日本語を勉強しているうさぎ

i just learned that むしあつい isn't written 虫暑い. I'm a little disappointed, because that does describe summer pretty well. I can't deny that 蒸し might be more applicable to Japanese summers though

another thing learning vocabulary makes you very aware of is how many different words languages have for 'money that you pay for a thing.' Cost, price, payment, fee, toll, commission, charge, fare, surcharge, fine, expense, brokerage…

寿司 on the other hand I will never remember because every time I see it I immediately respond with 'what the fuck is a longevity director??'

once I finish this current book (soon-ish) and go back to finish watanare, I really wanna try reading something that doesn't feature school-aged teenagers, because my vocab is really getting overloaded with school words. 放課後, 部活, 登校, 塾, 担任, 幼稚園...

some day I wanna figure out what in the hell my brain's criteria for memorability are. 崩壊, a pretty common, broadly-applicable word that uses really obvious kanji for its meaning and uses pretty common pronunciations of them? I've failed to remember it probably 8 times at this point. 放課後, a word with no relevance to me that I could easily go my entire life without saying? I fully memorized it after seeing it one time

as somebody who already struggles to work out when it's my turn to talk and when I need to shut up and let somebody else speak in English, I feel like the first time I encounter aizuchi I'm gonna be vibrating with frustration within about 30 seconds

じゃない is the most treacherous sentence ending in speech, because about 70% of the time there's an implied か, but that other 30% of the time? watch out.

徐々に is a common phrase meaning 'within Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'

i feel like about 50% of the new words I encounter are variations on 'very', 'generally', 'course/route/way/path', 'inferior/poorly-made', 'precisely', or 'suddenly'