#好吃好吃

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GAMING & MAN CHAI ❖ dancing beasts and soaring kites

[jitqk]

*ੈ　✩　‧　₊˚　 可口 🍓 🧃

[lotusleafhe]

我也是建设产品了

[dr-arasaka]

🍓ストロベリー タイム🍓 ふたりは満ち足りた自由な時間を過ごす XD

*Original paro from @salethe2 Thank you for giving us such a great piece!♥️

ありがとうございました🥺！♥️

[meichenxi]

Hanzi update (+accidental trauma talk)

tw illness, trauma, vomiting, weight loss, recovery. I didn't plan to write about this but because of what happened in the last year I can't really write about how I studied Chinese without talking about it. so. but it's mainly about hanzi lol

I've been learning how to write traditional characters with the vague idea that I'd go and study in Taiwan, and also that if I want to write Classical Chinese or Japanese they're far more useful - but the program I want to go to Taiwan for requires HSK7, which I DO not think I can achieve and have the results of before March. Who knows! Perhaps within me lies untold brilliance and dedication!!

...well, I wouldn't rely on it. (I am also busy with a job, a partner, studying an A-level course to begin tutoring it in September, and writing the second draft of my novel.)

And even if I ended up going to Taiwan with my absolutely fantastic HSK7, there's no way I could handwrite all of those words within a year. If I learn 10 characters a day, that's like 3650 characters in a year, but realistically that will never happen - and you still have to actually remember them.

I also know from my last experience where I learnt a stupid amount of characters very quickly (about 800 in two weeks) that I can technically do it, I have a very large swollen brain, but then the brain, being very large and very swollen, promptly burns out. And leaves me to not do any Chinese again for like two months. So basically - completely pointless, because after those two months of rest I had forgotten most of them anyway. I will not be doing that again.

This time around I have been slowly, very slowly, learning things on Skritter. I have about 400 characters so far. I'm not doing words but doing characters, which is a bit slower, but I figure it'll be more useful in the long run. After I have the first 1000, I'm planning to then systematically go through the HSK and TOCFL lists and check I know how to put characters together and which 'jing' is used in 'yijing' etc.

This approach is only really going to work because I know a lot of vocabulary and can read a lot of stuff already - otherwise I wouldn't recommend to anybody without that backbone of vocabulary to just learn random isolated characters, unless you're masochistic or much harder-core than I am.

As I have said in a lot of posts before, I had a very difficult experience in China last August and have basically taken an entire year off studying because in all honesty I just couldn't bring myself to face the language again. Every time I tried I had this crazy grief and nightmares and stress response. What I went through was so stressful that during those two months in China that I lost seven kilograms, as I couldn't eat much without vomiting it back up due to stress and fear, didn't sleep, and ended up having to leave for Thailand pretty severely malnutritioned - which then made me susceptible to illnesses there and I spent the next two months after with awful health, vomiting and weak and generally sick. Luckily I was with friends and I gained the weight again and my period and digestive system sorted itself out.

And I never expected that a language itself could carry trauma? Like. Nobody died, it wasn't like that, I wasn't abused or assaulted or anything but still...for just under a year, every time I spoke or heard or read Chinese I couldn't help thinking of those two months. Even now it's still hard. I'm finding my way back to it but, to be honest, I didn't expect how hard it would be. I thought I could just - move past it, because I'd already had so many great experiences in China and Taiwan and with Chinese, that they would cancel each other out or at least be aided by the huge amounts of love that the language has shown me. Alas, it was not the case.

Anyway. All of that to say - I have only managed to do about 400 characters in a year, because I essentially gave up studying completely.

Now I've just finished reviewing and re-remembering those 400 characters on Skritter, so I'm ready to start again! I don't know what's changed, I guess just time - I feel more positive, I feel curious and interested about the language again. I don't know. I'm not going to question it too deeply. But for these past two weeks, I've been having a lot of fun :)

I'll update everyone on my progress as I go! Next post - 500.

[hohomeimei]

Desserts and Sweets in Japan

[shirozen]

Finding the best sweet craving

[thisishowifeelaboutkawaii]

[jkontumblr]

漾漾不好吃 ~~ Yang Yang is not delicious

[kuan-dudu]

[kikunai]

hi please enjoy some para！place and ilse art😘

love from china😉

HIIII!!!!! bottomquark前一段子在某大象app傳給我吃……好好吃……謝謝你🥺

（小聲想問一下你是 重生之我是环状正方形嗎？）

[stardust-medium5]

【Stardust Original】 《回声空间站/Echoic Space Station No. 13》

────────────── ⋆⋅ ⋅⋆ ──────────────

Planning : 金蓝

Music：怀归

Composing/Tuning：海格p

Mixing：磷元素

Illustration：YUXI

PV：面包烤过才好吃了

Guitar：Exi-Ted

Bass：空想

Drum：celest天狗

Vocals : Stardust Infinity

[oobbbear]

让我画画让我画画让我画画啊啊啊啊啊

[crehador]

HELLO?? NOT WHAT HE SAID??? like the meaning is not wrong but literally those are not the words coming out of his mouth what lmao

[chineseredcarpet]

Mao Xiaotong for 听说很好吃

[makichibayu]

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