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@senchastudying
I have ADHD, so naturally I like check lists...
Just some of the things that have made studying easy for me. Less "what do I do next..." These are a few of the lists that I have. Google sheets is both a boon and a never ending source of irritation.
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Hello 2025, lets talk about 2023
December 2023 I took the JLPT N5 test in the US knowing full well I was going to fail it. Lets talk about it.
A lot of people are going to ask why put yourself through that? And mind you, this isn't a case of not understanding or underestimating my ability and saying I'm going to fail something I'm perfectly capable of passing. I knew I had no chance. There was the finance aspect of it. I did spend the 100$ to take this test. So I at least wanted to get my money's worth. So I guess the real question is, was it worth it? Would I pay another 100$ to do it again, even knowing I'm going to fail? Again? No. But would I do it for the first time again. Yes. I will say that knowing how the test is taken, how much hype and boogieman levels of hype people put into the test was stressful, and I can see how if someone who is bad at taking tests would end up deciding to never try it just by some of the 'horror' stories I have found, and what the mind can come up with with the information that is given. If you have taken any state standardized tests in the US high school education system, you aren't going to find much different between those and the JLPT. This is from the aspect of *how* the test is given, not the test itself, and even then it wasn't all that much different. Not having that stress on the shoulders is worth it for the next time. The amount of worry I felt over the almost militaristic notions my brain had cooked up made me nervous. I promise, it literally felt like any other state standardized test. No one was roaming between the seats just jumping for the chance to scream 'YOU'RE CHEATING!!' I got the feeling that if you were caught cheating, they would let you finish and your test would simply be disqualified. Finding out only after when you would have gotten your results back with everyone else. But don't quote me on that bit, its speculation. Also, I now know without a shadow of a doubt what I am struggling with. Something that a lot of self studies can sometimes have issues gauging in themselves, myself included. And because I know some people are going to wonder, the reason why I knew I was going to fail was because a lot of things suddenly happened all at once in my personal life, and my study came almost to a screeching halt. By the time I was able to pick it back up there was too much to catch up on before the test. Nothing I could have predicted or calculated. It is what it is. So I failed. It still hurt when I got the results. Still hurts now, I still have my results right here. But instead of letting it be a nail in my study coffin, I'm choosing to use it as another to help build the bridge to fluency. Whatever I may see that as in the future.
I've been thinking...
One of the reasons I made this blog was for me to use it for an aspect of my own studies. i.e. the whole concept of 'teaching to learn.' My main issue is stage fright. Even though I have gone out of my way to keep everything surface level in regards to myself outside of studying itself. I still get that pang of 'what if I get something wrong and I laughed at.' It is the same issue a lot of people have with speaking their target languages, regardless of what level they are. The idea of messing up, of making a mistake, of being considered a fool. Even with the extra layer of others not knowing who I am beyond my studies, I still understand that it would still be directed at *me.* Does it stop me? Sometimes. I haven't exactly started doing it yet. Save for explaining how I decided to learn verbs differently from what my text book taught me.
It is my hope that with me starting these little 'lessons' that it will help me step further out of my comfort zone and help me be more comfortable in other aspects of the language, like speaking. My goals right now is to review my previous chapters, I know there are some gaps that I passed over that I cannot keep ignoring. Then I plan on writing up little 'lessons' over what I have learned, explaining it in ways that helped me understand. In a perfect world, others will see these, and even if they above the level of the lessons I post, at or even below it, people will try and poke holes so I have to continue to explain it. To further my own understanding and shed light on things that I'm just regurgitating from a text book and things I truly understand. What I expect to really happen is a vast majority of the posts will get little engagement. This is also fine, and not a woe-is-me post. I'm not a big blog, I'm not trying to be, what followers I do have I cherish and hope the best for but at the end of the day this is my island, and I do not mind if anyone comes and visits it. Animal Crossing Style! My gates are always open! And my villagers are cute! And even if a post gets some traction later on, that can be seen as review. I can use this as a way to track my progress. I can use this as a gauge of my own understandings. Maybe I'll explain something in just the right way that someone else will read it and that concept will click with them, as I have sometimes found. This is for you, my language loving friends, but mostly it is for me. And that is fine. Separately and together we can do this. I just need to shake these jitters of putting something out there. Mistakes I am not afraid of, the reaction to my mistakes are.
