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Learned the word 三日坊主（みっかぼうず）today, which basically means someone who starts something but quits quickly, eg they say they're gonna write a novel, get the first two pages written in a day, spend the next day staring at their Scrivener document, and then never touch it again. 坊主 = Buddhist priest, 三日 = 3 days. "3-day priest." Pretty sure we've all been there are some point in our lives 😅
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Came across the kanji 晶 in my game and I love it so here are some words with it:
晶晶（しょうしょう）glittering, shining
液晶（えきしょう）liquid crystal
氷晶（ひょうしょう）ice crystals
黒水晶（くろすいしょう）black quartz
晶析（しょうせき）crystallization
Sometimes I just really love studying Japanese. I love how it sounds, I love how expressive it is, I love how kanji tells stories. Sometimes trying to learn this language feels like battling my way through a mosquito-infested bog with ominous signs written in blood telling me to turn back nailed to every other tree but sometimes it feels like bouncing around a candy-filled forest on pastel-coloured trampoline mushrooms while fairies applaud my progress and cheer me on with every step and sometimes I get to sit and look back on how far I've come and be like, hell yeah, this is a nice view.
It's not easy, it's never easy, but it's always worth it!
The most important thing I have learned from Kino no Tabi is the phrase "撫でていいですか？" (Nadete ii desu ka?) Which means "may I pet (your dog/cat etc)?"
Space Vocabulary in Japanese
Yesterday in class we were talking about space and the universe and I ended up learning a few planet names in Japanese. Today, I started reading an article about space travel while watching a documentary about space in Japanese. So, here's a vocab list!
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宇宙（うちゅう）universe, cosmos, space
宇宙人（うちゅうじん）space alien, alien, extraterrestrial being
宇宙飛行士（うちゅうひこうし）astronaut
宇宙船（うちゅうせん）spaceship
国際宇宙ステーション（こくさいうちゅうすてーしょん）International Space Station
太陽系（たいようけい）solar system
太陽（たいよう）the sun
月（つき）the moon
地球（ちきゅう）the Earth, the globe
水星（すいせい）Mercury
金星（きんせい）Venus
火星（かせい）Mars
木星（もくせい）Jupiter
土星（どせい）Saturn
天王星（てんのうせい）Uranus
海王星（かいおうせい）Neptune
冥王星（めいおうせい）Pluto
星（ほし）celestial body, star, planet
衛星（えいせい）satellite
恒星（こうせい）star
惑星（わくせい）planet
軌道（きどう）orbit
軌道上（きどうじょう）in orbit
星座（せいざ）constellation (note: 〜座 is used as a suffix to denote a constellation eg 白鳥座 = Cygnus constellation)
流れ星（ながれぼし）shooting star
流星（りゅうせい）meteor
流星群（りゅうせいぐん）meteor shower
ブラックホール black hole
銀河（ぎんが）galaxy
天の川（あまのがわ）the Milky Way (specifically the luminous band corresponding to the plane of the galaxy)
星雲（せいうん）nebula
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Oh shit
I ACTUALLY FUCKING PASSED
One of my Japanese colleagues told me that she's so bad at reading katakana that one time she was in a zoom meeting with her colleagues and one of them had their name in katakana and she just kept calling them "sensei" because she wasn't sure how to read their name 😂
So anyway I forgive myself for the time I went to the cup noodle museum and spent way too long trying to figure out what "cup taadoru" might be because I mixed up タ and ヌ
Now that I'm making more of an effort to read proper NHK News rather than NHK Easy News I feel like I need to memorise the word 衆院（しゅういん）which is the House of Representatives. It's probably because of the upcoming election but I'm seeing it a fair amount.
