📔 2025 Language Goals:
🇩🇪 Focus on casual vernacular; read more
🇨🇳 Pronunciation; use more complicated grammar irl; read more
🇯🇵 Focus on vocabulary, keigo grammar
🇰🇷 Pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; A1.2
🇮🇹 Re-familiarize self w grammar and vocabulary
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-clothes or furniture you no longer find a place for in your home with friends/relatives. Is your sight only stuck on the here and now. I promise if you buy things without having the easy way out of living with them until they fall apart, your spending habits will be much better.
hot take but if you buy things with the thought of 'if I don't like it I'll just unhaul it' then you're not 'organising your life', you are, in fact, part of the problem.
like absolute shade meant but what do you mean you're unhauling books because you've read them once already or throwing half your closet away coz you haven't worn some of them in like a year. Do you not reread your books. Do your tastes not change. Do you not exchange books, -
(yes, this is about the KaoruHana subs and I have a ton more to say, starting with italicizing indirect speech chaotically (when it should be italicized only during voiceover/phone calls or not at all) and ending with all of the sentence subjects playing hot potato in a convo)
I don't know exactly when I noticed it, but more and more I find some truly baffling translation choices in anime subs that can only have been made by a machine. It's not like I'm fluent in Japanese, but even I can notice that when A wants to go home after visiting B, and B says-
'Is it okay that I won't walk you home?' in Japanese and the subs translate it as 'You can't walk me home, it's okay' IN B'S OWN DAMN HOUSE, it's not merely a Blind Idiot translation but something else entirely.
@yeahwhyyes I wasn't even the only person in the restroom!!! This lady didn't even stutter talking over not one but two separate flushings of the toilets????
@yeahwhyyes Well this particular German customer at my job did lol??? I was (excuse my language) trying to exorcise the demons I ate for dinner and she just. Walked in, face timing her friend and gossiping abt this or that person. And continued the convo for like 5min till I exited???