#learning through immersion

[onigiriforears]

AI: Friend or Foe? | Vocab

Hi friends! I've been trying to broaden my horizons by reading Japanese news articles about topics I wouldn't typically read or talk about in Japanese as an attempt to learn new words.

Today, I read Hiragana Times' article entitled "Are robots enemies or friends of humans?" It was a brief article that mentioned how in the West we view A.I. and robots as a sign of impending dystopia and we have media like the Terminator and the Matrix that show us at odds with A.I., while Japan views them as friends/helpers and have media like Astro Boy and Doraemon that depict them as being helpful. Do you think this is true? I find that a lot of nuance is lacking from the article, but I wonder if this is because the magazine is intended for Japanese-learning foreigners, so they may cut down on things in order to make the translations appear less intimidating. One of the cool things about Hiragana Times is that it's entirely bilingual!

Here are some of the vocab words I picked up:

人工知能 [じんこうちのう] artifical intelligence (A.I.)

搭載 [とうさい] being equipped with

親しむ [���たしむ] to be intimate with; to befriend

受け入れる [うけ��れる] to accept; to receive; to agree

一方 [いっぽう] on the one hand; on the other hand; meanwhile

欧米 [おうべい] the West; Europe and America

象徴 [しょうちょう] symbol (of something abstract); (symbolic) representation

見なす [みなす] to regard (as); to consider (to be); to deem; to look upon (as)

業務 [ぎょうむ] task; actions; affairs; duties

効率化 [こうりつか] making efficient; optimization

貢献 [こうけん] contribution (furthering a goal or cause); services (to a cause)

懸念 [けねん] worry; fear; anxiety; concern

根強い [ねづよい] firmly rooted; deep-seated

[onigiriforears]

the sheer difference in the amount of kanji that i've noticed that i have an easier time memorizing bc i've been consuming it through reading/interacting with media that i enjoy rather than flipping through flashcards or quizzes is ASTRONOMICAL

sure, i still study and use flashcards and quizzes, but i have noticed that i've had an easier time learning kanji that i had more difficulty with memorizing through flashcards and quizzes through reading bc im just constantly exposing myself to it

Today I came across a reel talking about learning kanji. He said learn the basic once like 義 (GI) and then continue with exposure, not rote memorization.

I think I need to plaster "Give yourself exposure, not stress" everywhere though.

Give yourself exposure, not stress [when learning kanji].

[lilbittymonster]

Was thinking about Kitali and languages as I was falling asleep last night and she's gonna sound weird and out of place no matter where in Ishgard she is bc of how many registers she mixes.

Like she would absolutely have learned to speak Ishgardian before she learned to read it, and most of that exposure would've been with working class people from the Brume and the lower levels of the city. And especially so during the Restoration because she would've been spending most, if not all of, her time with the Skysteel workers. So she's going to adopt most of the speech patterns and mannerisms from them.

And then she's also married to a nobleman, who has a distinctly different speech pattern and accent, and because she spends the time she's not working or out dealing with Scion bullshit with him, she's going to pick those up as well and incorporate it into her understanding of The Ishgardian Language.

And because she learned to speak it before she learned to read it, the first time she tries to read one of Aymeric's books not written in Eorzean common, she's going to look up at him with anguish and confusion and betrayal as if he's the one responsible for why Ishgardian is spelled Like That. And then proceeds to bitch and moan about it while trying to reverse engineer it through context clues alone.

And then on top of all that, once Estinien joins the Scions and she's spending a lot of time around him and speaking in Ishgardian to deliberately exclude everyone else from their conversations, she's going to pick up his Coerthan idioms because I think he would stubbornly cling to those even after living in Ishgard for 20 years.

I just think language barriers are neat and I feel like they aren't utilised in game enough bc Video Game Mechanics.

[onigiriforears]

Thank you so much for always helping!

COME JOIN US AND WATCH EVERYONE SCREAM OR CRY AT THE SAME SCENES

Seitokai’s May Japanese Manga Book Club

This month we're reading 葬送のフリーレン 1! Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?

Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…

Feel free to message me or @onigiriforears for information!

[in-tua-deep]

One of the interesting things about learning asl from different teachers is that you learn obscure dialect beef you’ve never heard of before

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Okay Girlies I need you all to answer this one question for me. I haven't played through Karamelle or Novus yet and I've only seen and heard snippets of Dasein so I don't know all that much ahout him. Reblog/tag why y'all want to fuck him- I mean marry him (or just something you really like about him)

[onigiriforears]

Seitokai Book Club Master List

Hi!

Sometimes, life gets the best of me and I'm not able to make my usual announcement post on here about what the current Seitokai book club read is. However, I do actually update it on the master Google Doc (links to associated vocab lists included), my Natively profile, and on the Seitokai instagram. These include the books from the start of the club in 2022 until present day.

