. I used to use Yomichan and then Yomitan after Yomichan sunsetted. But I personally like 10ten's UI.

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I explained how keyboard smashing in English expresses laughing really hard and she taught me the Japanese equivalent in return!!

As some of you might know, in Japanese, “w”  from the word “to laugh” 笑う 「わらう」 is basically like “lol” in Japanese so when there’s a bunch of “w”’s together it looks like this wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 

and it looks like a bunch of grass so one slang word to show something is funny is 草 「くさ」 which is the word/kanji for grass so you don’t have to type out a bunch of w’s.

So the step up from 草 is 大草原　「だいそうげん」 which means prairie since there’s a lot more grass.

And if something leaves you laughing so much that you can’t hold it back you could say 大草原不可避　「だいそうげんふかひ」 which basically means “inevitable prairie”. 

Omas Waffeleisen war scheinbar eine Spezialanfertigung.

Category is "je länger man hinschaut, umso schlimmer wird es". Deswegen kauft man Waffeleisen nicht auf Temu.

die Decke - ceiling

die Tafel - the whiteboard

die Uhr - the clock

die Wand - the wall

die Lampe - the lamp

die Professorin - female professor

die Studentin - female student

die Universität - the university

der Beamer - the projector

der Professor - male professor

der Student - male student

der Stuhl -  the chair

der Boden - the floor

der Laptop - the laptop

der Stift/Bleistift - the pen/pencil

der Tisch - table

das Fenster - the window

das Heft - the notebook

das Papier

Asuka: I refuse—

Asuka: You shall become Tenjouin Thunder.

The Series of Burmese-Japanese Visual Poetry

Yay Ta Shauk & Takahiro Sawamura – Rain

 雨 [ame] - rain မြန်မာ [myanmar] - Burmese, Myanmar

Yay Ta Shauk & Takahiro Sawamura – Droplet

雫 [shizuku] - droplet ပြည့် [pyae] - full

Yay Ta Shauk & Takahiro Sawamura – Snow

雪 [yuki] - snow လွင့် [iwint] - blow away

Yay Ta Shauk & Takahiro Sawamura – Water

氵 [sanzui] - something about water, the element of Chinese Character used in Japanese မိုး [moe] – rain

Yay Ta Shauk & Takahiro Sawamura – Raindrop

雨 [ame] - rain မိုး [moe] - rain ရွှာချ [ywar cha] - fall down (especially for rain)

Yay Ta Shauk & Takahiro Sawamura – Rainfall

ぽ [po] - the sound of water falling on the water surface ပလုံ [pa lone] - the sound of the droplet when it hit the water surface

We, Yay Ta Shauk and Takahiro Sawamura, collaborated to create the pieces of visual poetry. Using Burmese and Japanese characters related to water, we aimed to connect each language and realize a new landscape. Burmese characters have round shapes like glass balls or water drops. Japanese characters often preserve the forms of things within them. By integrating these features, these works were created. We hope you enjoy them. ©️Yay Ta Shauk & Takahiro Sawamura 2024

Biography 

Yay Ta Shauk

Thura Khaing aka Yay Ta Shauk is a Burmese multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore. His interests on the various mediums such as music, language and visuals reflect on the way he conceptualizes the chosen materials. He is currently working on Burmese Komplete konkrete e book (the burmese concrete poetry series made by him) and the very first poetry book of his own while running the underground poetry station called "ကဗျာ အမြန်ဖတ်" Kabyar A myan phat which is the bit size poem reading of the Burmese modern and contemporary poetry.

ရေတလျှောက် - Yay Ta Shauk

Takahiro Sawamura

schießen -> to shoot | erschießen -> to shoot to death

würgen -> to choke | erwürgen -> to choke someone to death

stechen -> to sting | erstechen -> to stab to death

schlagen -> to hit | erschlagen -> slay (also: overwhelm)

drücken -> to press | erdrücken -> to crush