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nevaeh-naeva · 4 years

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JUST SOME JOURNAL UPDATE BEFORE NEW YEAR

I started this webtoon around May but I only posted the 1st chap at that time. I came back to update around Nov. after drawing many chapters and I just found the lineart and [paint]brush I want. So I've been quite busy and havent upload much. It's a lot of work to do this alone. I'm a person with 0 confident and it kept me worry that it's not good enough. 😂 I still have to redraw the first few chapters with the same line&paint style. And I'm still doing commission while doing this. I usually queue up only 1 person so you dont have to wait for too long. It's kinda exhausted to work on a comic. And I am the type that doesn't like to see my canvas blank. I have a habit to paint all the white space around the frames. 😭 I get to learn a lot tho and I'm having fun. Right now, I haven't translate it to Eng yet. I want to do that after I finish redraw all of the chapters. But it would takes sometimes.

Tbh I didnt think it would get to 1.7 followers in 2 months and the rating went up from 8.9 to 9.58. I like characters with bad personalities so it's kinda hard for me to try to write the main lead not to be too bad or too twisted. I don't know if most people find that ok...I mean I dont want ppl to judge him as an unhealthy chara. I usually enjoy Rejet stories as many of yall know. I'm a fan of DL, DD, Thanatos night, Dolls, CB and list goes on. So it kinda inspired me to want to write my male lead a little twisted. I want him to be loveable but it's not easy I guess haha. Not all people like characters like that, they find it annoying. In my country those aren't popular and not many people are into gothic settings. So I was very anxious. But I think I will write what I enjoy, people can have differen tastes. I'll try my best on this next year!!!

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gabumons · 7 years

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Lesson 0

Fuck it ay followers we’re learning Japanese together. I mean probably not, I doubt you guys are gonna Keep going with me but I’m trying to learn right now, and I figure if I pretend I’m doing it with other people I might see it through. This is just some background to the language It’s long and sorta unimportant but it might help some of yall out cause it took me a while to arrive at it.

So they Key so far from what i’ve seen to learning this language is to just pretend English Grammar doesn’t exist. “How would you say this english phrase in Japanese” is like the most counter productive thing in the world here because Japanese is pretty fundamentally different. Everything is Contextual. 学生だ。－ Literally means “Is Student”. And that is a grammatically correct sentence. Technically it can mean more than that depending on whatever sentences were said around it. So contextually it could mean, he is a student, she is a student, john is a student, whatever. Basically dont worry too much about English translations. Just learn Japanese Grammar for the way it works and dont worry yourself too much about how it translates into english. Especially to begin with. Another Key is to learn the Writing Systems. Japanese has 3 writing systems (4 if you count Romanji which is just the English Alphabet): Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. Katakana and Hiragana are 2 different sets of characters the represent the same sounds. Hiragana is for Japanese words, and Katakana is for English borrow words. かわ(kawa) = river ナイフ(naifu) = knife Technically you can use whichever script you want so if you’re reading japanese you’ll be seeing pretty liberal use of both. The HARD one is Kanji which consists of like a billion characters and words that have different meanings and shit depending on what its next to. Its super hard but idk it has its uses to know. 二(ni) = 2 日(nichi)= Day 本(hon) = Book 日本(nihon) = Japan 二日(futsuka) = Second Day of the month (or 2 days) Like as you see if u put the kanji for 2 and day together it sounds nothing like putting the words for 2 and day together, but you can still sorta tell what it means. But when you put Day and Book together it makes japan? It would need its own post tbh, so I’ll leave the explanation alone for now tho.

Learning words in Japanese is just 100x easier if you know the writing. Like for starters, nothing that’s using Japanese is gonna use the Romanji. The only environment where you’ll see it is in super westernized beginners books and if you’re enough of a nerd to try learning Japanese you probably don’t wanna stick around that environment for too long. And the other thing is knowing the Writing just makes it a bit easier to learn vocab. 帰る＝kaeru, which means to go back 変える＝kaeru, which means to change They’re pronounced the same and if you were reading it in romanji it would be pretty much impossible to tell the difference at a glance, but with knowledge of the kanji (帰AND変) and knowledge of Hiragana, you can. Its harder at first but it does get easier as you go on.

Another Thing is, Learn a lot of fucking vocab words. This is probably the most important part because the more words you know, the less time you spend looking up words. Heres a sentence (In english this time lol). “The window-washer vented his frustrations with defenestration.” Like even native English speakers might not have come across the word defenestration in their fuckin’ lives, and would have to look it up to get full understanding of the sentence. Imagine it in a different language. I personally have no idea how to convey that thought in Japanese so if it was written in Japanese I’d have to look up every word just to finish that one sentence. More words = Less searching.

Last thing (and honestly its a weird point coming form me) but read/watch a lot of Japanese media. Seeing and hearing the language outside of the safe space of your beginner learning materials makes a lot of stuff easier. Makes it easier for you to find new words, know how the words you’re learning are typically used how it sounds, etc etc. It’s just a good resource. I think since its the end goal in the first place reading a bit and slowly over the course of your studies being able to understand and retain these materials is a good way to measure how good you’re actually getting. I have a manga here i’m learning how to read and i’m just slowly understanding the context of whats being said more and more.

TL;DR: The way I’m planning on learning is by focusing on:

Learning Grammar while keeping in mind its not like english Learning The Japanese Writing System and not piggybacking off of it written in romanji Learning A metric fuck ton of vocab words Reading and Watching a lot of stuff so that the language is always a part of my day to day. The rest of these I’ll try to make sure im writing less for these posts lol. This is mostly for me, but if yall wanna learn with me i think it’ll be cool to learn with some of you guys if you wanna.

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