Hello ruffians!
Thanks to your encouragement I started with my Nihongo learning journey!
Day 366: Today I've done my anki and immersion reps. No new cards for Anki, I'm just maintaining core 2.3k deck. For immersion I've watched Japanese prefectures learning stream.
日本語勉強の旅1周年だな!今日一言を日本語で書いて見よう。/baubau/のラフィアンとフワモコの応援からこれができた。今、配信の35%前後が分かれる。まだまだ下手なのにめちゃ嬉しい。ゆっくりするが良い。 これからもよろしくお願いします!
It's here. THE day is here. Exactly 1 (one) year ago I started with my Nihongo learning journey. When I started I didn't even think about how long it would last, I was just focusing on one day at a time...
It all started with kana. I took my sweet time with it, something like 20 days. After that I started with Anki, which I'm probably not gonna stop doing for the foreseeable future. Simultaneously I was reading "Japanese the Manga Way" grammar guide. It was maybe a little bit early to read grammar, and right now I don't remember even half of what I've read there, but nevertheless it gave me basic understanding of sentence structure and the way Japanese as a language works. After "finishing" with the grammar guide, I started immersing. First with just clips from JP streams, then with some JP streams and anime. When watching anime I would watch every episode 2 times: once with EN subs, latter with JP ones. Later I switched order and that's the way I watch it to this day. Somewhere there I read a little bit of Yotsuba and watched some Cure Dolly videos, but never made it into a long lasting habit. It basically continued like that to this day, Anki grind and for immersion anime or streams, whichever I feel like. I did finish with the core 2.3k deck a few days ago though, but I'm gonna start mining my own words now. That's a quick summary, if you're interested in a more detailed explanation, here's my posts for days 100, 200 and 300 respectively:
>>62727717,
>>69925929 and
>>77309709.
Now to open up my soul a little bit. I'm a newfag when it comes to vtubers and Hololive. I only started watching somewhere like a month after Myth debuted. There was one cute and funny shark that completely took my hearth with her singing. It was then when I discovered what having an oshi feels like. Before I continue, lemme just say that I'm still not sure how exactly should I use term "oshi" and what are the rules behind the term, so I'll just use it as a term for a vtuber I give the most of my love and attention to. Anyway, back to the story: during the first 2 years I was completely sure about love in my oshi and never thought things would ever change. I believed nothing could shake my feelings and that the great times would last forever. Some stuff did change in the third year though, but my love never disappeared. If you think there will be some kinda of plot twist now and that I would say: "And then I started hating same cause of this and that...", I'm sorry to disappoint you. It's just that with the time and the
lack of stuff my passion slowly became weaker. Then came Advent, and with them two demon guard dogs who ignited my passion once again. The moment the pledge came during the debut stream I knew it's over, they got me, I'm officially ruffian. And the rest is history...
Why did I tell you this, what does Gura have to do with my ruffian and Nihongo journey? Do I hate her now? No, she will always have a special place in my heart, even though she's no longer my oshi. Just as great as I was feeling at the peak of my chumbud journey I am feeling now as a ruffian; actually probably even better. And again, I'm feeling like this feeling will never end. It will last forever and ever. And even after that. However, I can't predict the future, and nothing actually lasts for the eternity. It doesn't have to necessarily be about them, maybe I change, internet changes or the whole world changes. Who knows? I certainly do not. What I DO know is this: whenever I hear, read, see or interact with Japanese in any shape or form in the future, I will always remember FUWAMOCO. I will rmbembe that Fuwawa and Mococo Abyssgard inspired me to, for one whole year, every single day, use some of my time to try and learn Japanese. At the very least, that's the mark they left on me, and I will have it for the rest of my life.
FUWAMOCO love!
BAU BAU!
P.S. That 7 sentences in Japanese took me so much time. I tried to use dictionary only for the single words and tried to form sentence structure on my own, using grammar and other sentences I encountered. What I'm trying to say is that I haven't just typed the whole sentences in English, translated it in Japanese and called it a day. There's definitely a lot of mistakes and strange expressions, so if you have any feedback I would highly appreciate it! 