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世論調査 means poll, or opinion poll, literally "public opinion investigation" (世論 is public opinion, 調査 means investigation)

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I'm improving 😅 (this is from an email from a colleague in our Tokyo office). I also asked if using お久しぶりwas ok to use in a business email (I read somewhere it was a bit informal), but apparently it's ok...
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Fun new Japanese word I learnt this weekend: 夢中 (obsessed, crazy about). Literally means "inside a dream".

As (for example) in あなたに夢中です (I'm crazy about you). Which is of course something I hear every day 😁

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Learned a new kanji today: 竜 (りゅう), meaning "dragon". I like that it looks a bit like a dragon, with its tail 🐉 😅
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I've known the wird 警察 (keisatsu, police) for quite a while, but only just learnt the 2 kanji it's made from. 警 means warn or admonish, and 察 means guess, so it's like it covers two aspects of policing - "warn" as in keeping order, preventing people from breaking the law), and "guess" who the culprit is when some law was broken despite the warning 😁

Well, it makes sense in my head anyway, and helps me remember 😂

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Thanks to the international nature of the company I work for (I hope my Japanese email etiquette is slowly moving from "shockingly rude but we'll let it pass because he's only learning" to "that was quite polite" 😁), I learned today that in Japanese, TGIF is 華金 (hanakin), an abbreviation of 華の金曜日 (flowery/ splendid Friday).

So, 華金、皆さん！

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Part of the Japanese homework this week was writing two sentences to illustrate the difference between たら and と, starting with 春になる...
So I remembered the first time we went to Hanami (sakura/cherry blossom viewing) in Ueno Park 😁

春なったら、花見のために上野公園にいきま。vs. 春なると、上野公園に桜が咲きます。🌸🌸
(When spring comes, we'll go to Ueno Park for cherry blossom viewing. vs.
When spring comes, cherry blossoms bloom in Ueno Park.). At least I hope this illustrates the difference..

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Our Japanese teacher used the word スト in one of the homework exercises, and it's really only because of the context (地下鉄とバスのスト) that I guessed that it must be an abbreviation of ストライキ.

I hate how the Japanese shorten so many loan words that you have absolutely no chance of guessing what they might mean 😅 (at least not without context).

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Don't tell me that watching Japanese TV dramas on Netflix isn't helpful for my professional development, I just learned that "clinical trial" is 優にも治験 in Japanese😁
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Just came across 「チューした」 in a Japanese TV programme (OK, I admit it was Terrace House 😆). Had to look it up because it seemed a bit strange - it means "we kissed" (said by a girl/young woman, I think men would not normally use it).

The reason I found it strange is that the katakana チュー sounds like "chew", which doesn't seem very romantic 😂. But apparently it's onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of kissing, rather than chew.

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I know I already said that #MIU404 on Netflix is great, but I came across a couple of interesting Japanese words or phrases I didn't know before in the 2 episodes I watched tonight:

強盗 (gōtō), meaning "robbery" (there's even a joke in that episode, because it features a note written in English telling people to go to a konbini to rob it, and one of the detectives mentions it's funny "go to" means robbery in Japanese). But the kanji is nice too, 強 means strong, and 盗 means theft, so 強盗 is a strong theft = robbery.

The other new one to me is when someone ordered another beer in a izakaya by saying 生ください (nama kudasai). I'm not sure how I never knew this, but 生 in this context means "draft", while I only knew it as meaning "raw", so here it's short for 生ビール (nama biiru =draft beer). 🍻

I'll drink to that! 😁

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Finally got my WaniKani backlog completely cleared out nice to see 0 Lessons and 0 Reviews again. Now to make sure I keep at it so it doesn't pile up again. 😅
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Managed to get up at a reasonable time and started working through my WaniKani backlog. Pulled myself out of the 1000+ review backlog I fell into and got my reviews to under 200 again. 😅
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Even though it sounds silly the　て　form song really is helping me to remember the different endings. 😅 #日本語 #日本語を勉強 #LearningJapanese

My new year's resolution is to commit more time to my Japanese study. A few hours everyday and even if I have a busy day I should get an hour in at the very least. #日本語 #日本語を勉強 #LearningJapanese

Question to Japanese speakers:

I often see 曲 and 歌 used almost interchangeably - but am right in assuming that 歌 means that there is some actual singing (ie not an instrumental track), while 曲 could be any piece of music/track, whether it has vocals or not?
ありがとうございます！

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Today's favourite new Japanese word: 仮面 (kamen, meaning "mask"). 仮 means temporary, and 面 means face, so a mask (仮面) is a temporary face.

I like these cases where the kanji in a word make good sense, makes the words much easier to remember 😁

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I finally finished my play through of #DragonQuest2 in Japanese!! I’m so happy that I got all the way through and now I have learned a lot of new words. I’m excited to play DQ3 but I think I will wait for the HD-2D that they are working on.

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the kanji for muzukashii 「難しい」 which means difficult/hard, has like a million strokes so even if you're good at kanji it's still a pain in the ass to write. it's less work to write むずかしい by hand and then on the phone autocomplete reverses it so 難しい just now was two pokes, む and then the word. I find this one strangely easy to recognize #日本語を勉強

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