it's the bianx bianx (sp????) noodles kanji ね？

I find it funny how such a complex kanji came to be part of a kanji for noodles of all things. I can only imagine telling some of my non-kanji practioner friends that it is used in part to represent noodles. Oh the blank, incredulous stares I would get... XD

I had my first decent* conversation about the Japanese economy last night at dinner. Dropped big words like government policy, deficit, bubble, China-Japan-Korea relations.

*Decent in that I got to the point where I could start talking about it. Usually I get cut off after I say one sentence...日本語上手！.... this time it came after my sentence on the Japanese economy and not before.

@Womack23
antidisestablishmentarianism

makes sense. I know that word, and probably will never use it lol

Womacks23 wrote:

It's just a novelty kanji. Like how kids in America try to learn how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism or Finn kids trying to learn lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliups.

I was always kind of confused about why kids made a big deal out of spelling 'antidisestablishmentarianism'.  The vast majority of the word is prefixes and suffixes, so it's really very easy to spell.

Though, I remember as a kid doing the same thing by knowing what laser stands for (light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation).

Just reached 1000 cards in my Anki sentence deck.  Feels like it has taken forever, especially with people posting on here about how they went through KO2001 in two weeks, or whatever.  It does feel like it's slowly coming together, though.  To everyone on here who has a job and a family, keep plugging along with me.  We'll get there eventually.  In case you're feeling like you're not making enough progress, I'll share some deck stats:

Average new seen:

In last week:  91 (13.0/day)
In last month:  235 (7.8/day)
In last 3 months:  600 (6.5/day)
In last 6 months:  1010 (5.5/day)

Codexus wrote:

Womacks23 wrote:

[...] or Finn kids trying to learn lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliups.

All right! I'm convinced. I'm so going to learn Finnish

I'm Finnish learning. Time for a beer!

According to my vocab deck I can now read just over 1700 kanji I feel this is a decent milestone because it's starting to feel like my reading ability is getting into the big leagues. Still ages to go before I can read comfortable at good speed with no dictionary like a native but I'm definitely struggling far less than when I dived into real reading every day just under 2 months ago.

The total amount of cards in the deck is very close to 4000 now and feels like it's climbing so fast which is extremely motivational. The next milestone for me is hitting 5000 vocab in the deck.

Got a very good score on 漢検６級. Now I just need to wait 3 months for it to come in the mail.

Just reached 0 reviews due in Anki, down from the 4700 I had due 3 weeks ago :-)

Now I can finally get back into the groove of things!

nest0r wrote:

blackmacros wrote:

Just reached 0 reviews due in Anki, down from the 4700 I had due 3 weeks ago :-)

Now I can finally get back into the groove of things!

お帰り。

It's good to be home

I spun out on ice today and hit something.  Then 3 minutes later another guy did the same thing and hit my car.  So I got to deal with 1)a police officer 2)the guy who hit me 3)the guy who hit me's wife 4)my mechanic 5)my mechanic's children and 6)my mechanic's wife.  All who didn't speak English.

Thank God I've studied Japanese as long as I have, or this would be an even worse night.

Zorlee wrote:

First of all - You've been missed, Blackmacros!
Secondly..
Just realized that I have 6166 sentences in my SRS. Thought I had 5000-ish. Yay! I'm pretty happy with that, considering I started adding sentences in August.
My goal is to up that to 11k by the end of July, when I'm (fingers crossed) heading for Japan to study...

Thanks, and well done on your progress! you're past the halfway mark of your goal