Full day classes Tuesday through Thursday. I liked the game “The Quiet Year”, which I read the introduction to and which we attempted to play during class.
I generally spent the mornings learning new kanji and the evenings editing my film.
I started using Reddit. Funnily enough I’ve never used it before at all. It always felt like this wonderful site that you will dive into when you have nothing else to do, and that time never came. Anyway, I’m following the Japanese learning and Anki subreddits, and the huge Anki community and the possibilities for tweaking the app through add-ons and even custom HTML and CSS code (or Javascript if you’re so inclined) makes me want to switch from the relatively simple Flashcards Deluxe app that I’m using on my ipad. Especially the beautiful statistics screens that people are posting are what will eventually make me switch, I think. Of course, what matters is consistency and putting in the work. It’s always tempting to spend time researching and discussing study methods instead of actually studying.
I rewatched the first episode of The Wire with S, who hadn’t seen it but was recommended it. We’ll see if I continue, I’m not crazy about TV series in general. We saw another Miyazaki: Porco Rosso. I gave it a 4 out of 10 on Myanimelist = “bad”. It felt like the script was a halfmeasure, with the theme of the pig spell not developed enough, not being cared for enough by the creators, so why should we care as viewers?
It’s getting warmer again, I took a couple of bike rides and they do me good.
Adam Alsing died.
Japanese
- Try N2: Chapter 7.1 (pp. 103–10).
- Remembering the kanji (James Heisig): Kanji 446–687.
Articles
- The Left Review/R. Taggart Murphy: East and West: Geocultures and the Coronavirus
- BBC Travel: Amabie: The Japanese monster going viral
Anime
- 1988: Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru. E22.
- 1990: Yuusha Exkaiser. E2.
- Miyazaki Hayao: Porco Rosso (1992, 94 min)
TV
- The Wire, S1 E1.
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