第七十一天

[nnozomi]

语法
总是, always, with verbs
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22always%22_with_%22zongshi%22

词汇
北, north (also 北边, north side, and 北京, Beijing)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Guardian:
为什么，为什么你总是要跟我作对！ (Ye Zun being dramatic)
你总是说我是你的恩人。但其实，你也是我的恩人 (Zhang Ruonan and Wang Yike's romantic moment)
出发，方向西北 (off to the northwest)

My practice:
在日本，季节之间总是下大雨了。
很着急的时候，我总是轻易生气。
我朋友上周去北海道旅行，非常嫉妒。

备忘录: Thinking about more effective ways to deal with things including review days/masterposts, pinyin, tags (including pinyin), etc. A couple of helpful suggestions/offers already, let me know what might work well/be helpful.

Comments

[yaaurens]

I'm stealing one of the examples and tweaking it slightly - 我总是很累！

I thinking adding pinyin would be very helpful, personally.

If you need help with tag wrangling or anything else, I would be happy to volunteer! (In a couple of weeks, anyway. I intend to be VERY BUSY the next two weeks, haha)

[nnozomi]

我总是很累！
辛苦了！

I thinking adding pinyin would be very helpful, personally.
If you need help with tag wrangling or anything else, I would be happy to volunteer!
Well noted and thank you! Give me a little longer to get my thoughts organized...

[presumenothing]

我总是分不清南和北。每次都先得用手指绕一圈：“东南西北……啊上面是北……然后地图向上的箭头是N……所以北是north啊ok很好“

=_= true story. 我这脑袋瓜为什么要这样折磨我呢

[nnozomi]

所以北是north啊ok很好“
嘻嘻,我都懂。（想起来，用中文想想的时候，“南=N”也很合理...)

[presumenothing]

“南=N”也很合理...

对吧？？唉，真误导人啊…

And trying to think in Japanese just adds another loop to the process – I can usually associate みなみ=>南(=>going through that whole thing above=>south) quite easily but きた always causes me to start buffering for some reason (きた=>…ah the one that's not みなみ=>so 北 😑 no, really, brain??)

[nnozomi]

And trying to think in Japanese just adds another loop to the process – I can usually associate みなみ=>南(=>going through that whole thing above=>south) quite easily
It seems like there's at least one theory that みなみ actually comes from 南 (Mandarin nan --> Korean nam --> Japanese mi-nami?), which does make it easier to remember.

[elenothar]

Personally, I'd find pinyin helpful, particularly for the vocabulary. So far it's all been stuff I know so I treated it as an impromptu 'can you remmeber the tone etc' text, but it'd be nice to have it all there :)

[nnozomi]

Personally, I'd find pinyin helpful, particularly for the vocabulary.
Well noted! I will see what I can work out.