頑張って to myself

reading: かんけいかくい meaning: to whom it may concern

くじ・九時・kuji

じゅうじ・十時・juuji

じゅういちじ・十一時・juuichiji

Hey guys! I just got Animal Crossing: New Horizons and I thought it’d be a great opportunity to get some language practice in. I’m gunna make several posts about ACNH so if there’s anything specific within the game you want to see, relating to Korean, let me know!

모여봐요 동물의 숲 Gather Around Animal Forest • 모으다 gather (모이다 be gathered, passive form) • -아/어/여 보다 try, experience (used to make a command seem less demanding) • 동물 animal • -의 possessive particle • 숲 forest

A를 눌러 주세요 press A • -을/를 object marking particle • 누르다 press • -아/어/여 주세요 please do (for me)

Photoshop>Pixlr.com (although I personally use photoshop because there are features I haven’t found elsewhere)

Video Editing> VideoPad

Digital Painting> Krita (but there’s lots of options)

Writing> YWriter (not as good as scrivener but you can’t beat the low price of $0)

In celebration of Dazai Osamu-sensei’s 110th birthday here is a rare collection of short stories, Dazai Osamu Selected Stories and Sketches translated by James O’Brien. This collection includes the following stories:

Memories (Omoide, 1934)

Transformation (Gyōfukuki, 1934)

The Island of Monkeys (Sarugashima, 1935)

Toys (Gangu, 1935)

Das Gemeine (Dasu Gemaine, 1935)

Putting Granny out to Die (Obasute, 1938)

My Older Brothers (Anitachi, 1940)

Eight Views of Tokyo (Tōkyō Hakkei, 1941)

On the Question of Apparel (Fukusō ni tsuite, 1941)

Homecoming (Kokyō, 1943)

A Poor Man’s got his Pride (Hin no iji, 1944)

The Mound of the Monkey’s Grave (Saruzuka, 1944)

Taking the Wen Away (Kobutori, 1945)

Currency (Kahei, 1946)

The Sound of Hammering (Tokatonton, 1947)

Osan (Osan, 1947)

This manuscript was the first collection of Dazai-sensei’s stories to be published in English. The translator states in the introduction, “About twenty works are available in English, but they remain scattered in sundry journals and somewhat inaccessible to the general reader.” Most of what was available about and by Dazai-sensei in English at the time were his postwar literature, especially his two novels The Setting Sun and No Longer Human translated by Donald Keene. The translator of Dazai Osamu: Select Stories and Sketches chose works from Dazai-sensei’s career “to show a side of Dazai’s art hitherto obscured for non-Japanese readers by a lack of accessible translations from all but the final years of the author’s life,” and has “at least one selection from each of the nine volumes of Dazai’s mature writings.” The stories selected range from the beginning of Dazai-sensei’s writing career to the year before his death. Because the stories are organized chronologically the reader can get a sense of how Dazai-sensei’s writing changed and matured throughout his career. 

隔てる　「ほだてる」　to separate, to alienate

釣り合う　「つりあう」　to balance, to suit

嘆く　「なげく」　to lament, to grieve, to deplore

嗅ぎ付ける　「かぎつける」　to sniff, to get wind of

漂う　「ただよう」　to drift, to float

脅す　「おどす」　to threaten, to menace

悼む　「いたむ」　to grieve over, to lament

銘打つ　「めいうつ」　to engrave an inscription, to mark, to label