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Remember 1. Learn Hiragana, 2. Learn Hiragana? Well, now it's time for 3. Learn Katakana.

Update: May 17, 2022 Correction. There are て-forms for adjectives, too, but this post addresses verbs only.

One of the stumbling blocks I had to learning Japanese was learning the て form of verbs. I guess I thought that if I just kept going that I'd eventually learn it. How wrong I was.

Learning て form is kind of like memorizing multiplication tables. You don't have to memorize them but it sure cuts down on a lot of time and work if you do.

We accomplished a lot this past month! We finished Genki I and Marugoto A2B1. お疲れさまでした！

Yesterday we continued to work on Marugoto's B1, Chapter 1, 「始めての人と」。The conversations are spoken faster in the recordings and the quantity of new words introduced has increased. I already have 132 new words in my Anki deck and we haven't even finished the chapter yet (!!).

Tomorrow we'll work on Chapter 14 of Genki II. New grammar includes the use of ほしい、〜かもしれません、and あげる / くれる / もらう。楽しみにしています！＾ー＾

じゃあ、また！

最近、私はもっと日本語で書いてみたかったです。このメッセージが送りました.

原本：

皆さん、こんにちは、

最近げんきの本の１とまるごとの本のA2B１を終わりました。お疲れさまでした！ だから、今週げんきの本の２とまるごとの本の中級１を始めます。楽しみにしています。

ディスコードのビデオのチャットを続いています。またコロナウイルがありていますね。残念ですけど体に気をつけています。

日本語の勉強して楽しんでください。じゃあ、またね！

マリキタ

We've finished seven weeks of online meetups now. New people have joined and members we haven't seen for awhile have returned. 久しぶり！It's nice to see you all back! (I've been rather horrible at taking screenshots lately so I don't have many to post but I'm working on getting better.)

"1. Learn hiragana, 2. Learn hiragana." I actually said this in a Saturday meetup. Why? Because someone who's brand new to the Japanese language joined the group and kept asking all around for books, tv shows and what not to learn Japanese when two of us had already posted separately - without knowing the other was going to post it, too - the same link to learn hiragana. So I said, "1. Learn hiragana, 2.

We finished our second week online and this time we showed the movie, A Silent Voice (2016). My favorite part was after I texted to let everyone know that the movie was starting, I heard in voice chat, "The movie's starting!" And another excited voice followed.＾ー＾

最近私たちはテレビの番組について話しました。
Title: １００万円の女たち (Million Yen Women)
作家：Shunju Aono
Type: Manga and then live-action tv drama
URL: https://www.netflix.com/title/80170687
Description:
主人公は小説家です。女たちが５人います。殺しがあります。 Five women are invited to live with and pay ¥ 1M/mo in rent to an obscure novelist. The rules include eating dinner together and no asking questions of the female guests. One by one, the guests are murdered …
Reason for Recommendation:
三回を見ました。

We've been meeting in Discord now for over a week. We have had not only our usual Japanese conversation and Japanese conversation practice but we've also streamed a movie and a game of Yakuza. ＾ー＾

Meeting in Discord has had some good surprises. Children of members have made guest appearances and now we get to see Emily's Shiori and Kris' Balto and cat every week, too!

Yesterday was the first day of our brand new Genki Beginner Series. エミリーさん、ドミニクさん、カリーどさん、アンディさん、クリスさん、来てくれてありがとうございました！お疲れ様でした！

We started with Chapter 1 - yup! we forgot there was a Chapter 0 of Greetings at first - アンディさんとエミリーさん、教えてくれてありがとうございました -, read the dialogue, went through some of the speaking exercises and forged on to "complete" Chapter 2 and Chapter 0.