learning japanese!!
11.26.25
soooo i will be soon quitting duolingo for many reasons ( mainly due to the company doing some reaaal problematic stuff with AI but bad stuff is NOT what i will be talking about today , as i have found a really cool website that hopefully will help me and many others with learning japanese !!! Learn Japanese - Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese it seems to be 100% free and looks to have quite a backlog of lessons !!! i have decided i would use this website for as long as possible and learn japanese with it and every once in a while log my process here :3
another thing im planning on doing is adding some of my own info here :0 i know a tiny bit of japanese beforehand ( mostly because of project sekai and vocal synth stuff asdfjhasfkjlh BUT STILLLLL ) and there are some VERY USEFUL tables and charts and just overall important things that i would like to refer back to when i look back at this log , and alsoooooo for whoever would actually want to read this idk ( THIS IS MOSTLY JUST FOR MYSELF TBH. IF ANYONE ELSE ACTUALLY LOOKS AT THIS SPECIFIC PAGE ON MY NEOCITIES I WILL BE GRATEFUL BUT NOTE IT WILL NOT BE USER FRIENDLY FOR MOST PEOPLE BESIDES MYSELF LOL SORRYYYYY )
i have not started reading yet because it is. 10:53 pm at the time of writing this. and uh. im tired BUTTTT IM HOPING I CAN MAKE A HIRAGANA AND KATAKANA TABLE HERE BEFORE THE MONTH ENDS THATS MY MAIN GOAL. thats my main goal and if i do not make it then . welp :D :shrug:
12.1.25
hellooooo its mel again ( it is 10:14 pm as of STARTING writing this . im sensing a pattern ) so hiragana is one of the three japanese writing forms , i do know a bit of hiragana beforehand but i really really need to review and memorize them . the other two are katakana and kanji and i will get around to making references for them too . since japanese is like chinese in the way that there is. a LOT of kanji hheheheeh and its . really REALLY hard to memorize EVERYTHING of course , but i will get there :)
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w |
r |
y |
m |
h |
n |
t |
s |
k |
vowel |
| ん (n) |
わ (wa) |
ら (ra) |
や (ya) |
ま (ma) |
は (ha) |
な (na) |
た (ta) |
さ (sa) |
か (ka) |
あ (a) |
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り (ri) |
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み (mi) |
ひ (hi) |
に (ni) |
ち (chi) |
し (shi) |
き (ki) |
い (i) |
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る (ru) |
ゆ (yu) |
む (mu) |
ふ (fu) |
ぬ (nu) |
つ (tsu) |
す (su) |
く (ku) |
う (u) |
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れ (re) |
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め (me) |
へ (fe) |
ね (ne) |
て (te) |
せ (se) |
け (ke) |
え (e) |
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を (o) |
ろ (ro) |
よ (yo) |
も (mo) |
ほ (ho) |
の (no) |
と (to) |
そ (so) |
こ (ko) |
お (o) |
i dont think ive ever mentioned how ANNOYING tables are to code ???? genuinely ?? LOOK AT THIS WHO WOULD ACTUALLY WANT TO WRITE ALL OF THIS thank the prophecy ( deltarune reference ) for ctrl c + ctrl v cause there is NO WAY i had the diligence to type this all one by one
12.4.25
katakana !!!!!!! one thing ive noticed is how simple katakana is compared to hiragana , and its because its used to import words from other languages ! thats presumably why its used for words such as スマホ ( sumaho = smartphone ) . thats really neat :0
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w |
r |
y |
m |
h |
n |
t |
s |
k |
vowel |
| ン (n) |
ワ (wa) |
ラ (ra) |
ヤ (ya) |
マ (ma) |
ハ (ha) |
ナ (na) |
タ (ta) |
サ (sa) |
カ (ka) |
ア (a) |
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ヰ* |
リ (ri) |
|
ミ (mi) |
ヒ (hi) |
ニ (ni) |
チ (chi) |
シ (shi) |
キ (ki) |
イ (i) |
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ル (ru) |
ユ (yu) |
ム (mu) |
フ (fu) |
ヌ (nu) |
ツ (tsu) |
ス (su) |
ク (ku) |
ウ (u) |
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ヱ** |
レ (re) |
|
メ (me) |
ヘ (he) |
ネ (ne) |
テ (te) |
セ (se) |
ケ (ke) |
エ (e) |
|
ヲ*** |
ロ (ro) |
ヨ (yo) |
モ (mo) |
ホ (ho) |
ノ (no) |
ト (to) |
ソ (so) |
コ (ko) |
オ (o) |
*ヰ (wi) is an obsolete japanese katakana
**ヱ (we) is an obsolete japanese katakana
***ヲ (wo) is a rarely used japanese katakana
another thing ive noticed is because everything is much simpler , a lot of the characters are simpler but also hard to tell apart due to all the . you know . simple-ness . theres a lot of smiley faces :) ツ (tsu) シ (shi) so joyous and whimsical :] ( pretty sure theres one of these smileys on rhythm heaven / rhythm tengoku :0 )