100 Days of Japanese

Day 0

100 Days of Japanese starts tomorrow!

So sudden πŸ˜†

Goals:
- Read signage
- Basic tourist conversation
- Watch anime πŸ˜‡

Please gimme anime recs, especially if suited for a beginner :D

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Day 1

Began with a Cure Dolly video explaining 'ga' and 'da' in simple sentences; powerful.

Then Duolingo for nouns.

Watched Spirited Away. In Japanese. AMAZING production. Highlight of the day for sure. Spoiled myself with merch.

Such a fantastic start!

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Day 2

Watched a Dolly video and did Duolingo while waiting for my flight.

That was yesterday xD

Maybe I can get ahold of a list of tech words 🀣 tech & food will have me set for a WHILE

OH!! I wonder what 'As a developer...' is in Japanese 🀣

Bye UK ❀️

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Day 3

Had time for one challenge on Duolingo before I crashed. Long day with the flight and braai in the evening.

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Day 4

Wedding prep is hectic and I'm not even involved in the wedding planning 🀣

Not my wedding.

Did a few more challenges. Dying to watch more videos tbh, but it'll have to wait until family hasn't keeping me occupied.

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Day 5

Watched a video on mistakes a dude made learning Japanese; I should basically learn things in context pronto.

Also Duolingo.

Wedding's over; back to WordPress for a small client project this week. ^^

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Day 6

Moved to hiragana.

So sleepy rn my eyes are closing xD

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Day 7

I wonder how much damage I can do in 4 days πŸ’€

Learning hiragana is actually fun. I look forward to writing it!

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Day 8

Not bad for two days.

How long do you think it'll take me to learn just this alphabet?

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Day 9

Got caught up with the hiragana and turning Unit 1 into Legendary so now I've got to rush to stream in 15 mins πŸ˜†

MIZU TO SUSHI KUDASAIIIII~~
πŸ’§πŸ£πŸ™πŸ½

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Day 10

Finished off Unit 2 and sped ahead on the leaderboard. Did more hiragana as well.

Nice battery level ik :3

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Day 11

I had a bone to pick 🀣

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Day 12

No. 2 beat me while I was flying =_=

Did lessons and hiragana practice.

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Day 13

Finished off Unit 3, and practiced some hiragana. Unlocked all of the first set now!

Difficult to do much on the plane due to no internet xD

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Day 14

We'd just ordered Korean fried chicken and sat nearby to wait.

After five minutes I figure my weeb brother may be interested, so I proudly show him my gold Duolingo hiragana page.

He immediately flips over his phone.

He's literally doing the SAME.

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Day 15

All the gojΕ«on hiragana are complete!

4 more sections to go :D

And then there's still katakana and kanji aiyaaa. Learning hiragana will allow me to turn off the romaji/English to force myself to start reading

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Day 16

Dakuon complete.

3 more sections of hiragana!

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Day 17

Mostly practiced hiragana. I'll 'finish' before resumIng lessons so I can read *some* Japanese instead of the romaji/latin characters.

My goal is to speed through the katakana next week so I can start kanji early.

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Day 18

Did karaoke with the fam and I COULD RECOGNISE CHARACTERS.

Not enough to read lyrics properly - because there's kanji - but it's exciting!

Did hiragana practice, too.

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Day 19

Travelled today; work + errands after I got home.

00:49 - Bedtime, finally. Flight was at noon.

Did hiragana when I could. Looks like Adam is going to be right =_=

γŠγ‚„γ™γΏ! ❀️

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Day 20

Adam was right.

A dozen days. πŸ’€

Bet I can learn the katakana faster - there are no long stints of travel for a while! :D

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Day 21

And so it begins.

Again.

I'll be happy to finish all the hiragana and katakana.

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Day 22

I might have COVID for the first time 😬

Managed a few katakana exercises but not much. The fatigue is *rough*.

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Day 23

I did, like, one katakana exercise.

Oh, well. At least my streak isn't lost.

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Day 24

More Duolingo katakana exercises!

I now have to catch up on 2k XP we had five days to do so my bro and I finish the challenge and I get to top of leaderboard πŸ’€ In one day.

I guess we know how tomorrow will be going.

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Day 25

HA. Beat the quests and the leaderboard AND finished Unit 4.

That's my brother I carried 🀣

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Day 26

COVID can suck it.

If you're on Duolingo, add me!

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Day 27

Mostly just reviewing stuff I know and some katakana practice.

It's been a long day of just being meh-sick and sleepy.

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Day 28

A small dent, but it's a dent.

Kore wa chi i sai desu 😜

Gonna try to finish the katakana this week so I can start kanji next week.

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Day 29

More small progress.

Iffff I can finish this section tomorrow I might have a shot at finishing all of it by the end of the week :D

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Day 30

Goal for the day achieved.

