Japanese Study Group Discord

hi guys ^-^ if you’re wondering about the discord I made a little while back, it’s still up and running! all that’s left is finding some more japanese learning fanatics to join.

of course it will be a constant work in progress, but the dream is that maybe someday it will be filled with a variety of people with the same common goal, all trying to help each other out in the process of helping themselves.

Join the 勉強会 Discord Server!

We are currently accepting staff applications and are offering special roles to certain active or more advanced learners. We hope you consider joining! Having a sense of community is so important when it comes to taking on huge goals such as learning Japanese.

I’m also working on getting native speakers to join, so although for now it will be mostly english speakers, hopefully we can change that soon! I look forward to you seeing the server grow into a flourishing community of positivity, motivation, and belief in one another!

Genki I Vocabulary

postcardはがき

small小さい

disgusted with; to dislike きらい

beautiful; clean きれい

quietしずか

fond of; to like すき

to hate 大きらい

very fond of; to love 大すき

livelyにぎやか

not busy; to have a lot of free time ひま

to swim 泳ぐ(およぐ)

kind (person); easy (problem) やさしい

inexpensive; cheap 安い(やすい)

the day before yesterday おととい

This one is really な-adjective heavy! That wasn’t on purpose Cx The blue ones are the ones I had a harder time memorizing. It’s been a while since I created this list, so I actually already know all of these now! Yay

11日目単語リスト

Here’s a list out of the first chapter of a book I’m reading:

違う(ちがう) different

少ない(すくない) not many

不思議に思う(ふしぎにおもう) to wonder

もうすぐ just around the corner, soon

目の前 in front

一緒に(いっしょに) together

眺める(ながめる) to look, to stare

前に before

一生懸命(いっしょうけんめい) to try very hard

降りる(おりる) to get off (ie. train)

急いで(いそいで) hurriedly

声(こえ) voice

がっかりする to be disappointed

着く(つく) to arrive

字幕(じまく) subtitles

耳が不自由(みみがふじゆう) deaf

Ahhhhhh so many words but I already feel familiar with a lot of them so it’s okay. I’m gonna do a mass vocab review tonight! Then write down my journal corrections and watch grammar videos :) ^-^

10日目の単語

Hi guys! I am really going all over the place with this vocabulary, but I decided that I want to start learning the vocabulary for the podcast “Let’s Learn Japanese from Small Talk!” so I can listen more easily :) I will be making my vocabulary lists based off of textbook words, JLPT words, conjunctions, and the wordlists from the podcast!

addiction中毒(ちゅうどく)

self-introduction自己紹介(じこしょうかい)

program演目(えんもく)

last month 先月(せんげつ)

so, thereforeだから・なので

by the way ところで

for example 例えば(たとえば)

because何故なら(なぜなら)

butけど・けれども

disgusted with; to dislike 嫌い(きらい)

quiet静か(しずか)

very fond of; to love 大好き(だいすき)

livelyにぎやか

To really solidify my learning, I’m gonna take the words from these lists and make them into a big flashcard set with the Shirabe Jisho dictionary app! I’ll study it today too of course :)

I’m frustrated because I’m not learning my textbook words fast enough but we r trying… I’m gonna take a break to work on my new server :3

7日目の単語 (なのかめのたんご) Day 7 Vocabulary

十一月十六日月曜日 (じゅういちがつ　じゅうろくにち　げつようび) Just saying the date!

—The challenge where I force myself to memorize an entire vocabulary list a day—

So we just started a new chapter and I don’t have the vocabulary memorized, so I’ll have to halt the video once again and get these textbook words out of the way. But like I said, I have to learn them all anyway, so I’m not too concerned!

postal stamps 切手(きって)

birthday誕生日(たんじょうび)

ticketきっぷ

airplane飛行機(ひこうき)

holiday; day off; absence 休み(やすみ)

travel旅行(りょこう)

large大きい(おおきい)

interesting; funny 面白い(おもしろい)

good-lookingかっこいい

cold weather 寒い(さむい)

fun楽しい(たのしい)

boringつまらない

old item (inanimate) 古い(ふるい)

difficult難しい(むずかしい)

kind (person); easy (problem) やさしい

inexpensive; cheap (item) 安い(やすい)

I have a lot for this list because I learned some of these a while back and I’m only relearning them, which should be a lot faster and easier than seeing them for the first time. I also rly need to get these out of the way so I can go back to finishing the JLPT N5 Vocab video, soo yah lol

単語(たんご)(Vocabulary) 6日目(むいかめ)(Day 6) •Days of the Month •

I’ll be focusing on the special ones that are bolded in pink!

