日本語を勉強しているうさぎ

when pulling vocab from books to add to my practice deck, I usually stick to very common words, but that's my only filter beyond 'do I think this addresses a meaningful gap in my vocabulary'. So I'm sure the first time I speak to a native I'm gonna say some completely tonally inconsistent shit like "The cars' beep-beeps are inordinately bothersome."

凸凹 this can't be a real word. this is Tetris

専用機 technically just means 'machine for personal use', but in practice it seems like people mostly use that combination of words to mean 'private airplane', which is the only definition my dictionaries gave. anyway this book has the viewpoint character complaining about the love interest spamming her phone so much that このままだと専用機になってしまいそうだ。 and I spent several minutes trying to figure out the logic of 'if she keeps spamming me my phone is gonna turn into a private jet'

reading books while plucking vocab out of them for future study is a really good way to become hyper-aware of which 2-3 words each author is inclined to reuse over and over.

i've never actually seen Kanazawa's name in writing that I can remember, so looking around businesses there I kept going 'why do so many have golden swamp in their names?' before I realized

last night while reading in bed I encountered 縮小化 and correctly guessed from the kanji that it had to mean 'miniaturization' in context, and I'm still riding that high.

just saw 私 as part of another word for a first time and spent a good 30 seconds trying to twist the grammar to make a わたし make sense there. (私服)

壳 売 having these be two separate characters is just cruel.

i just learned of the historic pronoun 拙者 and I'm pretty amused. I walk up to a group of strangers and start referring to myself solely as 'the fuckup'

i'm glad that at this point my listening comprehension is good enough to mostly follow Nihongo Con Teppei, because he's pretty fucking funny sometimes, and having some entertainment value kinda helps with something that I'm trying to listen to for 30-60 minutes per day.

金額 of course means 'golden picture frame', which is the customary unit of currency for paying bills.