(2016-06-14, 1:20 pm)gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:(2016-06-14, 11:58 am)ariariari Wrote: That feeling when you learn a word from a textbook, pick up some native material, and immediately see it plastered all over the native material
In my case that word is 出勤. Just learned it in my kanji book (勤 was obviously the new character). Yotsuba is asking her dad to play with her, but he's working in front of the computer. Totally made me laugh.
I swear to God that "word blindness" is a thing. I'll learn a word and be like, "Huh, I wonder why I've never seen that word before" - and then, suddenly, it's everywhere. I guess the brain's noise filter just tosses the word out as random nonsense until you actually commit it to memory.
That's so funny and true. In this case it was comical because Yotsuba is a kid and literally kept on repeating the word in a way that only a kid can.
But I was also out with a friend recently who just passed the N1. He just started memorizing the 4 kanji phrases (yojijukugo). He reads a lot of novels and now says that he sees them everywhere. So I guess that it happens at all levels!