Today's Japanese / 今日の日本語

今日の日本語 / Today's Japanese

Been playing a lot of Animal Crossing New Leaf / とびだせ！どうぶつの森 in Japanese as a way to use the Japanese I've learned and to help with my vocabulary and reading ability. I love Animal Crossing so playing it to help me study Japanese is pretty fun, and it has furigana so I can learn how to read the kanji properly. Because I really gotta improve my reading, I read really damn slow... And using the game to study and read gives me more incentive to play.

The Japanese version also has some of its own exclusive content that got changed in the western version, so that's always fun, like Isabelle / Shizue wearing a yukata, furniture and holidays.

引っ越し　ひっこし which is moving

村民　そんみん villager, resident

ちょっぴり means little bit

寂し　さびし lonely, loneliness

お別れ　おわかれ farewell

商店街　しょうてんがい shopping street

博物館　はくぶつかん museum

(the game actually has it written in Kana)

意見　いけん　opinion

口ぐせ favorite phrase

Today's Japanese / 今日の日本語

今日の日本語 Today's Japanese

Making this a daily thing, so it encourages me to study and help me keep track of what I've been learning.

Today (yesterday technically, but screw it I haven't slept yet) I learned the different directions and also some of the suffixes for counting stuff, as well as the word for different work departments

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上　うえ which is Up

下　した which is Down

左　ひだり which is left

右　みぎ which is right

部　ぶ which means department/section, is used as a suffix

海外部　かいがいぶ Overseas department

営業部　えいぎょうぶ sales department

人事部　じんじぶ personnel department

I also learned about an awesome Japanese singer called DJ OZMA and he makes pretty good music. Dude is tan, has dark blonde hair and even had a pompadour, well he didn't have that when he was younger. But with the look in his band Kishidan, he looks younger than he did as DJ OZMA. I need to listen to more of his songs. Also learned that it's the Famicom Disk System version of Super Mario Bros. that has the extended Minus World, which is 3 levels.