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Hey everyone, I made this quiz if you’d like to practice using に and で. I normally make my quizzes with Google Forms but I made this one with Wordwall. Let me know which style you like more! 😃

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dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

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words about words in japanese

I just watched 舟を編む, it was crazy good. I want more animes about dictionaries!!! So anyway I made a vocab list inspired by that anime :) please let me know if there are any mistakes.

言語　「げんご」　language

言語学　「げんごがく」　linguistics

言葉　「ことば」　words

単語　「たんご」　vocabulary

文　「ぶん」　sentence

語彙　「ごい」　vocabulary

辞書　「じしょ」　dictionary

辞典　「じてん」　dictionary

字引　「じびき」　dictionary

（辞書・辞典・字引）を引く　「ひく」　look up in a dictionary

語幹　「ごかん」　word root, stem 

語末　「ごまつ」　ending, suffix

語感　「ごかん」　feeling of a word, nuance

文語　「ぶんご」　literary language

語釈　「ごしゃく」　interpretation of a word

定義　「ていぎ」　definition

語源　「ごげん」　etymology

語学　「ごがく」　language study

語学者　「ごがくしゃ」　linguist

文法　「ぶんぽう」　grammar

古語　「こご」　old, archaic word

古語辞典　「こごじてん」　dictionary of classical japanese

手話　「しゅわ」　sign language

対訳　「たいやく」　dual language book, bilingual book

言葉を大事にする　「ことばをだいじにする」　to take care with your expressions

表現　「ひょうげん」　expression, phrase

dictionaries:

言海　「げんかい」：  the first modern japanese dictionary, written by 大槻文彦　（おおつきふみひこ）　in 1891. meaning “great sea of words” (this was mentioned in 舟を編む!)

広辞苑　「こうじえん」：  the most authoritative single-volume dictionary of　Japanese, literally “wide garden of words”

大辞林　「だいじりん」：  another single-volume dictionary created to　compete with Koujien. Literally “Great forest of words”  

漢和辞典　「かんわじてん」：  kanji dictionary  (general)

⇒大漢和辞典 「だいかんわじてん」　is the most definitive kanji dictionary, with over 50,000 characters, and 530,000 kanji compound words. 

大渡海　「だいとかい」： the fictional dictionary from 舟を編む, literally “great passage”, created to cross the sea of words （言海）

I think Japanese has very pretty dictionary naming practices. Do other languages have this? I’m not sure. 

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movie soundtracks 

Cruella (2021) Dir. Craig Gilliespie

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movie soundtracks 

Cruella (2021) Dir. Craig Gilliespie

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a peaceful life #1

I’m at my grandparents house, eating cookies and looking ourside of the balcony windows. In front of me, a cemented terrace, and, a bit further, the railway. Despite this, plants grow in the cracks of the floor and closer to the house, a slope covered in plants and cherry-red poppies. In the far right, close to the railway bridge, three men and their dogs sit on rocks, chatting among themselves. A young woman crosses the terrace walking her dog, unaffected. Then, a yellowish cat appears among the plants. It looks around, licks its butt, then walk to the other side, where a black, smaller cat is waiting. The sky is gray and clouded, but the weather is warm. My finals next week do not exist and I am truly at peace, truly happy.

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FASHION IN FILM  ➤ BLUE OUTFITS 💙

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Katerina Marchenko on Etsy

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Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake

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Good Omens Ate My Soul And Now It’s Come For My Dignity Too

I am RAPIDLY REMEMBERING why we always called these things plotbunnies back in the day. It’s because they fucking breed.

So here’s a Really Stupid Good Omens thing that popped into my head: it’s the Millennial Heaven/Hell Corporate Party (occurs once every thousand years) and it’s in some not-exactly-shitty but not-exactly-the-Savoy hotel (because that’s where Business Parties Happen, as Gabriel understands it) and everything’s going the way it usually does, i.e. the demons are skulking on one side of the room and the angels are Definitely Not Skulking on the other side, and no-one’s drunk enough yet to get over the mutual distrust, and the first fight is at least five hours away, and everyone’s watching with interest as Beelzebub gets into a heated argument with the DJ over Gabriel’s chosen playlist (it features basically every song ever written that includes the word “devil” or “angel”, on shuffle, with no regard for genre, volume, or good taste).

But this time there’s a bit more movement a bit earlier than usual: various demons are shuffling over to try and strike up conversations with very wary angels (it is hard to say who is more awkward about the whole thing). And Aziraphale’s hanging out as far back and in the corner as he can possibly get (with an eye on the buffet), but then Crowley pops up next to him like, “Well, fancy meeting you here, angel,” and Aziraphale almost chokes on his drink and hisses, “What are you doing, we can’t be seen talking to each other!” and Crowley smirks and says, “We can tonight.” And Crowley explains that this millennium someone decided to make things interesting, and there’s a bit of a wager going on in Hell, with a not inconsiderable prize pool for any demon who manages to get an angel into bed (or whatever convenient flat surface presents itself) over the course of the evening. “So we can talk all we like. They’ll just think I’m seducing you.”

