見つける｜みつける｜To Find

A friend of mine uses this as her motivation tool - a giant poster of kanji that she highlights as she learns. I am considering doing this, too. I can just feel how excellent it would be to mark of things that I’ve learned.

She’s using the heisig method, which I know is not without controversy. For those of you studying kanji, in which order do you learn them and how did you choose?

Spanish Expression of the Day #52

El que no llora no mama

If you don’t ask you don’t get

Lit.: Whoever doesn’t cry, doesn’t breastfeed (or get breastfed)

e.g.: “Quería sentarme al lado de mi amiga en clase pero no pude porque no se lo pedí al profesor.” “Claro, el que no llora, no mama.” – “I wanted to sit beside my friend in class but I couldn’t because i didn’t ask the teacher.” “Of course, if you don’t ask you don’t get.”

pic taken from my studygram

I’ve started revising all the kanji I’ve learnt during my first year of university. I’d rather literally do anything BUT kanji practice any day, everyday…. But I’m trying. For those interested, I’m using the basic kanji book! And the only method that ever worked for me is rewrite the kanji and the words where they are used like crazy, over and over again. 

Ps: Miraculous Ladybug is a super great show!!

Okachimachi, Tokyo.

Reading in your target language just got so much easier

This cool little website, called readlang, allows you to upload your book, in your target language, from epub form into their website, right? And you just read your book from there. When you don’t know a word, what do you do? Do you go to google dot com and type in that word? Nope. You fucking click it. And it tells you the word. 

I am currently reading the 100 (this is the book that the tv show came from) and I can already tell reading this way is so much easier. I highly suggest making an account. It’s free, and works for more than 80 languages!

“cute” in German

The basic translations for “cute” are either: niedlich or süß (the second one also meaning sweet like in taste) and here are some phrases and other words you might encounter or want to know! :) Some synonyms: drollig - cute and funny, derpy (like when a cat does weird but cute stuff) flauschig - soft and fluffy (in a cozy way like for a blanket or any animal you wanna touch) fluffig - fluffy (like an angora rabbit or a cake) klitzeklein - really small, very tiny knuddelig - cuddly knuffig - small and cute, cute so you want to hug it because it’s helpless and harmless lieb - lovely, kind, well behaved herzallerliebst - really very lovely and kind and cute (lit. heart-all-lovely) putzig - cute (can include animals wearing cute things), “not pretty but still or therefor cute”-cute, smol and cute weich - soft winzig - tiny zum Knutschen - cute so you wanna kiss it (knutschen=küssen - to kiss) Wie niedlich!/Wie süß! - How cute! Wie niiiieeedlich!/Wie süüüß!etc. - How cuuute! (you know, more vowels = more cuteness) (niedlich) aussehen (sieht aus, hat ausgesehen) - to look (cute) der Piepmatz - small and cute (song-)bird die Schnute - (belittlement of die Schnauze - snout) small and cute mouth (like of a cat) Diminutive (belittlement): Add -chen (sometimes -lein) to almost any noun. All nouns ending in -chen are neuter. Pay attention to vowel changes that usually occurs: a -> ä die Katze -> das Kätzchen (cat -> kitty or kitten) a final -e often disappears o -> ö der Vogel -> das Vögelchen (bird -> birdy) u -> ü der Hund -> das Hündchen (dog -> puppy-dog) u -> ü das Buch -> das Büchlein (book -> small book) au -> äu die Maus -> das Mäuschen (mouse -> cute tiny mouse) e, i, ei and eu don’t change. For example: e -> e die Ente -> das Entchen (duck -> duckling) e -> e das Ferkel -> das Ferkelchen (piglet -> smaller piglet) i -> i der Fisch -> das Fischchen (fish -> small fish) ei -> ei das Schwein -> das Schweinchen (pig -> small pig or piglet) There are also rather childish suffixes like: -leinchen, -i, -ilein, -ileini, -ileinchen, which are almost only used in speech. And regional suffixes like: -le. For example: Hundi (my aunt had a dog named like that… :D ) Hundileini (this is what a 5yo might refer to when they talk about their really cute and lovely dog) unser Katerle (our dear and lovely male cat) I probably forgot some stuff (like always) but those are some basics. And of course it’s not very easy to describe the exact difference between all those “cute"s. I’ll make a list of belittled/cute verbs later.

Dark German Vocab

Vergangenheit (f) - past  Gegenwart (f) - present Zukunft (f) - future 

Zeit (f) - time Zeitreise (f) - time travel Wurmloch (n) - wormhole schwarzes Loch (n) - black hole Maschine (f) - machine Zeitmaschine (f) - time machine

Kind(-er) (n) - child(-ren)  Elternteil (m) - parent Fremder (m) - stranger Polizei (f) - police

Selbstmord (m) - suicide Brief (m) - letter Höhle (f) - cave Wald (m) - forest Atomkraftwerk (n) - nuclear power plant

vermisst [inf. vermissen] - missing [inf. to miss]  verschwinden - to disappear

zweitausendneunzehn - 2019 neunzehnhundertsechsundachtzig - 1986 neunzehnhundertdreiundfünfzig - 1953

Let me know if there are any mistakes!

random word of the day

落ち葉 (おちば) • fallen leaves

tumblr-vocab in Japanese

A brief overview of useful words to know, in case you switch the language of your tumblr to Japanese!

Posts （投稿数「とうこうすう」）

Text post　－　テキスト

Photo　－　画像（がぞう）

Quote　－　引用（いんよう）

Link　－　リンク

Chat　－　チャット

Audio　－　音声（おんせい）

Video　－　動画（どうが）

Notes　－　リアクション

Reply　－　返信（へんしん）

Reblog　－　リブログ

Like　－　スキ

Tags　－　タグ

Source　－　出典（しゅってん）

Blog （ブログ）

Account　－　アカウント

Username　－　ユーザー名（な）

Main blog　－　メインブログ

Sideblog　－　サブブログ

Draft　－　下書き（したがき）

Queue　－　予約投稿（よやくとうこう）

Schedule　－　スケジュール

Blog theme　－　サイトのテーマ

Settings　－　設定（せってい）

Activity　－　アクティビティ

Past 24 hours　－　過去24時間（かこ24じかん）

Biggest fans　－　熱烈ファン（ねつれつ）

Most popular post　－　人気投稿（にんきとうこう）

Interaction （相互作用「そうごさよう」）

Ask box　－　受信ボックス（じゅしん）

Anonymous ask　－　匿名での質問（とくめいでのしつもん）

Tumblr IM　－　メッセージ

To follow　－　フォローする

Follower　－　ファン

X began following Y　－　XがYのフォローを開始しました（かいし）

Search tumblr　－　tumblrを検索（けんさく）

Blocked blogs　－　ブロック済み（ずみ）ブログ

Submission　－　ゲスト投稿

X submitted a post　－　Xからのゲスト投稿

X mentioned Y　－　XはYについて投稿で言及しました（げんきゅう）

- Is there anything else to say? -

by Pedro Gabriel