Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026to be completely transparent, i dont know if i used stem correctly. i remember watching a cure dolly video that called things "sticky stems". i was specifically referring to not being sure which "column" things belong in. the difference between things like a negative and a desire are easy enough. 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i dont actually like how the second one is just picking from a list of VERY OBVIOUSLY DIFFERENT THINGS. makes it very obvious what i'm supposed to click on as long as i know what different forms are. first one where i type it in myself is much more my speed. 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i'm still so shaky on when to use what stem for godan verbs. many cases of getting my review question wrong in bunpro because of it. gonna have to find something that lets me drill that 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i've realized, strangely, that my mood seems to be extremely influenced by the kind of music stuck in my head at any given time.\ 001
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 20/09/2026as far as bunpro's vocab side. almost all of it is just stuff i'd already long since memorized by heart on kitsun. but when i encounter something new i do study it honestly. 010
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 20/09/2026oh, it seems i'm now 100 days into bunpro. doing 1 grammar point a day, except for some of those days where it randomly told me i had to do 2. dont know why that happened, but i started ignoring the second one at some point. 1 a day plus my vocab studies is already pushing what i can manage. 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026god, it was annoying enough seeing gust make the ai ryza thing. and now a sophie thing? like, i know they're doing the training in house but i really hate this ai trash. makes me concerned about ai inclusion in proper titles. 000
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026it's a serious reputation hit, and now the MASSIVE anti ai crowd (including me) don't want to try it, when otherwise, some of us would (i thought it looked fun). so why cut that corner? it doesn't make any sense to do on a project you're actually invested in. 010
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026things like this make me sad. i went to the makers twitter, and they've been working on this game for like 3 years. but since they decided to cut corners in their character design stage by using gen ai, all that hard work basically goes down the drain. bsky.app/profile/nois... 120
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026my favorite part about immersion (specifically in media i'm interested in), even as a low level japanese learner, is that it makes actually memorable reference points to call back to for when i'm learning later, and likewise for things i've already learned and am now encountering in that immersion. 031
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Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I have a silly theory that the width of a witch-like character's hat is at its optimal point when its as wide as the character is tall. this is the closest i've seen in recent days! i really like it! bsky.app/profile/tuki... 000
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 19/07/2026watching my "んですか” answer in bunpro suddenly shrink to ”の” and being marked correct is very funny. 000
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Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Hoooly. I didn't even notice until I brought up the same images on Twitter 000
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Writing specifically helps you by running straight into obstacles you didn't know existed in the writing process, thereby helping you appreciate written works more in general. Should help you get through slog 010
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I like to look at things like reading, watching videos, and studying as "mental input". When I've done too much input, and my brain only wants to accept ultra high value input, well it's time for some output. Consider taking an afternoon or three to start writing a little personal novel in japanese 110
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Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 21/06/2026if i was completely fresh doing this? i'd already have a queue of over 100 vocabulary by this point i'm sure, even though i'm only learning 1 grammar point a day. 010
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 21/06/2026the thought of what my review queue in bunpro would look like if i didnt already know 99% of these vocab that show up. on the い adjectives lesson, i just added 50 things i'd already long since mastered to the mastered list, and only distributing 4 amongh my various half known to unknown levels. 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 21/06/2026why the HECK does キリスト教 (christianity) use キリ, but クリスマス (christmas) uses クリ. THEY'RE THE SAME BASE WORD. 010
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 18/06/2026kitsun, giving me a listening to english meaning flashcard, sounding like: "utsusu" but saying not ”移す” so i'm like "that must be 写す, and type in "to take a photo". kitsun: WRONG DUMBASS. ITS "TO PHOTOGRAPH." this is what the ignore button is for folks. 020
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 16/06/2026like i spend hours every day reviewing on kitsun, it's absolutely soul sucking, but i get through it. i remember when i used to do kanji review, and i could do 100 of those just before bed. it wasn't nearly so tough 000
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 16/06/2026i do think i've let kitsun taint my perception of how difficult a review queue is though. when kitsun displays 100 items, thats not 100 flash cards. thats 50 example sentence flash cards and 200 vocab flash cards. 100
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 16/06/2026what i wonder though is if its sufficient vocabulary wise. sure you get the context around the word which helps in its own way, but not having to think of the english word, and then type out japanese could be an issue? definitely gonna keep doing kitsun along with bunpro because of that concern 100
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 16/06/2026as it is, i'm only taking the vocabulary in bunpro that i haven't already encountered in kitsun, which after a few days is only 1 so far. 和室, meaning japanese style room (which i already know japanese style as 和風, so thats easy enough). 100
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 16/06/2026i think i understand why some of my friends who are learning japanese switched entirely to bunpro from kitsun. comparing how kitsun makes you review each item from every possible angle (3 or 4 times each), bunpro's japanese with context to english vocab review is so much easier and more intuitive. 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 16/06/2026i did it again on review. i said wa instead of ha. GOD 000
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 14/06/2026oh god i'm going to have to remember to type out ha for は even though in my brain i'm saying "wa" for that dang particle. oh no. i was so confused on the review for that particle like "i typed in wa, whats going on?" but noooo i have to type HA. i bet i'll make the same mistake with を as well 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 13/06/2026alright, i think i'm going to dip my toe into bunpro. 1 grammar point a day without decreasing my kitsun. lets see if i can keep it up. 000
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 13/06/2026now i shouldn't TOTALLY say i have no knowledge of grammar. there's a small amount i've picked up, and i've fully read through sakubi once about a year ago, but they still never really taught me about how a phrase or sentence is structured. largely what i know so far are how some particles work. 010
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 13/06/2026largely it is for manga, games, and japanese content creators that i can't enjoy yet outside of translated clips. as it is i have no outlet to actually speak the language outside of mimicking example sentences (trying to match the pace, speaking at the same time as it feels really useful at least) 110
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 13/06/2026until i'm donw with kitsun, at which point i can do month by month on bunpro with a heavier study load, and get done significantly faster 000
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 13/06/2026my most tempting consideration is to reduce my daily new words on kitsun from 5 to 4, and then start with bunpro doing 5 a day. since each item doesnt review itself 4 times at once, the review queue should be significantly easier to handle. but then i think it'd be more economical if i wait 100
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 13/06/2026i definitely want to study grammar, but i also do not want to implode from overwork or have my SRS from kitsun disrupted. the few months i took off of serious study in the second half of last year were already so disastrous, i fear anything that would break my re-established pace 200
Manukiru @manukiru.bsky.social · 13/06/2026my japanese study really is trolling me lately though. the current set i've been going through the last few days has been a lot of words containing 生. you know, the kanji with the most readings. its been hellish getting them right during review 020