Crowley’s angling for a reaction from Aziraphale, of course, maybe a blush or a shocked gasp or a disapproving glare. What he’s not expecting is for Aziraphale to stare at him for all of half a second and then just lose it, laughing so hard he has to cover his mouth and turn his face away so no-one can see the tears of hilarity streaming from his eyes.

“What’s so funny, angel?”

“I don’t think anyone’s going to believe that, my dear.”

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You don't have to be the best. Life is worth the same if your #1 than if you're #6182037.

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Let’s talk about the fabulous aromantics out there

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Fake Dating Fic Rec

the last fic list went over well so I decided to turn it into a week event~

room to grow (kyouhaba) - G, 50k

Kyoutani and Yahaba have enough on their minds in third year, as ace and captain of the volleyball team, butting heads both on and off the court while trying to improve their game so the team has a shot of winning this year. When they find a puppy abandoned in a park, their lives only get even more complicated. 

Not Until Monday (kurodai) - T, 4.7k

“Sawamura, do you trust me?” Kuroo asks.

“This feels like a trap.”

In which Kuroo just needs Sawamura to be his fake boyfriend for like, 5 minutes.

if kisses were fishes, then i’d be an ocean (bokuaka) - G, 4.6k

Akaashi needs a fake date partner, so he grabs the first person he sees.

the art of pretending (tananoya) - E, 37k

the nishinoya family is having a reunion, and noya lies to his mom about being in a relationship to get her off his back. when ryuu gets a call from noya asking him to go to the reunion with him as his fake boyfriend, he’s torn―he’s just starting to get over how in love he is with his best friend, and he’s not sure that pretending to be his boyfriend is going to help with that. he agrees nonetheless, because he’s nothing if not a good friend, which leads to a week of denial, confusion and awkwardness. it doesn’t help that noya is sending really mixed signals.

but even when everything else seems unsure, one thing remains constant―they’re best friends, and that’s not going to change.

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Plant/Flower/Garden Vocab List- 日本語

Order

Kanji and/or Katakana / (Hiragana) / English

Flowers

薔薇/バラ (ばら) Rose

菫 (すみれ) Violet

欄( らん) Orchid

タンポポ (たんぽぽ) Dandelion

ユリ (ゆり) Lily

水仙 (すいせん) Narcissus

桜 (さくら) Cherry Blossom

梅の花 (うめのはな) Plum Blossom

桃の花 (もものはな) Peach Blossom

ビオラ (びおら) Viola

藤 (ふじ) Wisteria

蓮の花 (はすのはな) Lotus

チューリップ (ちゅーりっぷ) Tulip

菜の花 (なのはな) Rapeseed/Canola Flower

金魚草 (きんぎょそう) Snapdragon

菊 (きく) Chrysanthemum

フクシア (ふくしあ) Fuchsia

片栗 (かたくり) Dogtooth violet

朝顔 (あさがお) Morning Glory

ナデシコ (なでしこ) Dianthus

アジサイ (あじさい) Hydrangea

Counting Flowers

Flower head only: 輪 (りん)

例: 一輪、二輪、三輪…

いちりん、にりん、さんりん…

Flower and Stem: 本(ほん)

例: 一本、二本、三本….

いっぽん、にほん、さんぼん….

Trees

桜の木 (さくらのき) Cherry Blossom Tree

松の木 (まつのき) Pine tree

イチョウ (いちょう) Gingko Biloba

杉 (すぎ) Japanese cedar

柳 (やなぎ) Willow

竹 (たけ) Bamboo

竹の子 (たけのこ) Bamboo shoot

紅葉 (もみじ) Maple

檜/ヒノキ (ひのき) Japanese cypress

(I know bamboo isn’t a tree but I’ve included it in the tree list anyway)

Herbs/Edible plants

アロエ (あろえ) Aloe Vera

パクチー (ぱくちー) Coriander

バジル (ばじる) Basil

唐辛子 (とうがらし) Chilli, pepper

生姜 (しょうが) Ginger

にんにく Garlic

ゴボウ (ごぼう) Burdock root

蓮根 (れんこん) Lotus root

大根 (だいこん) Japanese white radish

シソ (しそ) Perilla leaf

Plant Parts

葉っぱ (はっぱ) Leaf

茎 (くき) Stem

花びら (はなびら) Petal

Garden

土 (つち) Soil

種 (たね) Seed

植物 (しょくぶつ) Plant

ジョウロ (じょうろ) Watering can

庭 (にわ) Yard/garden (the kind people have in front of their house)

庭園 (ていえん) Garden/Garden park (beautiful, large, maintained gardens, often for public viewing)

Verbs

植える (うえる) To plant

育てる (そだてる) To raise/to grow

掘る (ほる) To dig

水撒きする(みずまきする) To water

引っこ抜く (ひっこぬく) To pull out, to extract