I love getting some spare time to study 🙂
Chapter 30 is on が and asking who, why, and how. While Chapter 31 is a small blurb on how Japan is expensive, but you can still enjoy it if you live there temporarily (how nice!) Read More >

It’s been a rough week between getting caught up in Pokémania and… well… the rest of life being just plain old busy. So here it is 10:31pm on a Friday night. I just finished having some dinner and I figure now is a good time to crack open (is that the right term for apps?) Human Japanese and do some more learning. This Chapter is more verb work, and will be making use of を. Read More >

Still making some headway through Human Japanese during my lunch breaks, this is the accumulated notes from the past three days! Read More >

After meeting up for lunch with an old friend on Thursday, I wasn’t left with much time to study. But with my lunch waiting and ready for me today, I was able to work through chapter 26! There were lots of proper nouns in this chapter, as it was all about family relationships. At least I knew enough going into it, to know that ビッグブラザー is not a proper word to describe your big brother 😉 Read More >

Not as quick of a chapter as what I worked through on Tuesday, but I did manage to at least push one more chapter despite working a 13.5 hour day. What did I do after finishing a work day? わたしはうちにきました。 And that, is a sentence constructed with に, which I learned in Chapter 25. Read More >

Nothing says enjoyable lunch break like learning another language! I’ve got loads more books that I want to get through this year, so it’s time to pick up the pace and start putting this one to rest. Managed to get through three chapters today, though that’s partially due to chapter 22 containing just a small blurb meant to excite you about speaking Japanese. Read More >

I’m actually making better progress playing games than I thought I would this year. Rocketbirds is shaping up to be the 9th game I’ll have played through start to finish this year. It helps that I chose ones that could be finished in under 10 hours each (for the most part). But I’ve got heaps more things on my to-do list that I want to get done this year, so I’ve got to hurry up and get this game off my plate 🙂 Read More >

My clone is asleep! Time to feverishly listen to some Steve Vai while getting some more of this bird game language stuff out the door! Read More >

I recently knocked another game (Suikoden) off my To-Play list, which means that the next one to tackle just so happened to be Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken. Now this is one of the titles that made my list purely because I have the option of playing it in Japanese. Which means, I fully expect to spend more time trying to understand the text as opposed to actually playing the game. I haven’t read a single review of the game, and only bought it by accident as it was part of Humble Indie Bundle 9 back in 2013. Time to work my way through the menu screen. Read More >

The second book that I’ve got from the library is a デコボコえほん (bumpy picture book) called かずをかぞえよう！ (Count the Numbers!) It was originally written in French by Xavier Deneux but of course I’m reading it in Japanese, so his name is officially: グザビエ・ドゥヌ. Read More >