Nowling JCCC Nihongo

 I’m in pain after standing for an hour & a half to prep dinner.  I just finally sat down & took a pain killer with a sip of most excellent ume-shu (薬を飲んだ) & I think it must be the quality of this 梅酒, not like the usual one, but I then had a sudden realization that it was the same ending in ume-shu as it is in nihonshu…  And felt like a genius and stupid for it taking so long to realise, both at the same time… Random cat tax…

 Yesterday, I once again changed my phone into Japanese language mode (having just watched a couple of episodes of pretty princess precure with some friends, my brain just autocompleted/echoed “modo eleganto!” there… 🤦).  I wanted to switch back to google maps in Japanese and the only way to do that on iPhone is to switch the whole OS to Japanese… I may have answered a question in that process differently than last time because everything is in Japanese now, including all the save menus etc. I don’t recall that from last time lol. Or wwww. And I have been navigating things from memory of menus and picking up meaning from context (or a few places where I actually know the word AND the kanji (that pairing is suddenly really important lol), like 写真), but that doesn’t help with vocabulary gaining, so I’ve actually been starting to screenshot thing’s and bounce them over to Google translate so that I can grab the Kanji and drop them into shirabe jisho and actually learn them…....

 … you pause the amv and start reading the letter she wrote to her mother in Totoro BECAUSE YOU CAN!!! “Mother, are you in good spirits?  Today, I have really amazing news!  Mei (& then it’s partly covered up, but something about Mei and Totoro and really big … ) Which tells me that she had told her mother about Totoro and presumably all the amazing stuff going on with Totoro and all the spirits 🤩

… with the Siamese    Me to the new cat: どこいるの? Cat: silence Me: dammit, time to teach the new cat Japanese... I suppose they could just have been ignoring me because we had barely met and I was being too informal…? 新しい名前は、星です。黒い毛の中にたくさん白い髪があります。

 ぺこぺこねこ... サイズがよかったら、すわる！

 Not sure if it’s Japanese culture or if my phone just thinks I screw up a lot… but look at the autocomplete suggestions… 😓

Me, on Friday, heating half of my leftovers for lunch:  And if I’m really efficient, I can have the other half for lunch before I go to the radio station on … Me: (pauses, because I was going to say “on Saturday”, but my brain wants to say tomorrow instead for some reason*) Me: (realizing that I can’t say “on tomorrow” because it doesn’t work in English) Me: (thinking it’s the same in Japanese because you can’t use にwith fuzzy time…) Oh!!! It’s the same, it’s the same!!!!! 

 I was playing a game on my tablet and I found that I already had the last of the five items I needed to level up… and when I saw it and as I dragged it across to merge it, my brain was going “あー、かんぺき！” And I thought “really brain?  That means perfect?  You’re just making things up now!” So I went and checked it in the dictionary and I owe my brain an apology 😳 I had a similar thing happen the other day with a crossword clue - I had just binged about 6 episodes of anime before deciding to do the crossword puzzle and the clue was “sufficient, nice, fine, pretty, quite” and my brain instantly said “けっこう” which I thought was highly implausible as I would have sworn we had never had it as a vocabulary word - despite all those hiragana (& more) being available in the answer candidate pool for the app.  But I entered it in anyway, and it was right…then realized that I had heard the word multiple times in the anime episodes that I had just binged and my brain must have...

私:大好きだよ！ 猫: 大好きだたら、朝ご飯を待たせられないん！ にゃんちゃんは、ちょっと…