If you're not particularly interested in the vocab lists or you hate accessing Google Docs bc it takes up Google Drive space, you can also see it on THIS NATIVELY LIST.

Or if you're thinking "ALL OF THOSE OPTIONS SUCK, I'M NOT LEAVING TUMBLR!," fair enough, I can't argue with that. You can always DM me, send an ask, or even @tokidokitokyo might make a post about it as well.

[onigiriforears]

bless you!! it does look like that's probably going to be the winner and im definitely looking forward to it

btw, if anyone wants a digital copy of vol 1, either DM me on here, discord, or instagram!! i have one

@tokidokitokyo LOOK!!

vocab from 気になってる人が男じゃなかった

as it seems in all likelihood that @onigiriforears さん's seitokai discord will be reading this manga for the july book club, i went ahead and *ahem* read all the free chapters on pixiv (i think comprising the first two volumes). here's all the vocab i wrote down!

nouns:

名札（なふだ） = name tag

同一人物（どういつじんぶつ） = the very same person

慣れ（なれ）っこ = being used to, accustomed to

気がかり（きがかり） = worry, concern

JK（ジェイケイ） = female high schooler (from 女子高生)

常連（じょうれん） = regular customer

校則（こうそく） = school rules

天（てん）パ = naturally curly hair (from 天然パーマ)

verbs:

口説く（くどく） = to persuade, coax; to seduce, hit on

かっこつける = to show off, try and look good

よぎる = to go by, pass by, flash across

巻き返す（まきかえす） = to rally, recover

噛む（かむ） = to chew; to fumble one's words, stammer

adjectives:

気まずい（きまずい） = awkward, unpleasant, embarrassing

あざとい = sly, calculating; flirtatious

adverbs/onomatopoeiae:

あたふたと = in a hurry, hastily

せっかく = with trouble, at great pains

ただでさえ = even at the best of times, as it is

expressions:

〜尽くめ（ずくめ） = entirely, nothing but

お近づき（ちかづき）になる = to become acquainted with

腰（こし）が抜ける（ぬける） = to be unable to stand, weak in the knees; to be dumbfounded

[huwagnangalang]

Day 1 of trying to improve my art challenge

I got the references from Pinterest but just dk the source

[mylanguageclasses]

Language Learning Plateaus: Why They Happen & How to Overcome Them

Imagine this: You’ve spent months learning Italian. You’ve mastered greetings, ordered cappuccinos with confidence, and even navigated a conversation about your favorite films. But suddenly, your progress grinds to a halt. New vocabulary feels elusive, grammar rules confuse you, and every conversation feels like running a mental marathon. This is the language learning plateau—a phase where…

[challahbeloved]

instagram reels has switched to showing me videos of that yelling Israeli rabbi, but without English subtitles anymore, so now I don’t know what he’s saying :(

[onigiriforears]

LMAO

The majority of games I have collected to play in Japanese are dating sims. It's time to learn with the power of LOVE.

[lagaans]

currently taking great satisfaction in the fact that umrao jaan soundtrack is almost completely ghazals and the other three songs are thumri or classical composition <333

[fantasiavii]

I generally believe that exposure to a thing leads inevitably to familiarity with the thing but my one exception is (American) football. Fourteen years I watched that shit and I still cannot explain what a first down is.

[svensklangblr]

so i’ve been learning french for six whole years now, but i’ve never actually learned how to pronounce the alphabet until now. everytime i’ve read a book in french or w/e and have had to read an individual letter i’ve sounded it out in my head with the english pronunciation, with like a french accent lol. now suddenly i decided to look it up while waiting for the bus and it took literally less than one minute to learn. idk why i’ve postponed this one extremely small task since i was literally a teenager

[onigiriforears]

you might like 結婚するって、本当ですか or the 君の膵臓をたべたい manga. do you use Natively? It's pretty nice for finding suggestions bc they recently added filters for genres. If you do use it, feel free to follow me! (It doesn't give notifications if you follow someone, but if you do, send me a message on here and I'll follow you back!)

My current favorite manga is 王子様、この恋は運命ですか?. It's not seinen, but it is josei. It's got a nice pace going to it, she's a college student and (as of rn) has a good head on her shoulders. I'm reading it on cmoa.jp.

(i also want some manga recs if ppl are about to start replying bc im NOSEY and i love to add to my TBR list)

hii does anyone have any manga recommendations?? I've been really into スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり and スキップとローファー and was wondering if anyone knew about other cute, more mature romance-y stories like those! if it helps I also really liked 逃げるは恥だが役に立つ and ReLIFE. I'm a huge fan of 青年 in general