For your question about what people wish was different about Japanese learning materials, something that I've always disliked about most resources is how they teach 'conjugation' because it's unnecessarily complicated. It doesn't help that Japanese 'conjugation' doesn't resemble at all what you do in English, Spanish, French, German, etc. because it's not really conjugation like that. It doesn't indicate number, person, mood, or tense beyond the simple past and non-past. This video is honestly the best resource I've found for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhyrskGBKHE&list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj&index=8 , and I wish verbs were taught like this in other places too.
For me, learning verbs in the ない form first really helped, but I know that other people find different ways easier. I have an explanation why I do this on my blog. Conjugation seems to always be one of those topics where no one is satisfied and everyone wants a better way. :( Waiting for the Matrix downloading right to the brain on this one! Thank you for the video, I actually haven't watched any of Cure Dolly's stuff, but I've heard that her videos are pretty alright, if a bit dated on a literal technical level, not subject level. I'll have to poke through some of them and see if any of the information sticks. Again, thank you very much for answering my question!
I have a question for the greater Japanese language learning community.
What is something that you wish your learning materials would explain better/do better/differently? This could be anything you have found yourself going "Man I wish they did X instead of Y" or "Z would be so much easier than learning it like B." Anything at all. https://www.tumblr.com/new/ask/senchastudying Send them here or reblob this. Up to you.
Please reblob this so I can get a wider net of answers. Please and thank you. <3 Oh and happy October. 🎃
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The N5 book I'm using to review verb conjugations has this flow chart for classifying verbs in their 〜ます forms.
For example:
見る → 見ます = 2グループ (いちだん)
わかる → わかります = 1グループ (ごだん)
帰る→帰ります = 1グループ (not 2グループ, it's an exception)
How useful is being able to classify already-conjugated verbs vs. dictionary form verbs? Genki teaches the dictionary form first, so that's what I'm used to, but apparently the ない form is more helpful to differentiate between 1グループ and 2グループ verbs:
For example:
見る→見ない, not みらない (drop る)
わかる→わからない, not わかない (change る to ら)
帰る→帰らない, not かえない (change る to ら)
So 見るis the odd one out here, while わかる and 帰る are in the same group.
Another example:
落ちる→落ちない not おちらない (いちだん verb like 見ない)
買う→買わない not かない (ほだん verb like 分からない)
@senchastudying Am I looking at this correctly? 🤔
Oh man, this is another thing I dislike. And that is how it feels like every book, website, and teacher uses different terminology to describe the same things. For me, I learned them as Ichidan 一段 (ru-Verbs) and Godan 五段 (u-Verbs) and then Irregular verbs. I even went so far as to edit my own copy of Genki to force the concept.
Let's just say I won't ever be able to resell my textbooks... Not sorry. Unfortunately, the irregular verbs are just not going to follow rules, but, if English is your first language, you don't have to worry about 10,000 different words not following the "rule." I am currently sick, so forgive me if I don't explain this very clearly. I'm a staunch believer in not using romaji... except when you're first learning how to conjugate. And here is why. When I learn verbs I learn them in their ない form first. Because if a verb has the え、い、or お SOUND before the ない ending it's most likely an 一段 Ichidan verb. If a verb has the あ or う SOUND before the ない ending it's most likely an 五段 Godan verb. Of course, I say most likely because Irregular verbs exist, and mind you I said SOUND, not character, and this is where Romaji will come in handy. So for 見ない（みない) Minai : You see that there is that "i" sound before ない that is the "i" in み (mi). If you look at the rule, you can tell that Minai is an Ichidan verb, or Ru-Verb, or group one verb, or whoever you want to learn them as. So let's take one of those verbs that most people say you just have to "learn" to know. Stealing a list from Tokiniandy... These are "RU" verbs that are actually "U" verbs, or Ichidan verbs that are actually Godan verbs. But if you just learn them in their ない form from the beginning, you don't have to memorize some arbitrary exception rule for these words, they just *are* what they are, Godan verbs.
