Month: April 2024

At the time of me writing this blog, I have just completed the first half of section one unit two of my Japanese Duolingo course and learned a little more of Hiragana script. I have also memorized more words and grammar structure for speaking about yourself and other people. I am learning more about manners and to be respectful when speaking with people. Like usual, I am still struggling with the rest of Hiragana script and both writing them down and telling the difference between the different characters. A adjustment to help me memorize the characters is to compare them to other things like how “shi” looks like a J. Before I continue my course, I am supposed to learn more of the Hiragana characters before proceeding. When I comeback, I am going to study more of the Hiragana characters and continue my unit. I hope that I can finish that unit his week. Anyways, farewell!

In my journey of learning Japanese, I have moved onto my second section in my unit! So now I am learning to introduce myself to others and say things like, “I’m Chris, nice to meet you.”, or, “Hello, good evening”. I have also just gotten better at remembering the simpler words like water and rice. When it comes to my struggles, I still have not been doing well at writing or remembering the individual characters. It is still just so difficult to remember each detail as a lot of them look very similar with only subtle differences. To help with this, I am just going to be doing more practice with learning the individual characters than usual so I can become more familiar with them. I will also be doing some of the extra practice that you can do in the course to further improve my skills. When I come back to learning, I will be reinforcing my memory of various words to introduce myself. Anyways, bye bye!

My favorite room in my house is my bedroom. When h you walk into the room, there is my bed in the front left corner and a window as tall as me above it. Right to your left when you enter the room, there is my desk with my computer, and past that is my dresser. Also to the right is my closet with all of my coats and random knick knacks. The first reason I like it is that it is quite cold. When I open the window, even in the summer, it lets the room get nice and chilly, which I like. Secondly, the bed is really comfy! I have a bed that is really cozy and is super comfortable with the right sheets. The bed is also just a nice place to chill on when I am reading. The third reason is really one of the things that matters a lot. The third reason is that this is where my computer is. Because I live a fair distance from my friends, I spend a lot of time on call and playing online with them. We play various well known games such as Roblox or Minecraft, but sometimes I play other things with them as well. It’s nice that I can just play with my friends like this.

I have made a decent amount of progress on learning Japanese and hope to learn a lot more this week. Firstly, I have started to learn a few more of the individual characters and can recognize them. I know a few more words and can say simple things like, “he’s nice” or, “she’s cool”. Also I can count to one! The only thing is that i still struggle with writing the Hiragana characters exactly. This hopefully wont be a problem when I move on to Katakana which has much simpler characters to write. Paying complete attention and practicing at home has helped me tremendously and i feel I can learn a fair bit before the presentation day. I could still practice more though and pay more attention which i am working on. I also find it helpful to say the words out loud while I put them in. When I return to practice after this, I well do some more practice on describing people and ordering food before I learn to introduce myself and practice ordering other foods. Anyways, I have to return to practice. Bye bye!

I was just thinking about what games I am going to play when I get home, probably with my friends. I mean, recently I started playing a Minecraft mod pack called Into The Betweenlands that has the base mod as well as some quality of life mods. Right now me and my friend are in the dreaded Sludgeon, a towering building that lays in the Sludge Fields with a dungeon below that goes deep into the ground. With worms coming out from the walls and many traps in the halls, it is a dangerous place to explore. We know that there is a boss battle at the bottom of the dungeon, but we are not prepared enough for that battle and we will return home once we get to that floor as we are already struggling to get through to that area. To prepare, we will go deep into the earth to mine out the strange ores that are in that dimension. Most likely valonite, a strong gemstone that can create many tools to aid us in conquering the monsters and bosses that dwell in the swamp like dimension. One of these tools would be a humble sickle so we can collect ingredients for various concoctions. One thing we will most likely make is repellent to keep our home clear of unwanted guests. Everything else I do not know as we still need to get to the bottom of the Sludgeon. Anyways, bye!

For my 20% project, I am trying to learn as much Japanese as I can. Right now, my accomplishments are the fact that I have a few words memorized in Hiragana, and I learn that verbs go before the noun. My struggles right now are memorizing the characters of Hiragana themself, as some are very similar to others in appearance. It’s is also just difficult to memorize the more complex design of the characters when it comes to writing them. An adjustment I made that actually really helps a lot is saying the phrases out loud while translating them. This helps me remember the specific words that I am learning in this unit. This also helps with the different character that i was struggling with earlier. When I go back to learning Japanese after writing this blog, I will move on to learning to introduce myself, along with ordering food.

If I could invite three people to dinner, these people would be Nico V., Albert Einstein, and Mozart. I would invite Nico as he is one of my best friends and I feel like I could tell him anything. I would invite Albert Einstein so we could talk about science, and maybe he could teach me some simpler things I still do not know. And finally, I would invite Mozart so he could maybe use the keyboard I have to play some nice music. Also, we would be eating at my house. We would be eating sushi and ramen for the main food, as well as mochi ice cream for dessert.