Shouldn't have napped. It's almost 2 AM and I'm knackered.

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Day 31

Long day; didn't get as much memorised as I'd have liked; I'll have to do extra tomorrow, probs.

Downloaded the Anki app and learnt about decks; found one for the kana but I'll have to modify it. Later xD

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Day 32

Nearly done with the katakana. :D

Put in extra effort today.

I waited until they were done fighting for 1st place and then made it unpleasant to try to beat me in a day xD Stacked my XP boosts 🀣

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Day 33

Done - all before noon!

I'll be winning the league, too 🀣

I've turned off the English letters now. The lessons will be painfully slow until my reading picks up.

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Day 34

Forgot to post!

Set up Anki and a deck with anime phrases. Turns out it's no good for hiragana and katakana - I'm better off writing those out.

Learnt a cute lil alphabet song too 😭

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Day 35

Mostly just audio practice and correcting mistakes.

@adamtolcher-san wa igirisujin desu :')

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Day 36

Man. Already forgot exactly what I did yesterday.

Just a little bit of practice again - mostly maintaining my score on Duolingo and whatnot. 🀣

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Day 37

I was glancing over things on the shelf and then... 'EHH??? JAPANEEEESE??'

I got so excited when I realised I could read the katakana 🀣

It says kandoru... Candle!

...Why it says candle in Japanese when everything else is in English idk... πŸ’€

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Day 38

Learnt to ask where things are.

I don't know how to understand the replies so it's not useful yet xD

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Day 39

A few lessons, and a new unit~

My friend was over so I wasn't going to try to do too much, especially with the weekly ranking comp ending tomorrow

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Day 40

The PRESSURE was ON lmaoooooo.

They tried beating me in the last hour thinking I wouldn't be paying attention. I stayed well over 1k points ahead the whole time.

My bestie pretty much just cheered on in amusement πŸ’€

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Day 41

One lesson kind of day. Friend left today so I went straight back to attempting to work.

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Day 42

One lesson. Low energy day.

Was a struggle to get anything done tbh.

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Day 43

One lesson again.

Low energy but managed to put a dent in work, so.... Good enough ig.

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Day 44

Sped up to the top of the leaderboard.

They're introducing another colour and more items now. Lessons are getting more difficult.

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Day 45

Learnt more about 'these' and 'those'.

It was a bit confusing at first -

sore re wa watashino

Hearing the 'wa' twice took effort to recognise

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Day 46

I. COULD. READ. THIS.

Still just a single lesson kinda day though xD Slept too late finish off the work project (!!) so effectively had half a day to catch up on errands.

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Day 47

Very upset 🀣 I was dragged out for GROCERIES too late and so lost my score-keeping ability. Next Sunday I'm just refusing to leave the house if I'm not back by 3 PM for freakin' Duolingo 🀣🀣

Grateful I get to be fake upset over nothing. ^^

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Day 48

One lesson type of day as well.

Woohoo. >_>

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Day 49

Did a wee bit of Duolingo and then did some rhythm practice with poetry and a children's song with one of Kaname Naito's videos.

Kinda fun!

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Day 50

I can't believe I've let a month of updates go by without posting, though I definitely can remember when I put writing them off πŸ’€ Never again.

Incoming slew of updates until they catch up 😩

I've been hooked on Duo 🀣

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Day 51

I'm a Duolingoner πŸ’€

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Day 52

Apparently reading from Japanese children's books isn't advisable; what they need to learn as young native speakers vastly differs from us as foreign adult learners.

Watching TV dramas is better, or books specifically designed for adult learning.

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Day 53

Another day, another few Duo lessons~

This is too easy to rely on tbh.

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Day 54

ehehe πŸ’€

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Day 55

Recovering from the stint I pulled last week, so not much practice today πŸ’€

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Day 56

Got my work cut out for me. It's already Day 2.

What have I done 😩

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Day 57

Busy, so only a few lessons.

Very aware I'm behind in the leaderboard >_>

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Day 58

Sephi came to snuggle while I was busy with Duolingo on the sofa 😭

Just waltzed over here and made himself comfortable. πŸ₯Ή

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Day 59

Dunno if you can tell, but I'm halfway between giving up on the leaderboard

or just dumping in the time sink

I keep swinging between the two xD

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Day 60

This is all I did today.

That's not actually true; but that's all matters πŸ’€

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Day 61

I won, too.

This middle-aged old man didn't even know I had beef with him the whole week 🀣

He gave up on logging on for the day when he saw I maintained the score gapπŸ’€was kinda funny

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Day 62

Duolingo + another Dolly video because we are TIRED from the weekend's antics

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Day 63

I've been consumed. Looked up advice on Reddit and other places.

