Finished getting my Bunpro review queue from nearly 900 items down to zero :neofox_happy:
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The correspondence of JLPT results to CEFR levels has been decided, and I guess it's somewhat accurate, but also somewhat strange :neofox_think:
I wonder if they're considering shifting the levels to match CEFR and adding a C2 level. (And, while they're at it, they should also add writing and speaking sections, at least for the highest levels)

(Source: https://www.jlpt.jp/sp/e/about/cefr_reference.html )
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Japanese restaurant chain installs tip boxes in response to foreign tourists leaving tips; sparks debate - Japan Today

https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/japanese-restaurant-chain-installs-tip-boxes-in-response-to-foreign-tourists-leaving-tips-sparks-debate

> Tipping isn’t a thing at Japanese restaurants. While some foreign-language cultural guidebooks frame the situation as tipping being rude or offensive to the sensibilities of Japanese restauranteurs

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Krispy Kreme Japan has Pac-Man donuts to celebrate video game star’s 45th birthday - Japan Today

https://japantoday.com/category/features/food/krispy-kreme-japan-has-pac-man-donuts-to-celebrate-video-game-star%E2%80%99s-45th-birthday

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TIL that 探す and 捜す both read さがす and both mean "to search", but 探すmeans searching for something you want, and 捜す means searching for something you lost. 🤯
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I'm at that point in learning Hiragana where I can sound out most of the characters on my own now, but I'm very slow at it and often need to check to be sure, and I still don't know what most of the words mean yet :neofox_glasses:

Reminds me of that time in way-back-when when I was first learning English and having to sound out "big" words, still not knowing what they mean or if I pronounced them correctly, lol

Also my roommate has gotten tired of me pausing our anime to excitedly sound out any Hiragana I see on screen, even tho I still don't understand most of it yet :neofox_laugh_sweat:

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Oh no wait, further update to the #Heisig #Kanji mental maps: I figured out how to visualize the 犬 character as a chihuahua... just make it Gidget, the Taco Bell dog, who wore a Taco-Marxist beret in those 90s commercials.

If you are not of the age or nationality to remember these, just imagine a Chihuahua in a beret saying "yo quiero taco bell" or "viva gorditas" in an incongruously deep voice. Do not ask yourself what a gordita even is, it does not matter, like life.

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Attention Everyone using the #Heisig system to memorize #Kanji, the hieroglyphics of the mysterious east:

While Dr. Heisig has taught that the character 大 ("large") should be visualized as a Saint Bernard and the character 犬 ("dog") should be visualized as a chihuahua, since I can never remember that, I propose the following associations instead:

大 is now a giant, fluffy golden retriever.
犬 is now a little corgi wearing a beret (the drop)

please adjust your mental maps.
#learningJapanese

I'm trying to make myself look up words in a monolingual dictionary (for elementary school students) first, but it often ends up like this:

とうもろこし n
A plant in the Ine family. In the ??? there are fruits with yellow or other seeds arranged ???. The fruits are a foodstuff. Also known as ???.
Kanji: ball/gem-???-???

:neofox_confused:
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Maybe one day I'll remember which one of 叫ぶ and 呼ぶ is よぶ and which one is さけぶ :neofox_pensive:

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I learnt the term 親展 (confidential, as in "confidential document") on WaniKani the other day, and today was the first time I could use it in an email to a colleague in our Tokyo office. 😅

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I never thought the kanji numerals could be confusing, until I saw the 10s and 1s columns. Or are those plus and minus columns? :neofox_think_googly:
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I wrote another new blog entry! Introducing what is going to become a new topic (additionally, not exclusively) on my blog:

https://mdohr.bearblog.dev/about-japan-and-studying-japanese/

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And don’t get me started on chucking in speaking exercises and expecting you to be at a Section 4 level when you’ve never even said “konnichiwa” before… 😣

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I really wish this course would teach you more on how to structure a sentence. 😒

These exercises are frequently enraging. 🤐

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I received notice that the JLPT scores are coming out on this Friday (Thursday for those who took the exam on the west coast). Nevertheless, I will keep trying, double down with immersion, and start studying for the exam probably a few months earlier.

But listening is probably going to need more work than anything else.

#learningjapanese

「ルビンの壺が割れた」を読み始めた :neofox_book_owo:

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