入る--はいる ---To Enter-------------- 入らない (はいらない) 走る--はしる ---To Run--------------- 走らない (はしらない) 帰る--はえる ---To Go home/Return-帰らない (かえらない) 限る--かぎる ---To Limit--------------限らない (かぎらない) 切る--きる ------To Cut---------------切らない (きらない) 喋る--しゃべる -To Speak------------喋らない (しゃべらない) 蹴る--ける ------To Kick--------------蹴らない (けらない) 滑る--すべる ---To Slide--------------滑らない (すべらない)
入らない (はいらない) haira-nai 走らない (はしらない) hashira-nai 帰らない (かえらない) kaera-nai 限らない (かぎらない) kagira-nai 切らない (きらない) kira-nai 喋らない (しゃべらない) shabera-nai 蹴らない (けらない) kera-nai 滑らない (すべらない) sobara-nai
They all have the あ sound before ない thus, Godan. I feel this is also easier for me mentally because I start at the "top" of the あ、い、う、え、お list, so if I want to go from ない to, let's say ます, remembering that the masu "Level" is the う line just means if Godahn that sound changes with the level. So, 入らない (はいらない) becomes 入ります because Godan and 見ない (みない) becomes 見ます because Ichidan. I feel this way is easier on a mental visual level, and takes away the extra "list" of words I just have to beat into my head to know that they are actually one thing in spite of looking like another thing. And any tricks like this that make something blanket easier I will happily learn vs. brute forcing information into my head. And, don't quote me on this one because I'm not Japanese nor have I ever lived in Japan or gone to a Japanese school, but I want to say I read or heard somewhere that this is how they teach Japanese students as well, but I don't have a source for that one so it could just be me misremembering something.
So yeah, this is a rough explanation of how I do things while I'm sick and brain-fogged to high hell. I hope this helps. @nyahongo
@senchastudying Thank you so much for your explanation, it's really helpful! ❤️
I feel this is also easier for me mentally because I start at the "top" of the あ、い、う、え、お list, so if I want to go from ない to, let's say ます, remembering that the masu "Level" is the う line just means if Godahn that sound changes with the level.
So, 入らない (はいらない) becomes 入ります because Godan, and 見ない (みない) becomes 見ます because Ichidan.
Just to make sure I understand this fully:
見る:
見ない→見ます (No sound change, み stays the same → 見るis ichidan)
入る:
入らない→入ります (Sound changes from ら to り→ 入る is Godan)
...Right? 🤔
@nyahongo Correct! Think about it this way, Ichidan means 1 Level and Godan means 5 Levels. If you are an Ichidan verb you only change one thing ( drop the る add your ending). Whereas Godan verbs have to go through all five levels to get where they want to go (changing that hiragana to the level that your verb ending is on.) To make it mentally more sticky for me. Ichidan Verbs are Ninjas that smash through the windows of the a,i,u,e,o building. Whereas Godan Verbs are Samurai who have to travel up and down the tower by foot because their armor is too heavy, and often have to change that armor because of that level's dress code.
It feels strange...
...knowing that Shinji Aoba's sentencing is scheduled for the day before my birthday. Been following the trails as best as I can.
The N5 book I'm using to review verb conjugations has this flow chart for classifying verbs in their 〜ます forms.
For example:
見る → 見ます = 2グループ (いちだん)
わかる → わかります = 1グループ (ごだん)
帰る→帰ります = 1グループ (not 2グループ, it's an exception)
How useful is being able to classify already-conjugated verbs vs. dictionary form verbs? Genki teaches the dictionary form first, so that's what I'm used to, but apparently the ない form is more helpful to differentiate between 1グループ and 2グループ verbs:
For example:
見る→見ない, not みらない (drop る)
わかる→わからない, not わかない (change る to ら)
帰る→帰らない, not かえない (change る to ら)
So 見るis the odd one out here, while わかる and 帰る are in the same group.
Another example:
落ちる→落ちない not おちらない (いちだん verb like 見ない)
買う→買わない not かない (ほだん verb like 分からない)
@senchastudying Am I looking at this correctly? 🤔
Oh man, this is another thing I dislike. And that is how it feels like every book, website, and teacher uses different terminology to describe the same things. For me, I learned them as Ichidan 一段 (ru-Verbs) and Godan 五段 (u-Verbs) and then Irregular verbs. I even went so far as to edit my own copy of Genki to force the concept.
