Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.
She was splintered wood and sea water.
They said she reminded them of the war.On her fifteenth birthday you taught her
how to tie her hair…
(Source: poetryinternationalweb.net)
Yeah what’s wrong with killing?! XD
(Source: jamesbadgedale, via japanlove)
There’s a polaroid camera in the local store and I WANT IT SO BAD but it costs 16 thousand >.<
(via justgirlythings)
![japanese-revision:
japanese-revision:
Textbooks:
An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
Read Real Japanese Fiction
Dictionaries:
ALC (I use this everyday)→Expression encyclopaedia
Goo dictionary
Weblio
WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
Idiomatic Expressions
Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
Counters dictionary
Hovering dictionaries: →Rikaikun for Chrome→Rikaichan for Firefox→Floating Dictionary for Mac
Current Affairs dictionary
For kanji.
Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
Online reading:
Hukumusume Fairytales
竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]
Manga.
Free online manga
Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
Sound Effects (in manga, etc)
Improving your speaking:
Japanese pronunciation guide
Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
Topics for Language Exchanges.
Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)
Listening:
“Real World” Japanese
泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)
Writing practice:
Lang-8
www.Japan-Guide.com
原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)
News:
NewsWeb Easy
NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper
Podcasts:
JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
TBS Radio’s Junk
TOKYO FM
YouTube:
Afternoon Hirusagari
Jet Daisuke
バイリンガール英会話
Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)
Japanese sign language.
Heartful Power Hideo
Shuwa Island
TV:
Japanese subtitles for anime
KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
映画で学ぶ実践英会話
Tumblr:
Kanji-a-Day
Holy crap Japanese
Nihongo ga Suki
Jumpstart Japanese
Nihongolog
Nadine Nihongo
That Japan Addict
ChilliMuffin
Japanese through Fandom
F-Yeah Native Japanese
J-Vocab of the Day
ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]
Those studying in Japan.
Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)
Blogging:
Yaplog
Learning websites:
JapaneseClass.jp
The Japanese Page
Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
Maggie Sensei
Other resources:
Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
JLPT Resources
I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/b2f88f22965ab9571268281098e7187b/tumblr_mma136rrWj1rlz5m3o1_r1_500.jpg)
Textbooks:
- An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
- Read Real Japanese Fiction
Dictionaries:
- ALC (I use this everyday)
→Expression encyclopaedia- Goo dictionary
- Weblio
- WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
- JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
- JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
- Idiomatic Expressions
- Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
- Counters dictionary
- Hovering dictionaries:
→Rikaikun for Chrome
→Rikaichan for Firefox
→Floating Dictionary for Mac- Current Affairs dictionary
For kanji.
- Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
- Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
- A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
- Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
Online reading:
- Hukumusume Fairytales
- 竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
- 吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
- Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
- TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
- Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]
Manga.
- Free online manga
- Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
- Sound Effects (in manga, etc)
Improving your speaking:
- Japanese pronunciation guide
- Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
- Topics for Language Exchanges.
- Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
- Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)
Listening:
- “Real World” Japanese
- 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)
Writing practice:
- Lang-8
- www.Japan-Guide.com
- 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
- Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)
News:
- NewsWeb Easy
- NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
- Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper
YouTube:
- Afternoon Hirusagari
- Jet Daisuke
- バイリンガール英会話
- Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)
Japanese sign language.
TV:
- Japanese subtitles for anime
- KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
- 風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
- 映画で学ぶ実践英会話
Tumblr:
- Kanji-a-Day
- Holy crap Japanese
- Nihongo ga Suki
- Jumpstart Japanese
- Nihongolog
- Nadine Nihongo
- That Japan Addict
- ChilliMuffin
- Japanese through Fandom
- F-Yeah Native Japanese
- J-Vocab of the Day
- ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
- Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]
Those studying in Japan.
- Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
- Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
- Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
- Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
- Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)
Blogging:
Learning websites:
- JapaneseClass.jp
- The Japanese Page
- Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
- Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
- Maggie Sensei
Other resources:I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!
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(Source: jaimelannister, via julieyumi)
Reminder: You don’t need to stay friends with someone who causes you grief. I made that same mistake and now I’ve cut them out.
Even if you had known them for the longest time, you have to cut them out. Your mental well-being is more important.
JI.
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