Nowling JCCC Nihongo

 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…

ホムステイファミリの娘は作る贈り物 今日は、荷物出来た、全部で学生とバンドル先生アメリカに帰りました。中田先生はご家族に行きました。私だけ東京にいました。悲しかったが六本木で花とゆめざしの美術展に行きました。ざしは、五十歳です。たくさん美しいマンガの絵を見ました。 旅行の好きなことは、難しく選びます！ ホムステイや、たくさん神社とお寺に行くのや、茶道や、カラオケや、会社訪問が好きでした。日本の文化が見えました。 留学生旅行のでホムステイと会社訪問が出来ました。人々の日々の生活がけいけん出来ました。 会社訪問は面白買ったが、ホムステイは一番好きです。

今日は、チームラボ会社訪問でした。美術館の理由は、会社員が説明をしてくれたんです。面白かったんです。 そして、渋谷に行きました。 午後から、渋谷でたくさん買っていました。mos burgersでなつみえびかつを食べました。疲れたのでホテルに戻りました。 二日間後で、私は、一人で、明治新宮に行きました。6月なので、菖蒲庭が行けました。皇后の釣り堀も見ました。百合と鶴が見えました。とてもきれいでした。神社は、みつの楠があります。美し買ったんですが、二つは、一緒に、結婚でした。全部できれいで静かで美し買ったんです。行った私、本当に嬉しくなりましたんです。 ーーー There’s a poem that says something like “I think that I have never seen a poem half as lovely as a tree”, and the gardens and the plants and the many, many, trees at the Meiji Shrine are far more beautiful than the Team Labs art exhibits could ever be. Even the orchid room that had real plants in it, didn’t have the impact of the beautifully crafted and planned old gardens at the Meiji Shrine. It was too technical, the flowers themselves were beautiful, but the way that they were arrayed made it soulless, and made the wonder about the arrangement, plus they made a maze out of it, to disorient you, and that takes the focus off the plants, not immersing yourself in them, the exact opposite of what they say t...