Apparently I should not join the league until the end of the day, if I can handle it. That cohort of people likely to be in nearby timezones will have fewer keen beans in them xD

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Day 64

Picked up my mom todayyy. So ofc didn't get as many lessons done as I'd have liked πŸ’€

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Day 65

This feels difficult af but I'm probs not going to bother with the Leagues anymore...

I can clearly do it but like... It's not worth that timesink when I have other shit to do. And Duolingo isn't going to help me with my writing or speaking practice.

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Day 66

One lesson kind of day~

Because cleaning.

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Day 67

One lesson kind of day again~

Because more cleaning πŸ’€

There's house stuff going on that's piled up from a couple of years of not actually being at home for long enough to get through it at a reasonable pace.

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Day 68

Short practice session today.

in other non-news, I built a spin bike 🚲

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Day 69 nice

Minimum effort today. More of the same going on during the week between house admin and my mother of house guest~

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Day 70

Revised kanji and older content before bed ^^

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Day 71

One more lesson.

Progress feels so slow.

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Day 72

Another couple of lessons.

At least I'm solidly in Unit 2 :D

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Day 73

Managed a lesson early in the day before heading out to a friend's house party.

The next couple of weeks are gonna be a s t r u g g l e.

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Day 74

Taught two workshops - threejs and GSAP - followed by attending a RAVE so I made time for a couple of lessons in the car xD

Managed to avoid an onset of a headache too, yay.

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Day 75

Did a few more lessons.

Feel a bit guilty I didn't do the friend quest in time but it's not like he tried all that hard either. Why am I always carrying 😩

Except for that one time @shookcodes finished it earlyπŸ’€

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Day 76

One practice lesson~

Another guest at home. There's so much prepppp omg

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Day 77

One practice lesson again right before sleep, post-stream and unpacking.

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Day 78

One practice lesson before sleep, as is my current pattern.

Had an interview today >_>

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Day 79

Another single lesson kind of day 😩

SO much cleaning house. Literally.

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Day 80

One practice lesson again 😭 But heyyy, the studio is clean ❀️

Tabs' Lab is in operation 🀣

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Day 81

One practice session right before bed. Again.

Went to celebrate the ma's birthday and bake a cake that took f o r e v e r ^^

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Day 82

HA. Got the friend quest done; it was with the same person NUDGING me for two weeks.

I've been hanging around the same module for a week though, not wanting to boost XP... But it shouldn't matter anymore due to me opting out of the leaderboards. So w/e.

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Day 83

Kanji practice - that's all I spared time for.

ζ—₯本

にほん

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Day 84

I haven't been practicing enough daily so doing more than one new lesson was good.

Spent time today catching up on things; was up until 1 AM getting a project off my chest. 100D updates was also a time sink.

A lot of what I learnt has disappeared.

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Day 85

FINALLY learnt 4 and 5 🀣🀣

I can't do some hardcore studying while I'm in the middle of applying for jobs on top of doing other work.

Soooo I'll just get those out of the way for the next few days first. Priorities~

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Day 86

Aha! The video's got an interesting couple of takes about ending the translation habit.

lmao she just ROASTS people too 🀣

Time to watch Spirited Away in Japanese... with Japanese subtitles.

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Day 87

'Mom' is 'haha' in Japanese.

I wonder what they use for laughing in text (lol/jajaja/hhhhh/mdr equivalents) xD

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Day 88

Did like three short lessons to keep my Duolingo streak πŸ’€

It was a long day.

Every day is a long day when stressing 😩

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Day 89

Just another day o' lingo πŸ’€

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Day 90

wat πŸ’€

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Day 91

Completed the monthly challenge with one day left to go >_>

also lmao at the perfect lessons wat

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Day 92

I don't remember this goal at all but I did it πŸ˜†

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Day 93

Nearly there :D

Need to try to get some writing practice in at least before this 100 Days thing is over.

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Day 94

Tried following along. Still too fast for me xD

I'll see if I can slow it down somehow.

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Day 95

Chillin' in Pearl and Obsidian mostly now, if I don't bother looking at the leaderboards

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Day 96

Some words aren't sticking.

But that's what I get for doing learning so late in the day xD

Persistence, at any rate.

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Day 97

Another minimum effort kind of day ^^

Too much house admin and job stuff 😢

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Day 98

I guess I can sort of talk about my family now - how old they are and what occupations they have.

I can confirm there are no six-year-old college students in my family even though Duolingo has taught me how to say this. xD

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Day 99

Full day of coding, so did just a few lessons.

Guess who can count to SEVEN now πŸ’€

Idk why Duo doesn't teach 1-10 straight up, honestly

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Day 100

Nearly 100 on Duolingo too.

Didn't complete all that I wanted, but hey, still made more progress than the last time I started ten years ago πŸ˜†

I'll continue, of course.

γ˜γ‚ƒγ‚γ­!

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