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X is for exit, methinks. Time to go. (I live here on Tumblr anyway. Send 🦀s.

what happens when you change your web standards to be only english-speaker inclusive

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Source https://www.linguajunkie.com/japanese/japanese-word-for-star

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TIL: Nuka means 'rice bran' in Japanese!

I was doing my daily Duolingo and did not expect to see that word. So have Japanese Fallout fans been seeing 'Rice Bran Cola' all along?

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Yutaka Murakami (Japanese ,b.1957)

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'Person who's still loading' - I relate to that one so much!

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Beautiful. How would I express 'beautiful' in the context of nature?

Kumano Kodo by Akihiro Hara

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Giant Freaking Japanese Color List

This list’s intention is to give quite a few common-ish colors a home together in one post for learning purposes and spicing up one’s color vocabulary. For color names that don’t match their English equivalents, I’ve given what I feel is the most accurate translation of the name, plus the literal meaning of the Japanese name for the color. I’ve mostly excluded color names like 

真っ黒（まっくろ）pure black

墨色（すみいろ）inky black (literally ink color)

濡れ羽色（ぬればいろ）jet black (literally wet wing color)

烏羽色（からすばいろ) glossy black (literally crow wing black)

鈍色（にぶいろ）dark, dull grey (literally dull color)

鉛色（なまりいろ）lead color (livid)

鼠色（ねずみいろ) darkish grey, like rat fur (literally rat color)

鋼色（はがねいろ）steel color (steel blue, blueish-gray)

桜色（さくらいろ）pale pink (literally cherry blossom color)

桃色（ももいろ）light pink (literally (Japanese) peach color)

岩礁色（がんしょういろ）coral reef color (darkish pink)

真っ赤（まっか）pure red

紅梅色（こうばいいろ）red Japanese plum color

紅色（べにいろ）crimson

鉄色（てついろ）reddish-black (literally iron color)

橙色（だいだいいろ）orange

茜色（あかねいろ）deep reddish-orange (like that of a sunset) (literally madder red)

柿色（かきいろ）reddish-brown (literally persimmon color)

朱色（しゅいろ）vermillion/ cinnabar

緋色（ひいろ）vermillion (often translated as scarlet)

鳥の子色（とりのこいろ）eggshell color (literally bird’s egg color)

玉子色（たまごいろ）light yellowish (literally egg color)

山吹色（やまぶきいろ）bright, golden yellow (literally mountain blow color (wish I knew about this one for my previous color post..))

黄土色（おうどいろ）yellow ochre

琥珀色（こはくいろ）amber color

萌黄色 (もえぎいろ) yellowish-green (literally sprouting yellow color)

柳色（やなぎいろ）pea green (literally willow green)

鶯色(うぐいいろ）similar to olive green, perhaps slightly lighter (literally Japanese nightingale green)

苔色（こけいろ）moss green

若草色（わかくさいろ）chartreuse, lime grren (literally young grass color)

翡翠色（ひすいいろ）jade green

千歳緑 (ちとせみどり）evergreen (literally 1,000 year green)

仙斎茶 or千歳茶 (せんさいちゃ）dark brownish-green (literally 1,000 year tea)

鴨の羽色（かものはいろ）teal (literally duck wing color)

青緑色 or 青緑（せいりょくしょく or あおみどり)   turquoise/ aqua (literally blue-green color)

碧色（へきしょく）greenish-blue (sorta that sea water blue color)

真っ青（まっさお）pure blue

白殺しor 藍白 (しろころし or あいじろ）very light whitish blue (literally white killing or indigo white)

瓶覗色（かめのぞきいろ）lightish blue (literally water jug peek color)

水色（みずいろ）light blue (literally water color)

空色（そらいろ）sky blue

浅葱色（あさぎいろ）dark cyan (literally pale leek color.. ??)

縹色（はなだいろ）light blue

瑠璃色（るりいろ）cobalt blue

紺碧（こんぺき）azure

紺色（こんいろ）navy blue

勝つ色（かついろ）dark, blackish indigo (literally victory color)

藍色（あいいろ) indigo

藤色（ふじいろ）lavender (literally wisteria color)

ライラック lilac

菫色（すみれいろ）violet

葡萄色（えびいろ or ぶどういろ）dark purple, maroon (literally shrimp color or grape color respectively)

ベージュ色（ベージュいろ）beige

肌色（はだいろ）skin color

茶色（ちゃいろ）tawny brown, lightish brown (literally tea color)

狐色（きつねいろ）light brown, orangish-brown (literally fox color)

褐色（かっしょく）brown

鳶色（とびいろ）auburn (literally black kite color (a type of bird))

焦げ茶色（こげちゃいろ）dark brown (literally burnt tea brown)

銅色（あかがねいろ）copper

青銅色（せいどういろ）bronze (that sort of greenish rusted bronze) (literally blue copper/bronze color)

—-these last few are just color-related terms—-

蛍光（けいこう）fluorescent

透明（とうめい）clear

メタリック（metallic)

Alright, that about covers everything I wanted to put in this post. I shied away from including colors that are loanwords (like オリーブ色）because they are usually pretty self-explanatory. feel free to correct me if I made any errors, or add other colors you find important which I may have missed. If people make enough additions to add other advanced colors, I may end up making a part 2 for this post. Thanks for reading.

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For all those times you ask yourself, “Onyomi or Kunyomi??”

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私 わ りょうせいあいしゃいます。

Japanese LGBT Vocabulary

LGBT（エルジービーティー）

レズビアン lesbian

ゲイ gay

バイセクシュアル bisexual

バイセクシャル bisexual

トランスジェンダー transgender

異性愛者（いせいあいしゃ）heterosexual

同性愛者（どうせいあいしゃ）homosexual

両性愛者（りょうせいあいしゃ）bisexual

無性（むせい）asexual

性的（せいてき）マイノリティー sexual minority

性的指向（せいてきしこう）sexual orientation

セクシュアリティー sexuality

同性愛者解放運動（どうせいあいしゃかいほううんどう）gay liberation movement

差別（さべつ）discrimination

偏見（へんけん）prejudice

カミングアウト coming out

結婚（けっこん）marriage

同性（どうせい）パートナーシップ same sex partnership

法律（ほうりつ）law

関係（かんけい）relationship

愛する（あいする）to love

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I had to include Takahashi somewhere on this blog (yes, my main is Fallout themed!)

なにしましょうか?

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Japanese Vocabulary Flashcards! 

More Flashcards on www.instagram.com/valiantjapanese

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🌼For our beginners 🌼

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I'm celebrating some Duolingo success!

日本語 を勉強しました。

I started learning Japanese about fifteen years ago, had some face to face lessons with a lovely Japanese lady who said my name sounded like 'さる' and visited Japan with a friend in 2007. Trip of a lifetime!

This year I felt like getting back into it and taking my basic language skills further and Duolingo seemed like a good tool to get me started again.