1日・ついたち

2日・ふつか

3日・みっか

4日・よっか

5日・いつか

6日・むいか

7日・なのか

8日・ようか

9日・ここのか

10日・とおか

11日・じゅういちにち

12日・じゅうににち

13日・じゅうさんにち

14日・じゅうよっか

15日・じゅうごにち

16日・じゅうろくにち

17日・じゅうしちにち

18日・じゅうはちにち

19日・じゅうくにち

20日・はつか

21日・にじゅういちにち

22日・にじゅうににち

23日・にじゅうさんにち

24日・にじゅうよっか

25日・にじゅうごにち

26日・にじゅうろくにち

27日・にじゅうしちにち

28日・にじゅうはちにち

29日・にじゅうくにち

30日・さんじゅうにち

31日・さんじゅういちにち

11-14-20 Update

I’ve been grinding rly hard for this past week.

- watching my missed lectures + taking notes

- re-memorizing rusty kana

- studying rusty vocabulary

- learning 5+ new words a day

- I started a notebook that is entirely dedicated to my Japanese studies

- created a study schedule (which seems like it will be a game changer for me, but we’ll see! I’ll share my current schedule and let you guys know how it works out.)

Breakthroughs

- I finally formed a sentence that actually expressed what I wanted to say!! (It went something like… 私は日本語の本があります。。。今日はこれを読みます。I then read like one paragraph out loud to the camera and posted it to my snapchat! lol)

- developed a new notebook system for studying vocabulary that seems to work really well

FuturePlans

- I have soooo many posts coming your way (vocab, grammar, study methods, shoutouts) so stay tuned

- I plan to take my giant wall of sticky note vocabulary down and redo it with new words soon!

- I may or may not be starting a blog (rebelpicnic.com) even though I have no idea what it’s about, I know for a fact that I will be posting about my Japanese learning journey there as well! It’s not open yet but beware it will probably be about a lot of things before I can make up my mind Cx

Goals and Aspirations

- maybe someday I can write diary entrees in Japanese. I would love it if I could find a native speaker to critique them!

- I can’t wait to confuse my friends and family :,3

- the glorious fluency will feel so good rolling off of my tongue (cringe explanation) :,,,333

- understanding Japanese media? um? yes?

- flexing on ppl constantly?

Current Weekly Schedule

I’m currently doing a vocabulary challenge, so vocab is 毎日！(まいにち)(Every day!)

月曜日(げつようび) Monday

Vocabulary and reading

火曜日(かようび) Tuesday

Vocabulary and writing

水曜日(すいようび) Wednesday

Vocabulary — learn less words + catch up on rusty material

木曜日(もくようび) Thursday

Vocabulary and listening

金曜日(きんようび) Friday

Vocabulary

土曜日(どようび) Saturday

Vocabulary and grammar

日曜日(にちようび) Sunday

Vocabulary

A side note that I do take a class for Japanese so I have homework too. This is just what I will be doing on top of my classwork. I may even do more, but I consider this schedule the bare minimum/requirement. It basically helps to guarantee that I’m studying everything with some level of proportion!

a message to u

langblrs hmu and I’ll check out ur page! I’ve been really busy lately but I usually go thru all the pages of my new followers in one sitting cus I can manage my time better that way >< and let me know what you would like to see more of on here :,) love uuuu!

Daily Vocab Day 3

11/12/20

Just to clarify, this challenge is basically me forcing myself to memorize at least 5-10 words (depending on difficulty) a day until I know all 800 words of JLPT N5. I will be posting the words I must memorize every day! I might end up skipping a day here and there but the goal is to know all 800 in 3 months (._.)

that…~ あの

to take (a shower) あびる

dangerous あぶない

not much… あまり

to wash あらう

to walk 歩く・あるく

to say, to tell 言う・いう

how many, how old いくつ

pond いけ

word count: 45/800

another clarification: I know way more than 45 words, but I am using a complete JLPT N5 vocabulary youtube video and i’m just going through them chronologically. I skip over the ones I already know and count it as a word learned! I will probably end up learning about 500 words from the video but there are 800 in total.

If you would like to see all my JLPT N5 vocab lists up to date, just search up “peisuri vocab”

Daily Vocab Day 2

11/11/20

- head あたま

- over there (from from both the speaker and listener) あちら

- new 新しい・あたらしい

- hot; thick あつい

- afterwards あと(で)・後(で)

- (my) older brother 兄・あに

- (my) older sister 姉・あね

Tbh I’m still trying to memorize yesterday’s vocab lol we’ll see how easily I fail this C,x