Yes, me too. “Did you know?” and “Don’t even look at me!” And nothing in between, lol

Yeah, I had to do some work up there recently and it was so depressing.

Chuck Schumer is Bloom and Nancy Pelosi is Bialystock.

Edit: recast

TIL, what a badass. Thanks!

Abraham Lincoln sent faxes! Ancient tech.

がんばいます！

I appreciate the feedback, this Anki deck should hopefully get my vocabulary to that point. I am actually pretty good at getting the meaning usually and the readings are the tough part, so I’m doing okay I guess. It just feels like a lot, but that’s true of any language I suppose. I’ve learned a lot in the last few months. Thanks for the encouragement!

I started with Duolingo and while it has all the regular duo problems, I think it actually does a good job with the kana stuff. You can turn off the Romaji too, forcing yourself to read. It doesn’t teach grammar, though, so I bought Genki Vol 1, working my way through that, and wotaku.wiki has a lot of good resources.

I really like the Cure Dolly stuff for grammar (though she can be difficult to understand, use the youtube transcripts or if you prefer reading a book someone helpfully wrote it all up). Her approach is totally different from the Genki methods, but I find it easier to understand.

I am also using Anki with the Kaishi 1.5k Kanji deck for kanji and vocabulary. This is honestly pretty painful, I’ve been doing it for like 10 days now and I feel like I’m doing badly every time, but I am improving. I could probably stand to study the radical stuff to understand more how the kanji is constructed but I haven’t found a good resource for that just yet.

Watashi mo, but getting better every day.

You can saute them in butter as well, I often do that with green beans.

And beet sugar makes good Belgian style beer. Beets are great.

こんにちは！日本語を勉強しています！

I’m 90 days into learning Japanese. Most of that has been learning kana and I’m now working on kanji and grammar. It’s very different from English but I really like the way information is conveyed. I’m struggling with grammar stuff right now pretty bad, particularly conjugation, but it’ll click eventually. Also the lack of spaces is definitely something to get used to.

I sing this song (well, actually the Wall of Voodoo cover usually) on the toilet after Mexican food gets the best of me.

Yeah, I’ve tried the user mapping and doesn’t seem to do anything. Haven’t put them in the env since this started happening though I can try that, thanks for the reminder.

Yeah idiot that’s why I’m depressed.

At least the landscapes will be pretty.

Kokomo

I can hear Henry’s sweat

I mean, that’s fucking weird though. If I said that shit at work I’d get a talking to from HR.

Sennheisers are great, I’ve been using their headphones for years. Those and my Audio-Technicas get a lot of love from me.

Lol I thought that’s where I was

No they’re not lol. I bought them because of podcasts and my $20 JBLs are better. The fucking ANC does nothing and they sound like crap.