Let's just say I won't ever be able to resell my textbooks... Not sorry. Unfortunately, the irregular verbs are just not going to follow rules, but, if English is your first language, you don't have to worry about 10,000 different words not following the "rule." I am currently sick, so forgive me if I don't explain this very clearly. I'm a staunch believer in not using romaji... except when you're first learning how to conjugate. And here is why. When I learn verbs I learn them in their ない form first. Because if a verb has the え、い、or お SOUND before the ない ending it's most likely an 一段 Ichidan verb. If a verb has the あ or う SOUND before the ない ending it's most likely an 五段 Godan verb. Of course, I say most likely because Irregular verbs exist, and mind you I said SOUND, not character, and this is where Romaji will come in handy. So for 見ない（みない) Minai : You see that there is that "i" sound before ない that is the "i" in み (mi). If you look at the rule, you can tell that Minai is an Ichidan verb, or Ru-Verb, or group one verb, or whoever you want to learn them as. So let's take one of those verbs that most people say you just have to "learn" to know. Stealing a list from Tokiniandy... These are "RU" verbs that are actually "U" verbs, or Ichidan verbs that are actually Godan verbs. But if you just learn them in their ない form from the beginning, you don't have to memorize some arbitrary exception rule for these words, they just *are* what they are, Godan verbs.
入る--はいる ---To Enter-------------- 入らない (はいらない) 走る--はしる ---To Run--------------- 走らない (はしらない) 帰る--はえる ---To Go home/Return-帰らない (かえらない) 限る--かぎる ---To Limit--------------限らない (かぎらない) 切る--きる ------To Cut---------------切らない (きらない) 喋る--しゃべる -To Speak------------喋らない (しゃべらない) 蹴る--ける ------To Kick--------------蹴らない (けらない) 滑る--すべる ---To Slide--------------滑らない (すべらない)
入らない (はいらない) haira-nai 走らない (はしらない) hashira-nai 帰らない (かえらない) kaera-nai 限らない (かぎらない) kagira-nai 切らない (きらない) kira-nai 喋らない (しゃべらない) shabera-nai 蹴らない (けらない) kera-nai 滑らない (すべらない) sobara-nai
They all have the あ sound before ない thus, Godan. I feel this is also easier for me mentally because I start at the "top" of the あ、い、う、え、お list, so if I want to go from ない to, let's say ます, remembering that the masu "Level" is the う line just means if Godahn that sound changes with the level. So, 入らない (はいらない) becomes 入ります because Godan and 見ない (みない) becomes 見ます because Ichidan. I feel this way is easier on a mental visual level, and takes away the extra "list" of words I just have to beat into my head to know that they are actually one thing in spite of looking like another thing. And any tricks like this that make something blanket easier I will happily learn vs. brute forcing information into my head. And, don't quote me on this one because I'm not Japanese nor have I ever lived in Japan or gone to a Japanese school, but I want to say I read or heard somewhere that this is how they teach Japanese students as well, but I don't have a source for that one so it could just be me misremembering something.
So yeah, this is a rough explanation of how I do things while I'm sick and brain-fogged to high hell. I hope this helps. @nyahongo
Studies.
They are not starting when I wanted. I am sick. That in of itself is following the holidays and the stresses they bring. But do not worry. I have not forgotten my goals, and my promise to put to words my thoughts on the test in December 2023. I have not forgotten you. Never have I forgotten you. 新年おめでとう
I got a new tea cup yesterday.
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おはようございます。
My test starts in less than 30 minutes. I will have a post about the experience either later today or later this week. I have some things I already wish to speak about but I want this experience before I fully put my thoughts into word. Until than, for all those taking the test today and tomorrow, regardless if it'd N5 or N1 and any N in-between, good luck. Just do your best, pass or fail, it will be a good experience and you will learn what it is you need to work on next.
Do *your* best. That is all you can ask of yourself.
Test Day.
頑張ってね。
私の猫は休憩の時間だと言っています。
His name is Jack. 1 of 3.
27日11月２０２３年
Today we will set up the Study Journal.
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今日は歯医者の予約がありました。
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