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月と珊瑚　（つきとさんご）by 上條さなえ

I saw this book at BookOff for 300¥ and decided to get it because it seems simple enough to read and focuses on Okinawa.

JLPT Journal 07/07 (Countdown: 147 days)

That's exactly 21 weeks! Also, today is the day of the summer JLPT. I hope it went well for everyone who took it today!

Today I:

Reviewed 24 kanji

Updated my "Kanji I Always Forget" deck (replaced 6 that are no longer causing me issues with 6 that are causing me issues)

Read the first few paragraphs of an article about tarot

Watched grammar videos about わりに, っぱなし／まま, によって and だらけ

N3/N4 Vocab from today:

種類（しゅるい）kind, sort

一般（いっぱん）universal, general

目的（もくてき）purpose, goal, objective, aim, intention

人生（じんせい）(one's) life

あらゆる all, every

出来事（できごと）incident, affair, happening

あるいは or, either... or

今後（こんご）from now on, hereafter

様々（さまざま）various, varied, diverse

はっきり clearly, plainly, distinctly

世紀（せいき）century

年齢（ねんれい）age

効果（こうか）effect, effectiveness

成績（せいせき）grades, results, marks

給料（きゅうりょう）wages, pay

無駄（むだ）futility, waste, uselessness

発明（はつめい）invention

埃（ほこり）dust (usually written in just kana)

傷（きず）wound, injury, cut

Higher level/non-JLPT vocab

解説（かいせつ）explanation, commentary

タロット tarot

占い（うらない）fortune telling, divination

一般的（いっぱんてき）general, popular, common, typical

特定（とくてい）specific, particular

展開（てんかい）development, evolution, progression, (plot) twist

斬新（ざんしん）novel, original, new, innovative

元々（もともと）originally, from the start, from the outset

纏め（まとめ）summary

遅延（ちえん）delay

それぞれ each, respectively

日替わり定食（ひがわりていしょく）daily special (at a restaurant)

To Review

〜によって

〜ように

Honestly 〜によって and 〜ように are the bane of my existence right now. Both have so many meanings and they're kind of similar so I just. Forget how to use them and mix them up and just ???? I hate them so much. I really need to study them properly and get a grip on them.

meet the archons

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Essay Phrases in Japanese

Beginning

初めに　はじめに　to begin with (first of all)

まず　to start with (first of all)

最初に　さいしょに　first

第一に　だいいちに　first of all

劈頭第一　へきとうだいいち　first and foremost

Continuation

次に　つぎに　next

更に　さらに　furthermore

そして　and (thus)

そのうえに　in addition (furthermore)

また　also

並びに　ならびに　both ～ and ～ (～ as well as ～)

及び　および　and (as well as)

それだけでなく　not only ～ but also ～

のみならず　besides (as well as)

しかも　however

すでに　already

その結果　そのけっか　as a result

それにしては　considering that

それに対して　それにたいして　in contrast

ため　in order to (because of)

というのは　the reason why is

にしたがって　following (in accordance with)

にとって　for (concerning)

によって　due to (because of)

一方で　いっぽうで　on the one hand

まったく　really, truly, entirely

全て　すべて　overall (in general)

多数の　たすうの　majority

必ず　かならず　definitely

急速に　きゅうそくに　rapidly increasing

ますます　increasingly (more and more); decreasingly (less and less with negative)

次第に　しだいに　gradually (little by little)

現在　げんざい　nowadays

確かに　たしかに　it is true that... but

要すると／要するに　ようすると／ようするに　in short

非常に　ひじょうに　extremely

絶対　ぜったい　absolutely

誠に　まことに　absolutely

によると　according to

したがって　accordingly (therefore)

事実上　じじつじょう　actually (as a matter of fact)

だって　also

それに加えて　それにくわえて　in addition to this

Ending

結局　けっきょく　after all

最後に　さいごに　in closing, in conclusion

要約すると　ようやくすると　in summary

つまり　to sum up, in the end

結論は　けつろんは　in conclusion

結論というと　けつろんというと　to conclude

このように　thus, hence

全体的に　ぜんたいてきに　overall, on the whole

Phrases from Quizlet by @uni-venture and Talk in Japanese

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