September 2020 – 学ぶマンダ

Learning Japanese through a video game????

I love Final Fantasy XIV so much when it comes to learning Japanese. That game also explains my, uh, lack of posts here! I competed in Ishgard Restoration rankings (number 1 Miner on my world wooooo) for one, and that ate up literally all available time I had. Because I was just mining, I wasContinue reading “Learning Japanese through a video game????”

Grammar is a friend: ～てはばからない

So today, I’d like to make a post about a grammar point that I saw on Nihongo no Mori, but haven’t been able to find in the two grammar books I have.~てはばからない意味：周囲を気にしたり、遠慮したりすることがない様子接続：Vて＋はばからないI’d like to also add the meaning of the verb being attached to て.憚るはばかる (v5r,vi) (1) (uk) to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraidContinue reading “Grammar is a friend: ～てはばからない”

Weekly Check-in 09/02/2020

Mature cards: +117Young/Learn: -91 I really slowed down on adding new cards this past week. I spent a lot of time actively watching things on youtube and occasionally adding to my live mining deck via ShareX. I also decided to make a lazy vocabulary deck. Active Vocab is where I’m adding vocabulary only cards (viaContinue reading “Weekly Check-in 09/02/2020”